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Baheerathan
@baheerathanm.bsky.social
Postdoc at IISER Mohali | PhD from IISER Thiruvananthapuram|🍌🦇Pteropodids| SensoryEcology👀👃| Movement Ecology 🐦🦇

📍Mohali, Punjab 🇮🇳
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Anyone looking for a PhD in jumping spider neurophysiology and neuroethology, look no further! Massimo is a close friend and awesome collaborator, who would be an incredible mentor 🥰 Apply by 17th December!
🚨 Uh-oh!!! A suuuper hot #PhD opportunity just dropped! My friend and collaborator Massimo De Agrò is looking for someone to explore jumping spider vision and neurophysiology! #psychophysics #jumpingspiders #greatPI - apply!!!! (Deadline December 17th) 🚨
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Our new paper is now in BioRxiv ☺️
See how the auditory cortex encodes vocalizations before the bat produces them 📣🦇🧠

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

with @talking-bat.bsky.social and Dennis Röhrig!
Neurons in the bat auditory cortex encode class and complexity of future vocalizations
Vocal production is a complex behavior across the animal kingdom that relies on coordinated motor and auditory networks. However, the contribution of sensory areas in vocal control remains poorly unde...
www.biorxiv.org
October 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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In our new paper, we provide a tool (datasets, model and codes) to help identify vulture feeding hotspots, supporting efforts to combat scavenger poisoning.

#ornithology #RaptorResearch 🧪🌍
@jappliedecology.bsky.social

Read it here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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📰Published📰Pollen essential amino acids shape bat–flower interaction networks🦇

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Pollen essential amino acids shape bat–flower interaction networks
Fernando Gonçalves, Andréa Cardoso Araujo, Carine Emer, Maria Ligia Rodrigues Macedo, Erich Fischer This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here…
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September 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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In her review, Laura Stidsholt @bioacousticsau.bsky.social discusses how bat-borne acoustic devices are changing echolocation research in wild #bats by recording sensory & foraging behaviour across different species, habitats & levels of disturbance

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
September 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
If you are at the Behaviour 2025: XXXVIII International Ethological Congress, don't miss my poster on studying the movement ecology of Jungle babblers using both manual and telemetry methods! #behaviour2025
@behaviour2025.bsky.social

#Movementecology
August 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
More fruit bat action awaiting @ibrc2025.bsky.social If you are curious to see how bats can literally grab a bite, don't miss this speed talk
August 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Rajesh Puttaswamaiah 🇮🇳 talks about radio 📻 tracking endangered Hippposideros hypophyllus bats 🦇 using scooters 🛵 in forestry 🌲 and agriculture 🧑‍🌾 land. It showed him that bats preferred 🥭 plantation but more study needed @ibrc2025.bsky.social #ibrc2025
August 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
If you are attending @ibrc2025.bsky.social and are interested in seed dispersal by bats in the Asia Pacific region, don't miss this talk

#IBRC2025
August 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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We are looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) who wants to study neural mechanisms of spatial memory in honeybees.

This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees.

Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025.

More details:
www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...
Postdoctoral Position (f/m/d) at the Chair of Behavioral Physiology & Sociobiology
Biocenter of the University of Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg
www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de
August 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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How bats developed their wings? 🦇

Turns out they reutilize existing gene programs 🔧

Find out more in our paper @natecoevo.nature.com in collaboration with @fany-real.bsky.social and @stemundi.bsky.social labs

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Comparative single-cell analyses reveal evolutionary repurposing of a conserved gene programme in bat wing development - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Single-cell comparison of developing bat and mouse limbs reveals conservation of cell populations and gene expression patterns, and suggests repurposing of genes involved in proximal limb development ...
www.nature.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Electric vehicles (EVs) are quiet alternates decarbonising transport but are EVs quiet for urban wildlife? With🦇s as a model,we Manjari Jain & @olindecke.bsky.social review the impacts of noise acoustics & explore its implications for a future dominated by EVs
👇🔌🚗📢🏙️🦇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Sounds of silence: electric mobility promises a quieter soundscape for wildlife, but may challenge ultrasonically sensitive species globally
Expanding transportation networks generate anthropogenic noise, a stressor for wildlife. The rapid transition to electric mobility, with projections of 40-45 million new electric vehicles (EVs) annual...
www.biorxiv.org
July 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Happy to attend and present 🦇s at the Indian Conservation Conference 2025. Wonderful ambience with deep insights on Wildlife conservation in India.

If you want to know more about how "Bats handle the noisy world" visit the Auditorium by noon tomorrow!

#ICCON2025
#WII #Conservation
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June 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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🚨 #PhD #Opportunity

We will be hiring a PhD student. #LZCI

More information about our work here: banerjeelab.ca

Interested candidates: apply using the email information on our webpage. Send:
(1) resume
(2) a one page letter of motivation to join the Banerjee Lab

Please repost. #LoveVirology
Laboratory of Zoonotic Viruses and Comparative Immunology
banerjeelab.ca
June 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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JEB has been hosting its Symposium for almost 50 years & this year, as part of @biologists.bsky.social 100th Anniversary #biologists100, the symposium, 'Sensory perception in a changing world', was open to anyone at the Biologists @ 100 meeting. Find out more
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
June 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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🚨 Nipah virus poses a future #pandemic risk. New cases in Kerala, India further highlight the need for a One Health approach. Read more in our recent interdisciplinary and multi-institutional collaborative article now published in @NatureMicrobiology #LZCI : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A One Health approach to understanding and managing Nipah virus outbreaks - Nature Microbiology
In this Perspective, Yadav et al. discuss NiV outbreaks, transmission cycles and the role of reservoir and bridging hosts. They also discuss a One Health approach to mitigate the risks of NiV epidemic...
www.nature.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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🎉Bat Conservation Win 🎉
Livingstone’s fruit bat (𝘗𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘪) has been officially downlisted from Critically Endangered to Endangered by the IUCN!
May 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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A collaborative work with @morceglo and G. McCracken; T. tricolor is an incredible system that helps us shed some light on 🦇 anti-predator defenses and how acoustic signal recognition mediates a trade-off between predator avoidance and social communication with ecological and social implications.
May 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Bats rely on social calls to stay together but what happens when predator recognition disrupts them? New research found that bats ceased social communication which could impact sociality and disrupt group cohesion: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #BiologyLetters #ethology
May 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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The ontogeny of decision-making in an eavesdropping predator: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #ProcB #cognition #ethology
May 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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@susannebabl.bsky.social et al. review the mechanisms and circuits of vocal production in echolocating 🦇. @talking-bat.bsky.social

www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
www.preprints.org
May 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Last chance to get your abstracts in for the 20th International Bat Research Conference (IBRC) in Australia in August!

It's shaping up to be an exciting program, in an incredible world heritage location, with diverse workshops and field trips.

Abstracts due this Wednesday 14th May!!

www.ibrc.org
May 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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IBRC abstract submission deadline extended until 14 May 2025!
Submit your abstracts here:
www.ibrc.org/call-for-abs...
#ibrc2025 #bats #batresearch
April 30, 2025 at 4:25 AM