So glad you were able to get a copy -- Enjoy!

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Briefly putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social President: The ASN Council has just distributed an updated message to the American Society of Naturalists members with information about actions that can be undertaken to advocate for science, and scientists, within the US:

If you are considering downloading DeepSeek, please read this first and share with others

You don’t owner your data. They keep it even if you delete and worse ..

For those who don't get the joke: Trump kindly asked Google Maps to rename the Gulf of Mexico. It shall soon be known as the Gulf of America. The US is now classified as a ‘sensitive country’ alongside China and Russia in Google.

Want to tilt and stack your #maps in #rstats?

install.packages("layer") works again!

Thank you so much @egorkotov.bsky.social for reviving our layer 📦

#rspatial #mapping #dataviz

NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.

new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology (BRC-BIO)

Looks like the following programs in #NSF BIO have been 'archived':
BRC-BIO - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
BIO-LEAPS - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
PRFB - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Interested in learning how #bat conservation initiatives contribute to Global Biodiversity Framework #GBF and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals #SDG??? If so, check out our new paper in Conservation Letters below 🦇 👇🏻

Resilient Roosts: Community is the Heart of Bat Conservation in Coastal Kenya  - Bat Conservation International Many of Africa’s bat species rely on ancient caves for shelter and reproduction.

Learn about the hands and hearts that make bat conservation possible in Kenya. 🦇 news.batcon.org/4084SaD

Taxon-targeted conservation has broad reaching effects and directly connects to GBF and UNSDG targets: lnkd.in/gteGyVpt

The interconnectedness of conservation efforts within socioenvironmental systems ultimately creates additional co-benefits across the social, ecological, and economic sectors.

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Two of the greatest people (and 3 cats) in the world have now lost not one, but two houses to fires in California.

And yeah, these two ladies are not who you want standing with you at a craps table. Their luck is terrible!

i'm excited to finally see this out in mSphere. we worked with @teagueo.bsky.social and @batconintl.bsky.social to characterize novel blood bacteria of Mexican free-tailed bats in the US and showcase seasonal infection in our longitudinally sampled Oklahoma colony.
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#ornithology
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⚠️ Only two days left ⚠️ to apply for 👇 PhD position with @btschirren.bsky.social on autoimmune disease in wild rodent populations @uniexecec.bsky.social

Javi's work is the best and I've been so lucky to work with him on a number of projects (including Bat Island: geni.us/BatIsland)

How do ecologists estimate occupancy in practice? Over 20 years ago, ecologists were introduced to the site occupancy model (SOM) for estimating occupancy rates from detection-nondetection data. In the ensuing decades, the SOM and its hierarchical m....

Great paper surveying practices around occupancy modeling in ecology doi.org/10.1111/ecog... from @ben-r-goldstein.bsky.social & co. Not a flattering view -- from data collection to statistical methods to peer review we're falling short, but many actionable suggestions here!

Hibernating bumblebee queens surprisingly can survive underwater for days After some bumblebee queens were accidentally submerged in water and survived, researchers found them to be surprisingly tolerant of flooding.

Talvehtivat kimalaiskuningattaret ( #Bombus #impatiens ) selviävät veden alla hengissä päiväkausia (havaittiin laboratoriossa, kun jääkaapissa, jossa kimalaiset talvehtivat tapahtui vesivahinko)

www.sciencenews.org/article/hibe... #kimalaiset

It's amazing! One of Christian Ziegler's -- we have a book filled with other incredible bat pics Christian has taken :)

And photo by Christian Ziegler

Greater spear nosed bat flies away from a balsa flower

This took some time, but what a bat, what a social org, and what an amazing team of collaborators! @animaltracking.bsky.social

Consistent long-distance foraging flights across years and seasons at colony level in a neotropical bat: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

I don't see a problem in that

Keep it up y'all

Got a Researchgate notification that our paper on counting fruit bats in Zambia was cited in a study of UFOs. That's a first!

@teagueo.bsky.social

That's amazing!

Hahahaha ;)

Dude.

Absolutely huge news for amphibian conservation. The lethal fungus Bd has been causing huge and steady declines in frogs over the last decades, so seeing resistant populations establishing post-reintroduction is really fantastic.
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A scientist observes a bat in a cave.

Join us! BCI is looking for a new Research Scientist to identify diet and critical foraging habitat for bats affected by White-nose Syndrome (WNS) in Pennsylvania, working with the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Applications close March 1. 1.adp.com/oX5yTjS6c2k

My Nonprofit Field Inclusive is happy to offer THREE $500 Research Grants for 2024! Two research grants are available for any natural science research, while one is available only for climate-focused research.

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