Dave A
@batworker.bsky.social
Bat ecologist working in the North of England. Ex Museum Curator. Researching use of caves, mines and lime kilns by bats in the Forest of Bowland and Yorkshire Dales National Park.
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🦇🧪🌎Question the Mark: A Review and Assessment of Bat Marking Practices - Loeb - 2026 - Mammal Review - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Question the Mark: A Review and Assessment of Bat Marking Practices
We reviewed a decade of research on bats and conducted a broader systematic review to assess the nature of bat marking practices and the effects and efficacy of marks. Effects of marks on bats, mark ...
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December 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
🦇🧪🌎Question the Mark: A Review and Assessment of Bat Marking Practices - Loeb - 2026 - Mammal Review - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Time off means time to test out extending the runtime on a PippyG detector…
December 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Time off means time to test out extending the runtime on a PippyG detector…
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30 volunteers covered 199 bat calls over 5,000 square kilometres of Northern England in 2025. I love them all, they respond with enthusiasm and good humour to enable bats to be given a second chance. Merry Christmas and may all bats stay safely tucked up for the New Year. #lovebats #batcare
December 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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🦇There are many different ways to help bats. Either by becoming a member, donating, volunteering, raising funds at no extra cost to you, leaving a gift in your will or simply making your garden/green corner more bat friendly. Find out more here: www.bats.org.uk/support-bats
December 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
🦇There are many different ways to help bats. Either by becoming a member, donating, volunteering, raising funds at no extra cost to you, leaving a gift in your will or simply making your garden/green corner more bat friendly. Find out more here: www.bats.org.uk/support-bats
Still miss getting post like this 🦇
December 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Still miss getting post like this 🦇
When your 🦇 bat research partner delivers an early Christmas present…
December 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
When your 🦇 bat research partner delivers an early Christmas present…
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Batchat 🦇 is a must listen But if you only have a vague interest in 🦇 but are interested in testing science theories start with this one
Batchat 🦇 is a must listen But if you only have a vague interest in 🦇 but are interested in testing science theories start with this one
The Hoffman Kiln: Where Bats Reclaim the Dales
Podcast Episode · BatChat · 03/12/2025 · 45m
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December 13, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Batchat 🦇 is a must listen But if you only have a vague interest in 🦇 but are interested in testing science theories start with this one
Batchat 🦇 is a must listen But if you only have a vague interest in 🦇 but are interested in testing science theories start with this one
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For those of you who have been led to believe that your heterodyne detector's bangs, cracks, slaps and warbles are representative of bat vocalisation - sorry (not sorry) to disappoint. Bats sing. They don't beatbox. Very different things.
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Bats in translation, Mirjam Knörnschild
YouTube video by Interspecies Internet
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December 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
For those of you who have been led to believe that your heterodyne detector's bangs, cracks, slaps and warbles are representative of bat vocalisation - sorry (not sorry) to disappoint. Bats sing. They don't beatbox. Very different things.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z_v...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z_v...
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BTO's Acoustics Pipeline has identified Bush-crickets in ‘bat’ data collected for the Landscape-scale Species Monitoring of Agri-environment Schemes Project & assessed the effects of agri-environment management on these species➡️ www.bto.org/Bush-cricket...
#bioacoustics @naturalengland.bsky.social
#bioacoustics @naturalengland.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
BTO's Acoustics Pipeline has identified Bush-crickets in ‘bat’ data collected for the Landscape-scale Species Monitoring of Agri-environment Schemes Project & assessed the effects of agri-environment management on these species➡️ www.bto.org/Bush-cricket...
#bioacoustics @naturalengland.bsky.social
#bioacoustics @naturalengland.bsky.social
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My talk was about potential overlap of research with dietary metabarcoding of Lesser Horseshoe Bats and entomological research!
If anyone is interested in chatting, please reach out
If anyone is interested in chatting, please reach out
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My talk was about potential overlap of research with dietary metabarcoding of Lesser Horseshoe Bats and entomological research!
If anyone is interested in chatting, please reach out
If anyone is interested in chatting, please reach out
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🦇I case you missed it - a new episode of our podcast, BatChat, is available - The Hoffman Kiln: Where Bats Reclaim the Dales.
