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AI & Biodiversity 🌍 PhD Student at UCL working on Bioacoustics 🔊🐸🦇 🦗
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Oisin Mac Aodha
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Working at the intersection of AI and Climate/Conservation? If so, check out our upcoming workshop which will taking place at
#EurIPS
in Copenhagen in December 2025.
sites.google.com/g.harvard.ed...
@euripsconf.bsky.social
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Vincent S. Kather
2 months ago
Hey
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world! There is a new bacpipe version out! New models, gpu acceleration and much more!
github.com/bioacoustic-...
This one is packaged, so you can pip install bacpipe! 🎊🥹 And thanks a lot to
@inesnolas.bsky.social
for presenting our poster on using pretrained models at
#ibac2025
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GitHub - bioacoustic-ai/bacpipe: BioAcoustic Collection Pipeline
BioAcoustic Collection Pipeline. Contribute to bioacoustic-ai/bacpipe development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/bioacoustic-ai/bacpipe
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Bat Conservation Trust
3 months ago
🦇 'Bats' are more than one species. They are an incredibly diverse group of mammals with over 1,400 species. There is a huge diversity of sizes, colours, nose shapes, ear shapes, diet, habitat and more! In the UK, there are 18 resident species. Learn more here:
www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...
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UK Bats - Types of bats - Bat Conservation Trust
We are lucky enough to have 18 species of bat in the UK, 17 of which are known to be breeding here - that's almost a quarter of our mammal species. Ever...
https://www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/what-are-bats/uk-bats
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Maria Paula Toro
3 months ago
🌴🔊🎶Tropical acoustic monitoring by my incredible friend
#DaniMartinez🦇
royalsociety.org/blog/2025/08...
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Acoustic monitoring for tropical ecology and conservation: Q&A with Daniela Martínez Medina | Royal Society
Philosophical Transactions B recently published a theme issue on ‘Acoustic monitoring for tropical ecology and conservation’. In this blog, Guest Editor Daniela Martínez Medina (Instituto Humboldt, Co...
https://royalsociety.org/blog/2025/08/acoustic-monitoring-tropical-ecology-conservation/
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Vincent Lostanlen
5 months ago
With
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we are co-organizing a special session on human auditory ecology "Listening With: Minds, Milieux, Machines and Musics" at CMMR in London
cmmr2025.prism.cnrs.fr/regular-pape...
Extended abstracts (2 p.) due Jun. 29th Full papers (4–12 p.) due Sep. 12th Please share!
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animal prattle
5 months ago
Embed ALL the sounds New tool from
@vskode.bsky.social
to compare methods that classify & cluster animal sounds w/ embeddings: vectors extracted from neural network models Nice example w/ AnuranSet from
@juancanyas.bsky.social
in post 👇 Code:
github.com/bioacoustic-...
#prattle
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##bioacoustics
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Vincent Lostanlen
5 months ago
we are
@bioacousticai.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy
bioacousticai.eu
📍 Tampere, Finland 📷 Errol Neo
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FOLD London
7 months ago
It matters not what people are born, but what they grow to be. Trans women will always be women. Trans men will always be men. In light of the bigoted ruling from the UK’s Supreme Court yesterday, we want to assure every trans person the fight will not stop. Because trans rights are human rights.
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Kishore Kuchibhotla
7 months ago
🦇👂🧠Our first bat paper is out! 🧠👂🦇 How do bats tell navigation from social calls? Led by the fearless Dr. Jenni Lawlor, we used 2P imaging to show that the auditory midbrain encodes categorical primitives. Check it out
@natneuro.nature.com
:
rdcu.be/ehEgz
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Spatially clustered neurons in the bat midbrain encode vocalization categories
Nature Neuroscience - Using two-photon imaging in awake bats, the authors show that the inferior colliculus encodes vocalization categories as categorical primitives—spatially clustered,...
https://rdcu.be/ehEgz
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FGVC Workshop
7 months ago
BirdCLEF25: Audio-based species identification focused on birds, amphibians, mammals, and insects in Colombia. 👉
www.kaggle.com/competitions...
@cvprconference.bsky.social
@kaggle.com
#FGVC
#CVPR
#CVPR2025
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Serge Belongie
8 months ago
Would you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)
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NeurIPS participation in Europe
We seek to understand if there is interest in being able to attend NeurIPS in Europe, i.e. without travelling to San Diego, US. In the following, assume that it is possible to present accepted papers ...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezao8Be0d3lP7stopj1u72uWRwumumEkLVcupqdbKqYDeosA/viewform
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Mirjam Knörnschild
8 months ago
Who is calling? Bats outsmart deception by solving sensory conflicts
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Xeno-canto
8 months ago
... check this out. Heavily xeno-cantofied. Pity the last sets of Orthoptera on XC were not included, but hey:
arxiv.org/abs/2503.15074
"InsectSet459: an open dataset of insect sounds for bioacoustic machine learning." 32000+ recordings of about 1000
#orthoptera
species on XC now.
