Jack Hooker
@jackhooker.bsky.social
Research Scientist at Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social
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Bats without Borders (BwB)@batswborders.bsky.social · 4mo ago🌟 TOMORROW! 🌟 Last chance to sign-up to Liam McGuire's #WingedWednesday #webinar! 🔗 www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html 📅 Wednesday 22 April 🕰 3pm SAST/CAT | 2pm BST | 9am EDT | 🌍⏰ Remember to adjust for your local time zone! 📸 Brock Fenton #bats #batconservation #migration #batmigration
I'll be joining forces with the incredible team at @habsandheritage.bsky.social on 28th April for an evening of bats and poetry in Richmond! Spend an evening with us in the Old Burial Ground at Grove Gardens Chapel - spaces are free but booking is required!🦇🦇🦇 www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
🦇 We’re delighted to launch our Connecting People and Landscapes Community Grant Scheme, supporting community groups - particularly underserved communities - based in Devon near our focus farm areas. Grants of up to £500 are available: www.devoncommunities.org.uk/small-grants...
🦇Join us and @ucllifesciences.bsky.social on 15 April, 5:00–8.30pm, for a screening of The Invisible Mammal followed by a Q&A session, bat walk and drinks at a local pub. This is a free event but you have to register here: lnkd.in/eRj6cbtY . Donations are optional but always more than welcome!
The latest @gbatnet.bsky.social "My Field for Dummies" is on Urban Bats. Robin Rowland from the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland investigates how #bats 🦇 respond behaviorally and physiologically to urbanisation and anthropogenic structures in Australian www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTej...
"My Field for Dummies" - Urban Bats
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🦇As the weather gets warmer, brown long-eared bats will start shedding their ear muffs which protects their fragile ears from the cold during hibernation. If you find these on the floor in your local area, you are in luck - brown long-eared bats are around! 🥰
New paper alert: >80k nacelle-height recordings and stereo-thermal 3D tracks show that bats sing in the rotor-swept zone and circle turbine nacelles. We need smarter, species-sensitive curtailment that aligns both climate and biodiversity goals. #Bats #Conservation 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s420...
We've uploaded recordings of many of our seminars over the last few months to our You-tube channel, including from @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social, Kristen Ruegg, Daniel Field, @jon-slate.bsky.social, Paul Acker, @thelabandfield.bsky.social & @kokkonut.bsky.social - Enjoy! www.youtube.com/@EGIOxford
Bats provide critical ecosystem services. #Bats 🦇 prevent crop damage and can help reduced insecticide use, three examples: USA cotton farmers benefit by $3.7-53 billion per year Italian apple orchards benefit by €551/ha Rice farmers in Europe benefit by €56/ha www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...
Why bats matter - About Bats - Bat Conservation Trust
Bats matter across the UK and around the world. Bat species play a vital role in ecosystems, from agricultural land to tropical forests. They pollinate ...
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Three year postdoc fellowship working with bats in Mexico 🦇🦇(with fieldwork) Project title: Quantifying the socio-economic consequences of losing bat guano services Led by: Dr Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...
Research Fellow in Bat Ecosystem Services - Southampton, United Kingdom job with UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON | 407791
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Southampton ...
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I just emailed my MP through the #CleanWaterNow campaign 🌊 calling for a new water law to stop pollution and restore rivers, lakes and seas. Every voice matters – will you join me? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/clean...
Clean Water Now - tell your MP to take action
Take action A new water law is coming. Soon, MPs will decide whether to finally clean up our rivers, lakes and seas − or let toxic pollution continue unchecked. Right now, sewage, farming pollution an...
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🦇 Water habitats are essential for all UK bat species, as they provide food and can act as a safe blue corridor between important sites. Please support this campaign and email your MP to demand action for clean water now. It only takes 2 minutes: action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/clean...
Clean Water Now - tell your MP to take action
Take action A new water law is coming. Soon, MPs will decide whether to finally clean up our rivers, lakes and seas − or let toxic pollution continue unchecked. Right now, sewage, farming pollution an...
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Wildlife and Countryside Link@wclnews.bsky.social · 5mo agoClean water can’t wait. The Government must take action now for nature and people.
🦇We are recruiting! We are seeking a Project Officer to deliver the last 2 years of the Swansea Bay’s Stars of the Night project, a component of Natur Am Byth! Fixed term, Home based, Part-time (22.5 hrs/week). Deadline: 9am, 13 March www.bats.org.uk/the-trust/jo...
Project Officer, Natur Am Byth! (Swansea Bay’s Stars of the Night) - Swyddog Prosiect Natur Am Byth! (Sêr y Nos Bae Abertawe) - Bat Conservation Trust
Fixed term, Home based, Part-time (22.5 hrs/week)£30,000 - £32,000 pro rata depending on experience (£18,000 - £19,200 at 0.6 FTE)
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*NEW* Combined Bats and Arboriculture course (Scoping surveys & Secondary roost surveys for arborists). In person at Tatton Park, Cheshire on 4 March (afternoon) and 5 March (full day). More info and to book: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/tra...
