Bringing together 18 existing 🦇 networks for exploring complementary aspects of 🦇 to facilitate & enhance research addressing diversification & sustainability
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Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBatNet) retweeted
🦇A reminder abstracts are due for the joint Australian Mammal Society & Australasian Bat Society conference that will be held in Canberra this July.
More information here:
ausbats.org.au/conference-20…
#amsabs26 #ausbats #bats
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Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBatNet) retweeted
Contrasting spatial and temporal activity patterns of bats at maternity roosts and swarming sites
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Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBatNet) retweeted
5 Apr 2025
Bat gate to the rescue! This juvenile California leaf-nosed bat expertly flies through a bat-compatible closure that will protect this roost from human disturbance and ensure safe bat passage.
Learn more about how we protect roosts like this at batcon.org/our-work/protect-…
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Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBatNet) retweeted
16 Mar 2025
Our program welcomes applicants from numerous countries and diverse backgrounds. Whether you're from North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, or anywhere in between, your unique perspective can help shape the future of climate science.
📝 Apply by March 23: buff.ly/49nSKEF
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Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBatNet) retweeted
16 Mar 2025
🦇Go batty this season! Join the Australasian Bat Society for Bat Night 2025 – expert talks, bat walks, live streams & family fun across Australasia until June.
Events: events.ausbatsmembers.org.au…
Register: ausbats.org.au/bat-nights.ht…
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Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBatNet) retweeted
26 Feb 2025
🦇Melbourne: Citizen Science Microbat monitoring - echolocation event at Westgate Park:
events.ausbatsmembers.org.au…
#ausbats #bats #melbourne
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Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBatNet) retweeted
27 Feb 2025
🦇 Flying Fox Paralysis Syndrome (FFPS) has devastated Queensland’s flying foxes. Huge thanks to the vets, researchers, rescuers, and carers working tirelessly to save lives. Your dedication and compassion make all the difference.
Watch the report here:
10play.com.au/theproject/new…?
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Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBatNet) retweeted
26 Feb 2025
New publication alert 📢📢
Taxonomy of Hipposideros galeritus Cantor, 1846 in South Asia with description of a new species H. srilankaensis and resurrecting H. brachyotus from the synonymy.
mapress.com/zt/article/view/…
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Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBatNet) retweeted
28 Feb 2025
🦇Faunatech are hosting a free online beginners guide to acoustic bat surveys on Friday March 7th!
For more information and bookings, go here:
eventbrite.com/e/a-beginners…
#ausbats #bats #batacoustics
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Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBatNet) retweeted
🔊🦇 Bono’s Adventures – the great migration – is now available in #Spanish!
A 📖 written by #Kathleen #Röllig, illustrated by #Steffen #Gumpert and translated by @SECEMU_ and #SGHN!
🇬🇧 izw-berlin.de/files/download…
🇪🇸 secemu.org/conoce-el-nuevo-c…
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Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBatNet) retweeted
29 Dec 2024
Come work with us! We're hiring a variety of positions right now, with multiple hires in some positions. Learn more and apply at batcon.org/careers. #ConservationCareers #GreenJobs #SustainabilityJobs #NonprofitJobs
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Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBatNet) retweeted
31 Dec 2024
Almost 10 years after working hard to study and unravel variation of SA cave and rocky roosting bats here’s our first results for Furipterus 🦇@ggarbino @oliveirag @GlobalBatNet @bat1kgenomes @BatConIntl @sbeq @SBMastozoologia link.springer.com/article/10…
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Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBatNet) retweeted
22 Dec 2024
Bat-talks is now available on learn.bats - enjoy a front row seat at talks from conferences you couldn't attend over the last year: buff.ly/403LLj3 . More talks will be added during the year after conferences so the library of talks will evolve over time
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Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBatNet) retweeted
23 Dec 2024
It's the most wonderful time of the year 🦇
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Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBatNet) retweeted
Migratory 🦇 are highly influenced by barrier effects, sex-biased timing of migration and the adaptive use of winds. Understanding their migration helps guide conservation, including offshore wind farm planning. 🦇🌊 #MovementEcology
📰🔎 movementecologyjournal.biome…
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Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBatNet) retweeted
22 Dec 2024
Just published, the genome sequence of the greater two-lined sac-winged bat Saccopteryx bilineata, based on @ROMtoronto fieldwork in Suriname and research collaboration with @bat1kgenomes @Sonja_Vernes @EmmaTeeling1 et al., photo by Alex Borisenko wellcomeopenresearch.org/art…
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Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBatNet) retweeted
13 Dec 2024
Is it snack time yet? 😉🦇🥭
A Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus wahlbergi) feeding on fruit in Kenya. These bats play a key role in African reforestation.
📷️: @MerlinTuttlesBats
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Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBatNet) retweeted
12 Dec 2024
Wonderful to see the Christmas Island Pipistrelle call being recognised by the National Film and Sound Archive in their 10 Sounds of Australia for 2024 🦇
screenhub.com.au/news/news/n…
#ausbat #bats
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