Teague O'Mara
@teagueo.bsky.social
Building evidence to show that bat conservation works. Where do animals go, how do they get there, and what does it tell us about their lives.
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Briefly putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social President: The ASN Council has just distributed an updated message to the American Society of Naturalists members with information about actions that can be undertaken to advocate for science, and scientists, within the US:
February 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Briefly putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social President: The ASN Council has just distributed an updated message to the American Society of Naturalists members with information about actions that can be undertaken to advocate for science, and scientists, within the US:
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If you are considering downloading DeepSeek, please read this first and share with others
You don’t owner your data. They keep it even if you delete and worse ..
You don’t owner your data. They keep it even if you delete and worse ..
You should read DeepSeek terms and conditions before you download the app:
-DeepSeek retains user data even after account is deleted
-The app has the right to monitor and process user inputs and outputs, including the collection of sensitive or strategic information.1/
-DeepSeek retains user data even after account is deleted
-The app has the right to monitor and process user inputs and outputs, including the collection of sensitive or strategic information.1/
January 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
If you are considering downloading DeepSeek, please read this first and share with others
You don’t owner your data. They keep it even if you delete and worse ..
You don’t owner your data. They keep it even if you delete and worse ..
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For those who don't get the joke: Trump kindly asked Google Maps to rename the Gulf of Mexico. It shall soon be known as the Gulf of America. The US is now classified as a ‘sensitive country’ alongside China and Russia in Google.
January 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
For those who don't get the joke: Trump kindly asked Google Maps to rename the Gulf of Mexico. It shall soon be known as the Gulf of America. The US is now classified as a ‘sensitive country’ alongside China and Russia in Google.
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Want to tilt and stack your #maps in #rstats?
install.packages("layer") works again!
Thank you so much @egorkotov.bsky.social for reviving our layer 📦
#rspatial #mapping #dataviz
install.packages("layer") works again!
Thank you so much @egorkotov.bsky.social for reviving our layer 📦
#rspatial #mapping #dataviz
🌐 #layer #rstats package for tilting your map layers is back on 🚀 CRAN! get it now marcosci.github.io/layer/ cran.r-project.org/package=layer
January 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Looks like the following programs in #NSF BIO have been 'archived':
BRC-BIO - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
BIO-LEAPS - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
PRFB - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
BRC-BIO - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
BIO-LEAPS - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
PRFB - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology (BRC-BIO)
new.nsf.gov
January 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Looks like the following programs in #NSF BIO have been 'archived':
BRC-BIO - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
BIO-LEAPS - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
PRFB - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
BRC-BIO - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
BIO-LEAPS - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
PRFB - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Learn about the hands and hearts that make bat conservation possible in Kenya. 🦇 news.batcon.org/4084SaD
Resilient Roosts: Community is the Heart of Bat Conservation in Coastal Kenya - Bat Conservation International
Many of Africa’s bat species rely on ancient caves for shelter and reproduction.
news.batcon.org
January 24, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Learn about the hands and hearts that make bat conservation possible in Kenya. 🦇 news.batcon.org/4084SaD
Taxon-targeted conservation has broad reaching effects and directly connects to GBF and UNSDG targets: lnkd.in/gteGyVpt
The interconnectedness of conservation efforts within socioenvironmental systems ultimately creates additional co-benefits across the social, ecological, and economic sectors.
The interconnectedness of conservation efforts within socioenvironmental systems ultimately creates additional co-benefits across the social, ecological, and economic sectors.
January 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Taxon-targeted conservation has broad reaching effects and directly connects to GBF and UNSDG targets: lnkd.in/gteGyVpt
The interconnectedness of conservation efforts within socioenvironmental systems ultimately creates additional co-benefits across the social, ecological, and economic sectors.
The interconnectedness of conservation efforts within socioenvironmental systems ultimately creates additional co-benefits across the social, ecological, and economic sectors.
Please Donate: gofund.me/9655fb6f
Two of the greatest people (and 3 cats) in the world have now lost not one, but two houses to fires in California.
And yeah, these two ladies are not who you want standing with you at a craps table. Their luck is terrible!