North of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales lies the Hoffman Kiln, a relic of the industrial revolution. It's now an important site for bats of the Dales all year round.
North of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales lies the Hoffman Kiln, a relic of the industrial revolution. It's now an important site for bats of the Dales all year round.
December 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
🦇I case you missed it - a new episode of our podcast, BatChat, is available - The Hoffman Kiln: Where Bats Reclaim the Dales.
North of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales lies the Hoffman Kiln, a relic of the industrial revolution. It's now an important site for bats of the Dales all year round.
North of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales lies the Hoffman Kiln, a relic of the industrial revolution. It's now an important site for bats of the Dales all year round.
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🦇A new episode of our podcast, BatChat, is out now - The Hoffman Kiln: Where Bats Reclaim the Dales.
North of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales lies the Hoffman Kiln, a relic of the industrial revolution. It's now an important site for bats of the Dales all year round.
North of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales lies the Hoffman Kiln, a relic of the industrial revolution. It's now an important site for bats of the Dales all year round.
December 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
🦇A new episode of our podcast, BatChat, is out now - The Hoffman Kiln: Where Bats Reclaim the Dales.
North of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales lies the Hoffman Kiln, a relic of the industrial revolution. It's now an important site for bats of the Dales all year round.
North of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales lies the Hoffman Kiln, a relic of the industrial revolution. It's now an important site for bats of the Dales all year round.
Bats, lime kilns, caves, mines, hibernation, autumn swarming and #fieldworkfriday 🦇 in the Yorkshire Dales.
Didn’t realise I’d mentioned your name quite so many times @johnaltringham.bsky.social
Didn’t realise I’d mentioned your name quite so many times @johnaltringham.bsky.social
🦇A new episode of our podcast, BatChat, is out now - The Hoffman Kiln: Where Bats Reclaim the Dales.
North of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales lies the Hoffman Kiln, a relic of the industrial revolution. It's now an important site for bats of the Dales all year round.
North of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales lies the Hoffman Kiln, a relic of the industrial revolution. It's now an important site for bats of the Dales all year round.
December 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Bats, lime kilns, caves, mines, hibernation, autumn swarming and #fieldworkfriday 🦇 in the Yorkshire Dales.
Didn’t realise I’d mentioned your name quite so many times @johnaltringham.bsky.social
Didn’t realise I’d mentioned your name quite so many times @johnaltringham.bsky.social
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Our new paper in PNAS, led by Megan Power: a large-scale study of telomere shortening in relation to reproductive costs in bats. Photo of one of the greater horseshoe bats we studied at Woodchester mansion by Hetty Metcalfe.
December 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Our new paper in PNAS, led by Megan Power: a large-scale study of telomere shortening in relation to reproductive costs in bats. Photo of one of the greater horseshoe bats we studied at Woodchester mansion by Hetty Metcalfe.
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🦇 Bat box scheme in old quarry phenomenally successful for pipistrelle sp. and has also attracted occasional long-eared bats. But yesterday we all did happy dances when we found a Noctule bat in a "small hollow" box, 4.5m up beech tree, good flight lines. #lovebats #greenwoodsecohabitats
December 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
🦇 Bat box scheme in old quarry phenomenally successful for pipistrelle sp. and has also attracted occasional long-eared bats. But yesterday we all did happy dances when we found a Noctule bat in a "small hollow" box, 4.5m up beech tree, good flight lines. #lovebats #greenwoodsecohabitats
Fancy having a leadmine in your back garden. Glad we’ve been allowed access to monitor the bats 🦇 hibernating in it…
November 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Fancy having a leadmine in your back garden. Glad we’ve been allowed access to monitor the bats 🦇 hibernating in it…
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A shameful step back for nature as UK Government pushes through damaging Planning and Infrastructure Bill - @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social www.wildlifetrusts.org/blog/public-...
A shameful step back for nature as UK Government pushes through damaging Planning and Infrastructure Bill | The Wildlife Trusts
Despite valiant efforts by nature champions in the House of Lords, last night saw the Government bulldoze the wildlife-harming Planning & Infrastructure Bill through its last remaining hurdles. Matt B...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
A shameful step back for nature as UK Government pushes through damaging Planning and Infrastructure Bill - @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social www.wildlifetrusts.org/blog/public-...
