What?🤯 Our incredibly talented steering committee member Kendra Phelps, PhD is on the lookout for her next position ⁉️Any team would be beyond lucky to have her onboard!! 😌 linkedin.com/in/kendra-phel…

Bats: “We’re not blind, just misunderstood! We’ve got echolocation AND eyesight! Check your facts, folks!’" #Bats are ready to clear up the rumors.” 🦇 #batweek #batmyth #Smallmammalconservation

📣Reminder to submit your comments for the NASA #PANGEA and #ARID campaign proposals by Nov 5 here: cce.nasa.gov/terrestrial_ec… The draft PANGEA white paper can be found here: tropicalforestscoping.com/news-2/ and a great AGU's Eos write-up here: eos.org/articles/next-…

Out in early view: The ecomorphological radiation of phyllostomid #bats. With Alexa Sadier and Marco Mello, we explore the extrinsic and intrinsic factors associated with the most fabulous adaptive radiation within mammals. shorturl.at/POjvZ

So, I’ve been thinking how best to put this amazing gift out there, but the captivating nature of the chapters made it more difficult. Thank you to Iroro Tanshi, PhD & Small Mammal Conservation Organization (SMACON) through whom the book came and to the author Prosanta Chakrabarty, thank you for this amazing gift. #evolution

Applications for the 2025 TBA Field Course are Open! Our courses deliver hands-on training and real-world experience in the tropics, focusing on skill-building and deep understanding. Find out more: tropical-biology.org/courses/

The American Society of Mammalogists is pleased to announce that its committee is accepting applications for the 2024 ASM Student Science Policy Award. This award is offered in collaboration with the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS). mammalsociety.org/committees/stu…

Excited to share our new publication, Africa bat database. Grateful that lead author, Ara Monadjem invited me and others to contribute to his long-standing dataset. Congrats to all co-authors.

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Excited to share our new publication, Africa bat database. Grateful that lead author, Ara Monadjem invited me and others to contribute to his long-standing dataset. Congrats to all co-authors. Please share.

On TEK: “If you're multilingual & are fluent, you do not mix two languages; when you speak in English, you think in English & when you speak in Arabic, you think in Arabic. You become almost a different person because there is an entire culture associated with one language. (1/4)

Our new article in Ecological Applications: A new tool to quantify biodiversity change under landscape transformation #landscape #conservation #bats #Amazonia Link: doi.org/10.1002/eap.30… Ecología UAM UAM Autónoma Madrid UFGD UNIFAP CE3C Tropical and Mediterranean Biodiversity @cE3c UFRJ

A New Genus for the “Alfaroi Group” of Oryzomys Sensu Lato (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) bioone.org/journals/ameri…

#HomeRange is a key ecological concept influencing many aspects of vertebrate life. This review and meta-analysis in Am Soc Mammalogists examines #published #data for 8⃣1⃣ 🦇species to identify variables that contribute most to home range sizes. 📰🔎 academic.oup.com/jmammal/articl…

📢New article: Urban 🦇with more diverse diet than rural 🦇. Also, urban 🦇fed on more than twice as many agricultural pests 🪲 and six times as many nuisance insects 🦟as rural 🦇. Urban🦇 are important for human health! Great job Caro and team! doi.org/10.1016/j.land…

The TBA field course in Kirindy, Madagascar sparked my passion for field botany and tropical ecology and conservation. Changed my life literally.