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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hi all ! The BBB seminar series is back (after a brief pause) with two reptile talks this friday october 16th at 10AM EST !! registration info at braincoustics.com Hope to see you there! 🐊

Poster featuring the photos, names, and talk titles for the two upcoming speakers in the Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar series.
Theme: acoustic communication and vibration sensing in reptiles
Stephen Reber, research fellow, Lund University, "acoustic communication in crocodillians"
Dawei "David" Han, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School, "vibration sensing in squamate reptiles"

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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Big thanks to today‘s speakers and to everyone who joined live! If you couldn’t make it, recordings of both talks are now up on our website, where you can find out the answer to one of life‘s most enigmatic questions: fish or fart? www.braincoustics.com

A picture of a funny cartoon fish with the words “Fish or Fart?!”

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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

📣 New Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics Seminar next week! Join us to learn about the ecology and neuroscience of soniferous fish from Audrey Looby and Brooke Vetter 🐟🐠🐡 @FishSounds.bsky.social #bioacoustics #neuroskyence #prattle 💬 🗓️ January 30th, 12:30 ET ✅ Register here: www.braincoustics.com

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics Seminar announcement for Friday, January 30th at 12:30 ET

From Audrey Looby, University of Victoria:
"The Prevalence and Important of Soniferous Fishes"

From Brooke Vetter, University of St. Thomas
"Anthropogenic Noise and Fish Hearing: From Ecological Impacts to Invasive Species Management"

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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

New seminar coming up! We are lucky to have @emilyjanedennis.bsky.social of HHMI/Janelia and Stuart Newson of @btobirds.bsky.social tell us about their work on the bioacoustics and neuroscience of acoustic signaling in small mammals 🗓️November 18th @ 11:00 ET ✅Register here: braincoustics.com

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar for Tuesday, November 18th at 11:00AM ET

From Emily Dennis: Using sound to study how mice hunt for prey
From Stuart Newson: Bioacoustics for Small Mammal Identification

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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

The next Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar is happening in 2 weeks! Join us to learn all about the neuroscience and ecology of acoustic communication in mice from @cliffscience.bsky.social and @leo-perrier.bsky.social 🗓️ October 23rd @ 10:00 EST ✅ Register here: braincoustics.com

Bridging brains and bioacoustics talks for October 23rd @ 10:00 am EST:

From Clifford Harpole (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory): Vocal repertoire expansion in singing mice by co-opting a conserved midbrain circuit node

From Léo Perrier (Universite de Neuchatel): Unravelling the acoustic network of striped mice

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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

A huge thank you to our speakers for a great seminar yesterday, and to everyone who joined for the discussion! Recordings of both talks are now up on our website (where you can also already sign up for next month’s seminar on 🐁) braincoustics.com

A lot of information is encoded in dog calls and we don’t know half of it

How to build AI for animal communication? Not straightforward!

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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics is back! Please join us next week for fantastic talks from speakers Rada Mihalcea, Álvaro Vega-Hidalgo, and Tamás Faragó @barkslab.bsky.social @radamihalcea.bsky.social 🗓️September 25th 10:00 EST ✅ Register here: braincoustics.com #bioacoustics #neuroskyence

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar for Thursday, September 25th at 10:00 EST

From Rada Mihalcea and Álvaro Vega-Hidalgo: Cross-Species AI Models for Decoding Animal Communication

From Tamás Faragó: Mapping dogs' vocal repertoires

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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Big thanks to our speakers Sarah Dagher and Virgile Daunay, and to everyone else who joined in today! You can check out Virgile’s great talk on human laughter here (sneak peak below): braincoustics.com We’re taking a summer break, but we’ll be back in September with more talks - see you then!

Screenshot from Virgile Daunay's Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics talk on June 25, 2025.

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Does volitional laughter encode information about social context?

Do volitional laughs differ acoustically across contexts?

Can listeners accurately decode laughter contexts?

Which acoustic features vary across different contexts, and do those features affect listeners' perceptions?

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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

New seminar! A lot going on in the world to be unhappy about, so this month we’re going to try to bring some joy: two fantastic talks on the bioacoustics of laughter and play from Sarah Dagher and Virgile Daunay Hope to see you there! 🗓️ June 25th @ 10:00 EST ✅ Register here: braincoustics.com

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar on June 25th at 10:00am EST

From Sarah Dagher: Comparative Analysis of Tickling and Conspecific Play in Tame Mice and Golden Hamsters

From Virgile Daunay: What does your laugh mean? Production and perception of
volitional laughter across social contexts

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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

🚨 New BBB Seminar 🚨 Join us next week to learn about *names* from Mickey Pardo (🐘) and David Omer (🐒) 🗓️ April 17th @ 10:00 EDT ✅ Register here: braincoustics.com

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar happening on Thursday, April 17th 2025 at 10:00 EDT

from David Omer, Hebrew University: "The Naming of Nonhuman primates "

from Michael Pardo, Cornell University: "What's in a name? Discovering individually specific vocal labels in African elephants"

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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Mark your calendars for a new bridging brain and #bioacoustics seminar! Join us in two weeks to learn about the ecology and neuroscience of *corvid* vocal behaviors from @wascherclaudia.bsky.social and @daliao.bsky.social 🐦‍⬛ 🗓️ March 12th @ 11:00 EDT ✅ Register here: braincoustics.com

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics Seminar for March 12th, 2025 at 11:00 AM ET

From Claudia Wascher: "Unsung songbirds: Vocal communication and cognition in corvids"

