Baheerathan
@baheerathanm.bsky.social
Project Research Scientist @ICMR NIE | Past: Short Term Fellow @STRI_Panama | Former Postdoc at IISER Mohali | PhD from IISER Thiruvananthapuram|🍌🦇Pteropodids| SensoryEcology👀👃| Behaviour | Movement Ecology 🐦🦇 📍 Chennai, India 🇮🇳
Mammal mothers are tightly tethered to their young by the need to feed, but Shizuki Nara &co show that the Japanese house bat's mothering instinct declines over time and she is less inclined to retrieve a misplaced pup when cradling its siblings doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
Excited to talk about how anthropogenic landscapes🌳🌾🏙️ influence the foraging behavior of honey bees in Asia🐝 at ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social Talk at 10am today (21.07) at Berlino room. Please join for some new insights on tropical bees! #ISBE2026
If you are attending @isbe2026.bsky.social , come to the Agnelli auditorium to watch some bamboo bat action from India at 12:45 pm. Concurrent 5A Conservation Behaviour session #ISBE2026
Glad to be a part of this wonderful meeting after all the uncertainties. @isbe2026.bsky.social Kickstarted with a wonderful plenary talk by Prof.Renata Santoro Sousa-Lima. #ISBE2026 #InternationalSocietyForBehavioralEcology
The call for proposals to our new Special Feature is now live! If you’d like to further the following through a One Health perspective then get involved below... 👉 disease ecology 🦠 👉 multispecies health 🦌 👉 public health 🩺 👉 agriculture 🌱 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
📢📢CAREER UPDATE📢📢 Happy to announce that I have joined the ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai as a Project Research Scientist to study behaviour of the Indian Flying foxes in Kerala. Student Opportunities on the way! More updates soon 🦇🇮🇳 #OneHealth #BatBehaviour #Epidemiology
Happy and honoured to talk about our research on Old World bats in the New world especially at the Barro Colorado Island aka Bat Island.. Thank to the organisers and friends at STRI. The response on the #BatAppreciationday was overwhelming!
Anyone looking for a PhD in jumping spider neurophysiology and neuroethology, look no further! Massimo is a close friend and awesome collaborator, who would be an incredible mentor 🥰 Apply by 17th December!
Daniela Rößler@roesslerdaniela.bsky.social · 9mo ago🚨 Uh-oh!!! A suuuper hot #PhD opportunity just dropped! My friend and collaborator Massimo De Agrò is looking for someone to explore jumping spider vision and neurophysiology! #psychophysics #jumpingspiders #greatPI - apply!!!! (Deadline December 17th) 🚨
Our new paper is now in BioRxiv ☺️ See how the auditory cortex encodes vocalizations before the bat produces them 📣🦇🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... with @talking-bat.bsky.social and Dennis Röhrig!
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...
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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/...
📰Published📰Pollen essential amino acids shape bat–flower interaction networks🦇 buff.ly/CMGf5Fq 🧪🌍
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…
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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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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
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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/...
Postdoctoral Position (f/m/d) at the Chair of Behavioral Physiology & Sociobiology
Biocenter of the University of Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg
biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de
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...
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 ...
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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 👇🔌🚗📢🏙️🦇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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...
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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 🦇🇮🇳
🚨 #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
Laboratory of Zoonotic Viruses and Comparative Immunology
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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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
🚨 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...
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...
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🎉Bat Conservation Win 🎉 Livingstone’s fruit bat (𝘗𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘪) has been officially downlisted from Critically Endangered to Endangered by the IUCN!
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
