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

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

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🌱🕥🦇 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

📣 Two weeks to go! 📣

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

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

#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... 🧪

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 🙌

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.

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

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...

New OA 🦇 research 📄

Current frontiers in the passive acoustic monitoring of bats

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

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

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

“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.

Elephants wading in small river

🌳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

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

The H. H. Bloomer Award An award for an amateur naturalist for an important contribution to the knowledge of natural history.

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.
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Finance Officer - Jobs / Contracts - Bat Conservation Trust Fixed-term (8 months), four to five days a weekSalary: £30,000-£33,000 pro rata

🦇 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...

🦇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 🦡❤️🦇

Congratulations!!

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

🌱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 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Opening the Pandora's box of acoustic indices

"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...

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.

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...

Pharos Building a global atlas of wildlife disease data

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

So we have this database for wildlife disease surveillance, and we made a data standard, and an R and Python package to help you clean your data, and two years in we just still cannot get first adopters, so here’s my new bit: I will personally Venmo you $20 of my personal money to share a dataset

Interested in knowing behind the scenes of the BES Annual Meeting 2025?

Volunteering as a Helper at our conference in Edinburgh could be the perfect opportunity for you!

Biodiversity science and biosurveillance are fellow travelers The failure to meet the Aichi targets to alleviate global biodiversity decline (Nature 2020) was a wake-up call to the biodiversity monitoring community (T

🦠🌿🐦🧪 How can biodiversity monitoring help global efforts in disease surveillance?

With ✨ fantastic ✨ colleagues from @viralemergence.org and the @geobon.org working group on One Health, we try to identify three key lessons for the future.

🧵 A short thread!

academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Supporting safe and equitable access to field research To celebrate Pride Month 2025, we are excited to share a series of blogs and podcasts highlighting useful articles and resources for LGBTQIA+ ecologists and researchers. In each post, the authors b…

Very useful blog on safety in the field, with the focus on marginalised communities. Thank you @zoomingbio.bsky.social and @britishecologicalsociety.org for this piece; mandatory reading for anyone teaching and organising field courses.
🧪 #academicsky #DEI

methodsblog.com/2025/06/17/s...

Join the BES Board of Trustees - British Ecological Society Represent the academic community at the BES and help set the strategic course of our work. Apply by 30 June 2025.

Help set the strategic direction of the BES and join our Board of Trustees🌱

We're looking for a new Trustee to represent ecologists in academic research🧪

Just two weeks left to apply👇
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British Ecological Society graphic promoting BES Grants. Text on a green background reads: 'BES Grants. We invest half a million every year in projects across the world. Applications are open.' On the right, a silhouette of a field researcher stands in an open grassy landscape, holding a backpack, with a square sampling frame in view.

Are you an ecologist looking for funding for your next project? 

Round 2 of our BES Grants is now open for applications!

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Panel discussion on representation in environmental science, plant science, and ecology 🌱 [FREE]

Wednesday (June 4th) hosted by BioSci Toolkit (Instagram @bioscitoolkit) www.eventbrite.com/e/the-hidden...

Have you got 10-minutes to help us understand more about the impact of cats on bats in Europe? 🦇 🐈

We are looking to wildlife rescue centres, veterinarians and bat carers to take part in our survey.

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