New work from myself, @kasiawojczulanis.bsky.social @lsburchardt.bsky.social : seabird calls share not only efficiency universals, but also prosodic patterns with our speech. Rallentando rhythms carry info absent in spectra. 🔊🐧 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us ❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world 👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity 📆19th April deadline tinyurl.com/343acaev #maths #modelling #data #fieldwork #Australia 🙏PLEASE SHARE

🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨 Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve. Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...

If asked to draw a person's portrait, many people would say “I cannot draw.” Why is observational drawing so hard? In a new paper, @judithfan.bsky.social and I answer: it's the limitations of human vision. Learning to draw is learning skills to overcome them. aaronhertzmann.com/2026/03/23/d... 1/

Anyone have this book on sea otters in Russian?

“Here am I, where are you?” 🪶 #greylaggeese use soft contact calls to stay connected—and each call can be individual! 🐦 Next time you hear a quiet flock, they may know exactly who’s nearby. 👀✨ 📸 B. Heger @univie.ac.at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Drosophila santomea males frequently court other males due to specific changes in their pheromone signals and how these cues are interpreted. By rewiring chemical communication, this species shows how social signals can drive striking shifts in mating behaviour www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I made an instagramm pager there I started combining my two hobbies — drawing and Pokémon cards — into small illustrated notes. www.instagram.com/biochu.notes... If you’re interested, I talk about real-life biology hidden in Pokémon card art

out now in Science: @loganjames.bsky.social collected pairs of sounds in 16 species where we *know* which sound is more attractive (to that species) he played them to ppl on themusiclab.org, asking, in each pair, which was nicer. humans agreed w other animals doi.org/10.1126/science.aea1202

Forget about bouba and kiki, can you tell me if humans and Panamanian frogs both prefer EDM to dubstep? Very cool comparative work, shows shared sound preferences across species, from @loganjames.bsky.social @sarahcwoolley.bsky.social @sakatalab.bsky.social @mehr.nz et al. #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

Not sure if anyone really still uses starter packs, but just in case: Animal Behaviour Researchers is officially full! This is a selection of colleagues, speakers I've seen at conferences, and generally awesome scientists working to understand the animal world 🐒🐺🦁🦓🐘🐓🦅🐬🦎🐍🐙🐜 go.bsky.app/9CV3PAd

I have a new PhD position available on any topic related to musicality or animal communication that aligns well with our current research programs. Deadline March 31: oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=795a... For more info about my Musicality and Bioacoustics group: oeaw.ac.at/en/ari/resea...

Oldest-known whale song recording provides new insight into ocean sounds Recording of humpback whale from 1949 could also provide new understanding of how the huge animals communicate www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Registrations are now open for the renowned PhD Summer school in acoustic communication organised by SDU from 2-15.8 Denmark. Deadline 15.4. More info in picture below. 🦜🐳🦗🦇

Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income? Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero. Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit? Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.

"Tiny recording backpacks reveal bats’ surprising hunting strategy" - nice description and videos by Leonie Baier https://theconversation.com/tiny-recording-backpacks-reveal-bats-surprising-hunting-strategy-271996 #bioacoustics

If you’ve ever seen Primarina on a Pokémon card — mouth open mid-song — you might have thought it was just a cute singing mermaid seal. You’d be right. But it’s also a great excuse to talk about some science related to this card. 🧵 (1/13)

🧠🧪🧵1/37 Our new paper on how pinniped (seal and sea lion) brains evolved to unlock vocal plasticity is this week's @science.org cover. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What was the soundscape in the Jurassic? It is difficult to test how dinosaurs 🦕 sound. Scientists integrated phylogenetics, biomechanics, and simulations, to reconstruct the soundscape created by stridulatory insects 🦗 of the Jurassic. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9... #preprint

Evolution of long distance communication in mammals: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I should have learnt Japanese...

A small boost to this little paper as I'm working on the proofs: Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) males sing using individual isochronous rhythms and maximise rhythmic dissimilarity with neighbours www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#OCTRON just got even better! Annotate dozens of animals in hundreds of frames in minutes and/or skip masks for super fast predictions. The closest thing to magic I've ever seen for tracking animal behaviour 🪄

🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏

🚨New paper alert🚨 We built a fully standardized, integrated hardware and software solution for real-time welfare monitoring in mice. We used it to look at pain management after brain surgery. Not much has changed from the preprint (see below). Brief: hold back on opioids! doi.org/10.1038/s416...

Interesting use of AI methods of self-supervised learning, to analyze canary song. Authors demo on seasonal changes Just published in Patterns: doi.org/10.1016/j.pa... Code: github.com/georgevenven... Data: datadryad.org/dataset/doi:... #bioacoustics #prattle 💬

A friend shared this with me this morning! Such color, diversity, and squishy cuteness of felted nudibranchs 😍 www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/wool...

