Agata Staniewicz
@agatastaniewicz.bsky.social
Research Scientist at Bat Conservation Trust • ecoacoustics🎧 • bats🦇 • birds🐦 • crocodiles🐊
There's still so much to discover about crocodilian acoustic communication. Great to see this new #bioacoustics paper on the novel underwater pops in the gharial: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Gharial acoustic signaling: Novel underwater pops are temporally based, context‐dependent, seasonally stable, male‐specific, and individually distinctive
Male gharials (Gavialis gangeticus) produce loud underwater POPs by rapid jaw clapping 1–3×. POPs are temporally based, context-dependent, seasonally stable, and individually distinctive. The bulbous...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
There's still so much to discover about crocodilian acoustic communication. Great to see this new #bioacoustics paper on the novel underwater pops in the gharial: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🦇 Nature vs Growth? The false choice threatening our future: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/01... .
Should developers 'stop worrying about the bats and the newts'? They don't have to; pitting nature against development is dangerous, irresponsible and unnecessary.
Should developers 'stop worrying about the bats and the newts'? They don't have to; pitting nature against development is dangerous, irresponsible and unnecessary.
Nature vs Growth? The false choice threatening our future - News - Bat Conservation Trust
Should developers 'stop worrying about the bats and the newts'? They don't have to; pitting nature against development is dangerous, irresponsible and unnecessary.
www.bats.org.uk
January 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🦇 Nature vs Growth? The false choice threatening our future: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/01... .
Should developers 'stop worrying about the bats and the newts'? They don't have to; pitting nature against development is dangerous, irresponsible and unnecessary.
Should developers 'stop worrying about the bats and the newts'? They don't have to; pitting nature against development is dangerous, irresponsible and unnecessary.
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🦇 (1/2) In response to the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s speech today: we believe that blaming the laws that protect bats, newts and other wildlife, as well as our wider environment, for planning delays is short sighted and misguided.
Is the government’s planning reform bad for bats? - News - Bat Conservation Trust
Planning reforms risk devastating impacts to bats, here's what we're doing about it and how you can help.
www.bats.org.uk
January 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🦇 (1/2) In response to the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s speech today: we believe that blaming the laws that protect bats, newts and other wildlife, as well as our wider environment, for planning delays is short sighted and misguided.
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Not one, but two new greater mouse-eared bat have been found www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/01...
Hope for our rarest UK bat - News - Bat Conservation Trust
Two exciting discoveries have been reported in the last week about our rarest bat species, the greater mouse-eared bat.
www.bats.org.uk
January 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Not one, but two new greater mouse-eared bat have been found www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/01...
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🦇 This is absolutely terrific news!!
Since 2002, for 20 winters, one solo male greater mouse-eared bat was recorded hibernating in a tunnel near the south coast, by Sussex Bat Group. In early 2023 a second bat was recorded in the same tunnel. A record in a new county is amazing!!
Since 2002, for 20 winters, one solo male greater mouse-eared bat was recorded hibernating in a tunnel near the south coast, by Sussex Bat Group. In early 2023 a second bat was recorded in the same tunnel. A record in a new county is amazing!!
Unbelievably exciting news, a Greater mouse-eared bat has been found during an #NBMP hibernation survey in Dover! This is the first record of this species in Kent since 1985.
Well done Claire and huge thanks to @fionamathews.bsky.social and Dr John Puckett for helping to confirm ID
Well done Claire and huge thanks to @fionamathews.bsky.social and Dr John Puckett for helping to confirm ID
January 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🦇 This is absolutely terrific news!!
Since 2002, for 20 winters, one solo male greater mouse-eared bat was recorded hibernating in a tunnel near the south coast, by Sussex Bat Group. In early 2023 a second bat was recorded in the same tunnel. A record in a new county is amazing!!
Since 2002, for 20 winters, one solo male greater mouse-eared bat was recorded hibernating in a tunnel near the south coast, by Sussex Bat Group. In early 2023 a second bat was recorded in the same tunnel. A record in a new county is amazing!!
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Want to find out how we are using #AI to help us learn more about #bats?
Lia Gilmour and @agatastaniewicz.bsky.social from our Science team, and George Lambert from Lambert Labs explain how BCT’s Sound Classification System is revolutionising bat #research and monitoring: vimeo.com/1029328047/0...
Lia Gilmour and @agatastaniewicz.bsky.social from our Science team, and George Lambert from Lambert Labs explain how BCT’s Sound Classification System is revolutionising bat #research and monitoring: vimeo.com/1029328047/0...
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January 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Want to find out how we are using #AI to help us learn more about #bats?
