New book chapter on vocalisations in livestock with @monicabattini.bsky.social, Celine Tallet and Silvana Mattiello link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

The Trump regime looked at these maps and thought that it's totally okay to defund USAID and kill 14 million people over the next 5 years (including 4.5 million children under five) because they're not white. Trump apparently also deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The International Bioacoustics Society is on Bluesky! @ibacsocial.bsky.social #bioacoustics

EU FARMERS JOIN CIVIL SOCIETY'S CALLS FOR HIGH-ANIMAL WELFARE FARMING www.ciwf.eu/media-and-ne...

Sad reality at Copenhagen university: massive layoffs coming up within 3 months from now that will heavily affect research quality and teaching programmes for students in the coming years: uniavisen.dk/en/dreyer-sh...

2025. Smart dogs have a humanlike knack for naming new objects | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

🔊 Cornell lab of #ornithology is looking for a full professor in animal comm & behaviour, and I think y'all are amazing and overqualified, sooo: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/302...

Bioacoustics Winter School - January 2026 Time to apply! 👇Program and application form👇 www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-...

🔊 This the season! Looking or two MSc students to tackle 1. vocal efficiency across pipit species and, surpsingly, 2. vocal tract anatomy of the great cormorant (bonus: I also have the heads to model hearing!) Drop me a line! I love people! :) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

@behaveco.bsky.social was very busy and had a great time this week at #ibac2025, with 2 posters and 3 talks @biologen.bsky.social, @damaris-riedner.bsky.social, @karina-stampe.bsky.social

Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice. 👇 New paper by the ENES Bioacoustics Research Team in @currentbiology.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1llMH3QW8S...

Nice article about our paper published today in @royalsocietypublishing.org Interface. #bioacoustics www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Our review on flexibility in animal communication is out! 🥳Many thanks again @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social and @kirstyegraham.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute, and to all co-authors for the inspiring exchange of ideas! 🐵

For over 5,000 y, chanting has been practiced across many Western and Eastern traditions. Chants share distinctive acoustic traits which have evolved culturally to optimize listener relaxation. 👇 new paper @pnas.org by ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab & Co #bioacoustics www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

WSU biology is hiring a vertebrate ecologist! wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...

Associate Professor position in animal physiology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (to replace me basically). An amazing permanent position at a great university! Please spread widely 🙏 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

New paper with @masonyoungblood.bsky.social: crows follow Menzerath’s law showing vocal efficiency in their communication. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 Lecturer in Animal Ecology position @jcuofficial.bsky.social. Candidates with expertise in terrestrial animal ecology are encouraged. 📍 Townsville, AU Closes: 8th Aug 2025 🔗 careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...

📢 Our new paper is out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! A step toward more comparable approaches in bioacoustics! We tested how different acoustic feature extraction and classification methods affect caller ID classification accuracy. Read about it here: 🔗 shorturl.at/F31Pb

We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31. More details: www.asab.org/opportunities

Working on inter-species communication and AI? Submit your application to the Coller-Dolittle price! Looking forward to read many interesting applications! 🤓

My new paper, "Bonobos tend to behave optimistically after hearing laughter” is out! We found that bonobos were more likely to expect rewards after hearing same-species laughter, suggesting that the sound puts them in a good mood. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"The myth of meritocracy...collapses under the financial sacrifices expected at every career stage... the hidden costs of ‘doing science’ are profound. These burdens disproportionately exclude those without generational wealth, compounded by race and gender. An important read #STEM #Academia 🧪

Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds: our special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B on the diverse evolutionary processes underlying cognitive evolution is out today. Thanks to all our contributors! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

The three academic positions (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University are now advertised. Details here: Ecology: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... Genomics: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

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...

Hallooo, are you looking for a really cool MSc project in bioacoustics/evolution of communication/linguistics? Help me process our goldmine of birdsong recordings, and investigate whether and how conformance to various linguistic laws varies in the Anthus genus! 🔊 🐦🎵 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We can do great things when we are working together... 🦭🐋🦈🐻‍❄️🐟🐧🦢*🐢* Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

⬇️ potential PhD position ⬇️

2025. Natural dispersal is better than translocation for reducing risks of inbreeding depression in eastern black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis michaeli) | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

When feeding, Bryde's whales can switch attack mode at different depths over time.. and we can show this using clustering algorithms 🐋🐟👀... Find out more on the last one of my PhD chapters we just published on Marine Ecology Progress Series int-res.com/abstracts/me... pic.twitter.com/ivNOIeuu4b

Seminar today! Still time to register: braincoustics.com

Who knew I would be involved in a study on whales 🐋🐋🐋 😬Nice work by former PhD student Jacopo di Clemente @behaveco.bsky.social

Congrats to Laela Sayigh and team, first winners of the Coller Dolittle Prize for decoding animal communication. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Very proud of Damaris Riedner for successfully defending her PhD thesis on rhino genetics, socio-spatial behaviour and bioacoustics yesterday! Thanks to co-supervisors Rasmus Heller & Marina Scheumann and examiners @angelastoeger.bsky.social & Adrian Shrader. @behaveco.bsky.social

Deterministic chaos makes bird and mammal calls alarming to human listeners. New paper from the ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab in @cp-iscience.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful... #bioacoustics

A new chapter in the research of the Evolution of Language. A team from the @taichimpproject.bsky.social based at @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social has found that chimpanzees expand meaning by combining calls.

New paper alert 📢 including data from the Taï Chimpanzee Project: Chimpanzee drumming shows key elements of human musical rhythm with Eastern (P.t.s.) and Western (P.t.v.) #chimpanzees showing different rhythms. Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Nature research paper: A cryptic role for reciprocal helping in a cooperatively breeding bird https://go.nature.com/44tO29M

If you are interested in interspecies communication, join us for the final stage of the 2024-2025 Coller-Dolittle Prize competition on May 15 at 15:00 CET for a nice list of speakers and talks (free online event): coller-dolittle-24.sites.tau.ac.il

2025. Worlds that collide: conservation applications of behaviour and culture in human–wildlife interactions | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... via @royalsocietypublishing.org

🦒🧬 New preprint🦒🧬 We investigated the degree of admixture, genetic diversity and inbreeding in ex situ giraffes using WGS data from the famous Marius, 12 zoo giraffes, and a data set from 71 wild giraffes. #ConsGen #PopGen #Genomics #Giraffes #Marius www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Interesting take on why spoken language is more prominent than gestural language in humans, by Alexis Hervais-Adelman and Simon Townsend @nccrlanguage.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

🚨🎉 New paper "Ten quick tips to get you started with Bayesian statistics", hope you'll like it 😇🤗 ✍🏽 w/ Andy Royle, Marc Kéry and Chloé Nater 🔗 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... @plos.org @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social

2025. Transformer-based audio-visual multimodal fusion for fine-grained recognition of individual sow nursing behaviour www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🔥 Spicy take alert! "Vocal Learning Versus Speech Evolution: Untangling a False Equivalence", new from Adriano Lameira onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

🚨 New BBB Seminar 🚨 Join us next week to learn about *names* from Mickey Pardo (🐘) and David Omer (🐒) 🗓️ April 17th @ 10:00 EDT ✅ Register here: braincoustics.com

🚨New in @science.org🚨 With Simon Townsend (@nccrlanguage.bsky.social) and Martin Surbeck, we have investigated whether wild bonobos can combine calls in complex combinations, similar to how humans combine words into sentences 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #ScienceResearch #AnimalCommunication

Happy to have a new piece in @science.org with my friend Lydia where we draw attention to the significance of animal material culture for understanding human technical evolution and why we should digitally preserve and protect primate tools and tool use sites. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...