A Brandt’s Cormorant rocking that electric blue! #birds #nature #wildlife #photography

First whole-brain recording of social sound processing in a vertebrate. Surprises start in the hindbrain; thalamus gates conspecific calls; male and female brains diverge downstream. Work by @joerghenninger.bsky.social, @mh123.bsky.social sky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

2026. Spatial validation of acoustic individual identification models without ground truths: a case study with the cao-vit gibbon population. [Vietnam] peerj.com/articles/206... via @peerj.bsky.social

It’s the first time a frog—or any amphibian—has been observed pollinating a plant, researchers reported in 2023. Learn more on #WorldWildlifeDay: https://scim.ag/4riUU1G

requiem for vanished birdsong

Postdoctoral Associate – Wild Animal Welfare Program at NY Uni. Looks awesome and like one could smuggle plenty of animal comm into the group! apply.interfolio.com/180942

The Effect of Neurodegeneration on Ultrasonic Vocalisations (USV) and Their Neuronal Substrates in Mice and Rats: A Systematic Review https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.27.708197v1

🦷 How is bite force related to reproduction in Mole-rats? 🦷 Scientists from @prfju.bsky.social have discovered that breeding males have a remarkably stronger bite, which helps them maintain a reproductive monopoly. 🤯 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42... #Molerats #Fukomys #Reproduction #SocialAnimals

I made an instagramm pager there I started combining my two hobbies — drawing and Pokémon cards — into small illustrated notes. www.instagram.com/biochu.notes... If you’re interested, I talk about real-life biology hidden in Pokémon card art

Have you ever asked yourself, how insect brains represent places? And whether insects do have place cells? Then move to Germany this summer and start your PhD in my lab. We conduct tetrode recordings from bumblebees that freely forage laboratory mazes. 🧠🐝#BeeSpace @erc.europa.eu @neuroethology.org

Defended on Jan 26! 🎓 Massive thanks to my supervisors Prof. Gahr (MPI-BI) and Prof. Theunissen (UC Berkeley) for their incredible mentorship. Now, I’m officially on the hunt for my next academic chapter. Let’s build something cool! 🧠💻

🐒 My first PhD chapter is out! We describe the vocal sequence repertoire of wild sooty mangabeys and show that they use combinatorial rules. Follow-up paper coming soon 👀 @taichimpproject.bsky.social @cogcompneuch.bsky.social @tozbu.bsky.social 🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

Register for Sonic Connexions - Listening at Scale: Edge and Cloud Computing for Large Bioacoustic Datasets with Dr. David Mann, Loggerhead Instruments 🗓️ Date: Thursday, March 5, 2026 🕒 Time: 4:00 PM (Brazil/Argentina time, UTC -3) https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/Td2bKuFKQCGVxSnlP4zyuA

EMBO was part of the group that developed DORA's new introductory course on #ResponsibleResearchAssessment. 🧪 We’re pleased to see its launch, more info here: https://sfdora.org/2026/02/23/new-introductory-course/

Breaking News: The Nobel laureate Richard Axel said he was resigning as co-director of a Columbia brain institute over his friendship with Jeffery Epstein.

Published in @asab.org #AnimalBehaviour Bystanders distanced themselves from aggressors & reduced cooperative vigilance. Increases in intergroup threat reset proximity between groupmates. Vigilance remained impacted by aggression despite intergroup threat. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to share this new paper with @kristinandrews.bsky.social. We discuss the logic of recent arguments for the conservation of animal cultures, and what they tend to overlook: animal cultures matter first and foremost because they matter to the animals themselves. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Install with uv 📦 uv tool install boris-clip Then just point it at your .boris file: boris-clip annotations.boris Full docs at 📖 roald-arboel.com/boris-clip/

Science has now published our eLetter responding to Rajendran et al., titled, “Data show that macaques do not synchronize to a beat” doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Really excited to share this amazing #job opportunity @univie.ac.at !! The brand new Vienna Centre for Advanced Studies #ViCAS is now hiring a #scicomm expert to direct their comms strategy and vision. Apply to be my colleague! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Internat...

Some time ago, to deal with stress, I started combining my two hobbies — drawing and Pokémon cards — into small illustrated notes. I finally found the courage to share them 😬 biochu.substack.com If you’re interested, I talk about real-life biology hidden in Pokémon card art

Some time ago, to deal with stress, I started combining my two hobbies — drawing and Pokémon cards — into small illustrated notes. I finally found the courage to share them 😬 biochu.substack.com If you’re interested, I talk about real-life biology hidden in Pokémon card art

"Animal cultures matter first and foremost because they matter to the animals themselves." If you enjoyed our recent episode on the value of animal cultures, you may be interested in this new paper by @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social & @kristinandrews.bsky.social! link.springer.com/article/10.3...