Bats without Borders (BwB) @batswborders.bsky.social BwB is dedicated to conserving bats, biodiversity and healthy ecosystems within southern Africa’s changing landscape.
Conservation | Applied Research | Capacity Strengthening | Engagement 🦇 🦇 🦇
Mirjam Knörnschild @berlinbatlab.bsky.social Professor of Evolutionary Ethology at HU Berlin. Department Head at Museum for Natural History. Interested in animals and their voices. Bats rock.
NFBR @nfbr.bsky.social The National Forum for Biological Recording (NFBR) exists to promote the use of biodiversity information for strategic and local needs and to champion the biological recording community across the UK.
Yorkshire Naturalists' Union @ynuorg.bsky.social The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union is an association of volunteer and professional naturalists devoted to studying and recording Yorkshire's flora and fauna. www.ynu.org.uk
BatLife Europe @batlifeeurope.bsky.social A European umbrella NGO focused on conservation of European bats.
Ecotype Genetics @ecotypegenetics.bsky.social Supporting the protection and conservation of wildlife with accurate and reliable genetic solutions for ecologists.
John Altringham @johnaltringham.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy Ecologist and conservation scientist (emeritus prof.) in despair over inaction on climate change and biodiversity crises. Mountain-lover. Artist. Live in […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.online/@JohnAltringham, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Sophianeⵣ is Team Hoary🦇🦇 @honkifurhoary.bsky.social Science outreach & education: invasive species, crayfish, bats, cats, & ecology. #1 hoary bat fan. Adopt feral cats. Kabyle Amazigh-American ⵣ🇩🇿🏳️🌈 (she/her)
Neil Middleton - BatAbility @batability.bsky.social Bat Training Courses & Tuition: delivering training events (Open Access Courses, online, 121 & B2B sessions)
Listen to our Talking Bat podcast here: https://batability.podbean.com/
@ceciliamontauban.bsky.social @ceciliamontauban.bsky.social 
Jono Leadley @birdingdad.bsky.social Whale loving, bass playing, cricket watching Nature Geek. North Yorkshire, UK. https://birdingdad.blogspot.com
All opinions are my own and do not represent the organizations that I work for, volunteer for, or am affiliated to.
WILDLABS Community @wildlabs.bsky.social The global, open online community dedicated to conservation technology. How are you using #Tech4Wildlife?
http://linktr.ee/wildlabsnet
North Lancashire Wildlife Group @northlancswildlife.bsky.social We are a local group of the Lancs Wildlife Trust, arranging field trips and indoor meetings mainly in North Lancs / South Cumbria areas. All welcome to attend!
Website is nlwg.org.uk
ARG UK @argroupsuk.bsky.social Amphibian and Reptile Groups of UK (ARG UK) is a registered charity (number 1165504) committed to the conservation of native amphibians and reptiles and their natural environment by supporting the development of a network of independent volunteer amphibian
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust @yorkswildlife.bsky.social For 80 years our charity has protected and restored Yorkshire's wildlife and its home in Yorkshire.🦉🦔🐬🌱🌷
www.ywt.org.uk
A regional voice in The Wildlife Trusts federation. Become a member, volunteer or join our campaigns.
TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social Author and podcaster #ActuallyAutistic
Faunatech @faunatech.com.au linktr.ee/faunatech
Bioacoustics Recorders and Camera Traps
📍Based in Sydney, NSW
🧑💻 Free Virtual Training Sessions
🐨 Australia's leading provider of Wildlife Acoustics and Reconyx Cameras equipment
International Bat Research Conference 2025 @ibrc2025.bsky.social 🦇The official Bluesky page for the 20th International Bat Research Conference
📍Cairns, Australia
📆 3rd-8th of August, 2025
⌨️ www.ibrc.org
Magnus Gelang @mgelang.bsky.social Senior curator at Gothenburg Natural History Museum with focus on bats, birds and biodiversity.
NatSCA @natsca.bsky.social The Natural Sciences Collections Association is a charity that supports natural science collections and the people who work with them.
