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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

🎶 The Season 1 finale of Acoustic World is here! 👶🏻 A lullaby sung to a baby, or a sentence whispered in the dark. We call one music and the other language. But how different are they, really? In this final episode, I speak with @patrickesavage.bsky.social about their deep connections.

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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

🎤 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.

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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🐋 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.

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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🐬 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. 🧵👇

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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🐘 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.

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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🎶 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.

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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

🍂 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.

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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

🗣️ 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.

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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

🦇 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.

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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

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

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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

🌿 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.

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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

🚋 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? [...]

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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

🎸 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?

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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

🐟 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

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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

🦜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. [...]

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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

🦜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. [...]

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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

❓ 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. [...]

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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

📣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

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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

📣 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...

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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

✈ 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

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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

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.

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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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Marco Maiolini @marcomaiolini.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

It was a great pleasure to present at the ICMPC18 my poster on perceptual biases in zebra finches! 🐦 I came out from the conference with new friends, cool insights and a lot of questions about our and other species music perception! Finding that collaboration between fields is the key! 💪

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