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Alper Yelimlieş
@alperyelimlies.bsky.social
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PhD student at University of Vienna studying female birdsong and duetting
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Alper Yelimlieş @alperyelimlies.bsky.social · Jun 5
Excited to share our new preprint!
Unlike the North American yellow warblers, females in Galápagos commonly sing and duet with their paired partners. Here, we tested possible functions with a playback experiment: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Illustration of female and male yellow warblers and their respective songs. On top, two duets are shown in spectrograms with male parts marked in red and female parts marked in yellow. On the left are three female songs and on the right are three different male songs. Illustrations are courtesy of Lena Gies.
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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · 2d
This bower was located next to a nursery, something tells me the male bowerbird owner has been pinching from the kids 😆
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Alper Yelimlieş @alperyelimlies.bsky.social · 2d
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BIRDBASE dataset tracks ecological traits for 11,589 species of birds
Çağan Şekercioğlu was an ambitious, but perhaps naive graduate student when, 26 years ago, he embarked on a simple data-compilation project that would soon evolve into a massive career-defining achiev...
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Thomas MacGillavry @thomasmacgillavry.bsky.social · 2d
#bowerbirds are the only birds that build structures used specifically for courtship. But why and how did this remarkable ability evolve?

We discuss some possibilities in our new review in Emu - Austral Ornithology!

@fusanilab.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/0158...
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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 13d
New episode!! 🎉🎙️

A chat w/ @evoneuro.bsky.social & Georg Striedter about their new book, 'Bird Brains and Behavior.'

Birds do some astonishing things. They sing, fly, migrate, cache food, and hunt in total darkness. How do their brains make all this possible?

Listen: disi.org/brains-of-a-...
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Der Führer hat immer recht! 🇺🇦 @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 5d
Half Male-Half Female Spider Discovered In Thailand Is New To Science

#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#Biodiversity #Spider🕷️ #NewToScience #NewSpecies #Thailand🇹🇭 #Gynandromorph #Wildlife #Halloween🏮 #SpookySeason😵‍💫 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
Half Male-Half Female Spider Discovered In Thailand Is New To Science
Not only is this species new to science, but this remarkable individual is the first record of a rare biological phenomenon in this previously unknown species.
www.forbes.com
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Jefferson García-Loor @jeffgarcialoor.bsky.social · 6d
Hi everyone, it's a pleasure to share with you our newest paper, lead by @melaniekaluppa.bsky.social!!! Have a look and enjoy it!!!

Cultural and morphological divergence of Darwin’s cactus finches (Geospiza scandens) across Galápagos Islands url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
Cultural and morphological divergence of Darwin’s cactus finches (Geospiza scandens) across Galápagos Islands
Abstract. Understanding the divergence of cultural traits, such as bird song, provides crucial insights into evolutionary processes. In geographically isol
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Ari Strandburg-Peshkin @arispeshkin.bsky.social · 7d
⭐PhD position available!⭐
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...
Analysis of communication and collective behavior in animal groups
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Marc Naguib @marcnaguib.bsky.social · 17d
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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...
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 8d
The International Bioacoustics Society is on Bluesky!
@ibacsocial.bsky.social

#bioacoustics
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Thomas MacGillavry @thomasmacgillavry.bsky.social · 10d
Victoria’s riflebirds are masters of time, accelerating their dance tempo by reducing the durations between movements by just 50 milliseconds, before leveling off at 3 alternations per second and flashing their yellow mouth.

Read more about this spectacular dance here:
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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fusanilab @fusanilab.bsky.social · 10d
Amazing riflebirds! We did not dare to write that males 'mesmerize' females with their spectacular displays, but .... judge yourself!
Photo by Thomas MacGillavry
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Valentine Comin @valentine-comin.bsky.social · 16d
I am looking for an intern to work with captive crows this winter semester. Please feel free to share, or contact me if interested !
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Çağlar Akçay @caglarakcay.bsky.social · 14d
New paper led by Andrew Katsis @klf-univienna.bsky.social Good guardian, bad parent: tradeoffs between territory defense and parental care in Darwin’s finches url: academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
a male small ground finch
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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 16d
Textbook recommendation?

Dear #biology bsky: a philisopher friend of mine is looking for accessible textbooks on basic concepts in ecology, and is esp. interested in co-evolution and symbiosis. If you have brilliant materials to share/books to recommend, that would be great!
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Elodie Mandel-Briefer @ebriefer.bsky.social · 25d
@behaveco.bsky.social was very busy and had a great time this week at #ibac2025, with 2 posters and 3 talks @biologen.bsky.social, @damaris-riedner.bsky.social, @karina-stampe.bsky.social
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Lena Gies @lenagies.bsky.social · 26d
Thank you to everyone at #ibac2025 for this amazing conference. I met so many great people and learned a lot about so many interesting projects. Excited to see you all again some time! And proud that my poster got the student poster price ☺️ stay tuned for the publication!
Me with my poster on the greylag goose vocal repertoire and how data representation types influence the predictions of unsupervised methods
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 26d
Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice. 👇 New paper by the ENES Bioacoustics Research Team in @currentbiology.bsky.social

authors.elsevier.com/a/1llMH3QW8S...
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UCPH Behavioural Ecology Group @behaveco.bsky.social · Sep 5
In bioacoustics, our methods matter.

Using different machine learning techniques for caller ID can lead to conflicting results, making it hard to compare studies.

A new preprint asks: which analysis pipeline is the most reliable?

📈 Find more at: www.behavioural-ecology-group.com/same-data-di...
Same data, different results? Evaluating machine learning approaches for individual identification in animal vocalisations | Behavioural Ecology Group
Automated acoustic analysis is increasingly used in animal communication studies, and determining caller identity is a key element for many investigations.
www.behavioural-ecology-group.com
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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · Sep 8
Yay bioacousticians all around! <3 Come see me at the #IBAC session tomorrow - or anytime for coffee/bikes!
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Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · Sep 5
Postdoc advertisement!

Hi all, I'm looking to hire a Postdoc in BIOACOUSTICS for work on Owls. Your job would be to collect & analyze bioacoustics data, and write papers. 🦉🦉🦅🐦🦜🦉🦉
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Dr LeaGrie @leagrie.bsky.social · Sep 4
Super happy that our paper on offspring provisioning in communal breeding Smooth-billed Anis is out in @animbehsociety.bsky.social 🥳 Excellent undergrad work by Ashley Grew @queensuniv.bsky.social & Labiqah Iftikhar @uwaterloo.ca, who scored 100s of hours of video to find out that…1/3
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · Sep 3
Amazing! Full article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
www.nature.com
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Tim Sainburg @timsainburg.bsky.social · Sep 2
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...
Domain general noise reduction for time series signals with Noisereduce - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Domain general noise reduction for time series signals with Noisereduce
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Louise Mackie @louisemackie.bsky.social · Aug 26
Thank you #behaviour2025 for hosting my talk on overimitation in dogs, the topic of ManyDogs 2! 🐶
@manydogsproject.bsky.social

We are collecting data now in dog labs across the world! Email [email protected] / check out our website below to join!

manydogsproject.github.io/manydogs2.html
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