1,500 Reasons to Love Bats Celebrating a Milestone for Bat Biodiversity

www.batcon.org/1500-reasons...

Many thanks to all the people & institutions who have contributed to this milestone!!

How do social media posts enhance public interest in a citizen science project? Insights from the Bat Monitoring Programme - European Journal of Wildlife Research Citizen science has become an essential tool to gather vast amounts of environmental data worldwide. While the power of social media for marketing campaigns is well documented, few studies have focuse...

Have you ever wondered how social media posts enhance public interest in a citizen science project?
Get some good ideas from the newly published paper by @dlobo-wildlife.bsky.social & Co 🦇
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@batconservation.bsky.social @batcon.org @batswborders.bsky.social

Listen up! It is baby bat season! Please, please, please keep your cat indoors overnight for next few weeks. Seeing multiple cat-damaged or killed bats, some with babies attached.😪 Bats can live >20 years and have just 1 baby/year, so now's a critical time. # bats #cats #conservation #wildlife 🦇

Genetic and Morphological Evidence From a Group of Rare African Free‐Tailed Bats Reveals a New Subgenus Within Mops Recent surveys in the Congolian rainforest have improved knowledge of bat diversity, but data on free-tailed bats remain scarce. A male Mops tomensis, previously known only from São Tomé, was capture...

🦇Fieldwork in Equatorial Guinea just revealed the first-ever male of Mops tomensis, a bat sp once thought to be endemic to São Tomé Island 🏝️
Genetic + morphological data confirm M. tomensis is part of a new subgenus: Ornatomops🧬

🔗 Full paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#Taxonomy #PhD

Mother's Day: Kids Explain What Their Moms at the Natural History Museum Do for Work YouTube video by Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History

SO CUTE. Listen as kids explain what their scientist moms do at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum 💚

#MothersDay

Happy Bat Appreciation Day and Happy birthday to me 😊🦇
What a great day to be born!

Portrait of Hipposideros cf. ruber from Equatorial Guinea.
#BatAppreciationDay

Just submitted the final proofs for the first article of my #PhD, and right after, resubmitted the second one! It’s been a productive and rewarding day!
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#PhDlife #Bats #AfricanBats

Are bats tracking climate change? Long-term monitoring reveals phenology shifts and population trends of forest bats Climate change is altering wildlife assemblages, although limited long-term data hinders understanding of its impacts. Bats are widely reported to be …

Are bats tracking climate change? 🦇www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004...

The Vincent Weir Scientific Award - Awards - Bat Conservation Trust The Vincent Weir Scientific Award aims to reward and encourage research on the conservation biology of bats by new researchers, and to recognise the lat...

🦇To nominate a candidate for consideration, please send @orlyrazgour.bsky.social , O.Razgour@exeter.ac.uk, a brief (300 words maximum) justification of your nomination and include links to the publications for which they are nominated.

More info: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/awa...

New paper! 🦇🌾 Cárol Sierra & co. show that #bats reduce rice crop damage by 58%, highlighting their economic value in agriculture. 🌍💰

Free PDF here:
drive.google.com/.../1iTQo9Ha....
#Conservation #ecosistemservices #sustainableagriculture

Earlybird registration for the 20th IBRC 2025 is open!
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+Info on registration fees: www.ibrc.org/call-for-reg...

Landscape context influences local management effects on birds and bats in Amazonian cacao agroforestry systems Agricultural expansion and intensification are major drivers of biodiversity loss, particularly in tropical regions. Cacao agroforestry systems can bo…

[new paper] I'm very happy to present my first PhD chapter in my first post in this nicer environment. If you're interested in birds, bats, agroforestry and tropical agricultural landscapes, check it out! 🦜🦇🌳🍫

¡Contáctame para leer el artículo en español!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mammal Conservation Europe's Second General Meeting Join us for updates on Mammal Conservation Europe, and talks on two of Europe's strangest European animals: Blind mole-rats and Hedgehogs

Want to find out about the conservation of Europe's hedgehogs and another punky group of mammals, the Blind mole-rats? Come to the FREE online meeting of @mammalconeurope.bsky.social on 3rd March. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mammal-con.... Pls share! #conservation #wildlife 🦔🌍 @ptes-org.bsky.social

Nycteris hispida 🦇
Some indiv. display a striking yellow coloration 💛—notice how vivid it appears on the nose-leaf & tragus!
The tragus—a small cartilaginous structure—plays a crucial role in #bat echolocation 🎶 & serves as a 🔑 trait for researchers to distinguish cryptic sp
#Taxonomy #AfricanBats

#PostDoc opportunity in my former research group at @unigreifswald.bsky.social. The Applied Zoology + Nature Conservation Group has a 3-year position (can be extended by 3 years). Ideally looking for someone working on #bats with some population genetics skills: www.uni-greifswald.de/universitaet...

