Tomas Villada-Cadavid
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Tomas Villada-Cadavid
@tomasvillada.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Western Sydney University. Bat researcher and photography enthusiast.
The first publication of my PhD is out! 🦇 🌡️ ☀️ ❄️

Did you know that bats could be flexible in the way they express torpor across different climates?

If you want to know more, go have a look at our new paper:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

With @nicholaswu.bsky.social and #BatsLab
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Very honoured to be part of this wonderful publication led by @nicholaswu.bsky.social! Go check it out. It is open access!
New paper in Ecology Letters. We show that bats 🦇 fatten predictably in cold climates, but also in warm climates with strong rainfall seasonality. This relationship is also influenced by interactions with sex and study year | doi.org/10.1111/ele....
June 26, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Reposted by Tomas Villada-Cadavid
If bats’ way of living falters, entire food webs could feel the effects.
Bats get fat to survive hard times. But climate change is threatening their survival strategy
theconversation.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
PhD opportunity for 🦇 research in Australia!

This project will investigate the ecology of the Eastern Horseshoe Bat in relation to forest disturbance, especially fire and fragmentation 🔥🔥🔥

Applications close 31 March 2025

www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...
March 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM