Ilias Foskolos
@theclickitclick.bsky.social
Greco, MSCA fellow at @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social of @stanford.edu / also at @bioacousticsau.bsky.social of @au.dk
Interested in #zoology #bioacoustics #biologging #cetaceans #bats
Interested in #zoology #bioacoustics #biologging #cetaceans #bats
Pinned
Bats Catch Migratory Birds and Eat Them in Midair
www.nytimes.com
Check out also the feature of our latest paper in @nytimes.com 🦇
#greaternoctulebats #bats #passerines #spain #zoology #ethology #biologging #bioacoustics #sciencejournal
#greaternoctulebats #bats #passerines #spain #zoology #ethology #biologging #bioacoustics #sciencejournal
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No, they really haven't. Calling spectral peaks vowels is as inane as saying that because my washing up gloves are also yellow, they have the same nutritional content as a banana. Zero evidence of vowel-like function. It's pure clickbait, and a new low in irresponsible claims from this group 🙄🐳🦑🧪
CETI scientists have discovered vowel and diphthong-like patterns in sperm whale communication! Read: bit.ly/3WSn9rc
By: @begus.bsky.social, Ronald Sprouse, Andrej Leban, Miles Silva & Shane Gero.
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, @umich.edu, @carleton.ca, @csail.mit.edu
Animation: Meghan Fenske
By: @begus.bsky.social, Ronald Sprouse, Andrej Leban, Miles Silva & Shane Gero.
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, @umich.edu, @carleton.ca, @csail.mit.edu
Animation: Meghan Fenske
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
No, they really haven't. Calling spectral peaks vowels is as inane as saying that because my washing up gloves are also yellow, they have the same nutritional content as a banana. Zero evidence of vowel-like function. It's pure clickbait, and a new low in irresponsible claims from this group 🙄🐳🦑🧪
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The remarkably long lifespan of bowhead whales could be due to an increased ability to repair DNA mutations, according to research in Nature. go.nature.com/4hzvDN7 🌏 🧪
October 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The remarkably long lifespan of bowhead whales could be due to an increased ability to repair DNA mutations, according to research in Nature. go.nature.com/4hzvDN7 🌏 🧪
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Bats use their echolocation abilities to find prey, but also to find each other and avoid obstacles. Iturralde-Pólit &co show that the warm, dry air that comes with climate change, alters these calls, potentially costing the bats more energy to make them
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
October 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Bats use their echolocation abilities to find prey, but also to find each other and avoid obstacles. Iturralde-Pólit &co show that the warm, dry air that comes with climate change, alters these calls, potentially costing the bats more energy to make them
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Check out also the feature of our latest paper in @nytimes.com 🦇
#greaternoctulebats #bats #passerines #spain #zoology #ethology #biologging #bioacoustics #sciencejournal
#greaternoctulebats #bats #passerines #spain #zoology #ethology #biologging #bioacoustics #sciencejournal
Bats Catch Migratory Birds and Eat Them in Midair
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Check out also the feature of our latest paper in @nytimes.com 🦇
#greaternoctulebats #bats #passerines #spain #zoology #ethology #biologging #bioacoustics #sciencejournal
#greaternoctulebats #bats #passerines #spain #zoology #ethology #biologging #bioacoustics #sciencejournal
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EXTREMELY COOL BAT STUFF: A study out in Science today found that the greater noctule bat, Europe's largest, hunts and catches *migrating birds* while in flight. In at least one case, a bat climbed to more than 1200 feet, then chased a robin downward FAST until it caught it near the ground.
Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight
Despite billions of passerines seasonally migrating during the night at high altitudes, only three bat species have been found to consistently tap into this rich prey resource. However, it remains unk...
www.science.org
October 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
EXTREMELY COOL BAT STUFF: A study out in Science today found that the greater noctule bat, Europe's largest, hunts and catches *migrating birds* while in flight. In at least one case, a bat climbed to more than 1200 feet, then chased a robin downward FAST until it caught it near the ground.
Check out our new paper in @science.org on how greater noctule bats 🦇 hunt passerines 🐦 on the wing #greaternoctulebats #bats #passerines #spain #zoology #ethology #biologging #bioacoustics #sciencejournal
🦇 For the first time, researchers have documented how Europe’s largest bat — the greater noctule — hunts and eats migrating birds in midair.
