Dr Winifred F Frick
@FrickWinifred
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Chief Scientist at Bat Conservation International. Interested in #bats, using #data to inform #conservation, #wildlife 'tweets my own' she/her
Aptos, CA
Joined December 2012
I'm Winifred. I'm an #actuallivingscientist studying and protecting #bats around the world. Me and my bestie - the #pallidbat @BatConIntl
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The fourth and final of our keynote speakers is Dr. Winifred F. Frick (@FrickWinifred), Chief #Scientist at @BatConIntl and associate professor in #Ecology and Evolutionary #Biology at @ucsantacruz ! 🦇🧬🌳
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Prevent Pandemics: Protect where bats eat & roost, protect people at risk. https://t.co/tw5tvwTSCF In @NatureComms, primary prevention should be a priority to minimize future pandemic risk. Healthy environments & animals = healthy humans. Ecological Countermeasures can do this.
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Happening today at the #CMSCOP14 - learn about the importance of lowering the risk of wind energy production to bats 🦇& birds 🦅@BatConIntl @GlobalBatNet @eurobat_org @voigtbatlab @BirdLife_Policy
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Don’t miss this fun post about bat 🦇 mating behaviors for Valentine’s Day: https://t.co/BaeV81g82t
@BatConIntl
batcon.org
The diversity of bat mating behaviors inspires a sappy celebration of courtship, attraction, friendship, and racy behavior.
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Two more opportunities to learn about planning and financing a nature-safe #renewableenergy transition today at #CMSCOP14 - come and join the discussion! With @BonnConvention @IFC_org @EBRDgreen @ADB_HQ @BatConIntl @BirdLife_News
#NatureKnowsNoBorders #ClimateAction #ForNature
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Beautiful display celebrating #migratoryspecies at the #CMSCOP14 - but it’s missing a #bat! #NatureKnowsNoBorders @BatConIntl @GlobalBatNet
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We need to resolve the significant problem of bird and #bat strikes from wind energy development - says Valerie Hickey from the @WorldBank during #CMSCOP14 #NatureKnowsNoBorders @BatConIntl @GlobalBatNet
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Excited to be attending #CMSCOP14 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan to work on protecting migratory #bats around the world. @BatConIntl @GlobalBatNet #MigratorySpecies #NatureKnowsNoBorders
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“But at the end of the day,” Frick said, “I come back to the fact that bats are just badass.”
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Bats have a unique superpower. Climate change is turning it into a liability. https://t.co/o4qi27ugOP via @voxdotcom
vox.com
It’s good news for bat-haters and bad news for everyone else.
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Here is her open access chapter on Transforming Practice. Wonderful that @BatConIntl and some other organisations have flipped to being evidence based. We seem close to a tipping point where is just become unacceptable not to reflect on the evidence.
openbookpublishers.com
Delivering a revolution in evidence use requires a cultural change across society. For a wide range of groups (practitioners, knowledge brokers, organisations, organisational leaders, policy makers,...
Winifred Frick was part of the team writing a chapter on how organisations can deliver effective conservation including creating a checklist. She thus realised the need for someone to embedding evidence in practice so hired Teague O’Mara #ICCB2023
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.@BatConIntl says many ways people can help including creating and protecting bat habitat in the backyard. "Everyone working together is a message of hope," said @FrickWinifred. "Yes, we know we have a lot of work to do, but people are really coming together to do that work."
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📰Published📰 #Bats threatened by White-nose Syndrome increased foraging at UV bug lights near winter roost sites in fall & spring – enhancing foraging habitats may help hibernating bats vulnerable to #WNS 🦠🔗 https://t.co/GEcejpBYyv
@BatConIntl @ConservEvidence @FrickWinifred
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Why do zebras have such striking, conspicuous, black & white stripes? This >150-yr-old mystery, puzzled over by Darwin & many others before him, still isn’t solved. But one hypothesis is in the lead. Hint: it's not predator confusion, thermoregulation, or camouflage (1/9)
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This #BatWeek I'd like to encourage anyone who can to donate to a gofundme to support an exceptionally talented PhD student from Cameroon to visit the US and learn molecular techniques https://t.co/2XUFFqwIyi Please spread the word! @BatsForLife @mgambarios @FrickWinifred
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It's official. We're getting the band back together. A bit of funding for @jnyurbina to come back to the lab to continue working on RNA interference as a treatment for white-nose syndrome in collaboration with @foreignsands and @BatConIntl's @FrickWinifred and Tina Cheng.
Just in time for #BatWeek! 🦇 Today we announced $478,000 in #conservation grants to slow or halt the impacts of white-nose syndrome in bat populations: https://t.co/sGcuW0lTwx
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Celebrating #BatWeek2022 by highlighting important #bat conservation projects. Here we’re working with @nepajamaica to protect the last known #Jamaica flower bat roost @BatConIntl @bujsha @mgambarios @FrickWinifred @LabDavalos @Mormoops
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Celebrate October with Edward Gorey x Bat Conservation International on @Bonfire
https://t.co/hHYvhz6zQ6
@BatConIntl
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