Our book, "Nature Beats" is finally out. It talks all about how we can study rhythm across species and what that can tell us about the evolution of music. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

🎤 Assistant Professor Michelle Spierings of Leiden University is ready to help us understand "the hidden rules of sound," uncovering how the brain organizes acoustic signals into structures before meaning and communication even begin. Because the World has always spoken, we just need to listen.

🐋 What happens when you live where there's no light at all? Professor Natacha Aguilar de Soto of @megamargroup.bsky.social takes us into the deep ocean to explore how deep-diving cetaceans use echolocation to navigate, hunt, and survive, and how we are interfering with these remarkable adaptations.

🐬 A whistle in the vastness of the ocean, searching for someone specific. Have you ever wondered whether dolphins actually call each other by name? Professor Vincent Janik from the University of St Andrews explores signature whistles and what they reveal about dolphin societies. 🧵👇

What drives the attractiveness of different timbres? Both similarity with conspecific vocalization and universal markers of arousal may play a role. In other words: biological aspects of the voice, its structure, and how emotional sounds get produced. online.ucpress.edu/mp/article/d...

The ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab at the Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne is a finalist for the Coller-Dolittle Awards! 🏆 Register below 👇 to watch the ceremony live. #bioacoustics

🐘 Ever heard an elephant’s rumble across the savannah? What if we told you that’s only part of the story? 🎤 Prof. @angelastoeger.bsky.social explains how elephants use infrasound, low-frequency signals humans can’t hear, their secret language to stay connected across vast distances.

I am very pleased to say that the new IBAC @ibacsocial.bsky.social website is out 🤗 thanks to former PhD student @romainlefevre.bsky.social for the beautiful work!: ibac.info

International Bioacoustics Society (IBAC) | Since 1969

Welcome to the International Bioacoustics Society. Join our global community studying biological sounds, animal communication, and eco-acoustics.

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New paper in @pnas.org - using playback experiments we provide further evidence that bottlenose dolphins can use individual identity signals + social memory to guide decision-making. Female dolphins use individual vocal labels to track coercive males | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🎶 From gentle lullabies to driving rhythms, music is the heartbeat of human life. Do you want to know if music is truly universal and shared across cultures? 🎤 Assistant Professor @norijacoby.bsky.social of @cornelluniversity.bsky.social is helping uncover what makes music unique and universal.

🍂 Ever watched an insect climbing a stem in complete silence and wondered what’s happening? 🎤 In our latest episode, Ass. Prof. Rachele Nieri from the University of Trento introduces us to biotremology: how insects communicate through substrate vibrations—tiny signals like miniature earthquakes.

🗣️ From speech and song to a sudden shout, the human voice carries words, emotion, and identity. But what biological design makes it all possible? 🎤 Professor @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social explores the “architecture of sound,” revealing how vocal systems across species shape the sounds they produce.

Come out and play! Why do some societies, human and non-human, embrace playfulness among adults, while others suppress it? It is a matter of "style". doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Siamangs scream twice! Read more about rhythm in siamangs in our new paper! nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🦇 Ever caught a glimpse of a bat darting through the night with precision? What if sound is all they need to navigate and connect? 🚀 🎤 @berlinbatlab.bsky.social Mirjam Knörnschild (Evolutionary Ethology Lab, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin) explores echolocation, social calls & even bat dialects.

🔊Fun new paper from the Many Parrots: pet parrots learn names from their caretakers: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Name use by companion parrots

Humans organize social interactions in part by referring to others using proper names (hereafter “names”). Names might also facilitate the complex social lives of animals. Several animal species produ...

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Honored to be runner-up for Best Student Talk at #EvolangXVI 🏆✨ My work on cognitive biases in zebra finches 🐦 was a joy to share. Grateful for the inspiring discussions on linguistics, iconicity & ape vocalizations, and for all the great connections 🌍🤝 #Linguistics #CognitiveScience #AcademicLife

🌿 Ever noticed that ecosystems are full of sounds? What if those sounds could help us count species, without even being there? 🎤 Assistant Prof. Jeppe Rasmussen (@biologen.bsky.social), University of Copenhagen, explores passive acoustic monitoring and how AI lets us “listen” to entire ecosystems.

🚋 You may have heard the trembling voice of someone anxious or the jolly tone of a friend sharing good news. Are you curious to know if animals also express their emotions through their voices? [...]

🎸 You may have heard a piercing scream in a horror movie or a deep growl in a metal track. Are you curious to know why these harsh sounds are so difficult to ignore?

🐟 You may have often heard the phrase "silent like a fish". Are you curious to know if the underwater world is actually as quiet as it seems, or if there is a secret conversation happening beneath the surface? [...] #acousticworld #bioacoustics #podcast #fishcommunication #underwaterworld

🦜You may have heard a parrot talk or a songbird singing a beautiful song. Are you curious to know how they can do that? 🎤 Professor Emeritus Carel Ten Cate of @unileiden.bsky.social is ready to help us understand the vocal learning world, uncovering an incredible story of a particular animal. [...]

🦜You may have heard a parrot talk or a songbird singing a beautiful song. Are you curious to know how they can do that? 🎤 Professor Emeritus Carel Ten Cate of Leiden University is ready to help us understand the world of vocal learning, uncovering an incredible story of a particular animal. [...]

❓ Have you ever wondered if a baby’s cry means something? And do great apes have something similar? 🎤 Join us as Professor Florence Levrero of the University of Saint-Etienne casts a light on babies’ cries and great apes’ vocalization. [...]

📣What is rhythm? Is it the missing link between human music and animal calls? 🎤 Join us as Professor @andrearavignani.bsky.social of the Sapienza University of Rome explores the rhythmic world of humans and animals. open.spotify.com/episode/77rq... #acousticworld #bioacoustics #podcast #rhythm

[Please share] Call for Fellowship Applications for Early Career Researchers from the Global South — to attend an international workshop on ‘spectral percepts’ and the Origins of Musicality in The Netherlands. Deadline : 19 December 2025 (23:59, AoE). See www.lorentzcenter.nl/index.php?pn...

📣 What are ultrasonic sounds? Which animals use them? And how can we study and understand sounds that we cannot even hear? 🎤 Let’s ask Dr. Marina Scheumann, team leader of the Communication and Cognition group at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover! 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/3VaX...

🍃Imagine you are in a forest, you hear a powerful sound, too harmonious to be an insect and too loud to be a bird… 🎶Meet those fascinating animals, the singing primates, with Pr. @marcogamba.bsky.social of the Università degli Studi di Torino!

✈ Aeroplanes taking off, cars honking, people chattering… How do animals communicate in urban environments? 📣Turn up the volume for the 3rd episode of Acoustic World with Prof. Hans Slabbekoorn of @unileiden.bsky.social! 🎧Listen on Spotify lnkd.in/dqp7Jrqa #acousticworld #bioacoustics #podcast

🎼What is octave equivalence? 🎶Do animals use notes and octaves? In the second episode of Acoustic World, we talk about it with @mhoeschele.bsky.social from ARI Vienna’s "Musicality and Bioacoustics" group. Free now on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/7m6Y... #acousticworld #bioacoustic #podcast

A choir which sounds different

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