Applications for the 2025 Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship are now open. Applications are due on September 30 and are open to those pursuing the discovery and formal taxonomic description of Earth’s animal species. bit.ly/3ygxDHO

Check out our latest 📜 from project Rice Guardians led by Madalena Sottomayor 'Nature-based solutions to increase rice yield: An experimental assessment of the role of 🐦 and 🦇 as agricultural pest suppressors in West Africa' tinyurl.com/32797pkt

PhD studentship working with me and Carolina Chagas based in Nature Research Centre, Lithuania! Working on #Leucocytozoon infection in #birds with opportunities to get involved in WIMANET. E-mail us any questions, application deadline 15th May #malaria #ornithology Please RT

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🦇Ya se encuentra disponible el último número del Boletín de la Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe para la Conservación de los Murciélagos.
🌐 Puedes descargar este número y los anteriores ingresando al siguiente enlace:
relcomlatinoamerica.net/boletín.html
¡No te lo pierdas!

A unique (and highly recommended) post-doc opportunity in Panamá with STRI for someone working in restoration ecology or applied ecology, that features an intriguing balance between research and outreach with indigenous communities. Please share widely! Smithsonian Panama

Don't wait until last night (yes, we all do it) to submit abstracts at the #EBRS2024
Do it today!
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congressos.urv.cat/ebrs-2024/home

Deadline 10th May
EBRS2024

Enjoyed BBC One Mammals tonight? The featured forest at Kasanka, Zambia is under huge pressure from illegal fires & poaching. Yet the rangers don't have even ONE functioning GPS unit (need 4 @£400 each). Effective patrols are impossible. Please help! 2024tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/nick-ryde-k… #bats

I wrote a tutorial page for our Florida Museum website to help everyone get access to our #oVertTCN scans online via MorphoSource! Check it out:

floridamuseum.ufl.edu/digital-lab/re…

Another monday, another 🦇! A big one, the greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis) is one the largest Myotis in the world! 🌍

Realtively scarce in Catalonia, some colonies have declined, supposedly due to the decline in large insect abundance! 🪲🐞🪳

2-days online symposium about #bats and #windenergy in Spain (in Spanish).
✅FREE registration
🗓️ 7-8 May
Organized by SECEMU and our WG on wind energy.
If you want to attend, contact [email protected]
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April 23 is traditionally known as Diada de Sant Jordi ('Saint George's Day') in Catalan.
On this day, love & literature are celebrated throughout Catalonia and 📚 & 🌹 are exchanged.

I want to recommend this wonderful book by Ara Monadjem
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#DiadaSantJordi2024 #Africa

The Kuhl's pipistrelle (Pipistrellus kuhlii) is a species that's been expanding it's range northwards due to #ClimateChange !🤔

A typically Mediterranean species, they are pretty adaptable, with a roost of these animals having been found in a Bonelli's eagle nest! 🦅🦇

Spending some time at BIOPOLIS-CIBIO with Carme Tuneu-Corral unveiling the #diet of #AfricanBats using #metabarcoding
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Thanks for the guidance & patience Vanessa Mata 🤩🙏
#phdlife

Last monday, one of the smallest 🦇, and today one of the largest! 🐽

The greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum), impossible to misidentify both visually or by its characteristic 80khz CF #echolocation calls!

📸: Adrià López-Baucells - Connecting Bats & People

The fourth and final of our keynote speakers is Dr. Winifred F. Frick (Dr Winifred F Frick), Chief #Scientist at Bat Conservation International and associate professor in #Ecology and Evolutionary #Biology at UC Santa Cruz ! 🦇🧬🌳

Fantastic contribution from Veli Mdluli to #BatConservation with the publication of his children's #book
I want a copy!! 🤩💜🦇

Bat Conservation International Global South Bats Merlin Tuttle’s Bat Conservation Bats without Borders

Another of our #keynote speakers, is Dr. Dina Dechmann (dechmannlab ⭐️) a classical behavioral #ecologist with a passion for #evolution 🧬

Her emerging focus is increasingly on the role that resource distribution in time and space plays for animals 🦟🦇

The second of our keynote speakers: Prof. Orly Razgour (Orly Razgour ) from University of Exeter, Cornwall , a #MolecularEcologist and #conservationbiologist , researching evolutionary and ecological responses to global environmental change! 🧐🌳🦇

Monday bat! The whiskered bat (Myotis mystacinus) is relatively common in Europe, but more scarce in the southern parts of its distribution! 🤔

In #Catalonia this species is only found in Pyrenean forests, usually near water bodies and riparian areas!

📸: Adrià López-Baucells - Connecting Bats & People

‼️Abstract submission extended to 🔟th May 2⃣0⃣2⃣4⃣‼️

Check our last 🧵on the topics covered in the #EBRS2024 . Do not hesitate and show us your latest research concerning bats‼️🦇🦇🦇

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