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Susanne Babl @susannebabl.bsky.social · 8d

Our new paper is now in BioRxiv ☺️
See how the auditory cortex encodes vocalizations before the bat produces them 📣🦇🧠

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

with @talking-bat.bsky.social and Dennis Röhrig!

Neurons in the bat auditory cortex encode class and complexity of future vocalizations

Vocal production is a complex behavior across the animal kingdom that relies on coordinated motor and auditory networks. However, the contribution of sensory areas in vocal control remains poorly unde...

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Marta Acácio @martaacacio.bsky.social · 11d

In our new paper, we provide a tool (datasets, model and codes) to help identify vulture feeding hotspots, supporting efforts to combat scavenger poisoning.

#ornithology #RaptorResearch 🧪🌍
@jappliedecology.bsky.social

Read it here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · Sep 24

📰Published📰Pollen essential amino acids shape bat–flower interaction networks🦇

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Pollen essential amino acids shape bat–flower interaction networks

Fernando Gonçalves, Andréa Cardoso Araujo, Carine Emer, Maria Ligia Rodrigues Macedo, Erich Fischer This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here…

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · Sep 2

In her review, Laura Stidsholt @bioacousticsau.bsky.social discusses how bat-borne acoustic devices are changing echolocation research in wild #bats by recording sensory & foraging behaviour across different species, habitats & levels of disturbance

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

A screen shot of the PDF of the Review, Unlocking the mysteries of biosonar use and foraging behaviour in wild bats with on-board acoustic recording tags, but Laura Stidsholt. The publishing information states: © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2025) 228, jeb250777. doi:10.1242/jeb.250777. The first sentence of the Abstract states: Since the discovery of biosonar by Griffin in the 1940s, laboratories have conducted detailed experiments on how bats produce and modify their biosonar calls, as well as on how they detect and process self-generated echoes when orienting and hunting in flight rooms

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Baheerathan @baheerathanm.bsky.social · Aug 27

If you are at the Behaviour 2025: XXXVIII International Ethological Congress, don't miss my poster on studying the movement ecology of Jungle babblers using both manual and telemetry methods! #behaviour2025
@behaviour2025.bsky.social

#Movementecology

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Dr Allybatz @allysonwalsh.bsky.social · Aug 10

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Eight bat researchers mostly from Asia and Africa refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific event

Organisers say move will damage nation’s scientific standing as government refuses to comment on why group of scientists were refused entry

www.theguardian.com

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Baheerathan @baheerathanm.bsky.social · Aug 7

More fruit bat action awaiting @ibrc2025.bsky.social If you are curious to see how bats can literally grab a bite, don't miss this speed talk

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Ben Paris @nzbatman.bsky.social · Aug 7

Rajesh Puttaswamaiah 🇮🇳 talks about radio 📻 tracking endangered Hippposideros hypophyllus bats 🦇 using scooters 🛵 in forestry 🌲 and agriculture 🧑‍🌾 land. It showed him that bats preferred 🥭 plantation but more study needed @ibrc2025.bsky.social #ibrc2025

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Baheerathan @baheerathanm.bsky.social · Aug 6

If you are attending @ibrc2025.bsky.social and are interested in seed dispersal by bats in the Asia Pacific region, don't miss this talk

#IBRC2025

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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · Aug 1

We are looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) who wants to study neural mechanisms of spatial memory in honeybees.

This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees.

Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025.

More details:
www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...

Postdoctoral Position (f/m/d) at the Chair of Behavioral Physiology & Sociobiology

Biocenter of the University of Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg

www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de

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Baheerathan @baheerathanm.bsky.social · Jul 28

New mode of self evaluation unlocked 👏🏻

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Darío Lupiáñez @dariloops.bsky.social · Jul 17

How bats developed their wings? 🦇

Turns out they reutilize existing gene programs 🔧

Find out more in our paper @natecoevo.nature.com in collaboration with @fany-real.bsky.social and @stemundi.bsky.social labs

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Comparative single-cell analyses reveal evolutionary repurposing of a conserved gene programme in bat wing development - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Single-cell comparison of developing bat and mouse limbs reveals conservation of cell populations and gene expression patterns, and suggests repurposing of genes involved in proximal limb development ...

