International Bat Research Conference 2025
@ibrc2025.bsky.social
🦇The official Bluesky page for the 20th International Bat Research Conference 📍Cairns, Australia 📆 3rd-8th of August, 2025 ⌨️ www.ibrc.org
The unwarranted denial of travel visas for 8 respected international bat researchers was a shameful and embarrassing start to the International Bat Research Conference in Cairns. Well done to the ABS and Guardian for highlighting it @ibrc2025.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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
theguardian.com
Cecilia Montauban is taking the bat world by storm — a rising superstar with a brilliant future! @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @josephtobias.bsky.social @ibrc2025.bsky.social
IBRC delegates protest visa denials of 8 researchers from Africa and Asia. #ibrc2025 #batresearch www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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
theguardian.com
It was incredible to meet so many old and new colleagues and friends and watching our PhD student, Sauhard Shrivastava give an excellent talk. Overall, we learnt lots and we are certainly returning with more ideas and inspiration. Thank you, #IBRC2025. #LZCI (2/2) @ibrc2025.bsky.social
I had an excellent time at #IBRC2025 hosting the comparative immunology sessions and co-presenting our work on bat antiviral immunity with Dr. Irving at the Bat1K symposium. (1/2)
Wow – what an intense and truly amazing 6 days at @ibrc2025.bsky.social! 🦇 Reconnected with old friends, made new ones, and had incredible conversations — all in the spirit of bat conservation and research. Huge shoutout to the organizers for a perfectly run event! 🙌💙 #BatCommunity #Grateful
There were so many great talks at #IBRC2025 and so much going on that I’ve been too busy to post! The conference ended on a high with an inspiring presentation by Tigga Kingston on the mission and achievements of @gbatnet.bsky.social. Can’t wait til #IBRC2028 in Columbia! @ibrc2025.bsky.social
Just attended a very captivating and fun speed talk by Veli Monday Mdluli on bat education in South African schools 🦇📚 @ibrc2025.bsky.social Inspiring work on breaking down prejudice through knowledge! 👏 #IBRC2025 #BatConservation #SciComm #EducationMatters
Kicking off the Education and Citizen Science symposium, Melissa Donnelly from Merlin Tuttle Bats talks about battling bat 🦇 misinformation & helping people make informed decisions @ibrc2025.bsky.social #ibrc2025
Pedro Aguilar 🇲🇽 talks about the relationship between a university 🏫 & bat 🦇 colony that lived there for past 60 years. Started monitoring bats with 3 different species identified with over 300 bats mostly males. Issues fighting building maintenance 🧑🔧 but outreach valuable 🤩 @ibrc2025.bsky.social
Tigga Kingston 🇺🇸 presents on behalf of Abby Rutrough about why people hunt bats 🦇 in Africa 🌍. Terrestrial protein 🥩 limited and human footprint 🏙️ in West Africa but aquatic protein 🐟 available in Madagascar 🇲🇬 but still hunt bats. More social surveys needed to find out why @ibrc2025.bsky.social
Celia Selem 🇲🇽 talks about outreach conservation in Mexico but also regional collaboration across other countries in Latin America. 18 countries now involved in their annual Christmas 🎄 bat 🦇 counts 🥰 @ibrc2025.bsky.social #ibrc2025
Veil Monday Mdluli from South Africa 🇿🇦 talks about finding out perceptions of bats in school students to battle misconceptions about bats 🦇 Need to communicate our science via education 🤩 @ibrc2025.bsky.social #ibrc2025
Our very own Kerry Borkin 🇳🇿 talks about engaging students at Pekapekarau School and what worked to change attitudes of bats 🦇 @ibrc2025.bsky.social #ibrc2025
Two super nice talks from @berlinbatlab.bsky.social today @ibrc2025.bsky.social! @RaffaellaCastiglione introduced an amazing touchscreen setup for bat cognition studies; @MarisaTietge explored the social complexity of Vampyrum spectrum, the largest bat in the Americas 🤩🦇 #BatsRule #IBRC2025
Night 4 trivia supporting Bats and Trees Society of Cairns 🦇 Thank you Anna Langguth for the images! #ibrc2025
After the break 🧁 Jessica Meade 🇦🇺 talks on movement of grey-headed flying foxes 🦇 and wind 💨 farms. Altitude measures show 84% of 🦇 flights are in rotor zone ⛔️. Mitigation could be wind speed, bat activity, or on-demand shutdowns. Weather radar could help show bat arrival 📈 @ibrc2025.bsky.social
Next Stevie Florent 🇳🇿 looked to create benchmarks for detecting rates 🦇 and carcass persistence at wind 💨 farm in Australia 🇦🇺 . Dogs 🐕 much better at finding bats than humans! Cleared ground carcass last longer than non cleared. Not enough data 📉 on mortality in NZ @ibrc2025.bsky.social #ibrc2025
Danielle Eastick 🇦🇺 looked at long term data sets of bat 🦇 mortality in Australian wind 💨 farms. 42% White striped free tailed bat & 21% Gould’s Wattle bat. 78% found within 60m of turbine. Estimated mortality rate 9.9 bats/turbine/year. 24% in March 🍂 @ibrc2025.bsky.social #ibrc2025
Rohit Chakravarty 🇮🇳 @batcon.org reflects very difficult to get data from wind 💨 farm consultants in India so looked at bat 🦇 activity in areas with and without farms. He found no significant difference overall but depends on species. Seems to be higher collisions in monsoons @ibrc2025.bsky.social
After 11 years, Aaron and I tag teamed a joint seminar on Genotype to Phenotype: Bat immunity at #IBRC2025 @batresearch.bsky.social @ibrc2025.bsky.social
Alba Coronado Gomis 🇪🇸 also speaks on her assessment of 🦇 impact on renewable energy in Europe. She looked at what is “normal” bat activity via acoustic monitoring 🎤 as an evaluation tool to create thresholds 📈 of potential impact @ibrc2025.bsky.social #ibrc2025
Lindy also looked at migration patterns across multiple Australian 🇦🇺 bat 🦇 species but did not see a correlation with autumn 🍂 period. Very curious what it is about autumn 🤔 #ibrc2025 @ibrc2025.bsky.social
Impressed with all the volunteer work going on in the world rehabilitating bats. This morning at the #ibrc2025 we heard from a few of these amazing volunteer rehabilitators. Karina from www.instagram.com/eyesofacres/... talked about their success reuniting bat pups with their mothers