Really interesting paper here on mating in Greater Mouse Eared bats 🦇, theres a lot of similarity with what we’re observing with Natterer’s bats. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Mating system and copulatory behavior of the greater mouse‐eared bat (Myotis myotis)
PDF | Mammalian mating systems, which form the cornerstone of social systems, are shaped by diverse ecological and sociobiological factors, and they... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Really interesting paper here on mating in Greater Mouse Eared bats 🦇, theres a lot of similarity with what we’re observing with Natterer’s bats. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Massive influx of Natterer’s bats at valley level marks the official start of hibernation season (last week they were still swarming). And the cherry on top was the return of Z0266, a bat ringed as an adult in 2005. That makes four 21+ year old 🦇 still turning up ( @johnaltringham.bsky.social )
November 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Massive influx of Natterer’s bats at valley level marks the official start of hibernation season (last week they were still swarming). And the cherry on top was the return of Z0266, a bat ringed as an adult in 2005. That makes four 21+ year old 🦇 still turning up ( @johnaltringham.bsky.social )
‘Winter arrives on the wings of a Brown Long Eared bat’ While the Brandt’s bats 🦇 have been underground since early September, it always takes a sub zero snap to push the Long Eareds into hibernation. #bats #chiroptera #research #conservation #ecology
November 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
‘Winter arrives on the wings of a Brown Long Eared bat’ While the Brandt’s bats 🦇 have been underground since early September, it always takes a sub zero snap to push the Long Eareds into hibernation. #bats #chiroptera #research #conservation #ecology
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New OA 🦇 research 📄
Behavioural shifts of bats during urban music festivals
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Behavioural shifts of bats during urban music festivals
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Behavioural shifts of bats during urban music festivals
We investigated how large outdoor music festivals affect bat activity in an urban green spaces. Although total nightly activity did not decline on concert nights, we showed activity during concert ho...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
New OA 🦇 research 📄
Behavioural shifts of bats during urban music festivals
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Behavioural shifts of bats during urban music festivals
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Final call: our online lecture on bat foraging is happening tonight, 6:30 to 7:30pm! Join Dr Iroro Tanshi, @irorotanshi.bsky.social, as she explores how bats find food in the dark and how different species share foraging space across the Gulf of Guinea forests. See you soon!
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November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Final call: our online lecture on bat foraging is happening tonight, 6:30 to 7:30pm! Join Dr Iroro Tanshi, @irorotanshi.bsky.social, as she explores how bats find food in the dark and how different species share foraging space across the Gulf of Guinea forests. See you soon!
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Scientists pinpoint single gene responsible for initiating winter behaviour of mammals @uofglasgow.bsky.social
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Scientists pinpoint single gene responsible for initiating winter behaviour of mammals
As the days continue to get shorter scientists have made a significant step in understanding exactly what makes mammals exhibit seasonal behaviours like hibernation and migration
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November 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Scientists pinpoint single gene responsible for initiating winter behaviour of mammals @uofglasgow.bsky.social
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Come to do a PhD with me, @bfraser.bsky.social and
@batconservation.bsky.social at the University of Exeter on using genomics to understand bat population declines under global environmental change 🦇🧬🌍🌐🧪
Application deadline 8 January 2026 ⚠️⚠️⚠️
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@batconservation.bsky.social at the University of Exeter on using genomics to understand bat population declines under global environmental change 🦇🧬🌍🌐🧪
Application deadline 8 January 2026 ⚠️⚠️⚠️
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Applying genomic approaches to understand bat population declines. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry at University of Exeter on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Applying genomic approaches to understand bat population declines. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry at University of Exeter, listed on FindAPhD.com
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November 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Come to do a PhD with me, @bfraser.bsky.social and
@batconservation.bsky.social at the University of Exeter on using genomics to understand bat population declines under global environmental change 🦇🧬🌍🌐🧪
Application deadline 8 January 2026 ⚠️⚠️⚠️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
@batconservation.bsky.social at the University of Exeter on using genomics to understand bat population declines under global environmental change 🦇🧬🌍🌐🧪
Application deadline 8 January 2026 ⚠️⚠️⚠️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...