*NEW* Bat Skills Bootcamp – Endoscopes & trees. In person at Windsor Great Park on 18 March. Our Bat Skills Bootcamps provide opportunities to focus on honing practical skills which are vital to a bat worker. www.bats.org.uk/our-work/tra...
🦇A new episode of #BatChat is out now: From Aberdeen to Madagascar with Paul Racey! Steve chats with Emeritus Professor Paul Racey, one of the best-known figures in bat ecology and conservation. Available in your usual place or online here: batchat.buzzsprout.com/680561/episo...
🦇 Not 1 but 2 NEW exciting vacancies: - Seasonal Bat Advisors for the National Bat Helpline. - Project Officer, Sibrydion y Coedwigoedd/ Whispers of the Woodlands Deadline for both: 9am 16 February. More info: www.bats.org.uk/the-trust/jo...
Jobs / Contracts - About Us - Bat Conservation Trust
Please note: BCT is a Living Wage employer. BCT strives to provide an accessible recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments for any pa...
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🦇Only 2 places up for grabs and the booking deadline is TOMORROW, 28 Jan 👇 www.bats.org.uk/our-work/tra...
Bat Conservation Trust@batconservation.bsky.social · 6mo agoUpcoming booking deadlines for training courses and events: - Scoping surveys for arborists. Online over two afternoons on the 4 & 11 February. Deadline 28 January: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/tra...
🦇MY FIELD FOR DUMMIES IS BACK!🦇 We are THRILLED to have Dr. Alyson Brokaw as out first speaker of 2026. Dr. Brokaw focuses her research on behavioral ecology and sensory biology and is passionate about science communication and outreach. REGISTER FOR FREE HERE! tinyurl.com/2kw9wr5x
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How should the discipline of ecology and the community of ecologists respond to the ecological crisis? Is it time that these were put on something more akin to an emergency footing? www.cell.com/action/showP...
ATTENTION! 🦇✨VOTE NOW✨🦇 We have over 25 submissions to select from! Choose your TOP 3 choices for the contest! Follow the link below to vote! form.jotform.com/252874664099... yearofthebats.org
New OA 🦇 research 📄 studying the wonders of #bat #migration To Migrate or not to Migrate? Exploring the Genomic Basis of Partial Migratory Behavior in Bats academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
4 YR Fully Funded PhD Opportunity (UK home fees) Restoring Rivers for Multi-Benefit Outcomes: From Biodiversity to Flood Resilience www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Restoring Rivers for Multi-Benefit Outcomes: From Biodiversity to Flood Resilience at University of Stirling on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Restoring Rivers for Multi-Benefit Outcomes: From Biodiversity to Flood Resilience at University of Stirling, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Lots of great new OA 🦇 research 📄 published recently that provide valuable insights into different aspects of bat responses to natural and man-made elements of the #environment. Whilst these may not seem particularly "exciting" they provide crucial evidence to aid bat conservation. 🧵 below
Not a surprise they start to sound alike but going through 700,000 calls 🎩 off to these 🦇 researchers #bioacoustics full paper royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Vocal convergence during formation of social relationships in vampire bats
Abstract. In many group-living birds and mammals, the formation of affiliative relationships is hypothesized to cause vocal convergence (an increase in cal
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Alan McElligott@amcell.bsky.social · 8mo ago2025. #Bioacoustics - Bat 'besties' start to sound alike over time [reminds me of goat kids!] phys.org/news/2025-12...
New OA 🦇 research 📄 Managing hedgerows for biodiversity: Disentangling the effects of trimming, structure and connectivity on the use of linear features by bats besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Managing hedgerows for biodiversity: Disentangling the effects of trimming, structure and connectivity on the use of linear features by bats
Our findings underscore the value of extensive hedgerow management in promoting on-farm bat activity and support the integration of simple hedgerow quality assessment protocols into agri-environment ...
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🦇 in the news! #bats #lovebats #urbanwildlife Urban bats avoid street lights when commuting between their roosts and foraging grounds share.google/RNp1fTDImn78...
Urban bats avoid street lights when commuting between their roosts and foraging grounds
Some bat species seek shelter during the day in the attics of large, mostly historic buildings within human settlements, even though they forage for insects at night in the dark surrounding countrysid...
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🦇Interested in a bat-related PhD? 👇 Using genomics to understand bat population declines under global environmental change with @orlyrazgour.bsky.social , @bfraser.bsky.social and BCT, based at the University of Exeter. Application deadline 8 January 2026: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Applying genomic approaches to understand bat population declines. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry at University of Exeter on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Applying genomic approaches to understand bat population declines. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry at University of Exeter, listed on FindAPhD.com
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