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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Looking for the 🦇people on BlueSky? We have a starter pack for that! (Two actually)! #JustCantGetEnough go.bsky.app/2t1aJW2

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Mammal mothers are tightly tethered to their young by the need to feed, but Shizuki Nara &co show that the Japanese house bat's mothering instinct declines over time and she is less inclined to retrieve a misplaced pup when cradling its siblings doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

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A Japanese house bat (Pipistrellus abramus) carrying twin pups. Photo credit: Shizuki Nara.

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Gifty Alin Jacob @giftyalinjacob.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Excited to talk about how anthropogenic landscapes🌳🌾🏙️ influence the foraging behavior of honey bees in Asia🐝 at ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social Talk at 10am today (21.07) at Berlino room. Please join for some new insights on tropical bees! #ISBE2026

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Baheerathan @baheerathanm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

If you are attending @isbe2026.bsky.social , come to the Agnelli auditorium to watch some bamboo bat action from India at 12:45 pm. Concurrent 5A Conservation Behaviour session #ISBE2026

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Baheerathan @baheerathanm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Glad to be a part of this wonderful meeting after all the uncertainties. @isbe2026.bsky.social Kickstarted with a wonderful plenary talk by Prof.Renata Santoro Sousa-Lima. #ISBE2026 #InternationalSocietyForBehavioralEcology

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The call for proposals to our new Special Feature is now live! If you’d like to further the following through a One Health perspective then get involved below... 👉 disease ecology 🦠 👉 multispecies health 🦌 👉 public health 🩺 👉 agriculture 🌱 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · 11/06/2026

📣📣 Our annual conference #ABL2026 is here! 💚 Join us on 12 Nov 2026 for a full day exploring "Studying Animal Behaviour in a Changing World" 🔹 FREE & online 🔹 3 stellar plenaries 🔹 Talks & posters on diverse topics 🔹 Global-friendly time zones 🌎 Mark your calendar 📅 and don't miss this #ABL2026!

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Baheerathan @baheerathanm.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

📢📢CAREER UPDATE📢📢 Happy to announce that I have joined the ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai as a Project Research Scientist to study behaviour of the Indian Flying foxes in Kerala. Student Opportunities on the way! More updates soon 🦇🇮🇳 #OneHealth #BatBehaviour #Epidemiology

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Baheerathan @baheerathanm.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Happy and honoured to talk about our research on Old World bats in the New world especially at the Barro Colorado Island aka Bat Island.. Thank to the organisers and friends at STRI. The response on the #BatAppreciationday was overwhelming!

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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Anyone looking for a PhD in jumping spider neurophysiology and neuroethology, look no further! Massimo is a close friend and awesome collaborator, who would be an incredible mentor 🥰 Apply by 17th December!

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Marta Acácio @martaacacio.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

In our new paper, we provide a tool (datasets, model and codes) to help identify vulture feeding hotspots, supporting efforts to combat scavenger poisoning. #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🧪🌍 @jappliedecology.bsky.social Read it here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

In her review, Laura Stidsholt @bioacousticsau.bsky.social discusses how bat-borne acoustic devices are changing echolocation research in wild #bats by recording sensory & foraging behaviour across different species, habitats & levels of disturbance journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

A screen shot of the PDF of the Review, Unlocking the mysteries of biosonar use and foraging behaviour in wild bats with on-board acoustic recording tags, but Laura Stidsholt. The publishing information states: © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2025) 228, jeb250777. doi:10.1242/jeb.250777. The first sentence of the Abstract states: Since the discovery of biosonar by Griffin in the 1940s, laboratories have conducted detailed experiments on how bats produce and modify their biosonar calls, as well as on how they detect and process self-generated echoes when orienting and hunting in flight rooms

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Baheerathan @baheerathanm.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

If you are at the Behaviour 2025: XXXVIII International Ethological Congress, don't miss my poster on studying the movement ecology of Jungle babblers using both manual and telemetry methods! #behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social #Movementecology

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Baheerathan @baheerathanm.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

More fruit bat action awaiting @ibrc2025.bsky.social If you are curious to see how bats can literally grab a bite, don't miss this speed talk

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Ben Paris @nzbatman.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Rajesh Puttaswamaiah 🇮🇳 talks about radio 📻 tracking endangered Hippposideros hypophyllus bats 🦇 using scooters 🛵 in forestry 🌲 and agriculture 🧑‍🌾 land. It showed him that bats preferred 🥭 plantation but more study needed @ibrc2025.bsky.social #ibrc2025

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Baheerathan @baheerathanm.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

If you are attending @ibrc2025.bsky.social and are interested in seed dispersal by bats in the Asia Pacific region, don't miss this talk #IBRC2025

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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

We are looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) who wants to study neural mechanisms of spatial memory in honeybees. This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees. Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025. More details: www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...

