Magnus Gelang
@mgelang.bsky.social
Senior curator at Gothenburg Natural History Museum with focus on bats, birds and biodiversity.
We all know where great #science starts - either on the #pub or on the … #bats #shrews #rodents #biodiversity #museum #collections
October 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
We all know where great #science starts - either on the #pub or on the … #bats #shrews #rodents #biodiversity #museum #collections
From the field: Collecting trip last week with Gothenburg Natural History Museum to Lurö archipelago, lake Vänern. More photos in comments #museum #collections #biodiversity #fieldwork
August 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
From the field: Collecting trip last week with Gothenburg Natural History Museum to Lurö archipelago, lake Vänern. More photos in comments #museum #collections #biodiversity #fieldwork
Reposted by Magnus Gelang
Completely mad that the Smithsonian is going to stop supporting the Biodiversity Heritage Library on 1 January 2026. Every old ass taxonomic description, dating back to the 17th or 18th century even, I have read and still read is through here.
Someone please give it a new home.
Someone please give it a new home.
Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research.
about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
Call for Support: – About BHL
about.biodiversitylibrary.org
July 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Completely mad that the Smithsonian is going to stop supporting the Biodiversity Heritage Library on 1 January 2026. Every old ass taxonomic description, dating back to the 17th or 18th century even, I have read and still read is through here.
Someone please give it a new home.
Someone please give it a new home.
Another side of #museum #collection work - active collecting 🤓🐀🦎🪰🦋
June 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Another side of #museum #collection work - active collecting 🤓🐀🦎🪰🦋
Contributions to the #collections! Nice with asp, it’s not common in west Sweden! #fish #museum #cyprinidae
May 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Contributions to the #collections! Nice with asp, it’s not common in west Sweden! #fish #museum #cyprinidae
April 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
March 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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𝐋𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝
This study highlights that rodents and bats are underfunded, compared to larger charismatic mammals....
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
This study highlights that rodents and bats are underfunded, compared to larger charismatic mammals....
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
February 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
𝐋𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝
This study highlights that rodents and bats are underfunded, compared to larger charismatic mammals....
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
This study highlights that rodents and bats are underfunded, compared to larger charismatic mammals....
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
February 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
It’s something special about Northern bats (E. nilssonii). I love them 😍
January 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It’s something special about Northern bats (E. nilssonii). I love them 😍
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Just when we thought we couldn’t love #bats any more, there’s this: storm-surfing bats! 🦇😀❤️New research shows migrating bats hitch rides on stormy tailwinds to save energy, covering hundreds of kms in a single night! 🦇 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social
Bats surf storm fronts during continental migration
Scientists use ultra-light sensors connected “like cell phones” across Europe to study how bats migrate over the continent
www.mpg.de
January 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Just when we thought we couldn’t love #bats any more, there’s this: storm-surfing bats! 🦇😀❤️New research shows migrating bats hitch rides on stormy tailwinds to save energy, covering hundreds of kms in a single night! 🦇 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social
Did check a small natural cave (Tjuvakistan ”thiefs coffin”) close to my home in southern Sweden during lunchbreak today. Brown long-eared bat and Herald moths was found hibernating. #bats #moths #caves #hibernation
January 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Did check a small natural cave (Tjuvakistan ”thiefs coffin”) close to my home in southern Sweden during lunchbreak today. Brown long-eared bat and Herald moths was found hibernating. #bats #moths #caves #hibernation
I take a Christmas brake, only Vespertilio is awake…
(I heard them singing yesterday when I left the museum) 🦇❄️🎅🏻
(I heard them singing yesterday when I left the museum) 🦇❄️🎅🏻
December 21, 2024 at 12:03 PM
I take a Christmas brake, only Vespertilio is awake…
(I heard them singing yesterday when I left the museum) 🦇❄️🎅🏻
(I heard them singing yesterday when I left the museum) 🦇❄️🎅🏻