Building evidence to show that bat conservation works. Where do animals go, how do they get there, and what does it tell us about their lives. teagueo.bsky.soc
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Our book on the bats of Barro Colorado Island is finally out! Gorgeous photos by @zieglerphoto1 and text by me, @DinaDechmann, Rachel Page, and Marco Tschapka. geni.us/BatIsland
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Bats surf storm fronts!!! Technically we're on the cover! (Top right)
Thrilled to get this paper out in Science Magazine! Using novel ICARUS tags we track spring bat migration across central Europe.
@MPI_animalbehav @dechmannlab
Pollination in walnuts and pecans occurs through a genetically controlled temporal flowering dimorphism. Two distinct morphs alternate their phases of male and female flowering across the season, promoting outcrossing that has maintained a stable equilibrium throughout tens of millions of years of evolution.
Learn more in Science's first issue of 2025: scim.ag/3Plxfgp
The Animove course is one of the best ways to learn and apply analytical approaches to understanding animal movement data. Lectures are now free through the @UniKonstanz & @MPI_animalbehav by @safilabmpi @ScaccoMartina and more!
Some of you have been waiting for this moment.....all lecture recordings including remote sensing and downloads of this years #Animove are online now. 🥳 Happy Learning ! @MPI_animalbehav @safilabmpi animove.org/lecture-recordin…
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Echolocating bats use an acoustic cognitive map for navigation 🦇🧭🔊
Latest research @ScienceMagazine by @AyaGoldshtein with @YovelBatLab + @icouzin @CBehav @UniKonstanz
Paper ➡️science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Story 👇ab.mpg.de/634947/news_public…
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🔊 A few months ago, @urban_ecologist et al. quantified the online, ornamental trade in #Kerivoula #picta.
👀🔎 doi.org/10.1007/s10344-024-0…
🆕 Now, @BronwenHunter et al. used an automated pipeline to monitor trade in 🦇 on e-commerce platforms.
👀🔎doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.202…
Trade in bats must stop! Our new paper, led by @BronwenHunter highlights scale of online trade. Most buyers from Europe and N America; most bats from Global South. Some platforms are tightening rules, but still easy to find @AmazonUK. @_BCT_ @BatConIntl url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com…
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📢 JOB ALERT ‼️
Interested in animal behaviour and ecology?🔎🦗🐛🐒🐝
👉Then check out our webpage imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/curr… 👀for exciting PhD positions 👨🎓
Application deadline is Nov 24th, 2024 📨
I'm at #COP16 in Cali, Colombia with the @BatConIntl delegation to advance global bat conservation efforts. Just us at our side event Weds at 10:10 to talk about contributions of bat conservation to the GBF & UNSDG.
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📢Awesome #PhD opportunity (FULLY FUNDED) to study 🐜&🦜 in #Africa
@globalsouthbats @bats_w_borders @GlobalBatNet @African_Bat
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Fully funded BI PhD at St Andrews studying ants and ant-following birds in Africa!
findaphd.com/phds/project/de…
#ornithology #birds #myrmecology #ants #phd #biology #photo: @LukeLPowell
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🗣️ Important bat news ahead of Bat Week!
The companion study to the 2023 State of the North American Bats report was published today in the Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences, providing the most comprehensive assessment of North American bats to date, identifying major threats, and calling for urgent international cooperation and action.
Read the report here: news.batcon.org/4eLoaIO
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🚨 Postdoc Opportunity 🚨We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher in #ConservationBiology! 🗺️ Besançon, France📅 2 years🗣️ French proficiency required (to work with various stakeholders). Project: Assessing the cumulative impacts of solar farms/wind turbines/roads on 🦇&🐦using 🎙️
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Big congratulations to our co-executive director, @irorotanshi on her selection as one of the top ten Finalists for the 2025 Emerging Conservationist Award!
We are proud of all the work you do for small-sized mammals.
#IndianapolisPrize #SMACON #SmallMammalConservation
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🦇Get ready to celebrate #BatWeek with a professional development webinar "WILD About Bats," to learn to teach about bats and bat conservation. Registration is FREE for the first 150 educators.
#ProjectWILD 🦇
Register ➡️ forms.office.com/r/JSy89WT2f…
Or scan the QR code in image ⬇️
This is wonderful perspective from Olivier -- always keep a growth mindset to your work. Accept when you are wrong (as we all are) and learn from it.
Thanks for being a leader Olivier!
I've now shared the experience in a short article 😇 Had to fail to make it to Nature 🤣
My paper was proved wrong. After a sleepless night, here's what I did next nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Thank you so much to Jack Leeming Senior careers editor @Nature for his tremendous help 😉
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Do you know anyone looking for a PhD in conservation social sciences? Share these awesome opportunities with the Welsh Graduate School for Social Sciences @BangorUni! Potential applicants should contact supervisors to develop a proposal (submission deadline 11th Dec).
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Come be my colleague and join the #SciencePartyInTheDesert !!! We are searching for an assistant or associate professor in anthropological genetics @ASUBeingHuman. See apply.interfolio.com/156498 for more info!
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Many ecologists are excited about new tech - eg AI, ecoacoustics, automated monitoring...
And some imply that this tech will help reverse biodiversity loss
Without decisive socio-political action on the nature emergency, all this tech will do is document further loss & collapse
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Cacao production drives #deforestation in 🌍, threatening 🦇 species. This 📰 in 🇨🇲 analyzes how 🦇 respond to habitat types near cacao plantations while proposing adapted #landscape #management to maintain 🦇diversity and 🍫 productivity.
👀🔎sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Research postdoc position on predators-prey (carnivores-ungulates) relationships.
University of Bern (Conservation Biology).
Please distribute as broadly as you can.
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In this week's blog post, we separate fact from fiction and sift through the most common bat myths. 🦇
batcon.org/five-false-myths-…
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We're flying high this week, because our MENTOR-Bat 🦇 program just held its second in-person workshop in Yogyakarta, Indonesia with a special emphasis on evidence-based bat conservation and One Health approaches.
👉 Read more here! ow.ly/zkgG50T5b4S
ALT A group of about 20 people standing in front of a lit up building at nighttime, holding a banner that reads "Welcome MENTOR-Bat Team."
Protecting bats saves human lives. Amazing new working linking declines due to WNS to increased insecticide use and increased infant mortality.
“Fungal disease killed bats, bats stopped eating enough insects, farmers applied more pesticide to maximize profit and keep food plentiful and cheap, the extra pesticide use led to more babies dying. It is a sobering result.”
nytimes.com/2024/09/05/clima…