Dr Orly Razgour

Are you an Early career researcher working in the field of climate change ecology? Come and join our coffee morning today ☕️🌍

📆Coffee mornings with us this Friday!📆

Come join us and present or listen to some of the amazing research that is happening out there! #climatechange

So grab a hot drink and we will see you on Friday ☕

Link to register:
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🚨 2 PhD opportunities under Wessex One Health to join my group & work on:

1. Integrating bat and fungal pathogen ecology to understand epidemiology

2. AI-augmented metagenomics to map British bat virome and assess zoonotic potential

Deadline 26 January 2026 🦇🧪🦠🌍🌐

www.surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-h...

Conserving and assessing ecosystem processes through species traits at UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology - Wallingford on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Conserving and assessing ecosystem processes through species traits at UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology - Wallingford, listed on FindAPhD.com

Competition funded PhD opportunity at the cutting edge of #conservation, using species traits to measure & conserve ecosystem processes. Working with @jmbecologist.bsky.social, @josephtobias.bsky.social, Ben Woodcock and me.

Application deadline 8 Jan 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

Come to do a PhD with me, @bfraser.bsky.social and
@batconservation.bsky.social at the University of Exeter on using genomics to understand bat population declines under global environmental change 🦇🧬🌍🌐🧪
Application deadline 8 January 2026 ⚠️⚠️⚠️

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Join us for our ECR coffee morning this Friday! ☕️

Come along to network and chat all things #climatechange with students and researchers alike. 🌍

We’re also looking for people to present, so drop Emily or Wongibe an email if you’re interested!

Link to register:
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On the need for predictive models in conservation ⬇️

Jack Hooker wins Vincent Weir Award - News - Bat Conservation Trust Bat researcher Jack Hooker has just won the Vincent Weir award for his work in three vital areas of bat conservation.

Lots of congratulations to @jackhooker.bsky.social for winning the Vincent Weir Award for contribution to bat conservation and research! 🦇
www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/09...

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

Eating meat and livestock production is the leading sources of emissions from agriculture. So why is it under-reported? #ClimateCrisis 🌱🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Definitely a must read for conservation biologists! Bending the curve towards nature recovery: building on Georgina Mace’s legacy
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

How is bat size affected by climate? Author: Laura Paltrinieri, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid Global environmental change is one of the greatest challenges facing biodiversity. Rising temperatures, shifting rainfall patt…

Read our latest blog post by @laura-paltrinieri.bsky.social‬, whose research reveals how temperature and rainfall affect the body size of European bats. 🦇

Laura offers insights into their resilience, vulnerability, and what it means for conservation in a warming world. 🌍

bit.ly/3GsQunp

Honoured to have been awarded a Fellowship of the British Ecological Society, joining such an impressive group of ecologists!
@britishecologicalsociety.org

Thanks @batconservation.bsky.social !

With @josephtobias.bsky.social , ‪@brennaforester.bsky.social‬ , @jmbecologist.bsky.social and Lynn Dicks
🌍🌐🧪

In our new perspective in PNAS we call for a move away from conservation focused on saving individual species to focusing on ecological processes, which underpin ecosystem resilience and the capacity to adapt to environmental change. Led by @josephtobias.bsky.social 🌍🌐🧪

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This study was led by Laura Paltinieri, @anabenlop.bsky.social & @lsantinieco.bsky.social as part of the EU COST Action network ClimBats. You can read Laura's blog on this paper here:

besclimatechange.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/h...

🌍🌐🧪

The effects of climate on bat morphology across space and time According to Bergmann's and Allen's rules, climate change may drive morphological shifts in species, affecting body size and appendage length. These rules predict that species in colder climates tend...

Ever wondered how morphology is affected by climate? Our new paper in Ecography shows sex-specific shifts in body size of European #bats in response to temperature & rainfall across space, but no clear temporal changes due to high variability 🌍🌐🧪

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨 DEADLINE EXTENSION 🚨

We are now accepting abstracts until July 15th, so get one in while there is still time!

Sign up below 👇

Great opportunity for #PGR / #PhD to join the British Ecological Society Climate Change Ecology Group committee. DM me if you want to chat about the role ⚠️⚠️⚠️🌍

Researching impacts of climate change on biodiversity? Submit an abstract and register to join the British Ecological Society Climate Change Group hybrid meeting on 18th Sep 2025.

Abstract submission deadline 7th July 🌍

So true, not only for academia but also for the conservation/environment sector. Expectations to gain experience through volunteering and unpaid work experience, short term contracts and need to move every few years makes it challenging to stay and succeed if you don’t come from money.

Hi Timothee, can you please add me to the list. I’m an Associate Professor in global change ecology at the University of Exeter:

scholar.google.co.uk/citations?us...

Thanks!

Hi Eryn, can you please add me to the list. I’m an Associate Professor at the University of Exeter working on evolutionary and ecological responses to global environmental change: scholar.google.co.uk/citations?us...

Thanks 🙏🏾

Adaptive Introgression as an Evolutionary Force: A Meta‐Analysis of Knowledge Trends There is growing evidence for the role of introgressive hybridization in promoting species adaptation (i.e., adaptive introgression) owing to increasing genomic studies on a diversity of taxa over th....

New paper out on Adaptive introgression as an evolutionary force, led by former PhD Pedro Horta, with Hugo Rebelo & Javier Juste.

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

Job Alert! 🚨🚨🚨

3 year Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Ecology at the University of Montana to work with Erin Languth, Casey Day and me on the Bat-Fungi Disease & Evolution project, focusing on white nose syndrome in North American #bats 🦇🦠

To apply: apply.interfolio.com/169120

If we choose not to act,
Or fail to adapt,
Then suffer we will.

#ShowYourStripes

Climate Change and Biodiversity: BES Climate Change SIG Annual Meeting 2025 The first in-person annual meeting of the British Ecological Society Climate Change Ecology Group.

🌿 Calling all friends in climate and biodiversity 🌿

We’re hosting a meeting at the @britishecologicalsociety.org HQ on 18 September 2025!

Come along to network, hear about current research and policy challenges.

Abstract submissions + sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-ch...

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Call for abstracts now open for the British Ecological Society Climate Change group annual meeting on #ClimateChange and Biodiversity - 1 day hybrid event on 18th Sep. Come and join us for talks, policy panel, discussions and networking ⬇️

This tiny Australian bat is the size of a matchbox. But it flies up to 150km a night in search of food Until now, little was known about foraging flights of critically endangered southern bent-wing bats, which roost in caves

How far can a tiny bat fly? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Only 1 day left to apply for this fully funded PhD studentship, working closely with conservation managers to study moorland bird behaviour, diet and reproductive success.

Application deadline 14th May! ⚠️⚠️⚠️