Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩🔬
@kristinamuise.bsky.social
MSc & BSc (Hons) in bat behaviour/physiology @uwinnipeg.bsky.social 🦇 (she/her)
Veterinary Medicine, Wildlife Conservation & Diseases 🔬
https://kristinamuise.weebly
Veterinary Medicine, Wildlife Conservation & Diseases 🔬
https://kristinamuise.weebly
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Hi everyone - I'm Kristina! I am aiming to become a Veterinarian and for my previous degrees (BSc. Hons and MSc) I studied the behaviour & physiology of bats in North America. My interests are mainly wildlife diseases and conservation medicince. I'm interested in connecting more with people on here!
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Why is science under assault and what forces are behind it?
My review @thelancet.com of “Science under Siege” by @michaelemann.bsky.social & @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/callback?red...
My review @thelancet.com of “Science under Siege” by @michaelemann.bsky.social & @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
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November 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Why is science under assault and what forces are behind it?
My review @thelancet.com of “Science under Siege” by @michaelemann.bsky.social & @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/callback?red...
My review @thelancet.com of “Science under Siege” by @michaelemann.bsky.social & @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
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It's Dec 1st tomorrow - which means the start of #BatMas!
a bat is hanging upside down in a duct
ALT: a bat is hanging upside down in a duct
media.tenor.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
It's Dec 1st tomorrow - which means the start of #BatMas!
Saturday morning platelet donation 🩸🅰️➕
Platelet donation #2 & donation #40 in total!
Platelet donation #2 & donation #40 in total!
November 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Saturday morning platelet donation 🩸🅰️➕
Platelet donation #2 & donation #40 in total!
Platelet donation #2 & donation #40 in total!
Reposted by Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩🔬
Fascinating article on tattoo + vaccine interactions.
For SOME vaccines (like covid), immune response was lower when injected into tattoos. For OTHERS, (like flu), the immune response = higher!
Different formulations of vaccines interact with tattoo ink differently 🤯
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
For SOME vaccines (like covid), immune response was lower when injected into tattoos. For OTHERS, (like flu), the immune response = higher!
Different formulations of vaccines interact with tattoo ink differently 🤯
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Fascinating article on tattoo + vaccine interactions.
For SOME vaccines (like covid), immune response was lower when injected into tattoos. For OTHERS, (like flu), the immune response = higher!
Different formulations of vaccines interact with tattoo ink differently 🤯
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
For SOME vaccines (like covid), immune response was lower when injected into tattoos. For OTHERS, (like flu), the immune response = higher!
Different formulations of vaccines interact with tattoo ink differently 🤯
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
I'm sad to leave a great position at @jexpbiol.bsky.social after 4 years. I'm so thankful for all that I learned & especially Kathryn Knight who worked with me to put out the best articles.
Since some never got posted here on Bluesky, here's a list of articles through the years! (1/n)
🌎🧪🐦🦇
Since some never got posted here on Bluesky, here's a list of articles through the years! (1/n)
🌎🧪🐦🦇
My very last Outside JEB paper with @jexpbiol.bsky.social has been published, covering a fantastic article by Jonasson et al in @royalsociety.org that determined if two migratory bat species were attracted to moonlight reflecting off wind turbine blades 🦇🧪🌎
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Fatal attraction: migratory bats are lured to wind turbine blades
Wind turbines are important for global energy production because of their low greenhouse gas emissions. However, for unknown reasons, many migratory bats are colliding with the wind turbine blades, le...
journals.biologists.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I'm sad to leave a great position at @jexpbiol.bsky.social after 4 years. I'm so thankful for all that I learned & especially Kathryn Knight who worked with me to put out the best articles.
Since some never got posted here on Bluesky, here's a list of articles through the years! (1/n)
🌎🧪🐦🦇
Since some never got posted here on Bluesky, here's a list of articles through the years! (1/n)
🌎🧪🐦🦇
Reposted by Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩🔬
If you want to learn how to use stable isotope analysis for ecological research, my colleague has launched two online courses about this method. One is basic principles and one is R analysis of data.
www.atomicecology.com/courses?fbcl...
