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Neurons in the bat auditory cortex encode class and complexity of future vocalizations Vocal production is a complex behavior across the animal kingdom that relies on coordinated motor and auditory networks. However, the contribution of sensory areas in vocal control remains poorly unde...

Our new paper is now in BioRxiv ☺️
See how the auditory cortex encodes vocalizations before the bat produces them 📣🦇🧠

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with @talking-bat.bsky.social and Dennis Röhrig!

In our new paper, we provide a tool (datasets, model and codes) to help identify vulture feeding hotspots, supporting efforts to combat scavenger poisoning.

#ornithology #RaptorResearch 🧪🌍
@jappliedecology.bsky.social

Read it here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Pollen essential amino acids shape bat–flower interaction networks Fernando Gonçalves, Andréa Cardoso Araujo, Carine Emer, Maria Ligia Rodrigues Macedo, Erich Fischer This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here…

📰Published📰Pollen essential amino acids shape bat–flower interaction networks🦇

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A screen shot of the PDF of the Review, Unlocking the mysteries of biosonar use and foraging behaviour in wild bats with on-board acoustic recording tags, but Laura Stidsholt. The publishing information states: © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2025) 228, jeb250777. doi:10.1242/jeb.250777. The first sentence of the Abstract states: Since the discovery of biosonar by Griffin in the 1940s, laboratories have conducted detailed experiments on how bats produce and modify their biosonar calls, as well as on how they detect and process self-generated echoes when orienting and hunting in flight rooms

In her review, Laura Stidsholt @bioacousticsau.bsky.social discusses how bat-borne acoustic devices are changing echolocation research in wild #bats by recording sensory & foraging behaviour across different species, habitats & levels of disturbance

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If you are at the Behaviour 2025: XXXVIII International Ethological Congress, don't miss my poster on studying the movement ecology of Jungle babblers using both manual and telemetry methods! #behaviour2025
@behaviour2025.bsky.social

#Movementecology

Eight bat researchers mostly from Asia and Africa refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific event Organisers say move will damage nation’s scientific standing as government refuses to comment on why group of scientists were refused entry

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More fruit bat action awaiting @ibrc2025.bsky.social If you are curious to see how bats can literally grab a bite, don't miss this speed talk

Rajesh Puttaswamaiah 🇮🇳 talks about radio 📻 tracking endangered Hippposideros hypophyllus bats 🦇 using scooters 🛵 in forestry 🌲 and agriculture 🧑‍🌾 land. It showed him that bats preferred 🥭 plantation but more study needed @ibrc2025.bsky.social #ibrc2025

If you are attending @ibrc2025.bsky.social and are interested in seed dispersal by bats in the Asia Pacific region, don't miss this talk

#IBRC2025

We are looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) who wants to study neural mechanisms of spatial memory in honeybees.

This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees.

Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025.

More details:
www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...

New mode of self evaluation unlocked 👏🏻

Comparative single-cell analyses reveal evolutionary repurposing of a conserved gene programme in bat wing development - Nature Ecology & Evolution Single-cell comparison of developing bat and mouse limbs reveals conservation of cell populations and gene expression patterns, and suggests repurposing of genes involved in proximal limb development ...

How bats developed their wings? 🦇

Turns out they reutilize existing gene programs 🔧

Find out more in our paper @natecoevo.nature.com in collaboration with @fany-real.bsky.social and @stemundi.bsky.social labs

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

Sounds of silence: electric mobility promises a quieter soundscape for wildlife, but may challenge ultrasonically sensitive species globally Expanding transportation networks generate anthropogenic noise, a stressor for wildlife. The rapid transition to electric mobility, with projections of 40-45 million new electric vehicles (EVs) annual...

Electric vehicles (EVs) are quiet alternates decarbonising transport but are EVs quiet for urban wildlife? With🦇s as a model,we Manjari Jain & @olindecke.bsky.social review the impacts of noise acoustics & explore its implications for a future dominated by EVs
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Happy to attend and present 🦇s at the Indian Conservation Conference 2025. Wonderful ambience with deep insights on Wildlife conservation in India.

If you want to know more about how "Bats handle the noisy world" visit the Auditorium by noon tomorrow!

