Dr Morgan Hughes

Plan some shit in 2027. effinbirds.com/books

Sometimes connections is too American, even for me.

Hello bluesky! Been off grid for a bit (+/- 14 months)... What you been up to?

Awesome article. She's such a rock star. 😍

New OA 🦇 research 📄 What a perfect day for this brilliant paper to come out from my colleagues at @batconservation.bsky.social 🎃 Understanding bats in English churches: A citizen science approach besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A beautiful afternoon along Hudson Bay with a bunch of polar bears. It was much too warm for this time of year, so the bears were resting up and saving their energy. #mammals 🌿

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible. Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

This is where I'm posting from.

Behold the #caturday toe beans

📢 New paper from my PhD! 🦇 Using 3D reconstructions of barbastelle bat flight paths over roads, we found that increasing canopy cover leads to lower flight heights, elevating collision risk. @vincentwt.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk #PhD #Bats #Ecology #Conservation 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am re-watching Downton, and Maggie Smith just fills my heart with happiness. I miss her.

New OA 🦇 research 📄 In this review we assess the state of knowledge surrounding #bat #migration across the British Isles and evaluate the impacts of their interactions with #offshore wind infrastructure. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

that was a long day.

Doing penance with RATM

On the train platform listening to Toad The Wet Sprocket. Fight me.

Today is the birthday of the late Ursula K Le Guin, whose books you should really read. Especially Earthsea. #booksky

❤️🦇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Flagging this both because it's cool research, and because the graphs shown here illustrate a very important best-practice of showing both the curves/confidence intervals and the raw data points themselves whenever possible.

My cats are obsessed with "upstairs" as they have never had an upstairs before.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Raman was one of our @opwall.bsky.social research assistants in Croatia a couple of years ago, and watching her impact as a young conservationist makes me so proud!!

Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dear Green Frogs & other inflatable heroes in Portland, You have made this week BEARable & I’m so grateful. Authoritarianism fucks with our heads. Your activism provides a grounding, loving & peaceful vibe during a horrific time. Don’t ever quit! Love, Me

In honor of spooky month, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: Accepted with major revisions.

May I offer you a borb in these trying times? 🪶

Officially extinct yesterday, RIP slender-billed curlew

This is all I needed in my life today 😍

Today is World Mental Health Day and we know that having a rare disease can take a huge toll on your mental health. Remember to check in with yourself today. If you have found yourself struggling, take a look at our 'Sarcoidosis and Mental Health' page here: www.sarcoidosisuk.org/support/sarc...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

"What does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long? We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever." -Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Impressive

🦇The fungus behind white-nose syndrome continues to spread across Alberta. Our latest detection, near Fort McKay, marks the northernmost detection yet. Thank you to our partners at the Wood Buffalo Wildlife Research Institute for collecting this sample. See maps at www.cwhc-rcsf.ca/white_nose_s...

I’m sad to hear the news that the wonderful Jane Goodall is no longer in the world. Her work with chimpanzees at Gombe in Tanzania taught us to look at other apes - and ourselves - differently. I was privileged to meet her later in life and tell her what an inspiration she was to me.

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... Hooray 🥳 👏👏👏 Well done @edmilibandmp.bsky.social

Awesome news! Well deserved, @jackhooker.bsky.social !!

"Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse." -Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Nice review by @thereremouse.bsky.social et al. of a new harp design that was extensively field-tested by the Croatia bat team in our Krka National Park field site this summer:

Our @opwall.bsky.social bat survey team in Croatia had the opportunity this summer to really put some Hunbat carbon fibre harp traps through their paces. Here's our review in @insideecology.bsky.social magazine. #bats #fieldwork #research #chiroptera #harptraps 🦇

"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...

Bluesky, just here to say I appreciate you when things are otherwise no laughing matter