Wharfedale Moths (Aidan Smith) @eggboxenvy.bsky.social Yorkshire Micro Moth Recorder, Wharfedale Nats Moth Recorder, YorkshireMoths.co.uk, Nature Writer, Ento MSc
John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social Scientist, conservationist (emeritus professor), mountain-lover, artist. Happiest outdoors.
Climate change and biodiversity crises are real.
Live in northern England. Often in Scotland.
All photos and other artwork mine.
https://johnaltringham.co.uk
Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social Dipterist, Entomologist, presenter, author, museum lover
Principal Curator, Flies and fleas, Natural History Museum, London, UK
Dr Lucy Rogers @lucyrogers.bsky.social CEO of Vincent Wildlife Trust, a charity working to conserve threatened mammals across Britain, Ireland and mainland Europe through evidence-led conservation work
Wildlife Acoustics, Inc. @wildlifeacoustics.com Wildlife Acoustics creates the world’s leading wildlife acoustic monitoring tools, specially designed to help scientists make impactful discoveries that expand our understanding of this biologically diverse planet.
Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social Guardian Natural History Writer, author of The Swimmer – the Wild Life of Roger Deakin, Wild Child, Islander, Badgerlands, The Butterfly Isles and a few others. President of Norfolk Wildlife Trust. Special interests: butterflies, trees, restoring nature.
David López-Bosch @dlobo-wildlife.bsky.social Phd student on 🦇 #Acoustics, #Conservation and #CitizenScience |
Natural Sciences Museum of Granollers BiBio Research Group🌱|
Also #naturalist 🦉
Bat1K Genome Project @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social An international consortium dedicated to sequencing and analyzing the genomes of all ~1450 living bat species.
🦇 Join our membership at Bat1K.com 
Karen Vanderwolf @kjvanderwolf.bsky.social postdoc at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Studies bat conservation & physiology, wildlife disease, speleology, mycology, microbiomes, and ecology. Loves hiking and canoeing
Chiara Scaramella @chiarascaramella.bsky.social Bat ecology and conservation enthusiast 🦇
PhD student at Bat Conservation Lab (UoB) and Ecology and Conservation Research Lab (UWE)
Anni Binet @annibinet.bsky.social Consultant ecologist specialising in bats 🦇 postgraduate researcher at the University of Sussex and member of too many bat groups! Bat Conservation Trust Trustee. Dabbler in photography. AuDHD. All views my own.
David Smyth 🦇🌳 @david-smyth-eco.bsky.social Research Ireland PhD Student
Lesser Horseshoe Bat Conservation
Bioacoustics, DNA Metabarcoding & Habitat Analysis 🦇
ATU Galway 📍
Interests; Landscape Ecology, IAS, wild woodlands, rewilding, camera traps & bioacoustics
Views/reposts my own
He/Him
BatTed_1000 🦇 @batted1000.bsky.social Bat biologist studying forest bats and migration. Co-founder of https://visualize.batamp.databasin.org/
Live Music ⭕️ Ultimate. Northern California.
Kent Bat Group @kentbatgroup.org.uk The Kent Bat Group has been working to help protect the county's bats and learn more about them since 1983.
www.kentbatgroup.org.uk
Laura Torrent🦇🌍 @lauratorrent.bsky.social PhD Student in African #Bat Taxonomy Ecology & Conservation
University of Porto
| BiBio ResearchGroup-Natural Sci Museum Granollers | CIBIO-InBIO | Estación Biológica Doñana
www.lauratorrent.com
Natural England @naturalengland.bsky.social We're here to establish thriving #nature for people and planet by building partnerships for nature’s recovery.
Bat Conservation Research Lab @batconreslab.bsky.social www.batconservationresearchlab.co.uk
#University of Bath #MilnerCentreForEvolution
#batresearch #batconservation #globalchangebiology #artificiallighting
Lancaster Bats @lancasterbats.bsky.social Tree Climbing bat ecologist and conservationist, Drone pilot working and surveying in the uk
Opwall Science @opwallscience.bsky.social The dedicated account for science and research news from Operation Wallacea's global network of field sites.
