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Aline Gasco
@etologiahoje.bsky.social
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Ethologist passionately interested in mammal acoustic communication and animal welfare. PhD in Ethology and Bioacoustics by @usponline. Instagram: @etologiahoje. Mom of 1 toddler.
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Aline Gasco @etologiahoje.bsky.social · Aug 8
Curious about how wild animals express emotion through sound — but not sure where to begin?

If you’re a researcher, student, or animal behavior enthusiast ready to rethink what we hear when animals "vocalize," start here.
etologiahoje.bsky.social Aline Gasco @etologiahoje.bsky.social · Aug 7
The ring-tailed coatis (Nasua nasua) chirp, squeal, and bark their way through the forests and parks of Brazil. They’re expressive, curious, and often misunderstood — especially when it comes to their vocalizations.
From Squeals to Self-Care: Understanding the Emotional Expressions of Coatis
How coatis use squeals, touch, and even soaps to express emotion and connect with each other
open.substack.com
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amcell.bsky.social
2026. New from us: “Distress calls as social stressors affecting chicken welfare.” Well done Team! 👏🐥 url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...
Distress calls as social stressors affecting chicken welfare
Abstract. Social signals about current environmental risks can shape development in young animals. Distress calls made by young chickens (Gallus gallus dom
royalsocietypublishing.org
January 21, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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interspecies-io.bsky.social
🦉 What if your friend group included a screech owl named Alfie?

Ecologist Dr. Carl Safina shares how a rescued owl’s journey became a lasting bond, and what it teaches us about connecting with the web of life.

📺 Watch the full lecture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC6T...
January 22, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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wildlabs.bsky.social
Last chance to join #ICTC2026 in Lima next month!⏰

🎟️Final round of registration is now open through February 6, with 250 tickets remaining
🔗Register now: registration.ictc2026.com

#ConservationTech #conservation #tech4wildlilfe
January 22, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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amcell.bsky.social
2026. If you leave it, you lose it: Managing human–wildlife feeding interactions requires constant attention, interdisciplinary approaches and long‐term monitoring. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
If you leave it, you lose it: Managing human–wildlife feeding interactions requires constant attention, interdisciplinary approaches and long‐term monitoring
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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amcell.bsky.social
2026. Drones and satellites can measure methane emissions from ruminants phys.org/news/2026-01...
Drones and satellites can measure methane emissions from ruminants
A new study combines drone data, satellite observations, and ground-based flux measurements to examine methane emissions from ruminants in Kenya. The research represents a pioneering effort to quantif...
phys.org
January 23, 2026 at 3:20 AM
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amcell.bsky.social
2026. Paying attention to birdsong while walking in nature can boost well-being phys.org/news/2026-01...
Paying attention to birdsong while walking in nature can boost well-being, my research shows
There's no question that being in nature is good for well-being. Research shows that experiencing nature and listening to natural sounds can relax us.
phys.org
January 23, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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amcell.bsky.social
2024. Cattle have intricate social lives that aren't readily apparent: www.earth.com/news/cattle-...
Cattle have intricate social lives that aren't readily apparent
A study has shed light on the intricate social lives of feral cattle, offering unprecedented insights into their behaviors and welfare.
www.earth.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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goatswhostare.bsky.social
Local specialists’ experience and skills in animal behaviour studies: insights from wild chimpanzee field assistants

royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Local specialists’ experience and skills in animal behaviour studies: insights from wild chimpanzee field assistants
Abstract. The study of wild animal behaviour and cognition has greatly benefited from the foundational work of local specialists (LSs), particularly field
royalsocietypublishing.org
January 26, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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animal-prattle.bsky.social
Fun 🧵 on vocal mimicry by @biotay.bsky.social that starts w/ a ref to this paper☝️ from @wascherclaudia.bsky.social Waterhouse @babeheim.bsky.social

(h/t to @irenegarciaruiz.com who we saw repost it)

bsky.app/profile/biot...

#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics
#R2D2
biotay.bsky.social Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · Nov 10
1/7 Vocal mimicry, robots, and music

The ability to mimic sounds could be extremely common among corvids. Here, it has been found in 39 species (30%), but it is predicted that it could be present in around 82% of them.

(paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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animal-prattle.bsky.social
Building on recent work, Ursu et al. (Leblois group):

🐦 replicate result that cerebellar lesions change syllable duration
🐦 show brain cell activity locked to syllable on/offsets in Cb. lobule IV, suggests -> role in timing of song!

#prattle 💬
#neurosky

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November 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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animal-prattle.bsky.social
🧠 time 2 study #cerebellum in birdsong? 🧠

In #neuroskyence songbirds are a model to study learned motor skills like speaking a language

The cerebellum plays a role in these behaviors in humans.
It remains unclear if it interacts w/song system, brain areas for song in songbirds

#prattle 💬

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Screenshot of abstract: The cerebellum is involved in the acquisition and production of speech as revealed by clinical evidence and imaging studies, but its specific role however remains unclear. Songbirds provide a unique model to study the neural mechanisms of speech learning and production. Recent evidence highlights a contribution of the cerebellum to syllable duration in songbirds. Here, we aim at better understanding how and which cerebellar circuits may contribute to the tight control of syllable duration in zebra finches. We first confirmed that lesions in the lateral cerebellum affect syllable duration. We then recorded neuronal activity in the various cerebellar lobules in response to song playback and during singing with or without auditory feedback perturbation. We found that many cerebellar lobules receive non-selective auditory information locked to syllable boundaries during song playback, both in anaesthetized and awake behaving birds. During singing, cerebellar neurons in several lobules display song-locked responses with varying degrees of alignment to their playback responses and no alteration during auditory feedback perturbation. Singing-related activity tends to correlate with the fluctuations in syllable duration rather than any acoustic song feature. Importantly, neurons in lobule IV of the cerebellum are largely unaffected by auditory stimulation but display syllable-locked firing rate modulations during singing that precisely encode syllable boundaries with a sharp and tight increase in firing at syllable onsets and offsets. Altogether, our findings reveal cerebellar signals that may contribute to the control of the duration of vocal elements during singing, possibly serving as a forward model of song temporal features.
November 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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animal-prattle.bsky.social
How do you build a brain that lets mice sing? 🎤🐭

If you enjoyed @cliffscience.bsky.social's talk @braincoustics.bsky.social on this work, now you can read it in @currentbiology.bsky.social!

(w / 1st author @xmikezheng20.bsky.social, @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social group)

#prattle 💬
#neurosky
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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animal-prattle.bsky.social
Congrats to @robertslab.bsky.social, the version of record of this paper is now published in @elife.bsky.social

Nice use of optimal transport methods to measure acoustic distance, if you're into that sort of thing 😉

elifesciences.org/articles/101...

#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics
A deep learning approach for the analysis of birdsong
An open-source deep learning toolkit performs accurate annotation and similarity scoring of zebra finch song, along with comprehensive feature extraction, enabling consistent, interpretable comparison...
elifesciences.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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animal-prattle.bsky.social
what's in a meow?? 🐈

New from @berlinbatlab.bsky.social!

1. "we examined meows and purrs to establish how individual identity is encoded"
2. stronger individual signature in purrs than in meows
3. domestic cat meows more variable than those of wild felids

#bioacoustics
#prattle 💬
#neuroskyence
Fig. 1. Spectrograms and oscillograms of (A) two meows and (B) two purrs. Oscillograms depict sound pressure over time, and spectrograms depict frequency over time. All spectrograms were created with a 1024-point FFT, 16-bit depth, and a Hamming Window with 87.5% overlap (sampling rate: 96 kHz, frequency resolution: 94 Hz, time resolution: 1.33 ms). The two pictures on the right depict Koda, a 15-year-old male Ragdoll cat, meowing and purring (credit: Marisa Idolo).
December 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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animal-prattle.bsky.social
Using neural networks to analyze animal communication?

