Paul Webala

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Strengthening zoonotic disease surveillance in #Rwanda! This week, with funding from @USAIDRwanda, @FAORwanda supported @RwandaGov in developing & validating SOPs for effective wildlife disease monitoring and boosting early detection and response using a #OneHealth approach.

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Fully funded #PhD to track the social and environmental influences on straw-coloured fruit bat migration. Join us & the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour @unikonstanz! All nationalities eligible. Deadline: Jan 15. orn.mpg.de/4155190/dechma…. Pls RT! #phdchat #bats

We made it to the cover!! @OfficialSMBE #ConvergentEvolution #Bats 🦇 academic.oup.com/mbe/issue/41/10 doi.org/10.1093/molbev…

Our new species, Rhinolophus webalai, is featured in the news! 🦇⬇️ miamiherald.com/news/nation-wo… Bruce Patterson, @Paul_Webala @tdemos7 @CmMontauban @grunwald_a80584 @Javier_JusteB Julian Kerbis Peterhans, Molly McDonough, Carl Dick, Michael Bartonjo, M. Corrie Schoeman & Luis Ruedas

Graduate Students! We'll be accepting applications for the 2025 Student Scholars program on October 1ˢᵗ. Learn more at batcon.org/student-schola…

⚠️APPLICATIONS OPEN ‼️ 🌍Are you from an Asian, African, Latin American or Caribbean country of the #GlobalSouth? 🦇Are you passionate about #bats and their conservation? Apply for the 2nd Networking Workshop and Field Course on Bat Identification, Ecology and Conservation ⬇️

@mak2kofi Excellent paper, congratulations!

NEW PAPER OUT!!!🚨🚨🚨🦇🦇🦇 This was the toughest part of my thesis so super happy about it. Demography of the Gambian Epauletted Fruit #Bat (Epomophorus gambianus) in #Ghana doi.org/10.1093/jmamma…

New species named after me! Great honor! Thanks @Bruce Patterson. Systematics of the Rhinolophus landeri complex, with evidence for 3 additional Afrotropical bat species academic.oup.com/jmammal/articl…

My research is available on @ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/37…

A day to remember - beginning of a new One Health collaboration in Rwanda! @HelsinkiOne @DiseaseEcol @EssiKorhonen5 @Paul_Webala @NzizaJuliusk @Richardmuvunyi3

As far as in Kenya & at Harvard in Cambridge, Mass, we have heard of this destruction of an Ibadan urban forest vital 4 city folk & 30,000 bats that disperse tree seed among their many services. Pls halt this asap @dpcarrington @MongabayOrg @BatConIntl @WCS_Nigeria @Paul_Webala

@DiseaseEcol Nice

Our review of virological studies on African #bats suggests various biases. Most importantly, evidence is lacking for 🦇 as reservoir hosts for almost all studied #viruses. We call for a systematic approach and the consideration of bat conservation: doi 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0358

@MonadjemAra Congratulations

I am deeply honoured for receiving the Scientist of the Year award in Eswatini at a conference hosted by the Kingdom of Eswatini Academy of Sciences yesterday

@Dedan_Ngatia Looks serious and way to go. Keep going. Soon it will be behind you!

Indoors for weeks, and still a lot more to do -- it's that time of my PhD. African wild dog behavior classification! #TeamWildDog

Happy #InternationalBatNight. Here’s a shout out to everyone involved working to save this amazing group of animals.

Bat habitat use at ground and height levels at a semi-arid part of northern Kenya. doi.org/10.3390/biolog…

Our very new article on the relationship between Afrotropical and Malagasy Long-fingered Bats (Family Miniopteridae). So many unnamed clades from continental Africa: authors.elsevier.com/a/1hZqm3m3nNAE…

Our heartfelt gratitude and congratulations to the amazing crew @VividFeaturesKE all our #WildlifeWarriors HEROINES & HEROES, conservation partners @citizentvkenya communities & protected areas where we filmed, hotels, lodges & all their staff, & everyone who collaborated with us