Excited to talk today at the ZOOlogy2025 Meeting at Artis Zoo, Amsterdam! 📍 Session: Digital Technology, Koningszaal 🕛 12:00 ⚠️ Note the updated title Would love to see you there and discuss how our work! #ZOOlogy2025 #ConservationTech #WildlifeResearch #AIforGood 🦇🐬🐻

Spectral bats, the largest 🦇 in the Americas, aren’t just fierce carnivores with up to one meter wingspan. New research from @MarisaTietge from @berlinbatlab.bsky.social shows they hug, share food, play with bugs & huddle in “cuddle balls" doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Massive tropical bat is surprisingly family oriented, rare videos show

New footage reveals spectral bats “hugging,” playing, and bringing food to their young

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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

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

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

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

If you happen to be at the @ibrc2025.bsky.social in Cairns, come by my talk tomorrow at 9:45 AM! I’ll be speaking about self-medication in phyllostomid #bats and a new technique to identify individual bats by their wingprints. Would love to see you there! #IBRC2025 #BatResearch 🍈🦇

Amazing start to the International Bat Research Conference in Cairns! 🦇 🇦🇺 So great to reconnect with my esteemed friend and colleague Merlin Tuttle - nothing beats sharing our passion for bats with fellow researchers from around the world. #IBRC2025 #BatResearch #BatConservation

Today 10th of June at 4 PM Panama time, I'll be giving a Tupper talk @stri_panama on self-medication in bats. Curious? Join me online and discover what bats are up to when they are immune-challenged! 🍈🦇 smithsonian.zoom.us/j/8724629288... Password: 438162; Webinar ID: 872 4629 2885

We have excellent scientists in Europe, but well, good idea, the more, the merrier!

Captured these stunning patterns created by #bioluminescent beetle larvae (likely from the tribe #Pyrophorini) using long time exposure. We found these tiny larvae (~1cm) on the ground in the rainforest while we were catching bats in the #Soberanía National Park! 🦇🐛🌴

Check out this story @smithsonianmag.bsky.social about our SELFCURE project, funded by the Human Frontiers Science Program with additional support from the EU Scientist4Scientist initiative, helping us integrate talented Ukrainian scientists into the project! 🇺🇦🦇🇵🇦 @stri_panama @bats_ukraine

'Scientists for Scientists' Wartime Grant Brings Ukrainian Bat Biologists to Panama

Over the last two years, staff at the Ukrainian Bat Rehabilitation Center have worked to save bats from the dangers of the Russian full-scale invasion. Now, they join researchers at the Smithsonian Tr...

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