Very proud supervisor 🥲. Both Jasmine and @tomasvillada.bsky.social winning runner up for both poster and talk #amsabs2026

Excited to share our new paper in Functional Ecology, led by @nicholaswu.bsky.social We found that torpor in eastern bent-wing bats is driven by local climate and phenotypic plasticity, rather than genetics. Read the full study here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 📷 A. Lloyd

The white-backed swallow survives the extreme temperatures of inland Australia by reducing its body temperature to save energy. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/tiny-ra...

The first publication of my PhD is out! 🦇 🌡️ ☀️ ❄️ Did you know that bats could be flexible in the way they express torpor across different climates? If you want to know more, go have a look at our new paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1... With @nicholaswu.bsky.social and #BatsLab

Very honoured to be part of this wonderful publication led by @nicholaswu.bsky.social! Go check it out. It is open access!

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New paper in Ecology Letters. We show that bats 🦇 fatten predictably in cold climates, but also in warm climates with strong rainfall seasonality. This relationship is also influenced by interactions with sex and study year | doi.org/10.1111/ele....

If bats’ way of living falters, entire food webs could feel the effects.

Bats get fat to survive hard times. But climate change is threatening their survival strategy

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PhD opportunity for 🦇 research in Australia! This project will investigate the ecology of the Eastern Horseshoe Bat in relation to forest disturbance, especially fire and fragmentation 🔥🔥🔥 Applications close 31 March 2025 www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...