Juan Sebastián Cañas

Working at the intersection of AI and Climate/Conservation?

If so, check out our upcoming workshop which will taking place at #EurIPS in Copenhagen in December 2025.
sites.google.com/g.harvard.ed...

@euripsconf.bsky.social
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GitHub - bioacoustic-ai/bacpipe: BioAcoustic Collection Pipeline BioAcoustic Collection Pipeline. Contribute to bioacoustic-ai/bacpipe development by creating an account on GitHub.

Hey #bioacoustics world!
There is a new bacpipe version out! New models, gpu acceleration and much more! github.com/bioacoustic-... This one is packaged, so you can pip install bacpipe! 🎊🥹
And thanks a lot to @inesnolas.bsky.social for presenting our poster on using pretrained models at #ibac2025!

UK Bats - Types of bats - Bat Conservation Trust We are lucky enough to have 18 species of bat in the UK, 17 of which are known to be breeding here - that's almost a quarter of our mammal species. Ever...

🦇 'Bats' are more than one species. They are an incredibly diverse group of mammals with over 1,400 species. There is a huge diversity of sizes, colours, nose shapes, ear shapes, diet, habitat and more!

In the UK, there are 18 resident species. Learn more here: www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...

Wouu congratulations! 🥂🎉

Acoustic monitoring for tropical ecology and conservation: Q&A with Daniela Martínez Medina | Royal Society Philosophical Transactions B recently published a theme issue on ‘Acoustic monitoring for tropical ecology and conservation’. In this blog, Guest Editor Daniela Martínez Medina (Instituto Humboldt, Co...

🌴🔊🎶Tropical acoustic monitoring by my incredible friend #DaniMartinez🦇 royalsociety.org/blog/2025/08...

With @etiennetho.bsky.social we are co-organizing a special session on human auditory ecology

"Listening With: Minds, Milieux, Machines and Musics"
at CMMR in London
cmmr2025.prism.cnrs.fr/regular-pape...

Extended abstracts (2 p.) due Jun. 29th
Full papers (4–12 p.) due Sep. 12th

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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

Bioacoustic AI

we are @bioacousticai.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy
bioacousticai.eu

📍 Tampere, Finland
📷 Errol Neo

It matters not what people are born, but what they grow to be.

Trans women will always be women.
Trans men will always be men.

In light of the bigoted ruling from the UK’s Supreme Court yesterday, we want to assure every trans person the fight will not stop.
Because trans rights are human rights.

Spatially clustered neurons in the bat midbrain encode vocalization categories Nature Neuroscience - Using two-photon imaging in awake bats, the authors show that the inferior colliculus encodes vocalization categories as categorical primitives—spatially clustered,...

🦇👂🧠Our first bat paper is out! 🧠👂🦇
How do bats tell navigation from social calls?
Led by the fearless Dr. Jenni Lawlor, we used 2P imaging to show that the auditory midbrain encodes categorical primitives.
Check it out @natneuro.nature.com: rdcu.be/ehEgz

BirdCLEF25: Audio-based species identification focused on birds, amphibians, mammals, and insects in Colombia.
👉 www.kaggle.com/competitions...
@cvprconference.bsky.social @kaggle.com
#FGVC #CVPR #CVPR2025 #LifeCLEF
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NeurIPS participation in Europe We seek to understand if there is interest in being able to attend NeurIPS in Europe, i.e. without travelling to San Diego, US. In the following, assume that it is possible to present accepted papers ...

Would you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)

Who is calling? Bats outsmart deception by solving sensory conflicts

www.cell.com/current-biol...

InsectSet459: an open dataset of insect sounds for bioacoustic machine learning Automatic recognition of insect sound could help us understand changing biodiversity trends around the world -- but insect sounds are challenging to recognize even for deep learning. We present a new ...

... check this out. Heavily xeno-cantofied. Pity the last sets of Orthoptera on XC were not included, but hey: arxiv.org/abs/2503.15074 "InsectSet459: an open dataset of insect sounds for bioacoustic machine learning." 32000+ recordings of about 1000 #orthoptera species on XC now. #bioacoustics

... go BirdCLEF!

Come and work with us! Be a Postdoctoral Fellow in AI for Ultrasonic Bioacoustic Monitoring! All the details: https://www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/job-opportunities/postdoctoral-fellow-in-ai-for-ultrasonic-bioacoustic-monitoring #academicjobs #postdoc #PDRA #netherlands #biodiversity #AI […]

BirdCLEF+ 2025: Resolviendo dudas, compartiendo ideas | WILDLABS ¿Te interesa la bioacústica, la inteligencia artificial y la conservación? Únete a nuestra sesión para conocer BirdCLEF+ 2025, la competencia global que desafía a la comunidad de inteligencia artifica...

¿Te interesa la bioacústica, la inteligencia artificial y la conservación?

Únete a la sesión de la Comunidad Latinoamericana en 27/3 9:30 (UTC -5) para conocer BirdCLEF+ 2025, la competencia a mejorar la identificación de especies a partir de grabaciones acústicas.

wildlabs.net/event/birdcl...

#BirdCLEF+ 2025 is now open! 🐦💡

ESP is proud to support this year's competition by overseeing a FootPrint Coalition Science Engine grant that funded a key dataset focused on under-studied species from Colombia’s Middle Magdalena Valley.

🔗 Learn more & participate: www.imageclef.org/BirdCLEF2025

Check out the #BirdCLEF+ Competition 2025! This year it comes with a multi taxonomic dataset 🐦🐸🐒🦗 from the middle Valley of Magdalena river in Colombia 🇨🇴

🤖🔊 www.kaggle.com/competitions...

... spread the word! BirdCLEF is back. Alive and kicking since 2014. www.kaggle.com/competitions...

Check out the last bioacoustics competition for BirdCLEF+!
This year we have exciting challenges as unlabelled in domain data and a multi-taxonomic dataset from Colombia with amphibians, birds, insects, and mammals sounds for automatic species identification. More info www.kaggle.com/competitions...

People in London, see you there (:

Do Large Language Models (LLMs) possess ecological knowledge?

For example, can they do tasks such as:
(1) predict the presence of species at a location
(2) generate range maps
(3) list critically endangered species
(4) perform threat assessment
(5) estimate species traits

Bats' vocalizations can reveal their personalities

Bold, exploratory, and proactive individuals were more likely to produce social calls – and more agitated bats called even more!

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Photo by Michael Stifter

AI is changing how we study bird migration After decades of frustration, machine-learning tools are unlocking a treasure trove of acoustic data for ecologists.

Really cool to see our AI for bioacoustics work in the MIT Technology Review! BirdVox was a fantastic project that beyond posing a fascinating research problem, introduced me to the world of bird watching and deepened my appreciation of the natural world
www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/18/1...

Need to efficiently annotate large quantities of audio data?

Check out our new work Whombat, led by Santiago Martínez Balvanera at UCL:
mbsantiago.github.io/whombat/

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Awesome opportunity! Please RT for potential PhD students on our new AI & Biodiversity PhD Programme

SHOWING NOW AT UCL East: some brilliant compositions by BBC Young composer award winners, using nature sound clips from the Biome Health Project. Played on a very special Icosahedral (21 sides!) Speaker! Go check it out! 🎶🦜🦐🐘 @ucl-pnl.bsky.social