Lara S. Burchardt

Great initiative by Wiley! The publisher has started marking retracted papers in reference lists. When you click on the retraction notice, you can also see the date and reason for the retraction.
All publishers should adopt this practice. But also screen references during submission.

Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻

Acoustic recognition of individuals in closed and open bird populations Passive acoustic monitoring is firmly established as an effective non-invasive technique for wildlife monitoring. The analysis of animal vocalizations…

I'm excited to share our new (in press) paper on vocal individuality and acoustic recognition. We looked at Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos, Little Penguins, Little Owls, Tree Pipits and Chiffchaffs, with promising results. #bioacoustics #vocalindividuality www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#bioacoustics community: do you know any online platforms for volunteers to join an acoustics project, validate and label acoustic data (e.g. birdnet detections, false negatives), filter for specific species etc? I asked this a few yrs ago but nothing of the sort existed...

Hey #rstats,

What's your rule for splitting R scripts that form part of a wider analysis pipeline / project?

I usually write a single script which includes sections for each step from data cleaning to the final results, but it can become unwieldy when the script becomes long.
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We are looking for a Research Assistant to contribute to our ongoing analysis of dolphin acoustic data from West Wales - collaboration between @wtsww.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 🐬
Deadline is 29th June - please share widely!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

The study of social animal migrations: a synthesis of the past and guidelines for future research | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Seasonal migration is a common behaviour seen in many species worldwide. There is evidence that social factors influence various migration decisions, but compared to the well-studied field of social f...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
Excited to share our new review in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B! 🎉

We synthesize research on social factors influencing animal migration and offer guidelines for future research. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

#OpenAccess #Migration #MovementEcology

We use 9 temporal parameters of individual songs🎵, one of which is #integerratios. We use slightly adjusted calculations🧮, comparing not only adjacent intervals but all interval pairs in a sequence, making sure we report global rather than local similarities of intervals between onsets of syllables.

This study was only possible because of the enormous efforts of Tereza Petrusková and colleagues at Charles University Prague, who made focal recordings 🎙️ of 38 known individuals of🐤🐤 🐤yellowhammers (amongst other birds) over several years 💪.

🔊Preprint Alert: now on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social. So much interesting stuff going on in supposedly simple, consistent rhythms #bioaocustics #rhythm #birdsong #passerines

ORCID Board + ORAC nominations now open through 27 June

Call for ORCID Board and Research Advisory Council nominations!

⏰ Deadline 27 June

We are seeking nominations for:

ORCID Member-Director Board seats 👉 https://shorturl.at/bUpR1
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ORCID Researcher Board Seat and ORCID Researcher Advisory Council seats 👉 https://shorturl.at/jjxXG

‼️ Dear MARMAM community,
We, at the DEI Committee of the Society for Marine Mammalogy, are beginning the process of establishing an Indigenous Representation Subcommittee, the idea of which came out of an ad hoc meeting held at the SMM conference in Boorloo (Perth) in the Whajuk region of WA (1/n)

👋 Looking forward to the 117th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society. Please like and share 🤩

Whale vocalizations not only resemble human vowels, but also behave like ones!

We previously discovered that sperm whales have analogues to human vowels.

In a new preprint, we analyze linguistic behavior of whale vowels.

Balloon wall art inspired by the ggplot2 hex sticker. The display features a hexagonal frame made of black balloons, filled with white balloons inside and surrounded by a background of light and dark blue balloons. A line graph with black balloon segments and round coloured nodes runs across the centre, and the word “ggplot2” is spelled out in black balloon letters below the chart.

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

🚨 Out this week in @pnas.org 🚨
The flagship paper from my PhD @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social - We show surprising statistical similarities in animal behaviour across states, individuals, and even species.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Check out the beautiful book Smithsonian Kids published about our research on babbling baby bats! Illustrated by Gavin Scott and written by Paige Towler together with the Smithsonian Bat Lab.

Although it was published last year, I only received my copy a few days ago — and I’m completely smitten! ♥️

I've put in ~60 hrs over the last 8 months trying to develop a free web tool for sound analysis & visualization. I get $0 from this. Every $80 we raise funds a skilled web dev for 1 hour to check off these tasks.

Despite all that's happening, we can still create nice things for the public good 🧪🔊🐦‍⬛

Join us for the the second edition of Sonic Connexions on May 5th, 2025 !

Register here:
whoi-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#bioacoustics 🧪

Visualization and quantification of coral reef soundscapes using CoralSoundExplorer software Author summary Passive acoustic monitoring is an increasingly popular method for monitoring ecosystems, but analyzing the data generated by this approach remains complex. In this paper, we present Cor...

You need rapid measurement and identification of changes in coral reefs soundscapes? Try the new software "CoralSoundExplorer" by the ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab & Co 👇
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#bioacoustics #ecology #coralreef #ecoacoustics #globalchanges #ocean #sound @plos.org

Formant analysis of vertebrate vocalizations: achievements, pitfalls, and promises - BMC Biology When applied to vertebrate vocalizations, source-filter theory, initially developed for human speech, has revolutionized our understanding of animal communication, resulting in major insights into the...

"Formant analysis of vertebrate vocalizations: achievements, pitfalls, and promises" - New paper by the ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab & Co 👇
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#bioacoustics

Special issue currently being compiled on ultrasonic communication in rodents. The first article is online. The others will follow 😀
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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

🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬
The Evolution of Cetacean Societies

Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and myself

Preorder available now
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

#whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour

Amazing, congrats! I'm just making sure this is posted to the #bioacoustics feed as well 🔊

Its full of multimodal signal processing and analyses - continuous and peak-based. Methods & results (and prereg) were fully written in Rmarkdow.

This was a lot of work, and were happy it now has a peer-reviewed stamp. wimpouw.github.io/kineticsvoice/

Soon in Proceedings B, congrats to @wimpouw.bsky.social! It always is a pleasure working with you! Great fun to be involved in this lab study!
Have a look at the #rmarkdown, it is amazing! 💪🏼🔊📈📊

Grateful for being a part of this and for the brilliant minds who contributed to this chapters! 🎶🐦🐸🐟
Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc, Jennifer N. Schneider, Michael D. Greenfield, Gerlinde Höbel and Nao Ota.
More chapters to be pre-printed soon!
#RhythmicCommunication #Behaviour #Bioacoustics
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Our review also highlights major gaps, some of which are addressed in Chp. 1 (osf.io/preprints/os...):
⚠️ Theoretical & methodological inconsistencies
⚠️ A need for standardized terminology & metrics
⚠️ More cross-species comparisons to uncover evolutionary trends
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#Evolution

We map RC forms and functions in an unprecedented range of taxa, showing:
🔹 RC seems universal in reproductive contexts
🔹 Current knowledge suggests that function becomes more complex in socially advanced species
🔹 Structural complexity varies widely—even within the same group!
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