Vocal learning in wild birds! Today I spoke about our collaborative studies of Savannah Sparrows. Followed by great talks by Alex Kirschel, David Wheatcroft, Julie Elie, and Frédéric Theunissen. An information-rich day in Ste. Etienne. Thank you @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social

Sarah Dobney presented her doctoral studies at the International Bioacoustics Congress #ibac2025 in Kerteminde, Denmark. Way to go @sdobney.bsky.social!

The Voices of Nature! In our first Mennill Lab meeting of the new academic year, we started our reading of @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social’s great book of bioacoustics. Highly recommended reading for those interested in animal sounds.

I've been loving the talks and posters being presented at #IBAC2025! Come see my poster today to learn about the "Songs of the studs" 🎤🐦🪺 @dmennill.bsky.social

We've launched a Motus Audio Recorder on Pelee Island! Natalie, Madison, and Nelsy launched our 10th recorder, which will survey migratory birds passing over Pelee Island this fall. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @birdscanada.bsky.social @peleeislandbird.bsky.social

Assisting the outstanding bird banders at Holiday Beach Migration Observatory, Nelsy, Natalie, and Madison have been helping to band fall warblers at Holiday Beach. @nelsyninor.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

This week we're launching our first Motus Audio units: flight-call microphones that stream data for real-time acoustic analysis of nocturnal bird migration. Natalie, Madison, and I ran successful on-campus trials today. 🎤🎵🕊️🌒 @birdscanada.bsky.social #bioacoustics #ornithology [📷: N. Niño]

Congratulations Connor!

Congratulations to @natingui.bsky.social who presented our collaborative wren and owl study at #AOS2025. Way to go Natalie!

So thrilled to be back in Churchill, learning about beluga vocal and social behaviour. Marie-Ana and I are here for the first field season of my postdoc project in collaboration with @raincoast.org, Frontiers North Adventures, Oceans North, @uwindsor.bsky.social, and @dmennill.bsky.social

Out on the @explore.org @polarbearsinternational.org beluga boat with Captain Tera yesterday! Really challenging conditions but crystal-clear waters allowed for some amazing observations. Thanks to Frontiers North Adventures, @raincoast.org and Oceans North! #BelugaResearch #adayinthefield

"UWindsor students co-author scientific paper after immersive Paris field course." Today's campus newsletter has a write-up about our new paper, arising from our field course on Bird Song and Anthropogenic Noise. 🇫🇷🎶🐦 Check it out: www.uwindsor.ca/news/2025-07...

We're starting to build our first 50 Motus Audio flight call recorders. Natalie and Madison are in Port Rowan this week working with @birdscanada.bsky.social and the #Motus team. Thank you Birds Canada for your collaboration and hospitality. #bioacoustics

Join @erin-wall.bsky.social at the Animal Behavior Society Virtual Conference to learn about her postdoc project on humpback whale vocalizations in collaboration with us, @bcwhales.bsky.social, @marine-valeria.bsky.social, and @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social ! www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/2025/

Congratulations to Sophia Costa for winning 2nd place at the Western Conference for Science Education for her poster on integrating socio-ethical perspectives in the introductory genetics curriculum! So proud of her hard work and achievement!

Congratulations to PhD student Michelle Bondy for delivering a great talk yesterday at the Western Conference for Science Education, with our co-author and collaborator Dr. Isabelle Barrette-Ng. Way to go Michelle! @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

Please come join Sophia Costa for her poster entitled "Beyond Punnett Squares: Revising the Canadian genetics curriculum to meaningfully introduce social and ethical perspectives" at 4 PM today at the Western Conference for Science Education

Please come join Angelina Medved for her presentation at 3:30 PM in PAB 148 for her presentation on misalignments between student and instructor expectations in genetics assessments

Amazing day today with our team made up of Michelle Bondy, Angelina Medved and Sophia Costa at the 2025 WCSE conference at Western University. Privileged to work with such amazing @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social colleagues who do outstanding work in biology education research.

"Experiential environmental education in urban parks: building sustainable connections to the nature around us." Today at 3:30 at the Western Conference on Science Education, Michelle Bondy will present her doctoral research project. Good luck Michelle! @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

Come join Michelle Bondy for her presentation tomorrow at the 2025 Western Conference for Science Education for her presentation on experiential environmental education @dmennill.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

Congratulations to the team! Amazing work and undergraduate student research experience!

Well done Michelle and Maia!

This afternoon at #ABS2025 join Dr. Erin Wall as she describes our collaborative research on "Humpback whale song development in the North Pacific feeding grounds". Today at 2:45 in the Vocal Variance session. @bcwhales.bsky.social @marine-valeria.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

Former @uwindsor.bsky.social post-doc Dr. Britney Firth presenting our labs work on preserving genetic diversity for endangered Atlantic salmon on the east coast of Canada - great collaboration with Fisheries and Oceans Canada

I had a great time attending #CSEE2025 in Sherbrooke this week. I'm very proud of the scientists on our team that presented our research. Thank you to @csee-scee.bsky.social and @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social for organizing this meeting of Canadian ecology and evolution researchers.

Look forward to giving a seminar on our lab’s efforts to increase the fitness of animals for conservation reintroduction efforts - @sebiology.bsky.social #sebconference @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

Made it to the @sebiology.bsky.social conference in Antwerp - look forward to sharing some of our lab’s research regarding the improvement of captive breeding for conservation efforts using evolutionary & ecological principles with physiological/genetic tools

What's all the buzz about? Today at 10:30 in the Avian Ecology session of #CSEE2025, our newest team member, Natalie Emerick, will present her research on bat and aerial insectivore acoustics (coauthors Hannah ter Hofstede and Liam O'Leary). @csee-scee.bsky.social @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

It's a big day for our team at #CSEE2025: At 14:00 join @jaclynaubin.bsky.social in room Sherbrooke C for her talk on St. Lawrence Beluga bioacoustics. At 16:30 join me in room Lac Memphrémagog for my talk on a global horizon scan of bioacoustics. @csee-scee.bsky.social @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

Our team has prepared four talks for the upcoming #CSEE2025 meeting in Sherbrooke next week. I'm excited about the new projects we're going to share. See you in Quebec! 🎤🎶🐦🐋🇨🇦 @csee-scee.bsky.social @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

🗓️ L’horaire complet de la #SCEE2025 est maintenant disponible en ligne ! 🔗 Consultez-le ici : event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/sch...

After deploying Song Meters to record Leach's Storm-Petrels on South Green Island, Sarah Dobney and I scrambled over rockweed-covered boulders to meet our pickup boat. This collaborative research is supported by New Brunswick Wildlife Trust. [📷 I. Kyle] @sdobney.bsky.social @ingridpollet.bsky.social

Tonight I had fun speaking to lab alum Sam Blackwell's NESTigators community science group about bird song and urban noise. Thank you for the invitation @samblackwell.bsky.social!

Three different views of the Motus Wildlife Tracking Tower at Bowdoin Scientific Station. This tower lets ornithologists track the movement of migratory birds through the Bay of Fundy. @birdscanada.bsky.social @ryannorrissci.bsky.social

Congratulations @dmennill.bsky.social!

Mushrooms and crab parts in the sphagnum moss on Kent Island.

Portraits of Savannah Sparrows on Kent Island, New Brunswick, Canada.

Using our sound level meter to record the amplitude of bird songs in diverse habitats at the Bowdoin Scientific Station:

How loud is a sparrow? Our new project involves measuring the amplitude of Savannah Sparrow songs. This is a team investigation with @jaclynaubin.bsky.social, @sdobney.bsky.social, @nelsyninor.bsky.social, M. Bygrove, N. Emerick, and our sparrow collaborators, with funding from NSERC.

Our 2025 Savannah Sparrow research team in the field. What a pleasure to work alongside these field ornithologists at Bowdoin Scientific Station! @ryannorrissci.bsky.social @sdobney.bsky.social

From spawning footage turned kids’ books to lab-grown endangered fish, @pitcherlab.bsky.social‬ is reimagining what conservation looks like. Now co-Editor-in-Chief of @cjfas.bsky.social he's championing inclusive science. Read his story on the #CSPBlog 💡▶️ buff.ly/jxWfLkl

An amazing moment for me: I helped to band one of the Leach's Storm-Petrels we are recording on Kent Island, while assisting Dr. Patty Jones' research team in their long-term petrel banding efforts at Bowdoin Scientific Station. What an awesome seabird! [📷 S. Doucet]

Congratulations!

Our acoustic search for threatened Leach's Storm-Petrels in the Bay of Fundy has begun! 🎤🐦🇨🇦 Supported by NSERC and New Brunswick Wildlife Trust Fund. @ingridpollet.bsky.social @sdobney.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

Today was a amazing day! We set up autonomous recorders on three remote islands in the Bay of Fundy to conduct acoustic surveys of Leach's Storm Petrels. [🧵1/4] @sdobney.bsky.social @ingridpollet.bsky.social

Last night's test of our Motus Audio night flight call recorder on Kent Island: we recorded Ovenbirds, Grey-cheeked Thrushes, Greater Yellowlegs, and diverse other warblers (lots of zeeps) and thrushes. @birdscanada.bsky.social

Today I launched a Motus Audio night flight call recorder at Bowdoin Scientific Station on Kent Island. How many migrants will fly over the Bay of Fundy tonight? @birdscanada.bsky.social

Join me in supporting these amazing birders in their Birdathon! They're raising money to support Birds Canada, which helps with bird conservation and avian research in Canada, and around the globe through the Motus network! @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

Jaclyn, Nelsy, Natalie, and Madison are wrapping up their month-long research trip to Kent Island. Despite cold, rainy, and foggy weather, they led a productive and positive research expedition. Congratulations Madison, Natalie, @jaclynaubin.bsky.social, & @nelsyninor.bsky.social!