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𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗔𝗣𝗘𝗥📢 As part of my PhD, we quantify, for the 1st time in Europe, the #EcosystemServices of #bats as insect pest suppressors in #rice paddies🌾🦇. Bats halved plant damage, saving ∼70 kg rice/ha, which translates into 💸56€/ha Read more👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.ecos…

New paper alert! Our rat educational science out now in Environmental Education Research: doi.org/10.1080/135046… #citsci A short thread follows:

Newspiece on our Environmental Education Research paper! "By re-conceptualizing the track-plate as collaborative knowledge production among rats and humans, we shift focus -- to the scientific research process itself", says Tuomas Aivelo @aivelo.bsky.social helsinki.fi/en/projects/ur…

Planning to conduct #ExclusionExperiments in agricultural areas to study #EcosystemServices?🐦🌾🦇 The Supp. Mat. of our recently published article provides easy-to-follow instructions for the construction🛠️🪚 and installation🪜of exclosures Check it 👇 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Happy to see our human genetics paper finally out in Nature Communications: "SCGB1D2 inhibits growth of Borrelia burgdorferi and affects susceptibility to Lyme disease", spreadheaded by Satu Strausz and led by Hanna M Ollila and Michal Tal, PhD doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Ylpeä ja iloinen Vuoden tiedekynä -palkintoehdokas tässä! Suomenkielinen tiedejulkaiseminen on tärkeää ja sen arvostuksen eteen on tehtävä työtä. Kiitokset sekä Koneen Säätiö että Duodecimlehti! koneensaatio.fi/uutiset/vuoden…

Meillä University of Helsinki BioEnvHelsinki avautui tänään Evoluutiobiologian yliopistonlehtorin tehtävä!! Tutkimuksen alana erityisesti evolutiivinen genetiikka. Tarjolla ihan mahtava työyhteisö ja huippuinfra tukemaan tutkimus- ja opetustyötä! DL 5.5. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Y…

This cool paper (even though I say so myself) is now out: Bird feeding devices exclude unwelcome visitors. More-than-humans shaping the architecture and technology of birdfeeders in twentieth-century Finland. Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11… A short thread: 1/8

What a pleasure to have finally met the wonderful Mar Cabeza GCC Group, who visited us last week and treated us to an inspiring talk on the many great things that bats can do for ecosystems despite the issues (some of which are of course true) that flood the media 🦇🌿🌱🍚

In this week's #GCCmeeting, Hugo Carvalho presented his prospective #Masters thesis project on the effects of #rural abandonment on #iberian #wolf populations 🐺🌱

In last week's #GCCmeeting, Samuel Awini presented his prospective #PhD research on the #ecology and #genetic characterisation of the African forest #elephant in #Ghana 🐘🇬🇭

This week, Helsinki Urban Rat Proj @helsinkirats.bsky.social received a visit from Daniel Dornan, a PhD student from the UK. In today's #GCCmeeting, he presented his PhD research on spatial and seasonal population dynamics of invasive rodents in Madagascar 🐀🇲🇬

CitiRats podcast showcases the findings and learnings from our project working between life sciences, social sciences and speculative fiction together with researchers, artists, young people, rats and environment. In Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/3yi1mlgGw… (Also in Apple podcasts)

In last week's #GCCmeeting, Ana Sofia Fernandes and Catarina Fernandes presented their Master's theses research on the insectivorous bats of São Tomé Island 🦇

In today's #GCCmeeting, leire borge rouco presented her Master's thesis research on crop defending strategies used in small-scale farms across Laikipia county in Kenya 🇰🇪

For today's #GCCmeeting, we had a lovely picnic outdoors in the sun with lots of delicious food and great conversations. Wishing everyone happy summer holidays! 🌞