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Laura Torrent🦇🌍
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PhD Student in African #Bat Taxonomy Ecology & Conservation
University of Porto
| BiBio ResearchGroup-Natural Sci Museum Granollers | CIBIO-InBIO | Estación Biológica Doñana
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Laura Torrent🦇🌍 @lauratorrent.bsky.social · Jan 15
Hi! I’m Laura, a final year PhD student focused on Equatorial Guinea’s bats🦇. Passionate about taxonomy, ecology, conservation & capacity building. Based at BiBio Research Group at Natural Sci Museum of Granollers, CIBIO-Biopolis & Estación Biológica de Doñana. Also an amateur photographer 📸
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www.batcon.org/1500-reasons...
1,500 Reasons to Love Bats
Celebrating a Milestone for Bat Biodiversity
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September 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Many thanks to all the people & institutions who have contributed to this milestone!!
batcon.org Bat Conservation International 🦇 @batcon.org · Sep 30
You read that right- there are now 1,500 official bat species known to science!
The Bioko pipistrelle (𝘗𝘪𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘭𝘢) was found on Bioko Island in Africa’s Equatorial New Guinea by former BCI Student Scholar Dr. Laura Torrent and her colleagues.
October 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Have you ever wondered how social media posts enhance public interest in a citizen science project?
Get some good ideas from the newly published paper by @dlobo-wildlife.bsky.social & Co 🦇
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@batconservation.bsky.social @batcon.org @batswborders.bsky.social
How do social media posts enhance public interest in a citizen science project? Insights from the Bat Monitoring Programme - European Journal of Wildlife Research
Citizen science has become an essential tool to gather vast amounts of environmental data worldwide. While the power of social media for marketing campaigns is well documented, few studies have focuse...
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June 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Listen up! It is baby bat season! Please, please, please keep your cat indoors overnight for next few weeks. Seeing multiple cat-damaged or killed bats, some with babies attached.😪 Bats can live >20 years and have just 1 baby/year, so now's a critical time. # bats #cats #conservation #wildlife 🦇
May 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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🦇Fieldwork in Equatorial Guinea just revealed the first-ever male of Mops tomensis, a bat sp once thought to be endemic to São Tomé Island 🏝️
Genetic + morphological data confirm M. tomensis is part of a new subgenus: Ornatomops🧬

🔗 Full paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#Taxonomy #PhD
Genetic and Morphological Evidence From a Group of Rare African Free‐Tailed Bats Reveals a New Subgenus Within Mops
Recent surveys in the Congolian rainforest have improved knowledge of bat diversity, but data on free-tailed bats remain scarce. A male Mops tomensis, previously known only from São Tomé, was capture...
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May 17, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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SO CUTE. Listen as kids explain what their scientist moms do at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum 💚

#MothersDay
Mother's Day: Kids Explain What Their Moms at the Natural History Museum Do for Work
YouTube video by Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
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May 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
lauratorrent.bsky.social
Happy Bat Appreciation Day and Happy birthday to me 😊🦇
What a great day to be born!

Portrait of Hipposideros cf. ruber from Equatorial Guinea.
#BatAppreciationDay
April 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Just submitted the final proofs for the first article of my #PhD, and right after, resubmitted the second one! It’s been a productive and rewarding day!
🤩🦇🌍

#PhDlife #Bats #AfricanBats
March 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Are bats tracking climate change? 🦇https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969725006308
Are bats tracking climate change? Long-term monitoring reveals phenology shifts and population trends of forest bats
Climate change is altering wildlife assemblages, although limited long-term data hinders understanding of its impacts. Bats are widely reported to be …
www.sciencedirect.com
March 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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batconservation.bsky.social
🦇To nominate a candidate for consideration, please send @orlyrazgour.bsky.social , O.Razgour@exeter.ac.uk, a brief (300 words maximum) justification of your nomination and include links to the publications for which they are nominated.

More info: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/awa...
The Vincent Weir Scientific Award - Awards - Bat Conservation Trust
The Vincent Weir Scientific Award aims to reward and encourage research on the conservation biology of bats by new researchers, and to recognise the lat...
www.bats.org.uk
March 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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New paper! 🦇🌾 Cárol Sierra & co. show that #bats reduce rice crop damage by 58%, highlighting their economic value in agriculture. 🌍💰

Free PDF here:
drive.google.com/.../1iTQo9Ha....
#Conservation #ecosistemservices #sustainableagriculture
March 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Earlybird registration for the 20th IBRC 2025 is open!
🌏🦇🤩

+Info on registration fees: www.ibrc.org/call-for-reg...
March 5, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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[new paper] I'm very happy to present my first PhD chapter in my first post in this nicer environment. If you're interested in birds, bats, agroforestry and tropical agricultural landscapes, check it out! 🦜🦇🌳🍫

¡Contáctame para leer el artículo en español!

