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Kitzes Lab @kitzeslab.bsky.social · Aug 8

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨

From field recordings to ecological insights 🎙️🌳 Our new review in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social explores integrating #AI into #bioacoustics workflows to improve biodiversity monitoring and ecological inference

Check it out!
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Integrating AI models into ecological research workflows: The case of terrestrial bioacoustics

Data collected by autonomous sensors, including camera traps and acoustic recorders, have enormous potential to generate new scientific insights in ecology and related fields. Modern machine learn...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · Jul 18

Also you should def check out this curated list of #bioacoustics software (I ref in the post):
rhine3.github.io/bioacoustics...

that started as a repo + spreadsheet from @tessarhinehart.bsky.social & now has evolved to a really slick site w/help from @kitzeslab.bsky.social

#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics

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AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · Jul 18

Hey friends in bioacoustics & acoustic communication:
I am (finally) sharing this post on the new version of @vocalpy.bsky.social I released after teaching a bootcamp with @tessarhinehart.bsky.social at the @nmac2024.bsky.social last year

blog.vocalpy.org/posts/2025-0...

#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics

VocalPy 0.10.0 released! – VocalPy blog

What’s new in VocalPy version 0.10.0

blog.vocalpy.org

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Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social · Jul 8

Woohoo, thanks! BRDL fans rejoice!!

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Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hey Alex!

Bit of an unusual comment - someone emailed me asking if I knew you via BRDL/Goldeneye. She wanted me to get word to you that the BRDL page is down, in case you didn't know already. :)

Love your work so much!

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Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social · Mar 25

As far as I know, there's not. They were invented by US banders & standardized by the BBL/IBP. Such a system doesn't appear to have been taken up by ringing operations elsewhere, at least not in a standardized way.

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Kristin Brunk @drbrunkosaurus.bsky.social · Mar 11

New paper out today! We demonstrate how incorporating bioacoustics into wildlife monitoring can support management and restoration planning at a bioregional scale in fire-prone forests (but really anywhere).

Read it @esajournals.bsky.social: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

A mountain quail walks through a burned landscape and looks towards the camera

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Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social · Mar 20

Birders: if you never again want to ask "WTH is a WTHA?," check out Goldeneye, an alpha code dictionary (alphacodes.net)! It's also available as a Chrome extension (bit.ly/goldeneye-chrome).

Featuring newly-updated codes, so you can now search for NHWR, AGOS, WECE, ABOW, REDP, ...! 🥳

Goldeneye: Alpha code dictionary

alphacodes.net

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Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social · Mar 20

Thanks Richard, should be fixed now!

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Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social · Mar 13

Haha, you know you're always welcome @animal-prattle.bsky.social

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Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social · Mar 11

Bird #bioacoustics folks: @kitzeslab.bsky.social is hosting a hands-on "Advanced topics in bioacoustic monitoring" workshop at AOS 2025!

We'll make custom sound ID models, estimate birds' positions using acoustic localization, and discuss how to use sound ID results to make ecological insights.

Workshops & Training Opportunities - AOS 2025 Annual Meeting

The workshops and training sessions at AOS 2025 offer opportunities both for hands-on learning exercises, where participants engage in a mix of lectures and activities, and for panel discussions on a ...

meeting.americanornithology.org

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Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social · Feb 28

this town aint big enough for the Potoo of us

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Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social · Feb 20

Something else notable - unlike original research, letters/comments that critique other studies often don't include images or figures.

This could make it easier to submit large language model-generated letters which superficially seem "well-written," helping them slip under editors' radar.

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Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social · Feb 20

I described these problems in my review. I also included my suspicions about AI in the confidential note to the editor, who thanked me for the catch

Should we do anything else when we come across potentially AI-generated papers? Do publishers track authors who submit papers like these?

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Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social · Feb 20

Just peer-reviewed a possibly AI-generated paper. It was a critique of another study I was one of the original reviewers for.

It sounded polished, but every criticism was irrelevant or incorrect. The authors had never published in that field, but had published other "critiques" in unrelated fields

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Kitzes Lab @kitzeslab.bsky.social · Jan 20

Excited to share the release of our very own Chapin's latest paper: "Uncovering Breeding Habitat Use of an Uncommon Songbird in Pennsylvania Using Large-Scale Acoustic Data" 🐦📊. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#CanadaWarbler #PAM

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · Dec 19

📖Published📖

Our new Application paper presents Whombat, a user-friendly, browser-based interface for managing audio recordings and annotation projects, with several visualization, exploration and annotation tools 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇

https://buff.ly/3DddoNt

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Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social · Dec 13

This paper is a fantastic resource for researchers doing biodiversity monitoring, especially occupancy modeling. Check it out!

Congrats & thanks to @ben-r-goldstein.bsky.social, @kendallcalhoun.bsky.social, @drpheebs.bsky.social, and other authors :)

Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · Dec 11

How do ecologists estimate occupancy in practice? https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.07402 #SDM

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Grant Hamilton 🐨 @ecologygrant.bsky.social · Dec 13

Are you a scientist that analyses/creates models using data from cameras, acoustics, drones or satellites to understand biodiversity? Join the Biodiversity Monitoring starter pack. Point me to your research to be added. ECRs and PhDs welcome! 🧪🌏 #AI #conservation

go.bsky.app/eFMQQX

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Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social · Dec 13

Hey Richard, I was excited to see you on here too! Glad you enjoyed those tools--I have another one coming up soon 👀

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Xeno-canto @xeno-canto.bsky.social · Dec 6

cool. XC will open up for strongly labelled recordings like these somewhere in 2025. #bioacoustics

arXiv Sound @arxiv-sound.bsky.social · Dec 6

A two-stage object detection model, trained on a new open-access dataset of 13,359 annotated bird vocalizations, achieved accuracy comparable to state-of-the-art systems despite using a smaller dataset.

NBM: an Open Dataset for the Acoustic Monitoring of Nocturnal Migratory Birds in Europe

Louis Airale, Adrien Pajot, Juliette Linossier

arxiv.org

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Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social · Dec 12

Ooh, could I also please be added?

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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · Dec 6

🎯 How can we empower scientific discovery in millions of nature photos?

Introducing INQUIRE: A benchmark testing if AI vision-language models can help scientists find biodiversity patterns- from disease symptoms to rare behaviors- hidden in vast image collections.

Thread👇🧵

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Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social · Dec 5

Could you add me as well, please? I'm studying impacts of invasive species management on forest birds. Thank you!

Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social · Dec 5

We mostly use AudioMoths in Pennsylvania. But when the recorder needs to stand up to rainforest level humidity, animals chewing, etc., we use Song Meter Micros.

The SMM2 has come down in price a ton. Initial tests suggest it has evener frequency response than SMM1s and AudioMoths in cases

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