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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

To nominate a candidate for consideration, please send a brief (300 words max) justification of your nomination and links to the publications for which they are nominated to: O.Razgour@exeter.ac.uk @orlyrazgour.bsky.social The closing date is Friday 26 June 2026. www.bats.org.uk/our-work/awa...

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🦇 Applications for the Vincent Weir Scientific Award are now open! This Award aims to reward and encourage research on the conservation biology of bats by new researchers.

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Last couple of days to apply for this postdoctoral research position in my group working on the population genomics of serotine bats in the UK and Lyssavirus transmission at the University of Exeter. Job reference: Q13679 🦇🧬🧪🌍🌐 eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

🚨🚨Job Alert 🦇🚨🚨 Come to join my group! We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in population genomics and bioinformatics to work on the UK serotine bats and Lyssavirus transmission project with APHA. 18 months project based @exeter.ac.uk 🦇🧪🌍🌐🧬 jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Excited to share our new paper coming out of the Connecting People and Landscapes partnership on seasonal changes in hazel dormouse body mass in response to climate and land cover. With @batconservation.bsky.social and @ptes-org.bsky.social (photo: Clare Pengelly) 🌐🌍🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

🤔Looking to make your #code more #reproducible? Check out our new and improved guide to Reproducible Code! 🧪🌍️ Find it here👇️ buff.ly/10TeNok @nhcooper123.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Competition funded PhD opportunity at the cutting edge of #conservation, using species traits to measure & conserve ecosystem processes. Working with @jmbecologist.bsky.social, @josephtobias.bsky.social, Ben Woodcock and me. Application deadline 8 Jan 2026 ⚠️⚠️⚠️🌍🌐🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Conserving and assessing ecosystem processes through species traits at UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology - Wallingford on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Conserving and assessing ecosystem processes through species traits at UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology - Wallingford, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

🚨 Only three days left to apply for this PhD on using genomics to understand bat population declines under global change with @bfraser.bsky.social and @batconservation.bsky.social 🦇🧬🌍🌐

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Are you an Early career researcher working in the field of climate change ecology? Come and join our coffee morning today ☕️🌍

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BES Climate Change @besclimate.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

📆Coffee mornings with us this Friday!📆 Come join us and present or listen to some of the amazing research that is happening out there! #climatechange So grab a hot drink and we will see you on Friday ☕ Link to register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

🚨 2 PhD opportunities under Wessex One Health to join my group & work on: 1. Integrating bat and fungal pathogen ecology to understand epidemiology 2. AI-augmented metagenomics to map British bat virome and assess zoonotic potential Deadline 26 January 2026 🦇🧪🦠🌍🌐 www.surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-h...

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Available studentships| University of Surrey

18 fully funded studentships for October 2026 start: interdisciplinary infection bioscience training to address disease threats to human and animal health.

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BES Climate Change @besclimate.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Join us for our ECR coffee morning this Friday! ☕️ Come along to network and chat all things #climatechange with students and researchers alike. 🌍 We’re also looking for people to present, so drop Emily or Wongibe an email if you’re interested! Link to register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

On the need for predictive models in conservation ⬇️

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Definitely a must read for conservation biologists! Bending the curve towards nature recovery: building on Georgina Mace’s legacy royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

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BES Climate Change @besclimate.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Read our latest blog post by @laura-paltrinieri.bsky.social‬, whose research reveals how temperature and rainfall affect the body size of European bats. 🦇 Laura offers insights into their resilience, vulnerability, and what it means for conservation in a warming world. 🌍 bit.ly/3GsQunp

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How is bat size affected by climate?

Author: Laura Paltrinieri, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid Global environmental change is one of the greatest challenges facing biodiversity. Rising temperatures, shifting rainfall patt…

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Honoured to have been awarded a Fellowship of the British Ecological Society, joining such an impressive group of ecologists! @britishecologicalsociety.org

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

In our new perspective in PNAS we call for a move away from conservation focused on saving individual species to focusing on ecological processes, which underpin ecosystem resilience and the capacity to adapt to environmental change. Led by @josephtobias.bsky.social 🌍🌐🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Ever wondered how morphology is affected by climate? Our new paper in Ecography shows sex-specific shifts in body size of European #bats in response to temperature & rainfall across space, but no clear temporal changes due to high variability 🌍🌐🧪 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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The effects of climate on bat morphology across space and time

According to Bergmann's and Allen's rules, climate change may drive morphological shifts in species, affecting body size and appendage length. These rules predict that species in colder climates tend...

