Amy Russell 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦

Hiring for 3 positions: Research Assistant, Field Research Coordinator, and Postdoc I am looking to hire 3 people into my lab this year. I am still doing the paperwork to get the jobs officially posted but I want to send the word out and screen potential applications right away. R…

I am hiring a research assistant (vampire bats), a Panama fieldwork coordinator (vampire bats), and also considering postdoc apps (social behavior, any species): socialbat.org/2026/02/19/h...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

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...

Try some brioche. The dough is so soft and silky; I could hand-knead it all day!

I made 2 pairs of socks with leftover bits of sock yarn over the last few weeks. Comfy and easy! #KnitSky

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A comparison of arthropod orders found in the prey of little brown bats from Alaska, assessed from the same samples using molecular and microscopic methods. There's a huge difference in some of these results, particularly spiders and caddisflies.

Wrapping up 2025 with a new publication: Molecular versus microscopic analyses tell different stories of little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) diet in Alaska. Out in Acta Chiropterologica, with coauthors Veronica Brown, Esmarie Boyles, Gary McCracken, and Justin Boyles

Happy Boxing Day

Those guys sure smoked.

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

🦇Interested in a bat-related PhD? 👇

Using genomics to understand bat population declines under global environmental change with @orlyrazgour.bsky.social , @bfraser.bsky.social and BCT, based at the University of Exeter.

Application deadline 8 January 2026: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨 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...

Elegant portrait of a Malayan free-tailed bat, Mops mops, a dark gray face and a beautiful coat of velvety orange-red fur. This pup has a wry smile, and looks at the camera knowing that he looks fine.

Just discovered #TautonymTuesday and thought it would be remiss to not mention this cutie, Mops mops, the Malayan free-tailed bat.

#MolossidsRule #FreeTails #WrinklyLips

Gene expression reveals the pancreas of Aselli as a critical organ for plasma cell differentiation in the Eurasian common shrew - BMC Biology Background Almost all mammals rely on the thymus and bone marrow to generate and differentiate B and T cells essential for adaptive immunity. A few members of the family Soricidae, or true shrews with...

🧪New #OA paper! Shrews are weird. They evolved a whole new immune organ the size of a kidney 🫘🤯! Led by Bill Thomas (who's on thee job market!), pancreas of Aselli was known to be packed with plasma cells at different stages @bmc.springernature.com
👉🏽 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 1/3

An Integrative Perspective on Bat Evolution Bats are one of the most widespread, species-rich, ecologically and morphologically diverse mammal lineages, and the only mammals capable of powered flight. Due to their evolution within the constrain...

🚨🦇New paper alert! We integrate information across fields to highlight key traits associated with the diversification of #bats, their roles as evolutionary drivers, and their importance to global ecosystems:
An Integrative Perspective on Bat Evolution
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

I really miss when my job was just doing science. I went to a really interesting seminar today and successfully troubleshot an analysis and it was so nice to not be running off to multiple dumb meetings all day!

Marginalia is a treasure!

Huzzah! My paper is accepted!

Two distinct host-specialized fungal species cause white-nose disease in bats - Nature The identification of two cryptic species of the fungal pathogen that causes white-nose disease in bats highlights the need to integrate studies of genetic variability in pathogens into disease survei...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Earlybird registrations for IBRC 2025 are now open until 8 June 2025 (11.59pm AEST; 9.59am EDT)

Register here:
whova.com/portal/regis...
#ibrc2025 #bats

Rare Livingstone's Fruit Bat Downlisted by IUCN - Bat Conservation International GPS tagging and updated population data contributed to improved Red List status.

🦇 www.batcon.org/press/rare-l...

Good luck today, Canada 🇨🇦 elbows up!

That suits you so well! You look fantastic!

These two biologists found purpose—and love—trying to save Nigeria's bats Benneth Obitte and Inoro Tanshi’s efforts have documented a major hot spot of African bat diversity

These two biologists found purpose—and love—trying to save Nigeria's bats | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

There’s this deeply-held belief that public virtue is so self-evidently the natural state of things, that once the fog dissipates, wayward people will organically return to communitarianism like water seeking its own level.

Which, if you’ve been around people, is just a bonkers thing to believe.

chef’s kiss

No, fuck that shit. Basic human rights are not up for negotiation.

Why does every administrative office at my university feel the need to send out regular campus-wide emails about what they’re up to? When did this become a thing?

That’s what we do with the Noodle-O!