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Ilaria Morandi

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PhD student @prfju.bsky.social @bioacousticai | Bioacoustics & bird conservation | Currently stalking Yellowhammers for science 🐤🔨🎶

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🎧 Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica ? Answer this quick 5-min survey: 👉 www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en Take a break and listen to the voice of the forest 💚 Please like & share on 🦋 to reach more participants 🙏 🌐🌍🦤🧪🍁🪴
Flyer for the BIODIFUL Soundscapes survey. Text reads: 'Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica? Please answer our online questionnaire: Voices of the Tropical Forest.' Photo of a lush tropical forest interior, overlaid with a translucent ear icon surrounded by sound waves. Text continues: 'This anonymous survey will take only 10 min. https://www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en.' Logos at the bottom: BIODIFUL, ETH Zürich, CNRS, and Station d'Écologie Théorique et Expérimentale
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Dan Stowell @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
My colleague is running a survey on #GenAI tool usage among biodiversity and #ecology people. If you have 5 minutes to spare: tally.so/r/pb2oMy
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Biodiversity and Ecology AI Assistant survey
Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.
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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is so cool! Bird sounds gamified, yaay bird-times.lovable.app
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Dawn Chorus Quest - Guess the birdsong of Bath across time
Listen to birdsong through the ages. Guess the bird. Collect the chorus. Dawn Chorus Quest is a free to play educational game about birds, biodiversity and rewilding.
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Matteo Anderle @mattande.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
📢 We're hiring! I'm looking for a **Junior Researcher** to join my team at @EuracResearch (Bolzano, Italy) and work on bird monitoring, bioacoustics, Passive Acoustic Monitoring, and biodiversity research. Apply here: eurac.onboard.org/jobs/dGXQ9qe... Please share! 🙏 🐦‍⬛🎙️ #Ecology #Ornithology
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Junior Researcher to conduct passive acoustic monitoring and point count of birds.
Eurac Research · Bozen/Bolzano
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Dan Stowell @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026
An interview with me and Lia Gilmour (of the Bat Conservation Trust) about #BioacousticAI: "AI listens in to help protect wildlife" projects.research-and-innovation.ec… #bioacoustics @bioacousticai @EUCommission
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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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Elena Belli @elenabelli.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I am looking for a MSc student to conduct their thesis within my PhD project on multimodal communication in common marmosets! 🐒🌞 You will be part of the Evolutionary Cognition Group at UZH (@nccrlanguage.bsky.social). Unpaid position (funding options would need to be applied for by the candidate).
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
What happens when you travel all the way back home from Africa to find your sweetheart with another bird?! 💔 That’s what happened to poor old Mart this week who returned home only to find his beloved Martha had found a new partner! Keep up with all the drama here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaB...
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Dan Stowell @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026
This was a fabulous Bioacoustic AI week (@bioacousticai) here in the Netherlands! We welcomed our Doctoral Candidates and researchers to meet Dutch researchers for discussions, research planning, plus a desert hike, and a bat walk! #bioacoustics
the sign says Bioacoustic AI ... up here!Panel session: people discussing in a steel-and-glass room with some quirky decorMe and the gang, walking through the sandy desert-like inland dunes of the NetherlandsNow why are all these people clustered around the edge of a small lake at dusk as the light fades, looking intense? It can only be one thing: listening for bats!
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Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Yellowhammer (Emberiza citronella) A 16.5cm (6.5in) yellow Bunting species native to Europe & Asia. It's been introduced to the Falkland Islands, South Africa, Australia & NZ, this Bunting feeds on seeds, grain, oats & other plants such as yarrow, Awesome photo by Liz Hendry in Scotland #wildlife
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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
🔊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...
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 10/03/2026
We have a growing collection of resources for women in ecology that support, celebrate and advocate for women's roles in research and practice.  Check our collection of resources here 👇 f.mtr.cool/gtwczvuefr
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Dan Stowell @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026
New paper from us: "A dataset of insect sounds from 459 species for bioacoustic machine learning", published in Scientific Data, led by Marius Faiß doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07123-4 #bioacoustics #datasets
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A dataset of insect sounds from 459 species for bioacoustic machine learning - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A dataset of insect sounds from 459 species for bioacoustic machine learning
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us ❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world 👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity 📆19th April deadline tinyurl.com/343acaev #maths #modelling #data #fieldwork #Australia 🙏PLEASE SHARE
Zebra finches in Australia; one of the study organisms for the PhDDwarf mongoose staring at a camera in South Africa; one of the PhD study organisms
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mhoeschele.bsky.social @mhoeschele.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I have a new PhD position available on any topic related to musicality or animal communication that aligns well with our current research programs. Deadline March 31: oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=795a... For more info about my Musicality and Bioacoustics group: oeaw.ac.at/en/ari/resea...
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🚨🐯 BIG NEW PAPER OUT! 🐯🚨 "An autonomous network of acoustic detectors to map tiger risk by eavesdropping on prey alarm calls" 🐅🐅🐅🐅🐅 We used AI to do real-time detection of deer alarm calls and warn villagers when there's a tiger in the area zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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An autonomous network of acoustic detectors to map tiger risk by eavesdropping on prey alarm calls
Tiger population recovery brings with it increased fatalities from human-tiger conflict. We describe a network of autonomous intelligent passive acoustic sensors that monitor the forest for deer alar...
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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Student opportunities (BSc / MSc / Internships) Interested in dog vocal communication, emotion, or dog–human interaction? Join our research group for a short research stay in ethology, bioacoustics & neuroscience . DM us or write us an email to barks.lab.elte@gmail.com #interships #students
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Earth Species Project (ESP) @earthspecies.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
⏰ Reminder: Task proposals for the 2026 #BioDCASE Challenge are due Jan 8. Submit your idea and help define the next set of challenge tasks! 🔗Learn more & submit: biodcase.github.io/challenge2026/ #bioacoustics #AIforconservation #animalcommunication
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Sensory Ecology Lab @sensoryecology.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
“Never fear – research shows it's easier than you think. All you need to do is smile at them more – cat style. Not in the human way, by showing your teeth, but by narrowing your eyes and blinking slowly.” #scicomm #animalcommunication www.sciencealert.com/scientists-r... 🧪 🐈 🦊
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Scientists Reveal a Simple Trick to Communicate With Your Cat
Cats have a reputation for aloofness (and floofiness), but if you and your feline friend aren't bonding, the problem might just be that you're not speaking their language.
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Lara S. Burchardt @lsburchardt.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
🚨Preprint doi.org/10.64898/202... From the start of studying #rhythm production in animal vocs, I was sure rhythms can code #population info. Now shown for the 1. time in tawny pipits 🐦🎉🔊 Just as exciting: Even in arrhythmic song, rhythm parameters prove to be valuable in describing the signal.
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Unique rhythmic signatures in arrhythmic birdsong
Animal rhythms are gaining increasing attention in the studies of behaviour and musicology. Recently, it has been shown that rhythm itself can be used as an information coding channel. Now we ask: doe...
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Josie Hewitt @josiethebirder.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Join us! A great opportunity to join the @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social team working on the Isle of May. Great team, great place, great birds... what more could you want?! #seabird #fieldwork #job #ornithology #superseabirdsunday
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Philip Stephens @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
📢 Competition funded PhD with @iapetusdtp.bsky.social: Occupancy, density & the ecology of terrestrial British mammals - what can years of systematic camera trapping tell us? Apply by 5th January 2026. 👇 iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... @mammalweb.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk #phd
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Malavika Madhavan @malavika-m.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
This one is finally out! We found that local conspecific density does affect vocal individuality in a non-learning species🦉. For more details, check out our new paper 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ornithology #bioacoustics #prattle
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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
what's in a meow?? 🐈 New from @berlinbatlab.bsky.social! 1. "we examined meows and purrs to establish how individual identity is encoded" 2. stronger individual signature in purrs than in meows 3. domestic cat meows more variable than those of wild felids #bioacoustics #prattle 💬 #neuroskyence
Fig. 1.   Spectrograms and oscillograms of (A) two meows and (B) two purrs. Oscillograms depict sound
pressure over time, and spectrograms depict frequency over time. All spectrograms were created with a
1024-point FFT, 16-bit depth, and a Hamming Window with 87.5% overlap (sampling rate: 96 kHz, frequency  resolution: 94 Hz, time resolution: 1.33 ms). The two pictures on the right depict Koda, a 15-year-old male
Ragdoll cat, meowing and purring (credit: Marisa Idolo).
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German Ornithological Society @dornitholges.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The DOG is awarding travel grants of 400€ each to young scientists presenting a talk or a poster at the EOU Fledglings Meeting in Gdańsk in March 2026. Here you can find their website: eounion.org/fledglings/ Applications for the travel grant are open until 20.02.2026. Photo: H.-J. Fünfstück
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Angela Stoeger @angelastoeger.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Looking for a PhD at the intersection of animal cognition, acoustics & machine learning? We offer 3 PhD projects at the Acoustics Research Institute (Vienna) and IT:U Linz: Info: it-u.at/en/research/... Apply: career.it-u.at/en/Job/73280 Deadline: Jan 31, 2026 | Start: Mar 2026
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Blair Costelloe @blaircostelloe.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Interested in a multidisciplinary PhD that integrates robotics, computer vision, ecology and conservation? We are looking for 12 Doctoral Candidates to join the WildBotics MSCA Doctoral Network! Positions are fully funded for 36 months! More info & apply @ www.wildbotics.eu/recruitment 🧪👩‍🔬🌍
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WildBotics - Recruitment
We are looking for you!
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 03/12/2025
Acoustic detection of a nocturnal bird with deep learning: the challenge of low signal-to-noise ratio | www.sciencedirect.co... | Ecological Indicators | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
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Nature @nature.com · 03/12/2025
An AI tool is helping to crack the challenge of forecasting hurricane intensity go.nature.com/3MdeZre
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This ‘impressive’ AI model predicted Hurricane Melissa’s perilous growth
An artificial-intelligence tool is helping to crack the challenge of forecasting hurricane intensity.
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Dan Stowell @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025
Call for tasks! BioDCASE 2026: biodcase.github.io/challenge2026 (deadline 8th Jan - please share) #bioacoustics
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BioDCASE Challenge - BioDCASE
Call for Task Proposals Submission are now open for 2026 The BioDCASE organisers invite proposals to organise tasks for the 2026 BioDCASE Challenge. This follows the success first year of BioDCASE. Task proposals follow the same format and selection criterion as DCASE: 1) scientific and technological importance of a task …
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Dan Stowell @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025
You can watch the live stream of #BioDCASE! Here: dcase.community/workshop2025/live-s…
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DCASE2025 Live Stream - DCASE
Live Stream Most of DCASE2025 Workshop sessions happening at the Auditorium of UPF will be live-streamed at this page. Check the schedule for details about the different sessions. video#video-player1134442278 { position: relative; display: block; width: 100%; margin-bottom: 2em; } @media (max-width: 978px) { video#video-player1134442278 { display: block !important; } } if (IVSPlayer.isPlayerSupported) { const …
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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · 28/10/2025
Make your science heard 🎙️🌍 Join our second outreach workshop on 14 Nov #ABL2025 at 12:00 GMT, with oceanographer, marine ecologist & communicator Sakina-Dorothée Ayata, sharing how to choose the right media for the right audience. Free registration ➡️ ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 29/10/2025
The effectiveness of ecoacoustic indices in representing bird species richness relies on technical parameters | www.sciencedirect.co... | Ecological Informatics | #ornithology 🪶
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The effectiveness of ecoacoustic indices in representing bird species richness relies on technical parameters
Ecoacoustic indices have been proposed as proxies for diversity measures such as species richness, however, their effectiveness remains a subject of o…
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Amy Leedale @amyleedale.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Looking for a PhD? 🦜 Interested in ornithology, animal behaviour, bioacoustics? I am advertising a PhD on vocal communication in ring-necked parakeets tinyurl.com/44a3hcnz Eligible candidates are encouraged to apply for University of Salford Widening Participation Scholarships tinyurl.com/4wtzzh3z
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Genetic and Acoustic Diversity in an Invasive Parrot at University of Salford on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Genetic and Acoustic Diversity in an Invasive Parrot at University of Salford, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Nature @nature.com · 22/10/2025
Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research go.nature.com/4hriohE
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What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision
Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.
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Janire Castellano Bueno, PhD @janirecas.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
🌍 Have you experienced language barriers at academic conferences, or not at all? We want to hear from everyone to better understand how language shapes participation and accessibility. 📝 Take our short survey and help make conferences more inclusive and multilingual: forms.gle/u8ESktcJP8Y6...
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Amplifying global voices: Removing language barriers in academic conferences
We invite you to share your experiences with language barriers at academic conferences. Your insights will help shape more inclusive and multilingual events across disciplines and formats. This surve...
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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Examples of some recent papers from graduate students in my group - a full list of recent papers and preprints can be found here (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=pTdxVdIAAAAJ) and profile of the group here: https://egioxford.web.ox.ac.uk/membersThe annual Wytham Field Team Photo!Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford
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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
🗣️What makes music and language exclusively human? 🐾How do other animals communicate? 🎶Do they perceive melodies and rhythms as we do? 🎧ACOUSTIC WORLD is a podcast to explore bioacoustics and find answers to these and more questions. Because the world has always spoken, you just need to listen!
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Elham Nourani @enourani.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)
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Devi Satarkar @devisatarkar.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
New preprint! 🪶 We analysed 60 years of data on 83,000+ great tits to show how extreme climate impacts on nestling growth and survival are stage-specific and context-dependent 🐣 🌍🔥❄️ With @davididiaquez.bsky.social @iremsepil.bsky.social @sheldonbirds.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
a 14 day old great tit nestling, ringed for individual identificationFigure from the paper showing that extreme climatic events interact with ambient climatic conditions and breeding timing within a season, in a developmental stage-specific manner, to influence nestling growth in great tits
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BioPhonia @biophonia.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
🎓 Offre de stage #bioacoustics BioPhonia et auddicé Biodiversité recherchent un·e stagiaire de M2 pour un projet inédit : Comparer les points d’écoute et les approches bioacoustiques pour évaluer les communautés d’oiseaux et la fonctionnalité des habitats. 🔗 : sfecologie.org/offre/stage-...
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Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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
Scientific productivity gap based on English-language peer-reviewed papers. Shown are the maximum % differences in the number of peer-reviewed papers published by female native English speakers from a high-income country (-45%), female non-native English speakers from a high-income country (-60%), and female non-native English speakers from a lower-middle income country (-70%), compared to male native English speakers from a high-income country (red flag).
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Sebastian Hoefer @taiapo.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Is passive acoustic monitoring worth it for terrestrial mammals? 🎙️🐨 We find it's not the one for all solution, but for vocal species, yes! It's highly effective & saves lots of time and money, especially in the long-term. Find out more: doi.org/10.1111/2041... 🔈🦊🧪🌎 @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
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Sensors versus surveyors: Comparing passive acoustic monitoring, camera trapping and observer‐based monitoring for terrestrial mammals
Mammals play vital roles in ecological communities, but many are in rapid decline worldwide. Comprehensive monitoring of mammal populations is crucial for effective conservation, but large-scale m...
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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
BIRDBASE, a new publicly available dataset, brings together "ecological and life history traits for 11,589 bird species across 254 families." #ornithology
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Explore a bird database with 11,500 species
Twenty-six years ago, a PhD student's unanswered question sparked a bird data revolution.
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 13/10/2025
Decoding Owl Calls: Refining Occupancy Inference From Passive Acoustic Monitoring | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
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Plant ecology in České Budějovice @plantecolcb.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Faculty of Science, USB, České Budějovice, Czechia offers a two-year research-oriented Master's study in Ecology. prf.jcu.cz/ecology Application deadline: 31 October 2025. Tuition fee: EU citizens: 500 CZK per year (≈ 20 EUR) Non-EU: 12000 CZK per year (≈ 480 EUR)
Photo by Peťa.
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ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The Local Organizing Commitee welcomes behavioral ecologists from across the world and of all career stages to enjoy a five-day meeting rich in top-notch science and ample networking opportunities in Turin (Italy), 20-24 July 2026.
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Bioacoustic AI @bioacousticai.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2025
New blog! "How animals stay together through sound" bioacousticai.eu/how-animals-stay-t… #bioacoustics #animalbehavior
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How animals stay together through sound
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Dan Stowell @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025
Team Bioacoustic AI at IBAC! @bioacousticai #bioacoustics #ibac2025
Some happy people gathered together. But these are in fact super heroes! Or, more precisely, members of the "Bioacoustic AI" doctoral network
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Earth Species Project (ESP) @earthspecies.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
⚠️ Deadline extended— submit by Sept. 5th! There is still time to apply to be a part of the AI and Non-Human Animal Communication workshop at @neuripsconf.bsky.social. 🔗 Learn more & apply: aiforanimalcomms.org
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