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Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

🧵 Very proud our special collection on vocal communication in corvids in Animal Cognition (@springernature.com) is now fully published! 🐦 Huge thanks to all collaborators and contributors who made this possible! (1/15) link.springer.com/collections/...

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Vocal communication in corvids

In the field of vocal communication, research has mostly focussed on birds because of their vocal learning capacity and non-human primates due to their ...

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NMAC GRC 2026 @nmac2026.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

We are excited to announce that registration is open for the 2026 Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication Gordon Research Conference. The preliminary program is now live: www.grc.org/neural-mecha... We invite everyone to apply! See you @ Sunday River, Maine, May 31-June 5, 2026.

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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Today's @tuda.bsky.social Cogsci Colloquium speaker is @daliao.bsky.social who will talk about the "Cognitive Building Blocks of Communication in Crows". For the full schedule, check out www.tu-darmstadt.de/cogsci/ccs_n...

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Felix W. Moll @mollfw.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Nicholdav @nicholdav.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Hey friends in bioacoustics & acoustic communication: I am (finally) sharing this post on the new version of @vocalpy.bsky.social I released after teaching a bootcamp with @tessarhinehart.bsky.social at the @nmac2024.bsky.social last year blog.vocalpy.org/posts/2025-0... #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

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VocalPy 0.10.0 released! – VocalPy blog

What’s new in VocalPy version 0.10.0

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Nick Jourjine @nickjourjine.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Very happy to share the latest from my postdoc‬! 10 yrs of mouse social networks + 1.25 yrs of acoustic data ➡️ insight into vocalization & sociality in a wild population of your favorite lab model 🐁 paper: bit.ly/4n93yyD data: bit.ly/4lfFBEk code: bit.ly/4kNnMwx #bioacoustics #neuroskyence 1/8

Graphical abstract for "Vocal communication is seasonal in social groups of wild, free-living house mice."

The abstract has, from top to bottom, a title, four middle image panels, and two bottom text panels.

Image title: "Vocal communication in social groups of wild-free living house mice"

Middle image panels from left to right: (1) An aerial snap shot of the region where the study site is located, an agricultural landscape in rural Switzerland. (2) An image of the study site, a small barn in the forest inhabited by mice. (3) An image of a radio frequency identification (RFID) box used to track mouse social interactions. A mouse is entering the box from the left while another sits outside. (4) A spectrogram showing example vocalizations - one low frequency squeak and one ultrasonic call - recorded from an RFID box.

Bottom panels:
Left: Data Collection
- 10 years of RFID-based tracking data (from 6,946 mice)
- 15 months of acoustic monitoring (totaling 6,594 hours)
- Machine learning for vocal detection and labeling (CNN)

Right: Key Findings
- Vocalization is seasonal (most in spring and summer)
- Vocalization is associated with the presence of pups
- Vocalization is correlated with social group dynamics

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Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... In our new paper we review 130 papers and summarise empirical evidence for socioecological factors affecting vocal communication, as well as evidence for vocal learning in different corvid species.

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Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review

Vocal communication is broadly distributed in a wide range of nonhuman animal species and is hypothesized to play an important role in mate attraction…

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