Metabarcoding the night sky: Monitoring landscape-scale insect diversity through bat diet Widespread declines of terrestrial insects are reported across habitats and are associated with drivers at the landscape scale. Current monitoring sch…

The many uses of 🦇💩

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#GunaiKurnaiCountry 🦇 Lots of #flyingfoxes in Bairnsdale right now (but not as many in recent years). It’s the time of the year when the coastal banksias (Banksia serrata) are flowering & FF are feeding on the nectar, in return they’re dispersing pollen across vast areas

I've just submitted the second article of my PhD!
Two more to go 💪 💻🦇
#phdlife #africanbats

Bats surf storm fronts during spring migration Long-distance migration, common in passerine birds, is rare and poorly studied in bats. Piloting a 1.2-gram IoT (Internet of Things) tag with onboard processing, we tracked the daily location, tempera...

🔎 Published this month in Science

🦇 Female common noctules largely took advantage of warm nights and favorable wind conditions, such as warm fronts providing wind support, to migrate to their maternity roosts.

🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Motus radiotracking network is growing! Inspirational pan-European meeting yesterday, glimpsing the secret lives of tiny #bats & #birds: yellow-browed warblers moving from Netherlands ➡️ UK; Nathusius' pipistrelle bats going the other way. @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social @birdscanada.bsky.social 🦇 🌍

Ever wondered how to capture the details of a #bat skull?
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Here's how I do it!

📢Museum collections can be very important in today's research (taxonomy, systematis & bat conservation)

#macrophotography #museum #skull #BatConservation #taxonomy

Hairy slit-faced bat (Nycteris hispida) from #EquatorialGuinea 🦇
The "tragus" is a piece of cartilage found in the ear👂useful for the echolocation of #bats 🎶
For researchers it is a key feature to help us distinguish between cryptic sp 🦇🔍

#taxonomy #Africa

Hope for Britain’s loneliest bat after second species member discovered Greater mouse-eared bat was declared extinct in the UK but ecologists now believe population recovery is possible

Uplift on a frigid January morning: a single male greater mouse-eared bat was discovered 22 years ago, long after the species was declared extinct. Now a female of breeding age has been located. Dim the lights and cue your fave romantic music …

Serotine. One of my favourite #bats! I have a PhD available, using new methods to find serotine roosts and understand movement patterns. Will help to develop a rabies vaccination strategy: a priority for people and bats! Pls share! www.surrey.ac.uk/bbsrc-wessex... @batconservation.bsky.social 🦤🌍🦇

This is your chance to help get painted woolly bats the CITES protection they deserve. From now until 27 January 2025, tell the US Fish & Wildlife Service why you want it to support this amendment.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Winter is (not) coming: Acoustic monitoring and temperature variation across important bat hibernacula Little is known about the winter bat activity in Bulgaria, which poses challenges in monitoring potential deviations in their behaviour as a consequence of the warming climate. Using passive acoustic ...

🦇 Hibernation paper - Winter is (not) coming: Acoustic monitoring and temperature variation across important bat hibernacula

bdj.pensoft.net/article/1418...

Unbelievably exciting news, a Greater mouse-eared bat has been found during an #NBMP hibernation survey in Dover! This is the first record of this species in Kent since 1985.
Well done Claire and huge thanks to @fionamathews.bsky.social and Dr John Puckett for helping to confirm ID

Deadline coming up for cool biodiversity-AI PhD with the wonderful @robinfreeman.bsky.social at @zslscience.bsky.social and @wwf.org.uk and me at the glorious UCL East campus in People & Nature Lab

New study assesses threat to wildlife from cacao expansion in Congo Basin Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest, with new research showing just where expanding cultivation could imperil the region’s rich wildlife. “We found areas within the centr...

Wildlife in the heart of the Congo Basin, an area that stretches from western and southern Cameroon to northeastern and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, are most at risk from the expansion of cacao cultivation, a recent study found. news.mongabay.com/2025/01/new-...