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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 9h

🦣 The Mastodon giganteus of North America /.
Boston: J. Wilson, 1852..

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Illustration of the fossilized bones of a Mastodon giganteus foot from the 1852 publication. The detailed black-and-white drawing shows large, rugged bones including the ankle and toe joints, labeled with letters for identification. The bones appear textured with visible surface irregularities, highlighting the massive structure of the extinct prehistoric mammal. The image is set against a plain background with the title "Mastodon Giganteus" below.

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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

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Sandra Goutte @sandragoutte.bsky.social · 21d

Happy to share that our paper on the #evolution and #genomics of the most common #color polymorphism in #frogs is now out in @pnas.org! My favorite frogs even made the cover of this week’s issue! 🎉🐸🎉

Read the paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A pair of Ehiopian grass frogs (Ptychadena nana) on the cover of PNAS this week!

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 27d

🦘 Brehms Tierleben
Leipzig, Bibliographisches Institut, 1911-19-

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Illustration from "Brehms Tierleben" (1911-19) depicting a thick-tailed possum clinging to a large, cylindrical yellow flower with fine, hair-like petals. The possum has soft brown fur, large dark eyes, rounded ears with pink insides, and a long, thick tail wrapped partially around the flower. Green leaves and stems surround the flower at the base. The detailed, naturalistic style highlights the possum’s cuddly appearance and its close interaction with the flowering plant. The background is a muted blue, emphasizing the animal and flora in the foreground.

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Andrew D. Cronin @andrewdcronin.bsky.social · Sep 8

How do light and noise pollution impact selection on sexual signals?

We tested mate attraction and bat predation on túngara frogs in the field.

Full text: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

#evolutionarybiology
#animalbehavior
@eseb.bsky.social
@jevbio.bsky.social

Photo: Grant Maslowski

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · Aug 28

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · Aug 11

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.

My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.

We found 437 of them.

Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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Carlos Araújo @carlao.bsky.social · Aug 6

Acoustic monitoring is everywhere this days. But how far can we really detect a bird acoustic within a tropical forest? 🧐🎙️
To answer this questions we built sound attenuation models for two Neotropical birds and estimated they detection ranges.
#bioacoustics #ornithology

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Matías I. Muñoz @matiasimunoz.bsky.social · Aug 2

Do birds tune their songs to their hearing?

Is there tight coevolution between avian vocal signals and hearing-or do signallers and perceivers evolve more loosely?

It turns out perfect tuning is not required...

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#bioacoustics
#prattle 💬
#ornithology 🪶

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Andrew D. Cronin @andrewdcronin.bsky.social · Jun 30

New paper out with @judithsmit.bsky.social
@jellers.bsky.social and Wouter Halfwerk on tadpole developmental and behavioral responses to urban environments! 🐸🏙️

Read here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
@animalecology.bsky.social

Video: youtu.be/AhGPG5VOag8

Urban developmental environments alter tadpole phenotypes depending on origin

Urbanisation has rapidly altered the ecological and evolutionary contexts for many species. Using a reciprocal transplant experiment with frog larvae, we find that urban environments can alter morpho...

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Matías I. Muñoz @matiasimunoz.bsky.social · Jun 28

New paper! 🐸🎶

Rocket frogs males respond to rivals depending on their own spectral call attributes, but also pay attention to the temporal properties of the challenger

Check it out in Animal Behaviour:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#bioacoustics
#prattle

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · Jun 24

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM

From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...

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Matías I. Muñoz @matiasimunoz.bsky.social · Dec 12

#bioacoustics
#entomology
@animal-prattle.bsky.social

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Matías I. Muñoz @matiasimunoz.bsky.social · Dec 12

Kissing bugs (Mepraia spinolai) are a wild vector of Chagas disease (some believe Darwin got infected during his stay in Chile) and communicate through vibrations

Hear the vibratory distress signals recorded through laser vibrometry

Read the article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Matías I. Muñoz @matiasimunoz.bsky.social · Dec 10

Can I be added to the starterpack?

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Matt Wilkins @mattwilkins.galacticpolymath.com · Dec 5

Reminder that @galacticpolymath.com is developing an #openaccess web app to make it easy and free for anyone to visualize & measure basic stats from sounds. Focused on teaching bioacoustics in middle school to college classes—not comparable to Raven. 🔉🧪 #EduSky
youtu.be/nh_pFSD7h08?...

Who wants a free web app to visualize and analyze sounds?

YouTube video by Galactic Polymath

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Kitzes Lab @kitzeslab.bsky.social · Dec 2

If you're looking for bioacoustics tips and help, check out the #Bioacoustics Resource Page (run by Sam Lapp and the Kitzes Lab) - bit.ly/bioacoustics-resource-page

It has links to tons of tutorials, datasets, software, forums, #AudioMoth info, and more

Bioacoustics Resource Page

Bioacoustics Resources A list curated by the Kitzes Lab hint: bookmark this page :) Educational Materials Workshops by the Kitzes Lab Lecture series from Computer Vision for Ecology workshop Class...

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Matías I. Muñoz @matiasimunoz.bsky.social · Nov 24

Hello, can I be added?

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Matías I. Muñoz @matiasimunoz.bsky.social · Nov 19

We did these recordings during summer in our garden in Scotland, and will keep trying to record bees the next season! Setting up some passive acoustic recording of audio + video on some flower patches would be ideal for building a library...

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Matías I. Muñoz @matiasimunoz.bsky.social · Nov 19

I dont think there is anything like that because there is not very many focal recordings of wingbeats. So it would be hard to know what made the wingbeat in an PAM rec.
Some recent articles:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Using acoustics and artificial intelligence to monitor pollination by insects and tree use by woodpeckers

The collection and interpretation of field data is a prerequisite for informed conservation in protected environments. Although several techniques, in…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Matías I. Muñoz @matiasimunoz.bsky.social · Nov 18

Because different species produce different wing beats. 🔊

Compare the common carder bee above to the honey bee here! 🍯 🐝

#bioacoustics

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Matías I. Muñoz @matiasimunoz.bsky.social · Nov 17

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Matías I. Muñoz @matiasimunoz.bsky.social · Nov 16

Sounds great, how do I join??

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Matías I. Muñoz @matiasimunoz.bsky.social · Nov 16

Bioacoustics will become an excellent tool for the monitoring of pollinator biodiversity in the future
#bioacoustics #animalcommunication #pollinators

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