Check out this new #python package from @masonyoungblood.bsky.social, provides a full workflow; builds on approaches from @timsainburg.bsky.social @jmxpearson.bsky.social @nilomr.bsky.social & others

#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics
masonyoungblood.bsky.social Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social · Jan 2
Happy new year! I wanted to share my new Python package called chatter that streamlines the process of applying AI/ML models to animal communication 🦜🦇🐋🐵👨‍🌾 masonyoungblood.github.io/chatter/
January 6, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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braincoustics.bsky.social
Seminar Tomorrow!

These talks are going to be fishtastic, you can get the link to join by registering here:

braincoustics.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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roald-arboel.com
This workshop was one of the highlights of my PhD! Highly recommend applying! Amazing science and amazing people allround - and all (reasonable) expenses paid!
janeliaconf.bsky.social Janelia Conferences @janeliaconf.bsky.social · 5d
Junior scientists 👉 applications are open for our workshop on the mechanistic basis of #cognition. 🧠

🤝 Joint sessions with our #TheoreticalNeuroscience workshop
✈️ Hotel, meals + reasonable travel expenses covered

Apply by May 7 ➡️ janelia.news/CNW26

@michaelreiser.bsky.social @jvoigts.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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wildlabs.bsky.social
The 10th Annual #Tech4Wildlife Challenge is starting soon!📸

Help us celebrate a decade of conservation technology by sharing how you use #Tech4Wildlife throughout next week.

Learn how to participate 👉 wildlabs.net/article/join...

#conservation #conservationtech #naturetech
January 26, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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applied-ethology.bsky.social
#Jobalert
Affective Ethologist: Shrimp Welfare Phenotyping
Animal Pain Research Institute, USA

More information: www.applied-ethology.org/Shrimp_scien...
January 27, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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interspecies-io.bsky.social
🐝 Did you know bees play just for fun?

Throwback to Lars Chittka's lecture "The Mind of a Bee." Bees learn by watching, experience emotions, and solve problems they've never encountered before.

📺 Full lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSaqi2ysDoA
#Bees #AnimalIntelligence #Conservation
December 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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earthspecies.bsky.social
Thanks to‪ @louromain.bsky.social & Circle of Voices for including ESP’s perspective on #UNOC2025.

Listen to hear Jane Lawton (at 54:34) share reflections and learnings we’re taking forward as we continue our work to decode animal communication.
tinyurl.com/bdcu32ac
July 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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earthspecies.bsky.social
For the first time, a non-primate species has been proven to use gestures to signal what they want. 🐘🍎

New work led by @vestaeleuteri.bsky.social at @univie.ac.at‪ marks a key milestone in animal communication, showing elephants are capable of goal-directed intentionality.

tinyurl.com/yc3a2vew
Elephants gesture to signal what they want—just like us
New experiments show elephants use a wide range of movements to express their desires
tinyurl.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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earthspecies.bsky.social
Our partnership with @raincoast.org to study killer whale communication has been a highlight of 2025.

👉 Listen to the voices of these incredible animals and learn more about how you can support the project: www.raincoast.org/listen/
December 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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earthspecies.bsky.social
FrogID tested our NatureLM-audio model to help verify frog calls from the public. Even without fine-tuning, it could save 300+ hrs of work yearly— and it even excelled on tasks it wasn't trained for. 🐸💡

www.earthspecies.org/blog/listeni...
Listening for Frogs at Scale: How FrogID Evaluated NatureLM-Audio on Real-World Data - Earth Species Project
FrogID, the world’s largest frog-focused citizen science project, tested Earth Species Project’s open-source NatureLM-audio model to help automate the validation of frog vocalizations submitted by the...
www.earthspecies.org
August 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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earthspecies.bsky.social
🎙️ By recording low-amplitude and close-range calls, this study reveals a more complete view of crow communication & social complexity in the wild, and opens doors for understanding how complex species coordinate and cooperate.

Learn more about the project: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mip...

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The Language of Crows: Earth Species Project + University of León
YouTube video by Earth Species Project (ESP)
www.youtube.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM