"Using AI to 'talk to animals' might make us feel clever – but what, if anything, does it do for them?" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/sep/22/animal-language-recordings-ai Indeed. #bioacoustics

Using AI to ‘talk to animals’ might make us feel clever – but what, if anything, does it do for them?

As animal behaviorists increasingly use AI in their research, they grapple with how to wield the technology responsibly

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Very happy to announce that our paper "Bacpipe: A Python package to make bioacoustic deep learning models accessible" is now published in MEE (doi.org/10.1111/2041...) 🐸🐦🦂👂 Check out bacpipe to apply any bioacoustic deep learning model to your data. Find a live demo here: bacpipe.siriusly.me

Bacpipe: A Python package to make bioacoustic deep learning models accessible

Natural sounds have been recorded for millions of hours over the previous decades using passive acoustic monitoring. Improvements in deep learning models have vastly accelerated the analysis of la...

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New paper: Classifying bioacoustic data without individual call annotations using temporal convolutional networks and feature extractors - first (but not last!) PhD paper from @garrobe.bsky.social 🥳 pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art... @seamammalresearch.bsky.social 🐋🦑🧪

New paper! Costs and benefits of group size for sperm whales of the open ocean royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... w/ Hal Whitehead, Sam Walmslsey and @anaeg.bsky.social 🐋🦑 @seamammalresearch.bsky.social

Costs and benefits of group size for sperm whales of the open ocean

Abstract. Individual feeding success can change with the size of a social group through competition, cooperation, recruitment and other processes. Female s

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Exceot they are not vowels or even "vowel-like". In any way. At all. The entire myth is built on fundamental misunderstanding or misrepresentation of sperm whale sound production - which is why the word 'vowel' appears only in the PR and not the actual peer-reviewed paper 🙄

Gasper Begus@begus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Whales use vowels differently when ships are around. First glimpse at vowels being meaningful in whales too.

Sonic Connexions Topic: “Too Many Voices” — acoustic challenges in monitoring large animal groups 🐦 🗓️ April 7 🕒 2 PM Boston | 3 PM São Paulo | 7 PM London 🎙️ Dr. Laura Kloepper 💬 Talk + small breakout discussions 📍 Zoom https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/Td2bKuFKQCGVxSnlP4zyuA #bioacoustics

Congratulations to the newly minted Dr Zoë Morange! 🐳🧪 It was a wonderful defense of a wonderful thesis! You can check out her thesis on the Seasonal and Individual patterns in habitat use of male sperm whales in their arctic foraging grounds here: nva.sikt.no/registration...

Marine biologists are locked in what observers describe as “an academic slap fight” over whether sperm whales communicate using vowel-like patterns or whether researchers just need better microphones. Read more below... #linguistics #Research #spermwhale #vowels #whale #OddNews

AI Studying Whale Songs Says It Thinks Whale Language Might Have Vowels

Where linguists hear “vowels,” skeptics hear “clicks,” and whales hear… absolutely none of this nonsense.

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We are hiring: #PhD fellow in Ecosystem-based management and marine connectivity🐋🧪🛰️ Want to work with tracking data from migratory species to identify ecological corridors and help inform biodiversity conservation priorities? Apply by Dec 7th! @bioprotectproject.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ytfmfhfc

PhD Fellow in Ecology/Ecosystem-Based Management (289259) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Job title: PhD Fellow in Ecology/Ecosystem-Based Management (289259), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Sunday, December 7, 2025

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It's live! Please see my new paper in Ecological Informatics on the #detection and #categorization of frequency notched echolocation from wild recordings. 🐬🔊👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨Job alert! CMST are hiring an offshore fieldwork specialist to maintain our acoustic equipment, design and build moorings, manage field deployments, and join in data analysis, publication, presentation, and student support. Closing 21 Nov. staff.curtin.edu.au/job-vacancie... #bioacoustics

PhD candidacy ✔️ Excited for #IBAC25 in a couple of weeks!

I'm happy to share our latest manuscript "Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience", coauthored with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman.

Dr Sarah Myers@drsarahmyers.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to see 1st of the Evoluionary Human Sciences special issue on scientific racism come out! @kevinlala.bsky.social @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman discuss impediments to countering racist pseudoscience & present 5 solutions www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Fresh off the press from colleagues at the CMST lab (not on Bluesky), Australia. Paper focusing on Omura’s whale song features off northern Australia, published as JASA-EL EDITOR'S PICK pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/arti... @asa-news.bsky.social

Omura's whale (Balaenoptera omurai) song features and structure in northern Australian waters

This paper describes Omura's whale vocalizations recorded off northern Australia. Most common was a two-unit “doublet” (17–50 Hz, peak 25.5 Hz, duration ∼15 s).

