Dr Winifred F Frick

I'm Winifred. I'm an #actuallivingscientist studying and protecting #bats around the world. Me and my bestie - the #pallidbat @BatConIntl

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 ! 🦇🧬🌳

Prevent Pandemics: Protect where bats eat & roost, protect people at risk. nature.com/articles/s4146… In @NatureComms, primary prevention should be a priority to minimize future pandemic risk. Healthy environments & animals = healthy humans. Ecological Countermeasures can do this.

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

Don’t miss this fun post about bat 🦇 mating behaviors for Valentine’s Day: batcon.org/spicy-bat-mati… @BatConIntl

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

Beautiful display celebrating #migratoryspecies at the #CMSCOP14 - but it’s missing a #bat! #NatureKnowsNoBorders @BatConIntl @GlobalBatNet

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

Excited to be attending #CMSCOP14 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan to work on protecting migratory #bats around the world. @BatConIntl @GlobalBatNet #MigratorySpecies #NatureKnowsNoBorders

“But at the end of the day,” Frick said, “I come back to the fact that bats are just badass.”

Bats have a unique superpower. Climate change is turning it into a liability. vox.com/down-to-earth/… via @voxdotcom

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/books/10.11647…

@gerrygcarter Congrats!! So well deserved!

Thank you HHMI. A completely lab-changing (and life-changing) opportunity to improve the research and mentorship in my lab. I will pay this investment forwards...

.@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."

📰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 🦠 🔗besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… @BatConIntl @ConservEvidence @FrickWinifred

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)

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 gofund.me/cda6a693 Please spread the word! @BatsForLife @mgambarios @FrickWinifred

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.

The Bar Advent Calendar is back! Please help us highlight Research led by Global South researchers!! DM me for more info!!!! @NA_bats

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