Our Methods Blog post on BSG-BATS — a new fully open-source portal and ML classifier for bat calls — is out now! 🦇<3
Here's the story behind it, why open tools matter, and what comes next:
methodsblog.com/2025/12/11/t...
Our new paper on an open-source ML system for identifying European bat calls is now published in MEE! 🦇
With BSG-BATS, anyone can contribute, annotate, and run open-source models — making large-scale acoustic monitoring more accessible than ever.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
moodscale with bat museum samples
Pick your bat 🖤
co-authored with @simonpgaultier.bsky.social
highly scientific mood scale, trust us
Postdoc crew at SLU ecology ✨✨ had such a fun and welcoming couple of days!
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Crowd-annotated bat calls = better conservation tools. 🦇 We started in Europe and now we’re building global! 🌏 Come hear how we’re scaling up species ID at @ibrc2025.bsky.social 🙌
Read more: bsg.laji.fi/bats/identif...
Photo collage of hibernating bats, bunkers and our snowy walks between them :)
Bat census 2025 at Salpalinja! 🦇❄️
Super cool & sunny weekend monitoring hibernating bats in the bunkers of Salpalinja. We checked more sites than ever — and found 424 bats! 78% of the bunkers had bats, with the badass northern bat dominating. Huge thanks to @nathist.bsky.social for organizing this!
Usein sanotaan, että negatiiviset asenteet susia kohtaan olisivat automaattinen osa ihmisten ja susien yhteistä historiaa. Tuore väitöstutkimus esittää, että etenkin eliittiin kuuluneet metsästäjät loivat aktiivisesti negatiivista kuvaa susista 1900-luvun vaihteessa. www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/h...
Ever wondered how echolocating bats, despite their high flight speed, track escaping prey? Check out our latest publication in BMC Biology 🦇.
#bats #Chiroptera #bioacoustics #biologging #echolocation #biosonar #evasiveprey
For all of you Blueskyers interested in bats! go.bsky.app/R4Etsza 🦇🦤
Tagged the wrong Luomus... meant of course @nathist.bsky.social 😁
and of course grateful also to the best research team @batlabfinland.bsky.social that I could have had during my PhD journey <3
Super grateful to my co-authors @thomaslilley77.bsky.social @veronikanlaine.bsky.social and to @koneensaatio.fi and to @luomus.bsky.social for making this research possible! 🦇
Eptesicus nilssonii
#Urbanization changes also our boreal landscapes—but how does it affect #bats? 🦇 Thrilled to share part of my PhD research that highlights the importance of old forests for bats and the challenges land-use changes create. Curious? Read it in Landscape Ecology: tinyurl.com/batsinboreal 🦇🌲<3
On this shortest, darkest day of the year, I’m throwing it back to a Nordic summer night with this amazing northern bat (Eptesicus nilssonii). Adapted to hunt under bright skies, these little legends never fail to amaze me! <3
Pipistrellus nathusii being its cute and secretive self :)
Hello BlueSky! I’m Kata, a postdoc fascinated by #bats and their ultrasonic world 🦇🌌 My research in the LIFEPLAN project focuses on decoding their calls to reveal hidden #biodiversity patterns and advance #conservation. Excited to share more about bats and what their #echolocation calls can reveal!