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... and this: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... also open.

Marine Mammal Acoustics in a Noisy Ocean

This open-access book explores the potential impacts of noise on marine mammal species such as whales, dolphins, seals, seacows, and otters.

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... check this out. Open. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Exploring Animal Behavior Through Sound: Volume 2

This is an open access book describes the amazing anatomical and behavioral adaptations for usage of sounds among different animal taxa.

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We are looking for a Research Assistant to contribute to our ongoing analysis of dolphin acoustic data from West Wales - collaboration between @wtsww.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 🐬 Deadline is 29th June - please share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

At the #ECSconference2025 this week covering a week of workshops and fascinating talks at the University of the Azores, ranging from telemetry studies in the Arctic to pinnipeds in the the sub-Antarctic

New paper! Very happy to have been invited to join the effort led by @anaeg.bsky.social to bring together an impressive team to try and wreslte with the conservation implications of our findings about culture in Pacific sperm whales. Trabajo fenomenal Ana! 🐋🦑🧪

@anaeg.bsky.social · last yr.

Comparto con mucha emoción nuestro artículo de libre acceso sobre los retos y oportunidades para incorporar la dimensión cultural a la conservación de los cachalotes del Océano Pacífico Este Tropical 🐳🌎! @lrendell.bsky.social @migratoryspecies.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

Join us for the the second edition of Sonic Connexions on May 5th, 2025 ! Register here: whoi-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #bioacoustics 🧪

"What is rhythm and how can we study it?" New pre-print from @lsburchardt.bsky.social @mhoeschele.bsky.social @musiccognition.bsky.social 1st chapter of forthcoming book "Nature Beats" cc @andrearavignani.bsky.social @marcogamba.bsky.social #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

Lara S. Burchardt@lsburchardt.bsky.social · 2y ago

🔬🔊🎶 Rhythm—what is it? From the tides to drumming, from heartbeats to music, the term is used across disciplines but lacks a precise definition in behavioral biology. Our new preprint tackles this challenge head-on! 🧠🐦🎼 #RhythmResearch 📖 Read more: osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵1/4

This is one for the conservation tech and science community here - how do patents on things like genetic sequencing tech, sensor designs or analysis tools affect your research on conserving ecosystems? Any examples of them hindering or helping science? #conservationtech #ecology #scicomm

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Team of researchers explore social bonds of sperm whales in Mauritius

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Two weeks ago I said "hey we should use this crazy new map projection" and today there is python code! Showing here global vessel presence density (from AIS) using the spilhaus projection in a single view where you can see the whole ocean.

Tim@tim.hochberg.io · 2y ago

@paulwoods.io I put together some code at github.com/GlobalFishin... that should be fairly self contained.

New paper: Comparing neural networks against click train detectors to reveal temporal trends in passive acoustic sperm whale detections (DM lgf3@st-andrews.ac.uk for a copy) 🧵 pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art... @pamguard.org @lrendell.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social

Comparing neural networks against click train detectors to reveal temporal trends in passive acoustic sperm whale detections

Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is an increasingly popular tool to study vocalising species. The amount of data generated by PAM studies calls for robust auto

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Introducing "Sonic Connexions", a series of online meetups designed for casual conversations about animal bioacoustics. It is open to anyone, so join us and become part of this vibrant community! First meetup on January 29th, 2025! Sign up here: forms.office.com/r/qhPcMUKz6w 🧪🔉🐟🐋🦜🪳

🤯 "perhaps most great whales have an unrecognized potential for great longevity that has been masked by the demographic disruptions of industrial whaling. This unrecognized longevity has profound implication for basic biology and conservation of whales." Astonishing stuff.

Peter Corkeron@petercorkeron.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper alert Extreme longevity may be the rule not the exception in Balaenid whales by @alaskaraven.bsky.social , Els Vermeulen, and me. 2 messages: ♀Southern rights could live much longer than we thought (10% >130); ♀North Atlantic rights' lives are truncated (10%>47) 🐳🌍🦑

Our research group has a !NEW PAPER! out on soil ecoacoustics - The efficacy of acoustic indices for monitoring abundance and diversity in soil soundscapes in Ecological Indicators. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... A 🧵 on soil ecoacoustics... #science #ecology #ecoacoustics #bioacoustics

Searching for #bioacoustics tools to classify species, organize data, triangulate sounds, ...? 🦉🐋🦇🦗 Check out the (newly updated) Bioacoustics Software Database! rhine3.github.io/bioacoustics...

hey all, just coming out of my fieldwork haze and working through following folks back! A short intro: I'm a community ecologist working on diversity-productivity relationships in coral reefs :) Method development is my jam and I dabble in macroecology and ecoinformatics as well