🪶 Cedar Waxwings have been seen in 49/50 states this month (sorry Hawaii.) If you head outside this weekend, maybe you'll see one. Hope you find something beautiful.

Chances of New Year #bat activity pretty low with rain in the forecast. But we’re set up, cuz you never know.

It’s time for #FirstBat 2026! Folks in US or Canada with #bat detectors, be the first to confirm a species with acoustics and report results here: prourls.link/KCraTD

So reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) can't fly, but they are VERY MAGICAL. For example, their EYES CHANGE COLOR during the year & they're one of the few large mammals that can see UV. Golden brown in summer, deep blue in winter. Let's talk about the unique visual adaptations of Rudolph and company.

That’s the woman who said whatever that guy is saying, 5 minutes ago, but got ignored.

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It’s #TautonymTuesday! Meet 𝑀𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑙𝑙𝑢𝑚 𝑚𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑙𝑙𝑢𝑚, the long-legged #bat. Native to Central and South America, this species is named for its distinctive large nose leaf and elongated limbs—perfect for its unique #hunting style. #TaxonomyTuesday #Systematics Photo: Pedro Aguilar

🦇 Two PhD positions available on our new ARC Discovery Grant: "From Diversity to Disease: Viral Ecology, Evolution and Persistence in Bats" The project will investigate how viral diversity evolves and persists, with a particular focus on recently discovered henipaviruses in Australian flying foxes.

In her Outside JEB article, @KristinaMuise reports on Jonasson & co's Biology Letters paper showing that some migratory bats are lured toward wind turbine blades by the moonlight reflecting off of them, causing the bats to run into the blades journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

It’s unclear to me why we need two bat channels (with only 1 mic), but THIS is the audio recorder ecologists have always wanted.

“A single bat can consume nearly its full body weight (30 grams) in one feeding period”

Interested in pursuing a Ph.D. that empowers you to couple environmental economics with interdisciplinary training in environmental sciences? Apply to join Bren by Dec 15! I'm specifically looking for students eager to advance forest conservation through econ. bren.ucsb.edu/phd-environm...

Hope to get some locations on this bat soon www.yahoo.com/news/article...

My very last Outside JEB paper with @jexpbiol.bsky.social has been published, covering a fantastic article by Jonasson et al in @royalsociety.org that determined if two migratory bat species were attracted to moonlight reflecting off wind turbine blades 🦇🧪🌎 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Why is everyone trying to make the year 11 months?!

Calling all rising juniors & seniors: Interested in biological or biomedical research? Applications for our ’26 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program are now open! Nine weeks, hands-on research, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists — learn more: bit.ly/CechFellows

There's a how-to paper on AIC model selection aimed at wildlife biologists/ecologists that I've seen before but can't come up with at the moment. I believe it's single-author... This ring any bells for anyone???

Anyone here want a Geese ticket for tomorrow night? Brother can't make it anymore. No cost.

Shares of StubHub fell 14% on the news: let it burn!

On average, 20 new species of bats have been named each year for the past 20 years. This seems preposterous.

In this case, the yellow bat. In most cases, #hoarybats are the floof kings

NSF is open again! A few comments: *Please be patient. During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails. *Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th. *POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.

My latest for @npr.org: a fun quick turnaround about bat-eating rats and what this predatory behavior means for bat conservation and public health! www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Please go beyond the macabre and read this whole article. It so elegantly touches on bat conservation, disease ecology, and the concept of One Health.

I lined up concerts around work trips I had. Due to the shutdown, the trips are canceled. Chicago: 1 tik to Patti Smith on Nov. 18th Pittsburgh: 1 tik to Wednesday (in McKees Rocks) on Nov. 20th If you can't afford to pay for it, it's ok. I'd just rather they weren't wasted. DM for either ❤️

Eight months ago, Rep. Sylvester Turner D-TX died. His seat in the U.S. House is still vacant. On Tuesday, two Dems advanced to a runoff for that Houston-area seat. When is the runoff?? We don't know. That runoff date still must be set by Gov. Greg Abbott.

Anyone want 2 tix to Billy tonight? On the floor? Lmk if you’re needing a miracle 😁

Halloween Shocker: Trump axes work to learn whether offshore wind farms harm bats. The project was among 351 federal awards recently slated for termination by the Energy Department. From our friends at @canarymedia.com:

Remember… Bats aren’t spooky, they’re adorable 💕Here, an Ectophylla alba pup chilling under a leaf tent gets a surprise visit… from a katydid. Happy Halloween 🦇🦇🦇

I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).

Huge fan of including raw data

Is this your owl???

📌Welcome to the bat-feed! A place for posts by bat-scientists, ecologists, photographers etc. DM me to ask to be added as a contributor. Then use the 🦇 emoji for posts you want to show up in the feed. Rules in the next post: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Forest Service Research & Development has built the foundation for what we know about forests and fires across the country. What they do before fires—from mechanical thinning to community planning to prescribed burning—can alter how/where a fire moves & protect lives/communities. buff.ly/PfiI3qK

The greater noctule bat can, and DOES, hunt and eat freakin ROBINS in midair. ...and then it chews while continuing to echolocate. Heheheh it "talks" with its mouth full. www.sciencenews.org/article/bats...

Another massive movement of migratory birds underway tonight — nearly 1 Billion Birds! With the full moon, you might be able to see some silhouettes zipping by. You can make your own flow maps here (just hit record): aeroecolab.com/uslights

Migration season baby! Sometimes you don’t even have to try to catch them. Wish more bat biologists would get out at this time of year.

This is the time of year when bats start entering caves for hibernation or “swarming” around in front of them looking for mating opportunities. Yet another reason I need to visit the Caverns.

You read that right- there are now 1,500 official bat species known to science! The Bioko pipistrelle (𝘗𝘪𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘭𝘢) was found on Bioko Island in Africa’s Equatorial New Guinea by former BCI Student Scholar Dr. Laura Torrent and her colleagues.

Hoary #bat “singing” Volume up! #hoarybat

Possibly the most chaotic #museum collection I've ever seen: a drawer containing literally thousands of pinned #flies, at the Chau Chak Wing Museum at @sydney.edu.au. True fact: this drawer contains more museum objects than the entire UK National Gallery.

#BREAKINGNEWS 🦇🌍 The world now has 1,500 recognized bat species! 🎉 The global list at www.batnames.org just hit this milestone. New bats are found through fieldwork in remote places & genetic discoveries. Amazing biodiversity news! #Bats #Biodiversity #BatsNeedFriends

🚨Free ticket for Dogs in a Pile @Novato Hopmonk this evening. its a print at home ticket- can meet up/exchange at the venue @dogsinapile.band

🦇 New research helps explain why some bats are at greater risk from wind energy facilities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... @floridamuseum.bsky.social @ufresearch.bsky.social

In many places #bat migration is just beginning

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

Do you like acoustic data, community ecology, and desert oases? Apply for a PhD in my lab to investigate the role of ephemeral water sources (i.e., playa lakes and tinajas) in structuring desert bat (and maybe bird) communities. Visit lavertylab.org/join-the-lab for more. Applications due October 1

Welp, it's definitely wildfire season.