Two of the greatest people (and 3 cats) in the world have now lost not one, but two houses to fires in California.
And yeah, these two ladies are not who you want standing with you at a craps table. Their luck is terrible!
Donate to Kristi and Stephanie - fire loss recovery, round 2!, organized by Stephanie Meredith
Double whammy! Don't take us gambling!
Many of you kno… Stephanie Meredith needs your support for Kristi and Stephanie - fire loss recovery, round 2!
gofund.me
January 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Please Donate: gofund.me/9655fb6f
Two of the greatest people (and 3 cats) in the world have now lost not one, but two houses to fires in California.
And yeah, these two ladies are not who you want standing with you at a craps table. Their luck is terrible!
Two of the greatest people (and 3 cats) in the world have now lost not one, but two houses to fires in California.
And yeah, these two ladies are not who you want standing with you at a craps table. Their luck is terrible!
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i'm excited to finally see this out in mSphere. we worked with @teagueo.bsky.social and @batconintl.bsky.social to characterize novel blood bacteria of Mexican free-tailed bats in the US and showcase seasonal infection in our longitudinally sampled Oklahoma colony.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
December 11, 2024 at 2:16 PM
i'm excited to finally see this out in mSphere. we worked with @teagueo.bsky.social and @batconintl.bsky.social to characterize novel blood bacteria of Mexican free-tailed bats in the US and showcase seasonal infection in our longitudinally sampled Oklahoma colony.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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December 11, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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⚠️ Only two days left ⚠️ to apply for 👇 PhD position with @btschirren.bsky.social on autoimmune disease in wild rodent populations @uniexecec.bsky.social
SWBio-funded PhD position on
Autoimmunity gone wild: understanding the interactive effects of environmental stress and genetic risk in the development of autoimmune disease in a wild rodent 🐭🦠
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
at Exeter #ExeterCEC. Open to everyone.
#EcoEvo
#WildlifeDisease
#PhD
Autoimmunity gone wild: understanding the interactive effects of environmental stress and genetic risk in the development of autoimmune disease in a wild rodent 🐭🦠
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
at Exeter #ExeterCEC. Open to everyone.
#EcoEvo
#WildlifeDisease
#PhD
December 9, 2024 at 12:40 PM
⚠️ Only two days left ⚠️ to apply for 👇 PhD position with @btschirren.bsky.social on autoimmune disease in wild rodent populations @uniexecec.bsky.social
Javi's work is the best and I've been so lucky to work with him on a number of projects (including Bat Island: geni.us/BatIsland)
Foraging partition of rainforest in bats and correspondent wings shapes. Illustration for the book "Bat Island" by Page, Dechmann O'Mara and Tschapka. Details in ALT text. @teagueo.bsky.social #SciArt #mammals 🦇
December 10, 2024 at 11:09 AM
Javi's work is the best and I've been so lucky to work with him on a number of projects (including Bat Island: geni.us/BatIsland)
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Great paper surveying practices around occupancy modeling in ecology doi.org/10.1111/ecog... from @ben-r-goldstein.bsky.social & co. Not a flattering view -- from data collection to statistical methods to peer review we're falling short, but many actionable suggestions here!
How do ecologists estimate occupancy in practice?
Over 20 years ago, ecologists were introduced to the site occupancy model (SOM) for estimating occupancy rates from detection-nondetection data. In the ensuing decades, the SOM and its hierarchical m....
doi.org
December 5, 2024 at 4:46 AM
Great paper surveying practices around occupancy modeling in ecology doi.org/10.1111/ecog... from @ben-r-goldstein.bsky.social & co. Not a flattering view -- from data collection to statistical methods to peer review we're falling short, but many actionable suggestions here!
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Talvehtivat kimalaiskuningattaret ( #Bombus #impatiens ) selviävät veden alla hengissä päiväkausia (havaittiin laboratoriossa, kun jääkaapissa, jossa kimalaiset talvehtivat tapahtui vesivahinko)
www.sciencenews.org/article/hibe... #kimalaiset
www.sciencenews.org/article/hibe... #kimalaiset
Hibernating bumblebee queens surprisingly can survive underwater for days
After some bumblebee queens were accidentally submerged in water and survived, researchers found them to be surprisingly tolerant of flooding.
www.sciencenews.org
December 7, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Talvehtivat kimalaiskuningattaret ( #Bombus #impatiens ) selviävät veden alla hengissä päiväkausia (havaittiin laboratoriossa, kun jääkaapissa, jossa kimalaiset talvehtivat tapahtui vesivahinko)
www.sciencenews.org/article/hibe... #kimalaiset
www.sciencenews.org/article/hibe... #kimalaiset
This took some time, but what a bat, what a social org, and what an amazing team of collaborators! @animaltracking.bsky.social
Consistent long-distance foraging flights across years and seasons at colony level in a neotropical bat: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Consistent long-distance foraging flights across years and seasons at colony level in a neotropical bat: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
December 4, 2024 at 4:17 PM
This took some time, but what a bat, what a social org, and what an amazing team of collaborators! @animaltracking.bsky.social
Consistent long-distance foraging flights across years and seasons at colony level in a neotropical bat: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Consistent long-distance foraging flights across years and seasons at colony level in a neotropical bat: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Keep it up y'all
Some impressive numbers in this thread
Let's talk numbers: To date, since Oct 25th, we have found 395,000 Bluesky posts that link to a research paper or other research object that has a scholarly identifier like a DOI, PubMed ID, URN etc
This is enormously high for a platform that has only been open since Feb to general sign-ups.
This is enormously high for a platform that has only been open since Feb to general sign-ups.
December 3, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Keep it up y'all
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Got a Researchgate notification that our paper on counting fruit bats in Zambia was cited in a study of UFOs. That's a first!
@teagueo.bsky.social
@teagueo.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 9:51 AM
Got a Researchgate notification that our paper on counting fruit bats in Zambia was cited in a study of UFOs. That's a first!
@teagueo.bsky.social
@teagueo.bsky.social
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Absolutely huge news for amphibian conservation. The lethal fungus Bd has been causing huge and steady declines in frogs over the last decades, so seeing resistant populations establishing post-reintroduction is really fantastic.
🧪 🐸 🌎
🧪 🐸 🌎
What an awesome paper. Hope!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reintroduction of resistant frogs facilitates landscape-scale recovery in the presence of a lethal fungal disease - Nature Communications
The pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) has devastated amphibian biodiversity, and methods to reverse these impacts are lacking. This study shows that frogs collected from recovering populati...
www.nature.com
November 16, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Absolutely huge news for amphibian conservation. The lethal fungus Bd has been causing huge and steady declines in frogs over the last decades, so seeing resistant populations establishing post-reintroduction is really fantastic.
🧪 🐸 🌎
🧪 🐸 🌎
Join us! BCI is looking for a new Research Scientist to identify diet and critical foraging habitat for bats affected by White-nose Syndrome (WNS) in Pennsylvania, working with the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Applications close March 1. 1.adp.com/oX5yTjS6c2k
February 15, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Join us! BCI is looking for a new Research Scientist to identify diet and critical foraging habitat for bats affected by White-nose Syndrome (WNS) in Pennsylvania, working with the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Applications close March 1. 1.adp.com/oX5yTjS6c2k
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My Nonprofit Field Inclusive is happy to offer THREE $500 Research Grants for 2024! Two research grants are available for any natural science research, while one is available only for climate-focused research.
Learn more and apply: www.fieldinclusive.org/research-gra...
Plz share w/ your networks.
Learn more and apply: www.fieldinclusive.org/research-gra...
Plz share w/ your networks.
October 18, 2023 at 1:39 PM
My Nonprofit Field Inclusive is happy to offer THREE $500 Research Grants for 2024! Two research grants are available for any natural science research, while one is available only for climate-focused research.
Learn more and apply: www.fieldinclusive.org/research-gra...
Plz share w/ your networks.
Learn more and apply: www.fieldinclusive.org/research-gra...
Plz share w/ your networks.