T-helper cell responses in wild Soay sheep are repeatable, positively correlated, and linked to resistance against helminths and coccidia, challenging assumptions about Th1/Th2 trade-offs in natural settings. 📖 Read more: https://bit.ly/3GCm0PN #VeterinaryImmunology

🦇 In our latest blog, our CEO @kitstoner.bsky.social , reflects on the latest developments of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill: rhetoric vs reality on nature and development; read it here and share widely: batconservationtrust.substack.com/p/the-planni...

An interesting, tenured, Principal Researcher position at CIBIO in Northern Portugal, focused on the study of virus-host #co-evolution, with emphasis on the #evolution of #immune system genes and the impact of emerging diseases on wildlife. www.cibio.up.pt/en/jobs/tenu...

✊🏼 🦇 #resist #protectbats

The Infrastructure & Planning Bill will be a disaster for bats and other wildlife, we urge our members to contact their MPs to object. A template letter can be found www.kentbatgroup.org.uk/bats-in-kent... The 2nd reading is tomorrow - please email urgently. @batconservation.bsky.social

🦇The Vincent Weir Scientific Award aims to reward and encourage research on the conservation biology of bats by new researchers. Applications for the Vincent Weir Scientific Award are now open! Nominations will close on Monday 30 June.

1/2 Quite an appropiate cartoon if we also think about the new environmental changes Reeves has been proposing to get rid of enviromental regulations. Allowing the indiscriminate killing of protected species like bats is NOT the solution for "growth". Does global climate crisis sound familar? ... 😡

A high lipid diet leads to worse infectious disease outcomes. Interesting implications for wildlife food supplementation. Always exciting to have a new manuscript out! Congrats @ashley-love.bsky.social @sauerscientist.bsky.social @jexpbiol.Bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

🧪 February Research Focus 🧪 Our monthly Research Focus features papers from @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social, @dbogaert.bsky.social, @moredunfoundation.bsky.social, @edinuni-irr.bsky.social Read the full article here ⤵️ edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

🦇 Bats don't make nests, but choose various places throughout the year to roost. Bats roost in houses but some species prefer hollow trees or caves. In buildings they often shelter behind hanging tiles and boarding or in roof spaces. Learn more: www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/where-do-bats-live

📢 Paper alert! 📢 🐑🪱📝Our latest work studying the immune system of the Soay sheep in St Kilda has just been accepted and is available online on the special collection "Ecoimmunology" of Discovery Immunology! #SoaySheep #Thelpercells #parasites #SoaySheepProject

We've arrived! The Soay Sheep project now has Bluesky 🦋 Follow along for "bleats" about all things sheep related, from field work to research output and everything in between 🔭🐑

🦇 (1/2) In response to the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s speech today: we believe that blaming the laws that protect bats, newts and other wildlife, as well as our wider environment, for planning delays is short sighted and misguided.

Do you want to work on ruminant parasite vaccines? 🪱 🐑 We currently have a vacancy in our team at the Moredun Research Institute for a postdoc to work on an incredible project to develop a subunit vaccine for Haemonchus contortus in sheep. Apply now! #immunology #vaccine #postdoc #Moredun