animal prattle

It's not all about animal sounds, but guessing a lot of our followers will want to hear @evoneuro.bsky.social & Georg Striedter talk about their new book Bird Brains & Behavior on @manymindspod.bsky.social pod

#prattle 💬
#neuroskyence

Dawn chorus (DC) redux -- lots of recent work on DC!
Here authors look at zebra finches (ZFs) in lab

- Found DC-like song when delaying AM lights-on time (LT)
- ZFs awake hours before LT, corr. w/melatonin drop
- DC singing increases AM change in song syllable structure

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#bioacoustics

another day, another AI/ML paper on birdsong classification

Input features scream "foundation model": MFCCs, chromograms(!), lots more

But the idea of combining self-supervised contrastive loss w/next-frame prediction in a lightweight transformer encoder is interesting

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#bioacoustics

👋 The International #Bioacoustics Society (#IBAC) is now on Bluesky!
🎶🦉🦇🐬🐞 Follow us for society news, events, and advances in bioacoustics research from around the world.
🌍 Let’s connect the global community exploring life through sound. 🔊

BioDCASE workshop - registration closes next week Oct 10th https://biodcase.github.io/workshop2025/ - Hope to see you there! #bioacoustics

Zebra finches produce soft laryngeal whistles during thermal panting that are not adaptive vocal signals Zebra finch heat calls are suggested to have close-range communicative relevance in the global temperature rise context. Anttonen et al. identify the biophysical mechanism underlying these vocalizatio...

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

A pair of chirupping wedgebills of which one is vocalising

🔊🔊 What's important in a duet? In a new paper, we tested whether duet coordination in pairs has a function in their territoriality, using fine-scale and coarse measures of duet coordination in response to playback in chirruping wedgebills.
See 👉 doi.org/10.1111/eth.... @marcnaguib.bsky.social

New in ICB!
(cc @sicbjournals.bsky.social)

Synthesis of recent work from @lukelarter.bsky.social et al. on túngara frog calling 🐸

Suggests call-timing models for frogs may need to account for species-specific behaviors not present in insects these models were adapted from

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#bioacoustics

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

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Bats resolve conflicting sensory information for individual recognition Knörnschild et al. reveal that greater sac-winged bats can detect inconsistencies in sensory information for individual recognition. Playback experiments show that bats ignore distress calls from visi...

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...

Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Bioacoustic Physiology - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet Ledig stilling ved Institut for Biologi - Zoofysiologi, Aarhus Universitet

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!

Poster with a photo of humpback whales, and a biologist taking a photograph. Description of the presentation topic on humpback whale song, with details about the time and place, September 16, 2025 at 7pm at the Prince Rupert Library.

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 💬

Calling carrion crow in an aviary

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...

Nice writw up here too

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*et al.!

etc al is a new way to assign authors credit 🤦‍♂️

cc @nickjourjine.bsky.social @katietschida.bsky.social @ralphpeterson.bsky.social @schneiderneuro.bsky.social @rodent-usv.bsky.social @jmxpearson.bsky.social icymi 👆

🐀 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
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wow didn't know you spoke space frog 🔫🐸

sorry @lukelarter.bsky.social for the delay in posting about this -- cuz of (gestures broadly). Great read though, want to find time to dive into it more

🐸〽️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

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#bioacoustics 💬

New Ornithology Citizen Science Project – “Savanna Spy: Sound” We want to make the ornithology community aware of a new online citizen science research project called “Savanna Spy: Sound,” now available at Zooniverse! This work is part of The Prairie Project, …

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

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Highlighting the resilience potential of marine protected areas in the face of coral bleaching with passive acoustic monitoring | Royal Society Open Science Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) can increase the resilience of reef communities to disturbances, playing a role in sheltering biodiversity from climate-related impacts. To determine if the protection st...

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.

🦑🌎🧪 🔈
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#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

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

#praatle 💬