Yung Junc 😤 (Dark-eyed Junco)

Looks like a good review, h/t @dunnock67.bsky.social + interview of ECR author in @jexpbiol.bsky.social cc #bat folks icymi @amarotuninetti.bsky.social @talking-bat.bsky.social @bat-cesco.bsky.social @berlinbatlab.bsky.social @susannebabl.bsky.social #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

This morning @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social, Mirjam Knörnschild gave a fantastic talk about social communication in Saccopteryx bilineata 🦇 including dialects, acoustically-based individual recognition. @berlinbatlab.bsky.social #dzg2025 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Breaking News 🚨: Our #bioacoustics 🔉🐬🦇lab seeks a permanent new colleague in a tenure-track assistant professor 🥷position. Excited? Then join our vibrant group of 15 researchers, postdocs and PhD students at AU who work with #marinemammal #acoustics, #conservation #physiology and #effectsofnoise!

So looking forward to this event tonight with the North Coast Ecology Centre at the Prince Rupert Library! northcoastecologycentresociety.com I’ll share stories from the field and work from my postdoc with @bcwhales.bsky.social @raincoast.org @dmennill.bsky.social. Excited to learn together!

💨 Operant air conditioning Short 🧵 from 1st author on new paper w/Yannick Jadoul + @andrearavignani.bsky.social, shows they can train seals w/ operant conditioning to produce sounds w/huge range of durations -> extensive control of respiration doi.org/10.1186/s128... #bioacoustics #prattle 💬

New preprint in collaboration with @babeheim.bsky.social: Vocal mimicry in corvids. We describe vocal mimicry, i.e., copying of sounds produced by another species or the environment, in 31 out of 128 corvid species (24%). (1/2) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🐀 ultrasonic vocalizations be wildin' 🐀 @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social etc al. use @openacousticdevices.info to study how striped mice use USVs in the wild, new in @currentbiology.bsky.social See graphical abstract for summary of results (does the work for us 😇) 👇 #bioacoustics #prattle 💬

🐸〽️ribbit response 〽️🐸 @lukelarter.bsky.social et al. use dynamic playbacks to study how túngara frog males use acoustic cues from complex choruses to time their calls 🐸 single call stim -> little overlap in response 🐸 overlapping + synchronous call stim >>> overlap #prattle #bioacoustics 💬

The new #ornithology citizen science project “Savanna Spy: Sound” is seeking volunteers to help verify the bird species recorded by passive acoustic monitoring on Texas's Edwards Plateau.

👋 Meet our next speaker, neuroscientist Dr. David Omer! His lab’s work with marmosets is changing how we understand communication, social behavior & the origins of language. 📆 Sept 13 | ⏰ 12pm EST / 9am PST | 📍Zoom 🔗 Register to join: https://shorturl.at/VPXvN #Neuroscience #PrimateCommunication

This week we're launching our first Motus Audio units: flight-call microphones that stream data for real-time acoustic analysis of nocturnal bird migration. Natalie, Madison, and I ran successful on-campus trials today. 🎤🎵🕊️🌒 @birdscanada.bsky.social #bioacoustics #ornithology [📷: N. Niño]

#bioacoustics #femalesong #birdsong

1st recordings of vocal behavior in female Albert's lyrebird, from @drbackhouse.bsky.social @lyrebirdlab.bsky.social @westsyduhie.bsky.social 🐦 documents song from 2 females during nesting and nest construction 🐦 shows ♀️s produce mimicry, conspecific song & alarm calls #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

Another nice work by Raick et al showing that snapping shrimp sounds are effective indicators of coral reef resilience afyer bleaching events with stronger acoustic signatures in protected areas. 🦑🌎🧪 🔈 #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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

🤔 probably also worth a read for any scientist thinking about applying measures of rhythm to individual (non-human) animals + combining that with genomics #praatle 💬

Interesting pre-print up on OSF from @lsburchardt.bsky.social and co-authors on "Rhythmic notation and musical analysis of sperm whale vocalizations" 🐋 "[we found that] transcription of codas very closely resembled human music" osf.io/preprints/os... #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

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...

Actually good review of #AI in #bioacoustics, from @kitzeslab.bsky.social et al. in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social: 🗣️ "...a deep understanding of research context is required to develop and apply appropriate AI models" Heck yeah brother Incl. case study of how expt design impacts AI #prattle 💬

ok, first of all, how rude

Do birds tune their songs to their hearing? Is there tight coevolution between avian vocal signals and hearing-or do signallers and perceivers evolve more loosely? It turns out perfect tuning is not required... Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #bioacoustics #prattle 💬 #ornithology 🪶

How much does it cost to caw? @wascherclaudia.bsky.social @masonyoungblood.bsky.social report that in 3 crow species, there is a strong negative relation b/t call sequence length & call duration --> they obey Menzerath's law of efficiency 1/2 #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

I'm thrilled to share with you our lattest publication with the brilliant Alba Márquez as the first author. We propose here a two-stage pipeline for analyzing audios from a acoustic monitoring programme in #Doñana; 1) using a detector of vocalizations, 2) a fine-tuned classificator. #bioacoustics

‼️New potential ant communication just dropped! ‼️ First reported sounds produced by Red Wood ants doi.org/10.1080/0952... We published in #OpenAccess! #acoustics #animalbehaviour #entomology Brought to you by @umeauniversitet.bsky.social

