We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

BioDCASE workshop - registration closes next week Oct 10th https://biodcase.github.io/workshop2025/ - Hope to see you there! #bioacoustics

🌍 Excited to announce our Workshop on AI for Climate & Conservation (AICC) at #EurIPS2025 in Copenhagen! 🎉 📢 Call for Participation: sites.google.com/g.harvard.ed... Confirmed speakers from Mistral AI, DeepMind, ETH Zurich, LSCE & more. Looking forward to meeting and discussing in Copenhagen!

Our paper, “The Accuracy Cost of Weakness: A Theoretical Analysis of Fixed-Segment Weak Labeling for Events in Time”, is now out in TMLR! It explores tradeoffs in weak labeling for sound events and gives a theoretical basis for adaptive approaches. 📄 Read: johnmartinsson.org/publications...

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 ‬

I'm happy to announce two excellent keynote speakers for BioDCASE 2025! AND registration is open too! All the details are here: https://biodcase.github.io/workshop2025/ #biodcase #DCASE #bioacoustics #pam

The DCASE 2025 Challenge enters the evaluation phase. Two weeks to the deadline!

Small webpage for an ongoing #bioacoustic monitoring project I am part of at Stora Karlsö: auklab-audio.github.io Adding #audio will hopefully let us learn more about the life of the Guillemots. What are they saying? Lesson learned: designing a recording setup is a challenge and lots of fun! 🔊

Big thanks to all speakers and participants who joined the first Nordic Workshop on AI for Climate Change in Gothenburg, a great success! 🌍💡 Next year’s workshop is already set: June 26, 2026 in Copenhagen 🇩🇰, hosted by our core team at KU & the Pioneer Centre for AI. Let's keep up the momentum! ⚡️

Noise pollution isn’t just an inconvenience! 🔉🐬 it can disturb entire marine ecosystems. Understanding how noise disturbance affects wildlife populations requires powerful models, lots of data and a dedicated team. See the thread for what is going on in AU Ecoscience #marinemammalresearch 🌊

For years I've had a long-term personal goal to have a project in my work that requires me to do fieldwork. Early this year I achieved that goal. And this weekend I will go to Stora Karlsö and install microphones in a Guillemot colony with my collegues @mogren.ml @delialia.bsky.social. 🐧

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

Climate AI Nordics hits 140 members! 🎉 Using AI for climate resilience. Join our 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪 network, especially if you're in Iceland 🇮🇸, Faroe Island 🇫🇴, Greenland 🇬🇱 or Åland 🇦🇽! Let's build solutions. Sign up: climateainordics.com/join/ #ClimateAI

I will close the letter for signatures at 17:00 today (UK time). Last chance to voice your support before this evening's meeting of the Royal Society.

Part of micing up a Guillemot colony in the Baltic Sea (www.balticseabird.com/auklab/). Switches with ethernet and power within 5 meters of all mics. Dynamic range important. Any tips on hardware (e.g multi channel ADC rack and mics, IP audio) and things to consider are welcome! #bioacoustics

Happy to be part of the core team for Climate AI Nordics!

Advancing biodiversity monitoring is crucial for meeting the EU Biodiversity Strategy targets and addressing gaps in current ecological assessments. However, collecting data to monitor the state of biodiversity is time and resource con... ##ccai >>Read more!<<

The paperback edition of "The Voices of Nature. How and Why Animals Communicate" is announced! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Newsletter: Welcome to the Climate Change AI Nordics Newsletter, December 2024! Read about recent and coming seminars, workshops, and the modelling of thermal inequalities in African cities. ##ccai >>Read more!<<

Finally joined BlueSky! I'm a PhD candidate mostly working on #bioacoustics, #machinelearning & #conservation. This black squiggle (a spectrogram) may not seem like much, but it’s the first Eastern Bristlebird heard in QLD in 5+ years found using acoustic recorders + a deep learning model.

I've just launched my new webpage, johnmartinsson.org, where I share my research on machine listening for bioacoustics and ecosystem monitoring. Especially happy about the little clickable animal icons in the top. Click on a few to make a soundscape! #Bioacoustics #MachineLearning #MachineListening

30 people are now registered for the 2025 Nordic Workshop on AI for Tackling Climate Change! First 65 participants register for free! Check out the program: ccainordics.com/events/2025-... ! @oisinmacaodha.bsky.social @aleksispi.bsky.social @johnmartinsson.bsky.social @nicolang.bsky.social #ccai

For anyone fascinated by technology, sound, and life itself, I highly recommend The Sounds of Life by the late Karen Bakker. This book explores how technology is unveiling the hidden sonic worlds of animals, transforming our understanding of nature’s communication.

Attending NeurIPS next week? Drop by by our poster for the paper "GOMAA-Geo: GOal Modality Agnostic Active Geo-localization"! Go to East Exhibit Hall A-C #1403 on Dec 11th 4:30pm, where Anindya Sarkar (WashU) will present our work. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2406.019... Code: github.com/mvrl/GOMAA-Geo

Another thing to be thankful for: the use of AI to help improve climate change models. From The Economist: www.economist.com/science-and-... Free access on archive.org: archive.is/N9uaF

News about our work! "A birdsong AI joins the world's biggest bird sound forum" - It's true! https://www.naturalis.nl/en/follow-our-stories/a-birdsong-ai-joins-worlds-biggest-bird-sound-forum #bioacoustics #ai #machinelistening #xenocanto

Searching for #bioacoustics tools to classify species, organize data, triangulate sounds, ...? 🦉🐋🦇🦗 Check out the (newly updated) Bioacoustics Software Database! rhine3.github.io/bioacoustics...

Take your ears and imagination on a journey with me into the sonic riches and brokenness of our world. Music, nature, listening. A Pulitzer and PEN finalist. Now out in paperback. 🦜💚🎵🐸🎻🏙️⚖️

meet the PhD students i'm advising Matthieu Carreau Xiran Zhang Orian Sharoni Yuexuan Kong Yasmine Benhamadi Han Han Reyhaneh Abbasi (visiting) picture taken earlier this month in front of Ircam 📸 Mathieu Lagrange our team website: audio.ls2n.fr

📢 Exciting news! My PhD defense titled "Invariant Representation Learning for Few-Shot Bioacoustic Event Detection and Classification" is happening this Monday, December 2nd, at 9 AM (CET). It'll be livestreamed on YT! 🎥 If you're interested, drop me a message for the link.

🌿 Hi everyone! I'm John Martinsson, a PhD student exploring machine listening for bioacoustics. I work on using machine learning to analyze sounds from nature—think bird songs, frog calls, and more—to monitor ecosystems and the impact of human activities.