Preparing to deliver my talk "From Striver to Disaster:
The Bisexual as Figuration of Contemporary Socioeconomic Decline" at Bi Research Group Conference; join online! www.bisexualresearch.com
#IBRC2025 #bisexualresearch
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📣 It was so great to be a bat cheerleader for Ana last night as she talked at the Auckland Zoological Society about the benefits of an undergraduate student attending the @ibrc2025.bsky.social conference last month, including meeting her hero Merlin Tuttle 🦇 #ibrc2025
A highlight of Cairns and the #ibrc2025 was to easily find the spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) flying around the convention center at night. Some were coming to feed and offered unbeatable opportunities to see them just a few meters above our heads.
This species is also known as
Bianca has landed in #Vanuatu! 🦇
On Nguna Island, she’ll join day & night bat surveys with local rangers, exploring unique bat habitats, supporting local conservation efforts, and connecting with communities.
A fantastic and unique field trip organised through #IBRC2025
#Bioacoustics #BatResearch
We just made it back from Australia. We had a few days to explore around Cairns after the #ibrc2025 and encounter some awesome wildlife. I also had the great opportunity to visit @tolgabathospital and photograph some of their bats, including this Queensland tube-nosed bat (Nyctimene robinsoni).
Jobs posted on the Whova Community Board of The 20th International Bat Research Conference 2025 #ibrc2025 url:whova.com/event-job/the-20th-inter... #bat #PhD #scholarship #Science #post-doctoral
IBRC delegates protest visa denials of 8 researchers from Africa and Asia.
#ibrc2025 #batresearch
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Special shout out to the awesome Kiwi crew 🇳🇿 I’m excited about the opportunities ahead to work together and strengthen our pekapeka conservation network across Aotearoa and beyond.
That’s what it’s all about - collaboration with each other, and protecting bats, together.
#IBRC2025 #nzbats 🦇
It was incredible to meet so many old and new colleagues and friends and watching our PhD student, Sauhard Shrivastava give an excellent talk. Overall, we learnt lots and we are certainly returning with more ideas and inspiration. Thank you, #IBRC2025. #LZCI (2/2) @ibrc2025.bsky.social
I had an excellent time at #IBRC2025 hosting the comparative immunology sessions and co-presenting our work on bat antiviral immunity with Dr. Irving at the Bat1K symposium. (1/2)
Amazing end of conference talk, an uplifting send-off #ibrc2025.
There were so many great talks at #IBRC2025 and so much going on that I’ve been too busy to post! The conference ended on a high with an inspiring presentation by Tigga Kingston on the mission and achievements of @gbatnet.bsky.social.
Can’t wait til #IBRC2028 in Columbia!
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Just attended a very captivating and fun speed talk by Veli Monday Mdluli on bat education in South African schools 🦇📚 @ibrc2025.bsky.social
Inspiring work on breaking down prejudice through knowledge! 👏
#IBRC2025 #BatConservation #SciComm #EducationMatters
Two super nice talks from @berlinbatlab.bsky.social today @ibrc2025.bsky.social! @RaffaellaCastiglione
introduced an amazing touchscreen setup for bat cognition studies; @MarisaTietge explored the social complexity of Vampyrum spectrum, the largest bat in the Americas 🤩🦇
#BatsRule #IBRC2025
Our very own Kerry Borkin 🇳🇿 talks about engaging students at Pekapekarau School and what worked to change attitudes of bats 🦇 @ibrc2025.bsky.social #ibrc2025
Veil Monday Mdluli from South Africa 🇿🇦 talks about finding out perceptions of bats in school students to battle misconceptions about bats 🦇
Need to communicate our science via education 🤩 @ibrc2025.bsky.social #ibrc2025
Celia Selem 🇲🇽 talks about outreach conservation in Mexico but also regional collaboration across other countries in Latin America. 18 countries now involved in their annual Christmas 🎄 bat 🦇 counts 🥰 @ibrc2025.bsky.social #ibrc2025
Kicking off the Education and Citizen Science symposium, Melissa Donnelly from Merlin Tuttle Bats talks about battling bat 🦇 misinformation & helping people make informed decisions @ibrc2025.bsky.social #ibrc2025
Night 4 trivia supporting Bats and Trees Society of Cairns 🦇
Thank you Anna Langguth for the images!
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After 11 years, Aaron and I tag teamed a joint seminar on Genotype to Phenotype: Bat immunity at #IBRC2025
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Danielle Eastick 🇦🇺 looked at long term data sets of bat 🦇 mortality in Australian wind 💨 farms. 42% White striped free tailed bat & 21% Gould’s Wattle bat. 78% found within 60m of turbine. Estimated mortality rate 9.9 bats/turbine/year. 24% in March 🍂 @ibrc2025.bsky.social #ibrc2025
Next Stevie Florent 🇳🇿 looked to create benchmarks for detecting rates 🦇 and carcass persistence at wind 💨 farm in Australia 🇦🇺 . Dogs 🐕 much better at finding bats than humans! Cleared ground carcass last longer than non cleared. Not enough data 📉 on mortality in NZ @ibrc2025.bsky.social #ibrc2025
Another remarcable talk by my amazing daughter Amaranta Ortiz Gomez at the #ibrc2025 showing that the work of volunteers is relentless: 8 volunteers each invests 300 days a year looking after microbats. Collectively have cared for more than 1200 bats in the past 6 years
Another great talk about bat rehabilitation at the #ibrc2025. Robin Rowland brightened my day! She followed bats released in SE QLD and found that the effort and money volunteers invest in rehabilitating bats is worth it!
Teague O’Mara from @batcon.org looked at international data of altitude of wind 💨 turbines and bats 🦇. He looked at data 📈 & found bats fly & spend lot of time in danger ⛔️ zone of turbines consistently. More sampling needed. Could on-demand shutdowns work? @ibrc2025.bsky.social #ibrc2025
