Check out also the feature of our latest paper in @nytimes.com 🦇 #greaternoctulebats #bats #passerines #spain #zoology #ethology #biologging #bioacoustics #sciencejournal

EXTREMELY COOL BAT STUFF: A study out in Science today found that the greater noctule bat, Europe's largest, hunts and catches *migrating birds* while in flight. In at least one case, a bat climbed to more than 1200 feet, then chased a robin downward FAST until it caught it near the ground.

Check out our new paper in @science.org on how greater noctule bats 🦇 hunt passerines 🐦 on the wing #greaternoctulebats #bats #passerines #spain #zoology #ethology #biologging #bioacoustics #sciencejournal

New paper led by @seaprinceaaron.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social looking at the threats deep sea mining poses for sharks, rays, and chimaeras. We found 30 species are threatened via various pathways including collector impact and plumes at depth and pelagic discharge plumes.

This list can really assist peers in avoiding predatory publishers: www.predatoryjournals.org @predatoryjournals.org I have been receiving plenty of generic emails to join editorial boards in MDPI and Frontiers. At exactly the same time, friends receive the same generic emails..

Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative go.nature.com/4nrEvqg

Check out also the press-release of our latest paper in @consletters.bsky.social: #hector'sdolphins #toothedwhales #newzealand #aotearoa #zoology #biologging #bioacoustics #conservation

Can Hector's dolphins 🐬 behave in ways that expose them in a higher bycatch risk? @consletters.bsky.social @rconstantine.bsky.social @aucklanduni.bsky.social @docgovtnz.bsky.social #hector'sdolphins #toothedwhales #newzealand #aotearoa #zoology #biologging #bioacoustics #conservation

Oxford Biology is growing 📢 We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in: 🌱 Plant Sciences 🦉 Animal Behaviour 🔬 Molecular Cell Biology 3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7 Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3

Our recent study in the #MarineEcologyProgressSeries highlights how body size, condition, and human impacts shape the survival of right whales & why they are so vulnerable to prey limitation and disturbance 🐋 🔗 in thread #Conservation #WhaleResearch #RightWhales #OceanHealth #MarineScience 🌐🌏🧪🌱

“The scandal has also pulled back the curtain to reveal how power in Greece operates.” It’s not often an accurate description of Greece appears in the international media. Thank you, @alexclapp.bsky.social.

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

Issue 16 has closed & issue 17 is open journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22... The front cover by Kaloyana Koseva shows a bag hanging from its feet with forelimbs down. Laura Stidsholt reviews how bat-borne devices are revolutionising research into bat echolocation & behaviour

Μετά απο μια δεκαετή προσπάθεια, οι ψαράδες της Αμοργού επιτέλους πέτυχαν αυτό που ζητούσαν: να τεθούν χρονικοί και χωρικοί περιορισμοί στην αλιεία στο νησί. Η απόφαση μετατρέπει την Αμοργό σε παράδειγμα για το Αιγαίο και τη Μεσόγειο- αρκεί να εφαρμοστεί σωστά.

Hahaha, I love this photo of a snake nerd researcher from the Phoenix Herpetological Society using a fake leg to step on rattlesnakes & see how likely they are to bite. He "stepped" on 175 of them, and was bitten by only SIX. Snakes desperately want to just get away! 🐍🧪 www.npr.org/2024/05/17/1...

Breaking News 🚨: Our #bioacoustics 🔉🐬🦇lab seeks a permanent new colleague in a tenure-track assistant professor 🥷position. Excited? Then join our vibrant group of 15 researchers, postdocs and PhD students at AU who work with #marinemammal #acoustics, #conservation #physiology and #effectsofnoise!

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...

Originally posted on Twitter in 2023—reposting after a chat with a colleague about possibly publishing in an MDPI journal (whose review practices are similar to Frontiers). Not sure if either has since addressed the issues raised, but I feel process should be public knowledge.