From Diana Liao: "Exploring auditory responses in the crow with functional ultrasound imaging"

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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

🚨 New seminar! 🚨 Join us on the 19th to discuss the neuroscience and ecology of auditory processing with talks from Johannes Dahmen and Angeles Salles 🦻🧠 Hope to see you there! 🗓️ February 19th @ 11:00 AM ET ✅ Register here: www.braincoustics.com

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics announcement for February 19th, at 11:00 AM ET

From Johannes Dahmen (University of Oxford): "Hearing without auditory cortex"

From Angeles Salles (University of Illinois Chicago): "Auditory Processing of Bat Social Communication"

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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

First Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics of 2025! Join us to learn all about vocal communication in pinnipeds from Diandra Düngen and Mathilde Martin 🦭 #Bioacoustics 🗓️: Friday, January 17th @ 10:00 am ET Register here: braincoustics.com

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics announcement for January 2025, 10:00am ET

from Diandra Düngen: Testing vocal learning in pinnipeds

from Mathilde Martin: Mother-pup individual vocal recognition in the Cape fur seal

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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

New Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics Seminar! Join us next week to learn about the evolution of vocal learning in birds from Nick Audet and Anastasia Krasheninnikova 🦜🐦‍⬛ 🗓️ December 13th at 10:00 AM EST ✅ Register here: www.braincoustics.com

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar for December 13th at 10:00am EST

From Nick Audet: "Vocal learning complexity, problem-solving and brain size in birds"

From Anastasia Krasheninnikova: "Insights into the phylogenetic distribution and evolution of
vocal production learning in parrots"

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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

New Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics! Join us next week to learn about the neuroscience and ecology of bat vocalization from Shivani Hariharan and Maria Sagot 🦇🦇 🗓️Friday, November 22 ✅Register here: braincoustics.com

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics Seminar for Friday, November 22 at 10:00 EST

From Shivani Hariharan: Cerebellar Activity Predicts Vocalization in Fruit Bats

From Maria Sagot: Group Vocal Strategies and Collective Decision-Making in Roost Finding by Spix’s Disk-winged Bats

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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

New Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics next week! Join us to learn about the ecology and neuroscience of emotion in animal communication from Elodie Briefer and Zahra Ghasemahmad 🗓️October 24th @ 10:00 EST ✅Register here: braincoustics.com

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar for October 24th at 10:00am EST

The Evolution of Vocal Expression of Emotions: Insights from Ungulates
(Elodie Briefer, University of Copenhagen)

Emotional Vocalizations: The modulation of Behavior and Neurochemicals
(Zahra Ghasemahmad, Harvard Medical School)

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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics next week! Join us for a seminar on the genetics and evolution of birdsong from Matteo Sebastianelli and Javier Sierro 🗓️September 25th @ 9:00 EST ✅Register here: braincoustics.com #Bioacoustics

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar for September 25th, 2024 at 9:00 Eastern US time.

From Matteo Sebastianelli : GWAS reveals candidate regions underlying vocal rhythm in a wild non-passerine bird

From Javier Sierro: How to master birdsong, a mating perspective

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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics this Wednesday! Join us to learn about the neuroscience and ecology of cricket song from Jan Clemens and Keren Levy 🗓️ July 24th at 10:00 EST ✅ Register here: braincoustics.com #Bioacoustics

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics Seminar on July 24th, 2024 at 10:00am EST

From Keren Levy: The effects of light pollution on circadian behavior in a cricket
From Jan Celemens: The evolution of song recognition in crickets

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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

New seminar! Join us next week to learn about the neuroscience and ecology of substrate born acoustic signals from Erica Huey and Malcolm Rosenthal #Bioacoustics 🗓️June 27th at 10:00 EST ✅Register here: braincoustics.com

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics Seminar on Wednesday, June 27th at 10:00am EST

From Erica Huey: The auditory midbrain mediates tactile vibration sensing
From Malcolm Rosenthal: The song of the spider: how environmental variability drives he evolution of substrate-borne acoustic signals

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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

New Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics! Join us in two weeks to learn about the ecology and neuroscience of human-animal communication from Marianna Boros and Claire Spottiswoode 🗣️🐦‍⬛🐕 🗓️May 14th @ 12pm EST ✅Register here: braincoustics.com

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics: May 14th 2024 at 12pm EST

from Marianna Boros: How do dogs understand words? Evidence from a semantic violation paradigm with non-invasive EEG

from Claire Spottiswoode: Show me the honey: communication between people and wild birds in Africa

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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

New BBB seminar! Join us on March 25th to learn all about vocal communication in Budgerigars from Zhilei Zhao and Alondra Villalba 🦜🦜🦜 🗓️March 25th @ 12:00pm EST ✅ Register here: braincoustics.com

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar on March 25th at 12:00pm

From Alondra Villalba: Interactive effects of chronic stress on the physiological stress response of budgerigars

From Zhilei Zhao: Evolution of forebrain vocal learning circuits in songbirds and parrots

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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

Excited to announce our first seminar on here! Join us next week for two talks on inter-species communication from Gašper Beguš (@begus.bsky.social) and Claire Spottiswoode 🗓️February 22nd @ 12 noon EST ✅Register here: braincoustics.com

Seminar announcement for Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics on February 22nd at 12 noon EST

Show me the honey: communication between people and wild birds in Africa
Claire Spottiswoode, University of Cambridge

Uncovering Meaningful Properties from Unknown Data with AI Interpretability: The Case of Vowels and Diphthongs in Sperm Whales
Gašper Beguš, University of California, Berkeley

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