#bioacoustics
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InsectSet459: an open dataset of insect sounds for bioacoustic machine learning
Automatic recognition of insect sound could help us understand changing biodiversity trends around the world -- but insect sounds are challenging to recognize even for deep learning. We present a new ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15074
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Xeno-canto
8 months ago
... go BirdCLEF!
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Dan Stowell
8 months ago
Come and work with us! Be a Postdoctoral Fellow in AI for Ultrasonic Bioacoustic Monitoring! All the details: https://www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/job-opportunities/postdoctoral-fellow-in-ai-for-ultrasonic-bioacoustic-monitoring
#academicjobs
#postdoc
#pdra
#netherlands
#biodiversity
#ai
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Original post on mastodon.social
https://mastodon.social/@danstowell/114200249083342063
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WILDLABS Community
8 months ago
¿Te interesa la bioacústica, la inteligencia artificial y la conservación? Únete a la sesión de la Comunidad Latinoamericana en 27/3 9:30 (UTC -5) para conocer BirdCLEF+ 2025, la competencia a mejorar la identificación de especies a partir de grabaciones acústicas.
wildlabs.net/event/birdcl...
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BirdCLEF+ 2025: Resolviendo dudas, compartiendo ideas | WILDLABS
¿Te interesa la bioacústica, la inteligencia artificial y la conservación? Únete a nuestra sesión para conocer BirdCLEF+ 2025, la competencia global que desafía a la comunidad de inteligencia artifica...
https://wildlabs.net/event/birdclef-2025-resolviendo-dudas-compartiendo-ideas
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Earth Species Project (ESP)
8 months ago
#BirdCLEF+
2025 is now open! 🐦💡 ESP is proud to support this year's competition by overseeing a FootPrint Coalition Science Engine grant that funded a key dataset focused on under-studied species from Colombia’s Middle Magdalena Valley. 🔗 Learn more & participate:
www.imageclef.org/BirdCLEF2025
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Maria Paula Toro
8 months ago
Check out the
#BirdCLEF+
Competition 2025! This year it comes with a multi taxonomic dataset 🐦🐸🐒🦗 from the middle Valley of Magdalena river in Colombia 🇨🇴 🤖🔊
www.kaggle.com/competitions...
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Xeno-canto
8 months ago
... spread the word! BirdCLEF is back. Alive and kicking since 2014.
www.kaggle.com/competitions...
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BirdCLEF+ 2025
Species identification from audio, focused on birds, amphibians, mammals and insects from the Middle Magdalena Valley of Colombia.
https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/birdclef-2025
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Check out the last bioacoustics competition for BirdCLEF+! This year we have exciting challenges as unlabelled in domain data and a multi-taxonomic dataset from Colombia with amphibians, birds, insects, and mammals sounds for automatic species identification. More info
www.kaggle.com/competitions...
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Oisin Mac Aodha
9 months ago
Do Large Language Models (LLMs) possess ecological knowledge? For example, can they do tasks such as: (1) predict the presence of species at a location (2) generate range maps (3) list critically endangered species (4) perform threat assessment (5) estimate species traits
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Mirjam Knörnschild
10 months ago
Bats' vocalizations can reveal their personalities Bold, exploratory, and proactive individuals were more likely to produce social calls – and more agitated bats called even more!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Justin Salamon
11 months ago
Really cool to see our AI for bioacoustics work in the MIT Technology Review! BirdVox was a fantastic project that beyond posing a fascinating research problem, introduced me to the world of bird watching and deepened my appreciation of the natural world
www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/18/1...
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AI is changing how we study bird migration
After decades of frustration, machine-learning tools are unlocking a treasure trove of acoustic data for ecologists.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/18/1108423/bird-migration-ai-machine-learning-ecology-research/
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Oisin Mac Aodha
11 months ago
Need to efficiently annotate large quantities of audio data? Check out our new work Whombat, led by Santiago Martínez Balvanera at UCL:
mbsantiago.github.io/whombat/
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Kate Jones 🦇
11 months ago
Awesome opportunity! Please RT for potential PhD students on our new AI & Biodiversity PhD Programme
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Dr Peggy Bevan
12 months ago
SHOWING NOW AT UCL East: some brilliant compositions by BBC Young composer award winners, using nature sound clips from the Biome Health Project. Played on a very special Icosahedral (21 sides!) Speaker! Go check it out! 🎶🦜🦐🐘
@ucl-pnl.bsky.social
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