Fully funded #PhD to track the social and environmental influences on straw-coloured fruit bat migration. Join us & the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour @unikonstanz! All nationalities eligible. Deadline: Jan 15. orn.mpg.de/4155190/dechma…. Pls RT! #phdchat #bats

Our heartfelt gratitude and congratulations to the amazing crew Vivid Features all our #WildlifeWarriors HEROINES & HEROES, conservation partners Citizen TV Kenya communities & protected areas where we filmed, hotels, lodges & all their staff, & everyone who collaborated with us

Conservation of bats #FikiriniCaves, #SouthCoastKenya ⁦Bat Conservation International⁩ ⁦Jon Flanders, Ph.D⁩ ⁦Evarastus Obura⁩

Our very new article on the relationship between Afrotropical and Malagasy Long-fingered Bats (Family Miniopteridae). So many unnamed clades from continental Africa: authors.elsevier.com/a/1hZqm3m3nNAE…

Bat habitat use at ground and height levels at a semi-arid part of northern Kenya. doi.org/10.3390/biolog…

Happy #InternationalBatNight. Here’s a shout out to everyone involved working to save this amazing group of animals.

Our review of virological studies on African #bats suggests various biases. Most importantly, evidence is lacking for 🦇 as reservoir hosts for almost all studied #viruses. We call for a systematic approach and the consideration of bat conservation: doi 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0358

As far as in Kenya & at Harvard in Cambridge, Mass, we have heard of this destruction of an Ibadan urban forest vital 4 city folk & 30,000 bats that disperse tree seed among their many services. Pls halt this asap Damian Carrington Mongabay Bat Conservation International WCS Nigeria 💚 Paul Webala

A day to remember - beginning of a new One Health collaboration in Rwanda! Helsinki One Health @DiseaseEcol @EssiKorhonen5 Paul Webala Dr. Nziza julius Richard muvunyi

My research is available on ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/37…

New species named after me! Great honor! Thanks @Bruce Patterson. Systematics of the Rhinolophus landeri complex, with evidence for 3 additional Afrotropical bat species academic.oup.com/jmammal/articl…

Graduate Students! We'll be accepting applications for the 2025 Student Scholars program on October 1ˢᵗ. Learn more at batcon.org/student-schola…

⚠️APPLICATIONS OPEN ‼️ 🌍Are you from an Asian, African, Latin American or Caribbean country of the #GlobalSouth? 🦇Are you passionate about #bats and their conservation? Apply for the 2nd Networking Workshop and Field Course on Bat Identification, Ecology and Conservation ⬇️

Our new species, Rhinolophus webalai, is featured in the news! 🦇⬇️ miamiherald.com/news/nation-wo… Bruce Patterson, Paul Webala @tdemos7 Cecilia Montauban 🦇🐾 Amanda Grunwald Javier Juste Julian Kerbis Peterhans, Molly McDonough, Carl Dick, Michael Bartonjo, M. Corrie Schoeman & Luis Ruedas

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We made it to the cover!! Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution #ConvergentEvolution #Bats 🦇 academic.oup.com/mbe/issue/41/10 doi.org/10.1093/molbev…

Strengthening zoonotic disease surveillance in #Rwanda! This week, with funding from USAID Rwanda, FAO in Rwanda supported Government of Rwanda in developing & validating SOPs for effective wildlife disease monitoring and boosting early detection and response using a #OneHealth approach.