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Dr Morgan Hughes

@thereremouse.bsky.social
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Bat researcher 🦇 Mostly crepuscular. Floridian Brit. Gen X. 3rd Culture Kid. Cat mom. ENFJ.

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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
That is a spectacular jumper 😍
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Awesome article. She's such a rock star. 😍
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Have you ever tried biting the back of her neck (like her mum would do)? It sounds bonkers but it works on my cat.
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Jack Hooker @jackhooker.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
New OA 🦇 research 📄 What a perfect day for this brilliant paper to come out from my colleagues at @batconservation.bsky.social 🎃 Understanding bats in English churches: A citizen science approach besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Understanding bats in English churches: A citizen science approach
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
A beautiful afternoon along Hudson Bay with a bunch of polar bears. It was much too warm for this time of year, so the bears were resting up and saving their energy. #mammals 🌿
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Steve Bowen @stevebowen.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible. Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This is where I'm posting from.
a Commodore plus 4
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Behold the #caturday toe beans
my cat's toe beans
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Dr Kieran O'Malley @kezomalley.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
📢 New paper from my PhD! 🦇 Using 3D reconstructions of barbastelle bat flight paths over roads, we found that increasing canopy cover leads to lower flight heights, elevating collision risk. @vincentwt.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk #PhD #Bats #Ecology #Conservation 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Increasing canopy cover elevates vehicle collision risk for barbastelle bats (Barbastella barbastellus) at roads - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Increasing canopy cover elevates vehicle collision risk for barbastelle bats (Barbastella barbastellus) at roads
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I am re-watching Downton, and Maggie Smith just fills my heart with happiness. I miss her.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Maybe you need something different than doomscrolling? How about a banger about disco snails? youtu.be/oAZBKlVSLkU?...
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Vulfmon & Zachary Barker - Disco Snails (Official Video)
YouTube video by Vulf
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Jack Hooker @jackhooker.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
New OA 🦇 research 📄 In this review we assess the state of knowledge surrounding #bat #migration across the British Isles and evaluate the impacts of their interactions with #offshore wind infrastructure. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Impacts of offshore wind farms on migratory bats in British waters
Offshore wind energy projects are developing at pace with ambitious Net Zero targets in place across Europe and understanding the evidence base for th…
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I am unpacking all my survey gear tomorrow so I can take some for you then. 😊
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
that was a long day.
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Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Schrödinger's douchebag A person who makes offensive or inflammatory remarks and characterizes these statements as either sincere or joking based on the reactions of others.
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Doing penance with RATM
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
On the train platform listening to Toad The Wet Sprocket. Fight me.
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Gift certificate for somewhere half way in between you?
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Today is the birthday of the late Ursula K Le Guin, whose books you should really read. Especially Earthsea. #booksky
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Jack Hooker @jackhooker.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
❤️🦇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘It’s madness’: bat enthusiasts fear planning bill will derail years of conservation
Research project team say Labour’s proposed nature restoration fund would end up being a ‘pay-to-destroy system’
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/10/2025
Flagging this both because it's cool research, and because the graphs shown here illustrate a very important best-practice of showing both the curves/confidence intervals and the raw data points themselves whenever possible.
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
My cats are obsessed with "upstairs" as they have never had an upstairs before.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Raman was one of our @opwall.bsky.social research assistants in Croatia a couple of years ago, and watching her impact as a young conservationist makes me so proud!!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot
The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The worst animal-related injury I have ever had was from my Syrian hamster, Tabitha. I bled for an hour.
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
BLEs are NEVER smiling at you. They are little savages.
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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Dear Green Frogs & other inflatable heroes in Portland, You have made this week BEARable & I’m so grateful. Authoritarianism fucks with our heads. Your activism provides a grounding, loving & peaceful vibe during a horrific time. Don’t ever quit! Love, Me
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
In honor of spooky month, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: Accepted with major revisions.
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Lesser horseshoe
A lesser horseshoe bat in the hand
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Brown long-eared bat
A brown long-eared bat with his ears curled back
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Natterer's bat
Natterer's bat
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Despite the chaos of moving back to the UK this week, I managed to squeeze in a bit of trapping. We caught and ringed five bats of three species before the temperature dropped and ended the survey early. 🦇
A Natterer's bat in a gloved hand, with bat rings and callipers on the table behind.
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 11/10/2025
May I offer you a borb in these trying times? 🪶
maybe a bushtit flying directly towards the camera , extremely puffed out
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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Officially extinct yesterday, RIP slender-billed curlew
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
This is all I needed in my life today 😍
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SarcoidosisUK @sarcoidosisuk.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Today is World Mental Health Day and we know that having a rare disease can take a huge toll on your mental health. Remember to check in with yourself today. If you have found yourself struggling, take a look at our 'Sarcoidosis and Mental Health' page here: www.sarcoidosisuk.org/support/sarc...
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 09/10/2025
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"What does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long? We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever." -Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/10/2025
Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome
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Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome
Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed Scientists say they have developed the world’s first blood test to diagnose myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). There is no currently no test for the condition and patients tend to be diagnosed based on symptoms, which means many can go undiagnosed for years. Continue reading...
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I have so much time for this
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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Impressive
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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🦇The fungus behind white-nose syndrome continues to spread across Alberta. Our latest detection, near Fort McKay, marks the northernmost detection yet. Thank you to our partners at the Wood Buffalo Wildlife Research Institute for collecting this sample. See maps at www.cwhc-rcsf.ca/white_nose_s...
A map of the spread of Pd (Pseudogymnoascus destructans) that causes white-nose syndrome in bats, across Canada from the CWHC https://www.cwhc-rcsf.ca/white_nose_syndrome_reports_and_maps.php
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I’m sad to hear the news that the wonderful Jane Goodall is no longer in the world. Her work with chimpanzees at Gombe in Tanzania taught us to look at other apes - and ourselves - differently. I was privileged to meet her later in life and tell her what an inspiration she was to me.
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... Hooray 🥳 👏👏👏 Well done @edmilibandmp.bsky.social
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Ed Miliband to announce total ban on fracking – UK politics live
There is not currently a permanent ban in law, just a temporary moratorium
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Dr Morgan Hughes @thereremouse.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
you should try living here in Czechia. EVERYTHING is more expensive than alcohol
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