TAKE ACTION with SCBNA TODAY to write in opposition to the proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule.
This legislation brings devastating & irreversible consequences to the biodiversity, wildfire resilience, and long-term health of our nation’s forests.
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This strategy results in widespread mixing of their populations during mating season, and we link it to the likelihood of experiencing fatalities at wind energy facilities. Other species that don't engage in pell-mell migration appear at lesser risk of encountering those facilities.
Hot off the presses 🔥🦇! In a new paper, we describe a new migratory strategy (pell-mell migration) in which hoary and eastern red bats migrate north in the autumn— sometimes long distances— before turning around and migrating south. 1/n
New pub from my first PhD student @batsonthemove.bsky.social.
She found some bats have a complex migration strategy: two species move north in the autumn, flying long and likely circuitous routes of hundreds of miles, before ultimately returning south to overwinter.
news.ufl.edu/2025/09/bat-...
New paper on #bat #windturbine interactions is out:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Also if you're at #ESA2025 and interested in bats (maybe birds too), bioacoustics, arid landscapes, and thinking of a PhD, please say hello. I plan to recruit 1-2 grad students. Spring or fall 2026 start with a focus on desert waters or renewable energy. lavertylab.org
Happy to meet up!
screenshot from the NSF budget request to congress showing that the number of people involved in NSF activities will drop from 330,100 to 90,000.
The bottom line with the proposed cuts to NSF is to cut the number of working scientists and disappear opportunities to train new scientists.
This is a PROPOSED budget to Congress. Call your reps.
This is terrible news & just one part of a bigger picture.
Prepare yourself for ongoing updates about the “reduction in force” this month and more again in April.
Talk to your community about it. They may not believe it at first - it sounds unbelievable! But we must bear witness & explain.
Map of Stand Up for Science events, with official SUFS events in Red and solidarity events in Blue
WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
“Trump directed federal agencies to examine ways to bypass endangered species protections and other environmental regulations to ramp up timber production across 280 million acres of national forests and other public lands.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/c...
Colleagues, including my partner, with years of service at the agency. Some Permanent POs reclassified as Probationary. Exceptional scientists who were former professors at major institutions, and came to NSF to serve the community and ensure science thrives in the US.
"Anyone who has studied science under the Nazis...cannot fail to be dismayed and alarmed at the parallels in the response so far of scientific institutions and academies to the purges and abuses of power following Trump’s executive orders" 🧪 #scicomm
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...
Here’s @lizneeley.bsky.social’s latest newsletter, documenting the ongoing attacks on science and higher ed, and figuring out what to focus on: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
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...
Back to 🦇 content - this is the endangered Fijian free-tailed bat. There is only one known maternity roost for this species. We’ve just released a video on how we worked with local partners and communities to save this species from extinction: vimeo.com/1038668450
New timeline, same problems, same solution
Bat Conservation International has just released a short series of videos highlighting some of the #bat conservation work we’re doing in #Jamaica 🦇
vimeo.com/1036129420
Infrared video footage of the critically endangered Jamaican flower #bat emerging from the only know maternity roost. 🦇
Excited to share a new opportunity in my new lab at Cambridge!
We are looking for a highly motivated, early-career, postdoctoral scientist to be part of a growing effort in #connectivity conservation.
3-yr position housed in the Cambridge Conservation Initiative!
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49330/
New paper by our colleague Rohit Chakravarty 🧪
Mountains host significantly more data deficient and threatened bat species than lowlands
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I was just forwarded communications from Duke admins that this is true: one of the largest and most active herbaria in the United States is being closed in the middle of an extinction crisis, because Duke leadership does not wish to support the infrastructure costs.
The first global temperature data is in for the full month of September. This month was – in my professional opinion as a climate scientist – absolutely gobsmackingly bananas. JRA-55 beat the prior monthly record by over 0.5C, and was around 1.7C to 1.8C warmer than preindutrial levels.