Our latest study on ant acoustic communication originated from a project about soil health monitoring. A picture being worth a thousand words, I will let my abstract explain it all! Here's the paper in #OpenAccess: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #acoustics #animalbehaviour #entomology

Chattering in your territory: Eurasian magpies vary in their response to chatter calls at different durations and rates. How do magpies perceive this alarm and terrritorial defence signal from intruders in their territory? Out now📜 link.springer.com/10.1007/s100... #openAccess #Communication #Corvid

I am happy to share our new preprint! In this work, we proposed a theory about how zebra finches bootstrap their error signals for self-guided RL via predictive coding 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ok, reinforcement learning fans: RL is great, but what do we do when there's no obvious reward from the environment? What about perfecting a golf swing or a foxtrot or a musical performance? We may have an answer. A tale of 🐦 🎶 + 🧠. 🧵1/ #bioacoustics #prattle 💬 #neuroai #compneuro

New preprint!

 tl;dr — We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧵 w/ Dima Batenkov, @zamakany.bsky.social, Emily Mackevicius www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thank you! Some interesting vocalization observations… bsky.app/profile/ralp...

Fantastic urban ecology from ralphpeterson.bsky.social et al! 1. Fieldwork on free-ranging rats in NYC 2. Thermal imaging and ultrasonic audio 3. Social vocalizations across contexts “We transfer AI-driven methods…to the study of rats in the wild” doi.org/10.1101/2025... #prattle💬 #bioacoustics

What life history and behavioral traits predict female bird song at a global scale? Our collaborative paper let by Karan Odom and out today in @natcomms.nature.com helps to answer that question @josephtobias.bsky.social @sheardcat.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What a wonderful paper and awesome insight into the evolution of female bird song! Congrats to Karan Odam, Lauryn Benedict and co!

Good thread from @rumeltr.bsky.social on their @plosone.org paper extending the approach of building species distribution models by combining eBird data and acoustic monitoring Paper demos this in Peru, making a good case this hybrid approach can be broadly applied #prattle 🙂 #bioacoustics

Excited to have this out in the world and to share my thoughts! Birds 🐣 have so much to teach us about sexual differentiation and diversity, which is so desperately needed in this moment. #neuroendocrinology

Reminder we have a starter pack! Recently added @earthspecies.bsky.social @erin-wall.bsky.social and @judithsmit.bsky.social. If you work in / post about acoustic communication (broadly defined!) let us know and we'll add you & don't forget you can post in our #prattle 💬 feed using that magic tag

☺️🐦 relaxed selection on female song in Orchard Orioles Really cool findings in this study from Michelle Moyer et al. in @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social Possibly 1st to compare male and female song in a N Amer songbird in depth? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/5 #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

A reminder about our OPEN CALL for submission of potential future ManyBirds studies: forms.gle/Qk4hZ6N6DxQB.... Please see link for all info on the process and planned review criteria. Deadline for submission is 31 May 2025. We welcome new ManyBirds collaborators to future studies!

Such a great talk from @erin-wall.bsky.social on humpback whale song; v cool results suggest song is acquired at feeding grounds Hope I can re-watch in @animbehsociety.bsky.social virtual.Can't wait to read the paper! www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/abs_online/m... #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics #ABS2025

A recent preprint from us. Tungara frogs use multifaceted cues to social context to guide adaptive flexibility in calling strategies. Cues involve conspecific stimulation patterns experienced between calls, and how these patterns interact with endogenous call rhythms. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Important paper for those using ML in #bioacoustics! ✅ Quantitative comparisons of commonly used approaches ✅ Guidelines for best practices ✅ Open source code

V cool work from @ebriefer.bsky.social et al on how selection for sociability alters vocal signals (in sheep!) bit.ly/40AHKTd 1. Isolation but not feeding calls distinguish 🐑 selected for high vs low sociability 2. More selection for sociability ➡️ Less vocal individuality #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

Our Google Scholar alerts tell us that this book cites, like, everyone we read And authors include accounts we try to boost like @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social And now we find out from @angelastoeger.bsky.social that it's open access! Go read it #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

Hi everyone, happy to share with all of you the paper from the second chapter of my PhD, where we show that more exploratory birds use a broader foraging niche, linking consistent behavior with ecological flexibility. I hope you can enjoy it and share it!!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hi #ABS2025 I'm here making friends with folx, already caught up w/ @alltheperkes.bsky.social @shelbylawson.bsky.social. Let's talk acoustic communication & all things @animbehsociety.bsky.social Will be at posters later with cards & stickers for @vocalpy.bsky.social & @animal-prattle.bsky.social

📢 I have a new pre-print out with @sarabssethi.bsky.social, where we show that robotic-assisted #acoustic monitoring can deliver automated #biodiversity surveys. 🐒🦜 Drone assisted #PAM works well for coarse patterns of biodiversity, but less well for species-specific details. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Best poster at #AN2025. Tillman Spellauge used lasers to measure the resonance frequency of superficial sensory hair cells on snapping shrimp. He showed the hairs are sensitive to sounds around 2kHz. This supports previous observations that they can hear *without* their statocysts (i.e. ears).

This is a cool #bioacoustics project!

Beautiful, creative work from @loganjames.bsky.social et al! doi.org/10.1101/2025... 1. Humans share sound preferences w animals (even insects!) 2. Musical experience predicts agreement w animals "...our data indicate a more expansive shared ‘taste for the beautiful’" #bioacoustics #prattle 💬