Finished reading book #21 of the year 🦇🌎🧪 It’s exciting how ideas that framed my research questions were presented in one part of the book My MSc was literally on researching the underlying mechanism of resistance to white-nose syndrome in big brown bats!

Those who know me professionally know that I often gripe about issues with peer review, particularly when it comes to crummy reviewer comments (for example, here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...).

10/10 paper describing ways to improve peer reviews by @biolumijeffence.bsky.social, @andreafuller.bsky.social, @sjcfishy.bsky.social & co Highly recommend those who review, or who want to get into reviewing to give it a read! 🧪🌎

How did I not even know that this was a feature on here

That time of year again!

"The study also found that the majority of the AI reports fooled the detection tools: ZeroGPT erroneously classified 60% as written by a human, and GPTzero concluded this for more than 80%." 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I also have a GFM if people are more comfortable to donate this way. As always, I’m happy to talk to people about my story. 🧪🌎🦇👩‍⚕️ Thank you to everyone! gofund.me/aa491e32c

I am working tirelessly to raise the money to go back to school, but I need the help. I’ve set up multiple ways to raise the money alongside the jobs I’m currently working. If people could donate and share this post, I would be so incredibly thankful ♥️ tinyurl.com/8s4344jr

Calling all #mycologists! This weird, mostly subterranean fungus peers out from the soil after rain. Location: Las Vegas, NV. Quarter included for scale. Any idea what the mystery fungus might be?

Thank you to everyone who enjoyed these posts, commented, reshared, asked questions & made #BatMas so much fun! I love sharing all the wonderful aspects to bats, and it's even better when other people take part in it too Till next year! :) 🦇🧪🌎

amazing wild life photographers who decided some decades ago to dedicate their work to bats exclusively: fruitbat.jp/english.html Inspiring for #batmas and beyond!🦇

Definitely one of my favorite bats. Properly creepy, yet also looks cuddly. And they’re gingers. What’s not to love? #BatMas

The last post of 25 days of #BatMas!

Deer urine glows under ultraviolet light and may pop out of the dark like highway reflectors for other deer.

Happy #BatMas everyone! Follow this thread ⬇️ or check out the hashtag to find out about a new bat species everyday, for 25 days! 🦇🌎🧪 #BatSky🧵

Day 24 #BatMas: Giant golden-crowned flying fox (Acerodon jubatus)🦇🌎🧪 Next up is the largest bat in the world: weighing ~1.4 kg (3.1lb) & has a wingspan ~1.6m (5.2 ft) across! However, due to deforestation & poaching, this species is listed as Endangered through the IUCN. 📸: Shakhar Nath

Looks like a guy from a 17th century painting, but rocking a Princess Leia. #bats

Looks oddly like my dad. #bats

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

🦇🧪🌎Question the Mark: A Review and Assessment of Bat Marking Practices - Loeb - 2026 - Mammal Review - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It’s #TautonymTuesday! Meet 𝑃𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑎 𝑝𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑎, the rock #sparrow. This hardy passerine is native to southern Europe, North Africa, and parts of Asia, often found in rocky hillsides and open scrub. Sparrow in a rock >> Partridge in a pear tree! #TaxonomyTuesday #Systematics #bird Photo: Zeynel Cebeci

For the holidays this year - this would me the world to me if everyone helped out! Please spread the word to your network! 🧪🦇🌎🐦🦋🐝👩‍⚕️ #VetMedSky #Vetsky

Day 23 #BatMas: Bumblebee bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai)🦇🌎🧪🐝 The smallest bat in the world (and possibly mammal) – this species is about 29–33mm (~1.3 in) long & weighs up to 2g (0.07oz). This species can be found in Thailand, but is listed by the IUCN as near-threatened 📸: Yushi Keiko Osawa

New Publication! Territoriality, sociality and male weaponry shape horn investment in female bovids url: academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

New piece in @Lancet Planetary Health 🌍🩺 tinyurl.com/nd44e6z4 We argue that equitable investment in the veterinary workforce is foundational to One Health and essential for pandemic prevention. Grateful to an outstanding group of co-authors for a truly collaborative effort. #OneHealth

Global seafood trade shapes PFAS exposure risk worldwide through fish consumption, a new Science study finds. The results show a need for stronger international cooperation and stricter policies to reduce human exposure to “forever chemicals” through the marine food system. https://scim.ag/4aznlDP

🚫 Why are some caves and mines closed in winter? To protect hibernating bats. These quiet months are critical - undisturbed hibernation can mean the difference between life and death. Closures also help reduce the spread of the fungus (Pd) that causes white-nose syndrome.🦇 #ProtectBats #Alberta

Stress Break, Bat mas 🧵 up & down of happiness

[electric shock-collars (e-collars)] - "We are therefore concerned about the possible welfare implications of the use of e-collars. We will gather views and evidence on the current use of e-collars to inform whether to take forward a ban. The use of e-collars has already been banned in Wales."

🦇 #PolarBats www.batcon.org/polar-bats/

yeah I'd agree that they do! but instead of being organized (mainly) spatially like our vision, it's mostly organized temporally. but it also relies a lot on feature recognition/extraction and integration over time like our visual perception of the world does! 🦇🔊

I need everyone to go read this thread, because @echodislocation.bsky.social gave a very detailed response (with linked articles!) to @pedroblack42.bsky.social orginal question, asking if bats percieved an 'image' when echolocating! This is such a fascinating area of research! #batsky 🦇🧪🌎

One of my favourite things, is someone discovering this thread and liking/re-posting each #BatMas post! Bats are amazing and I love when others are excited about them! 3 days until the end of #BatMas! 🦇🧪🌎

Oh no. ☹️ Help endangered bats however you can!

Huddled-together cuties! No doubt plotting how to get more fruit

lil guy is just one or two evolutionary leaps away from becoming ALF

I stumbled on this thread way too late, but totally in time to catch up. Bats are such a wonderful and diverse group of mammals. They are on my list of animals to dive deeper into for next year's mammalian ecology teaching.

Day 22 #BatMas: Christmas Island pipistrelle (Pipistrellus murrayi) 🦇🌎🧪 This bat inhabited Christmas Island, Australia, but faced dramatic declines in the 1990’s & was declared Extinct in 2009. It is one of 12 bat extinctions since 1500 with more species critically endangered. 📸: Lindy Lumsden

This just had to come up on my memories today - I’m missing this cat more and more each day 🐱🤶

Newest colour of the year

Happy Winter Solstice! Beer can, pinhole camera photos of the Summer to Winter Solstice (2024) and the Winter to Summer Solstice (2025). You never know quite what you're going to get with these photos, set the beer can pointing towards the sun at hopefully the correct angle and wait 6 months!

As someone who writes for a living, this is... rough. 👇 "...the creative-writing students universally preferred the A.I. version." "Seven excellent readers had mistaken an A.I. model for me" [a renowned author]. Excellent article: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... by @vauhinivara.bsky.social

Hi everyone - I’m Kristina! I studied the behaviour & physiology of North American bats at @uwinnipeg.bsky.social where I obtained my BSc (Hons) & MSc in the Bioscience, Technology & Public Policy program. My interests are veterinary medicine, wildlife diseases & conservation medicine 💉🦇🧪🌎

So reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) can't fly, but they are VERY MAGICAL. For example, their EYES CHANGE COLOR during the year & they're one of the few large mammals that can see UV. Golden brown in summer, deep blue in winter. Let's talk about the unique visual adaptations of Rudolph and company.

Really interesting research showing that while ultra-specialization in a single discipline might lead to better results early in one’s career, multi-discipline training and practice pays off big time in the long run. This applies to a range of professions from scientists to athletes and more

Day 21 #BatMas: Pipistrellus etula🦇🌎🧪 A species discovered this year (2025) in Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea – this species brings the official count of bats to 1,500 total species! The name ‘etula’ means island or nation in the language of the Bubi people of Bioko Island 📸: Ferard Carbonell

A challenge of warmer temperate winters: long-term exposure to rain in cold temperatures drives higher thermogenic investment in red crossbills: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... #RSOS Image credit: USFWS Midwest Region

African clawless otters 🦦 face multiple stressors that can impact their health and reproductive success. This study compared stress hormone levels of otters in natural and disturbed environments to better understand the effects of #Anthropogenic stressors. Read it here ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/conp...

Thanks to all the writers who contributed to Conservation Physiology in Action this year, and to @acdonaldson.bsky.social for editing the series. academic.oup.com/conphys/sear...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...