🧪🦑🌎
www.atomicecology.com/courses?fbcl...
🧪🦑🌎
Online Courses | Atomic Ecology
Online training in the application of stable isotopes to ecological and environmental research
www.atomicecology.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
If you want to learn how to use stable isotope analysis for ecological research, my colleague has launched two online courses about this method. One is basic principles and one is R analysis of data.
www.atomicecology.com/courses?fbcl...
🧪🦑🌎
www.atomicecology.com/courses?fbcl...
🧪🦑🌎
Reposted by Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩🔬
Nerrrrrrrrrrrds!
To celebrate getting 100,000 followers on Bluesky, I am offering some of you fine folks the chance to join me on a 2026 shark research expedition. Really!
Enter here: forms.gle/iq3YQG31kbAC...
Terms and conditions in thread below:
To celebrate getting 100,000 followers on Bluesky, I am offering some of you fine folks the chance to join me on a 2026 shark research expedition. Really!
Enter here: forms.gle/iq3YQG31kbAC...
Terms and conditions in thread below:
a man in red swim trunks is standing in the ocean
ALT: a man in red swim trunks is standing in the ocean
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November 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Nerrrrrrrrrrrds!
To celebrate getting 100,000 followers on Bluesky, I am offering some of you fine folks the chance to join me on a 2026 shark research expedition. Really!
Enter here: forms.gle/iq3YQG31kbAC...
Terms and conditions in thread below:
To celebrate getting 100,000 followers on Bluesky, I am offering some of you fine folks the chance to join me on a 2026 shark research expedition. Really!
Enter here: forms.gle/iq3YQG31kbAC...
Terms and conditions in thread below:
BRB. Will be grading exams for the next couple of weeks.
Please come by my office with coffee or company 🙃
Please come by my office with coffee or company 🙃
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
BRB. Will be grading exams for the next couple of weeks.
Please come by my office with coffee or company 🙃
Please come by my office with coffee or company 🙃
Reposted by Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩🔬
🦇Interested in a bat-related PhD? 👇
Using genomics to understand bat population declines under global environmental change with @orlyrazgour.bsky.social , @bfraser.bsky.social and BCT, based at the University of Exeter.
Application deadline 8 January 2026: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Using genomics to understand bat population declines under global environmental change with @orlyrazgour.bsky.social , @bfraser.bsky.social and BCT, based at the University of Exeter.
Application deadline 8 January 2026: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Applying genomic approaches to understand bat population declines. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry at University of Exeter on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Applying genomic approaches to understand bat population declines. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry at University of Exeter, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🦇Interested in a bat-related PhD? 👇
Using genomics to understand bat population declines under global environmental change with @orlyrazgour.bsky.social , @bfraser.bsky.social and BCT, based at the University of Exeter.
Application deadline 8 January 2026: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Using genomics to understand bat population declines under global environmental change with @orlyrazgour.bsky.social , @bfraser.bsky.social and BCT, based at the University of Exeter.
Application deadline 8 January 2026: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Reposted by Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩🔬
2025. Vampire bats may have contracted H5N1 bird flu in Peru, raising worries about further spread | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Vampire bats may have contracted H5N1 bird flu in Peru, raising worries about further spread
Bats could form a bridge between marine and terrestrial mammals, scientists say
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
2025. Vampire bats may have contracted H5N1 bird flu in Peru, raising worries about further spread | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Reposted by Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩🔬
Del Basto & co show that using brown fat to generate extra body heat has helped some mammals conquer the globe, but birds have had to come up with other strategies while marsupials are stuck where the climate doesn't get so chilly
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Del Basto & co show that using brown fat to generate extra body heat has helped some mammals conquer the globe, but birds have had to come up with other strategies while marsupials are stuck where the climate doesn't get so chilly
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Reposted by Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩🔬
Manitoba's plan to build a $3 billion methane power plant is BANANAS. More expensive than Firm Renewables (wind/solar & storage) & it leaves consumers vulnerable to skyrocketing gas prices especially as we export more LNG driving up prices. Just plain dumb. #MbPoli
climateactionmb.ca/new-provinci...
climateactionmb.ca/new-provinci...
