Tessa Rhinehart

Check out pypi.org/project/xeno... where you'll find xcapi: a Python package for downloading animal sounds using the Xeno-canto API. Courtesy: Burooj Ghani (of AvesEcho etc. fame). #bioacoustics

Integrating AI models into ecological research workflows: The case of terrestrial bioacoustics Data collected by autonomous sensors, including camera traps and acoustic recorders, have enormous potential to generate new scientific insights in ecology and related fields. Modern machine learn...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨

From field recordings to ecological insights 🎙️🌳 Our new review in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social explores integrating #AI into #bioacoustics workflows to improve biodiversity monitoring and ecological inference

Check it out!
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Also you should def check out this curated list of #bioacoustics software (I ref in the post):
rhine3.github.io/bioacoustics...

that started as a repo + spreadsheet from @tessarhinehart.bsky.social & now has evolved to a really slick site w/help from @kitzeslab.bsky.social

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Hey friends in bioacoustics & acoustic communication:
I am (finally) sharing this post on the new version of @vocalpy.bsky.social I released after teaching a bootcamp with @tessarhinehart.bsky.social at the @nmac2024.bsky.social last year

blog.vocalpy.org/posts/2025-0...

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Woohoo, thanks! BRDL fans rejoice!!

Hey Alex!

Bit of an unusual comment - someone emailed me asking if I knew you via BRDL/Goldeneye. She wanted me to get word to you that the BRDL page is down, in case you didn't know already. :)

Love your work so much!

As far as I know, there's not. They were invented by US banders & standardized by the BBL/IBP. Such a system doesn't appear to have been taken up by ringing operations elsewhere, at least not in a standardized way.

A mountain quail walks through a burned landscape and looks towards the camera

New paper out today! We demonstrate how incorporating bioacoustics into wildlife monitoring can support management and restoration planning at a bioregional scale in fire-prone forests (but really anywhere).

Read it @esajournals.bsky.social: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Birders: if you never again want to ask "WTH is a WTHA?," check out Goldeneye, an alpha code dictionary (alphacodes.net)! It's also available as a Chrome extension (bit.ly/goldeneye-chrome).

Featuring newly-updated codes, so you can now search for NHWR, AGOS, WECE, ABOW, REDP, ...! 🥳

Thanks Richard, should be fixed now!

Haha, you know you're always welcome @animal-prattle.bsky.social

Workshops & Training Opportunities - AOS 2025 Annual Meeting The workshops and training sessions at AOS 2025 offer opportunities both for hands-on learning exercises, where participants engage in a mix of lectures and activities, and for panel discussions on a ...

Bird #bioacoustics folks: @kitzeslab.bsky.social is hosting a hands-on "Advanced topics in bioacoustic monitoring" workshop at AOS 2025!

We'll make custom sound ID models, estimate birds' positions using acoustic localization, and discuss how to use sound ID results to make ecological insights.

this town aint big enough for the Potoo of us

Something else notable - unlike original research, letters/comments that critique other studies often don't include images or figures.

This could make it easier to submit large language model-generated letters which superficially seem "well-written," helping them slip under editors' radar.

I described these problems in my review. I also included my suspicions about AI in the confidential note to the editor, who thanked me for the catch

Should we do anything else when we come across potentially AI-generated papers? Do publishers track authors who submit papers like these?

Just peer-reviewed a possibly AI-generated paper. It was a critique of another study I was one of the original reviewers for.

It sounded polished, but every criticism was irrelevant or incorrect. The authors had never published in that field, but had published other "critiques" in unrelated fields

Excited to share the release of our very own Chapin's latest paper: "Uncovering Breeding Habitat Use of an Uncommon Songbird in Pennsylvania Using Large-Scale Acoustic Data" 🐦📊. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#CanadaWarbler #PAM

📖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

This paper is a fantastic resource for researchers doing biodiversity monitoring, especially occupancy modeling. Check it out!

Congrats & thanks to @ben-r-goldstein.bsky.social, @kendallcalhoun.bsky.social, @drpheebs.bsky.social, and other authors :)

Are you a scientist that analyses/creates models using data from cameras, acoustics, drones or satellites to understand biodiversity? Join the Biodiversity Monitoring starter pack. Point me to your research to be added. ECRs and PhDs welcome! 🧪🌏 #AI #conservation

go.bsky.app/eFMQQX

Hey Richard, I was excited to see you on here too! Glad you enjoyed those tools--I have another one coming up soon 👀

cool. XC will open up for strongly labelled recordings like these somewhere in 2025. #bioacoustics

Ooh, could I also please be added?

🎯 How can we empower scientific discovery in millions of nature photos?

Introducing INQUIRE: A benchmark testing if AI vision-language models can help scientists find biodiversity patterns- from disease symptoms to rare behaviors- hidden in vast image collections.

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Could you add me as well, please? I'm studying impacts of invasive species management on forest birds. Thank you!

We mostly use AudioMoths in Pennsylvania. But when the recorder needs to stand up to rainforest level humidity, animals chewing, etc., we use Song Meter Micros.

The SMM2 has come down in price a ton. Initial tests suggest it has evener frequency response than SMM1s and AudioMoths in cases

Bioacoustics Resource Page Bioacoustics Resources A list curated by the Kitzes Lab hint: bookmark this page :) Educational Materials Workshops by the Kitzes Lab Lecture series from Computer Vision for Ecology workshop Class...

If you're looking for bioacoustics tips and help, check out the #Bioacoustics Resource Page (run by Sam Lapp and the Kitzes Lab) - bit.ly/bioacoustics-resource-page

It has links to tons of tutorials, datasets, software, forums, #AudioMoth info, and more

Please add me - thank you!

Searching for #bioacoustics tools to classify species, organize data, triangulate sounds, ...? 🦉🐋🦇🦗

Check out the (newly updated) Bioacoustics Software Database! rhine3.github.io/bioacoustics...

Examples from dataset, a world map surrounded by spectrograms showing animal sounds from different regions of the world

Scatter plot where points are sound data sets, x axis is number of categories in dataset and y axis is duration of dataset in hours iNatSounds is shown as the largest dataset on both axes

iNatSounds: new dataset from folks @inaturalist.bsky.social & co-authors; looks to be one of the largest public datasets of animal sounds

openreview.net/forum?id=QCY...

github.com/visipedia/in...

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