Our latest study is officially accepted! Dan @dmennill.bsky.social and I used 3D-printed pygmy owls to explore predator responses in Rufous-and-white Wrens. Check it out soon in Ethology. 🦉🔊🪺🇨🇷🇨🇦

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #languagebarriers

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Special issue: FROM CHIRPS TO INSIGHTS: PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING FOR APPLIED ORNITHOLOGY More info: vist.ly/46pfg Guest editors: Jan O. Engler, Jenn Foote, @silvereyedom.bsky.social , Simon Thorn #ornithology #birds 🪶🧪

Ever wonder how birds are able to identify their nest? Jennings et al. show that nests can become scented like the birds that occupy them, which may enable birds to use olfaction to accomplish this critical task. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

A visual summary of Peter and Juley's new open access paper in Ibis. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Morning Light on a Carolina Wren" 5" x 7" Oil on panel I just think they're neat

In memory of Dr. Keith Hobson, the Society of Canadian Ornithologists is collecting donations to support the Keith Hobson Early Career Research Award. If you have the means, join me in supporting this initiative: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati... Details: www.sco-soc.ca/early-career...

3 great words on a Monday morning: Accepted for publication! Our paper "Hushed disputes between noisy neighbours: Ovenbirds vary song amplitude during conflicts with territorial rivals" is coming to Animal Behaviour. 🤫🎶🐦 By Connor Acorn, Jenn Foote, and me. [📷: J. Foote] @animbehsociety.bsky.social

Thank you, Nature Guelph, for the invitation to speak about our research on acoustic monitoring of bird migration. It was great to join such an engaged and excited group of birders for the evening.

CALENDAR ERROR: My talk to Nature Guelph is TOMORROW night, Thursday December 4. (I think that I have end-of-semester brain.) Anyone interested is welcome to join Thursday December 4 at 7:30pm: natureguelph.ca/events/eaves...

📣CALL FOR PAPERS - NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30 JUNE 2026📣 Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives More info: vist.ly/4fn5i Guest editors: @jj255.bsky.social #RoxanaTorres, @brittheidinger.bsky.social @jaime-muriel.bsky.social @toblermichi.bsky.social Please repost 🙏

Our new paper is a deep dive into the pros and cons of double quantile regression for estimating performance limits. academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Accepted! "Acoustic differences persist in urban tits over two decades of declining anthropogenic noise in Paris, France." Hans Slabbekoorn and I show that city-living Great Tits continue to sing at high frequencies, even as Paris reduces noise pollution. Coming to Ornith Appl. @amornith.bsky.social

Successful Master's thesis defense of my student Isabel Vargas at the University of Costa Rica. She studied environmental and forest structure factors affecting Wood Thrush occupancy in Northern Costa Rica Project funded by @gdfcf.bsky.social

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.

Sarah Dobney presented her doctoral studies at the International Bioacoustics Congress #ibac2025 in Kerteminde, Denmark. Way to go @sdobney.bsky.social!

Excited to see our manuscript published soon! 🦉🪺🐦 @dmennill.bsky.social

Double brooding improves lifetime fitness. Our paper "Multigenerational fitness outcomes of double-brooding: a 30-year study of a migratory songbird" appears in the latest Behavioral Ecology: tinyurl.com/3hsyd42m. By @hayleyspina.bsky.social @ryannorrissci.bsky.social and our collaborative team.

I feel extremely honored and excited for this appointment at the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Windsor. 🐦🇨🇦 Dan @dmennill.bsky.social, can't wait to continue our ongoing and future collaborations. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

Love songs and battle cries: vocal duetting behaviour in tropical wrens. Today was my final lecture of the 2025 International Master's of Bioacoustics program. It was a chance to proudly share our collaborative 22-year study of #bioacoustics in Rufous-and-white Wrens. @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Special issue: FROM CHIRPS TO INSIGHTS: PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING FOR APPLIED ORNITHOLOGY More info: vist.ly/43vfp Guest editors: Jan O. Engler, Jenn Foote, @silvereyedom.bsky.social Simon Thorn #ornithology #birds 🪶🧪

Celebrating a symposium of @behaviour2025.bsky.social, call for article submission for a special issue "Animal Intelligence: From Individual to Social Cognition" in Acta Ethologica. Submissions are open to everyone! Information at link.springer.com/collections/... #Behaviour2025 #actaethologica

Grateful for the opportunity to present my postdoctoral research in the Mennill Lab at #AOS2025 on vocal behaviours of Rufous-and-white wrens in the presence of an owl predator near and far from the nest. It was wonderful to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones. 🐦🎶🦉 @dmennill.bsky.social

How do Rufous-and-white Wrens respond when this 3D-printed owl is presented near versus far from their nest? Find out in Dr. Natalie Sanchez' talk "Singing in the face of danger" today at 16:00 in Grand Ballroom A at #AOS2025. 🦉🇨🇷🎶 @natingui.bsky.social @gdfcf.bsky.social @lincolnsavi.bsky.social

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 💬 ##bioacoustics

Rufous-and-white Wren tweaking its nest. June 18, 2025. Sector Santa Rosa, ACG. 🍂🪺

Today I launched a Motus Audio night flight call recorder at Bowdoin Scientific Station on Kent Island. How many migrants will fly over the Bay of Fundy tonight? @birdscanada.bsky.social

Last week season 10 of Fine finished. You can watch each of the exciting talks we had in this and all previous seasons on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@seminaronfr...