From the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. Apart from the overwhelmingly largest cause of population declines - habitat loss and destruction - what are the other big killers of birds? A reason to consider keeping cats inside.🪶🌎

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

We can do great things when we are working together... 🦭🐋🦈🐻‍❄️🐟🐧🦢*🐢* Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New output from the ONR/LMR-funded #ACCURATE project by @popigk.bsky.social in @asa-news.bsky.social #passiveacoustics #densityestimation #beampattern #biosonar @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @au.dk #CREEM #JASA doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)

This is very interesting... When I was starting my PhD in 2016, amidst the peak of the financial crisis in Greece and while abroad, I often heard that we (Greeks) are lazy, enjoy the sun, and that is why there was a crisis...

Data are everywhere… “Here, we examine an unusual source of information: classic Chinese poetry. From 724 ancient poems containing references to the Yangtze finless porpoise (N. asiaeorientalis), we infer that the range of this subspecies has contracted by at least 65% over the past 1400 years.”

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

Scientists have assembled the first high-quality genomes of New Zealand’s Hector’s + critically endangered Māui dolphins using degraded DNA—an unprecedented breakthrough that offers insights for conservation and a new path forward for endangered species worldwide. whalescientists.com/new-zealand-...

Contrary to popular belief, what is important in science is as much its spirit as its product: it is as much the openmindedness, the primacy of criticism, the submission to the unforeseen, however upsetting, as the result, however new that may be. – Francois Jacob www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢Exciting news 1: We just launched our new Center for Active Sensing with Sound 🎧🥳 📢Exciting news 2: We are looking for 2 new PhD students 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 in “Echolocation in bats🦇 and toothed whales 🐬” – read more here:

The frigid waters surrounding Iceland are home to several species of whales, dolphins & porpoises. Recently, Glarou & co showed that larger whales lose body heat to the water less quickly while smaller species expend more energy keeping themselves warm journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Our new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper is out, lead by @alixdejersey.bsky.social showing the insidious impacts of plastics on seemingly health birds (1/5) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Πώς βρέθηκαν, στο μεγαλύτερο κατασκοπευτικό σκάνδαλο στην Ελλάδα, να οδηγούνται σε δίκη μόνον τέσσερις ιδιώτες, αντιμετωπίζοντας μάλιστα κατηγορίες πλημμεληματικού χαρακτήρα; 👇

Η Μήλος αλλάζει πρόσωπο, για πάντα. Ούτε ένα ούτε δύο, αλλά 48 ξενοδοχεία δρομολογουνται στο νησί, παράλληλα με τις εκατοντάδες οικοδομικές άδειες για ενοικιαζόμενα δωμάτια και βίλες. Η Πολιτεία κοίτα απαθής, ενώ ένα ένα τα κυκλαδονησια καταστρέφονται. www.kathimerini.gr/society/5634...

Worm-like creature with ‘dark secret’ wins New Zealand bug of the year award

Δημοσίευση στα πλαίσια της διασυνοριακής έρευνας #ShadowFleetSecrets. 👇

Sorry I'm just in a really bad place right now (United States)

Ever wondered how echolocating bats, despite their high flight speed, track escaping prey? Check out our latest publication in BMC Biology 🦇. #bats #Chiroptera #bioacoustics #biologging #echolocation #biosonar #evasiveprey

Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

Moa ate truffle-like fungi, based on DNA and spores in coprolites (fossilized droppings): royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🪶🧪 (📷Boast et al. & Noah Siegel)

Ο Αλέξανδρος Φραντζής και το Ινστιτούτο Κητολογικών Μελετών «Πέλαγος» σε συνεργασία με το ΙΤΕ είναι έτοιμοι να σώσουν τα κητώδη από το σημαντικότερο πρόβλημά τους: τις προσκρούσεις με τα διερχόμενα πλοία της Ελληνικής Τάφρου www.kathimerini.gr/life/environ...

It’s a dark day for research in Aotearoa New Zealand and the ramifications for the country are huge. Minister Judith Collins has just announced our blue-skies funder will no longer fund humanities & social science research and that 50% of what is funded must have economic benefit.