📢🥳If you wanna hear Benedict Cumberbatch explaining my PhD research on 🦇&🦗 watch #SuperNaturalSeries from @natgeowild.By @jimcameron (yes, that's the guy with #Titanc, #Terminator and #Avatar🤯). Streaming now on @DisneyPlus .#bats #insects #SciComm.

Or just follow the Zoom link.Time: Dec 7, 2023, 04:00 PM Sofia (Eastern European Time) Join Zoom Meeting.

My PhD defence will be this Thursday, December 7th, at 15:00 CET via Zoom🥳.Drop me a line if you would like to join.

“Protect wildlife before it’s too late » .I love it on so many levels!.

How to use the dataset: get creative! 💡🔬.This data now belongs to the community 👫🦇👬.⚠️☠️ Reads ≠ Abundance .Avoid the trap – metabarcoding it’s not recommended for quantitative analysis🤓.

♻️Re-using potential: .🔎meta-analysis of the diets of insectivorous bats.🔎investigations of predator-prey or host-parasite interactions and interspecific food webs and ecological interactions.🔎management of protected areas.🔎+♾.

📢At your disposal are:.✅ full dataset with 1018 BIN species (including BLAST results and taxonomic consensus from BOLD, NCBI, and RDP classifier).✅ raw sequencing data for all samples in fastq format

New Data Paper on 🦇💩metabarcoding! 🥳🧵.Prey and parasites of the greater and the lesser mouse-eared bats 🧬.@batsmoths @MoriniereJerome @aimethods @MPIforBI @BgSciencesBAS @MBMGjournal.#bats #metabarcoding

So excited that this study is finally out!🥳🦇.

RT @ScientistRebel1: 13 members of Scientist Rebellion remain in preventive custody after engaging in civil disobedience to fight for a liv….

Haha, I never thought my research could involve so much drama! 😜 Nevermind - seeing my beloved bats under the spotlights warms my heart like nothing else ❤️ 🦇(well. maybe the emotional voice of Benedict Cumberbatch helps a bit🤭).

A sneak peek of my PhD research in Ep3 of #SuperNaturalSeries 🦇❤️🦗.

Talking about #bats #biodiversity & #science in the Bulgarian National TV 🇧🇬🦇💕

Anyone from the bat folks going to #TDFF in Greifswald? I'm looking for a lift from Berlin for tomorrow or Friday ☺️🦇🚗.#bats #conferences.

We are humans, we are susceptible to biases. But we are also scientist - we can do better than that 🙃.

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5/5 We demonstrate that even species with limited cognitive abilities, i.e. bushcrickets, are capable of carefully balancing the costs and the benefits of reproduction and survival by making different choices throughout their lifetime. Quite impressive for a tiny 🦗, isn't it?.

4/5 Here we quantified how a prey species 🦗 trades off survival against mate attraction over the course of its lifetime under realistic predator🦇 attacks with different levels of predation threat.

3/5 Every time when a courting animal detects the presence of a predator it has to decide what to do based on two factors – what is the likelihood to get eaten if it continues courting and how big are its chances to secure a mate based on current and future expectations.

2/5 Reproduction and survival are the 🔑 components to 🔝 fitness. However, many species have to choose between one or the other, and they have to do so often.