Simon Maddock @simonmaddock.bsky.social Ecology, evolution and conservation of reptiles and amphibians • Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution at Newcastle University • Scientific Associate at Natural History Museum, London • He/Him
Theresa Laverty @theresalaverty.bsky.social Conservation scientist and Asst Prof at NMSU | Population/community ecology, social-ecological systems, bats, R-stats | Lab website: https://lavertylab.org/ | She/her
Bat Conservation International 🦇 @batcon.org Saving bats since 1982. Learn more at batcon.org.
Tom Pratt @mrtompratt.bsky.social Chair - Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust
www.YDMT.org
Interested in:
- Trees 🌳
- Environmentalism 🌍
- Regenerative farming 👨🌾
- Rewilding 🦫
All views my own - Based in Yorkshire, UK 💚
Bat Research Team @bat-cesco.bsky.social 🦇Based at the @mnhn.fr, Team Chiro studies bat ecology, conservation, and the impacts of environmental change. Follow us for research updates, job offers, and the latest bat news!
Learn more: https://croemer3.wixsite.com/teamchiro
Vincent Wildlife Trust @vincentwt.bsky.social Vincent Wildlife Trust is celebrating 50 Years of Innovative Mammal Conservation and is a charity working across Britain, Ireland and mainland Europe to safeguard threatened mammals. Account monitored Mon to Fri, 9am-5pm.
@wiltsbatgroup.bsky.social @wiltsbatgroup.bsky.social Doing great stuff for Bat Conservation in south West England.
African Bat Conservation @africanbatcon.bsky.social ABC is a non-profit based in Malawi aiming to conserve African bats through research, education, and capacity building
www.africanbatconservation.org
#africanbats #batconservation #appliedresearch #universityofbath
Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social Global Change Genetics & Genomics research | Associate Professor in Global Change Ecology @exeter.ac.uk | Fellow of the British Ecological Society | Editor in Chief Diversity and Distributions | Chair BES Climate Change Group 🦇 🌍 🧬 🏳️🌈
Tabatha Boniface @tabathab1.bsky.social Devon maid in Lancashire.
Ecologist, Feminist, British, European - erratic twitterer depending on level of boredom/time
Michelle Parsons @mich-parsons.bsky.social Bats in Places of Worship Specialist (maternity cover) & VBRV Lead at Bat Conservation Trust 🦇♥️
Social Media Officer for London Bat Group.
Bangor graduate. BSc (Hons) Zoology with Conservation🦏🌻 All views my own.
Frank Theunissen @franktheunissen.bsky.social Boswachter bij Natuurmonumenten voor de beheereenheid Zuid Veluwe en Ijsselvallei
Gail Armstrong @gailbatlady.bsky.social Bat worker in North Lancashire
Oliver Lindecke 🦇 @olindecke.bsky.social PI at UniOldenburg 🧭
Interested in sensory ecology, animal navigation, magnetic sense, migration, focus on #Bats
#MSCActions alumnus EU-UK
Website: www.oliverlindecke.org
Also on ResearchGate
Pelagic @pelagic.bsky.social Award-winning books for scientists and nature lovers.
www.pelagicpublishing.com
Sofia Rizzi @sofiarizzi.bsky.social 🐦 Research Fellow in Shorebird Migration at UniDebrecen
🦇 PhD candidate in Behavioral Ecology at UniGreifswald
Enthusiastic Evolutionary Biologist
Dr Stewart Finlayson @stewartfinlayson.bsky.social Evolutionary Biologist - Director @GibraltarMuseum & @GorhamsCave - Research fellow @ljmu & @uni_gib - IUCN Bat Specialist Group 🦅 🦉 💀 🦇
🦇 James Shipman 🦇 BSc MCIEEM @batman-shipman.bsky.social Senior Ecologist at Jacobs and researching bats as a hobby 🦇 Gib-Bats co creator and now #author 📕 with Pelagic Publishing
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Gerry Carter @gerrycarter.bsky.social studies cooperation, communication, social bonds, vampire bats | Assoc Prof at Princeton | Freeman Hrabowski Scholar at HHMI
Arizona Bat Rescue 🦇 @azbatrescue.bsky.social Arizona Bat Rescue rescues, rehabilitatates, and releases bats in need in Arizona. We are a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Please see azbatrescue.org if you need help with a bat.
BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social BTO is the UK's leading Registered Charity working with volunteers to improve our knowledge of birds through monitoring and research. www.bto.org
Jack Hooker @jackhooker.bsky.social Research Scientist at Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social
Marcus Chua @marcuschua.bsky.social Studies and curates mammals of SE Asia. Biodiversity, conservation, and natural history museums. Also swims, hifi, and ramen.
Same handle on the x-bird app.
🇸🇬
https://sites.google.com/view/marcuschua
Mark Breaks @mark-birder-breaks.bsky.social Lancashire birder
Lara Díaz García (she/her) @laradigar.bsky.social Research Associate at Centre for Ultrasonic Engineering & Bioacoustics SIG Early Career representative for UKAN+. PhD in bioacoustics @ University of Strathclyde, MSc Acoustics @ University of Edinburgh, BSc Physics @ Universidad de La Laguna (she/her)
Council for the Northern Caving Community @cncc-uk.bsky.social The CNCC is the regional council of the British Caving Association for northern England and Scotland, and the representative body for cavers and caving clubs in these regions.
Open Acoustic Devices @openacousticdevices.info Creators of the #AudioMoth. Follow us for updates on the device and our work in conservation technology.
https://www.openacousticdevices.info/
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social Admiring the science and art of nature. Bristol and Cornwall.
pixelbirds.co.uk
Jon Flanders @jonrflanders.bsky.social Director, Endangered Species Interventions at Bat Conservation International. Posts are my own.
Joshua Styles @joshual951.bsky.social Plant obsessive, restoration ecologist and science communicator 🏳️🌈
Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social Bat squeaks by Joe and Andreia with occasional special guests! Posts are not endorsements. 🦇
www.linktr.ee/BatConservationTrust
Henry Schofield @henryschofield.bsky.social Ex-Head of Conservation at Vincent Wildlife. Now an itinerant Conservation Specialist working on threatened European bats.
Tony Juniper @tonyjuniper.bsky.social Nature recovery. Writer. Chair Natural England. Fellow CISL. Chair Cool Earth. Council Member Fauna & Flora. Former Friends of the Earth, Wildlife Trusts, WWF, BirdLife International. www.tonyjuniper.com
Bill Aspin 🇺🇦 @billaspin.bsky.social Birder based in east Lancashire.
Fiona Mathews @fionamathews.bsky.social Professor Environmental Biology. #wildlife #conservation. Red List British Mammals; State of Nature UK; Black Ops & Beaver Bombing. Loves bats. Project on Andean bears (Paddington!). Chair Mammal Conservation Europe. Sussex Uni @MathewsFiona (X). 🦇🐻🌍🐾
Moth Identification UK @mothiduk.bsky.social Tag me for ID of your moth photos. If you'd like to leave a tip: ko-fi.com/mothiduk
Natalie Wickenkamp @nataliewick.bsky.social Vector-borne disease ecologist
PhD candidate at CSU | Duke MSc-GH alum
Bats 🦇 & Mosquitoes 🦟
Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Environmental campaigner & author, The Lie of the Land (William Collins, 2024), The Lost Rainforests of Britain (2022), & Who Owns England? (2019). Forthcoming: The Ghosts of Chalk Country (2027). Agent: @jmlockhart.bsky.social
Ephemeral Resource Adaptations @batichica.bsky.social Crazy about evolution. Mother nature is my religion. Bats, bats, bats. and shrews. Leader of the best group ❤️. Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social Scientist, specializing in bumblebees. Author of various books about insects. Trying to save the planet one bee at a time. 
