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).

California condor range expanding into the Bay Area and Santa Cruz Mountains, further south into Santa Barbara County too. 🪶 www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/20/f...

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.

Today’s “Find that Bat”! 🦇 Migratory bats like Hoary, Silver-haired & Red Bats have frosted fur tips—earning them the nickname “powdered sugar donuts.” Perfect for a 90s boy-band look and camouflage against tree bark. Can you spot Batsby?

Wish someone would see one of these flocks.

#Bats may mistake wind turbines for open sky, causing deadly collisions www.science.org/content/arti...

Never… again

Thinking about applying for the Smith Fellowship? Watch the recording of our FAQ Webinar for answers to common questions and insights to strengthen your application here: vimeo.com/1111487510?s...

Trump to Zelenskyy: "During the war you can't have elections? So let me just see -- three and a half years from me, if we happen to be in a way with somebody, no more elections. That's good."

The hat rack for most scientists is pretty sprawling: people manager, budget analyst, science writer, building manager, safety officer, public presenter, statistician, grant writer, back country hiker, inventor…

The interconnected web of nature defies the simplest explanations!

New paper on #bat #windturbine interactions is out: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Ford announced that it will retool its Louisville Assembly plant in Kentucky to focus on electric trucks. Their goal: To bring down prices for US buyers and compete with Chinese EV makers on the global market.

IBRC delegates protest visa denials of 8 researchers from Africa and Asia. #ibrc2025 #batresearch www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Meh-vada is actually pretty good

Birds migrate at night to avoid predators, to navigate using celestial cues, and to benefit from cooler temperatures and calmer air. This BirdCast migration forecast map shows predicted nocturnal migration 3 hours after local sunset and is updated every 6 hours. (See alt text.)

Bat fatalities peak in autumn in temperate areas worldwide. Why? Migration and mating occur in autumn but only migration occurs in spring.

Chris Turbill shows the first evidence of torpor use in free-ranging flying foxes, making it the largest bat known to use torpor #IBRC2025

Hui Wu from China 🇨🇳 looks at pests 🦋 in apple 🍎 orchards, and then did bat 🦇 surveys, to see if bat guano 💩 contained pest remains. Lepidoptera were most commonly found, and about 50% of bat diet were apple pests #ibrc2025 @ibrc2025.bsky.social

The M8.8 off Kamchatka appears to be the largest earthquake ever recorded that apparently didn't kill anyone. That's really remarkable, if true. ⚒️

Interesting they are not strictly organized by latitude

Until the photos here were shared, the only iNaturalist records of this frog (Litoria corbeni) were audio recordings! You never know what you might find out there. 👀 📷 florent_pouzet on iNaturalist 📍 Australia 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

Sturgill Simpson in a nutshell: be a “country” band, play a joke song, but make it reggae… and then jam it.

Chicago N1 #phish #pick5 Bathtub Gin Egg in a Hole Ass-handed NMINML Scents and Subtle Sounds

Now this looks fun if you are in Boise and like staying up late: Bat Night at the MK Nature Center on July 23 from 8-11 p.m. Rita Dixon puts on a good program.

Inspired me. So f-ing good. Wish we could hear Trey better, but I suppose the point is the synced guitars.

Mann N2 Fluffhead Egg in a Hole Scent of a Mule Twist YEM #phish #pick5