New Provincial Fossil Gas-Fired Power Plant Contradicts Climate Commitments, Misses Opportunities - Climate Action Team Manitoba
climateactionmb.ca
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Manitoba's plan to build a $3 billion methane power plant is BANANAS. More expensive than Firm Renewables (wind/solar & storage) & it leaves consumers vulnerable to skyrocketing gas prices especially as we export more LNG driving up prices. Just plain dumb. #MbPoli
climateactionmb.ca/new-provinci...
climateactionmb.ca/new-provinci...
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Historic victory for sharks: #CITESCoP20 Parties voted to list oceanic whitetip sharks on Appendix I, the highest level of protection offered by CITES.
“Today’s decision is a watershed moment for all sharks and rays,” said WCS’s Luke Warwick.
🌏 Read more: bit.ly/4olha9w
“Today’s decision is a watershed moment for all sharks and rays,” said WCS’s Luke Warwick.
🌏 Read more: bit.ly/4olha9w
Historic Victory for Sharks as Oceanic Whitetips Upgraded to Appendix I at CITES Banning International Trade
Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Nov. 27, 2025 – CITES CoP20 Parties voted to list oceanic whitetip sharks on Appendix I, the highest level of protection offered by CITES. The vote marks a major victory for one...
newsroom.wcs.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Historic victory for sharks: #CITESCoP20 Parties voted to list oceanic whitetip sharks on Appendix I, the highest level of protection offered by CITES.
“Today’s decision is a watershed moment for all sharks and rays,” said WCS’s Luke Warwick.
🌏 Read more: bit.ly/4olha9w
“Today’s decision is a watershed moment for all sharks and rays,” said WCS’s Luke Warwick.
🌏 Read more: bit.ly/4olha9w
Reposted by Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩🔬
At #CITESCOP20, we’re supporting Ecuador’s proposals to transfer Galápagos land and marine iguanas from Appendix II to Appendix I, the highest level of protection under CITES.
These species are facing increasing pressures. Strong international safeguards are essential to their survival.
These species are facing increasing pressures. Strong international safeguards are essential to their survival.
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
At #CITESCOP20, we’re supporting Ecuador’s proposals to transfer Galápagos land and marine iguanas from Appendix II to Appendix I, the highest level of protection under CITES.
These species are facing increasing pressures. Strong international safeguards are essential to their survival.
These species are facing increasing pressures. Strong international safeguards are essential to their survival.
My very last Outside JEB paper with @jexpbiol.bsky.social has been published, covering a fantastic article by Jonasson et al in @royalsociety.org that determined if two migratory bat species were attracted to moonlight reflecting off wind turbine blades 🦇🧪🌎
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Fatal attraction: migratory bats are lured to wind turbine blades
Wind turbines are important for global energy production because of their low greenhouse gas emissions. However, for unknown reasons, many migratory bats are colliding with the wind turbine blades, le...
journals.biologists.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
My very last Outside JEB paper with @jexpbiol.bsky.social has been published, covering a fantastic article by Jonasson et al in @royalsociety.org that determined if two migratory bat species were attracted to moonlight reflecting off wind turbine blades 🦇🧪🌎
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Reposted by Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩🔬
At #CITESCOP20, we are calling for Parties to reject Proposal 3, which would lift the zero-export quota and allow international commercial trade in saiga horns.
The saiga has just recovered and that progress is fragile, Khash-Erdene Bayarsaikhan of WCS Mongolia.
The saiga has just recovered and that progress is fragile, Khash-Erdene Bayarsaikhan of WCS Mongolia.
November 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
At #CITESCOP20, we are calling for Parties to reject Proposal 3, which would lift the zero-export quota and allow international commercial trade in saiga horns.
The saiga has just recovered and that progress is fragile, Khash-Erdene Bayarsaikhan of WCS Mongolia.
The saiga has just recovered and that progress is fragile, Khash-Erdene Bayarsaikhan of WCS Mongolia.
