Nick Jourjine
@nickjourjine.bsky.social
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Brains and bioacoustics // postdoc using animal diversity to understand animal behavior // nickjourjine.github.io // he, him I organize the Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar series: braincoustics.bsky.social // braincoustics.com
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nickjourjine.bsky.social
Very happy to share the latest from my postdoc‬!

10 yrs of mouse social networks + 1.25 yrs of acoustic data ➡️ insight into vocalization & sociality in a wild population of your favorite lab model 🐁

paper: bit.ly/4n93yyD
data: bit.ly/4lfFBEk
code: bit.ly/4kNnMwx

#bioacoustics #neuroskyence

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Graphical abstract for "Vocal communication is seasonal in social groups of wild, free-living house mice."

The abstract has, from top to bottom, a title, four middle image panels, and two bottom text panels.

Image title: "Vocal communication in social groups of wild-free living house mice"

Middle image panels from left to right: (1) An aerial snap shot of the region where the study site is located, an agricultural landscape in rural Switzerland. (2) An image of the study site, a small barn in the forest inhabited by mice. (3) An image of a radio frequency identification (RFID) box used to track mouse social interactions. A mouse is entering the box from the left while another sits outside. (4) A spectrogram showing example vocalizations - one low frequency squeak and one ultrasonic call - recorded from an RFID box.

Bottom panels:
Left: Data Collection 
- 10 years of RFID-based tracking data (from 6,946 mice)
- 15 months of acoustic monitoring (totaling 6,594 hours)
- Machine learning for vocal detection and labeling (CNN)

Right: Key Findings
- Vocalization is seasonal (most in spring and summer)
- Vocalization is associated with the presence of pups
- Vocalization is correlated with social group dynamics
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radiolento.bsky.social
This episode is one of our go-to listens on a grey day. 🎧

Episode 174 - Where cool woodland meets the summer sea (39 mins)

Follow the coastal path to the very end of the beach at Tenby and up the sandy steps to a small wood.

> bit.ly/LenTen3
national footpath sign on a gatepost leading down into a small wood on a sunny day in May.
nickjourjine.bsky.social
Had a blast writing about this new @currentbiology.bsky.social study from @leo-perrier.bsky.social, Lény Lego et al. on African striped mice

The paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Dispatch with some context about why it's so cool: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luVG3QW8S...

#bioacoustics
#neuroskyence
nicolasmathevon.bsky.social
Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice. 👇 New paper by the ENES Bioacoustics Research Team in @currentbiology.bsky.social

authors.elsevier.com/a/1llMH3QW8S...
authors.elsevier.com
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rodent-usv.bsky.social
In mice, rats, and monkeys, a lack of serotonin in the brain leads to impaired maternal affiliation. @tianhuawang.bsky.social now showed that early social enrichment has ameliorating effects but leaves prominent reduction in pup ultrasonic calling untouched.
rdcu.be/eJjtX &
doi.org/10.1016/j.pn...
Socio-affective communication in Tph2-deficient rat pups: communal nesting aggravates growth retardation despite ameliorating maternal affiliation deficits | Molecular Autism
rdcu.be
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ibacsocial.bsky.social
👋 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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instbirdpop.bsky.social
🪶 If you are able, you donate here: birdpop.org/pages/do...
We lost roughly $1 million in funding without warning. Projects cancelled included all of our bird monitoring work for the National Park Service & projects w/ the Bureau of Land Management on Gunnison's Sage-Grouse, Pinyon Jays & more. 1/4
Graphic with the following text followed by The Institute for Bird Populations logo: Emergency Appeal: Federal Funding Cut
Last week 9 of our federal grants were abruptly cancelled without cause.
If you can make a donation today, it will have a big impact.
Thank you for your support, The Institute for Bird Populations
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endoeartha.bsky.social
Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
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braincoustics.bsky.social
A huge thank you to our speakers for a great seminar yesterday, and to everyone who joined for the discussion!

Recordings of both talks are now up on our website (where you can also already sign up for next month’s seminar on 🐁)

braincoustics.com
A lot of information is encoded in dog calls and we don’t know half of it How to build AI for animal communication? Not straightforward!
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braincoustics.bsky.social
Bridging brains and bioacoustics today!

You can register here up until the seminar starts at 10:00 EST:

braincoustics.com
braincoustics.bsky.social
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics is back!

