SCREEEEAAEEEAAEAEEEEAEAAAAA!!!! Oop, looks like our resident pipistrelle is BAT at it again (not with white vans)...this time she's pipisTELLING you to come to our Lunchtime Lecture with @irorotanshi.bsky.social ! You BATter not miss out on this one 🧪🌍🦇

Come work with us at S&B! As EA, you'll be working at the @nhm-london.bsky.social on S&B and our sister journal @journalsystpal.bsky.social ! 📖 Apply here: jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

🦇The Planning and Infrastructure Bill (PIB) is making its way through Parliament - and we urgently need your help to protect bats and other wildlife. Please ask your MP to help protect wildlife in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. More information here: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/04...

New OA 🦇 research 📄 Differences in fur cortisol levels of three migratory bats link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Celebrating bat appreciation day with the bunny-eared bat aka slit-faced bat (Nycteris arge) ahead of Easter weekend. Muncher of insects big and small, saving farmers millions in pest losses. #BatAppreciationDay

New publication out this weekend in Ecology highlighting the long-distance movements of lesser long-nosed bats. Individuals migrated as far as 1631 km between roosts and completed overnight flights across the Gulf of California (~189 km) 🧵1/7 @esajournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

New OA 🦇 Research 📄 Onboard recordings reveal how bats maneuver under severe acoustic interference www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Thrilled to see our work featured in Science, all thanks to the individuals and institutions that make the science and conservation possible. www.science.org/content/arti...

Did you join SSE through our Global Membership Assistance program? Then you’re eligible for free registration for virtual #Evol2025 on May 29-30! Check your eligibility and request your code today: www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo... @evolmtg.bsky.social

Went to a wonderful reunion for the birthday of dear friend and colleague Gerd Blobel yesterday. In the end, it’s funny how all the papers and grants fade away and the main thing you remember are the people.

‘Everything (in museums) Everywhere, All at Once’ Blogpost by Julia Sigwart “Collectomics concept represents a holistic modern view of museum collections … new approach shifts the perspective to treating collections as a single global dataset. blog.pensoft.net/2025/04/03/e...

Congrats! Can’t wait to see this go out to African students through our book program at SMACON.

New deadline for our special issue. Please share. Also happy to answer questions.

New deadline May 15th - would love to see your contributions to this important special issue ...

Very proud of this paper led by @lsu.bsky.social students where we examine what ‘Unexplored’ means in a natural history context - we recommend ‘biodiversity blindspots’ instead for places that lack digitized public data Paper here peerj.com/articles/185... Video abstract youtu.be/QZ8wUrgJEao

An analysis of published data reveals how genetic diversity has been changing in populations of 622 terrestrial and marine species and the effectiveness of different types of intervention to boost genetic diversity https://go.nature.com/3CwUUaN

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Another contender for Best Ears! Throwback to the Allen's big-eared bat (I. phyllotis) we had in care. 🦇 #bats #arizona #wildanimals #cuteanimals #wildlife

Stand up for science

Send us your manuscripts on “Mobilizing Natural History Collections in the Global South” 👇🏾

looking for a good scientific read? This paper is out today and shows how much energy male bats can save by living in groups. Great for buffering environmental unexpectedness! Pic by Rene J doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de

1 week left to apply to do a PhD with me & APHA on the Virome of British #bats 🦇🧬🦠 ⚠️⚠️⚠️ #OneHealth

Remarkable thread offering guidance to current and prospective NSF grantees about how to navigate the times ahead — from an NSF program officer who was fired in yesterday's DOGE purge (!)

Public Statement on Recent Attacks on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives Sincerely, the Executive Board of the ASIH (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists) #TeamFish #TeamHerps #ASIH www.asih.org/2025-asih-ex...

This is an attack on US science. NSF staff provide critical support for scientific infrastructure and global excellence. These are valuable dedicated public servants. Please contact your reps, write letters, make noise! Are there any plans for rallies at NSF headquarters? Journalists: COVER THIS!

Can we help and support our Bat1K regional chair and long standing Bat(1K) advocate Emma?? 🤍🦇 www.gofundme.com/f/zkdvh-help...

Today is the international day of the Woman and Girl in Science. To all badass women, scientists keep doing what you do: discovery, mentorship, and hard work. YOU belong in SCIENE. To others, uplift the Women scientists you know, cite them, promote them, sponsor them, invite them - be an upstander.

Guess what - our Science Moms climate ad made this top ten best (upcoming) Super Bowl ads list! The only nonprofit ad on the list! Warning: do not watch without a tissue www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/a...

Here’s @lizneeley.bsky.social’s latest newsletter, documenting the ongoing attacks on science and higher ed, and figuring out what to focus on: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

Stay informed, stay strong www.science.org/content/blog...

I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council

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Thrilled to announce our call for papers, a special issue in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society titled: "Mobilizing Natural History Collection in the Global South" More details here: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/p... Please share widely.

Last week colleagues published a blog that gives a deep dive on how to use the Fire Weather Index app on ClimateData.ca 🔥 - it's a good read and now is good time to think about taking changes in wildfire into account in long term #adaptation & #resilience... you know, in between #wildfire seasons!

Earlier this year, I received news that fake peer reviews were allegedly being submitted impersonating me and approximately six others I shared my story with Science to, hopefully, reduce the chance of this kind of breach happening again www.science.org/content/arti...

New database of occurrence, distribution and conservation metrics for Subsaharan African #bats 🦇🌍

Excited to share our new publication, Africa bat database. Grateful that lead author, Ara Monadjem invited me and others to contribute to his long-standing dataset. Congrats to all co-authors. Please share. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

This is so important: at the college (not departmental) level, highly productive Black and Hispanic faculty were as likely as white faculty to receive tenure; but less productive Black/Hispanic faculty were significantly less likely to receive tenure than equivalent white scholars.

We had heard about the challenges posed by motherhood within academia, but what about the previous stage? @ecfreewoman.bsky.social & I wrote our story for @science.org on how the academic system makes it almost impossible for women to even plan for a family ❤️‍🩹: www.science.org/content/arti...

The legendary Kim King kicks off the invasive species talks with a picture of a pekapeka! Native mammals in Aotearoa are very rare due to its isolation in the South Pacific. Even our native long tailed bats arrived from Australia. Short tailed bats are the only living in its genus now #NZES2024 🦇

Dr. Morton blew us away with his talk, exploring historical systems, freedom dreaming and our positionalities as educators, with clarion call to re-envision cultures in STEM that foster black student success.

✨ So proud of this special issue and deeply grateful for my wonderful co-editors, all contributions at the workshop by participants, and the amazing resulting papers in the special issue. Check it out! You will not be disappointed, I promise 😊

To reach new users if you have an interest in #eDNA #environmentalDNA as a scientist or user, please consider completing our survey. We are engaged in funded research on community perspectives on eDNA, ethics, risk and potential forms.office.com/r/P6R57BAbZq #academicSkY #womenInSTEM 🧪

I think someone mentioned this already but journals usually have a “share to…” option that includes LinkedIn, Twitter…. But no BlueSky. Honestly that would be a big help. (even if people say that posting to social media doesn’t improve journal metrics, I like sharing interesting articles)

For the sake of my dad, though, who sometimes, i begrudgingly admit, has a POINT: Buy an advent calendar, or anything else from the Squid Facts shop, which funds Skype a Scientist squidfacts.bigcartel.com OR Support us the old fashioned "hey it's tax deductible!" way givebutter.com/SupportSAS