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Daniella Teixeira @daniteixeira.bsky.social · Jul 29

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...

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…

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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · Jun 19

Embed ALL the sounds

New tool from @vskode.bsky.social to compare methods that classify & cluster animal sounds w/ embeddings: vectors extracted from neural network models

Nice example w/ AnuranSet from @juancanyas.bsky.social in post 👇

Code: github.com/bioacoustic-...

#prattle 💬
##bioacoustics

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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · May 9

We're #hiring a Statistical Wildlife Ecologist! This position analyzes large, complex datasets to support landscape management throughout Canada.

Learn more and apply through the University of Alberta by May 27, 2025:

wildlifescience.ca/hiring-stati...

#biodiversity #mammals #wildlife

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Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · May 15

Awesome David! Let us know if you need any help getting set up!

Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · May 14

Want to try it?

Find open-access code and models for HawkEars on Github at github.com/jhuus/HawkEars

Watch for future integration into WildTrax at wildtrax.ca

#bioacoustics 4/4

GitHub - jhuus/HawkEars: Scan audio recordings for bird sounds and generate Audacity label files

Scan audio recordings for bird sounds and generate Audacity label files - GitHub - jhuus/HawkEars: Scan audio recordings for bird sounds and generate Audacity label files

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Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · May 14

HawkEars will be of interest to practitioners studying acoustic wildlife in Canada and the northern United States, but the open-source code can also be used for developing classifiers for other regions.

#bioacoustics 3/n

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Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · May 14

We used an embedding-based search to generate strong labels from weakly-labelled open-access training datasets. Our regional model outperformed existing global models, BirdNET, and Perch, by substantial margins, setting benchmarks for state-of-the-art classification performance.

#bioacoustics 2/n

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Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · May 14

New paper! We developed HawkEars, a CNN training framework and classifier for a regional community of acoustic animals - 328 bird species and 13 amphibian species in Canada.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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HawkEars: A regional, high-performance avian acoustic classifier

Passive acoustic monitoring is rapidly emerging as a dominant approach for studying acoustic wildlife, with neural networks used as an increasingly co…

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Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · May 13

New paper from my PDF with the folks at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Centre and a whole host of awesome collaborators! We used migratory connectivity from a big tracking dataset to define groups of curlews for full annual cycle management

British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · May 13

📷Curlew with a solar tag by Andy Boyce

New research, published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, could help scientists better conserve the critical habitats of long-billed curlews, North America’s largest shorebird🐦, throughout their migratory journeys.

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Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · May 8

Thanks Nancy!!!

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Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · May 8

I'm super excited to step into this new role! For 20 years, BAM has made enormous contributions to boreal bird conservation; I am deeply honoured to steward and continue those contributions as part of the Biodiversity Pathways family. We've got lots of exciting collaborative work on the horizons!

Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · May 8

This April, we welcomed the Boreal Avian Modelling Project (now Centre!) to Biodiversity Pathways! We are pleased to announce that @ellycknight.bsky.social has taken on the new role of Operational Director at BAM for this next chapter.

biodiversitypathways.ca/bam-joins-bp/

BAM is now the Boreal Avian Modelling Centre with Biodiversity Pathways

As of April 1, 2025, BAM has become the fourth initiative under Biodiversity Pathways.

biodiversitypathways.ca

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · May 5

AI is moving faster than the publication process. If a paper is rejected, it’s virtually obsolete because scientists are onto the next model generation.

This @naturemethods.bsky.social was fun to report!

Thx to @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social @ellycknight.bsky.social @conservationxlabs.bsky.social!

AI carves out a niche in ecology and conservation research - Nature Methods

Scientists who study biodiversity are in the rapid adoption phase of AI. They are finding that what AI can — and can’t — do is shifting rapidly.

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Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · Apr 11

I totally missed this way back when, thank you Ryan!

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Mar 25

If you're wondering how your priorities stack up with the parties' plans, CBC has a quick tool that will help you figure that out!

And ICYMI, yes 🇨🇦 citizens can vote even if we don't live in Canada. Here's how: travel.gc.ca/travelling/l...

