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Jack Hooker @jackhooker.bsky.social · 11h

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Bats without Borders (BwB) @batswborders.bsky.social · 11h

🌟 1 week to go! 🌟

We are looking forward to our #wingedwednesday #webinar about Laura Torrent's work on the taxonomy and ecological roles of bats in Equatorial Guinea!

📅 Wednesday 22nd October
⏰ 3pm southern Africa | 2pm UK | 9am EDT

🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html

📸 Joxerra Aihartza

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BES ALDER Network @besaldernetwork.bsky.social · 12h

[🌱Cross-post from the @britishecologicalsociety.org REED Network LinkedIn 🌱]

REED Ecological Network Survey – We Need Your Voice! 🌿

Open to REED members, collaborators, allies & friends who have been involved with REED

🔗https://lnkd.in/evCcKquF

More info:
www.linkedin.com/posts/reuben...

REED Ecological Network: Impact & Reflections Survey | Reuben Fakoya-Brooks

REED Ecological Network Survey – We Need Your Voice! 🌿🌿 Whether you’ve attended a single event or been with REED from the start, we want to hear from you. We're gathering insights on the impact of t...

www.linkedin.com

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Bat Research Team @bat-cesco.bsky.social · 14h

[ NEW TEAM PAPER ]

🦇🎤 Passive acoustic monitoring of 𝗯𝗮𝘁𝘀 holds huge potential, but how do bat counts correlate with actual numbers? Which factors affect detectability? New metrics & models could revolutionize our understanding. Time to standardize protocols & share data! #BatResearch #Bioacoustics

Current frontiers in the passive acoustic monitoring of bats

Passive acoustic monitoring of bats is used in a growing number of studies in applied and basic research, from local to global scales. Despite the publication of good-practice recommendations, sev...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 2d

Large citizen science datasets are powerful tools for biodiversity science, but they may have biases. Nice new paper from @louisbackstrom.bsky.social et al. showing that for eBird and Birdtrack lists there is a tendency for rare species to be over-represented
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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BES ALDER Network @besaldernetwork.bsky.social · 7d

Hi everyone, we're the BES ALDER Network 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌳 Follow us for information about upcoming events, opportunities, community stories, & resources

Want more info? Join our newsletter? www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/join... @britishecologicalsociety.org

Who are we? ALDER (Advancing LGBTQIA+ Diversity, Equality & Representation) is a Network for the LGBTQIA+ ecologist community to interact, share and support each other.

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Tally Yoh @tallyyoh.bsky.social · 9d

🌱🕥🦇 Interested to know more about the habitat use & daily activity patterns of African island bats?

New paper led by Ana Filipa Palmeirim conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @ricardonature.bsky.social @anasofiabiology.bsky.social

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bes-quantitativegroup @bes-quantitative.bsky.social · 15d

📣 Two weeks to go! 📣

Don't forget to sign up using the link below.

bes-quantitativegroup @bes-quantitative.bsky.social · 23d

Join us for our next webinar, with @besaldernetwork.bsky.social!

Catherine Mercer and Ella Kaye will present their work predicting forest distributions using SDMs, and with @RainbowR, an organisation promoting LGBTQIA+ voices in the R community.

Tues 14th Oct @ 11am BST

Sign up: bit.ly/3HWpEol

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 12d

#NEMC2025: Building the UK Environmental Monitoring Community

📣 Be part of the change
Whether you deliver, use, or benefit from environmental monitoring, your voice matters.

🗓️ Register by 11 Nov 2025

www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/nati... 🧪

National Environmental Monitoring Conference - British Ecological Society

The NEMC returns for its second year focusing on: From insight to impact: building the UK environmental monitoring community

www.britishecologicalsociety.org

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Jasmin Ella Willis @jasminwillis.bsky.social · 13d

So happy that the first chapter of my PhD has been published! We explored where women exist in tropical wild meat systems, what they do & why. Huge thanks to my co-authors and my wonderful supervisory team 🙌

Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science @iccs.bsky.social · 15d

🚨Women are central to tropical wild meat systems, yet too often overlooked🚨

A new paper led by @jasminwillis.bsky.social, Dr Lauren Coad, @orchiddelirium.bsky.social & @ejmilnergulland.bsky.social reviewed 334 studies across 54 countries, finding women occupy 36 roles, from harvesting to trade.

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Bat Conservation International 🦇 @batcon.org · 15d

You read that right- there are now 1,500 official bat species known to science!
The Bioko pipistrelle (𝘗𝘪𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘭𝘢) was found on Bioko Island in Africa’s Equatorial New Guinea by former BCI Student Scholar Dr. Laura Torrent and her colleagues.

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Bats without Borders (BwB) @batswborders.bsky.social · 14d

COMING SOON... #WingedWednesday #webinar!

On 22nd October, we are happy to host Laura Torrent's webinar: 'What have we learned about Equatorial Guinea's bats - and what remains a mystery?'

