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Nicolas Mathevon

@nicolasmathevon.bsky.social
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Prof bioacoustics, University of Saint-Etienne, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Institut universitaire de France Academia Europaea Director ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab (eneslab.com) Book @princetonupress.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/yuetutum

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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Day 2 of the Master’s of Bioacoustics field school. We launched a Motus Audio recorder. Then great lectures by David Reby, Tecumseh Fitch, and Nicolas Mathevon. Then field recording practice in the French countryside. Then an evening bioacoustic quiz. A great day! @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social
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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Day 03 of the Master's of Bioacoustics program: a field study of sound transmission in forests and fields. Then Natalie and I shared our research on migratory flight calls and introduced Motus Audio. A great day of research and learning! @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social
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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I taught my first Ecology lecture of the year in Windsor, drove to Toronto, and flew to France. I’m on a two-week research and teaching expedition to visit @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social and the ENES Bioacoustics Lab at the Université Jean Monnet. First, a fun day-and-a-half stopover in Paris…
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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The start of the 26-27 International Master’s of Bioacoustics (MoBi)! What an honour to be part of this research and training program. Natalie is here too, on a Michael Smith scholarship from NSERC to expand her graduate studies. We start with field studies in Le Pilat. @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Sensory Ecology Lab @sensoryecology.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“A symphony of insect songs rang through the Jurassic rainforest, and scientists have now found the traces of this ancient soundscape… the notes these insects played by strumming their wings can be reproduced” #scicomm #paleontology #bioacoustics www.sciencenews.org/article/hear... 🧪 🦗 🐙
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A choir of katydid ancestors filled the Jurassic rainforest with song
An analysis of sound-making structures on preserved wings reveals the mating calls of ancient Jurassic insects, re-creating part of an ancient soundscape.
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Acoustic remote sensing with deep learning enables non-invasive estimation of seabird nest density. New paper by the ENES Bioacoustics Lab & Co (thanks +++ to Francesca Terranova & Livio Favaro!). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Acoustic remote sensing with deep learning enables non-invasive estimation of seabird nest density
Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) is increasingly used as a non-invasive tool for biodiversity monitoring, particularly for species breeding in habita…
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Applications for the next session of the Bioacoustics Winter School are open until September 30. Program and application form available here 👉 www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-.... Around 30 instructors from France and abroad come to share their knowledge and experience. #bioacoustics
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Cortex Mag @cortexmag.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Le prix Coller Dolittle 2026 a récompensé en juin les efforts de recherche menés en communication animale sur le diamant mandarin. Autre projet finaliste, celui de l' #ENES et de @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social au sujet de la souris rayée et mis en valeur par CNN. edition.cnn.com/2026/06/03/s...
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Scientists are working on a ‘Dolittle machine’ to talk with animals, but to what end? | CNN
Bioacousticians are finding animal communication patterns once thought unique to humans — discoveries that challenge ideas about what makes human language special.
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Interested in scientific research on animal and human acoustic communication? Looking for training in bioacoustics? The ENES Bioacoustics Lab website has a fresh new look 👉 www.eneslab.com #bioacoustics
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ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab
Home page of the ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab.
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
👇 Excellent article (and easy to read) on our research on bird song recently published in Science. 🙏 Phys Org! phys.org/news/2026-07... #bioacoustics
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Why and how birdsong differs across the world—and the eight motifs that tie them together
Birdsong carries meaning across open space, helping birds attract mates, defend territory and communicate with rivals. While there has been much research into the use of birdsong across species, resea...
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Elodie Mandel-Briefer @ebriefer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I had the pleasure to write a commentary in Science about the very comprehensive paper by @quentinbacquele.bsky.social et al. (same issue), on the factors influencing birdsong across the world. Link to my commentary: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/..., originally paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Birdsong diversity across the world
Birdsong motifs are shaped by evolutionary history, biological traits, and environmental constraints
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Xeno-canto @xeno-canto.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
BBC coverage of the xeno-cantified Science paper: bbc.com/news/article... #bioacoustics
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Secrets of birdsongs' 'spectacular diversity' revealed
A scientific study has revealed the acoustic secret that connects all birdsong - and it is surprisingly simple
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Science Magazine @science.org · 24/07/2026
A new analysis in Science of more than 116,000 bird songs has revealed that the astonishing variety of passerine birdsong is built from just eight basic acoustic motifs, like trills, whistles, and harmonic notes. scim.ag/4ft2KBF
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The global biogeography of passerine songs
Although bird songs are classic models for understanding the evolution of vocal communication, their global diversity has long made the development of a unifying framework challenging. By analyzing th...
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Quentin Bacquelé @quentinbacquele.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:
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Cortex Mag @cortexmag.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
C'est une 1ère : la comparaison des chants d' #oiseaux à l'échelle du globe. Leurs structures mélodiques sont d'une "simplicité" déconcertante : 8 motifs suffisent à les expliquer. 📗 Science Des travaux de l' #ENES et de l' #EPHE-PSL @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social www.liberation.fr/sciences/bio...
