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Derek Murphy

@vervetunderground.bsky.social

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Postdoc in the Cognitive Ethology Lab at the German Primate Center Behavioural ecology; social networks; camera traps; machine learning

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Derek Murphy @vervetunderground.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Interested in acoustic ID in animals? 🐾🎤 We put 16 mammal datasets through a vocal showdown—MFCCs and Random Forests came out on top 🏆 Want cleaner, comparable caller ID across species? We've got guidelines and ready-to-use functions for that🥳 #Bioacoustics #WildlifeTech #MachineLearning

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Derek Murphy @vervetunderground.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Super interesting PhD position working with a great team @primatenzentrum.bsky.social And lemurs!

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a group of lemurs are standing on a wooden fence with the word orbo on the bottom

Alt: A ring-tailed lemur sits on a fence while a neverending series of ring-tailed lemurs leapfrogs over it

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SFB 1528 - Cognition of Interaction @sfb1528.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

SFB Paper Alert! That’s teamwork: 14 SFB members across nine projects put together a perspective paper on “Computer vision for primate behavior analysis in the wild”, which was published in @naturemethods.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Computer vision for primate behavior analysis in the wild - Nature Methods

In this Perspective, Vogg et al. discuss the progress and challenges of using computer vision approaches in the behavioral analysis of primates in their natural environment.

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Derek Murphy @vervetunderground.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

It's a 2-paper kinda week 😎 Exciting news for animal behaviour researchers! Our new paper is out now in @naturemethods.bsky.social, exploring the intersection of computer vision and animal behaviour. Congrats to lead author @richardvogg.bsky.social and everyone who worked so hard on this one 🧵1/2

A figure from the paper showing, on the left, three frames from a video in which two lemurs move through an area of forest; in the middle, the same three frames with bounding boxes surrounding each lemur; and on the right, a plot of the model output, showing the location and behaviour of each lemur over time

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Derek Murphy @vervetunderground.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

👋🦋 First post AND first new paper on the butterfly app! authors.elsevier.com/a/1kv83mjMA3iZ 'Estimating social network metrics from single-file movements in Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus' with @julxf.bsky.social @primatenzentrum.bsky.social out now in #AnimalBehaviourJournal Read🧵 for more! 1/9

A Barbary macaque walks on all fours through an outdoor wire mesh tunnel towards the camera

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