Vote Compass - 2025 Canadian Federal Election

Use this interactive survey designed by political scientists to calculate your alignment with the candidate platforms.

votecompass.cbc.ca

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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · Mar 3

Proud of what @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social is doing to support ornithologists affected by the Trump administration's attack on science. Those suffering hardship related to the EOs, layoffs, etc. can get free membership and registration to the upcoming meeting here: tinyurl.com/vf34sh93

2025 Emergency Support for Federal Employees

If you have suffered undue professional hardship from the US Executive Branch's assault on Federal agencies, please use this form to indicate the form of assistance from the Wilson Ornithological Soci...

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Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · Feb 10

Like birds and models? Dr. Erin Bayne and I are currently recruiting a 2 year postdoc to come work with us at the Boreal Avian Modelling project on boreal bird models and applications of those models. Full details are here tinyurl.com/4yxju63k. Feel free to get in touch with qs!

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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · Feb 18

Postdoc opportunity: work with the Boreal Avian Modelling project on habitat models for boreal birds! Applications are being accepted until the position is filled.

tinyurl.com/3bkb838e

#remotesensing #avianecology @ellycknight.bsky.social

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Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · Feb 10

Like birds and models? Dr. Erin Bayne and I are currently recruiting a 2 year postdoc to come work with us at the Boreal Avian Modelling project on boreal bird models and applications of those models. Full details are here tinyurl.com/4yxju63k. Feel free to get in touch with qs!

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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · Feb 3

This April, we’re welcoming the Boreal Avian Modelling Project to Biodiversity Pathways!

BAM is an international scientific collaboration that develops science and products to support migratory bird management and conservation across boreal North America.

biodiversitypathways.ca/the-boreal-a...

The Boreal Avian Modelling Project to join Biodiversity Pathways

This April, we’re welcoming the Boreal Avian Modelling Project (BAM) to Biodiversity Pathways. BAM is an international scientific collaboration that develops and disseminates reliable, data-driven an...

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Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · Jan 23

Hey bird people! Join us in Saskatoon for SCO-SOC 2025 Conference in Aug 13-16. Symposia and workshop submissions are open now until Jan 31!

conferences.usask.ca/sco-2025/ind...

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Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · Jan 12

This is *top notch* scicomm! Awesome science too, including some acoustic individual identification :)

Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · Jan 10

#bioacoustics #scicomm #seabirds

My wonderful students/friends and myself are happy to share our sweet little zine summarising my PhD on the little auk's vocal communication :)

You can download the read & print versions here, and are more than welcome to share. Enjoy!
osf.io/h7msz/

A page from the zine, asking "So how can little auks communicate important messages in this crowd?" and showing two vocalising auks, or rather block prints.

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picatso @lesserdreams.bsky.social · Jan 8

Nightjars <3
#birds #birdart #art

Five members of the nightjar family are depicted in full flight towards the right to show off their unusually-shaped wings. From the top: Lyre-Tailed Nightjar, Pennant-winged Nightjar, Scissor-tailed Nightjar, Standard-winged Nightjar, and Common Nightjar.

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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · Jan 3

JOB: Statistical Ecologist, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI)

* 2 years, full time
* Salary $69k-93k + benefits
* Remote &/or in-office (at U Alberta)
* Apply by 10 Jan abmi.ca/abmi-home/co...

#ConservationJobs #ScienceJobs

Screenshot of first part of job ad which has the summary of job posting number, department, salary, etc. The same info is in the link.

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Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · Jan 6

Applications due this Friday, please repost! Feel free to message me with questions about this position, happy to chat :)

Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · Dec 19

Are you interested in how species distribution models are used in land use planning? Come work us! This is going to be a super cool position understanding how model reliability affects model applications. Creative! Collaborative! Quantitative!

Apply by Jan 10: ow.ly/gzPn50UsUQG

A photo of flowers and lichen with a caption that says "Now Hiring Statistical Ecologist"

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Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · Dec 19

Are you interested in how species distribution models are used in land use planning? Come work us! This is going to be a super cool position understanding how model reliability affects model applications. Creative! Collaborative! Quantitative!

Apply by Jan 10: ow.ly/gzPn50UsUQG

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