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BES ALDER Network @besaldernetwork.bsky.social · 2d

Hi everyone, we're the BES ALDER Network 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌳 Follow us for information about upcoming events, opportunities, community stories, & resources

Want more info? Join our newsletter? www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/join... @britishecologicalsociety.org

Who are we? ALDER (Advancing LGBTQIA+ Diversity, Equality & Representation) is a Network for the LGBTQIA+ ecologist community to interact, share and support each other.

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Tally Yoh @tallyyoh.bsky.social · 3d

🌱🕥🦇 Interested to know more about the habitat use & daily activity patterns of African island bats?

New paper led by Ana Filipa Palmeirim conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @ricardonature.bsky.social @anasofiabiology.bsky.social

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bes-quantitativegroup @bes-quantitative.bsky.social · 10d

📣 Two weeks to go! 📣

Don't forget to sign up using the link below.

bes-quantitativegroup @bes-quantitative.bsky.social · 17d

Join us for our next webinar, with @besaldernetwork.bsky.social!

Catherine Mercer and Ella Kaye will present their work predicting forest distributions using SDMs, and with @RainbowR, an organisation promoting LGBTQIA+ voices in the R community.

Tues 14th Oct @ 11am BST

Sign up: bit.ly/3HWpEol

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 6d

#NEMC2025: Building the UK Environmental Monitoring Community

📣 Be part of the change
Whether you deliver, use, or benefit from environmental monitoring, your voice matters.

🗓️ Register by 11 Nov 2025

www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/nati... 🧪

National Environmental Monitoring Conference - British Ecological Society

The NEMC returns for its second year focusing on: From insight to impact: building the UK environmental monitoring community

www.britishecologicalsociety.org

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Jasmin Ella Willis @jasminwillis.bsky.social · 7d

So happy that the first chapter of my PhD has been published! We explored where women exist in tropical wild meat systems, what they do & why. Huge thanks to my co-authors and my wonderful supervisory team 🙌

Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science @iccs.bsky.social · 10d

🚨Women are central to tropical wild meat systems, yet too often overlooked🚨

A new paper led by @jasminwillis.bsky.social, Dr Lauren Coad, @orchiddelirium.bsky.social & @ejmilnergulland.bsky.social reviewed 334 studies across 54 countries, finding women occupy 36 roles, from harvesting to trade.

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Bat Conservation International 🦇 @batcon.org · 9d

You read that right- there are now 1,500 official bat species known to science!
The Bioko pipistrelle (𝘗𝘪𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘭𝘢) was found on Bioko Island in Africa’s Equatorial New Guinea by former BCI Student Scholar Dr. Laura Torrent and her colleagues.

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Bats without Borders (BwB) @batswborders.bsky.social · 9d

COMING SOON... #WingedWednesday #webinar!

On 22nd October, we are happy to host Laura Torrent's webinar: 'What have we learned about Equatorial Guinea's bats - and what remains a mystery?'

Time: 3pm southern Africa | 2pm UK | 9am EDT

Sign up: lnkd.in/eTsz5eyQ

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Jack Hooker @jackhooker.bsky.social · 18d

New OA 🦇 research 📄

Current frontiers in the passive acoustic monitoring of bats

@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @bat-cesco.bsky.social

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Current frontiers in the passive acoustic monitoring of bats

Passive acoustic monitoring of bats is used in a growing number of studies in applied and basic research, from local to global scales. Despite the publication of good-practice recommendations, sev...

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Dave Hemprich-Bennett @davehb.bsky.social · 14d

Highly recommended to any grad students studying bats, I got one of these during my PhD and it was really helpful 🦇

Bat Conservation International 🦇 @batcon.org · 14d

🦇 Grad Students: we'll be accepting applications for the 2026 Student Scholars program on October 1ˢᵗ. Learn more at batcon.org/student-scholars

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ESA Plant-Soil Ecology @esaplantsoilecol.bsky.social · 18d

“Nature conservation is not working unless it protects entire ecosystems with all their interacting members—big and small”

Fantastic opinion piece on advancing nature conservation to the next level by applying existing microorganism strategies to microbes.

Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services | PNAS

Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services

www.pnas.org

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Tally Yoh @tallyyoh.bsky.social · 17d

🌳Despite being >90% forested, unlogged forests are rare in Gabon 🌳

This blog by the Forest Stewardship Council covers our work on how logging certification can bolster conservation when combined with protecting unlogged areas fsc.org/en/newscentr...

Led by Zuzana Burivalova www.soundforestlab.org

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bes-quantitativegroup @bes-quantitative.bsky.social · 17d

Join us for our next webinar, with @besaldernetwork.bsky.social!

Catherine Mercer and Ella Kaye will present their work predicting forest distributions using SDMs, and with @RainbowR, an organisation promoting LGBTQIA+ voices in the R community.

Tues 14th Oct @ 11am BST

Sign up: bit.ly/3HWpEol

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 22d

Just under a fortnight left to nominate any amateur naturalists in your life for the H. H. Bloomer award.

The award recognises the contribution of people who contribute to natural history knowledge in their spare time.

Find out more and nominate by 30 September.
buff.ly/RIp7lQ9

The H. H. Bloomer Award

An award for an amateur naturalist for an important contribution to the knowledge of natural history.

www.linnean.org

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 22d

🦇 Are you highly organised, self-motivated, discreet and able to communicate clearly with a range of people? We are looking for a Finance Officer, preferably part-qualified or with proven experience in the not-for-profit sector.

Application deadline: 9am, 26 Sept:
www.bats.org.uk/the-trust/jo...

Finance Officer - Jobs / Contracts - Bat Conservation Trust

Fixed-term (8 months), four to five days a weekSalary: £30,000-£33,000 pro rata

www.bats.org.uk

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Bizzy Illustrations @bzillustrations.bsky.social · 24d

🦇The Badger and the Bat is available to purchase from my Esty shop bizzyillustrations.etsy.com and I will donate 5% sale profits to @batconservation.bsky.social and @kentbatgroup.org.uk with every purchase.

Don't forget to ask if you would like me to sign it 🦡❤️🦇

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Tally Yoh @tallyyoh.bsky.social · 24d

Congratulations!!

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Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks @gbatnet.bsky.social · Sep 1

2027 is going to be THE YEAR OF THE BATS!

A global celebration of the world’s only flying mammals and the vital roles they play in our ecosystems.

ENTER NOW!
www.yearofthebats.org

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Tally Yoh @tallyyoh.bsky.social · Sep 8

🌱REPORT: Developing Collaborative Solutions to the Intersectional Barriers Faced by Minoritised Ecologists 🌱🌻

Collaborative effort across the @britishecologicalsociety.org community to tackle the unique (& shared) challenges faced by many people in our field

Funders: @prideinstem.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Tally Yoh @tallyyoh.bsky.social · Aug 21

"Opening the Pandora's box of acoustic indices"

New research by Larissa Sayuri Moreira Sugai & Raul Costa-Pereira on the dangers of using soundscapes to replace species-specific monitoring in hyperdiverse ecosystems
@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Opening the Pandora's box of acoustic indices

www.sciencedirect.com

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Tally Yoh @tallyyoh.bsky.social · Aug 18

Join the @britishecologicalsociety.org Endemic Network to explore challenges & solutions for fieldwork as a neurodivergent individual & methods to support your colleagues

Date: Wednesday August 27th, 2025
Location: Zoom
Time: 16:30-18:00 (BST)
Free!
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/fiel...

Fieldwork Whilst Neurodiverse - British Ecological Society

Join the Endemic Network for this webinar exploring challenges and solutions for navigating fieldwork whilst neurodiverse and methods of supporting neurodivergent colleagues.

www.britishecologicalsociety.org

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Aug 8

pharos.viralemergence.org, whether you want $20 or not.

Pharos

Building a global atlas of wildlife disease data

pharos.viralemergence.org

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Aug 8

So we have this database for wildlife disease surveillance, and we made a data standard, and an R and Python package to help you clean your data, and two years in we just still cannot get first adopters, so here’s my new bit: I will personally Venmo you $20 of my personal money to share a dataset

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · Jul 23

Interested in knowing behind the scenes of the BES Annual Meeting 2025?

Volunteering as a Helper at our conference in Edinburgh could be the perfect opportunity for you!

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · Jun 30

🦠🌿🐦🧪 How can biodiversity monitoring help global efforts in disease surveillance?

With ✨ fantastic ✨ colleagues from @viralemergence.org and the @geobon.org working group on One Health, we try to identify three key lessons for the future.

🧵 A short thread!

academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Biodiversity science and biosurveillance are fellow travelers

The failure to meet the Aichi targets to alleviate global biodiversity decline (Nature 2020) was a wake-up call to the biodiversity monitoring community (T

academic.oup.com

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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