#BatScience

Pure Science

@purescience.news

2 weeks ago

Echolocation Shapes a Bat’s Skull to Match Specific Frequencies Learn how echolocation has shaped the skulls of bats that emit high-frequency sounds through their mouths and noses.

Echolocation Shapes a Bat’s Skull to Match Specific Frequencies #Science #Biology #Zoology #Echolocation #BatScience #AnimalAdaptation

www.discovermagazine.com/echolocation-shapes-a-ba...

Bats without Borders (BwB)

@batswborders.bsky.social

4 months ago

You don’t need a lab coat to be a scientist! 🦇

This #WorldScienceDay, help us monitor fruit bats across southern #Africa.

Join our community science project today—use the #COREO app to record roosts— and make a real difference! 🌍

#CommunityScience #BatScience #AfricanBats #Conservation

@thetheatom.bsky.social

4 months ago

The fringe-lipped bat hunts with precision, outperforming apex predators like lions. Its energy conservation and accuracy are a masterclass in nature's engineering. #NatureJournal #BlackPhosphorus #BatScience #SuperPredators #ElonMuskStyle

UPColorado

@upcolorado.bsky.social

7 months ago

"This new edition is essential reading for anyone interested in these amazing mammals.” —Carron Meaney, ecologist and coauthor of Mammals of Colorado Leave any preconceived notions behind and learn the real-life biology of bats, which eclipses the fabled tales of the crypt and macabre.

Bats of the Rocky Mountain West, 2nd Edition is here!
This fascinating biology of and guidebook to the bat species inhabiting the Rocky Mountain West is 40% off with promocode BATS2! this week only!
tinyurl.com/5avujwhp
#chiropterology #savethebats #batscience #chiroptera

Coco Veldkamp

@cocoveldkamp.bsky.social

8 months ago

Bats may hold the secret to cancer resistance Longevity of bats, and their remarkable resistance to cancer, has long intrigued scientists. Now, researchers are trying to uncover why.

Bats live surprisingly long lives for their size—some over 40 years—and rarely get cancer. Now, researchers at the University of Rochester are working to uncover why. #BatScience #LongevityResearch #CancerResistance
cosmosmagazine.com/nature/bats-...

Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics

@lpcg.bsky.social

11 months ago

Huge congratulations to @naturalice.bsky.social, one of our PhD students, for winning the Best Oral Presentation at Młodzi w Paleontologii XIII in Kraków last week!

Her talk on bats🦇stole the show, and we couldn’t be prouder. Way to go!

#WomenInScience #BatScience #LPCG

Shicheng Guo

@shihcheng.bsky.social

11 months ago

Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance | Nature Zoonoses are infectious diseases transmitted from animals to humans. Bats have been suggested to harbour more zoonotic viruses than any other mammalian order1. Infections in bats are largely asymptomatic2,3, indicating limited tissue-damaging inflammation and immunopathology. To investigate the genomic basis of disease resistance, the Bat1K project generated reference-quality genomes of ten bat species, including potential viral reservoirs. Here we describe a systematic analysis covering 115 mammalian genomes that revealed that signatures of selection in immune genes are more prevalent in bats than in other mammalian orders. We found an excess of immune gene adaptations in the ancestral chiropteran branch and in many descending bat lineages, highlighting viral entry and detection factors, and regulators of antiviral and inflammatory responses. ISG15, which is an antiviral gene contributing to hyperinflammation during COVID-19 (refs. 4,5), exhibits key residue changes in rhinolophid and

🐵🦇Bats: Genetic masters of viral tolerance! 10 genomes analyzed by #Bat1K reveal secrets of disease resistance. Dive into their immunity magic! #BatScience PMID:39880942, Nature 2025, @Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08471-0 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

Science Blog

@scienceblog.com

1 year ago

Bats Defy Diabetes: How Sugar-Loving Species Thrive on Extreme Blood Sugar Levels A new study reveals that certain bat species can survive and thrive with blood sugar levels that would be fatal to humans. This discovery could open new

Bats with 'lethal' blood sugar levels could hold the key to diabetes treatment. New study reveals how these sugar-loving mammals defy metabolic norms. Read more: scienceblog.com/547285/bats-... #DiabetesResearch #BatScience
@ScienceStowers

Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩‍🔬

@kristinamuise.bsky.social

11 years ago

Officially registered for the NASBR 2014 conference in NY to present my research #Excited #BatScience