Great time at the Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBatNet) meeting in Houston. A place for brainstorming 🧠 and project development 📑. These incredible scientists and their love for 🦇 and curiosity is just inspiring! I'm looking forward to seeing you all again!

🦇 SAVE THE DATE 🦇 Come learn about bat locomotor physiology and biomechanics! Our next "My Field for Dummies" webinar is given by Dr. Andrea Rummel, Assistant Professor at Rice University. Zoom webinar on 5 June 2024 at 9 AM USET. RSVP below: gbatnet.org/events/my-fiel…

Happy end of the academic year and congratulations to all the grads! Our lab had a potluck featuring dishes from each of our cultures and/or nationalities 🇻🇪 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇳🇬 🇨🇴 🇮🇳 🇱🇰 🇨🇳 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿➕ — the most delicious lab tradition yet!

Bat Detector is now live on the App Store! Free forever, no ads. Connect an inexpensive USB microphone and your iPhone / iPad device becomes a full-featured bat detector and ultrasonic recorder with real-time time-expansion. Bat Conservation Trust

If you are at #Botany2024 check out the #jobs board! Also, if you want to talk about projects and the lab manager opportunity in my lab message me! #Botany #botanical #WilliamsLab #NewPI #Job #jobopportunity

📢Interested in doing fieldwork in the Amazon while studying 🐸 with amazing capabilities? Then this opportunity could be for you! Join Andrius Pašukonis and me at KLIVV Vienna for a PhD adventure on sensory ecology and cognition in #poisonfrogs 👇 Pls retweet! bibianarojas.co/news/

Working with bats in the field? Make sure you follow the new Guidelines for Field Hygiene from the IUCN SSC Bat Specialist Group to protect bats and people! iucnbsg.org/uploads/6/5/0/… Bat Conservation Trust @ Bat Conservation International NASBR Conference Relcom_ 15th European Bat Research Symposium Global South Bats BatLife Europe AustralasianBatSoc.

Have you missed one of our "My Field for Dummies" Webinars? WORRY NOT! Go check out our YouTube channel for the recorded talks and Q&As! youtube.com/channel/UCuoim…

Are you interested in working with axolotls? Check out this Research Assistant I - Echeverri Lab opportunity recruiting.ultipro.com/MAR1033MBL/Job…

The world needs to see this: on live TV #MaduroDictador shows 76 young men (some of whom are minors) who were arrested for protesting his electoral fraud. To add insult to injury, he makes them salute (deceased) Hugo Chavez. 1/2

EXCITING NEWS! We are accepting applications for a special funding round - Women in Fieldwork. If you identify as a woman conducting animal behaviour-related fieldwork, we welcome your application for one of four grants of £400 each. Deadline September 1st, 2024. ⬇️

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Visualizing Science! I'm holding a series of free, online workshops, thanks to Johns Hopkins University. All are welcome! I plan to have fun with Danielle VanBrabant, Damond Kyllo, and Amey Zhang to introduce visualization topics and challenges. No art experience is necessary.

New #research in NatureEcoEvo from Dr. Jasmin Camacho 🦇🔬☠️🧠☀️ & Andrea Bernal (Nicolas Rohner Lab) reveals bats have evolved adaptations to handle extreme blood sugar concentrations which could unlock new pathways for understanding & treating #diabetes in humans. bit.ly/3Z3kbCu

Extremely happy to see this paper out! "Sugar 🍬 assimilation underlying dietary evolution 🪲🩸🐀🪻🥭 of Neotropical bats" 📄✨ Check it to keep discovering why bats are incredibly amazing ❤️🦇 Super grateful!! Dr. Jasmin Camacho 🦇🔬☠️🧠☀️ Nicolas Rohner Oscar E Murillo

New 📰 in NatureEcoEvo "Sugar assimilation underlying dietary evolution of Neotropical 🦇", describing how in vivo #physiology results matched intestinal anatomy, positive selection tests and gene expression analysis. 🔎 nature.com/articles/s4155… 🎥©️ Andrea Bernal

Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a ✨comic📷 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art students! Sign up here by 9/13: bit.ly/comicscollabfa……

🚨 #PhD #Opportunity 🦇🦠👇 We are looking for PhD students to join Odum School of Ecology & CEID in Spring 2024 & Fall 2025. If you're excited to do interdisciplinary and collaborative research, this might be a great fit for you! More info in the ad(s) below 👇 Pls share with friends

Excited to share this hot-off-the-press work in New Phytologist! With Alejandro Zuluaga & Juan Moreira-Hernández, PhD., we used experiments to address the adaptive significance of a trait common among bat-pollinated flowers... Full article here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/XCYVRIKX… (1/5)

✨REMINDER✨ We are tackling not only knowledge gaps, but also systemic barriers that keep students from the Global South away from their academic dreams. We offer mini grants to cover fees, translations and language proficiency tests common to application procedures. Apply now!