Study led by @ebdonana.bsky.social and @au.dk
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Study led by @ebdonana.bsky.social and @au.dk
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 11, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Check out our new paper in @science.org on how greater noctule bats 🦇 hunt passerines 🐦 on the wing #greaternoctulebats #bats #passerines #spain #zoology #ethology #biologging #bioacoustics #sciencejournal
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New paper led by @seaprinceaaron.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social looking at the threats deep sea mining poses for sharks, rays, and chimaeras. We found 30 species are threatened via various pathways including collector impact and plumes at depth and pelagic discharge plumes.
October 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
New paper led by @seaprinceaaron.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social looking at the threats deep sea mining poses for sharks, rays, and chimaeras. We found 30 species are threatened via various pathways including collector impact and plumes at depth and pelagic discharge plumes.
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This list can really assist peers in avoiding predatory publishers:
www.predatoryjournals.org @predatoryjournals.org
I have been receiving plenty of generic emails to join editorial boards in MDPI and Frontiers. At exactly the same time, friends receive the same generic emails..
www.predatoryjournals.org @predatoryjournals.org
I have been receiving plenty of generic emails to join editorial boards in MDPI and Frontiers. At exactly the same time, friends receive the same generic emails..
LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
lnkd.in
October 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
This list can really assist peers in avoiding predatory publishers:
www.predatoryjournals.org @predatoryjournals.org
I have been receiving plenty of generic emails to join editorial boards in MDPI and Frontiers. At exactly the same time, friends receive the same generic emails..
www.predatoryjournals.org @predatoryjournals.org
I have been receiving plenty of generic emails to join editorial boards in MDPI and Frontiers. At exactly the same time, friends receive the same generic emails..
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Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative
go.nature.com/4nrEvqg
go.nature.com/4nrEvqg
Rookie scientists make research teams more innovative
Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, study shows.
go.nature.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative
go.nature.com/4nrEvqg
go.nature.com/4nrEvqg
Check out also the press-release of our latest paper in @consletters.bsky.social:
#hector'sdolphins #toothedwhales #newzealand #aotearoa #zoology #biologging #bioacoustics #conservation
#hector'sdolphins #toothedwhales #newzealand #aotearoa #zoology #biologging #bioacoustics #conservation
Hidden world of Hector's dolphin: watch, listen - The University of Auckland
Tracking devices enable scientists to reconstruct the underwater life of the Hector's dolphin.
www.auckland.ac.nz
September 20, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Check out also the press-release of our latest paper in @consletters.bsky.social:
#hector'sdolphins #toothedwhales #newzealand #aotearoa #zoology #biologging #bioacoustics #conservation
#hector'sdolphins #toothedwhales #newzealand #aotearoa #zoology #biologging #bioacoustics #conservation
Can Hector's dolphins 🐬 behave in ways that expose them in a higher bycatch risk?
@consletters.bsky.social @rconstantine.bsky.social
@aucklanduni.bsky.social @docgovtnz.bsky.social
#hector'sdolphins #toothedwhales #newzealand #aotearoa #zoology #biologging #bioacoustics #conservation
@consletters.bsky.social @rconstantine.bsky.social
@aucklanduni.bsky.social @docgovtnz.bsky.social
#hector'sdolphins #toothedwhales #newzealand #aotearoa #zoology #biologging #bioacoustics #conservation
Subsurface Behaviors of Hector's Dolphins Could Increase Their Risk of Bycatch
Hector's dolphins, endemic to New Zealand, suffer from bycatch in fishing gear. Fishing restrictions in inshore areas have reduced bycatch, although dolphins have been recorded outside these areas. W....
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Can Hector's dolphins 🐬 behave in ways that expose them in a higher bycatch risk?