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BES Climate Change @besclimate.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

🚨 DEADLINE EXTENSION 🚨 We are now accepting abstracts until July 15th, so get one in while there is still time! Sign up below 👇

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Great opportunity for #PGR / #PhD to join the British Ecological Society Climate Change Ecology Group committee. DM me if you want to chat about the role ⚠️⚠️⚠️🌍

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Researching impacts of climate change on biodiversity? Submit an abstract and register to join the British Ecological Society Climate Change Group hybrid meeting on 18th Sep 2025. Abstract submission deadline 7th July 🌍

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

So true, not only for academia but also for the conservation/environment sector. Expectations to gain experience through volunteering and unpaid work experience, short term contracts and need to move every few years makes it challenging to stay and succeed if you don’t come from money.

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Job Alert! 🚨🚨🚨 3 year Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Ecology at the University of Montana to work with Erin Languth, Casey Day and me on the Bat-Fungi Disease & Evolution project, focusing on white nose syndrome in North American #bats 🦇🦠 To apply: apply.interfolio.com/169120

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 18/06/2025

If we choose not to act, Or fail to adapt, Then suffer we will. #ShowYourStripes

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BES Climate Change @besclimate.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

🌿 Calling all friends in climate and biodiversity 🌿 We’re hosting a meeting at the @britishecologicalsociety.org HQ on 18 September 2025! Come along to network, hear about current research and policy challenges. Abstract submissions + sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-ch... 👀 🫵 🔜

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Climate Change and Biodiversity: BES Climate Change SIG Annual Meeting 2025

The first in-person annual meeting of the British Ecological Society Climate Change Ecology Group.

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Call for abstracts now open for the British Ecological Society Climate Change group annual meeting on #ClimateChange and Biodiversity - 1 day hybrid event on 18th Sep. Come and join us for talks, policy panel, discussions and networking ⬇️

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Only 1 day left to apply for this fully funded PhD studentship, working closely with conservation managers to study moorland bird behaviour, diet and reproductive success. Application deadline 14th May! ⚠️⚠️⚠️

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development - STOP 🛑 ✋ the new planning and infrastructure bill to protect biodiversity and threatened species! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development

Whitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Come to do a PhD with Charles Tyler, Anke Lange & me @exeter.ac.uk on Assessing managed moorlands as breeding areas for waders & Merlin. Fully funded. In partnership with Moorland Conservation Trust, researching nesting behaviour, breeding success and diet 🐦🪺🧬 www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

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Award details | Funding and scholarships for students | University of Exeter

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

🦇Our Big Give #GreenMatchFund campaign 'Strengthening the grassroots of bat conservation' is now live! Every donation we receive up to £5K, from 22-29 April, will be doubled! This is a great opportunity to raise £10,000 for bat conservation. Donate & share widely: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

🦇To nominate a candidate for consideration, please send @orlyrazgour.bsky.social , O.Razgour@exeter.ac.uk, a brief (300 words maximum) justification of your nomination and include links to the publications for which they are nominated. More info: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/awa...

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Laura Paltrinieri @laura-paltrinieri.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

🎉My first paper is finally out! We tested Allen’s and Bergmann’s rules on 20 European bat species🦇, exploring how their morphology changes across space and time in response to temperature🌡️ and precipitation🌧️ shifts. 📖Check it out here: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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The effects of climate on bat morphology across space and time

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

New paper published in Ecography coming out of the ClimBats COST Action on effects of climate on #bat morphology across space and time. Led by @laura-paltrinieri.bsky.social, @anabenlop.bsky.social and @lsantinieco.bsky.social 🦇🌡️🌧️ nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Correlation coefficients between bat forearm length and climatic variables

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Laura Paltrinieri @laura-paltrinieri.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Thanks to the Climbats - COST Action🦇🌍 and my many coauthors for providing the data and the opportunity to conduct this study on the effects of climate on bat morphology across space and time! @anabenlop.bsky.social @orlyrazgour.bsky.social @lsantinieco.bsky.social

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Luciano Bosso @lucianobosso.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Have you read our latest study, just published in #Conservation #Biology? If you want to learn more about the effects of #climatechange on European #bats, you must read it 🦇🌐 Here's the link to the manuscript: doi.org/10.1111/cobi... It's also open access; what more could you ask for?

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Luca Santini @lsantinieco.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

In this study, featuring a long list of collaborators from the COST Action ClimBAT, we predict that climate change will reshape European bat communities and functional assemblages 🦇🦇🦇 with potential major consequences for ecosystems. @orlyrazgour.bsky.social shorturl.at/HRMtY

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Fiona Mathews @fionamathews.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

How to monitor animal responses to #climatechange? @orlyrazgour.bsky.social explains her very cool research using genomic approaches in her plenary talk at the European Congress of Mammalogy.

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Amazing plenary talk by @fionamathews.bsky.social to open the European Congress of Mammalogy in Patras, Greece, on impacts of infrastructure development on mammals - we need to stop the beast! #ECM9

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

So proud of Hannah Le Morvan, postgraduate research in my group, for an amazing interview with ITV news on her #PhD research on Channel Island shrews using live trapping & acoustic monitoring: www.itv.com/watch/news/f...

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