New paper 🇨🇷🎙️🎶🐦 Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) occupancy patterns reveal sensitivity to low precipitation on nonbreeding grounds in northern Costa Rica - Ibis - Wiley onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @gdfcf.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social @wildlifeacoustics.com #cienciatica

Want to present your research at #ABL2026? 🗓 Submit your abstract by 6 September and join researchers from around the world for a day dedicated to "Studying Animal Behaviour in a Changing World." 🎤 Choose between: 🔹 A 15-min live talk 🔹 A 5-min video poster 📄 Submit now ablaoc.sciencesconf.org

Please share! I have two positions for graduate students in my lab, starting Fall 2027. Details on the position s and application process can be found here: kjmathot.wordpress.com/opportunities/

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********************************************************************************************************* ***Two graduate student positions in the Mathot Lab**** I am recruiting two new graduate st…

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New article from our team! A. Araguas et al. show that social interaction shapes vocal learning in young zebra finches tutored by a robot bird 🤖 🎶🐦 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... And check out @sebrafinch.bsky.social's Cassyni presentation on this study: cassyni.com/events/9682W...

Should the term 'personality trait' be really used in animal personality studies? With Sasha Dall and @dingemanselab.bsky.social we don't think so. We explain why in this commentary published in Animal Behaviour. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Apparently our Motus Audio recorders also serve as a handy perch for migrating warblers! Our collaborator André Desrochers took this amazing photo of a Cape May Warbler perched on our Tadoussac Motus Audio recorder. What a shot, André! @birdscanada.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

🌿🌵🎶 listen to the forest succession sound! Thanks for spreading the word! #DataSonification #ForestSound #ForestEcology #Science+Art #SciComm

Catherine Hulshof@hulshof.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What does a changing forest sound like? 🌳🎼 Check out work by @pablolopezbust.bsky.social Data sonification of 30 years of seed dispersal patterns from a #ForestGEO dry forest in #CostaRica Supported by Botany in Action Phipps grant and NSF! 🍃 Listen here: www.pablolopez-bustamante.com/forestition

Yesterday I gave a talk (in Spanish) on my research about chronic noise to the Landscape Ecology class at the University of Costa Rica. A nice throwback to my PhD project! 🐦🇨🇦

Motus Audio Day 1: Vancouver BC. After a year of designing, planning, and building, today is a big day: Natalie and Madison are starting a cross-Canada trip to launch 100 Motus Audio recorders. Follow us as we build a continent-wide microphone network. motus-audio.web.app #bioacoustics #ornithology

🔊Out now with @lsburchardt.bsky.social @marcosqoliva.bsky.social, Kouřil & Petrusková: Yellowhammer males sing using individual isochronous rhythms & maximise rhythmic dissimilarity with their neighbours. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Science and art! Sketching an antlion larvae!

Pop songs in science papers! 🎶💃🎙️🐦

Dan Mennill@dmennill.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Pop songs in science papers! Our new paper is the third time a pop song appears in one of our paper titles: "In the danger zone: Wrens respond more strongly to experimentally simulated predators near their nest" doi.org/10.1111/eth.... 🧵1/3

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Birds are vanishing from tropical forests. Is another ‘silent spring’ coming?

As mysterious bird declines crop up in the Amazon and beyond, scientists suspect climate change may be to blame

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Our new paper is out today in Ethology: "In the Danger Zone: Wrens Respond More Strongly to Experimentally Simulated Predators Near Their Nest" With Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social How do tropical wrens respond to simulated predators near their nest? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵1

Our latest study is officially accepted! Dan @dmennill.bsky.social and I used 3D-printed pygmy owls to explore predator responses in Rufous-and-white Wrens. Check it out soon in Ethology. 🦉🔊🪺🇨🇷🇨🇦

Dan Mennill@dmennill.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"In the danger zone: wrens respond more strongly to experimentally simulated predators near their nest." Our new study was accepted for publication! Led by @natingui.bsky.social, we use 3D-printed pygmy-owls to understand Rufous-and-white Wrens' reactions to danger. Coming soon to Ethology! 🦉🔊🪺🇨🇷🇨🇦

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals

Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

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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

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Special issue: FROM CHIRPS TO INSIGHTS: PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING FOR APPLIED ORNITHOLOGY More info: vist.ly/46pfg Guest editors: Jan O. Engler, Jenn Foote, @silvereyedom.bsky.social , Simon Thorn #ornithology #birds 🪶🧪

Ever wonder how birds are able to identify their nest? Jennings et al. show that nests can become scented like the birds that occupy them, which may enable birds to use olfaction to accomplish this critical task. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

A visual summary of Peter and Juley's new open access paper in Ibis. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Morning Light on a Carolina Wren" 5" x 7" Oil on panel I just think they're neat

In memory of Dr. Keith Hobson, the Society of Canadian Ornithologists is collecting donations to support the Keith Hobson Early Career Research Award. If you have the means, join me in supporting this initiative: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati... Details: www.sco-soc.ca/early-career...

3 great words on a Monday morning: Accepted for publication! Our paper "Hushed disputes between noisy neighbours: Ovenbirds vary song amplitude during conflicts with territorial rivals" is coming to Animal Behaviour. 🤫🎶🐦 By Connor Acorn, Jenn Foote, and me. [📷: J. Foote] @animbehsociety.bsky.social

Thank you, Nature Guelph, for the invitation to speak about our research on acoustic monitoring of bird migration. It was great to join such an engaged and excited group of birders for the evening.

CALENDAR ERROR: My talk to Nature Guelph is TOMORROW night, Thursday December 4. (I think that I have end-of-semester brain.) Anyone interested is welcome to join Thursday December 4 at 7:30pm: natureguelph.ca/events/eaves...

📣CALL FOR PAPERS - NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30 JUNE 2026📣 Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives More info: vist.ly/4fn5i Guest editors: @jj255.bsky.social #RoxanaTorres, @brittheidinger.bsky.social @jaime-muriel.bsky.social @toblermichi.bsky.social Please repost 🙏

Our new paper is a deep dive into the pros and cons of double quantile regression for estimating performance limits. academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

On the use of double quantile regression and visual assessment to estimate performance constraints

Double quantile regression (DQR) is a statistical method used to estimate constraints on animal performance, but it has some important limitations. We expl

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Accepted! "Acoustic differences persist in urban tits over two decades of declining anthropogenic noise in Paris, France." Hans Slabbekoorn and I show that city-living Great Tits continue to sing at high frequencies, even as Paris reduces noise pollution. Coming to Ornith Appl. @amornith.bsky.social

Successful Master's thesis defense of my student Isabel Vargas at the University of Costa Rica. She studied environmental and forest structure factors affecting Wood Thrush occupancy in Northern Costa Rica Project funded by @gdfcf.bsky.social

This year marks the 100th birthday of #bioacoustics, established by Ivan Regen in 1925, which studies how animals hear, produce and propagate sound. Let’s discover this discipline with @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social, Professor of Saint Etienne University, in the first episode of Acoustic World.