🧪Hooray for @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social for the cover of @nature.com, what a way to start the spooky season! 👉🏽 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - Nature

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

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Earth BioGenome Project 🌍@ebpgenome.bsky.social · 2w ago

🦇 Bat1K takes the cover of Nature! A landmark study brings together 103 chromosome-level reference genomes across all 21 living bat families, offering new insights into bat evolution and biogeography. 🧬 Check it out today: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Bat1K #BiodiversityGenomics #batevolution

🦇 What would a life without bats look like? In this episode of Life Without, Alan Davies imagines a world where bats suddenly disappear, featuring Prof Kate Jones, @ucl.ac.uk , and Dr Christina Stanley, Associate Professor at the University of Chester. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Life Without - Life Without Bats - BBC Sounds

The night sky loses its bats and their secret soundscape. What happens next?

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🦇 Fun photo with my @uniofstandrews.bsky.social colleague Andy Whiten! We had journal covers a week apart: his @science.org paper on how young orangutans learn what to eat, and my @nature.com paper on bat genomes & fossils. Congrats to both teams! 🎉@bat1kgenomes.bsky.social 📸 Samuel Porter.

Nice coverage of #NASBR 🦇 meeting.

Just in time for Halloween, bat researchers swoop into Fort Collins for conference

The annual North American Symposium on Bat Research is happening in Fort Collins this week. Hundreds of researchers are giving presentations and raising awareness of these winged mammals.

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🧪 More 🦇 en español, this time from elespectador.com featuring the 2019 Colciencias Bio team! bat1kgenomes.bsky.social 🔬 www.elespectador.com/ciencia/con-...

Con científicos colombianos, arman el rompecabezas de la historia de los murciélagos

Investigadores de 64 países, incluido Colombia, se unieron en un esfuerzo sin precedentes para reconstruir la historia genética del único mamífero ...

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🦇 Wishing everyone at #NASBR a fab meeting! We are sadly missing it this year, but if you know a student who loves bats and is curious about the genetics of speech and language, my lab has a funded PhD open until 16 Nov. Please share! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social

Eastbio: FoxP2 in Flight: Transgenic Bats and the Molecular Genetics of Speech and Language at University of St Andrews on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Eastbio: FoxP2 in Flight: Transgenic Bats and the Molecular Genetics of Speech and Language at University of St Andrews, listed on FindAPhD.com

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New article talking about our @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social Nature paper. Bats live on every continent but one, and scientists have traced where they most likely evolved www.earth.com/animals/bats... @nature.com #bats #genome #fossil #evolution

Bats live on every continent but one, and scientists have traced where they most likely evolved

Europe is now the most likely starting point for bat evolution, about 65 million years ago, and echolocation was already working then.

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🦇 Look what my PhD student Sixue Li brought back from China! A traditional paper cut of the Wǔ Fú, the five bats of good fortune. Sixue helped me understand the Wǔ Fú for my book (The Bat's Echo), and she knows how much I love this art. Such a thoughtful gift! 🥰 #bats #TheBatsEcho

🧪Amazing photos of the hammerhead bat in this @theguardian.com write-up on bat biogeography! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bats originated in Europe, rewriting mammals’ family tree, study reveals

Biggest study of its kind provides insights into bats’ evolution – a potential gamechanger for research into human virus and cancer treatment

theguardian.com

Cool! Looking forward to reading this! 👇🧠🧬

Cedric Boeckx@cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 2w ago

Delighted to share our new preprint, which places what we have learned about the polygenic basis of the globular human brain shape into a broader evolutional/developmental context 🧪🧠🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Delighted to share our new preprint, which places what we have learned about the polygenic basis of the globular human brain shape into a broader evolutional/developmental context 🧪🧠🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📚 Look what just arrived! "Fighting for our Minds: The Neuroscience of Defeating Dementia", the new book from my friend and colleague Tara Spires-Jones. Beautiful and so important. Cant wait to read it! Huge congratulations Tara!🎉 global.oup.com/academic/product/fighting-for-our-minds-9780198995319

Our bat probiotic project is expanding beyond BC and WA and into Alberta and the territories! Bats benefit! We’re studying how long it persists and whether it could be used in backyard bat houses.🦇 Help fund this work: donate or run a fundraiser! wcscanada.donorsupport.co/page/FUNKNPK...

🦇 Last Friday I spoke at a One Medicine meeting in Edinburgh on brain health and dementia. Dogs, cats, bats and everything in between! My pitch: how we can use bats to help us. So inspiring! 😊 @humanimaltrust.bsky.social @brainhealtharc.bsky.social

🦇 PhD position alert! Are you curious how speech and language evolved? Do you love bats? Join my lab at the University of St Andrews to study FoxP2 and vocal learning in transgenic bats! Funded by EASTBIO. Apply by 16 Nov! @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social #PhD #bats www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Eastbio: FoxP2 in Flight: Transgenic Bats and the Molecular Genetics of Speech and Language at University of St Andrews on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Eastbio: FoxP2 in Flight: Transgenic Bats and the Molecular Genetics of Speech and Language at University of St Andrews, listed on FindAPhD.com

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🐋🧬 Welcome to the new ERGA Associate Partner: the Cetacean Genomes Project! They coordinate the generation of high-quality reference genomes for all cetacean species (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) supporting research & conservation worldwide!🌊 www.cetaceangenomesproject.org @ebpgenome.bsky.social

CGP

The Cetacean Genomes Project aims to facilitate the generation of reference genomes of all cetacean species.

