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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Is it better to have children early or later in life, and does parenthood speed up ageing? A new study from University College Dublin offers has tackled these questions with some help from Greater horseshoe bats. 🦇

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Megan Power, PhD @meganpower101.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Excited to share that my paper on horseshoe #bat 🦇 #telomeres and reproduction has just been published!!! This one took the long way round; COVID, post-PhD burnout and rejections, meant it needed more time and space than I had planned. But I’m very glad it made it ☺️

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Short- and long-term costs of reproduction revealed by telomere dynamics in wild greater horseshoe bats | PNAS

Life-history trade-offs between reproduction and survival are well documented, yet the biological mechanisms underlying costs remain unclear. Telom...

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Megan Power, PhD @meganpower101.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Looking forward to talking all about our superhero’s of nature at the Explorium today in Dublin 😊🦇

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.

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Sébastien J. Puechmaille @bats-chiroptera.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

After 15 years of research, we're excited to share that the causative agent of White-Nose Syndrome/Disease is actually two cryptic fungal species, each showing host specialisation. We've also traced the introduction to North America back to Podillia, Ukraine.

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Megan Power, PhD @meganpower101.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Social media activity has taken a dive recently. So to make an effort, happy to say I started as Senior Research Associate @bristoluni.bsky.social back in the world of #bats, looking at the #epigenetics of social stress & #ageing 🦇 Reunited with my true loves, the greater horseshoe bat 😍

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Bat1K Genome Project @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

🚨Bat1K Paper Alert🚨There couldn’t be a better first post for us on this app - excited to share 10 new bat genomes and groundbreaking insights into bat immunity and viral resistance! 🌍🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance - Nature

A systematic analysis of 115 mammalian genomes, including 10 new bat genomes, reveals prevalent positive selection in immune genes in bats and shows key adaptations in the antiviral gene ISG15 that ai...

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Bat1K Genome Project @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We're new here—help us spread the word! 🦇 🚀 Please like, follow, and share as we build our presence. We don’t have all the handles yet, so it is difficult tag everyone just yet!! If you are here - let us know 🙌💙

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Congratulations to Dr Roger Ransome who has been awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) for ‘Services to Bat Conservation’! He has been studying bats for nearly 70 years! #NewYearHonoursList #BatConservation

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Megan Power, PhD @meganpower101.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I am so delighted for Roger being awarded a BEM! I’m constantly in awe of his dedication. I have been eternally grateful to have been involved the past few years with the horseshoe bat colony at Woodchester. The best news ☺️🦇 www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/de...

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Tireless bat conservationist celebrated in King’s New Years Honours

A University of Bristol alumnus and honorary research fellow has been awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) in recognition of services to bat conservation spanning more than six decades.

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Fiona Mathews @fionamathews.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Cute bat picture to cheer up a long winter evening (2 Brown long-eared bats, both with their long ears tucked back like rams' horns). #bats #wildlife

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🦇 James Shipman 🦇 BSc MCIEEM @batman-shipman.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Please share to groups and posts! 🦇 I am an author!!!! I have decided to donate 10% of my royalties to Bat Conservation Trust for my upcoming joint book with Pelagic Publishing pelagicpublishing.com/products/ide... #author #book #wildlife #animals #bats #conservation #pelagicpublishing

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