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Society for Conservation Biology North America (SCBNA) @scbnorthamerica.bsky.social · 28d

TAKE ACTION with SCBNA TODAY to write in opposition to the proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule.

This legislation brings devastating & irreversible consequences to the biodiversity, wildfire resilience, and long-term health of our nation’s forests.

tinyurl.com/bdf7hs54

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CJ Campbell @batsonthemove.bsky.social · Sep 9

This strategy results in widespread mixing of their populations during mating season, and we link it to the likelihood of experiencing fatalities at wind energy facilities. Other species that don't engage in pell-mell migration appear at lesser risk of encountering those facilities.

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CJ Campbell @batsonthemove.bsky.social · Sep 9

Hot off the presses 🔥🦇! In a new paper, we describe a new migratory strategy (pell-mell migration) in which hoary and eastern red bats migrate north in the autumn— sometimes long distances— before turning around and migrating south. 1/n

Bat Conservation International 🦇 @batcon.org · Sep 9

🦇 New research helps explain why some bats are at greater risk from wind energy facilities.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

@floridamuseum.bsky.social @ufresearch.bsky.social

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Hannah Vander Zanden @hanvanzan.bsky.social · Sep 9

New pub from my first PhD student @batsonthemove.bsky.social.

She found some bats have a complex migration strategy: two species move north in the autumn, flying long and likely circuitous routes of hundreds of miles, before ultimately returning south to overwinter.

news.ufl.edu/2025/09/bat-...

Bats on the move: study reveals migration patterns behind wind turbine fatalities

A new study sheds light on why North America’s bats are dying in large numbers at wind energy facilities.

news.ufl.edu

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · Sep 8

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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BatTed_1000 🦇 @batted1000.bsky.social · Aug 13

New paper on #bat #windturbine interactions is out:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Theresa Laverty @theresalaverty.bsky.social · Aug 10

Also if you're at #ESA2025 and interested in bats (maybe birds too), bioacoustics, arid landscapes, and thinking of a PhD, please say hello. I plan to recruit 1-2 grad students. Spring or fall 2026 start with a focus on desert waters or renewable energy. lavertylab.org

Happy to meet up!

The Laverty Lab

A conservation science and wildlife ecology lab at NMSU

lavertylab.org

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · May 31

The bottom line with the proposed cuts to NSF is to cut the number of working scientists and disappear opportunities to train new scientists.

This is a PROPOSED budget to Congress. Call your reps.

screenshot from the NSF budget request to congress showing that the number of people involved in NSF activities will drop from 330,100 to 90,000.

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · Mar 18

This is terrible news & just one part of a bigger picture.

Prepare yourself for ongoing updates about the “reduction in force” this month and more again in April.

Talk to your community about it. They may not believe it at first - it sounds unbelievable! But we must bear witness & explain.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Mar 18

Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.

Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm

More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.

www.nytimes.com

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Mar 2

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?

Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!

#standupforscience2025

Map of Stand Up for Science events, with official SUFS events in Red and solidarity events in Blue

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · Mar 3

“Trump directed federal agencies to examine ways to bypass endangered species protections and other environmental regulations to ramp up timber production across 280 million acres of national forests and other public lands.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/c...

Trump Moves to Increase Logging in National Forests (Gift Article)

The president wants to circumvent environmental regulations to expand timber production, something sought by homebuilders and the construction industry.

www.nytimes.com

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · Feb 18

Colleagues, including my partner, with years of service at the agency. Some Permanent POs reclassified as Probationary. Exceptional scientists who were former professors at major institutions, and came to NSF to serve the community and ensure science thrives in the US.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Feb 8

"Anyone who has studied science under the Nazis...cannot fail to be dismayed and alarmed at the parallels in the response so far of scientific institutions and academies to the purges and abuses of power following Trump’s executive orders" 🧪 #scicomm

www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience

Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion

www.chemistryworld.com

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Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social · Feb 8

Here’s @lizneeley.bsky.social’s latest newsletter, documenting the ongoing attacks on science and higher ed, and figuring out what to focus on: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

Week 3

Figuring out what to focus on now & what to focus on next in science and higher ed

buttondown.com

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Tim Mosca (he/him) @drosophilosophy.bsky.social · Feb 7

Oh. My. God.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD

grants.nih.gov

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Matt Carling @mdcarling.bsky.social · Jan 23

Looks like the following programs in #NSF BIO have been 'archived':
BRC-BIO - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
BIO-LEAPS - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
PRFB - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology (BRC-BIO)

new.nsf.gov

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CJ Campbell @batsonthemove.bsky.social · Jan 23

Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · Jan 23

I was interviewed by @msjpauly.bsky.social for @motherjones.com regarding that awful gamete size "sex" executive order. A bit of an explainer here of why the science is so bad, and why that's dangerous:

Trump’s definitions of "male" and "female" are nonsense science with staggering ramifications

"How can you so fully misunderstand basic human biology, and then legislate about it?"

www.motherjones.com

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Jon Flanders @jonrflanders.bsky.social · Dec 12

Back to 🦇 content - this is the endangered Fijian free-tailed bat. There is only one known maternity roost for this species. We’ve just released a video on how we worked with local partners and communities to save this species from extinction: vimeo.com/1038668450

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · Dec 13

New timeline, same problems, same solution

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Jon Flanders @jonrflanders.bsky.social · Dec 5

Bat Conservation International has just released a short series of videos highlighting some of the #bat conservation work we’re doing in #Jamaica 🦇

vimeo.com/1036129420

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Jon Flanders @jonrflanders.bsky.social · Dec 5

Infrared video footage of the critically endangered Jamaican flower #bat emerging from the only know maternity roost. 🦇

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Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · Nov 29

Excited to share a new opportunity in my new lab at Cambridge!

We are looking for a highly motivated, early-career, postdoctoral scientist to be part of a growing effort in #connectivity conservation.

3-yr position housed in the Cambridge Conservation Initiative!

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49330/

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk

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Susan Tsang @batgirlsusan.bsky.social · Oct 22

New paper by our colleague Rohit Chakravarty 🧪
Mountains host significantly more data deficient and threatened bat species than lowlands

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Mountains host significantly more data deficient and threatened bat species than lowlands - Biodiversity and Conservation

Mountains harbour one third of the world’s biodiversity and much of it is under increasing anthropogenic pressure. Yet, global assessments of the occurrence, and threat status of most mountain taxa, e...

link.springer.com

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Feb 14

I was just forwarded communications from Duke admins that this is true: one of the largest and most active herbaria in the United States is being closed in the middle of an extinction crisis, because Duke leadership does not wish to support the infrastructure costs.

Fay-Wei Li @fernway.bsky.social · Feb 14

sad news - Duke University decided to dump their herbarium, which has over 800,000 plant specimens, one of the largest among in America, and includes many type specimens of Lady Gaga ferns. What a shame. Please stop Duke admins for making this horrible mistake!!

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · Oct 3

The first global temperature data is in for the full month of September. This month was – in my professional opinion as a climate scientist – absolutely gobsmackingly bananas. JRA-55 beat the prior monthly record by over 0.5C, and was around 1.7C to 1.8C warmer than preindutrial levels.

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