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Baheerathan @baheerathanm.bsky.social · Jul 16

Electric vehicles (EVs) are quiet alternates decarbonising transport but are EVs quiet for urban wildlife? With🦇s as a model,we Manjari Jain & @olindecke.bsky.social review the impacts of noise acoustics & explore its implications for a future dominated by EVs
👇🔌🚗📢🏙️🦇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sounds of silence: electric mobility promises a quieter soundscape for wildlife, but may challenge ultrasonically sensitive species globally

Expanding transportation networks generate anthropogenic noise, a stressor for wildlife. The rapid transition to electric mobility, with projections of 40-45 million new electric vehicles (EVs) annual...

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Baheerathan @baheerathanm.bsky.social · Jun 25

Happy to attend and present 🦇s at the Indian Conservation Conference 2025. Wonderful ambience with deep insights on Wildlife conservation in India.

If you want to know more about how "Bats handle the noisy world" visit the Auditorium by noon tomorrow!

#ICCON2025
#WII #Conservation
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Arinjay Banerjee @banerjeelab.ca · Jun 20

🚨 #PhD #Opportunity

We will be hiring a PhD student. #LZCI

More information about our work here: banerjeelab.ca

Interested candidates: apply using the email information on our webpage. Send:
(1) resume
(2) a one page letter of motivation to join the Banerjee Lab

Please repost. #LoveVirology

Laboratory of Zoonotic Viruses and Comparative Immunology

banerjeelab.ca

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · Jun 3

JEB has been hosting its Symposium for almost 50 years & this year, as part of @biologists.bsky.social 100th Anniversary #biologists100, the symposium, 'Sensory perception in a changing world', was open to anyone at the Biologists @ 100 meeting. Find out more
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

A montage showing delegates and attendees at the JEB Symposium (clockwise from top left): Nathan Putnam, Michael Berenbrink, Hema Somanathan, Daniel Robert, Robyn Grant.

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Arinjay Banerjee @banerjeelab.ca · May 28

🚨 Nipah virus poses a future #pandemic risk. New cases in Kerala, India further highlight the need for a One Health approach. Read more in our recent interdisciplinary and multi-institutional collaborative article now published in @NatureMicrobiology #LZCI : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A One Health approach to understanding and managing Nipah virus outbreaks - Nature Microbiology

In this Perspective, Yadav et al. discuss NiV outbreaks, transmission cycles and the role of reservoir and bridging hosts. They also discuss a One Health approach to mitigate the risks of NiV epidemic...

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Bat Conservation International 🦇 @batcon.org · May 20

🎉Bat Conservation Win 🎉
Livingstone’s fruit bat (𝘗𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘪) has been officially downlisted from Critically Endangered to Endangered by the IUCN!

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Dr. Sabine Metzger 🦇 @drsabinemetzger.bsky.social · May 20

🦇 www.batcon.org/press/rare-l...

Rare Livingstone's Fruit Bat Downlisted by IUCN - Bat Conservation International

GPS tagging and updated population data contributed to improved Red List status.

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Melquisedec Gamba-Rios @mgambarios.bsky.social · May 20

A collaborative work with @morceglo and G. McCracken; T. tricolor is an incredible system that helps us shed some light on 🦇 anti-predator defenses and how acoustic signal recognition mediates a trade-off between predator avoidance and social communication with ecological and social implications.

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · May 19

Bats rely on social calls to stay together but what happens when predator recognition disrupts them? New research found that bats ceased social communication which could impact sociality and disrupt group cohesion: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #BiologyLetters #ethology

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · May 4

The ontogeny of decision-making in an eavesdropping predator: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #ProcB #cognition #ethology

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · May 17

@susannebabl.bsky.social et al. review the mechanisms and circuits of vocal production in echolocating 🦇. @talking-bat.bsky.social

www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

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Dr Alison Peel @alibat.bsky.social · May 8

Last chance to get your abstracts in for the 20th International Bat Research Conference (IBRC) in Australia in August!

It's shaping up to be an exciting program, in an incredible world heritage location, with diverse workshops and field trips.

Abstracts due this Wednesday 14th May!!

www.ibrc.org

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International Bat Research Conference 2025 @ibrc2025.bsky.social · Apr 30

IBRC abstract submission deadline extended until 14 May 2025!
Submit your abstracts here:
www.ibrc.org/call-for-abs...
#ibrc2025 #bats #batresearch

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