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🦇 We made the cover of @nature.com! "Family secrets": reference genomes redraw the bat evolutionary tree. A 10-year labour of love from our amazing @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social team. Only 1400 more to go guys!! 😊 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-11007-3

The fab new paper by the Bat1K consortium graces the cover of this week's issue of @nature.com. Congrats to @ariadnamorales.bsky.social @sonjavernes.bsky.social @labdavalos.bsky.social @hillermich.bsky.social @emmateeling.bsky.social @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social & all involved in this landmark work.🦇🧬

From six bat species to covering 103 genomes across all 21 bat families 🦇🧬 Two beautiful batty Nature covers, years of collaboration, and an incredible community behind every genome. 🌍🌎🌏 We are proud and excited for what’s next. Our goal: sequence the genome of every bat species!

Thank you Simon!!

Simon Fisher@profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 3w ago

The fab new paper by the Bat1K consortium graces the cover of this week's issue of @nature.com. Congrats to @ariadnamorales.bsky.social @sonjavernes.bsky.social @labdavalos.bsky.social @hillermich.bsky.social @emmateeling.bsky.social @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social & all involved in this landmark work.🦇🧬

🦇This week we met some gorgeous bats in an artificial cave made by the Cyprus government to help protect bats. Thank you Haris Nicolaou and Elena Erotokritou for guiding us! @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social #bats #fieldwork #conservation #cyprus❤️

Sumatran orangutans have a long, long childhood (8 yrs!) but there's a lot to learn. This week on the @science.org podcast, we hear about how social and individual learning interact to shape ecological competence in orangutans w/ Elah Feder & Revathe Thillaikumar www.science.org/content/podc...

New discoveries in bat evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - Nature

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

nature.com

„The approach we used to model the evolution of fossil and living species together can do what other methods cannot: identify the oldest group of fossil bats while taking the genomic data into account, and uncover when and where bats originated“ says Dávalos @labdavalos.bsky.social 1/2

So this is the news @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social was hinting at yesterday! Amazing (and a lovely hammer-headed bat in the pic)

Bats originated in Europe, rewriting mammals’ family tree, study reveals

Biggest study of its kind provides insights into bats’ evolution – a potential gamechanger for research into human virus and cancer treatment

theguardian.com

🦇 Taking you into the field to discover the world of bat conservation. BatChat is for anyone who loves bats or has an interest in conservation. Our trustee Steve Roe talks to the experts as well as local heroes to bring you the latest from the world of bats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-n5...

BatChat Series 8 Trailer

YouTube video by Steve Roe

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Study finds that bats most likely originated in Europe around 65 million years ago, before spreading across the world. 30 bat 🦇 genomes 🧬 were sequenced at @mpi-cbg.de & @dcgenomecenter.bsky.social. MPI-CBG Alumni @hillermich.bsky.social & Eugene Myers were involved. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Bats originated in Europe, not Asia, landmark genome study reveals

Study finds that bats most likely originated in Europe around 65 million years ago, before spreading across the world. 30 bat genomes for the study were sequenced at MPI-CBG. 

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Bat1K Genome Project@bat1kgenomes.bsky.social · last mo.

Where did bats come from?🦇🌍 After decades of debate, the biggest bat genome + fossil study ever done has an answer - and it’s not where anyone expected! 🤩OUR PHASE 1 FLAGSHIP is out today in nature! doi.org/10.1038/s415... A thread 🧵

Very cool! 🦇🦇🦇

Bat Conservation Trust@batconservation.bsky.social · last mo.

🦇 New Bluetooth tags for bats reveal intricate movements of our winged travellers: www.itv.com/watch/news/n...

!! New in @science.org !! How do animals learn broad skills necessary for survival in the wild? Our latest study on wild Sumatran orangutans at Suaq provides answers. 1/11 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How 8 years of social and individual learning interact to shape ecological competence in orangutans

Cultural learning permeates human skill and knowledge acquisition. To understand its importance for nonhuman apes, we analyzed just under 7000 records of behavioral bouts of social and individual lear...

science.org

What an amazing cover! Brilliant new research from @uniofstandrews.bsky.social researcher Andy Whiten and colleagues. Cant wait to read this important work!

Science Magazine@science.org · last mo.

Learning over an extended childhood has been fundamental to survival during human evolutionary history. Researchers show how Sumatran orangutans use their 8 years of dependency to master a broad diet, necessary for independent survival. Read more in this week’s issue: https://scim.ag/4xDjOfh