International Bat Research Conference 2025

And with the last session, comparative immunology symposium at #IBRC2025 is closed. Phenomenal talks and I am confident that many collaborations will come out of these conversations. @ibrc2025.bsky.social

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Very proud of PhD student, @sauhards.bsky.social for representing our lab at #IBRC2025. 👏🏾
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Daniel Hargreaves shows how to create a ‘bat hotel’ from old houses to increase bar occupancy! #IBRC2025 🦇

Amazing start to the International Bat Research Conference in Cairns! 🦇 🇦🇺 So great to reconnect with my esteemed friend and colleague Merlin Tuttle - nothing beats sharing our passion for bats with fellow researchers from around the world. #IBRC2025 #BatResearch #BatConservation

Magic found social calls are fewer, but no change in call type in urbanised areas #IBRC2025

Anna Langguth shows immune cell counts is lowest in winter & experimentally in torpor which could make Aus bats more vulnerable to #WNS disease. #IBRC2025

Mei-Ting (Magic) Kao presenting “Chatting in the city? Exploring bat acoustic social communication across an urban gradient”
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Thank you @nzbatman.bsky.social for starting an #IBRC2025 attendees feed list!
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Emer McGowan & Paul Barden speak to the success of the Northern Territory’s first artificial roost—which detected both ghost bats and orange diamond-faced bats within one week of construction!

#artificialhabitats #ghostbats #conservation #ibrc2025

And an excellent set of talks during the second session on bat comparative immunology.
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Now, Daniel Hargreaves 🇬🇧 speaks about Horseshoe bats 🦇 severe declining populations making a comeback thanks to protections by purchasing/leasing property that have bats. Important to assess resilience of roosts in buildings #ibrc2025 @ibrc2025.bsky.social

Next, next Jess Gorring 🇦🇺 talks about the use of a decommissioned railway 🚂 tunnel as a bat 🦇 roost that is now a scientific reserve. However l changes at council, knowledge was lost, & vegetation overgrew, plus attracting antisocial attention (incl, ghost hunters 👻) #ibrc2025 @ibrc2025.bsky.social

Delegates enjoying Tolga Bat Hospital tour and Peterson Creek to visit local spectacled flying fox colony and spot some platypus! And the other bus saw a tree roo and cassowary!
Photographs by Ari Ananda
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Pacbat’s Malik Oedin speaks on the Biocultural conservation of flying foxes in Pacific Islands 🦇
#ibrc2025 #pacificbats #endangeredspecies #bioculture

Selina Kosak 🇦🇺 speaks about research on different artificial 🦇 roost boxes for threatened species, including testing carved hollows. Noticed minimum of 100 days before bat occupancy! Cube box with narrow entrance was highest occupancy but only for 2 species #ibrc2025 @ibrc2025.bsky.social

Excellent first session on bat comparative immunology at #IBRC2025 where several old and new colleagues shared new work. Looking forward to the remaining two sessions. @ibrc2025.bsky.social (1/2)

From the University of Southern Queensland- Vanessa Gorecki presenting “From caves to culverts: Use of road culverts by trawling bats in an urban environment”.
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From Poland- Martyna Woltynska and Monika Breza presenting “Wooden panels as a cheap and effective bat roost in managed forests.”
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The first of the symposia on constructed habitats is starting with Joy O’Keefe about what makes a good artificial bat 🦇 roost boxes. Microclimate is critical with the just right temperature of 30-32 C but how do we make that makeover happen? #ibrc2025 @ibrc2025.bsky.social

Aimee O’Sullivan from New Zealand presenting “Microclimate conditions of artificial roosts occupied by New Zealand long-tailed bats (Chalinolobus tuberculatus)”
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Our first speakers are under way!
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IBRC2025 day one has begun!
Thank you @lisa_cawthen for the image 🦇
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Phenomenal diversity and turn out at the 20th International Bat Research Conference (#IBRC). Hopefully the extent of participation will continue to expand over the coming years. Excited for this week! @ibrc2025.bsky.social

506 delegates from 59 countries are attending the @ibrc2025.bsky.social conference. What a global reach for bats 🦇 #ibrc2025

What an incredible day—surrounded by fellow bat enthusiasts, meeting the passionate carers who rehabilitate injured bats, and even spotting a platypus! Grateful for the chance to connect, learn, and share these stories ahead of the @ibrc2025.bsky.social… And it hasn’t even officially started yet 🦇

Tomorrow, I present at my first ever international conference in Cairns. I’ll be speaking about how we use artificial habitat for insectivorous bats in our urban spaces at the @ibrc2025.bsky.social See you soon Cairns!!!

Our first field trip images are in with thanks to Cecilia Montauban @cecilia_mon
Guests are currently at @tolgabathospital and are enjoying meeting some local bats!
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I will presenting this paper at #IBRC2025 in the Physiology session, Thursday 1:30pm AEST. Come along and I also advertise an EOI for a funded #postdoc and #PhD position!

Welcome to the International Bat Research Conference 2025!
The Welcome Mixer is included in all full conference registrations & is a relaxed way to kick off the conference, collect your name tag & tote bag, and start meeting fellow attendees.
Hope to see you all there!
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The downside of #IBRC2025 is having to choose between four parallel sessions! I want to listen to ALL the talks 🦇❤️🦇