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"An autonomous network of acoustic detectors to map tiger risk by eavesdropping on prey alarm calls"
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We used AI to do real-time detection of deer alarm calls and warn villagers when there's a tiger in the area zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Student opportunities (BSc / MSc / Internships)
Interested in dog vocal communication, emotion, or dogβhuman interaction?
Join our research group for a short research stay in ethology, bioacoustics & neuroscience .
DM us or write us an email to barks.lab.elte@gmail.com
#interships #students
β° Reminder: Task proposals for the 2026 #BioDCASE Challenge are due Jan 8.
Submit your idea and help define the next set of challenge tasks!
πLearn more & submit: biodcase.github.io/challenge2026/
#bioacoustics #AIforconservation #animalcommunication
βNever fear β research shows it's easier than you think. All you need to do is smile at them more β cat style. Not in the human way, by showing your teeth, but by narrowing your eyes and blinking slowly.β
#scicomm
#animalcommunication
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-r...
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π¨Preprint doi.org/10.64898/202...
From the start of studying #rhythm production in animal vocs, I was sure rhythms can code #population info. Now shown for the 1. time in tawny pipits π¦ππ
Just as exciting: Even in arrhythmic song, rhythm parameters prove to be valuable in describing the signal.
Join us! A great opportunity to join the @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social team working on the Isle of May. Great team, great place, great birds... what more could you want?!
#seabird #fieldwork #job #ornithology #superseabirdsunday
π’ Competition funded PhD with @iapetusdtp.bsky.social: Occupancy, density & the ecology of terrestrial British mammals - what can years of systematic camera trapping tell us?
Apply by 5th January 2026. π
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
@mammalweb.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk #phd
This one is finally out! We found that local conspecific density does affect vocal individuality in a non-learning speciesπ¦. For more details, check out our new paper π
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ornithology #bioacoustics #prattle
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).
what's in a meow?? π
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 π¬
#neuroskyence
The DOG is awarding travel grants of 400β¬ each to young scientists presenting a talk or a poster at the EOU Fledglings Meeting in GdaΕsk in March 2026.
Here you can find their website: eounion.org/fledglings/
Applications for the travel grant are open until 20.02.2026.
Photo: H.-J. FΓΌnfstΓΌck
Looking for a PhD at the intersection of animal cognition, acoustics & machine learning?
We offer 3 PhD projects at the Acoustics Research Institute (Vienna) and IT:U Linz:
Info: it-u.at/en/research/...
Apply: career.it-u.at/en/Job/73280
Deadline: Jan 31, 2026 | Start: Mar 2026
Interested in a multidisciplinary PhD that integrates robotics, computer vision, ecology and conservation?
We are looking for 12 Doctoral Candidates to join the WildBotics MSCA Doctoral Network!
Positions are fully funded for 36 months!
More info & apply @ www.wildbotics.eu/recruitment
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Acoustic detection of a nocturnal bird with deep learning: the challenge of low signal-to-noise ratio | www.sciencedirect.co... | Ecological Indicators | #ornithology #RaptorResearch πͺΆ
An AI tool is helping to crack the challenge of forecasting hurricane intensity
go.nature.com/3MdeZre
Call for tasks! BioDCASE 2026:
https://biodcase.github.io/challenge2026/ (deadline 8th Jan - please share) #bioacoustics
You can watch the live stream of #BioDCASE! Here: https://dcase.community/workshop2025/live-stream
Make your science heard ποΈπ
Join our second outreach workshop on 14 Nov #ABL2025 at 12:00 GMT, with oceanographer, marine ecologist & communicator Sakina-DorothΓ©e Ayata, sharing how to choose the right media for the right audience.
Free registration β‘οΈ ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org
The effectiveness of ecoacoustic indices in representing bird species richness relies on technical parameters | www.sciencedirect.co... | Ecological Informatics | #ornithology πͺΆ
Looking for a PhD? π¦
Interested in ornithology, animal behaviour, bioacoustics?
I am advertising a PhD on vocal communication in ring-necked parakeets tinyurl.com/44a3hcnz
Eligible candidates are encouraged to apply for University of Salford Widening Participation Scholarships tinyurl.com/4wtzzh3z
Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research
go.nature.com/4hriohE
π Have you experienced language barriers at academic conferences, or not at all?
We want to hear from everyone to better understand how language shapes participation and accessibility.
π Take our short survey and help make conferences more inclusive and multilingual:
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Examples of some recent papers from graduate students in my group - a full list of recent papers and preprints can be found here (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=pTdxVdIAAAAJ) and profile of the group here: https://egioxford.web.ox.ac.uk/members
The annual Wytham Field Team Photo!
Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025
Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford
Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
π£οΈWhat makes music and language exclusively human?
πΎHow do other animals communicate?
πΆDo they perceive melodies and rhythms as we do?
π§ACOUSTIC WORLD is a podcast to explore bioacoustics and find answers to these and more questions.
Because the world has always spoken, you just need to listen!
Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)
π¦ PhD position π¦ in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
a 14 day old great tit nestling, ringed for individual identification
Figure from the paper showing that extreme climatic events interact with ambient climatic conditions and breeding timing within a season, in a developmental stage-specific manner, to influence nestling growth in great tits
New preprint! πͺΆ
We analysed 60 years of data on 83,000+ great tits to show how extreme climate impacts on nestling growth and survival are stage-specific and context-dependent π£ ππ₯βοΈ
With @davididiaquez.bsky.social @iremsepil.bsky.social @sheldonbirds.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
π Offre de stage #bioacoustics
BioPhonia et auddicΓ© BiodiversitΓ© recherchent unΒ·e stagiaire de M2 pour un projet inΓ©dit : Comparer les points dβΓ©coute et les approches bioacoustiques pour Γ©valuer les communautΓ©s dβoiseaux et la fonctionnalitΓ© des habitats.
π : sfecologie.org/offre/stage-...
Scientific productivity gap based on English-language peer-reviewed papers. Shown are the maximum % differences in the number of peer-reviewed papers published by female native English speakers from a high-income country (-45%), female non-native English speakers from a high-income country (-60%), and female non-native English speakers from a lower-middle income country (-70%), compared to male native English speakers from a high-income country (red flag).
Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#languagebarriers
Is passive acoustic monitoring worth it for terrestrial mammals? ποΈπ¨
We find it's not the one for all solution, but for vocal species, yes! It's highly effective & saves lots of time and money, especially in the long-term.
Find out more: doi.org/10.1111/2041... ππ¦π§ͺπ @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
