🍂 Ever watched an insect climbing a stem in complete silence and wondered what’s happening? 🎤 In our latest episode, Ass. Prof. Rachele Nieri from the University of Trento introduces us to biotremology: how insects communicate through substrate vibrations—tiny signals like miniature earthquakes.

🗣️ From speech and song to a sudden shout, the human voice carries words, emotion, and identity. But what biological design makes it all possible? 🎤 Professor @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social explores the “architecture of sound,” revealing how vocal systems across species shape the sounds they produce.

Come out and play! Why do some societies, human and non-human, embrace playfulness among adults, while others suppress it? It is a matter of "style". doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Siamangs scream twice! Read more about rhythm in siamangs in our new paper! nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🦇 Ever caught a glimpse of a bat darting through the night with precision? What if sound is all they need to navigate and connect? 🚀 🎤 @berlinbatlab.bsky.social Mirjam Knörnschild (Evolutionary Ethology Lab, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin) explores echolocation, social calls & even bat dialects.

🔊Fun new paper from the Many Parrots: pet parrots learn names from their caretakers: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Honored to be runner-up for Best Student Talk at #EvolangXVI 🏆✨ My work on cognitive biases in zebra finches 🐦 was a joy to share. Grateful for the inspiring discussions on linguistics, iconicity & ape vocalizations, and for all the great connections 🌍🤝 #Linguistics #CognitiveScience #AcademicLife

🌿 Ever noticed that ecosystems are full of sounds? What if those sounds could help us count species, without even being there? 🎤 Assistant Prof. Jeppe Rasmussen (@biologen.bsky.social), University of Copenhagen, explores passive acoustic monitoring and how AI lets us “listen” to entire ecosystems.

🚋 You may have heard the trembling voice of someone anxious or the jolly tone of a friend sharing good news. Are you curious to know if animals also express their emotions through their voices? [...]

🎸 You may have heard a piercing scream in a horror movie or a deep growl in a metal track. Are you curious to know why these harsh sounds are so difficult to ignore?

🐟 You may have often heard the phrase "silent like a fish". Are you curious to know if the underwater world is actually as quiet as it seems, or if there is a secret conversation happening beneath the surface? [...] #acousticworld #bioacoustics #podcast #fishcommunication #underwaterworld

🦜You may have heard a parrot talk or a songbird singing a beautiful song. Are you curious to know how they can do that? 🎤 Professor Emeritus Carel Ten Cate of @unileiden.bsky.social is ready to help us understand the vocal learning world, uncovering an incredible story of a particular animal. [...]

🦜You may have heard a parrot talk or a songbird singing a beautiful song. Are you curious to know how they can do that? 🎤 Professor Emeritus Carel Ten Cate of Leiden University is ready to help us understand the world of vocal learning, uncovering an incredible story of a particular animal. [...]

❓ Have you ever wondered if a baby’s cry means something? And do great apes have something similar? 🎤 Join us as Professor Florence Levrero of the University of Saint-Etienne casts a light on babies’ cries and great apes’ vocalization. [...]

📣What is rhythm? Is it the missing link between human music and animal calls? 🎤 Join us as Professor @andrearavignani.bsky.social of the Sapienza University of Rome explores the rhythmic world of humans and animals. open.spotify.com/episode/77rq... #acousticworld #bioacoustics #podcast #rhythm

[Please share] Call for Fellowship Applications for Early Career Researchers from the Global South — to attend an international workshop on ‘spectral percepts’ and the Origins of Musicality in The Netherlands. Deadline : 19 December 2025 (23:59, AoE). See www.lorentzcenter.nl/index.php?pn...

📣 What are ultrasonic sounds? Which animals use them? And how can we study and understand sounds that we cannot even hear? 🎤 Let’s ask Dr. Marina Scheumann, team leader of the Communication and Cognition group at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover! 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/3VaX...

🍃Imagine you are in a forest, you hear a powerful sound, too harmonious to be an insect and too loud to be a bird… 🎶Meet those fascinating animals, the singing primates, with Pr. @marcogamba.bsky.social of the Università degli Studi di Torino!

✈ Aeroplanes taking off, cars honking, people chattering… How do animals communicate in urban environments? 📣Turn up the volume for the 3rd episode of Acoustic World with Prof. Hans Slabbekoorn of @unileiden.bsky.social! 🎧Listen on Spotify lnkd.in/dqp7Jrqa #acousticworld #bioacoustics #podcast

🎼What is octave equivalence? 🎶Do animals use notes and octaves? In the second episode of Acoustic World, we talk about it with @mhoeschele.bsky.social from ARI Vienna’s "Musicality and Bioacoustics" group. Free now on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/7m6Y... #acousticworld #bioacoustic #podcast

This year marks the 100th birthday of #bioacoustics, established by Ivan Regen in 1925, which studies how animals hear, produce and propagate sound. Let’s discover this discipline with @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social, Professor of Saint Etienne University, in the first episode of Acoustic World.

🗣️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!

It was a great pleasure to present at the ICMPC18 my poster on perceptual biases in zebra finches! 🐦 I came out from the conference with new friends, cool insights and a lot of questions about our and other species music perception! Finding that collaboration between fields is the key! 💪

Do other animals have "rhythm"? It turns out that answering this question is no simple task. Animals produce rhythms for a variety of mechanical reasons (e.g., walking speed, heart beats) without it necessarily implying an understanding of rhythmicity. See our new preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...

Can humans discriminate individual birds of the spotted bowerbird from photographs?🪶 Students from the @fusanilab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at need you to answer that question! You can test your visual discrimination skills with their online experiment (~15 min long): sosci.univie.ac.at/bowerbird_di...

Published today! Here we show how social life shapes musical timing in a duetting monkey... and how hard is singing while parenting! 🙈 🎶 doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @marcogamba.bsky.social

"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 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

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.

Direct link to our chapter's preprint: www.researchgate.net/publication/.... We point out the advantages of a comparative approach between human and non-human animals as a road to a better understanding of the origin of rhythms in (animal) communication & language evolution.

3nd Post of recent publications in #bioacoustics 🔊 proposing a standardized approach to #rhythm studies in #fish sounds. we looked at rhythmic properties of 3 species 🐟 Some are rhythmic, others...not so much. doi.org/10.1098/rsos... With Marta Bolga, Marta Picciulin & Eric Parmentier

Cool study in chimpanzee from the Leiden group is finally out!

iNatSounds: new dataset from folks @inaturalist.bsky.social & co-authors; looks to be one of the largest public datasets of animal sounds openreview.net/forum?id=QCY... github.com/visipedia/in... #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

To get the ball rolling about #bioacoustics on Bluesky, I propose to share (and re-post) our publications of the last 4 years. This is my 10th post, and it's about ELEPHANT SEAL! The other 9 were about 🐶,🌿,👶,🐧,🦛 ,🐊,🐒, 🐦; see @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Following @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social suggestion to get the ball rolling on #bioacoustics on Bluesky: my 1st repost. Actually already 5 years old...we found general isochronous #rhythms in 3 vocalization types of the greater sac winged bat 🦇 doi.org/10.1098/rsos... As (almost) always #openaccess

Following the great suggestion of @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social to repost to get the ball rolling on #bioacoustics on Bluesky, here is the work made with @chiaradg.bsky.social, @andrearavignani.bsky.social, Marco Gamba and his team on rhythm pattern on indris' vocalizations. doi.org/10.1111/nyas...