We are hiring a technician in the Simonis Lab at Auburn U! This is a two-year position with responsibilities for scouting and performing bat capture surveys at field sites (e.g. private and public lands, highway culverts).

Check out more details and submit materials here: forms.gle/tEUNyRc1hG3f...

Opportunities We are currently recruiting graduate student(s) interested in seasonal pathogen dynamics and bat health throughout various field sites and/or highway culverts throughout Alabama. You can find out...

I am recruiting graduate students for Spring 2026 in my Lab at Auburn University. Please share broadly🦇

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If you're at #SICB2025 today come by my talk on the effects of habitat fragmentation on pathogens in vampire bats!

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.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Excited to share our preprint where we estimate relationships for and fur total mercury (THg) to use in initial contaminant risk screening of biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@danjbecker.bsky.social @meaganallira.bsky.social #KristinDyer #BretDemory #KimberleeWhitmore
#MattChumchal-- an #OU #TCU collab🧪🦊

Geographically widespread and novel hemotropic mycoplasmas and bartonellae in Mexican free-tailed bats and sympatric North American bat species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.08.577874v1 Bacterial pathogens remain poorly characterized in bats, especially in North America. We describe no

Geographically widespread and novel hemotropic mycoplasmas and bartonellae in Mexican free-tailed bats and sympatric North American bat species www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02....

🦇🌳Please check out our new meta-analysis (with
@danjbecker.bsky.social and Lauren Lock)! Our paper investigates associations between habitat degradation and Neotropical bat virus prevalence and seroprevalence.
@ecography.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/ecog...