Time: 3pm southern Africa | 2pm UK | 9am EDT

Sign up: lnkd.in/eTsz5eyQ

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Jack Hooker @jackhooker.bsky.social · 23d

New OA 🦇 research 📄

Current frontiers in the passive acoustic monitoring of bats

@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @bat-cesco.bsky.social

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Current frontiers in the passive acoustic monitoring of bats

Passive acoustic monitoring of bats is used in a growing number of studies in applied and basic research, from local to global scales. Despite the publication of good-practice recommendations, sev...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Dave Hemprich-Bennett @davehb.bsky.social · 20d

Highly recommended to any grad students studying bats, I got one of these during my PhD and it was really helpful 🦇

Bat Conservation International 🦇 @batcon.org · 20d

🦇 Grad Students: we'll be accepting applications for the 2026 Student Scholars program on October 1ˢᵗ. Learn more at batcon.org/student-scholars

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ESA Plant-Soil Ecology @esaplantsoilecol.bsky.social · 23d

“Nature conservation is not working unless it protects entire ecosystems with all their interacting members—big and small”

Fantastic opinion piece on advancing nature conservation to the next level by applying existing microorganism strategies to microbes.

Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services | PNAS

Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services

www.pnas.org

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Tally Yoh @tallyyoh.bsky.social · 22d

🌳Despite being >90% forested, unlogged forests are rare in Gabon 🌳

This blog by the Forest Stewardship Council covers our work on how logging certification can bolster conservation when combined with protecting unlogged areas fsc.org/en/newscentr...

Led by Zuzana Burivalova www.soundforestlab.org

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bes-quantitativegroup @bes-quantitative.bsky.social · 23d

Join us for our next webinar, with @besaldernetwork.bsky.social!

Catherine Mercer and Ella Kaye will present their work predicting forest distributions using SDMs, and with @RainbowR, an organisation promoting LGBTQIA+ voices in the R community.

Tues 14th Oct @ 11am BST

Sign up: bit.ly/3HWpEol

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 27d

Just under a fortnight left to nominate any amateur naturalists in your life for the H. H. Bloomer award.

The award recognises the contribution of people who contribute to natural history knowledge in their spare time.

Find out more and nominate by 30 September.
buff.ly/RIp7lQ9

The H. H. Bloomer Award

An award for an amateur naturalist for an important contribution to the knowledge of natural history.

www.linnean.org

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 27d

🦇 Are you highly organised, self-motivated, discreet and able to communicate clearly with a range of people? We are looking for a Finance Officer, preferably part-qualified or with proven experience in the not-for-profit sector.

Application deadline: 9am, 26 Sept:
www.bats.org.uk/the-trust/jo...

Finance Officer - Jobs / Contracts - Bat Conservation Trust

Fixed-term (8 months), four to five days a weekSalary: £30,000-£33,000 pro rata

www.bats.org.uk

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Bizzy Illustrations @bzillustrations.bsky.social · Sep 15

🦇The Badger and the Bat is available to purchase from my Esty shop bizzyillustrations.etsy.com and I will donate 5% sale profits to @batconservation.bsky.social and @kentbatgroup.org.uk with every purchase.

Don't forget to ask if you would like me to sign it 🦡❤️🦇

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Tally Yoh @tallyyoh.bsky.social · Sep 15

Congratulations!!

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Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks @gbatnet.bsky.social · Sep 1

2027 is going to be THE YEAR OF THE BATS!

A global celebration of the world’s only flying mammals and the vital roles they play in our ecosystems.

ENTER NOW!
www.yearofthebats.org

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Tally Yoh @tallyyoh.bsky.social · Sep 8

🌱REPORT: Developing Collaborative Solutions to the Intersectional Barriers Faced by Minoritised Ecologists 🌱🌻

Collaborative effort across the @britishecologicalsociety.org community to tackle the unique (& shared) challenges faced by many people in our field

Funders: @prideinstem.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Tally Yoh @tallyyoh.bsky.social · Aug 21

"Opening the Pandora's box of acoustic indices"

New research by Larissa Sayuri Moreira Sugai & Raul Costa-Pereira on the dangers of using soundscapes to replace species-specific monitoring in hyperdiverse ecosystems
@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Opening the Pandora's box of acoustic indices

www.sciencedirect.com

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Tally Yoh @tallyyoh.bsky.social · Aug 18

Join the @britishecologicalsociety.org Endemic Network to explore challenges & solutions for fieldwork as a neurodivergent individual & methods to support your colleagues

Date: Wednesday August 27th, 2025
Location: Zoom
Time: 16:30-18:00 (BST)
Free!
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/fiel...

Fieldwork Whilst Neurodiverse - British Ecological Society

Join the Endemic Network for this webinar exploring challenges and solutions for navigating fieldwork whilst neurodiverse and methods of supporting neurodivergent colleagues.

www.britishecologicalsociety.org

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Aug 8

pharos.viralemergence.org, whether you want $20 or not.

Pharos

Building a global atlas of wildlife disease data

pharos.viralemergence.org

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