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Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · Mar 6

You can find a discussion that captivity effects bear thinking about and can even be used to do better science in the Terzolas Manifesto - preprint here: osf.io/preprints/os... let's start a new era of behavior research!
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Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · Mar 6

These behavioral changes are linked to profound changes in gene expression after as little as one month in captivity as this paper by @labdavalos.bsky.social using the same shrews shows doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
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Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · Mar 6

Shrews loose their motivation for reward, which could be mistaken for cognitive impairment and run excessively, confounding the effects of the actual study about effects of brain size changes. @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social 2/🧵

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Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · Mar 6

Almost all scientific research is done with lab animals. Surprisingly, there is barely any literature on how captivity may affect the results. And these effects can be profound. In shrews, remind us of depression as the paper published by @cecibaldoni.bsky.social shows doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
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Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · Feb 21

looking for a good scientific read? This paper is out today and shows how much energy male bats can save by living in groups. Great for buffering environmental unexpectedness! Pic by Rene J doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
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Dávalos Lab @labdavalos.bsky.social · Jan 22

Looking to read📖 something inspiring today? #MariaAlejandra tells the story behind her recent paper on brain captivity effects! @batichica.bsky.social @cecibaldoni.bsky.social @drcorthals.bsky.social
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Maria Alejandra Bedoya Duque on LinkedIn: #bioinformatics #rnaseq #transcriptomics #captivity

I am very pleased to finally share our most recent publication in Biology Letters: “Gene expression comparisons between captive and wild shrew brains reveal…

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Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · Jan 8

tadaa- second paper of the year out! This time on shrews and how quickly and massively they are affected by captivity. Congrats to the junior student who is the first author on this awesome paper: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... @animaltracking.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social @labdavalos.bsky.social

Gene expression comparisons between captive and wild shrew brains reveal captivity effects | Biology Letters

Compared with their free-ranging counterparts, wild animals in captivity experience different conditions with lasting physiological and behavioural effects. Although shifts in gene expression are expe...

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Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · Jan 4

Edward Hurme on #npr 🤩: tiny new tags allowed us to discover how bats ride the storm during migration 🦇💨: www.wesa.fm/.../research....
Paper here: DOI:10.1126/science.ade7441 (or DM me)

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Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · Jan 4

auf deutsch und zum Zuhören: wie Fledermäuse den Sturm reiten: www.swr.de/swrkultur/wi... @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social

Vom Winde verweht – So reisen Fledermäuse

Vögel wandern oft tausende Kilometer, das ist schon lange bekannt. Aber das auch Fledermäuse lange Strecken zurücklegen können, ist kaum erforscht. Eine neue Studie konnte zeigen, dass sie Wind und zu...

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Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · Jan 3

lovely write-up about our new paper in @science.org by @science.org 😍 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

Migrating bats surf warm winds to soar hundreds of kilometers

Tiny transmitters reveal at least one bat species is surprisingly flexible in its migration timing and pathfinding

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Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · Jan 3

how about starting the new year with a @science.org paper? Congrats Edward Hurme and other coauthors, this makes me incredibly happy 🦇💨

Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · Jan 2

New paper out @science.org shows that bats surf warm storm fronts to power continental migrations 🌀⛈️🦇🤙
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

By Edward Hurme; Ivan Lenzi; Martin Wikelski; Timm Wild; and Dina Dechmann

Bats surf storm fronts during spring migration

Long-distance migration, common in passerine birds, is rare and poorly studied in bats. Piloting a 1.2-gram IoT (Internet of Things) tag with onboard processing, we tracked the daily location, tempera...

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Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · Dec 5

loving the X-odus! Everybody join here - it's friendly, tolerant, open-armed and -minded, not owned by a horrible person and the orange desaster is absent

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Cecilia Baldoni @cecibaldoni.bsky.social · Dec 4

Our #shrews are on The Scientist! Pretty exciting, have a look! 🎉😎

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Angelique Corthals @drcorthals.bsky.social · Dec 4

Exciting news! Our research with @labdavalos.bsky.social on shrews' ability to shrink and regrow their brains is featured in The Scientist! www.the-scientist.com/gene-express...
eLife Link: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
🧠🌟 Feel free to share and spread the wonder of science!
#Science #neurology

Gene Expression Shifts as Shrews Shrink and Regrow Their Brains

Transcriptomic studies of the shrew’s remarkably plastic brain could provide new insights into neurodegenerative diseases.

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Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · Dec 4

greater spear-nosed bats choose foraging sites based on tradition, even if it means commuting across the sea. Great results from the PhD of Camilla Calderon, out bin Biology Letters today: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Consistent long-distance foraging flights across years and seasons at colony level in a neotropical bat | Biology Letters

All foraging animals face a trade-off: how much time should they invest in exploitation of known resources versus exploration to discover new resources? For group-living central place foragers, this balance is challenging. Due to the nature of their ...

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Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · Nov 21

Congratulations Sarah, for submitting you bachelor thesis. She fought valiant battles with giant data sets and algorithms spitting out false positives and prevailed: lesser fishing bats' morning foraging is determined by reproductive state. Also our lab culture very much revolves around cake 😇

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Cecilia Baldoni @cecibaldoni.bsky.social · Nov 20

#shrew paper alert! 📣🐭
Did you know the shrews shrink their brain🧠 in winter❄️?

Our study shows unique changes in hypothalamus gene expression, related to energy regulation🔋, which helps shrews adapt to seasonal challenges 🍂

Have a look! 👀
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · Dec 13

best European bat fur imho #vespertilio

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Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · Dec 9

this is a woman who makes a difference! Jenni Barros, our Brazilian guest really tackles her country‘s legislation to ptotect #bats and their #caves. Thanks for an excellent talk!

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Reda El Arbi @redder66.bsky.social · Dec 2

Cool.

Wenn jemand den Anfang macht, folgen die anderen.

Respekt!

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Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · Nov 27

today wasn‘t about #bats, it was about #socks. Awesome haul! ❤️🇵🇦

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Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · Nov 27

stunning

Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · Nov 25

chips

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Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · Nov 21

I learned how to make reels yesterday, but they do me no good here 😆 our new book is out today on the 🦇bats🦇 of Barro Colorado Island and the research that has been done on them. But don't worry, you'll enjoy by looking at the pictures alone! get it here: geni.us/batislandglo...

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Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social · Nov 20

why would you do that? but they do: copulation without intromission in bats: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mating without intromission in a bat

Copulatory behaviours stand as cornerstones of sexual selection, yet they remain mysterious in many species. Because of their nocturnal and elusive li…

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