I’m often asked for temperature anomaly plots using a “pre-industrial” baseline (1850–1900). I update a full set of these graphics each month, now through August 2025: zacklabe.com/climate-chan.... Always free to use and share!

Ironically, it appears that AI chatbots hallucinate for the same reason that students feel compelled to use them: They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.

A harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) shows extensive respiratory control in sound production. New paper by @diandraduengen.bsky.social , Yannick Jadoul & @andrearavignani.bsky.social doi.org/10.1186/s12862-025-02404-9

Yay bioacousticians all around! <3 Come see me at the #IBAC session tomorrow - or anytime for coffee/bikes!

⏳ Time is ticking… Only 5 days left! Don’t miss your chance to share your work at #ABL2025, our free online conference on animal behavior research. 🎤 15-min oral talks 🎥 5-min video posters 📅 Deadline: September 7 📄 Submit your abstract now 👉 ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org

📷 The 2025 SORTEE conference program is now online! Visit sortee.org/upcoming/ to register and explore the exciting lineup of various sessions. #SORTEE2025 If you know a great open science project, now is the time to nominate it for a SORTEE Award www.sortee.org/awards/

Thanks @animal-prattle.bsky.social for reminding me to post about this project🐋🎵 Mia Davitt (+ col), musician from 🇺🇸, attempted to transcribe whale sounds in Western musical style. Turns out to work quite well, so we #preprint ed these interesting results: osf.io/preprints/os... #OSF #bioacoustics

Great initiative by Wiley! The publisher has started marking retracted papers in reference lists. When you click on the retraction notice, you can also see the date and reason for the retraction. All publishers should adopt this practice. But also screen references during submission.

Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻

I'm excited to share our new (in press) paper on vocal individuality and acoustic recognition. We looked at Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos, Little Penguins, Little Owls, Tree Pipits and Chiffchaffs, with promising results. #bioacoustics #vocalindividuality www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#bioacoustics community: do you know any online platforms for volunteers to join an acoustics project, validate and label acoustic data (e.g. birdnet detections, false negatives), filter for specific species etc? I asked this a few yrs ago but nothing of the sort existed...

Hey #rstats, What's your rule for splitting R scripts that form part of a wider analysis pipeline / project? I usually write a single script which includes sections for each step from data cleaning to the final results, but it can become unwieldy when the script becomes long. ...

We are looking for a Research Assistant to contribute to our ongoing analysis of dolphin acoustic data from West Wales - collaboration between @wtsww.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 🐬 Deadline is 29th June - please share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Excited to share our new review in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B! 🎉 We synthesize research on social factors influencing animal migration and offer guidelines for future research. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #OpenAccess #Migration #MovementEcology

🔊Preprint Alert: now on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social. So much interesting stuff going on in supposedly simple, consistent rhythms #bioaocustics #rhythm #birdsong #passerines

Call for ORCID Board and Research Advisory Council nominations! ⏰ Deadline 27 June We are seeking nominations for: ORCID Member-Director Board seats 👉 https://shorturl.at/bUpR1 + ORCID Researcher Board Seat and ORCID Researcher Advisory Council seats 👉 https://shorturl.at/jjxXG

‼️ Dear MARMAM community, We, at the DEI Committee of the Society for Marine Mammalogy, are beginning the process of establishing an Indigenous Representation Subcommittee, the idea of which came out of an ad hoc meeting held at the SMM conference in Boorloo (Perth) in the Whajuk region of WA (1/n)

👋 Looking forward to the 117th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society. Please like and share 🤩

Whale vocalizations not only resemble human vowels, but also behave like ones! We previously discovered that sperm whales have analogues to human vowels. In a new preprint, we analyze linguistic behavior of whale vowels.

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

🚨 Out this week in @pnas.org 🚨 The flagship paper from my PhD @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social - We show surprising statistical similarities in animal behaviour across states, individuals, and even species. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (🧵 1/10)

Check out the beautiful book Smithsonian Kids published about our research on babbling baby bats! Illustrated by Gavin Scott and written by Paige Towler together with the Smithsonian Bat Lab. Although it was published last year, I only received my copy a few days ago — and I’m completely smitten! ♥️

I've put in ~60 hrs over the last 8 months trying to develop a free web tool for sound analysis & visualization. I get $0 from this. Every $80 we raise funds a skilled web dev for 1 hour to check off these tasks. Despite all that's happening, we can still create nice things for the public good 🧪🔊🐦‍⬛

Join us for the the second edition of Sonic Connexions on May 5th, 2025 ! Register here: whoi-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #bioacoustics 🧪

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

"Formant analysis of vertebrate vocalizations: achievements, pitfalls, and promises" - New paper by the ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab & Co 👇 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #bioacoustics