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La diversité des chants d’oiseaux enfin décryptée : «C’est la première fois qu’une étude comparée est menée à une échelle mondiale»
De biologistes français ont identifié les trilles et les sifflets utilisés par les passereaux. Leur vaste étude nourrie par de la science participative montrent que l’ensemble de ces mélodies sont com...
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Nicolas Blandin @nicolasblandin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Une étude passionnante ! Et qui fera date. On comprend mieux comment le chant des oiseaux s’adapte aux contraintes biologiques et environnementales. Explications avec @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social (EPHE) et Claire Doutrelant (CEFE) #science #oiseaux www.ouest-france.fr/leditionduso...
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Comment les oiseaux composent-ils leurs mélodies ? Cette ambitieuse étude française dévoile leurs secrets - Edition du soir Ouest-France - 05/08/2026
C’est une étude qui fait date dans la recherche mondiale sur le chant des oiseaux. Parus dans la revue « Science », ces travaux pilotés par des chercheurs français remplissent...
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Cortex Mag @cortexmag.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
📺A voir sur @artefr.bsky.social : "Comment les animaux communiquent-ils et par quel #langage ?" Zoom sur les #vocalisations des éléphants de mer étudiées par l'ENES et l'équipe de @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12...
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Le langage des animaux - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE
Des millions d'espèces animales peuplent la Terre et chacune est dotée d’un langage unique. Quelle forme prennent ces échanges et quelles informations transmettent-ils ? Ce documentaire plonge au coeu...
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
New paper from the ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab: How a frog employs a multifaceted strategy, integrating temporal partitioning, thermal gating, and the modulation in response to lunar illumination, to thrive in the harsh sub-equatorial savanna. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #bioacoustics
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Crepuscular vocal partitioning and thermal limits on calling behavior in the Bubbling Kassina (Kassina senegalensis) in a sub-equatorial savanna - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
Acoustic communication in anurans is energetically costly and constrained by environmental factors, especially in open savanna ecosystems where extreme temperature fluctuations, desiccation risks, and...
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab at the Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne is a finalist for the Coller-Dolittle Awards! 🏆 Register below 👇 to watch the ceremony live. #bioacoustics
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Want to know more about baby cries? Listen to the Better Dads Club Podcast - 50 minutes of great interview! #bioacoustics www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI30...
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BDC E11 with Nicolas Mathevon
YouTube video by Better Dads Club
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The first book entirely dedicated to babies' cries. Spread the word! www.amazon.com/intimate-wor...
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The intimate world of babies’ cries: The best ways to understand and calm your baby
The intimate world of babies’ cries: The best ways to understand and calm your baby [Mathevon, Prof Nicolas] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The intimate world of babies’ cries: The best ways to understand and calm your baby
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Very nice piece on CNN Science about our research on the striped mouse & other animal acoustic communication stuff #bioacoustics edition.cnn.com/2026/06/03/s...
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Scientists are working on a ‘Dolittle machine’ to talk with animals, but to what end? | CNN
Bioacousticians are finding animal communication patterns once thought unique to humans — discoveries that challenge ideas about what makes human language special.
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Very nice piece on CNN Science about our research on the striped mouse & other animal acoustic communication stuff 👇 edition.cnn.com/2026/06/03/s...
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Scientists are working on a ‘Dolittle machine’ to talk with animals, but to what end? | CNN
Bioacousticians are finding animal communication patterns once thought unique to humans — discoveries that challenge ideas about what makes human language special.
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Interested in Animal acoustic communication? Human non-verbal communication? Bioacoustics for biodiversity? Effects of anthropogenic noise?👇 visit the new website of the ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab, a unique ecosystem combining Research and Training. www.eneslab.com #bioacoustics
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ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab
Home page of the ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab.
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Bioacoustics Winter School 2027 👇Applications are now open Do not hesitate to disseminate this info ☺️ #bioacoustics www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-...
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Bioacoustics Winter School | ENES lab
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Kai Caspar @nomascus.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Do elephants adress one another with vocalizations that function like human personal names, as was widely reported two years ago? Dharmarajan (2026) argues that this finding may have been just a methodological artefact. 🐘🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Effects of bias when using ‘black box’ models: re-evaluating the evidence for the use of name-like calls by elephants
Machine learning (ML) tools can detect patterns in complex high-dimensional data sets, providing new ways to obtain insights into animal behaviour. Ho…
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Kristi Hannam, PhD @byrdgyrl1.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
50% Off Sale - Time to read "The Voices of Nature: How and Why Animals Communicate". press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #bioacoustics #nature #animals #ecology #ethology #book
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The Voices of Nature
Songs, barks, roars, hoots, squeals, and growls: exploring the mysteries of how animals communicate by sound
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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Since the start of the school year, our team has been working our way through the chapters of Nicolas Mathevon's "Voices of Nature". Reaching the end of the semester, we've reached the end of the book. What an informative and entertaining #bioacoustics book @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social!
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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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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Our new paper is out: "Acoustic differences persist in urban Parus major (Great Tit) over two decades of declining anthropogenic noise in Paris, France." A study of noise and bird song, by me and Hans Slabbekoorn, in Ornithological Applications @amornith.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/orni...
