Andrea Ravignani

Apply now! The 2026 Renée Fleming Neuroarts Investigator Awards offer funding for teams of early career investigators and arts practitioners to lead innovative neuroarts research.

Proposals due February 3, 2026.

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Apply now to become a speaker at our Institute! We invite excellent postdocs in neuroscience, ecology and other fields related to our research to apply for our Emerging Scientist Talk Series. Apply by October 24: www.bi.mpg.de/ess

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Excellent chimeric face image showing off a left visual field bias for face processing - this image will tend to look more like John Travolta to observers, but the next one (see following post in this thread)... <1/2>

yes, we have new crispy evidence of crossmodal matching in tortoises just off the press!

"Crossmodal Pitch−Luminance Association in Tortoises"
How do you like our visual abstract?

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nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Meet our plenary speaker Renata Sousa-Lima!

Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), Renata ‘s research focuses on bioacoustics of aquatic mammals and has pioneered the field of ecoacoustics and soundscape ecology in Brazil.

🚨 Applications open!

#FENS travel grants are now available to attend #NEURO2026, the 49th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society, taking place in Kobe, Japan from 30 July - 2 August 2026. 🇯🇵

🗓️ 20 November 2025
👉 Learn more here: https://loom.ly/J3VOz0I

Brilliant work on the ontogeny of rhythm in zebra finches. "Shared rhythm goes beyond copying the temporal features of individual elements; tutees ...adjust the rhythm of non-shared intervals". 🔊 @lsburchardt.bsky.social & al: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A social media card with the Company of Biologists logo in the top left and a photo of a woman standing in shallow water placing a small bucket inside of a larger bucket in the top right who is a previous recipient of a Travelling Fellowship. Underneath these it says 'Are you an early career researcher planning to do a collaborative visit to another lab? You could be eligible for funding from us.' In the bottom right is a button stating 'Find out more.'

Apply by 24 October. Our Travelling Fellowships offer PhD students and postdocs up to £3,000 for undertaking collaborative visits to other laboratories. Find out more and apply at biologists.com/grants/trave...

PhD Defense 🦭

I am mind blown to announce that the day before yesterday I have been awarded the degree of doctor from Radboud University, Nijmegen, with the distinction cum laude, which I learned is the highest distinction in the Netherlands 🤯👩🏼‍🎓
That my thesis was honored in this way really moves me.

The call for contributions for the 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep is open!
Check out the website confmussleep.au.dk for more info 💤🎶✨
#confmussleep #musicscience

Applicants Day 2025 Applicants Day is a free online event for anyone interested in international master's degree programmes at the University of Jyväskylä.

Looking to do a Master's in Music and Science? The next application round for Master’s Degree Programme in Music and Science at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) is open: January 7-21, 2026

Find out more about our program at the International Applicants' Day: jyu.fi/applicantsday

Children spontaneously discover efficient solutions to a difficult sorting task - Nature Human Behaviour Children successfully solved a challenging sorting task by spontaneously discovering efficient sorting strategies, such as selection sort and shaker sort. Older children outperformed younger ones, demonstrating developmental progress in strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities.

Children can solve a difficult sorting task by spontaneously discovering efficient sorting algorithms. Older children outperform younger children, showing developmental growth in strategy use and problem-solving. @hw-yang.bsky.social‬‬
@celestekidd.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Silvery gibbons (Hylobates moloch) are confined to 29 fragmented forests in western and central Java. All gibbons are known for their songs, mostly in duet; unlike other species, silvery gibbons are soloists. Populations are declining steadily due to habitat loss and human encroachment. Endangered.

The International Bioacoustics Society is on Bluesky!
@ibacsocial.bsky.social

#bioacoustics

How sighing regulates pulmonary surfactant structure and its role in breathing mechanics Sigh-induced structural changes lower alveolar surface stress through a mechanical response.

2025. How sighing regulates pulmonary surfactant structure and its role in breathing mechanics | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Check out our new paper on a male harbor seal's 🦭 excellent respiratory control: within just a few weeks, this young seal learned to produce vocalizations that spanned over two orders of magnitude in duration! ...

🧠 Ready to take your #NeuroscienceCareer beyond borders?

