Fiona Basford receiving award from MT O'Donnell, with sparkly star lights across the curtains behind.

The trophy for the research project category, with Rochelle Kennedy's name featured as the winner.

The award ceremony room, with cabaret style tables and star lights on curtains all around.

Huge congratulations to all finalists at the #ALBAS26 awards this evening at the Crieff Hydro. Special shout out to our @srucnews.bsky.social wildlife stars, Fiona Basford, winner in Higher Education category and @bats-n-bugs.bsky.social, winner in Research Project category.

Fantastic! Very well done Rochelle 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

✅️ PhD thesis submitted!!!!!
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It's been four amazing years researching the impacts of farming systems on #moths and #bats. Now looking forwards to starting a new chapter in my career 😁🥳

A male Ghost Moth among green stems and leaves

🍾 Big congratulations to @bats-n-bugs.bsky.social for her first PhD paper, in 𝘈𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 & 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, about moths on mixed and arable farms.

Shows some moth benefits from woodland features in farmed landscape, but mixed picture. See: doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

@srucnews.bsky.social

Great start to National Bat Conference last night with a bat walk led by Durham bat group and @batconservation.bsky.social

Looking forwards to speaking about some of my PhD research today on bats and mixed farming!

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Presenter with microphone next to screen showing a drawing of a bat

Presenter with microphone in front of screen showing a "hanks for attending" message

Brilliant night talking about all things #bioacoustics for the @pintofscience.uk festival in Aberdeen, along with amazing PhD researchers, Vicky and @bats-n-bugs.bsky.social and @srucnews.bsky.social colleague, Colin, our highly talented MC.

#pint2025

Awesome Acoustics Many animals have adapted to become 'acoustic specialists', relying on sound to explore the world around them. But how can this help ecologists to study th…

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Still some tickets left for tomorrow evening's @pintofscience.uk event in Aberdeen! Come learn about #bats and other small mammals in our awesome acoustics session!

Hi James. Yes reared from larvae, I only fed them on Bearberry as I'm lucky enough that it grows not too far away!

Nice little trip up the road this week to release a few of these beautiful Netted Mountain #moths back to their natural habitat after overwintering as pupae in my shed.

It's been a great couple of days at the #futureforbutterflies conference in Wageningen! I am very grateful for the opportunity to present my research on the potential benefits of regenerative grazing on #moths

Fantastic day of #moth and #butterfly talks at the Scottish recorders gathering. Thanks so much for inviting me to talk!

@savebutterflies.bsky.social

#Beavers are good for #bats - statistically significant results for multiple bat species from @jackhooker.bsky.social research 🦇❤️🦫 #ScotBatConf

Wrapping up a busy day with a snow run up Glenshee! Not that there was much snow 🤣

Looking forwards to speaking at the Scottish Bat Worker's conference this morning on how farming strategies impact #bats and their #insect prey!

@batconservation.bsky.social

Having a great time at #BES2024! Come see my poster later to chat about how regenerative grazing can benefit #moths! (poster board 1.6)

Great workshop by @rbgkew.bsky.social at #BES2024 yesterday on increasing crop diversity on Etheopian farms! What a great project!

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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #5,619,216!

Today I collected in the last bat detectors for the very last chapter of my #PhD thesis: looking at how #bats use agricultural landscapes prior to hibernation?

#LandscapeEcology
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