New paper from @bats-n-bugs.bsky.social's PhD. Sampling an impressive 26 farms in east Scotland, Rochelle found a complex picture with bats responding more to habitat and landscape features than to farming type per se. Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @batconservation.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to all finalists at the #ALBAS26 awards this evening at the Crieff Hydro. Special shout out to our @srucnews.bsky.social wildlife stars, Fiona Basford, winner in Higher Education category and @bats-n-bugs.bsky.social, winner in Research Project category.

Fantastic! Very well done Rochelle 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

✅️ PhD thesis submitted!!!!! 🍾🍾🍾 It's been four amazing years researching the impacts of farming systems on #moths and #bats. Now looking forwards to starting a new chapter in my career 😁🥳

🍾 Big congratulations to @bats-n-bugs.bsky.social for her first PhD paper, in 𝘈𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 & 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, about moths on mixed and arable farms. Shows some moth benefits from woodland features in farmed landscape, but mixed picture. See: doi.org/10.1016/j.ag... @srucnews.bsky.social

Great start to National Bat Conference last night with a bat walk led by Durham bat group and @batconservation.bsky.social Looking forwards to speaking about some of my PhD research today on bats and mixed farming!

Brilliant night talking about all things #bioacoustics for the @pintofscience.uk festival in Aberdeen, along with amazing PhD researchers, Vicky and @bats-n-bugs.bsky.social and @srucnews.bsky.social colleague, Colin, our highly talented MC. #pint2025

pintofscience.co.uk/event/awesom... Still some tickets left for tomorrow evening's @pintofscience.uk event in Aberdeen! Come learn about #bats and other small mammals in our awesome acoustics session!

Nice little trip up the road this week to release a few of these beautiful Netted Mountain #moths back to their natural habitat after overwintering as pupae in my shed.

It's been a great couple of days at the #futureforbutterflies conference in Wageningen! I am very grateful for the opportunity to present my research on the potential benefits of regenerative grazing on #moths

Fantastic day of #moth and #butterfly talks at the Scottish recorders gathering. Thanks so much for inviting me to talk! @savebutterflies.bsky.social

#Beavers are good for #bats - statistically significant results for multiple bat species from @jackhooker.bsky.social research 🦇❤️🦫 #ScotBatConf

Wrapping up a busy day with a snow run up Glenshee! Not that there was much snow 🤣

Looking forwards to speaking at the Scottish Bat Worker's conference this morning on how farming strategies impact #bats and their #insect prey! @batconservation.bsky.social

Having a great time at #BES2024! Come see my poster later to chat about how regenerative grazing can benefit #moths! (poster board 1.6)

Great workshop by @rbgkew.bsky.social at #BES2024 yesterday on increasing crop diversity on Etheopian farms! What a great project!

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #5,619,216!

Today I collected in the last bat detectors for the very last chapter of my #PhD thesis: looking at how #bats use agricultural landscapes prior to hibernation? #LandscapeEcology #ecology