#ICCON2025
#WII #Conservation
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Laboratory of Zoonotic Viruses and Comparative Immunology

🚨 #PhD #Opportunity

We will be hiring a PhD student. #LZCI

More information about our work here: banerjeelab.ca

Interested candidates: apply using the email information on our webpage. Send:
(1) resume
(2) a one page letter of motivation to join the Banerjee Lab

Please repost. #LoveVirology

A montage showing delegates and attendees at the JEB Symposium (clockwise from top left): Nathan Putnam, Michael Berenbrink, Hema Somanathan, Daniel Robert, Robyn Grant.

JEB has been hosting its Symposium for almost 50 years & this year, as part of @biologists.bsky.social 100th Anniversary #biologists100, the symposium, 'Sensory perception in a changing world', was open to anyone at the Biologists @ 100 meeting. Find out more
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A One Health approach to understanding and managing Nipah virus outbreaks - Nature Microbiology In this Perspective, Yadav et al. discuss NiV outbreaks, transmission cycles and the role of reservoir and bridging hosts. They also discuss a One Health approach to mitigate the risks of NiV epidemic...

🚨 Nipah virus poses a future #pandemic risk. New cases in Kerala, India further highlight the need for a One Health approach. Read more in our recent interdisciplinary and multi-institutional collaborative article now published in @NatureMicrobiology #LZCI : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🎉Bat Conservation Win 🎉
Livingstone’s fruit bat (𝘗𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘪) has been officially downlisted from Critically Endangered to Endangered by the IUCN!

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...

A collaborative work with @morceglo and G. McCracken; T. tricolor is an incredible system that helps us shed some light on 🦇 anti-predator defenses and how acoustic signal recognition mediates a trade-off between predator avoidance and social communication with ecological and social implications.

Bats rely on social calls to stay together but what happens when predator recognition disrupts them? New research found that bats ceased social communication which could impact sociality and disrupt group cohesion: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #BiologyLetters #ethology

The ontogeny of decision-making in an eavesdropping predator: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #ProcB #cognition #ethology

@susannebabl.bsky.social et al. review the mechanisms and circuits of vocal production in echolocating 🦇. @talking-bat.bsky.social

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Last chance to get your abstracts in for the 20th International Bat Research Conference (IBRC) in Australia in August!

It's shaping up to be an exciting program, in an incredible world heritage location, with diverse workshops and field trips.

Abstracts due this Wednesday 14th May!!

www.ibrc.org

IBRC abstract submission deadline extended until 14 May 2025!
Submit your abstracts here:
www.ibrc.org/call-for-abs...
#ibrc2025 #bats #batresearch

Finally out. New paper Full pelage Ultra-Violet fluorescence occurs in both lesser horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus hipposideros & Blasius's horseshoe bat R. blasii www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/Full-pelage-...
Great to be part of the team @henryschofield.bsky.social @vincentwt.bsky.social

The smell of familiarity: conspecific faeces influence roost exploration and occupation in wild Bechstein's bats Sociality is widespread in the animal kingdom, but it typically requires individuals to be able to discriminate group mates from nongroup mates. Bats …

New OA 🦇 research 📄

I do love a paper about the wonders of 💩

The smell of familiarity: conspecific faeces influence roost exploration and occupation in wild Bechstein's bats

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Congratulations 🎉👏🏻

One more month to the application deadline for a PhD position studying active sensing collectives in the wild with multiple sensors.

Do you like this weird mix of animal behaviour, coding, and cool gadgets? Then check out the thread to see what our lab does and more on the position itself!!

Graphical abstract of the paper - Russo, Danilo, et al. "To improve or not to improve? The dilemma of “bat-friendly” farmland potentially becoming an ecological trap." Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 375 (2024): 109215. Highlights • Intensive agriculture harms bats via pesticides, infrastructures, and predators. • Bats make maladaptive habitat choices when restoration actions ignore such threats. • Enhancing conventional farmland for bats may turn it into a demographic sink. • Improvements should only be applied where threats are effectively mitigated.

The Russo bat lab has published a great paper on bats & farms! Absolutely all of this! Bat-friendly farming must also mitigate for any risks or hazards presented to bats. It's not simply "putting up bat boxes". Another banger from 2024! #BatFriendlyFarming 🦇🌎🧪🦊

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