Please join us next week for fantastic talks from speakers Rada Mihalcea, Álvaro Vega-Hidalgo, and Tamás Faragó

@barkslab.bsky.social
@radamihalcea.bsky.social

🗓️September 25th 10:00 EST
✅ Register here: braincoustics.com

#bioacoustics
#neuroskyence
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar for Thursday, September 25th at 10:00 EST

From Rada Mihalcea and Álvaro Vega-Hidalgo: Cross-Species AI Models for Decoding Animal Communication

From Tamás Faragó: Mapping dogs' vocal repertoires
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braincoustics.bsky.social
Reminder that Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics returns this Thursday with some pawsome talks about vocal communication in dogs!

Don’t miss out, register below 🐕
braincoustics.com
braincoustics.bsky.social
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics is back!

Please join us next week for fantastic talks from speakers Rada Mihalcea, Álvaro Vega-Hidalgo, and Tamás Faragó

@barkslab.bsky.social
@radamihalcea.bsky.social

🗓️September 25th 10:00 EST
✅ Register here: braincoustics.com

#bioacoustics
#neuroskyence
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar for Thursday, September 25th at 10:00 EST

From Rada Mihalcea and Álvaro Vega-Hidalgo: Cross-Species AI Models for Decoding Animal Communication

From Tamás Faragó: Mapping dogs' vocal repertoires
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erin-wall.bsky.social
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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braincoustics.bsky.social
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics is back!

Please join us next week for fantastic talks from speakers Rada Mihalcea, Álvaro Vega-Hidalgo, and Tamás Faragó

@barkslab.bsky.social
@radamihalcea.bsky.social

🗓️September 25th 10:00 EST
✅ Register here: braincoustics.com

#bioacoustics
#neuroskyence
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar for Thursday, September 25th at 10:00 EST

From Rada Mihalcea and Álvaro Vega-Hidalgo: Cross-Species AI Models for Decoding Animal Communication

From Tamás Faragó: Mapping dogs' vocal repertoires
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animal-prattle.bsky.social
1st recordings of vocal behavior in female Albert's lyrebird, from @drbackhouse.bsky.social @lyrebirdlab.bsky.social @westsyduhie.bsky.social

🐦 documents song from 2 females during nesting and nest construction
🐦 shows ♀️s produce mimicry, conspecific song & alarm calls

#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics
bou.org.uk
BOU @bou.org.uk · Sep 4
Vocal Mimicry, and Conspecific Song and Calls, in Female Albert's Lyrebirds (Menura alberti) | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
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timsainburg.bsky.social
New paper out today with Asaf Zorea : "Domain-general noise reduction for time-series signals with Noisereduce" (open access)!

We present Noisereduce, a lightweight Python library for denoising signals.

Read the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Code (library): github.com/timsainb/noi...
Domain general noise reduction for time series signals with Noisereduce - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Domain general noise reduction for time series signals with Noisereduce
doi.org
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jenteo.bsky.social
🥳 New paper out in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society!

Manakin’s moving melody: the interplay between courtship dance display and vocalization as a predictor of hybridization in manakins (Aves: Pipridae)
academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

#ornithology
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berlinbatlab.bsky.social
New paper out!
We found that in pipistrelle bats, social vocalizations carry a stronger phylogenetic signal than echolocation calls, suggesting the former evolve more slowly, while the latter remains flexible and shaped by the environment.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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evoneuro.bsky.social
For anyone interested, here is a link to a CBC Radio interview this morning about our new book on bird brains and behaviour: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

And the open access link can be found in my bio.

#birds #neuroskyence #neuroethology #Canada 🪶🇨🇦🧪🧠
A flyer for the book Bird Brains and Behavior: A Synthesis authored by Georg F. Striedter and Andrew N. Iwaniuk. The book cover features photos of a turkey vulture, song sparrow, and whimbrel as well as a drawing of an albatross brain.
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annmclemens.bsky.social
late to share, but still exciting 🤩 our latest paper is now published tinyurl.com/2s4zecr9

✨Ontogeny of tactile, vocal and kinship dynamics in rat pup huddling

👏 great work team
@flor-bela.bsky.social
@hughtakemoto.bsky.social
@kinshiplab.bsky.social
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silviadamini.bsky.social
The first paper of my PhD is out!

Looking at the plasticity of antipredator behaviour in ravens using a slightly... unorthodox predator.

"When to mob? Plasticity of antipredator behavior in common ravens’ families (Corvus corax) across offspring development"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...