Where, exactly, does learning happen in the brain?
Out today in @nature.com, we identify a synaptic locus of birdsong learning and show that the circuit can be tuned to make birds learn faster - but at a cost. Read on👇 #neuroskyence 🧪 #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics
Shareable link: rdcu.be/fiyrS
Out today in @nature.com, we identify a synaptic locus of birdsong learning and show that the circuit can be tuned to make birds learn faster - but at a cost. Read on👇 #neuroskyence 🧪 #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics
Shareable link: rdcu.be/fiyrS
A synaptic locus of song learning - Nature
Combining a computational framework and optogenetic and chemogenetic manipulations within and downstream of the cortico-basal ganglia circuit identifies the specific cortico-basal ganglia synapse...
www.nature.com
May 13, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Where, exactly, does learning happen in the brain?
Out today in @nature.com, we identify a synaptic locus of birdsong learning and show that the circuit can be tuned to make birds learn faster - but at a cost. Read on👇 #neuroskyence 🧪 #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics
Shareable link: rdcu.be/fiyrS
Out today in @nature.com, we identify a synaptic locus of birdsong learning and show that the circuit can be tuned to make birds learn faster - but at a cost. Read on👇 #neuroskyence 🧪 #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics
Shareable link: rdcu.be/fiyrS
Back from a successful trip out to sea to turnover some of our #bioacoustics equipment! No photos to share from this trip, but here's an oldie for good measure 🐳 we were pretty worried about the equipment not coming back up this time, but everything went smoothly. Now for data processing... #MySci
December 4, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Back from a successful trip out to sea to turnover some of our #bioacoustics equipment! No photos to share from this trip, but here's an oldie for good measure 🐳 we were pretty worried about the equipment not coming back up this time, but everything went smoothly. Now for data processing... #MySci
Back on land and thankful for one more fieldwork trip for some #Bioacoustics and #MarineMammalScience safely in the books ✅🦑🧪
April 12, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Back on land and thankful for one more fieldwork trip for some #Bioacoustics and #MarineMammalScience safely in the books ✅🦑🧪
Very happy to share the latest from my postdoc!
10 yrs of mouse social networks + 1.25 yrs of acoustic data ➡️ insight into vocalization & sociality in a wild population of your favorite lab model 🐁
paper: bit.ly/4n93yyD
data: bit.ly/4lfFBEk
code: bit.ly/4kNnMwx
#bioacoustics #neuroskyence
1/8
10 yrs of mouse social networks + 1.25 yrs of acoustic data ➡️ insight into vocalization & sociality in a wild population of your favorite lab model 🐁
paper: bit.ly/4n93yyD
data: bit.ly/4lfFBEk
code: bit.ly/4kNnMwx
#bioacoustics #neuroskyence
1/8
June 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Very happy to share the latest from my postdoc!
10 yrs of mouse social networks + 1.25 yrs of acoustic data ➡️ insight into vocalization & sociality in a wild population of your favorite lab model 🐁
paper: bit.ly/4n93yyD
data: bit.ly/4lfFBEk
code: bit.ly/4kNnMwx
#bioacoustics #neuroskyence
1/8
10 yrs of mouse social networks + 1.25 yrs of acoustic data ➡️ insight into vocalization & sociality in a wild population of your favorite lab model 🐁
paper: bit.ly/4n93yyD
data: bit.ly/4lfFBEk
code: bit.ly/4kNnMwx
#bioacoustics #neuroskyence
1/8
Latesky #bioacoustics posting! The visual here is a spectrogram, a graph of sound with time on the x-axis, frequency on the y-axis, & loudness as color. Here we see (& hear) 2 loud calls from a gray seal! You can also see 2 little pulses ~20 Hz from a fin whale, a little too low for human hearing 🐳
October 27, 2024 at 5:29 AM
Latesky #bioacoustics posting! The visual here is a spectrogram, a graph of sound with time on the x-axis, frequency on the y-axis, & loudness as color. Here we see (& hear) 2 loud calls from a gray seal! You can also see 2 little pulses ~20 Hz from a fin whale, a little too low for human hearing 🐳
A completed 4th trip marks the end of a successful #bioacoustics field season until winter comes around again! And with that, I’ve also officially survived my first academic year as a PhD student! So excited to focus on research this summer! Please enjoy these celebratory GOM fieldwork crabs 🦀🧪🌊
May 3, 2024 at 4:57 PM
A completed 4th trip marks the end of a successful #bioacoustics field season until winter comes around again! And with that, I’ve also officially survived my first academic year as a PhD student! So excited to focus on research this summer! Please enjoy these celebratory GOM fieldwork crabs 🦀🧪🌊
🎓Our undergraduate researchers, recipients of the Summer 2026 ATP Award, presented their work on ecological monitoring of restored wetlands at the ATP symposium, using #bioacoustics to study birds and #wetland #soundscape. 🐦🌿🔊🌎🌱🦤🧪
October 4, 2026 at 5:35 PM
🎓Our undergraduate researchers, recipients of the Summer 2026 ATP Award, presented their work on ecological monitoring of restored wetlands at the ATP symposium, using #bioacoustics to study birds and #wetland #soundscape. 🐦🌿🔊🌎🌱🦤🧪
🧪Before the day begins, meerkats share a unique ritual. After emerging from their burrows, they spend up to an hour "sunning" to warm up for the day. During this quiet time, they produce soft, tonal "sunning calls". Just standing, sunbathing, and calling. But why❓ #bioacoustics #meerkats #kalahari
February 1, 2026 at 11:54 AM
🧪Before the day begins, meerkats share a unique ritual. After emerging from their burrows, they spend up to an hour "sunning" to warm up for the day. During this quiet time, they produce soft, tonal "sunning calls". Just standing, sunbathing, and calling. But why❓ #bioacoustics #meerkats #kalahari
Back from today’s local fieldwork redeploying our SoundTraps at two locations where they will stay for the duration of winter! This is for #bioacoustics research being done in one of our partner labs studying river soundscapes, particularly in the context of dam removal! 🧪
November 15, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Back from today’s local fieldwork redeploying our SoundTraps at two locations where they will stay for the duration of winter! This is for #bioacoustics research being done in one of our partner labs studying river soundscapes, particularly in the context of dam removal! 🧪
1/ 🧵Bird songs and calls are an important way that people experience the natural world. They’re also one of the key means of surveying bird populations. In this #BOU2025 talk I will review @btobirds.bsky.social research to explore opportunities and challenges of #bioacoustics in #ornithology
April 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
1/ 🧵Bird songs and calls are an important way that people experience the natural world. They’re also one of the key means of surveying bird populations. In this #BOU2025 talk I will review @btobirds.bsky.social research to explore opportunities and challenges of #bioacoustics in #ornithology
Okay my lil #bioacoustics brain is freaking out, video opens so many doors! Not a bat scientist, but I recorded these bats echolocating locally. Time expansion playback to make their ultrasonic vocals audible 😊
Gonna prep some whale sounds to share, what species do ya'll wanna hear? 🐳🧪
Gonna prep some whale sounds to share, what species do ya'll wanna hear? 🐳🧪
September 13, 2024 at 2:29 AM
Okay my lil #bioacoustics brain is freaking out, video opens so many doors! Not a bat scientist, but I recorded these bats echolocating locally. Time expansion playback to make their ultrasonic vocals audible 😊
Gonna prep some whale sounds to share, what species do ya'll wanna hear? 🐳🧪
Gonna prep some whale sounds to share, what species do ya'll wanna hear? 🐳🧪
World faces 'deathly silence' of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts | Loss of intensity and diversity of noises in ecosystems reflects an alarming decline in healthy biodiversity, say sound ecologists
www.theguardian.com/environment/... #bioacoustics #biodiversity
www.theguardian.com/environment/... #bioacoustics #biodiversity
World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts
Loss of intensity and diversity of noises in ecosystems reflects an alarming decline in healthy biodiversity, say sound ecologists
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2024 at 9:11 PM
World faces 'deathly silence' of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts | Loss of intensity and diversity of noises in ecosystems reflects an alarming decline in healthy biodiversity, say sound ecologists
www.theguardian.com/environment/... #bioacoustics #biodiversity
www.theguardian.com/environment/... #bioacoustics #biodiversity
Love to see this:
Canada’s largest Indigenous-led protected area, Manitoba’s Seal River watershed, inching closer to reality
#Bioacoustics was key to this so we had a key leader on @mongabay.bsky.social’s podcast (news.mongabay.com/podcast/podc...) not long ago
@thenarwhal.ca has the news:
Canada’s largest Indigenous-led protected area, Manitoba’s Seal River watershed, inching closer to reality
#Bioacoustics was key to this so we had a key leader on @mongabay.bsky.social’s podcast (news.mongabay.com/podcast/podc...) not long ago
@thenarwhal.ca has the news:
Manitoba’s Seal River watershed closer to permanent protection | The Narwhal
The watershed surrounds the province’s ‘last truly wild river.’ Could it soon be a huge new protected area?