@consletters.bsky.social @rconstantine.bsky.social
@aucklanduni.bsky.social @docgovtnz.bsky.social
#hector'sdolphins #toothedwhales #newzealand #aotearoa #zoology #biologging #bioacoustics #conservation
@consletters.bsky.social @rconstantine.bsky.social
@aucklanduni.bsky.social @docgovtnz.bsky.social
#hector'sdolphins #toothedwhales #newzealand #aotearoa #zoology #biologging #bioacoustics #conservation
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Oxford Biology is growing 📢
We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology
3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3
We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology
3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3
September 15, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Oxford Biology is growing 📢
We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology
3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3
We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology
3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3
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Our recent study in the #MarineEcologyProgressSeries
highlights how body size, condition, and human impacts shape the survival of right whales & why they are so vulnerable to prey limitation and disturbance 🐋
🔗 in thread
#Conservation #WhaleResearch #RightWhales #OceanHealth #MarineScience 🌐🌏🧪🌱
highlights how body size, condition, and human impacts shape the survival of right whales & why they are so vulnerable to prey limitation and disturbance 🐋
🔗 in thread
#Conservation #WhaleResearch #RightWhales #OceanHealth #MarineScience 🌐🌏🧪🌱
September 8, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Our recent study in the #MarineEcologyProgressSeries
highlights how body size, condition, and human impacts shape the survival of right whales & why they are so vulnerable to prey limitation and disturbance 🐋
🔗 in thread
#Conservation #WhaleResearch #RightWhales #OceanHealth #MarineScience 🌐🌏🧪🌱
highlights how body size, condition, and human impacts shape the survival of right whales & why they are so vulnerable to prey limitation and disturbance 🐋
🔗 in thread
#Conservation #WhaleResearch #RightWhales #OceanHealth #MarineScience 🌐🌏🧪🌱
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“The scandal has also pulled back the curtain to reveal how power in Greece operates.”
It’s not often an accurate description of Greece appears in the international media. Thank you, @alexclapp.bsky.social.
It’s not often an accurate description of Greece appears in the international media. Thank you, @alexclapp.bsky.social.
It’s the big fat Greek farming scandal – devised by the political elite and paid for by ordinary people | Alexander Clapp
A massive EU subsidy scandal has pulled back the curtain to reveal how power operates in Greece, says journalist Alexander Clapp
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
“The scandal has also pulled back the curtain to reveal how power in Greece operates.”
It’s not often an accurate description of Greece appears in the international media. Thank you, @alexclapp.bsky.social.
It’s not often an accurate description of Greece appears in the international media. Thank you, @alexclapp.bsky.social.
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A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
go.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
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Issue 16 has closed & issue 17 is open
journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...
The front cover by Kaloyana Koseva shows a bag hanging from its feet with forelimbs down. Laura Stidsholt reviews how bat-borne devices are revolutionising research into bat echolocation & behaviour
journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...
The front cover by Kaloyana Koseva shows a bag hanging from its feet with forelimbs down. Laura Stidsholt reviews how bat-borne devices are revolutionising research into bat echolocation & behaviour
September 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Issue 16 has closed & issue 17 is open
journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...
The front cover by Kaloyana Koseva shows a bag hanging from its feet with forelimbs down. Laura Stidsholt reviews how bat-borne devices are revolutionising research into bat echolocation & behaviour
journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...
The front cover by Kaloyana Koseva shows a bag hanging from its feet with forelimbs down. Laura Stidsholt reviews how bat-borne devices are revolutionising research into bat echolocation & behaviour
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Μετά απο μια δεκαετή προσπάθεια, οι ψαράδες της Αμοργού επιτέλους πέτυχαν αυτό που ζητούσαν: να τεθούν χρονικοί και χωρικοί περιορισμοί στην αλιεία στο νησί. Η απόφαση μετατρέπει την Αμοργό σε παράδειγμα για το Αιγαίο και τη Μεσόγειο- αρκεί να εφαρμοστεί σωστά.
Η Αμοργός βάζει φρένο στο ψάρεμα για πέντε χρόνια
Η πρωτοβουλία ανήκει στους αλιείς του νησιού, οι οποίοι επιθυμούν να τεθούν περιορισμοί για να ανακάμψουν οι πληθυσμοί των ψαριών – Κρίσιμη η περιφρούρηση.
www.kathimerini.gr
August 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Μετά απο μια δεκαετή προσπάθεια, οι ψαράδες της Αμοργού επιτέλους πέτυχαν αυτό που ζητούσαν: να τεθούν χρονικοί και χωρικοί περιορισμοί στην αλιεία στο νησί. Η απόφαση μετατρέπει την Αμοργό σε παράδειγμα για το Αιγαίο και τη Μεσόγειο- αρκεί να εφαρμοστεί σωστά.
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Hahaha, I love this photo of a snake nerd researcher from the Phoenix Herpetological Society using a fake leg to step on rattlesnakes & see how likely they are to bite. He "stepped" on 175 of them, and was bitten by only SIX. Snakes desperately want to just get away! 🐍🧪
www.npr.org/2024/05/17/1...
www.npr.org/2024/05/17/1...
August 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Hahaha, I love this photo of a snake nerd researcher from the Phoenix Herpetological Society using a fake leg to step on rattlesnakes & see how likely they are to bite. He "stepped" on 175 of them, and was bitten by only SIX. Snakes desperately want to just get away! 🐍🧪
www.npr.org/2024/05/17/1...
www.npr.org/2024/05/17/1...
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Breaking News 🚨: Our #bioacoustics 🔉🐬🦇lab seeks a permanent new colleague in a tenure-track assistant professor 🥷position. Excited? Then join our vibrant group of 15 researchers, postdocs and PhD students at AU who work with #marinemammal #acoustics, #conservation #physiology and #effectsofnoise!
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Bioacoustic Physiology - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Biologi - Zoofysiologi, Aarhus Universitet
www.au.dk
August 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Breaking News 🚨: Our #bioacoustics 🔉🐬🦇lab seeks a permanent new colleague in a tenure-track assistant professor 🥷position. Excited? Then join our vibrant group of 15 researchers, postdocs and PhD students at AU who work with #marinemammal #acoustics, #conservation #physiology and #effectsofnoise!
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New paper out!
We found that in pipistrelle bats, social vocalizations carry a stronger phylogenetic signal than echolocation calls, suggesting the former evolve more slowly, while the latter remains flexible and shaped by the environment.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We found that in pipistrelle bats, social vocalizations carry a stronger phylogenetic signal than echolocation calls, suggesting the former evolve more slowly, while the latter remains flexible and shaped by the environment.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
August 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
New paper out!
We found that in pipistrelle bats, social vocalizations carry a stronger phylogenetic signal than echolocation calls, suggesting the former evolve more slowly, while the latter remains flexible and shaped by the environment.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We found that in pipistrelle bats, social vocalizations carry a stronger phylogenetic signal than echolocation calls, suggesting the former evolve more slowly, while the latter remains flexible and shaped by the environment.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Originally posted on Twitter in 2023—reposting after a chat with a colleague about possibly publishing in an MDPI journal (whose review practices are similar to Frontiers). Not sure if either has since addressed the issues raised, but I feel process should be public knowledge.
June 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Originally posted on Twitter in 2023—reposting after a chat with a colleague about possibly publishing in an MDPI journal (whose review practices are similar to Frontiers). Not sure if either has since addressed the issues raised, but I feel process should be public knowledge.
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From the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. Apart from the overwhelmingly largest cause of population declines - habitat loss and destruction - what are the other big killers of birds? A reason to consider keeping cats inside.🪶🌎
June 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
From the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. Apart from the overwhelmingly largest cause of population declines - habitat loss and destruction - what are the other big killers of birds? A reason to consider keeping cats inside.🪶🌎
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Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific
A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.
www.richmondscientific.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
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We can do great things when we are working together...
🦭🐋🦈🐻❄️🐟🐧🦢*🐢*
Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🦭🐋🦈🐻❄️🐟🐧🦢*🐢*
Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets
The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of thre...
www.science.org
June 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
We can do great things when we are working together...
🦭🐋🦈🐻❄️🐟🐧🦢*🐢*
Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🦭🐋🦈🐻❄️🐟🐧🦢*🐢*
Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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New output from the ONR/LMR-funded #ACCURATE project by @popigk.bsky.social in @asa-news.bsky.social
#passiveacoustics #densityestimation #beampattern #biosonar
@uniofstandrews.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social
@au.dk #CREEM #JASA
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
#passiveacoustics #densityestimation #beampattern #biosonar
@uniofstandrews.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social
@au.dk #CREEM #JASA
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
Sensitivity of density estimates to off-axis beam pattern assumptions in deep-diving odontocetes
Density estimation from passive acoustic monitoring requires knowledge of the sound production rates and signal characteristics of animal calls. This study expl
doi.org
June 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
New output from the ONR/LMR-funded #ACCURATE project by @popigk.bsky.social in @asa-news.bsky.social
#passiveacoustics #densityestimation #beampattern #biosonar
@uniofstandrews.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social
@au.dk #CREEM #JASA
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
#passiveacoustics #densityestimation #beampattern #biosonar
@uniofstandrews.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social
@au.dk #CREEM #JASA
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...