Last April, we nano-tagged Swainson's Thrush in Monteverde, 🇨🇷 to contribute to understand their migration pathways. This is part of GDFCF @gdfcf.bsky.social BioAve project We detected them by our Motus stations at Área de Conservación Guanacaste and in their way North. @birdscanada.bsky.social

wrens! https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/21/how-scientists-started-to-decode-birdsong @NewYorker @BirdLabFlinders

Learn everything you ever wanted to know about bird sounds! The Warblers Podcast chats with @dmennill.bsky.social, a lifelong ornithologist and expert on avian communication. How do thrushes sing? Could we monitor bird populations using sound? What's up with tropical birds duetting?

"Exploring Bird Sounds with Dan Mennill." What an honour to be interviewed on The Warblers, the Birds Canada podcast. Listen here: Spotify: tinyurl.com/2skkart8 Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/2stnm5ak Birds Canada: www.birdscanada.org/warblerspodc... @birdscanada.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

Very pleased to announce that I have successfully defended my doctoral dissertation! Huge thanks to my supervisory committee, @dmennill.bsky.social, @marine-valeria.bsky.social, @lrendell.bsky.social, Robert Michaud, Christina Semeniuk, Nigel Hussey, and Aaron Fisk! @uwindsor.bsky.social

Hey look, I'm news! www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Recording in 3... 2... 1... I've been invited to be a guest on the #WarblersPodcast, the official podcast of @birdscanada.bsky.social, and we're recording this morning!

Thank you, Dan, for your kind words and for the overview of my time working with you in the Mennill Lab and at the University of Windsor. This time has a special place in my heart and in my academic career. 🎶🐦

Today I had the pleasure to talk about multi-modal signalling in tropical wrens in Dr. Hannah ter Hofstede's Animal Communication class @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social. Thank you for the invitation Hannah. [📷 @nelsyninor.bsky.social]

After weeks of writing, today I've submitted a big grant application, with collaborators S. Doucet and R. Norris @ryannorrissci.bsky.social. Here are some of the images from our grant "Bioacoustics infrastructure for innovative field studies of ecology and conservation of migratory birds."

The start of a new field season with @dmennill.bsky.social and our partners @birdscanada.bsky.social, @wildlifeacoustics.bsky.social, and GDFCF at ACGuanacaste! More updates soon! 🐦🇨🇷🇨🇦

Each January, @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour publishes its 'Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching': www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Please read and implement. #AnimalEthics #AnimalBehaviour

Check out our 2025 ethical guidelines! #AnimalEthics #AnimalBehaviourJournal

📖Published📖 Our new Application paper presents Whombat, a user-friendly, browser-based interface for managing audio recordings and annotation projects, with several visualization, exploration and annotation tools 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇 https://buff.ly/3DddoNt

We humbly interrupt your scroll to bring you the news that Wisdom—the world's oldest known wild bird—is breeding again, age 74. Go on girl. 😍

Our new paper in J Ornithology: "Behavioural consequences of conspecific neighbours: a systematic literature review of the effects of local density on avian vocal communication." @Nati_SanchezU & I reviewed the literature on density & song. Free read here: http://rdcu.be/dLlPs

"Team to track instances of avian flu in Windsor-Essex birds." We've received a CIHR grant to study avian influenza in Essex County, led by @kksng.bsky.social and our colleague Mike McKay. Read a write-up in our campus newsletter: www.uwindsor.ca/dailynews/20... @uwindsor.bsky.social #ornithology

New project on wren feather colour 🪶🎨🐦🇨🇷🇨🇦 with Dan Mennill @DMennill and a collaboration with Stephanie Doucet. More updates soon!

New project on wren feather color 🪶🎨🐦🇨🇷🇨🇦 in collaboration with Dan Mennill and S. Doucet. More updates soon!

Our new paper is out in Behavioral Ecology: “Neighbors affect vocal behavior of tropical wrens: a multispeaker density-manipulation experiment” http://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arae075 Check out what we found (🧵1/5)

Honored to be one of the plenary speakers at the VII Congreso Costarricense de Ornitología #cienciatica I talked about sparrows, wrens, songs, predation, and nocturnal flight calls 🎶🐦🦉Projects in 🇨🇷🇨🇦 with @DMennill