Fully funded #PhD to track the social and environmental influences on straw-coloured fruit bat migration. Join us & the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour @unikonstanz! All nationalities eligible. Deadline: Jan 15. orn.mpg.de/4155190/dechma…. Pls RT! #phdchat #bats

Meet the #AfriPopo2022 organising team! kibiwot Sospeter is a MSc student University of Eldoret investigating effects of forest degradation on bats in Western Kenya.#AfriPopoStudentSymposium! #ForStudentsByStudents #9daystogo Check out the rest of the team here lght.ly/noihaog

Meet the #AfriPopo2022 organising team! Helen Taylor-Boyd is a passionate Ecologist conducting PhD research on Bats in Agricultural Landscapes with University of Stirling lght.ly/pg6o98 #ForStudentsByStudents #8daystogo #CountdowntoAfriPopoStudentSymposium #AfriPopoStudentSymposium

Meet the #AfriPopo2022 organising team! Veli Mdluli is a PhD student UFS with the Mountain Bat Lab! Check out the rest of the team here lght.ly/dm70kfi #AfriPopoStudentSymposium #ForStudentsByStudents #CountdowntoAfriPopoStudentSymposium #7daystogo

Meet the #AfriPopo2022 organising team! Alexandra Alexandra Howard is a PhD candidate in the Mountain Bat Lab UFS Check out the rest of the team here lght.ly/ncg2dg3 #AfriPopoStudentSymposium! #ForStudentsByStudents #CountdowntoAfriPopoStudentSymposium #6daystogo

Meet Prof #DavidJacob #UCTBatLab Rufford Foundation National Research Foundation of South Africa Holderied's BASElab

Talk 3 - by Laura Torrent 🦇 - 'A taxonomic review of #EquatorialGuinea bat species to root an urgent Bat Conservation Policy' @acaptainplanet #AfriPopo2022 #Africanbats #speciesdiversity #unexploredareas

Calling all #batnerds IBRC 2022 we have a challenge for you! Can you help us raise urgent funding for focus group and household surveys to inform outreach to foster co-existence between one of #Africa's most iconic bat species and people by September! donate.giveasyoulive.com/campaign/savin…

Amazing time at Bracken cave #ibrc2022

Feeling honoured to be present on the day when @globalsouthbats was presented to all members of the RELCOM network in Latin America! If you are interested in such a cool project, you should register at globalsouthbats.org Big thanks to National Geographic for their support!

Join us next week for our #WingedWednesday webinar with Adrià López-Baucells - Connecting Bats & People on bats as pest suppressors in rice paddies. To join visit: lght.ly/3p1p5dl Our webinars are always on 3pm southern African time (currently 2pm GMT | 1pm BST | 9am EDT). #bats

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BBC News Africa Captions like "bats are known to be super-incubators for thousands of viruses" are just unacceptable because they paint bats in a such bad light and endanger bat populations. BBC News Africa do better!

Post Bacc Opportunity with a stipend of $32,000 for a full year of participation. RT ticket to Panamá and lodging while at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute facilities. Opportunity for recent grads gsscholar.org/rampup-fellows…

„SPARE GHANA'S FOREST RESERVE FROM MINING. (REPEAL L​.​I​.​2462)” - Jetzt unterschreiben! chng.it/TBL9KRNZ via Change.org Deutschland.

‘Exhausted and insulted’: how harsh visa-application policies are hobbling global research CIFOR-ICRAF nature.com/articles/d4158…

New PhD positions in tropical insect ecology at our institute - highly recommended.