Becky Heath

BioDCASE Challenge - BioDCASE Introduction The first year of the BioDCASE challenge includes three tasks - Multi-channel audio alignment, marine mammal detection and bioacoustics on tiny hardware. More information about the challenges will be released soon. Tasks Multi-Channel Alignment Alignment Task 1 Researchers often deploy multiple audio recorders simultaneously, for example with passive automated recording …

I'm enormously proud: the results of the first BioDCASE Challenge are now online! Click "Results" here: https://biodcase.github.io/challenge2025/ #BioDCASE #DCASE #bioacoustics #PAM

03.07.2025 13:43 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Robotics-assisted acoustic surveys could deliver reliable, landscape-level biodiversity insights Terrestrial remote sensing approaches, such as acoustic monitoring, deliver finely resolved and reliable biodiversity data. However, the scalability of surveys is often limited by the effort, time and...

📢 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.
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03.07.2025 10:21 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

July-August - 2025 - Volume: 113 - Number: 4 Unseen animals can often still be heard. That’s part of the impetus behind the growing field of ecoacoustics, which aims to measure entire soundscapes in different habitats as a way of gauging an…

Soundscapes reveal hidden details of complex ecosystems.

17.06.2025 21:26 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

(PDF) monitoraSom: an easy path from Soundscapes to Ecology PDF | Soundscape analysis for biodiversity monitoring with data from autonomous recorders has become a vital tool for biodiversity research. Yet,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...

A few years ago, we came together to rethink acoustic monitoring. Beyond recording and fieldwork, we focused on making data processing easier. That journey led to monitoraSom, an R package to extract biological info from recordings. #Bioacoustics #SoundEcology www.researchgate.net/publication/...

02.07.2025 13:21 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1

Logo: Bioacoustic AI

Hello! We are Bioacoustic AI - a new research project bringing machine learning and signal processing together to understand animal sound. We use #bioacoustics, #deeplearning, and more. Ten PhDs, and many research groups across Europe! Learn more here: https://bioacousticai.eu/

18.12.2023 10:00 — 👍 12    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Suuper happy to have been shortlisted by Methods for the Robert May Prize!! Links to the shortlisted paper and blog about it below! 🌴🎙️

06.04.2025 08:07 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Causes and consequences of insect decline in tropical forests Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 04 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00038-9Insect biodiversity in tropical forests is poorly understood but is probably facing declines, with serious consequences for ecosystem functions and services. This Review describes the major threats to insect biodiversity, which include the effects of a burgeoning human population and of climate change. The authors further highlight the urgent need for greater efforts to measure and monitor insect biodiversity in the tropics and discuss emerging approaches to facilitate such studies.

New online! Causes and consequences of insect decline in tropical forests

04.04.2025 03:27 — 👍 42    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 0

Logo: BioDCASE. Challenge launched! We like birds, whales, forests, and data

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

02.04.2025 16:30 — 👍 22    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0

Nature’s secret soundscape: listen with me to the world’s quietest creatures While humans are more boisterous than ever, other species are talking too – this is what you will hear if you really listen

very nice. www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...

30.03.2025 09:37 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Publish Online

Translating animals: this looks like an interesting collection of perspectives.
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26.03.2025 14:42 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Mitigating bias in long-term terrestrial ecoacoustic studies🎶

Recommends
👉effective documentation of environmental & hardware-related variables📑
👉a long-term data storage strategy for reanalysis🌏
👉regular calibration tests to measure variation in the acoustic detection space🧪

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10.03.2025 11:00 — 👍 19    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Had a blast at iCOPE, an oil pal sustainability conference 🌴🦋 Was an honour to give two talks at the conference - on riparian area restoration (RERTA project), and the use of acoustics to monitor biodiversity. Pretty happy to walk away from the lucky draw with a new speaker too 😁😁 #icope #icope2025

20.02.2025 16:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mitigating bias in long‐term terrestrial ecoacoustic studies The sources of bias and suggested mitigations described here will be of relevance to hardware manufacturers, ecological researchers and conservation practitioners. Researchers and conservation practi...

📰 NEW PAPER!

Really pleased to see this published in @jappliedecology.bsky.social - a summary of the main sources of bias in ecoacoustic surveys, with recommendations on how best to control for these. 🎙️🐦🐸

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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