Excellent chimeric face image showing off a left visual field bias for face processing - this image will tend to look more like John Travolta to observers, but the next one (see following post in this thread)... <1/2>

yes, we have new crispy evidence of crossmodal matching in tortoises just off the press! "Crossmodal Pitch−Luminance Association in Tortoises" How do you like our visual abstract? 🎶🎵🐢 🎶⬜ 🐢 🎶 ⬛ nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... cc @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social

Meet our plenary speaker Renata Sousa-Lima! Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), Renata ‘s research focuses on bioacoustics of aquatic mammals and has pioneered the field of ecoacoustics and soundscape ecology in Brazil.

🚨 Applications open! #FENS travel grants are now available to attend #NEURO2026, the 49th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society, taking place in Kobe, Japan from 30 July - 2 August 2026. 🇯🇵 🗓️ 20 November 2025 👉 Learn more here: https://loom.ly/J3VOz0I

Brilliant work on the ontogeny of rhythm in zebra finches. "Shared rhythm goes beyond copying the temporal features of individual elements; tutees ...adjust the rhythm of non-shared intervals". 🔊 @lsburchardt.bsky.social & al: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Apply by 24 October. Our Travelling Fellowships offer PhD students and postdocs up to £3,000 for undertaking collaborative visits to other laboratories. Find out more and apply at biologists.com/grants/trave...

I am mind blown to announce that the day before yesterday I have been awarded the degree of doctor from Radboud University, Nijmegen, with the distinction cum laude, which I learned is the highest distinction in the Netherlands 🤯👩🏼‍🎓 That my thesis was honored in this way really moves me.

The call for contributions for the 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep is open! Check out the website confmussleep.au.dk for more info 💤🎶✨ #confmussleep #musicscience

Looking to do a Master's in Music and Science? The next application round for Master’s Degree Programme in Music and Science at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) is open: January 7-21, 2026 Find out more about our program at the International Applicants' Day: jyu.fi/applicantsday

Children can solve a difficult sorting task by spontaneously discovering efficient sorting algorithms. Older children outperform younger children, showing developmental growth in strategy use and problem-solving. @hw-yang.bsky.social‬‬ @celestekidd.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Silvery gibbons (Hylobates moloch) are confined to 29 fragmented forests in western and central Java. All gibbons are known for their songs, mostly in duet; unlike other species, silvery gibbons are soloists. Populations are declining steadily due to habitat loss and human encroachment. Endangered.

The International Bioacoustics Society is on Bluesky! @ibacsocial.bsky.social #bioacoustics

2025. How sighing regulates pulmonary surfactant structure and its role in breathing mechanics | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Check out our new paper on a male harbor seal's 🦭 excellent respiratory control: within just a few weeks, this young seal learned to produce vocalizations that spanned over two orders of magnitude in duration! ...

🧠 Ready to take your #NeuroscienceCareer beyond borders? Take part in the #FENS / #IBRO–PERC #ExchangeFellowships and develop your skills through hands-on training in Europe. 🌐 🗓️ Deadline: 15 October 2025 👉 https://loom.ly/DhYSWlQ#NeuroscienceCareer#FENS#IBRO–PERC#ExchangeFellowshipsbroorg.bsky.social

Humans can find rhythm in randomly timed sounds. New paper by van Jelle van der Werff, Tomasso Tufarelli, @lauraverga.bsky.social & @andrearavignani.bsky.social ‬. doi.org/10.1098/rsos....

A common cross-species atlas of cortical gray matter https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.08.675002v1

A very interesting article on the completely weird reproductive symbiosis of two ant species, where one female can give birth to individuals of two species: "Clonal males may thus be regarded as organelles at the superorganism level" www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 #EvoBio 1/2

New paper out today with Asaf Zorea : "Domain-general noise reduction for time-series signals with Noisereduce" (open access)! We present Noisereduce, a lightweight Python library for denoising signals. Read the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Code (library): github.com/timsainb/noi...

New preprint, a review of infant #vocal and #motor #rhythm research, a suggestion to include #respiration in future research. It us work with Elina Rubertus, Aude Noiray and Laura Koenig www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Complex behaviour is not limited to animals! Here we map the entire spectrum of waveforms dynamics on a quadriflagellate single cell with 4x 70um (!) #cilia, to a low dimensional behavioural manifold with surprising structure! #protistsonsky All revealed in our new preprint doi.org/10.1101/2025...

For over 5,000 y, chanting has been practiced across many Western and Eastern traditions. Chants share distinctive acoustic traits which have evolved culturally to optimize listener relaxation. 👇 new paper @pnas.org by ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab & Co #bioacoustics www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

My daughter knew I would enjoy the evolutionary dynamics (an evolutionary stable state / Nash equilibrium) described in this 3 minute video from KQED’s excellent Deep Look team: These Lizards Have Been Playing Rock-Paper-Scissors for 15 Million Years #evolution #nature

🚀 We’re creating a PsychoPy Cheat Sheet to help students get started fast! If you could give a new user one tip for their first 30 minutes with PsychoPy, what would it be? We’d love your ideas! (They might even join our PsychoPy tips in the app 😉 ) 💡👇

Using high-speed transnasal imaging, electroglottography, and acoustic analysis, this new #JRSocInterface paper studies ten distinct phonation types in a professional metal singer: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #biophysics

Banger paper! “Perhaps we should abandon the search for ‘cognition’ in terms of representational capacities distinct from systems for sensing and moving” royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

You’re now breathing manually 🌬️ What underlies this ability to be consciously aware of own breathing? In our new Journal of Neuroscience paper, we report the largest study to date linking brain microstructure to respiratory interoception. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... 🧵 👇

Can you think of examples of books, films, TV shows, etc. featuring earworms or other types of imagined music? Please share them here! musicinmyhead.org/inner-music-...

