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5:07pm December 7, 2013

megachiropteran:

I’ve had such a gr8 time in Idaho guys. I got to meet with a sensory ecologist who works on bat echolocation and the moths that develop strategies to ‘jam’ bat echolocation calls, look at his little lab-raised bats that are much quieter and tamer than the ones I’m used to dealing with, and check out his cool bat videos of bats eating moths that they use to study how bats sense their environment and how background noise affects them.

I also had awesome discussions with our collaborator, who is an accomplished woman ecologist, about sexism and misogyny in academia and our field. It was very validating & she even told me if I ever run into something weird that I didn’t know how to handle, I could email her and talk to her about it. Which is just really valuable, and I am so grateful I’ve had this opportunity.

I’m in the airport now waiting to fly home, and I can’t wait to get home and snuggle up with Ethan and my kitties.

Yay for your experiences!  And yay for bats!