Reposted by Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩🔬
I was feeling like "my job is pointless and no one cares" and then one of my students popped in to office hours just to ask for book recommendations
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I was feeling like "my job is pointless and no one cares" and then one of my students popped in to office hours just to ask for book recommendations
"our findings suggest that endangered species are no more or less likely to host viruses that pose a threat to humans, but future zoonotic threats might remain undiscovered in these species."
NEW! 🦠🦧 We revisited a perplexing paradox: do wildlife really pose less of a risk to human health as they become more endangered? Turns out, it's sampling bias all the way down: conservation risks correlate with disease surveillance blindspots. 🔓 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Viral diversity and zoonotic risk in endangered species
A growing body of evidence links zoonotic disease risk, including pandemic threats, to biodiversity loss and other upstream anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem health. However, there is little current...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"our findings suggest that endangered species are no more or less likely to host viruses that pose a threat to humans, but future zoonotic threats might remain undiscovered in these species."
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Paula MacKay is now on Bluesky! See what she's up to, and also find links to her writing, at @paulamackay.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Paula MacKay is now on Bluesky! See what she's up to, and also find links to her writing, at @paulamackay.bsky.social
Reposted by Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩🔬
what next!!! ---- 2025. Endangered lemurs face new threat from the luxury meat trade phys.org/news/2025-11...
Endangered lemurs face new threat from the luxury meat trade
Lemurs, the small primates with bushy tails and large, expressive eyes, are among the world's most endangered species. According to the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List, ...
phys.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
what next!!! ---- 2025. Endangered lemurs face new threat from the luxury meat trade phys.org/news/2025-11...
I planned to be productive today, but the university announcing this today really threw a wrench in my ability to focus
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I planned to be productive today, but the university announcing this today really threw a wrench in my ability to focus
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This is disappointing
Canada’s cuts to the Global Fund will fuel reversal of progress on HIV, TB, and Malaria
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/canadas-cuts...
Canada’s cuts to the Global Fund will fuel reversal of progress on HIV, TB, and Malaria
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/canadas-cuts...
Canada's cuts to the Global Fund will fuel reversal of progress on HIV, TB, and Malaria | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Canada's reduced pledge to The Global Fund reflects recent aid cuts, a shift from its previous leading role in fighting AIDS, TB, and malaria.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is disappointing
Canada’s cuts to the Global Fund will fuel reversal of progress on HIV, TB, and Malaria
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/canadas-cuts...
Canada’s cuts to the Global Fund will fuel reversal of progress on HIV, TB, and Malaria
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/canadas-cuts...
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It’s #TautonymTuesday! Meet 𝐵𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑙𝑎 𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑙𝑎, the stone loach. This small benthic #fish inhabits cool, fast-flowing streams across Europe and western Asia. They live on the bottom, often partly buried. A classic tautonym in freshwater ichthyology! #Systematics #TaxonomyTuesday Photo: Holger Krisp
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
It’s #TautonymTuesday! Meet 𝐵𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑙𝑎 𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑙𝑎, the stone loach. This small benthic #fish inhabits cool, fast-flowing streams across Europe and western Asia. They live on the bottom, often partly buried. A classic tautonym in freshwater ichthyology! #Systematics #TaxonomyTuesday Photo: Holger Krisp
Reposted by Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩🔬
Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly.
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly.
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
Reposted by Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩🔬
Bowhead whales live twice as long as humans, and have a unique DNA repair mechanism to avoid cancer. Novel research w U Rochester in collaboration with the Inuit in Alaska.
🧪#cancer
apple.news/Ag-kaIoQ2QSG...
🧪#cancer
apple.news/Ag-kaIoQ2QSG...
A bowhead whale's DNA offers clues to fight cancer — NPR
Scientists searching for new ways to combat cancer think they may have uncovered a promising new lead in the DNA of the bowhead whale.
apple.news
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Bowhead whales live twice as long as humans, and have a unique DNA repair mechanism to avoid cancer. Novel research w U Rochester in collaboration with the Inuit in Alaska.
🧪#cancer
apple.news/Ag-kaIoQ2QSG...
🧪#cancer
apple.news/Ag-kaIoQ2QSG...