New OA 🦇 research 📄 Current frontiers in the passive acoustic monitoring of bats @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @bat-cesco.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Please share!🙏 🚨 PhD Oportunity in Avian Behavioural Ecology in Spain The BirdBond Project (MNCN & IREC) studies how pair bonds form, change & affect reproduction/survival in the spotless starling 🐦

New OA 🦇 research 📄 Restoration of aquatic habitat complex extends the foraging window of terrestrial consumers www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Please RT! 📢 #Doctoral / #PhD position available with us at Leibniz-IZW for 4 years working at the interface of #wildlife + #disease #ecology, #veterinary sciences and #modelling. 🐗🐗🐗🐦🐦🐦 Training within #DFG #RTG 3069 led by @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social ▶️Apply here for P7: tinyurl.com/j2ehtz7m

#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

Our latest research highlights the importance of dry grasslands for bats 🦇🦇🦇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

✨ I wish more people knew… bats are working for YOU. 🦇 From mosquito-free summer nights to tequila, bananas, and even chocolate—bats quietly make our lives way better (and cheaper). The bottom line? Protect bats, protect your fun! 🍹🍫 👉 Swipe through for 5 selfish reasons to love bats. (Deutsch)

🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨 Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve. Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...

🌐🧪🦤 We reveal that #AtlanticSturgeon #Acipenseroxyrinchus produce low frequency thunder-like sounds associated with #spawning, similar to #lakesturgeon #Acipenserfulvescens. This finding lays the groundwork for passive acoustic monitoring of this endangered species. bit.ly/esr_58_1

2027 is going to be THE YEAR OF THE BATS! A global celebration of the world’s only flying mammals and the vital roles they play in our ecosystems. ENTER NOW! www.yearofthebats.org

🦇Zoos Victoria highlight a local threatened species through ‘Totes for Wildlife’. This year is the critically endangered Southern Bent-wing Bat! Artist Adam Parata has created a beautiful, unique design showcasing SBWB, which has been printed on tote bags: www.zoo.org.au/totes/ #bats

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Sitting on Cley beach this morning and what I thought was a bird landed just behind me. Soon realised it was in fact a bat. Was very mobile amongst the pebbles looking for food. After 2-3 mins it flew off. Can anyone help with ID please? Thank you. #bat #bats #batid #norfolk

Postdoc advertisement! Hi all, I'm looking to hire a Postdoc in BIOACOUSTICS for work on Owls. Your job would be to collect & analyze bioacoustics data, and write papers. 🦉🦉🦅🐦🦜🦉🦉

Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it: rdcu.be/eEcIt

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

In her review, Laura Stidsholt @bioacousticsau.bsky.social discusses how bat-borne acoustic devices are changing echolocation research in wild #bats by recording sensory & foraging behaviour across different species, habitats & levels of disturbance journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

^o^ Waiting In The Wings - Sept 2025 ^o^ A brilliant month coming up \o/🙂. Listen to Aileen's 'Talking Club' podcast here: batability.podbean.com To find out more about the huge & instantly accessible training resource Club has become visit: batability.co.uk/batability-c...

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Some batty fun on your Friday morning!

🦇 You have until 5pm TODAY (28 Aug) to book your virtual tickets. Don't miss out: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/con...

New OA 🦇 research 📄 Great to see this piece of work published from PhD buddy Tom who developed a spatial modelling framework for protecting biodiversity in the planning process. @naturalengland.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wind turbines kill a massive number of bats. These animals seem to be unusually attracted to turbines, and researchers have long puzzled over why. 🦇🧪 For @science.org, I wrote about a new study that suggests they might be responding to a visual cue. www.science.org/content/arti...

🦇 Last 48h to book in-person tickets for the National Bat Conference! Deadline is on 21 August. Some workshops are fully booked already so get your ticket ASAP to avoid disappointment: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/con... . If you are joining us online you have until the 28 August to book

🦇 Applications for the next round of the Living Alongside Bats in Churches Grant is now open! We encourage any place of worship in England who needs assistance with their bat roost, such as managing a cleaning issue, to apply. More info: www.bats.org.uk/living-along...