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

Do birds tune their songs to their hearing? Is there tight coevolution between avian vocal signals and hearing-or do signallers and perceivers evolve more loosely? It turns out perfect tuning is not required... Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #bioacoustics #prattle 💬 #ornithology 🪶

Noticed a lot of new people and labs on Bluesky who attended #ICMPC18 I’ve added @co3lab.bsky.social and @smmb-lab.bsky.social to this starter pack! Share it with people who are new to bsky! Also feel free to recommend any #musicscience related labs left out. go.bsky.app/Eao5vcf

I'm proud to announce a new textbook for #musicscience titled "Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Research". It covers methods in music psychology, empirical research, #openresearch & music computation in 298 pages. For details, see doi.org/10.4324/9781.... Codes at tuomaseerola.github.io/emr/

Join us for #ASABWinter2025 in Edinburgh Dec 15-16 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Abstracts for posters/talks due Aug 29 More details here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

Excited to share our new research revealing automatic categorization of rhythm in human brain activity! Led by @francescabarbero.bsky.social, @tomaslenc.bsky.social and the Rhythm and Brains Lab, in collaboration with @norijacoby.bsky.social, Rainer Polak and @manuelvarlet.bsky.social

The call for a fellowship at the College for Life Sciences @wiko-berlin.bsky.social is now open. That's an academic paradise! Apply: call.wiko-berlin.de/procedure/52...

Winter ASAB @asab.org on *Sensory Ecology* register and submit your abstracts now (abstract deadline just a month away)! I'm organising the conference this year with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill Register & get more info here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Delighted to announce the publication of a collaborative effort, co-led by @limorraviv.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social, showcasing the ways in which researchers have made language evolution an empirical issue: A handbook of experimental approaches to the fascinating problem of language evolution 🧪

A new preprint on the best configuration settings of BirdNET for improving bird detections, lead by Cristian Pérez-Granados & David Funosas. A derived paper of the WABAD dataset, with more than 4,000 minutes of annotated audios. Enjoy reading!! #bioacoustics www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

🙉🥁🌲 Buttress drumming dialects 🌲🥁🙉 @nakedprimate.bsky.social et al. show: 🙉 chimp drumming is rhythmic (w/help from @andrearavignani.bsky.social) 🙉 & has regional diffs (see 🧵👇) Raises lots of interesting ?s about cultural evolution!! (cc @masonyoungblood.bsky.social) #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

TLDR: new paper headed up by @vestaeleuteri.bsky.social & with an awesome team, incl @andrearavignani.bsky.social , showing chimps have rhythm in their drumming & differences b/w east & west drum rhythms! www.cell.com/current-biol... But didn’t we know this already you ask? Well… 🧵1/16

Chimpanzee subspecies drum with distinct rhythms; a finding that could shed light on the building blocks of human musicality. 🥁 Learn more in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol... @vestaeleuteri.bsky.social, @andrearavignani.bsky.social, @nakedprimate.bsky.social

Chimps’ rhythmic drumming could shed light on music’s evolutionary roots

"Chimpanzees drum with non-random timing & rhythms differ between subspecies. The team say this sheds light on evolutionary origins of a feature that sits at the heart of human social behaviour from conversation to music-making." New from @nakedprimate.bsky.social @andrearavignani.bsky.social & co🧪

An evolutionary model of rhythmic accelerando in animal vocal signalling. New paper by Yannick Jadoul & al. with Taylor Hersh and @andrearavignani.bsky.social doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013011

Important study here from @katietschida.bsky.social et al on the transition from neonatal isolation calls to social vocalization in lab mice “juvenile mice begin producing social USVs earlier than previously reported, at ages P20-P24” #bioacoustics #prattle💬

After the seminal meetings in 1997 and 2014, resulting in 'The Origins of Music' and 'The Origins of Musicality' @mitpress.bsky.social, we plan a 2026 follow-up, marking a 30th anniversary of some kind... stay tuned :-) #musicality #biology #culture #environment | Cf. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Beginning in February 2025, the VOCS international Marie-Skłodowska Curie network for research in the voice sciences will begin its recruitment of 19 PhD students to study acoustic communication. Visit the project website for more details: www.vocs.eu.com #bioacoustics

"Hidden assumptions of integer ratio analyses in bioacoustics and music" from Jadoul @marcogamba.bsky.social @andrearavignani.bsky.social et al. Looks like a thoughtful guide + method for testing hypotheses about rhythms using integer ratios 🥁🥁🥁 arxiv.org/pdf/2502.04464 #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

> 🎶 Could the origins of rhythm be rooted in locomotion? [spoilers: yes] @marcogamba.bsky.social @andrearavignani.bsky.social et al. are not horsing around! 🐴 Check out their study on the rhythm of horse gaits #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics