A new theme issue of #PhilTransB examines the mechanisms of learning from social interaction. Read articles for free: buff.ly/K8v43YM

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 2-year postdoc in canine behaviour at Linköping University, Sweden. #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...

“Our findings suggest the capacity to form secondary representations of pretend objects is within the cognitive potential of, at least, an enculturated ape & likely dates back 6-9 million years, to our common evolutionary ancestors.” Amalia Bastos & @chriskrupenye.bsky.social today in @science.org.🧪

Another new paper led by SMRU's @izzylangley.bsky.social: First observations of grey seal cannibalism at Sable Island, inc. a comparison of carcass pathology to cases in Scotland. Collab between SMRU, DFO and @dalhousie.bsky.social with support from @oceanfrontier.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/mms....

New documentary on PBS: Can Dogs Talk? www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi... Do "speech buttons" really allow our dogs to speak to us? I'm one of a number of scientists interviewed, and the answer is...

Teachers and home schoolers- this is for you! Let's celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science together next week.  Date: Wednesday 11 February 2026 (Term 1, Week 3)  Time: 12:00–12:45 pm  Platform: Zoom  Cost: Free   us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #teachers #school #learn

Our recent study in the Journal of Experimental Biology demonstrates how body size and condition reduce heat loss in southern right whales & that they do not need to migrate to warmer waters to offset heat loss in their newborn calves🐋 #marineecology #Science #marinemammalresearch #Rightwhales 🌐🌏🧪🌱

🧪 ETHOLOGY: Baby elephants build social bonds early! 🐘💞 Revathe & Vidya show that Asian elephant calves form differentiated relationships early on: they interact closely with mothers and “escorts” who provide allomaternal care, while largely avoiding other females. Read: doi.org/10.1111/eth....

New paper out today in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com by the #GlobalSharkTrends team: Bending back the curve of shark & ray biodiversity loss; Read the paper here: rdcu.be/eZ9n9 @sfu.ca @sfubiosciences.bsky.social @earth2ocean.bsky.social

New 🦇 research. #bats #lovebats #naturalhistory #wildlife #batresearch phys.org/news/2026-01...

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Here's a fun one - colleagues did formant analysis on a harbor seal before and after he learned to modify one of his vocalizations. A growing body of work suggests Phocinae seals really do have fairly high vocal production plasticity. Wonder why... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Communication between humans and domestic dogs 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Huge opportunity for marine scholarships! 🌊💸🧪 💸 2x £30k scholarships available 🎓 Available to black British students 🐟 Eligible courses: MSc Marine Environmental Management or MSc Marine Vertebrate Ecology & Conservation www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... @exetermarine.bsky.social

How Animals Form Unlikely Alliances to Keep Predators Away

Fun 🧵 on vocal mimicry by @biotay.bsky.social that starts w/ a ref to this paper☝️ from @wascherclaudia.bsky.social Waterhouse @babeheim.bsky.social (h/t to @irenegarciaruiz.com who we saw repost it) bsky.app/profile/biot... #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics #R2D2

Looks like a really nice use of a Bayesian approach to identify vocal mimicry -- now published in Animal Cognition #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

Vocal convergence during formation of social relationships in vampire bats royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Arctic seals edge closer to extinction as sea ice vanishes

ICYMI: My longest article ever for Scuba Diving Magazine answers one of the most frequent career advice quesions I receive... and the answer probably isn't what you think! Give it a read and share www.scubadiving.com/best-schools... 🦑🧪

Come join us for a 4-year PhD on effects of rare gene disruptions involved in speech disorder, investigated in human neuronal models (via gene-editing, tissue culture, brain organoids, high-res microscopy, transcriptomics, epigenomics). More info: www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe... #AcademicJobs #PhDJobs 🧬🧪

🗣️What makes music and language exclusively human? 🐾How do other animals communicate? 🎶Do they perceive melodies and rhythms as we do? 🎧ACOUSTIC WORLD is a podcast to explore bioacoustics and find answers to these and more questions. Because the world has always spoken, you just need to listen!

Congratulations @lsburchardt.bsky.social et al. 🎉🎉 Super interesting!

Very appreciative of Shishimi et al. sharing these (potentially preliminary) negative results on mirror self-recognition in honeybees 👏🏼

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.

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Dream PhD position at the Alfred Wegener Institute Bremerhaven, Germany available 😍 if I hadn't my defense coming up ... 🙈😂 Application deadline October 2nd. Please share widely!

Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...

Bioacoustics Winter School - January 2026 Time to apply! 👇Program and application form👇 www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-...

New preprint in collaboration with @babeheim.bsky.social: Vocal mimicry in corvids. We describe vocal mimicry, i.e., copying of sounds produced by another species or the environment, in 31 out of 128 corvid species (24%). (1/2) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is so worth contributing to! Sharks are essential to the ecosystem we all rely on: the ocean. Read below article to find out how you can support and donate!

🐀 ultrasonic vocalizations be wildin' 🐀 @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social etc al. use @openacousticdevices.info to study how striped mice use USVs in the wild, new in @currentbiology.bsky.social See graphical abstract for summary of results (does the work for us 😇) 👇 #bioacoustics #prattle 💬

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... 🧵 👇

Curious about vocal learning in pinnipeds? Come meet me at my poster at #IBAC2025 today and tomorrow 1 - 3.30 pm, and hear about my newest research on phonatory control in gray seal sound production 🦭🦭 looking forward to seeing you there!

Elephants show different levels of complexity in vocal usage learning, as well as vocal production learning - exemplified by their ability to imitate human speech. Great presentation of this fascinating trait in elephants @angelastoeger.bsky.social at #IBAC2025. Amazing work and very enjoyable talk!

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! ...

Scientists Record First Known Shark Sounds | Scientific American

Ocean warming increases residency at summering grounds for migrating bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) 🦑🌎🐟🦈 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

You need rapid measurement and identification of changes in coral reefs soundscapes? Try the new software "CoralSoundExplorer" by the ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab & Co 👇 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... #bioacoustics #ecology #coralreef #ecoacoustics #globalchanges #ocean #sound @plos.org

"Findings suggest that compositionality [the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures] is a prominent feature of the bonobo vocal system revealing stronger parallels with human language than previously thought." Fascinating work by @berthetmelissa.bsky.social et al.🧪

Today I wrote about compositionality--a foundation of human language. Is it also in the calls of apes? Gift link: nyti.ms/4iO0zct

Who is calling? Bats outsmart deception by solving sensory conflicts www.cell.com/current-biol...

Convergent vocal representations in parrot and human forebrain motor networks (commonalities with speech-related motor cortices in humans found in budgerigar, but not in zebra finch, a songbird capable of more limited vocal learning) 🧪🧠🦜 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"What is rhythm and how can we study it?" New pre-print from @lsburchardt.bsky.social @mhoeschele.bsky.social @musiccognition.bsky.social 1st chapter of forthcoming book "Nature Beats" cc @andrearavignani.bsky.social @marcogamba.bsky.social #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

We uncovered the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language in whale song, published today in Science. @inbalarnon.bsky.social @simonkirby.bsky.social @jennyallen13.bsky.social @clairenea.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"Methods based on infant speech segmentation, applied to 8 years of humpback recordings, uncovered in whale song the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language." Cool new paper by @inbalarnon.bsky.social, @simonkirby.bsky.social, @ellengarland.bsky.social out in @science.org. 🧪

Do whales optimize their vocalizations for efficiency, just like human language? 🐋🎶 My latest study in Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... In our new paper we review 130 papers and summarise empirical evidence for socioecological factors affecting vocal communication, as well as evidence for vocal learning in different corvid species.

Do you know a parrot that talks or sings? We are always looking for more recordings of pet parrots to help us understand language, musicality, and interaction of various information types in vocal signals. #manyparrots #bioacoustics www.manyparrots.org