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Postdoctoral Position (f/m/d) at the Chair of Behavioral Physiology & Sociobiology

Biocenter of the University of Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg

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Baheerathan @baheerathanm.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Electric vehicles (EVs) are quiet alternates decarbonising transport but are EVs quiet for urban wildlife? With🦇s as a model,we Manjari Jain & @olindecke.bsky.social review the impacts of noise acoustics & explore its implications for a future dominated by EVs 👇🔌🚗📢🏙️🦇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Sounds of silence: electric mobility promises a quieter soundscape for wildlife, but may challenge ultrasonically sensitive species globally

Expanding transportation networks generate anthropogenic noise, a stressor for wildlife. The rapid transition to electric mobility, with projections of 40-45 million new electric vehicles (EVs) annual...

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Baheerathan @baheerathanm.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Happy to attend and present 🦇s at the Indian Conservation Conference 2025. Wonderful ambience with deep insights on Wildlife conservation in India. If you want to know more about how "Bats handle the noisy world" visit the Auditorium by noon tomorrow! #ICCON2025 #WII #Conservation 🦇🇮🇳

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

JEB has been hosting its Symposium for almost 50 years & this year, as part of @biologists.bsky.social 100th Anniversary #biologists100, the symposium, 'Sensory perception in a changing world', was open to anyone at the Biologists @ 100 meeting. Find out more journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

A montage showing delegates and attendees at the JEB Symposium (clockwise from top left): Nathan Putnam, Michael Berenbrink, Hema Somanathan, Daniel Robert, Robyn Grant.

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Bat Conservation International 🦇 @batcon.org · 20/05/2025

🎉Bat Conservation Win 🎉 Livingstone’s fruit bat (𝘗𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘪) has been officially downlisted from Critically Endangered to Endangered by the IUCN!

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Melquisedec Gamba-Rios @mgambarios.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

A collaborative work with @morceglo and G. McCracken; T. tricolor is an incredible system that helps us shed some light on 🦇 anti-predator defenses and how acoustic signal recognition mediates a trade-off between predator avoidance and social communication with ecological and social implications.

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 19/05/2025

Bats rely on social calls to stay together but what happens when predator recognition disrupts them? New research found that bats ceased social communication which could impact sociality and disrupt group cohesion: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #BiologyLetters #ethology

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 04/05/2025

The ontogeny of decision-making in an eavesdropping predator: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #ProcB #cognition #ethology

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 17/05/2025

@susannebabl.bsky.social et al. review the mechanisms and circuits of vocal production in echolocating 🦇. @talking-bat.bsky.social www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

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Dr Alison Peel @alibat.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

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

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International Bat Research Conference 2025 @ibrc2025.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

IBRC abstract submission deadline extended until 14 May 2025! Submit your abstracts here: www.ibrc.org/call-for-abs... #ibrc2025 #bats #batresearch

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chrisbats.bsky.social @chrisbats.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Finally out. New paper Full pelage Ultra-Violet fluorescence occurs in both lesser horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus hipposideros & Blasius's horseshoe bat R. blasii www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/Full-pelage-... Great to be part of the team @henryschofield.bsky.social @vincentwt.bsky.social

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Jack Hooker @jackhooker.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

New OA 🦇 research 📄 I do love a paper about the wonders of 💩 The smell of familiarity: conspecific faeces influence roost exploration and occupation in wild Bechstein's bats www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The smell of familiarity: conspecific faeces influence roost exploration and occupation in wild Bechstein's bats

Sociality is widespread in the animal kingdom, but it typically requires individuals to be able to discriminate group mates from nongroup mates. Bats …

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

One more month to the application deadline for a PhD position studying active sensing collectives in the wild with multiple sensors. Do you like this weird mix of animal behaviour, coding, and cool gadgets? Then check out the thread to see what our lab does and more on the position itself!!

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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The Russo bat lab has published a great paper on bats & farms! Absolutely all of this! Bat-friendly farming must also mitigate for any risks or hazards presented to bats. It's not simply "putting up bat boxes". Another banger from 2024! #BatFriendlyFarming 🦇🌎🧪🦊 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Graphical abstract of the paper - Russo, Danilo, et al. "To improve or not to improve? The dilemma of “bat-friendly” farmland potentially becoming an ecological trap." Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 375 (2024): 109215.

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Intensive agriculture harms bats via pesticides, infrastructures, and predators.
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Bats make maladaptive habitat choices when restoration actions ignore such threats.
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Enhancing conventional farmland for bats may turn it into a demographic sink.
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Improvements should only be applied where threats are effectively mitigated.

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