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The latest n' greatest research about all things animal communication 🐔🐑🐁🐿🐳🦀🦚🕷🐝🗣🐦 @ me your favorite papers, new results, etc 💬
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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · Mar 7
Pinned update: posts by @nicholdav.bsky.social @nickjourjine.bsky.social (also organizes @braincoustics.bsky.social) & @alenalem.bsky.social

And you! If you're in our starter pack
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#prattle 💬

We also tag #bioacoustics + #neuroskyence as appropriate
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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · 2d
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
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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 12d
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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AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · 2d
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

#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics
Figure 5 from paper showing dawn chorus singing accelerates morning changes in song syllable structure. Panel A shows changes in acoustic distances of syllable structure for -3h LT and +3h LT condition. Mean shows +3h LT is lower. Panel B is X-Y plot of differences in slopes fit to raw data from A for individual syllables, slope is smaller for -3h LT. Panel C shows the same data as a function of singing rate. Panel D shows the data as a function of syllable order insead of time.. Panel E shows the X-Y plot here with syllable order. In this case the difference was not significant, supporting the claim that changes are due to singing rate, not just passage of time
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AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · 2d
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

#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics
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arXiv Sound @arxiv-sound.bsky.social · 6d
ARIONet, a self-supervised contrastive network for birdsong classification, jointly optimizes contrastive classification and future frame prediction using augmented audio representations; achieves high classification accuracies.
ARIONet: An Advanced Self-supervised Contrastive Representation Network for Birdsong Classification and Future Frame Prediction
Md. Abdur Rahman, Selvarajah Thuseethan, Kheng Cher Yeo, Reem E. Mohamed, Sami Azam
arxiv.org
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International Bioacoustics Society IBAC @ibacsocial.bsky.social · 6d
👋 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. 🔊
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Dan Stowell @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
BioDCASE workshop - registration closes next week Oct 10th https://biodcase.github.io/workshop2025/ - Hope to see you there! #bioacoustics
BioDCASE Workshop - BioDCASE
Join us for the BioDCASE Workshop held in Barcelona, Spain on the 29th of October! The workshop will be held at the Campus del Poblenou of Universitat Pompeu Fabra. The BioDCASE workshop will be hosted the day before the DCASE workshop on the 30-31st of October at the same venue …
biodcase.github.io
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Marc Naguib @marcnaguib.bsky.social · 16d
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...
www.cell.com
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Frigg Speelman @friggspeelman.bsky.social · Jun 17
🔊🔊 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
A pair of chirupping wedgebills of which one is vocalising
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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · 14d
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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Luke Larter @lukelarter.bsky.social · 14d
Our article was just published in Integrative & Comparative Biology! Here, we ponder how different interaction strategies lead to differences in call-timing mechanism functioning, and propose amendments to several prominent frameworks from the chorusing literature. academic.oup.com/icb/article-...
The Variability and Malleability of Frog Call-Timing Mechanisms are Neglected in Traditional Call-Timing Models
Synopsis. Males of many insect and anuran species send courtship calls to females from within crowded chorusing aggregations. Despite large phylogenetic di
academic.oup.com
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 19d
Yung Junc 😤

(Dark-eyed Junco)
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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · 20d
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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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · Sep 2
In her review, Laura Stidsholt @bioacousticsau.bsky.social discusses how bat-borne acoustic devices are changing echolocation research in wild #bats by recording sensory & foraging behaviour across different species, habitats & levels of disturbance

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
A screen shot of the PDF of the Review, Unlocking the mysteries of biosonar use and foraging behaviour in wild bats with on-board acoustic recording tags, but Laura Stidsholt. The publishing information states: © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2025) 228, jeb250777. doi:10.1242/jeb.250777. The first sentence of the Abstract states: Since the discovery of biosonar by Griffin in the 1940s, laboratories have conducted detailed experiments on how bats produce and modify their biosonar calls, as well as on how they detect and process self-generated echoes when orienting and hunting in flight rooms
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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 27d
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...
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...
www.cell.com
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AU Bioacoustics @bioacousticsau.bsky.social · Aug 13
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!
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Bioacoustic Physiology - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Biologi - Zoofysiologi, Aarhus Universitet
www.au.dk
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Erin Wall @erin-wall.bsky.social · 22d
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!
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.
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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · 23d
💨 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 💬
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Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social · Mar 31
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...
Calling carrion crow in an aviary
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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · 23d
Nice writw up here too

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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 25d
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#bioacoustics
Songs of the striped mouse show who’s friend and who’s foe
Ultrasonic calls, too high for the human ear to detect, convey a wealth of information across the rodent’s territory.
www.nature.com
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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · 23d
*et al.!

etc al is a new way to assign authors credit 🤦‍♂️
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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · 23d
cc @nickjourjine.bsky.social @katietschida.bsky.social @ralphpeterson.bsky.social @schneiderneuro.bsky.social @rodent-usv.bsky.social @jmxpearson.bsky.social icymi 👆
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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · 23d
🐀 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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Graphical abstract from paper in quoted post Top panel depicts modulation of vocal repertoire use depending on territorial location Next panel depicts group& specific information embedded in ultrasonic vocalizations Bottom panel shows that individuals use this information to adapt their behavioral and vocal response. No behavioral change to groupmate playback, increased vigilance and vocal response to neighbor playback, and in addition to increased vigilance/response, retreat to nest in response to stranger playback
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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · 26d
wow didn't know you spoke space frog 🔫🐸
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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · 26d
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
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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · 26d
🐸〽️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 💬
Figure 1 from paper showing automated playback setup, schematic of experiment, and an example of male túngara frog responses to playbacks, shown as oscillograms Figure 4 from paper with curves showing how various measures of response behavior depend on different playbacks. Notably the overlapping + synchronous stimulus greatly increases probability of a response overlapping with a stimulus call
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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 29d
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.
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, …
wilsonsociety.org
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Interspecies Internet @interspecies-io.bsky.social · 29d
👋 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
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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · Sep 5
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]
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