Lia Gilmour and @agatastaniewicz.bsky.social from our Science team, and George Lambert from Lambert Labs explain how BCT’s Sound Classification System is revolutionising bat #research and monitoring: vimeo.com/1029328047/0...
Lia Gilmour and @agatastaniewicz.bsky.social from our Science team, and George Lambert from Lambert Labs explain how BCT’s Sound Classification System is revolutionising bat #research and monitoring: vimeo.com/1029328047/0...
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@batconservation.bsky.social are happy to announce the publication of Bats and Large-Scale Housing Maintenance Projects Guidance.
This 📄 provides guidance for large-scale housing projects where the principal focus is retention and repair rather than demolition.
❤️🦇
www.bats.org.uk/resources/gu...
This 📄 provides guidance for large-scale housing projects where the principal focus is retention and repair rather than demolition.
❤️🦇
www.bats.org.uk/resources/gu...
Bats and Large-Scale Housing Maintenance Projects Guidance for England - Guidance for professionals - Bat Conservation Trust
Bats and Large-Scale Housing Maintenance Projects Guidance for England, published December 2024
www.bats.org.uk
December 18, 2024 at 10:01 AM
@batconservation.bsky.social are happy to announce the publication of Bats and Large-Scale Housing Maintenance Projects Guidance.
This 📄 provides guidance for large-scale housing projects where the principal focus is retention and repair rather than demolition.
❤️🦇
www.bats.org.uk/resources/gu...
This 📄 provides guidance for large-scale housing projects where the principal focus is retention and repair rather than demolition.
❤️🦇
www.bats.org.uk/resources/gu...
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It’s out! Here’s a short video highlighting some of the incredible work we’ve involved with in #Kenya saving endangered bats and empowering local communities 🦇
vimeo.com/1039734764
vimeo.com/1039734764
Working to Protect Vital Habitat in Kenya
In coastal Kenya, rapid development is threatening to destroy some of the most important cave roosts for bats, including the Endangered Hildegarde’s tomb bat…
vimeo.com
December 18, 2024 at 1:22 AM
It’s out! Here’s a short video highlighting some of the incredible work we’ve involved with in #Kenya saving endangered bats and empowering local communities 🦇
vimeo.com/1039734764
vimeo.com/1039734764
🦇 I love old pictures of bats and I think I just found my favourite piece of #BatsInArt [Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)]:
December 12, 2024 at 12:15 PM
🦇 I love old pictures of bats and I think I just found my favourite piece of #BatsInArt [Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)]:
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@batconservation.bsky.social BigGive Christmas Challenge campaign 'A lifeline for bats' is now live!
From 3-10 December every donation up to £5,000 made on this page will be DOUBLED: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... .
This means we can raise a minimum of £10,000 for the National Bat Helpline 🦇
From 3-10 December every donation up to £5,000 made on this page will be DOUBLED: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... .
This means we can raise a minimum of £10,000 for the National Bat Helpline 🦇
December 3, 2024 at 12:40 PM
@batconservation.bsky.social BigGive Christmas Challenge campaign 'A lifeline for bats' is now live!
From 3-10 December every donation up to £5,000 made on this page will be DOUBLED: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... .
This means we can raise a minimum of £10,000 for the National Bat Helpline 🦇
From 3-10 December every donation up to £5,000 made on this page will be DOUBLED: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... .
This means we can raise a minimum of £10,000 for the National Bat Helpline 🦇
Really nice new #ecoacoustics paper by my BCT colleague Lia Gilmour about the negative impact of anthropogenic noise and positive impact of natural soundscapes on wellbeing journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Natural soundscapes enhance mood recovery amid anthropogenic noise pollution
In urbanised landscapes, the scarcity of green spaces and increased exposure to anthropogenic noise have adverse effects on health and wellbeing. While reduced speed limits have historically been impl...
journals.plos.org
December 2, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Really nice new #ecoacoustics paper by my BCT colleague Lia Gilmour about the negative impact of anthropogenic noise and positive impact of natural soundscapes on wellbeing journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Kicking off my Bluesky account with a little plug for our new #bioacoustics paper, showing acoustic indices enable us to disciminate between temperate forest types (and bird species composition): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🎤🌲🌳🐦🕊️
Acoustic indices enable the discrimination of temperate forest types and better predict differences in bird species composition than in bird species richness
Acoustic indices have been proposed as a tool to estimate animal biodiversity and abundance, as well as habitat types and vegetation structure. Howeve…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 28, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Kicking off my Bluesky account with a little plug for our new #bioacoustics paper, showing acoustic indices enable us to disciminate between temperate forest types (and bird species composition): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🎤🌲🌳🐦🕊️