https://thenarwhal.ca/manitoba-seal-river-feasibility-study/?utm_source=The+Narwhal&utm_campaign=330a973e28-March+6%2C+2025+—+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f6a05fddb8-330a973e28-108559423&mc_cid=330a973e28&mc_eid=66dda8ccaa
March 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Love to see this:
Canada’s largest Indigenous-led protected area, Manitoba’s Seal River watershed, inching closer to reality
#Bioacoustics was key to this so we had a key leader on @mongabay.bsky.social’s podcast (news.mongabay.com/podcast/podc...) not long ago
@thenarwhal.ca has the news:
Canada’s largest Indigenous-led protected area, Manitoba’s Seal River watershed, inching closer to reality
#Bioacoustics was key to this so we had a key leader on @mongabay.bsky.social’s podcast (news.mongabay.com/podcast/podc...) not long ago
@thenarwhal.ca has the news:
📍Bioacoustics - the science of animal sounds! 🎙️🦜
To become a feed contributor, DM me a brief description of your bioacoustics work 😊 field recordists, scientists, nocmiggers, etc. are welcome! Contributors, use one of the following to post:
#bioacoustics, #animalcommunication, #nocmig, 🔈, 🔉, 🔊
To become a feed contributor, DM me a brief description of your bioacoustics work 😊 field recordists, scientists, nocmiggers, etc. are welcome! Contributors, use one of the following to post:
#bioacoustics, #animalcommunication, #nocmig, 🔈, 🔉, 🔊
November 15, 2024 at 12:27 AM
📍Bioacoustics - the science of animal sounds! 🎙️🦜
To become a feed contributor, DM me a brief description of your bioacoustics work 😊 field recordists, scientists, nocmiggers, etc. are welcome! Contributors, use one of the following to post:
#bioacoustics, #animalcommunication, #nocmig, 🔈, 🔉, 🔊
To become a feed contributor, DM me a brief description of your bioacoustics work 😊 field recordists, scientists, nocmiggers, etc. are welcome! Contributors, use one of the following to post:
#bioacoustics, #animalcommunication, #nocmig, 🔈, 🔉, 🔊
Ok, reinforcement learning fans: RL is great, but what do we do when there's no obvious reward from the environment? What about perfecting a golf swing or a foxtrot or a musical performance? We may have an answer. A tale of 🐦 🎶 + 🧠. 🧵1/ #bioacoustics #prattle 💬 #neuroai #compneuro
I am happy to share our new preprint! In this work, we proposed a theory about how zebra finches bootstrap their error signals for self-guided RL via predictive coding 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Correctness is its own reward: bootstrapping error signals in self-guided reinforcement learning
Reinforcement learning (RL) offers a compelling account of how agents learn complex behaviors by trial and error, yet RL is predicated on the existence of a reward function provided by the agent's env...
www.biorxiv.org
July 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Ok, reinforcement learning fans: RL is great, but what do we do when there's no obvious reward from the environment? What about perfecting a golf swing or a foxtrot or a musical performance? We may have an answer. A tale of 🐦 🎶 + 🧠. 🧵1/ #bioacoustics #prattle 💬 #neuroai #compneuro
Starting to be able to both speak & smell for the first time in over a week! Hoping this means some quick recovery ahead juuust in time🤞🏼
The marine forecast looks good so far for setting sail Tues to do #bioacoustics fieldwork! Final word from the boat tomorrow! 🦑🧪🌿
The marine forecast looks good so far for setting sail Tues to do #bioacoustics fieldwork! Final word from the boat tomorrow! 🦑🧪🌿
December 31, 2023 at 5:58 PM
Starting to be able to both speak & smell for the first time in over a week! Hoping this means some quick recovery ahead juuust in time🤞🏼
The marine forecast looks good so far for setting sail Tues to do #bioacoustics fieldwork! Final word from the boat tomorrow! 🦑🧪🌿
The marine forecast looks good so far for setting sail Tues to do #bioacoustics fieldwork! Final word from the boat tomorrow! 🦑🧪🌿
“The first bat-wearable microphone is helping biologists study the bats’ good safety record at avoiding collisions in rush hour air.”
#scicomm
#sensoryecology
#bioacoustics
#echolocation
www.sciencenews.org/article/bats...
🧪 🦇 🦊
#scicomm
#sensoryecology
#bioacoustics
#echolocation
www.sciencenews.org/article/bats...
🧪 🦇 🦊
Bats wearing tiny mics reveal how the fliers avoid rush hour collisions
As thousands of bats launch nightly hunting, the cacophony of a dense crowd should stymie echolocation, a so-called “cocktail party nightmare.”
www.sciencenews.org
April 12, 2025 at 4:50 AM
“The first bat-wearable microphone is helping biologists study the bats’ good safety record at avoiding collisions in rush hour air.”
