Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 06/03/2025You can find a discussion that captivity effects bear thinking about and can even be used to do better science in the Terzolas Manifesto - preprint here: osf.io/preprints/os... let's start a new era of behavior research! 4/🧵 030
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 06/03/2025These behavioral changes are linked to profound changes in gene expression after as little as one month in captivity as this paper by @labdavalos.bsky.social using the same shrews shows doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... 3/🧵 141
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Shrews loose their motivation for reward, which could be mistaken for cognitive impairment and run excessively, confounding the effects of the actual study about effects of brain size changes. @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social 2/🧵 151
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Almost all scientific research is done with lab animals. Surprisingly, there is barely any literature on how captivity may affect the results. And these effects can be profound. In shrews, remind us of depression as the paper published by @cecibaldoni.bsky.social shows doi.org/10.1098/rsos... 1/🧵 1143
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 21/02/2025looking for a good scientific read? This paper is out today and shows how much energy male bats can save by living in groups. Great for buffering environmental unexpectedness! Pic by Rene J doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de 02410
Reposted by Ephemeral Resource AdaptationsDávalos Lab @labdavalos.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Looking to read📖 something inspiring today? #MariaAlejandra tells the story behind her recent paper on brain captivity effects! @batichica.bsky.social @cecibaldoni.bsky.social @drcorthals.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/maria-...linkedin.comMaria Alejandra Bedoya Duque on LinkedIn: #bioinformatics #rnaseq #transcriptomics #captivityI am very pleased to finally share our most recent publication in Biology Letters: “Gene expression comparisons between captive and wild shrew brains reveal… 134
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 08/01/2025tadaa- second paper of the year out! This time on shrews and how quickly and massively they are affected by captivity. Congrats to the junior student who is the first author on this awesome paper: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... @animaltracking.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social @labdavalos.bsky.socialdoi.orgGene expression comparisons between captive and wild shrew brains reveal captivity effects | Biology LettersCompared with their free-ranging counterparts, wild animals in captivity experience different conditions with lasting physiological and behavioural effects. Although shifts in gene expression are expe... 043
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Edward Hurme on #npr 🤩: tiny new tags allowed us to discover how bats ride the storm during migration 🦇💨: www.wesa.fm/.../research.... Paper here: DOI:10.1126/science.ade7441 (or DM me) @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social drawing @jamesklarevas.bsky.social 053
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 04/01/2025auf deutsch und zum Zuhören: wie Fledermäuse den Sturm reiten: www.swr.de/swrkultur/wi... @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.socialswr.deVom Winde verweht – So reisen FledermäuseVögel wandern oft tausende Kilometer, das ist schon lange bekannt. Aber das auch Fledermäuse lange Strecken zurücklegen können, ist kaum erforscht. Eine neue Studie konnte zeigen, dass sie Wind und zu... 044
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 03/01/2025lovely write-up about our new paper in @science.org by @science.org 😍 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgMigrating bats surf warm winds to soar hundreds of kilometersTiny transmitters reveal at least one bat species is surprisingly flexible in its migration timing and pathfinding 03511
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 03/01/2025how about starting the new year with a @science.org paper? Congrats Edward Hurme and other coauthors, this makes me incredibly happy 🦇💨 0215
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 05/12/2024loving the X-odus! Everybody join here - it's friendly, tolerant, open-armed and -minded, not owned by a horrible person and the orange desaster is absent 000
Reposted by Ephemeral Resource AdaptationsCecilia Baldoni @cecibaldoni.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Our #shrews are on The Scientist! Pretty exciting, have a look! 🎉😎 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social @batichica.bsky.social 0114
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 04/12/2024greater spear-nosed bats choose foraging sites based on tradition, even if it means commuting across the sea. Great results from the PhD of Camilla Calderon, out bin Biology Letters today: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...doi.orgConsistent long-distance foraging flights across years and seasons at colony level in a neotropical bat | Biology LettersAll foraging animals face a trade-off: how much time should they invest in exploitation of known resources versus exploration to discover new resources? For group-living central place foragers, this balance is challenging. Due to the nature of their ... 000
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Congratulations Sarah, for submitting you bachelor thesis. She fought valiant battles with giant data sets and algorithms spitting out false positives and prevailed: lesser fishing bats' morning foraging is determined by reproductive state. Also our lab culture very much revolves around cake 😇 041
Reposted by Ephemeral Resource AdaptationsCecilia Baldoni @cecibaldoni.bsky.social · 20/11/2024#shrew paper alert! 📣🐭 Did you know the shrews shrink their brain🧠 in winter❄️? Our study shows unique changes in hypothalamus gene expression, related to energy regulation🔋, which helps shrews adapt to seasonal challenges 🍂 Have a look! 👀 doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.socialdoi.orgSeasonal and comparative evidence of adaptive gene expression in mammalian brain size plasticity 086
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 13/12/2023best European bat fur imho #vespertilio 020
