Opinion piece by @utsc.utoronto.ca @utscbiology.bsky.social prof @jscottmacivor.bsky.social and PhD student Sisley Irwin! 🧪🌎

A correction - science working the way it's supposed to https://www.welchbiology.com/2025/09/09/a-correction-science-working-the-way-its-supposed-to/

Luna says, "good morning."

As if I needed another reason to worship the ground this man walks upon...

@botanist-robin.bsky.social and I are about to give back to back talks to University of Melbourne!

Yes! Several recent invited reviewers did this. Hugely helpful!

Totally stealing this!

We are seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate at Murdoch to work on bat movement ecology 🦇 with a focus on predicting wind energy impacts 🌬️ www.nicholaswulab.com

Many #ibrc225 participants including myself have signed the letter calling out Aussie gov. These kinds of racist policies are wrong and damaging. Eight bat researchers mostly from Asia and Africa refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific event www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If we're going for the moon shot, how about a vaccine against stupid?

I do not want your AI scam I do not want it Sam-I-Am I will not have it in my house I will not use it with a mouse I will not put it in my pocket Launch it to the sun in a rocket I do not want it in my life Using it would cause me strife I do not want your AI scam Stop making this shit Sam-I-Am

Ecotoxicology & Endocrinology starts soon! Come join me if you're attending The 20th International Bat Research Conference 2025. #ibrc2025 - via #Whova event app

Kicking off #IBRC2025!

Guess what I will NOT be watching!

'Housing-first' more effective than 'treatment-first' for addressing addiction & homelessness, according to a new #UofT study 🏡 uoft.me/bHX

New 🦇 paper alert! What do you do when COVID cancels all travel to work with wild neotropical #bats? You work with captive bats in far-away (next door) Quebec! Extra protein impacts frugivores' wound-healing! dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjz-... @canjzoology.bsky.social @utscbiology.bsky.social

Hey, let's not talk about THAT "BBB"! Let's talk about a new Big Beautiful 🦇 paper! Big Brown 🦇 given realistic daily dose of pesticide in food for just 3 or 7 days show big changes to plasma proteomes, including important immune system components! doi.org/10.1093/icb/... @utscbiology.bsky.social

Nice, short documentary about the Jamaica Flower 🦇. Most shots of the bats are as they are being held in the hand/measured. Those two hands belong to my fabulous two grad students, Phil and Jerrica! @utscbiology.bsky.social #bats

Even Mother Nature is done with Felon47’s bullshit.

In their recent Conversation, Doug Altshuler and Ken Welch discuss the biology of hummingbirds including their amazing ability to hover & how they manage to survive eating mostly nectar journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

The appearance of the #Measles rash on dark skin can look a lot different than the conventional signifiers on dark skin. The trademark rosacea of Measles may be lesser or even missing entirely, while blotchy patches of discolored skin known as macules may be found instead. #SciArt #MedicalArt

How do fish swim together in a school? Why do orcas wear fish hats? What is the smartest animal in the ocean? Check out Marine Biologist Support with @sternarchella.bsky.social ! youtu.be/2YquYkNcF7I?...

@giacometti.bsky.social and friend of the lab @tattersallg.bsky.social design clever chamber that keeps humidity constant while they change temperature to study how salamanders avoid drying out! Read more @jexpbiol.bsky.social.

Agreed! my dog is more protected than my daughter!

ACOG is deeply disappointed by HHS’s move to drop COVID-19 vaccine recommendations in pregnancy. The science is clear: COVID-19 remains dangerous in pregnancy and vaccination protects both patients and newborns. The vaccine is safe and protects families. Read our full statement: buff.ly/OGue7sO

Cool work by colleagues including Alejo Rico Guevara and former MSc student Simon English showing that backyard hummingbird feeders have led to remarkably rapid changes in Anna's hummingbird bill morphology! 🌍🧪

what a weird hummingbird!

Cool new work by Rogers, @coryelowe.bsky.social, Stager, and Gerson! Build your own bird behavioural phenotyping system for a couple hundred 💵! doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... @jexpbiol.bsky.social

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Last chance to get your abstracts in for the 20th International Bat Research Conference (IBRC) in Australia in August! It's shaping up to be an exciting program, in an incredible world heritage location, with diverse workshops and field trips. Abstracts due this Wednesday 14th May!! www.ibrc.org

There will be symposia spanning conservation, ecology, genomics, anthropogenic impacts, immunology & capacity building. Myself, Tamika Lunn & Jenn Barr will be chairing a symposium on "Infectious Diseases in Bats – A One Health perspective", still welcoming submissions. www.ibrc.org/symposia.html

Like every toilet in my house!

"You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That they’ll never pay taxes or write poems. That they are, in essence, collateral damage. I’d like to introduce you to my daughter."

The Royal Ontario Museum is hiring a new collections manager! Please spread the word. Collections Specialist 2: Fossils (Vertebrate Paleontology) - Royal Ontario Museum - Careers t.co/CTtfs3MBMB

peak bloom! 🍒🌸🌸

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I want to thank the @bsky.app community for NOT flooding my feed with posts about #WorldNakedGardeningDay.

well, hello there!

A squirrel in my backyard is chowing down on some corn on the cob. no idea where that corn came from.

A big congratulations to DR. Phillip Oelbaum! His thesis was officially submitted to the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto! It's official!🦇🎉 @utscbiology.bsky.social Read more: www.welchbiology.com/2025/04/24/c...

It’s a real unearned W for all Gen-Xers that the teens use both “boomer” and “millennial” as shorthand for old people but have completely forgotten about us, the worst generation of them all.

Happy International #Bat Appreciation Day! Here is a video of a Fish eating myotis (Myotis vivesi) eat some shrimp!

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Come on! Birds don't have teeth to chew it with! This will never work. 😜

Two 🦇 papers accepted pending minor revisions this week! Nice!

The cover of our new book has been approved! Due out this August through MIT Press and the online version will be open access. #neuroskyence #ornithology 🪶🧠

Hilarious!

A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.