#scicomm
#sensoryecology
#bioacoustics
#echolocation
www.sciencenews.org/article/bats...
🧪 🦇 🦊
#scicomm
#sensoryecology
#bioacoustics
#echolocation
www.sciencenews.org/article/bats...
🧪 🦇 🦊
Heading out to sea tonight for 72ish hrs of #bioacoustics fieldwork, but I promise I’ll get to all your feed add requests and messages after! See ya on the flip side ✌🏻
December 1, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Heading out to sea tonight for 72ish hrs of #bioacoustics fieldwork, but I promise I’ll get to all your feed add requests and messages after! See ya on the flip side ✌🏻
Do birds tune their songs to their hearing?
Is there tight coevolution between avian vocal signals and hearing-or do signallers and perceivers evolve more loosely?
It turns out perfect tuning is not required...
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#bioacoustics
#prattle 💬
#ornithology 🪶
Is there tight coevolution between avian vocal signals and hearing-or do signallers and perceivers evolve more loosely?
It turns out perfect tuning is not required...
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#bioacoustics
#prattle 💬
#ornithology 🪶
August 2, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Do birds tune their songs to their hearing?
Is there tight coevolution between avian vocal signals and hearing-or do signallers and perceivers evolve more loosely?
It turns out perfect tuning is not required...
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#bioacoustics
#prattle 💬
#ornithology 🪶
Is there tight coevolution between avian vocal signals and hearing-or do signallers and perceivers evolve more loosely?
It turns out perfect tuning is not required...
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#bioacoustics
#prattle 💬
#ornithology 🪶
Work on an AI classifier to separately detect Lesser Spotted Woodpecker calls and drumming is going well. Hopefully it will come in handy this spring @lesserspotnet.bsky.social #Bioacoustics #Ornithology
February 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Work on an AI classifier to separately detect Lesser Spotted Woodpecker calls and drumming is going well. Hopefully it will come in handy this spring @lesserspotnet.bsky.social #Bioacoustics #Ornithology
Bioacoustics will become an excellent tool for the monitoring of pollinator biodiversity in the future
#bioacoustics #animalcommunication #pollinators
#bioacoustics #animalcommunication #pollinators
November 16, 2024 at 8:44 AM
Bioacoustics will become an excellent tool for the monitoring of pollinator biodiversity in the future
#bioacoustics #animalcommunication #pollinators
#bioacoustics #animalcommunication #pollinators
Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice. See our paper here:
www.cell.com/current-biol...
@currentbiology.bsky.social #bioacoustics
www.cell.com/current-biol...
@currentbiology.bsky.social #bioacoustics
October 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice. See our paper here:
www.cell.com/current-biol...
@currentbiology.bsky.social #bioacoustics
www.cell.com/current-biol...
@currentbiology.bsky.social #bioacoustics
Searching for #bioacoustics tools to classify species, organize data, triangulate sounds, ...? 🦉🐋🦇🦗
Check out the (newly updated) Bioacoustics Software Database! rhine3.github.io/bioacoustics...
Check out the (newly updated) Bioacoustics Software Database! rhine3.github.io/bioacoustics...
Bioacoustics Software Database
rhine3.github.io
November 30, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Searching for #bioacoustics tools to classify species, organize data, triangulate sounds, ...? 🦉🐋🦇🦗
Check out the (newly updated) Bioacoustics Software Database! rhine3.github.io/bioacoustics...
Check out the (newly updated) Bioacoustics Software Database! rhine3.github.io/bioacoustics...
MSc thesis topic in #bioacoustics #vocalcommunication : linguistic laws in male yellowhammer song, with Tereza Petruskova, @lsburchardt.bsky.social & myself. Based in Berlin and/or Prague.
Description & how to apply here:
tinyurl.com/26e32dus
Description & how to apply here:
tinyurl.com/26e32dus
December 9, 2024 at 11:44 AM
MSc thesis topic in #bioacoustics #vocalcommunication : linguistic laws in male yellowhammer song, with Tereza Petruskova, @lsburchardt.bsky.social & myself. Based in Berlin and/or Prague.
Description & how to apply here:
tinyurl.com/26e32dus
Description & how to apply here:
tinyurl.com/26e32dus
Officially accepted into the PBACC program in Acoustics here at UNH! 🔊🐳 #bioacoustics
January 12, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Officially accepted into the PBACC program in Acoustics here at UNH! 🔊🐳 #bioacoustics