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 09/12/2023this is a woman who makes a difference! Jenni Barros, our Brazilian guest really tackles her country‘s legislation to ptotect #bats and their #caves. Thanks for an excellent talk! 010
Reposted by Ephemeral Resource AdaptationsReda El Arbi @redder66.bsky.social · 02/12/2023Cool. Wenn jemand den Anfang macht, folgen die anderen. Respekt! 3347
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 27/11/2023today wasn‘t about #bats, it was about #socks. Awesome haul! ❤️🇵🇦 010
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 21/11/2023I learned how to make reels yesterday, but they do me no good here 😆 our new book is out today on the 🦇bats🦇 of Barro Colorado Island and the research that has been done on them. But don't worry, you'll enjoy by looking at the pictures alone! get it here: geni.us/batislandglo... 020
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 20/11/2023why would you do that? but they do: copulation without intromission in bats: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comMating without intromission in a batCopulatory behaviours stand as cornerstones of sexual selection, yet they remain mysterious in many species. Because of their nocturnal and elusive li… 000
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 17/11/2023African bats are just an example -share,share,share! www.mpg.de/21135641/111... 000
Reposted by Ephemeral Resource AdaptationsDávalos Lab @labdavalos.bsky.social · 15/11/2023🚨How strong is the evidence linking bats and viruses in #Africa? Thanks to indefatigable work by Natalie Weber, Martina Nagy, Wanda Markotter, @batichica.bsky.social and DeeAnn Reeder, here is a review and call for robust research in Biology Letters! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...royalsocietypublishing.org 012
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 15/11/2023big day for me, this paper is hugely important. please share : using Africa as an example we reviewed bat virus research and the result is baffling. This is a call to plan bat virus research and present results carefully royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...royalsocietypublishing.org 031
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 15/11/2023one of my favourite papers ever - the hippo metagut. And guess what: I collaborate with them now, on #bat #poop 😍🦇💩🦛 #nerdfun #microbiome #shotgunbarcoding www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comThe meta-gut: community coalescence of animal gut and environmental microbiomes - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - The meta-gut: community coalescence of animal gut and environmental microbiomes 000
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 13/11/2023next round of positions for our graduate school is open for applications: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current check them out. Konstanz is great. Pls share!! 000
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 13/11/2023arrived at home away from home be prepared for lots of jealousy inducing pics! 000
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 05/11/20236 more sleeps till Panama, so I‘ll continue group member intros with who I‘ll be working with there. First up: Jenna, she‘s a star and works with social foraging in the amazing Bulldog #bats. Check out our framework here doi: 10.1111/brv.12881. Can‘t wait! #noctilio #Panabats 120
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 27/10/2023group member intros - we‘re the Ephemeral Resource Adaptations lab aka ERA. Meet Jenni, #cave #bat expert from #Brazil, visiting as a Herz fellow at Uni Konstanz to work on #Rousettus data (the cutie on the right). She‘s on her way to saving the bats of Brazil and a really fun woman to have around 030
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 24/10/2023join up bat people, we want to beat everyone else: xeno-canto.org upload and share your #batcalls! 010
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 23/10/2023#echolocation is old. Really old. #bats have been badass for a long time! www.sci.news/paleontology... 020
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 21/10/2023it was about time to look at the genomics underlying seasonal #brainsize change in #shrews. #collaborations are what make science worth sciencing and look what @labdavalos.bsky.social found: talk across the #bbb with the liver and metabolic changes that bear huge promise for applied research 121
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 21/10/2023one of these „that doesn‘t surprise me“-papers? We still showed it first. Lab effects are huge and we at least need to be aware of them. Led by a brilliant young Latin American student! Also cute #shrews #DehnelsPhenomenon #gowild #sorex #brainsize 001
Reposted by Ephemeral Resource AdaptationsBlair Costelloe @blaircostelloe.bsky.social · 27/09/2023A nice write-up about a recent paper, in which we used GoPros and computer vision to count a massive fruit bat colony in Zambia 🧪 theconversation.com/worlds-bigge... 231
Reposted by Ephemeral Resource AdaptationsBlair Costelloe @blaircostelloe.bsky.social · 13/10/2023🧪 011
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 17/10/2023of bats and frogs and us youtu.be/VnRXR3g8yJ4?...youtu.beHabitat Fragmentation: how urban expansion changes animal behavior [Full Video]Tungara frogs have to sing just right, or risk ending up a bat’s dinner.But what if they didn’t have to worry about bats, or any predator for that matter. Wh... 031
Reposted by Ephemeral Resource AdaptationsAkrotelm 🌾 @akrotelm.bsky.social · 15/10/2023Dank dem Umweltforum Osnabrück gibt es jetzt eine ausführliche Studie zum Torfabbau in #Niedersachsen. Auf >8000ha wird derzeit Torf aus Regenmooren abgebaut, das sind ~95% der Gesamt-"Produktion" von Deutschland. Die Genehmigungen laufen bis 2040, teils auch unbegrenzt. Das Umweltforum... /1/ 47136
Reposted by Ephemeral Resource Adaptationsfolukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 12/10/2023This form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in the "Global North". Scholars who are geographically located in the "Global South" will be given priority. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comBlueSky Invites for "Global South" scholars formThis form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for Blue Sky which do not seem to be reaching "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in th... 49487463
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · 15/10/2023the messages you get in my job 😂 „I didn‘t forget you and your feather-poop“ #nyctalus #lasiopterus #batscatchbirds 000