'An open source, remote sensing-based methodology for #wetland habitat condition assessments to aid conservation decision-making' Our new paper, now published open access via @jappliedecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌍 🧪 🦤

📣🍄🦇🍄🦇🍄📣 I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher for my lab in Ceske Budejovice, Czechia. We study biodiversity monitoring, ecology, conservation, and microbiology. Some of our work deals with bats, most with fungi! Email at danny dot haelewaters at gmail dot com if interested. #TeamLaboul #newPI

New OA 🦇 research 📄 Bats flying through a Y-maze are visually attracted to wind turbine surfaces Available at doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Modelling connectivity at a regional scale during seasonal movements of the greater horseshoe bat 🦇📊 Acoustic, stratified sampling at local & large scale provided enough spatial & temporal accuracy to model connectivity throughout the life cycle of bats 🧪🌏 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

New paper out! We found that in pipistrelle bats, social vocalizations carry a stronger phylogenetic signal than echolocation calls, suggesting the former evolve more slowly, while the latter remains flexible and shaped by the environment. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This week I've been working with @batconservation.bsky.social and @vincentwt.bsky.social on a volunteer project at Mottisfont SAC trapping and tagging barbastelle bats and finding their roosts. Barbs love lifted bark to roost behind such as shown in this clip from last night 🦇

Some great new research from the other side of the 🌎 on #bats and #ALAN in urban environments. OA 🦇 research 📄 available below link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It's great to see our work on 🦇 and music festivals still getting positive coverage, this time in the @batconservation.bsky.social magazine. I would encourage everyone to become a member! www.bats.org.uk/membership/s... OA 📄 available here doi.org/10.1002/2688...

Come work with us! We are looking to fill a PhD (mountain forest management) and PostDoc position (forest adaptive capacity): PhD: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0... Postdoc: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0... Please feel free to share this opportunity with anyone who might be interested!

🦇 We were delighted to find out that a grey long-eared roost has been recorded in Kent for the first time! Read all about it here: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/07...

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/...

🦇 Grooming rabies away A new study finds vampire bats can lick rabies vaccines off each other, spreading immunity through grooming. 88% of a colony was vaccinated in days. 🔗 www.science.org/content/arti... #SciComm #Zoonoses 🧪

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📢 Fully funded PhD studentship for UK students is available in my lab @rhulbiology.bsky.social as part of new EU project Trees4Adapt 🌲🌳 Fieldwork in forest diversity experiments in Finland www.sataforestdiversity.org 📆 Apply by Sept 8th, start date - Jan 2026 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🍁🌍🧪

This year’s Noctule 🦇 pups are well developed already, judging by footage from this morning. I originally set up the Secacam 7 so we knew bats were present at a remote roost before setting off on the 1.5 hour drive to monitor them, but the insight into how bats are using this roost is so valuable

New paper in Ecology Letters. We show that bats 🦇 fatten predictably in cold climates, but also in warm climates with strong rainfall seasonality. This relationship is also influenced by interactions with sex and study year | doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Seasonal Fattening Among Bat Populations Globally: Storing Energy for Survival in a Changing World - Wu - 2025 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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New OA 🦇 research 📄 Fab paper highlighting the essential #ecosystem services provided by #bats I know many would argue that 🍷 isn't essential but many would argue it is! Forest cover enhances pest control by birds and bats independently of vineyard management intensity doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Good example of a healing bat wing membrane. New white skin forming around the holes. Eventually they will close up completely but the skin will always be paler in those areas. #lovebats #batcare 🦇

🦇 If you're looking for a fun activity to in summer evenings why not take part in our Sunset Survey? It's the perfect bat survey for beginners and you can do it from your garden, window or local park! More info: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/nat...

New OA research 📄 about how 🦇 deal with being hangry! Food restricted southern blossom bats (Syconycteris australis) reduce energy use and body temperature. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New OA 🦇 research 📄 How do #socialmedia posts enhance public interest in a citizen science project? Insights from the #Bat Monitoring Programme link.springer.com/article/10.1...

As the year progresses, it is getting harder and harder to spot our 🦇 monitoring stations 😂 The amount of bat recordings is also increasing at what seems like an exponential rate! @wildlifeacoustics.bsky.social @batconservation.bsky.social