An infographic summarizing the key findings of the new paper "Acoustic differences persist in urban Parus major (Great Tit) over two decades of declining anthropogenic noise in Paris, France" by Dan Mennill and Hans Slabbekoorn. A cartoon image shows a sound recordist recording a Great Tit on a street in Paris. One inset graph shows that noise levels in Paris have declined from 2008 to 2023.  A second inset graph shows that Great Tits sing at higher song frequencies when the ambient environment is louder. A third inset graph shows that Great Tits continue to sing higher-freuqency songs in 2023 versus 2003; even though Paris is growing quieter, Great Tits in Paris sing higher frequency songs than quiet forests outside of Paris.
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
"Is plant acoustic communication fact or fiction?" is among the most read research published in New Phytologist in 2024 and 2025 👇. No evidence of plants communicating via acoustics. Great to see so much interest in debunking this myth 😃 . nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #bioacoustics
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Is plant acoustic communication fact or fiction?
In recent years, the idea has flourished that plants emit and perceive sound and could even be capable of exchanging information through the acoustic channel. While research into plant bioacoustics i...
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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Jeff Dutter is a bioacoustics intern, joining our lab as part of the Master's of Bioacoustics (MoBi) program at U. Saint-Etienne. Today we had phase 2 of testing our Motus Audio microphone horns in our campus studio. Great work Jeff! #NocMig @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Almost 90,000 (!) readers now know what babies' cries are saying. Why not you 😏? 👇 (do not hesitate to disseminate!) theconversation.com/what-babies-...
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What babies’ cries really tell us – and why maternal instinct is a myth
Is it possible to interpret babies’ cries in order to understand their needs accurately?
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
NEW! The International Master of Bioacoustics (MoBi) now includes its first year (M1)! Applications are open sensoryneuroetholo.wixsite.com/mobim1. We are seeking 8 French-speaking students with skills in R and Python programming. Full details👇 sensoryneuroetholo.wixsite.com/mobim1 #bioacoustics
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
NEW! The International Master of Bioacoustics (MoBi) now includes its first year (M1)! Applications are open sensoryneuroetholo.wixsite.com/mobim1. We are seeking 8 French-speaking candidates with skills in R and Python programming. For full details👇 sensoryneuroetholo.wixsite.com/mobim1
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International Master of Bioacoustics
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The International Master of Bioacoustics MoBi , a one year (M2) international training programme opened to French students with a master's degree (M1) International students with minimum BSc degree. Applications for the September 2026 entry are open. #bioacoustics www.masterofbioacoustics.com
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International Master of Bioacoustics
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Earth Species Project (ESP) @earthspecies.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
📣 Earth Species Project is #hiring! 📣 We’re looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to help us build the foundational pipelines to decode #animalcommunication with advanced #AI. If you’re excited about building high-performance infrastructure, apply today! www.earthspecies.org/blog/were-hi...
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We're Hiring! Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Backend/Data Performance) - Earth Species Project
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Cortex Mag @cortexmag.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
S'immerger dans le monde sonore des #crocodiles, c'est à lire dans @france.theconversation.com ! On se délecte d'écouter @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social raconter comment petits et adultes ajustent leurs comportements grâce aux #vocalisations. En plus, y'a des sons 🎶 theconversation.com/les-crocodil...
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Les crocodiles, des reptiles loquaces et à l’écoute du monde
On l’imagine chasseur solitaire et discret, constamment à l’affût d’une proie. Pourtant, l’armure d’écailles du crocodile dissimule une vie sociale complexe.
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Parenting and empathy capabilities drive brain response to pain cues in baby cries. New paper by ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab & Co 👇 #bioacoustics #baby #parents tinyurl.com/4vxfu6ap
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WitmerLab at Ohio University @witmerlab.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Just finished this awesome new-ish book by @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social on animal communication. It covers a lot of ground with a huge diversity of species—& it's a blast to read! Great for those interested in sensory ecology. (I had skulls of all the cover animals, so I snapped a photo! 😃)
The book The Voices of Nature by Nicolas Mathevon sits on a table surrounded by skulls of the animals depicted on the cover (which were all drawn by the author's dad, Bernard Mathevon!) The skulls are American robin (Turdus migratorius, OUVC 9766), spectacled caiman (Caiman cf. C. crocodilus, OUVC 11550), northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris, OUVC 9581), and spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta, OUVC 10571).
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Happy new year bioacousticians et al! To kick off the new year, here's a quick roundup of our 2025 publications. The year began with this paper on crocodile mothers. Published in Animal Behaviour: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... - free version here: hal.science/hal-04942512... #bioacoustics
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Communication between humans and domestic dogs 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sound symbolism facilitates interspecies communication between humans and domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Sound symbolism facilitates interspecies communication between humans and domestic dogs (Canis familiaris)
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Admissions to the International Master of Bioacoustics for the 26-27 academic year are now open. Please spread the word! More info here 👇 www.masterofbioacoustics.com?lang=fr #bioacoustics
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