Special issue currently being compiled on ultrasonic communication in rodents. The first article is online. The others will follow 😀 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Just launched: the BioDCASE challenge! Monitor whales, birds and other animals, through their sounds? We're publishing new datasets, and new evaluations, to help you do so! Please join this new challenge, and please spread the word: biodcase.github.io #bioacoustics #machinelistening #ai4good

🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬 The Evolution of Cetacean Societies Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and myself Preorder available now press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour

Its full of multimodal signal processing and analyses - continuous and peak-based. Methods & results (and prereg) were fully written in Rmarkdow. This was a lot of work, and were happy it now has a peer-reviewed stamp. wimpouw.github.io/kineticsvoice/

Soon in Proceedings B, congrats to @wimpouw.bsky.social! It always is a pleasure working with you! Great fun to be involved in this lab study! Have a look at the #rmarkdown, it is amazing! 💪🏼🔊📈📊

🚨Preprint alert! 🚨 Another Chp. for the “Nature Beats - The What, How and Why of Rhythmic Animal Behaviors" book now on #OSF: After defining key terminology in Chp 1., we look at “The functional and structural diversity of rhythmic communication across species” 🔗 doi.org/10.31219/osf... (1/🧵)

🔊 Paper alert! 🐬🎧 Noise of high-speed vessels 🚤 impairs the #biosonar ability of #harbourporpoises 🐬 - making it more difficult for them to 🤯 sense surroundings, 🧭 navigate and 🐟 hunt prey within several hundred meters. 🥳Huge contribution to understanding masking effects! 🌐 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

#BiologyLetters in @the-independent.com | Turning the tables: a tiny bird uses alarm calls and mimicry to deceive its nest predator: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

@bsky.app CEO @jay.bsky.team details how the platform utilizes open networks to allow users to craft their own social media experience while maintaining their personal privacy.

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...

🔬🔊🎶 Rhythm—what is it? From the tides to drumming, from heartbeats to music, the term is used across disciplines but lacks a precise definition in behavioral biology. Our new preprint tackles this challenge head-on! 🧠🐦🎼 #RhythmResearch 📖 Read more: osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵1/4

Mark your calendars for a new bridging brain and #bioacoustics seminar! Join us in two weeks to learn about the ecology and neuroscience of *corvid* vocal behaviors from @wascherclaudia.bsky.social and @daliao.bsky.social 🐦‍⬛ 🗓️ March 12th @ 11:00 EDT ✅ Register here: braincoustics.com

The CBCS Diversity Report is out! We knew the success of @uq-cbcs.bsky.social is built on the diversity of its people but this report provided data to back it up. It is especially meaningful—now more than ever—to emphasise that we value and believe in diversity. cbcs.centre.uq.edu.au/publications...

Gay people kissing or holding hands in public is “gay ideology.” Gay teachers being visible in school is “gay ideology.” Gay couples raising kids is “gay ideology.” Some politicians dismiss gay lives as an “ideology.” But we’re people. And we will keep existing despite the political trashing. 🌈🎓

Help a postdoc find a home <3 #Berlin academics/others: any chance you're moving for a few years' contract & looking for someone in a similar situation to take over your place without trashing it? And you don't mind cats? Then we're both in luck! Write me - I'm nice & know how to care for plants :)

I can personally highly recommend Aarhus and Aarhus University as well! I loved my time there during my studies.

I did, too. You can still sign the letter here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Time to stand up for our values! Thank you @scurry.bsky.social for the initiative.

What a week! The next amazing piece on whale vocalizations and #linguistic laws. Here is also a nice short article about the paper: www.scientificamerican.com/article/whal... Congrats @ellengarland.bsky.social and team 🎉 #bioacoustics

Send us a message if you are interested!

Pls share: Konstanz School of Collective behavior from 21st July - 8th August. Application deadline: April, 15. An amazing line up of speakers spanning all aspects of collective behavior . For info: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/ @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Hey 🦇 people / conservation geneticists: If a 3 (up to 6) year postdoc in a quiet college town on the Baltic coast is sounding pretty good right about now, the Kerth lab is looking for you! (ad only in German unfortunately, but the group is int'l!) Happy to answer questions, deadline: Feb 10th!

Male dolphins form alliances with really complex social structures. Find out why in episode 1 with Prof. Stephanie King @stephanielking.bsky.social Links in bio or wherever you get your pods. (photo from Stephanie King) #dolphins #podcast #SciComm

Mirjam Knörnschild @berlinbatlab.bsky.social from the Museum of Natural History Berlin now also on bluesky and with some amazing bat research. Welcome and congrats on the paper 🎉 #bats #bioacoustics

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