Dan Stowell"Tiny recording backpacks reveal bats’ surprising hunting strategy" - nice description and videos by Leonie Baier https://theconversation.com/tiny-recording-backpacks-reveal-bats-surprising-hunting-strategy-271996 #bioacoustics
Pleased to announce the BioDCASE Challenge 2026 - the Bioacoustics Data Challenge! Now with 6 different tasks to choose from, each an open-data computational challenge of its own: https://biodcase.github.io/challenge2026/ #machinelistening #BioDCASE #bioacoustics #DCASE #sound
Christophe BousquetInterested in how to study #AnimalCommunication, especially in #meerkats? Here is a paper for you in #MethodsInEcologyAndEvolution @MethodsEcolEvol
#animal2vec and #MeerKAT: A self-supervised #transformer for rare-event raw audio input and a large-scale reference dataset for #bioacoustics
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210x.70218
Clemens PitschkeIt is realy great that this publication is open access.
Dig into underwater acoustics and up to date research on marine mammals.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-77022-7
#BioAcoustics #ecoacoustics #acoustics #nature #science #marinemammals
Next entry in the great #bioacoustics books.
The descriptions of the experiments and the fundamental theories is what makes this book special to me.
Only complaint I have is that some long and winding sentences to describe acoustic phenomena could have been better described as equations.
Still an absolute must read for anyone interested in the topic.
January has been quite busy for me, but the good kind of busy.
I am currently working on an application for a project with colleagues from Hamburg which gives me joy and excitement for my work I haven't had in a long time.
During the weekend I was looking into further resoruces on the topics of #ecoacoustics and #bioacoustics and thought I share this:
https://www.are.na/clemens-pitschke/bio-ecoacoustics-resources
On this note: can someone reccomend a course/ training regarding this fields or something related like landscape ecology?
I am currently working on an application for a project with colleagues from Hamburg which gives me joy and excitement for my work I haven't had in a long time.
During the weekend I was looking into further resoruces on the topics of #ecoacoustics and #bioacoustics and thought I share this:
https://www.are.na/clemens-pitschke/bio-ecoacoustics-resources
On this note: can someone reccomend a course/ training regarding this fields or something related like landscape ecology?
"animal2vec and MeerKAT: A self-supervised transformer for rare-event raw audio input and a large-scale reference dataset for bioacoustics" recently published! http://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70218 #bioacoustics #machinelistening #deeplearning
Manuel GebauerI just noticed that there is a bird sound identifying app in F-Droid since September. It is called whoBIRD and makes use of the BirdNET model by K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Chemnitz University of Technology.
It recognizes me trying to be a bird as a 42 % human whistle. So, maybe it works?
#birds #bioacoustics #FDroid
https://birdnet.cornell.edu/
It recognizes me trying to be a bird as a 42 % human whistle. So, maybe it works?
#birds #bioacoustics #FDroid
https://birdnet.cornell.edu/
charrvein89 new PhDs from the University of Iceland in 2025
December 1st is a ceremony for the new PhDs
5 of those were from Biology programme, spanning #Arcticcharr #genomics, #whale #bioacoustics, #speciesInteractions, #invasionbiology and #transgenerational #plasticity , all with #AquaticAnimals
Picture #UIceland
https://english.hi.is/news/almost-90-candidates-completed-phd-university
RE: https://mastodon.social/@danstowell/115620641973889668
Realy intersting talk and a good overview on the current state/ problems. Loved the input about the footprint and repurposing/ upcycling old tech. Thanks a lot
On this note: I know Udo Noll is using Raspberries as listening stations/ BirdNet stations in nature reserves here in Germany and has a lot of experience with mapping and repurposing tech. Here are his main projects:
https://radio.earth/
https://aporee.org/maps/