David Smyth 🦇🌳

Excited for this one, hope to see you there!

One million seeds to be collected off north Wales coast as part of seagrass restoration project Emily Price One million seagrass seeds will be collected off the north Wales coast as part of a pioneering project to improve marine life and tackle the global climate and nature crisis. The scheme su...

One million seagrass seeds will be collected off the north Wales coast as part of a pioneering project to improve marine life and tackle the global climate and nature crisis ✍️ @emilypricejourno.bsky.social

Have you registered for our next #GreenDrinks event? It's a great way to meet others doing important environmental work, and we'll have a great speaker on the night. Contact @hetzgonnabeme.bsky.social or @david-smyth-eco.bsky.social for more info and register here:

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Amanda Bush shows the critically endangered southern bent-winged bats forage the furtherest from their roost during the summer months. #IBRC2025

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Missing the event but would love to connect to any researchers presenting working on bioacoustics, habitat modelling and dietary work!

Amanda Bush presenting “Tracking the foraging flights of the Southern Bent-wing Bat (Miniopterus orianae bassanii) in two seasons”
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Chris Turbill shows the first evidence of torpor use in free-ranging flying foxes, making it the largest bat known to use torpor #IBRC2025

Kelly Sheldrick from Western Australia presenting “Bats, traps & acoustics: Insights from Southwest bat research”
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Kicking off the second day of the @ibrc2025.bsky.social conference with Ara Monadjem talking about doing research in scarce environments, including scarce funding 💰 ❌ 🦇 #ibrc2025

Thanks, will do - unsure if search results are latest data!

Hope you are enjoying conference!

Mei-Ting (Magic) Kao presenting “Chatting in the city? Exploring bat acoustic social communication across an urban gradient”
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Is there a link to paper/report for this?

Emer McGowan & Paul Barden 🇦🇺 talk about creating the first artificial cave roost for ghost bats 🦇 in Northern Territory to closely mimic real cave roosts. Very complex creating ground features, artificial substrate, & monitoring devices. 👻 🦇 used with 7 days opening! #ibrc2025 @ibrc2025.bsky.social

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

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!

Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between June and September by looking at the decadal average line positions.

Saturday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 5th lowest on record (JAXA data)

• about 260,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,080,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,930,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,690,000 km² below the 1980s mean

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Bhí mé ag iarraidh é seo a thriail píosa anois le haghaidh seans a thabhairt don caorthann seo (thart ar 10-15 bliaina d'aois ó mo chuimhne), capaille agus beithígh na ngarraí seo so beidh sé suimiúil feiceáil cé chomh maith is a seasfadh sé

🚨New Paper!🚨

Does a wildlife-aircraft collision cause a strike event with other wildlife species? We wanted to find out! ✈️

Have a read:
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@uccresearch.bsky.social @dublinairport.bsky.social @atu-ie.bsky.social @thonoir.bsky.social

Great paper by my colleague, @sammyhareball.bsky.social released today!

I hadn't considered hornbeam as leaf shape did not compare to species I am familar with!

Leopold said one of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

I think another penalty is that you learn all these diagnostic features only to forget them in a few years as the information gets replaced with LHS roosting preferences

Anyone able to name this species in neighbourhood garden?

West of Ireland

I fairly confident in willow, but think its a non-native?

A Hairy Wood Ant (Formica lugubris) nest under Juniper in Killarney NP. A healthy nest with strong foraging trails fanning out into the surrounding woodland. Part of an ongoing project to map this species in Co. Kerry.

The @rhodorangers.bsky.social are excited to have David Foy speak @ our next #Galway #GreenDrinks Tues Aug 12! He'll speak a/b the EU Nature Restoration Law & its implications. Reg @ eventbrite.com/e/galway-green-drinks-tickets-1486447036099

@david-smyth-eco.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social

Collage of different prints from my online store

Close up of the Irish Aquatic Life print

Linocut print of Men Of The Blaskets, with small flowers beside it

Imbolc print next to purple flowers #speirgorm #speirghorm #art #traditionalart #artist

A cost-of-living crisis isn't the easiest time to sell art, but: www.ciaraioch.com is where you can support my work, with each archival-quality print on textured heavy paper being produced here in Ireland, shipping internationally in eco-friendly packaging, with free mini-treats in every order 🎁

Galway Arts Festival is a great thing to have on doorstep, where else can you get Sophie Elis Bextor one day and an art installation the next day?

Went to see Funeral for Ashes by John Conneely & Conor Maloney & divining by Erin Lawlor before villagers this evening!

Not an expert but lot of bats, especially young ones, must be suffering recently with the torrents of rain at night time affecting ability to get food.

Currently wading through landcover maps, samples to be extracted, lab work & more!
Stay tuned for results!

If you are interested in bats or conservation in Ireland, I highly recommend becoming a member of Bat Conservation Ireland who run a whole host of events, citizen science projects & training

This will help further our understanding of how the bats interact with their surroundings habitats, potentially highlighting important habitats for winter months, and aid in their conservation.