Honoured to be an invited speaker at the symposium "(In)efficiency in language and communication" at #CogSci2026! Tomorrow (24/07) at 13:15 (UTC-3), I'll be speaking about the efficiency of animal communication systems 🐒🦍

As I am preparing my calculus notes for next year, the resolution of the jacobian conjecture comes at the perfect time! Today I've learned a few things surrounding this result, which i'll gather in a thread 1/n

#Communiqué 🗞️ Le CNRS dévoile CNRS Le Mag, la nouvelle formule de son magazine consacré à l’actualité de la recherche. Héritier de CNRS Le Journal, ce nouveau rendez-vous veut rendre la science toujours plus accessible, sans compromis sur l’exigence et la rigueur. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/cn...

Out now - join us for a Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments event this summer/fall! @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Meant for anyone who needs to get the basics of French politics correct fast, or wants to understand the stakes of the upcoming election next year. link.springer.com/book/10.1007... For discount codes and copies, reach out! German version to come next year 🥨

It's been a journey but it's finally out there: French Politics, available wherever books are sold 🥳 Short, efficient, and most importantly up to date!, intro into everything French politics. It covers institutions, culture, parties, where it all comes from, and where it is likely going.

We are launching a new blog; Reliable-AI.Review. First post is up: On the Impossibility of Mitigating AI Jailbreaks.

Vincent d'Indy rhabillé pour l'hiver par Edgard Varèse (conversation avec Gunther Schuller)

#ExpertsCNRS 🔎 | Journalistes, le CNRS vous propose une liste de spécialistes multithématique afin de répondre à vos questions sur les fortes #chaleurs et les #canicules. Si vous êtes intéressés, contactez le bureau de presse ⤵️ 📞📩 cnrs.fr/fr/contacts

🎶 Derrière le plaisir d’écouter une chanson se cache une étonnante capacité du cerveau : un mécanisme d’anticipation qui traduit de simples vibrations en émotions. Un phénomène particulièrement exploité par les musiques électroniques. #FeteDeLaMusique

Musique : le cerveau aime anticiper

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This one was already a few weeks ago but the announcement slipped my mind! Franziska Carstensen and I have asked members of second chambers in France, Germany, Ireland and Poland what representation means to them. This is what came out of it: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Carnets de science, la revue du CNRS, fête ses 10 ans. À la une de ce n° 20, un dossier aussi original qu’étonnant sur les sols. Disponible en librairie et en Relay.

Carnets de science #20 : Sols, un monde sous nos pieds

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Je partage ce très bon billet de Martin Quinson sur l'affaire Achille Baucher à Grenoble. Pourquoi Romain Couillet n'est plus un collègue people.irisa.fr/Martin.Quins...

BioDCASE challenge - the evaluation datasets are now available! https://biodcase.github.io/challenge2026/ Looking forward to seeing what new researchers will develop with this animal sound data. #bioacoustics #datachallenge #ai4good

Bioacoustics Winter School 2027 👇Applications are now open Do not hesitate to disseminate this info ☺️ #bioacoustics www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-...

Bioacoustics Winter School | ENES lab

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Interested in Animal acoustic communication? Human non-verbal communication? Bioacoustics for biodiversity? Effects of anthropogenic noise?👇 visit the new website of the ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab, a unique ecosystem combining Research and Training. www.eneslab.com #bioacoustics

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Home page of the ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab.

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An interview with me and Lia Gilmour (of the Bat Conservation Trust) about #BioacousticAI: "AI listens in to help protect wildlife" https://projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-magazine/ai-listens-help-protect-wildlife #bioacoustics @bioacousticai @EUCommission

AI listens in to help protect wildlife

Strolling through a forest, you may notice that the air is filled with sound. Birds sing, insects and small mammals rustle through the undergrowth, and at dusk bats squeak as they communicate with each other.These soundscapes contain a wealth of information about which animals are present, how many there are and how healthy an ecosystem may be. But analysing all that audio is a huge challenge.

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Our brain is constantly looking for patterns. When something unexpected happens, we notice it more in a predictable context, than in an unpredictable environment. Our study identifies how the auditory cortex amplifies responses to unexpected sounds in predictable contexts. doi.org/10.1523/jneu...

Can social norms and stereotypes be changed from the top, and how can parliaments set an example for the society they want to see? I was lucky enough to be invited to give some academic insights about this topic at the @ipuparliament.bsky.social GCWP, alongside inspiring female parliamentarians.

We are hiring! PhD student in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, investigating the neural mechanisms of auditory imagination: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16... Project summary here: lundbeckfonden.com/neuronal-mec... Deadline: July 1st.

PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience

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We hope that science policy makers, administrators and funders will take note and push for this. Also, more than political will, I think this endeavour needs field ecologists in India to come together for a larger good as opposed to individual pursuits.

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In their recent Perspective in our Field Stations in Experimental Biology Research series, Somanathan & co call for a network of field stations throughout India to better understand the biology of the organisms that inhabit the country's diverse ecosystems doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Do you want to know if birds can use hair-like feathers as high-frequency sound receptors during echolocation? Join our team as PhD student or postdoc and find out! ⬇️ www.bi.mpg.de/2809383/job_...

The Korean translation of my book "Waiting or Robots" will be available in bookstores next week. I especially like the way the title has been rendered: “Robots Will Not Come. The myth of automation and the hidden truth of human labor” (로봇은 오지 않는다 자동화 신화와 은폐된 인간 노동의 진실) 👌🎯

On croit souvent que les experts (je parle ici au sens experts scientifiques ou techniques d'un sujet) sont forcément enthousiastes et favorables à son application la plus extensive. Quelques exemples.

Happy to see my PhD work on birdsong complexity published today! doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 🐦‍⬛ 🎶 ⬇️ Why are some birdsongs simple and some extremely complex? The answer is long thought to be ‘sexual selection favouring complex signals’. But - really?

Song complexity in suboscine birds: evolutionary drivers and ecological constraints

Abstract. Acoustic signal complexity varies widely in animals, from single notes to highly sophisticated vocal displays. In birds, vocal complexity can evo

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Talking about imaginary musical instruments, as Thomas Patteson and I are wont to do. The book is out in the US July 6, and we’re available for podcasts, events, and conversations. @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social

My philosophical objection to music tech got thoroughly destroyed by all the great music being made with all the tech. I had to embrace the tech to get to the sounds that I valued.

Maggie's study on perception of objects and settings in natural auditory scenes is now published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America! pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...

Object and setting identification in natural auditory scenes

Auditory scene perception allows listeners to identify both the setting and the objects within a scene, supporting decision-making and situational awareness. Wh

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Joel Snyder@auditoryjoel.bsky.social · last yr.

Amidst all the terrible things, do we still post pre-prints? Just in case yes, here's a new one by Maggie McMullin on perception of objects and settings in recordings of natural auditory scenes. osf.io/preprints/ps...