Read our latest blog post by @laura-paltrinieri.bsky.social‬, whose research reveals how temperature and rainfall affect the body size of European bats. 🦇 Laura offers insights into their resilience, vulnerability, and what it means for conservation in a warming world. 🌍 bit.ly/3GsQunp

Honoured to have been awarded a Fellowship of the British Ecological Society, joining such an impressive group of ecologists! @britishecologicalsociety.org

Thanks @batconservation.bsky.social !

In our new perspective in PNAS we call for a move away from conservation focused on saving individual species to focusing on ecological processes, which underpin ecosystem resilience and the capacity to adapt to environmental change. Led by @josephtobias.bsky.social 🌍🌐🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Ever wondered how morphology is affected by climate? Our new paper in Ecography shows sex-specific shifts in body size of European #bats in response to temperature & rainfall across space, but no clear temporal changes due to high variability 🌍🌐🧪 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨 DEADLINE EXTENSION 🚨 We are now accepting abstracts until July 15th, so get one in while there is still time! Sign up below 👇

Great opportunity for #PGR / #PhD to join the British Ecological Society Climate Change Ecology Group committee. DM me if you want to chat about the role ⚠️⚠️⚠️🌍

Researching impacts of climate change on biodiversity? Submit an abstract and register to join the British Ecological Society Climate Change Group hybrid meeting on 18th Sep 2025. Abstract submission deadline 7th July 🌍

So true, not only for academia but also for the conservation/environment sector. Expectations to gain experience through volunteering and unpaid work experience, short term contracts and need to move every few years makes it challenging to stay and succeed if you don’t come from money.

New paper out on Adaptive introgression as an evolutionary force, led by former PhD Pedro Horta, with Hugo Rebelo & Javier Juste. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Job Alert! 🚨🚨🚨 3 year Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Ecology at the University of Montana to work with Erin Languth, Casey Day and me on the Bat-Fungi Disease & Evolution project, focusing on white nose syndrome in North American #bats 🦇🦠 To apply: apply.interfolio.com/169120

If we choose not to act, Or fail to adapt, Then suffer we will. #ShowYourStripes

🌿 Calling all friends in climate and biodiversity 🌿 We’re hosting a meeting at the @britishecologicalsociety.org HQ on 18 September 2025! Come along to network, hear about current research and policy challenges. Abstract submissions + sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-ch... 👀 🫵 🔜

Call for abstracts now open for the British Ecological Society Climate Change group annual meeting on #ClimateChange and Biodiversity - 1 day hybrid event on 18th Sep. Come and join us for talks, policy panel, discussions and networking ⬇️

How far can a tiny bat fly? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Only 1 day left to apply for this fully funded PhD studentship, working closely with conservation managers to study moorland bird behaviour, diet and reproductive success. Application deadline 14th May! ⚠️⚠️⚠️

UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development - STOP 🛑 ✋ the new planning and infrastructure bill to protect biodiversity and threatened species! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Come to do a PhD with Charles Tyler, Anke Lange & me @exeter.ac.uk on Assessing managed moorlands as breeding areas for waders & Merlin. Fully funded. In partnership with Moorland Conservation Trust, researching nesting behaviour, breeding success and diet 🐦🪺🧬 www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

🦇Our Big Give #GreenMatchFund campaign 'Strengthening the grassroots of bat conservation' is now live! Every donation we receive up to £5K, from 22-29 April, will be doubled! This is a great opportunity to raise £10,000 for bat conservation. Donate & share widely: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

New OA 🦇 Research 📄 Well done Penelope, @orlyrazgour.bsky.social and many others! Changes in community composition and functional diversity of European bats under climate change conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🦇To nominate a candidate for consideration, please send @orlyrazgour.bsky.social , [email protected], a brief (300 words maximum) justification of your nomination and include links to the publications for which they are nominated. More info: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/awa...

🎉My first paper is finally out! We tested Allen’s and Bergmann’s rules on 20 European bat species🦇, exploring how their morphology changes across space and time in response to temperature🌡️ and precipitation🌧️ shifts. 📖Check it out here: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New paper published in Ecography coming out of the ClimBats COST Action on effects of climate on #bat morphology across space and time. Led by @laura-paltrinieri.bsky.social, @anabenlop.bsky.social and @lsantinieco.bsky.social 🦇🌡️🌧️ nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Thanks to the Climbats - COST Action🦇🌍 and my many coauthors for providing the data and the opportunity to conduct this study on the effects of climate on bat morphology across space and time! @anabenlop.bsky.social @orlyrazgour.bsky.social @lsantinieco.bsky.social

Have you read our latest study, just published in #Conservation #Biology? If you want to learn more about the effects of #climatechange on European #bats, you must read it 🦇🌐 Here's the link to the manuscript: doi.org/10.1111/cobi... It's also open access; what more could you ask for?

In this study, featuring a long list of collaborators from the COST Action ClimBAT, we predict that climate change will reshape European bat communities and functional assemblages 🦇🦇🦇 with potential major consequences for ecosystems. @orlyrazgour.bsky.social shorturl.at/HRMtY

How to monitor animal responses to #climatechange? @orlyrazgour.bsky.social explains her very cool research using genomic approaches in her plenary talk at the European Congress of Mammalogy.

Amazing plenary talk by @fionamathews.bsky.social to open the European Congress of Mammalogy in Patras, Greece, on impacts of infrastructure development on mammals - we need to stop the beast! #ECM9

Stop scapegoating nature! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So proud of Hannah Le Morvan, postgraduate research in my group, for an amazing interview with ITV news on her #PhD research on Channel Island shrews using live trapping & acoustic monitoring: www.itv.com/watch/news/f...

BatAbility podcast with me and Neil Middleton chatting #bats and #conservation under Global Change 🦇⬇️

🦇To nominate a candidate for consideration, please send @orlyrazgour.bsky.social , [email protected], a brief (300 words maximum) justification of your nomination and include links to the publications for which they are nominated. More info: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/awa...

1 week left to apply to do a PhD with me & APHA on the Virome of British #bats 🦇🧬🦠 ⚠️⚠️⚠️ #OneHealth

Really enjoyed presenting our project in the Bat1K batellite and getting great feedback and ideas for how to develop it further. Such an amazing community! 🦇🧬

For all of you Blueskyers interested in bats! go.bsky.app/R4Etsza 🦇🦤

🚨Bat1K Paper Alert🚨There couldn’t be a better first post for us on this app - excited to share 10 new bat genomes and groundbreaking insights into bat immunity and viral resistance! 🌍🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Calling on the #ClimateChange ecology community: what sort of events would you like to see? Complete our survey below and help shape the activities of the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social Climate Change group ⬇️

PhD Alert! ⚠️⚠️ Come to do a PhD with me @universityofexeter.bsky.social and Animal and Plant Health Agency on 'Virome of British bats: A One Health approach to understanding disease emergence and environmental health'. Application deadline 28 Feb. #bats #zoonoses 🦇🦠 www.surrey.ac.uk/bbsrc-wessex...

🚨 Last opportunity to apply for a PhD with me, @bfraser.bsky.social and @batconservation.bsky.social on the genomics of #bat population declines 🦇🧬. Deadline 13th Jan‼️

Calling on the #ClimateChange ecology community: what sort of events would you like to see? Complete our survey below and help shape the activities of the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social Climate Change group ⬇️

New paper out to bring in the new year, on how the landscape influences #bat suppression of pine processionary moth. Led by Ana Margarida Augusto. Key message: mosaic landscapes, riparian vegetation edge & diverse forests boost bat pest suppression services 🦋🦇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New podcast from the British Ecological Society #ClimateChange group 🚨🔔‼️

New database of occurrence, distribution and conservation metrics for Subsaharan African #bats 🦇🌍

Come to do a PhD with me, @bfraser.bsky.social and @batconservation.bsky.social on using genomics to understand bat population declines 🦇🧬⬇️