@martyn-bats.bsky.social @martyn-bats.bsky.social UK/Europe representative for SonoBat sound analysis software. Licenced UK bat worker for over 20 years.
Phil Atkin @ramoneskaraoke.bsky.social I write software and design electronics and 3D prints to enable people on tiny budgets to hear and record the extraordinary sounds of bats. Big fan of wildlife, of records with prominent guitars and snappy snares, and every second of the 1970s.
Amaro Tuninetti, Ph.D. 🦇 @amarotuninetti.bsky.social 🦇 echolocation researcher.
postdoc in New Hampshire; NSF PRFB
bioacoustics, cognitive science, photography, fútbol, & a healthy dose of political shitposting
he/him/his 🇦🇷
amarotuninetti.me
Norfolk and Norwich Bat Group @norfolknorwichbats.bsky.social We are a registered charity that works to help protect, conserve and raise the awareness of bats in Norfolk.
Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshiredales.org.uk The Dales has many moods; wild, windswept, calm, peaceful, with valleys of hay meadows, dry stone walls and barns. One of the country’s most picturesque places. The official National Park Authority BlueSkySocial account
SteveBats @stevebats.bsky.social 🎙Award-winning podcaster; #BatChat for Bat Conservation Trust | Chartered Ecologist in Derbyshire | 🦇
Dr Allybatz @allysonwalsh.bsky.social No Guano here. Just bats. 🦠🦇
A conservation scientist cherishing bats, ecohealth, and stories. Lover of days spent gardening, drinking gin and Hygge evenings in.
Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution @teamlaboul.bsky.social We are interested in fungi and their interactions. Biodiversity monitoring, ecology, phylogenetics. PI @dhaelewa.bsky.social. Based at the Biology Centre CAS. 🍄 #mycology #parasitology #teamlaboul
📍České Budějovice, Czechia
Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social Think the illegal killing of birds of prey is a thing of the past? Think again! Blog by @ruthtingay.bsky.social
Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social Conservationist, campaigner, author, columnist, blogger, grandpa
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
Ken Field, PhD @profken.bsky.social Bat Immunology, Antiviral and Antifungal Immunity, Tolerance & Resistance.
#rstats teaching data analysis & #rprogramming
Fieldwork in Uganda; Labwork at Bucknell University. #PUI #loveislove
Iroro Tanshi @irorotanshi.bsky.social Tropical community ecologist & conservationist; diet, functional ecology, mountains, fires & global change | WRF Postdoc @UW @SESantana | Co-Founder SMACON | Pritzker EEG/Whitley/FFN laureate | Saving 🦇forests and livelihoods in 🌍| she/her
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Lisa Worledge @battylisa.bsky.social 🦇📚🐾A conservationist who loves bats, dogs, books, art and the joy of learning! (My views shared on social media are my own and not necessarily those of my employer.)
@chrisbats.bsky.social @chrisbats.bsky.social Work at Pell Frischmann
Time we had a good look at ourselves and how we treat the planet
Ruth Tingay @ruthtingay.bsky.social Wildlife Ecology & Conservation I PhD I Raptors I Wildlife Crime I Co-Founder & Director Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social I Writes Raptor Persecution UK blog @RaptorPersUK.bsky.social
https://raptorpersecutionuk.org/
https://wildjustice.org.uk/
Richard Wilson @ecology-digest.bsky.social #Invertebrate ecologist; CIEEM & RoyEntSoc member.
British Arachnological Society & Yorks. Naturalists' Union & NE England #spider recorder.
Occasional tweets on biodiversity policy.
Jaap van Schaik @jaapvschaik.bsky.social Bats / Parasites / Population Genetics / Behavior / Monitoring / Conservation / and everything in between
Susan Tsang @batgirlsusan.bsky.social Nerd of all things flying fox in SE Asia 🦇 | Wildlife trafficking consultant | Museum geek