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Landscape context influences local management effects on birds and bats in Amazonian cacao agroforestry systems
Agricultural expansion and intensification are major drivers of biodiversity loss, particularly in tropical regions. Cacao agroforestry systems can bo…
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March 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Want to find out about the conservation of Europe's hedgehogs and another punky group of mammals, the Blind mole-rats? Come to the FREE online meeting of @mammalconeurope.bsky.social on 3rd March. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mammal-con.... Pls share! #conservation #wildlife 🦔🌍 @ptes-org.bsky.social
Mammal Conservation Europe's Second General Meeting
Join us for updates on Mammal Conservation Europe, and talks on two of Europe's strangest European animals: Blind mole-rats and Hedgehogs
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February 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Nycteris hispida 🦇
Some indiv. display a striking yellow coloration 💛—notice how vivid it appears on the nose-leaf & tragus!
The tragus—a small cartilaginous structure—plays a crucial role in #bat echolocation 🎶 & serves as a 🔑 trait for researchers to distinguish cryptic sp
#Taxonomy #AfricanBats
February 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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#PostDoc opportunity in my former research group at @unigreifswald.bsky.social. The Applied Zoology + Nature Conservation Group has a 3-year position (can be extended by 3 years). Ideally looking for someone working on #bats with some population genetics skills: www.uni-greifswald.de/universitaet...
Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in - Angewandte Zoologie und Naturschutz 24/Wi35
Stellenausschreibung Zoologischen Institut und Museum
www.uni-greifswald.de
December 13, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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The many uses of 🦇💩

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Metabarcoding the night sky: Monitoring landscape-scale insect diversity through bat diet
Widespread declines of terrestrial insects are reported across habitats and are associated with drivers at the landscape scale. Current monitoring sch…
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January 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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#GunaiKurnaiCountry 🦇 Lots of #flyingfoxes in Bairnsdale right now (but not as many in recent years). It’s the time of the year when the coastal banksias (Banksia serrata) are flowering & FF are feeding on the nectar, in return they’re dispersing pollen across vast areas
January 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
lauratorrent.bsky.social
I've just submitted the second article of my PhD!
Two more to go 💪 💻🦇
#phdlife #africanbats
January 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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🔎 Published this month in Science

🦇 Female common noctules largely took advantage of warm nights and favorable wind conditions, such as warm fronts providing wind support, to migrate to their maternity roosts.

🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Bats surf storm fronts during spring migration
Long-distance migration, common in passerine birds, is rare and poorly studied in bats. Piloting a 1.2-gram IoT (Internet of Things) tag with onboard processing, we tracked the daily location, tempera...
www.science.org
January 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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The Motus radiotracking network is growing! Inspirational pan-European meeting yesterday, glimpsing the secret lives of tiny #bats & #birds: yellow-browed warblers moving from Netherlands ➡️ UK; Nathusius' pipistrelle bats going the other way. @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social @birdscanada.bsky.social 🦇 🌍
January 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Ever wondered how to capture the details of a #bat skull?
📸🦇
Here's how I do it!

📢Museum collections can be very important in today's research (taxonomy, systematis & bat conservation)

#macrophotography #museum #skull #BatConservation #taxonomy
January 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Hairy slit-faced bat (Nycteris hispida) from #EquatorialGuinea 🦇
The "tragus" is a piece of cartilage found in the ear👂useful for the echolocation of #bats 🎶
For researchers it is a key feature to help us distinguish between cryptic sp 🦇🔍

#taxonomy #Africa
January 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Uplift on a frigid January morning: a single male greater mouse-eared bat was discovered 22 years ago, long after the species was declared extinct. Now a female of breeding age has been located. Dim the lights and cue your fave romantic music …
Hope for Britain’s loneliest bat after second species member discovered
Greater mouse-eared bat was declared extinct in the UK but ecologists now believe population recovery is possible
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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fionamathews.bsky.social
Serotine. One of my favourite #bats! I have a PhD available, using new methods to find serotine roosts and understand movement patterns. Will help to develop a rabies vaccination strategy: a priority for people and bats! Pls share! www.surrey.ac.uk/bbsrc-wessex... @batconservation.bsky.social 🦤🌍🦇
January 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM