Bats provide critical ecosystem services. #Bats 🦇 prevent crop damage and can help reduced insecticide use, three examples:
USA cotton farmers benefit by $3.7-53 billion per year
Italian apple orchards benefit by €551/ha
Rice farmers in Europe benefit by €56/ha
www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...
Three year postdoc fellowship working with bats in Mexico 🦇🦇(with fieldwork)
Project title: Quantifying the socio-economic consequences of losing bat guano services
Led by: Dr Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez
www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...
#VoteGreen 💚
I just emailed my MP through the #CleanWaterNow campaign 🌊 calling for a new water law to stop pollution and restore rivers, lakes and seas. Every voice matters – will you join me? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/clean...
🦇 Water habitats are essential for all UK bat species, as they provide food and can act as a safe blue corridor between important sites.
Please support this campaign and email your MP to demand action for clean water now. It only takes 2 minutes:
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🦇We are recruiting! We are seeking a Project Officer to deliver the last 2 years of the Swansea Bay’s Stars of the Night project, a component of Natur Am Byth!
Fixed term, Home based, Part-time (22.5 hrs/week).
Deadline: 9am, 13 March www.bats.org.uk/the-trust/jo...
*NEW* Combined Bats and Arboriculture course (Scoping surveys & Secondary roost surveys for arborists).
In person at Tatton Park, Cheshire on 4 March (afternoon) and 5 March (full day).
More info and to book:
www.bats.org.uk/our-work/tra...
*NEW* Bat Skills Bootcamp – Endoscopes & trees. In person at Windsor Great Park on 18 March.
Our Bat Skills Bootcamps provide opportunities to focus on honing practical skills which are vital to a bat worker.
www.bats.org.uk/our-work/tra...
🦇A new episode of #BatChat is out now: From Aberdeen to Madagascar with Paul Racey!
Steve chats with Emeritus Professor Paul Racey, one of the best-known figures in bat ecology and conservation.
Available in your usual place or online here: batchat.buzzsprout.com/680561/episo...
🦇 Not 1 but 2 NEW exciting vacancies:
- Seasonal Bat Advisors for the National Bat Helpline.
- Project Officer, Sibrydion y Coedwigoedd/ Whispers of the Woodlands
Deadline for both: 9am 16 February.
More info: www.bats.org.uk/the-trust/jo...
🦇Only 2 places up for grabs and the booking deadline is TOMORROW, 28 Jan 👇
www.bats.org.uk/our-work/tra...
🦇MY FIELD FOR DUMMIES IS BACK!🦇
We are THRILLED to have Dr. Alyson Brokaw as out first speaker of 2026. Dr. Brokaw focuses her research on behavioral ecology and sensory biology and is passionate about science communication and outreach.
REGISTER FOR FREE HERE!
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Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
How should the discipline of ecology and the community of ecologists respond to the ecological crisis? Is it time that these were put on something more akin to an emergency footing?
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ATTENTION! 🦇✨VOTE NOW✨🦇
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New OA 🦇 research 📄 studying the wonders of #bat #migration
To Migrate or not to Migrate? Exploring the Genomic Basis of Partial Migratory Behavior in Bats
academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
4 YR Fully Funded PhD Opportunity (UK home fees)
Restoring Rivers for Multi-Benefit Outcomes: From Biodiversity to Flood Resilience
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Dimming streetlights in urban areas reduces insect attraction but pipistrelle bats forage more in darkness 🦇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Effectiveness of pipe culverts in facilitating road crossings by clutter-adapted bats🦇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Habitat suitability is correlated with acoustic activity of bats 🦇
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Lots of great new OA 🦇 research 📄 published recently that provide valuable insights into different aspects of bat responses to natural and man-made elements of the #environment. Whilst these may not seem particularly "exciting" they provide crucial evidence to aid bat conservation.
🧵 below
Habitat suitability is correlated with acoustic activity of bats
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Dimming streetlights in urban areas reduces insect attraction but pipistrelle bats forage more in darkness
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Effectiveness of pipe culverts in facilitating road crossings by clutter-adapted bats
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Not a surprise they start to sound alike but going through 700,000 calls 🎩 off to these 🦇 researchers #bioacoustics full paper royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
New OA 🦇 research 📄
Managing hedgerows for biodiversity: Disentangling the effects of trimming, structure and connectivity on the use of linear features by bats
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
🦇 in the news!
#bats #lovebats #urbanwildlife
Urban bats avoid street lights when commuting between their roosts and foraging grounds share.google/RNp1fTDImn78...
🦇Interested in a bat-related PhD? 👇
Using genomics to understand bat population declines under global environmental change with @orlyrazgour.bsky.social , @bfraser.bsky.social and BCT, based at the University of Exeter.
Application deadline 8 January 2026: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
moodscale with bat museum samples
Pick your bat 🖤
co-authored with @simonpgaultier.bsky.social
highly scientific mood scale, trust us
A ringed Natterer’s bat in hibernation
Massive influx of Natterer’s bats at valley level marks the official start of hibernation season (last week they were still swarming). And the cherry on top was the return of Z0266, a bat ringed as an adult in 2005. That makes four 21+ year old 🦇 still turning up ( @johnaltringham.bsky.social )