Take part in the #FENS / #IBRO–PERC #ExchangeFellowships and develop your skills through hands-on training in Europe. 🌐

🗓️ Deadline: 15 October 2025
👉 https://loom.ly/DhYSWlQ

@ibroorg.bsky.social

Humans can find rhythm in randomly timed sounds | Royal Society Open Science Humans are keen pattern-seekers and take advantage of regularities present in their environment. In the temporal domain, we may call these patterns rhythms, but what is rhythm? Definitions vary, but all presuppose a categorical distinction between rhythm ...

Humans can find rhythm in randomly timed sounds. New paper by van Jelle van der Werff, Tomasso Tufarelli, @lauraverga.bsky.social & @andrearavignani.bsky.social ‬. doi.org/10.1098/rsos....

A common cross-species atlas of cortical gray matter https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.08.675002v1

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

A very interesting article on the completely weird reproductive symbiosis of two ant species, where one female can give birth to individuals of two species:
"Clonal males may thus be regarded as organelles at the superorganism level"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪 #EvoBio
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Domain general noise reduction for time series signals with Noisereduce - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Domain general noise reduction for time series signals with Noisereduce

New paper out today with Asaf Zorea : "Domain-general noise reduction for time-series signals with Noisereduce" (open access)!

We present Noisereduce, a lightweight Python library for denoising signals.

Read the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Code (library): github.com/timsainb/noi...

(PDF) Towards a fuller integration of respiratory rhythms into research on infant vocal and motor development PDF | Rhythm organizes many human motor activities from before birth and continues to shape development throughout infancy. In this review, we examine... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

New preprint, a review of infant #vocal and #motor #rhythm research, a suggestion to include #respiration in future research. It us work with Elina Rubertus, Aude Noiray and Laura Koenig www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Complex behaviour is not limited to animals! Here we map the entire spectrum of waveforms dynamics on a quadriflagellate single cell with 4x 70um (!) #cilia, to a low dimensional behavioural manifold with surprising structure! #protistsonsky

All revealed in our new preprint doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Chants across seven traditions share acoustic traits that enhance subjective relaxation | PNAS For over 5,000 y, chanting has been practiced across many Western and Eastern traditions. However, there is hardly any empirical research on 1) whe...

For over 5,000 y, chanting has been practiced across many Western and Eastern traditions. Chants share distinctive acoustic traits which have evolved culturally to optimize listener relaxation. 👇 new paper @pnas.org by ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab & Co

#bioacoustics
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

YouTube video by Deep Look These Lizards Have Been Playing Rock-Paper-Scissors for 15 Million Years | Deep Look

My daughter knew I would enjoy the evolutionary dynamics (an evolutionary stable state / Nash equilibrium) described in this 3 minute video from KQED’s excellent Deep Look team:

These Lizards Have Been Playing Rock-Paper-Scissors for 15 Million Years

#evolution #nature

🚀 We’re creating a PsychoPy Cheat Sheet to help students get started fast!

If you could give a new user one tip for their first 30 minutes with PsychoPy, what would it be?

We’d love your ideas! (They might even join our PsychoPy tips in the app 😉 )

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Using high-speed transnasal imaging, electroglottography, and acoustic analysis, this new #JRSocInterface paper studies ten distinct phonation types in a professional metal singer: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #biophysics

Embodied cognitive evolution and the limits of convergence | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Comparative psychology seems to be perpetually bogged down in intractable debates about which species have what cognitive capacities, which criteria to use and whether or not the capacities are domain...

Banger paper! “Perhaps we should abandon the search for ‘cognition’ in terms of representational capacities distinct from systems for sensing and moving” royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Microstructural Brain Correlates of Inter-individual Differences in Respiratory Interoception Interoception, the perception and integration of physiological signals, is a fundamental aspect of self-awareness and homeostasis. While previous work has explored interoceptive processing in the card...

You’re now breathing manually 🌬️

What underlies this ability to be consciously aware of own breathing?

In our new Journal of Neuroscience paper, we report the largest study to date linking brain microstructure to respiratory interoception.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... 🧵 👇

Can you think of examples of books, films, TV shows, etc. featuring earworms or other types of imagined music? Please share them here! musicinmyhead.org/inner-music-...