Come to do a PhD with me, @bfraser.bsky.social and @batconservation.bsky.social at the University of Exeter on using genomics to understand bat population declines under global environmental change 🦇🧬🌍🌐🧪 Application deadline 8 January 2026 ⚠️⚠️⚠️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

There's still so much to discover about crocodilian acoustic communication. Great to see this new #bioacoustics paper on the novel underwater pops in the gharial: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🦇 Nature vs Growth? The false choice threatening our future: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/01... . Should developers 'stop worrying about the bats and the newts'? They don't have to; pitting nature against development is dangerous, irresponsible and unnecessary.

🦇 (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.

Not one, but two new greater mouse-eared bat have been found www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/01...

🦇 This is absolutely terrific news!! Since 2002, for 20 winters, one solo male greater mouse-eared bat was recorded hibernating in a tunnel near the south coast, by Sussex Bat Group. In early 2023 a second bat was recorded in the same tunnel. A record in a new county is amazing!!

Want to find out how we are using #AI to help us learn more about #bats? Lia Gilmour and @agatastaniewicz.bsky.social from our Science team, and George Lambert from Lambert Labs explain how BCT’s Sound Classification System is revolutionising bat #research and monitoring: vimeo.com/1029328047/0...

@batconservation.bsky.social are happy to announce the publication of Bats and Large-Scale Housing Maintenance Projects Guidance. This 📄 provides guidance for large-scale housing projects where the principal focus is retention and repair rather than demolition. ❤️🦇 www.bats.org.uk/resources/gu...

It’s out! Here’s a short video highlighting some of the incredible work we’ve involved with in #Kenya saving endangered bats and empowering local communities 🦇 vimeo.com/1039734764

🦇 I love old pictures of bats and I think I just found my favourite piece of #BatsInArt [Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)]:

@batconservation.bsky.social BigGive Christmas Challenge campaign 'A lifeline for bats' is now live! From 3-10 December every donation up to £5,000 made on this page will be DOUBLED: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... . This means we can raise a minimum of £10,000 for the National Bat Helpline 🦇

Really nice new #ecoacoustics paper by my BCT colleague Lia Gilmour about the negative impact of anthropogenic noise and positive impact of natural soundscapes on wellbeing journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Kicking off my Bluesky account with a little plug for our new #bioacoustics paper, showing acoustic indices enable us to disciminate between temperate forest types (and bird species composition): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🎤🌲🌳🐦🕊️