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Garance Barbier
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Myrmecologist | Accidental bioacoustician | Behavioural ecologist | PhD student @ Umeå university | Don't let pfp fool you I'm a parrot fan too :] Ant drawing by Hélène Bézin--Chaingy Used to study at Sorbonne Nord @leec-uspn.bsky.social
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Garance Barbier @garant-b.bsky.social · May 23
‼️New potential ant communication just dropped! ‼️
First reported sounds produced by Red Wood ants
doi.org/10.1080/0952...
We published in #OpenAccess! #acoustics #animalbehaviour #entomology
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Valentine Comin @valentine-comin.bsky.social · 15d
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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Garance Barbier @garant-b.bsky.social · 3d
You are now 43% bearded tit, congrats!
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International Bioacoustics Society IBAC @ibacsocial.bsky.social · 7d
👋 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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Garance Barbier @garant-b.bsky.social · 12d
Fascinating topic! Do you want primary sources, or look up the existing research?
If you want primary sources, you could look at textbooks/manuals, magazines aimed at girls (Girls' World for example).
The National Diet Library has digitized archives, hope this helps!
ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp
国立国会図書館サーチ（NDLサーチ）
ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp
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Garance Barbier @garant-b.bsky.social · 23d
Very cute and well behaved research assistant ❤️
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Garance Barbier @garant-b.bsky.social · 23d
🧪 tagging
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Garance Barbier @garant-b.bsky.social · 23d
I'd love to help you but as my profile picture shows I am a red wood ant kinda person, so no Camponotus pics from me!
If you are into Formica rufa let me know
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Collège des Sociétés savantes académiques de France @societessavantes.bsky.social · 23d
Communiqué de presse : financement de la recherche publique : la communauté scientifique alerte sur un système à bout de souffle. #veilleESR, @info.gouv.fr @agencerecherche.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @franceuniversites.bsky.social @inserm.fr @inrae-france.bsky.social @enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr
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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 24d
Say ahhhh 😳
An ant head, 3-D printed in gray resin with its mandibles wide open, clutched in my fingers over a messy workbench. Extreme close-up of the ant’s mouth parts.
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Garance Barbier @garant-b.bsky.social · 23d
Gorgeous work, I feel like an aphid's butt just looking at these pics!
Which species did you base these sculptures from?
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Garance Barbier @garant-b.bsky.social · 23d
Presented this poster at #ibac2025. Thank you to all the people who went to chat with me about #ant stridulation, all your compliments were so encouraging! I hope the people who missed the conference/poster session will have fun reading through the poster online.
Ask me anything about it!
Picture of a scientific poster. It has a big drawing of a Red Wood ant singing in a microphone in the middle. The top part represents the ecological services that Red Wood ants perform, from seed transport to soil fertilization. On the right side of the singing ant is a drawing representing a recording booth. Two ants are being recorded in the booth. Below the booth drawing is a spectrogram of the sound that has been recorded, it looks like a rattle with several short pulses. The sound is called stridulation. On the left of the big singing ant, there is a drawing representing a playback setup. An ant is standing above a microphone that plays, its trajectory is being analyzed with a video recording setup. Below the playback drawing is a graph showing that Red Wood ants slow down when they hear sounds, particularly when they hear their own stridulation sounds. At the bottom of the poster are the take home messages. This ant species belonged to a family that did not stridulate according to the literature. We do not know how the stridulation is produced yet, neither what it is used for. This work is exploratory and raises more questions that it answers, but it could prove very useful for soil health monitoring.
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Garance Barbier @garant-b.bsky.social · 23d
They are so smart and curious; they probably want to know why us humans spend so much time watching our computer screens.
I also had a magpie follow me during fieldwork!
Very cute pic
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Garance Barbier @garant-b.bsky.social · 23d
Great poster, and very good talk we had together! It is so nice to find someone who understands your struggles :,)
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Florence Dellerie @florencedellerie.bsky.social · Sep 1
🟣 Appel à participation

👉 Enquête nationale d'évaluation de la place du #consentement dans les consultations gynécologiques, par @stopvogfr.bsky.social.

Temps nécessaire : environ 10 min.

📢 Faites circuler !

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Enquête Nationale sur le Consentement en Gynécologie
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Garance Barbier @garant-b.bsky.social · Aug 27
Thanks for the tips! I want to share my go-to guide in scientific outreach: op.europa.eu/en/publicati.... Can be downloaded for free.
It makes similar points as you: making citizens little experts does not mean gaining their support. Listening is priority!
Communicating science - Publications Office of the EU
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Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · Aug 27
Increasingly I need to prepare scientists to deal with negative interactions with the public. Some tips:
• Listening is often more effective than correcting “I hadn’t heard that, tell me more”
• Anti-sci to pro-sci is a spectra: Anti➡️questioning➡️neutral➡️interested➡️supportive. Nudge 1 place only
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Garance Barbier @garant-b.bsky.social · Aug 27
Unfortunate, but thank you for the reply!
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · Aug 26
👇 Program of the upcoming conference of the International BioAcoustics Society IBAC. Very happy to meet again colleagues & friends in Kerteminde, Denmark!
www.ibac25.com/program
Home | Minhjemmeside
www.ibac25.com
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Garance Barbier @garant-b.bsky.social · Aug 26
Sounds interesting! Have they published anything on the topic yet?
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Garance Barbier @garant-b.bsky.social · Aug 25
Is that an Australian magpie?
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Garance Barbier @garant-b.bsky.social · Aug 25
Feels intimidating ° . °
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Garance Barbier @garant-b.bsky.social · Aug 25
There is a source, it's a link in the post: www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science...
Not easy to see among the hashtags!
Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty
Microsoft representative says US CLOUD Act comes before other country's sovereignty.
www.digitaljournal.com
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EGU Soil System Sciences Division @egu-sss.bsky.social · Aug 25
📅 9 Sept 2025 | 2 PM (Paris)
Want to make your research shine for everyone, not just scientists? ✨
Join us to the webinar: “How do you write about your research for non-specialist audience?”
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Speakers: Geoff Marsh & Natalia Deane.
#wrbinar #WritingSkills #EGU-SSS
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How do you write about your research for a non-specialist audience? In this webinar, learn how to to engage different audiences by using captivating prose, impactful structure and how to effectively e...
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Garance Barbier @garant-b.bsky.social · Aug 19
I have to thank @jcunow.bsky.social for his advice on the editing! Fun fact: the version of the slow motion footage you are seeing now is in fact sped up x2 so as not to be excruciatingly boring😅
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Garance Barbier @garant-b.bsky.social · Aug 19
#Ant nestmate recognition is no joke! That is the price to pay for them to live as #socialinsects. A little #slowmotion preening ant movie I made, with soundtrack I recorded as well!
#ethology #animalbehavior
I know I oversimplified, please do not come for me mymecologists 😬
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