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Natalie V. Sánchez

@natingui.bsky.social
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Behavioral Ecologist, doing research in 🇨🇷 on 🐦 ♫♪♬ National University of Costa Rica (UNA) PhD UofAlberta | Postdoc Mennill Lab 🐦🇨🇦

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Damien Farine @damienfarine.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The case of the disappearing fairywrens. Article just out focusing on our @fairywrensanu.bsky.social @scienceanu.bsky.social @anupress.bsky.social long term study and the recent declines we've detected. Nice to see our call for long term studies is highlighted. news.mongabay.com/2026/08/supe...
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Superb fairywrens disappearing in Australia’s capital: Conserving insects could help save them
If you sit in an Australian park or garden for long enough, chances are you might catch a flash of brilliant feathers out of the corner of your eye: the superb fairywren. With its bright blue and soft...
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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
For anyone that missed my talk at @isbe2026.bsky.social - never you fear! You can watch my talk and read more about the new Replication Studies section at @behavecol.bsky.social right here! laskowskilab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/2026/07/22/r...
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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We appreciate the support of all these institutions and organizations
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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We recorded vocalizations of Wood Thrush on the non-breeding grounds in Costa Rica to estimate its occupancy and found that occupancy increased with precipitation
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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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
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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Exciting!!!
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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · 13/07/2026
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
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mathotlab.bsky.social @mathotlab.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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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LECD - Laboratoire Ethologie Cognition Développement @lecd-upn.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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...
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Denis REALE 🇨🇦 @denisreale.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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...
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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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
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Pablo López Bustamante @pablolopezbust.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🌿🌵🎶 listen to the forest succession sound! Thanks for spreading the word! #DataSonification #ForestSound #ForestEcology #Science+Art #SciComm
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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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! 🐦🇨🇦
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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
You made it to Alberta! Congrats!
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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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
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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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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Coexistence is the key to conserve urban biodiversity. 🐦
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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Science and art! Sketching an antlion larvae!
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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Pop songs in science papers! 🎶💃🎙️🐦
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Sara Lipshutz (she/her) @jacanamama.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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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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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
We thank the many people who supported this research. 🧵7
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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Overall, predation risk appears to shape the evolution of vocal communication by influencing how animals signal and adjust their behavior in the presence of threats. 🧵6
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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Calling time (calls produced by males and females) was higher when the predator were presented near the nest. 🧵5
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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
We found that birds responded more quickly shorter when predators were presented near the nest, both for males and females. 🧵4
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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The study area was a tropical dry forest of Costa Rica in Sector Santa Rosa where wrens inhabit old-growth forests and old secondary forests. Simulated owls were presented 5 m and 20m from their nest. 🧵3
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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
We designed a multi-modal experiment to test whether the perception of a potential predador modifies the vocal behaviour of Rufous-and-white wrens (Thryophilus rufalbus) near their reproductive nest. 🧵2
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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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
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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Thank you, Dan! 🦉
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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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. 🦉🔊🪺🇨🇷🇨🇦
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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.
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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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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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Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
📣 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 🪶🧪
Flyer for special issue on passive acoustic monitoring
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American Naturalist / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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/...
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
A visual summary of Peter and Juley's new open access paper in Ibis. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Great article and visuals! Congratulations!
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Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
"Morning Light on a Carolina Wren" 5" x 7" Oil on panel I just think they're neat
An oil painting of a Carolina Wren. The wren's feathers are fluffed up into a round shape, and it is sitting on a rock, with strong sunlight illuminating it. The artist watermark reads: copyright 2025 Jennifer Miller "Nambroth" featherdust dot com
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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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...
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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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
MSc student Connor Acorn uses a field-portable sound level meter, mounted on a tripod, to quantify the amplitude of the songs of Ovenbirds.
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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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.
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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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...
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Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
📣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 🙏
CALL FOR PAPERS: Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives. Photo showing zebra finches of different ages. Photo: Paul Jerem & Glasgow University, courtesy of Pat Monaghan
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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...
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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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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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
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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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
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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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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Sarah Dobney presented her doctoral studies at the International Bioacoustics Congress #ibac2025 in Kerteminde, Denmark. Way to go @sdobney.bsky.social!
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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Excited to see our manuscript published soon! 🦉🪺🐦 @dmennill.bsky.social
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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Double brooding improves lifetime fitness. Our paper "Multigenerational fitness outcomes of double-brooding: a 30-year study of a migratory songbird" appears in the latest Behavioral Ecology: tinyurl.com/3hsyd42m. By @hayleyspina.bsky.social @ryannorrissci.bsky.social and our collaborative team.
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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I feel extremely honored and excited for this appointment at the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Windsor. 🐦🇨🇦 Dan @dmennill.bsky.social, can't wait to continue our ongoing and future collaborations. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social
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Natalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Dan, I feel extremely honored and excited about this appointment in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Windsor 🐦🇨🇦 Thank you for your support!
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