Do you know a #parrot that talks or sings? We want to hear from it!
Help the #ManyParrots consortium understand #vocallearning abilities and #rhytms across parrot species.
Learn more & fill 1 or 2 brief surveys here: https://manyparrots.org
Drawing by Blank & Fela
New #bioacoustics #pinniped #rhythmicity paper with Lara S. Burchardt, Jack Fearey, Andrea Ravignani & myself.
How regular are the temporal patterns in animal signals, and what influences their precision? Here, we describe rhythmic production of barks in Cape fur seal pups and adults, and lay the groundwork for future studies to investigate the development of rhythm using multidimensional metrics.
The opus magnum of my thesis is now out💙
How do you find your social partner in a crowded #seabird #colony? #Vocalisations are prob. of use. Here, I give you a detailed look at identity coding in the #littleauk over 2 years and 5 call types.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347224000599?dgcid=author
Join us this Thursday 29 Feb at 1pm CET on the European Birdsong Network meeting!
Javi Onate will discuss pippit #song variation, and I'll talk about #seabird vocal identity (and how it propagates).
Is it song? No. But is it European? Also no.
http://tinyurl.com/y3bc8wz2
There’s been a lot of talk about #socialmedia companies’ power as users post support for #Palestine and report subsequent shadowbans.
We looked into it on Instagram—and found the platform:
⚠️ suppressed hashtags
⚠️ demoted photos of soldiers, tanks, and city ruins
⚠️ deleted captions without warning
⚠️ categorized comments criticizing Israel + supporting Palestine as “spam”
⚠️ limited users’ ability to appeal moderation decisions
⚠️ more.
Read the story and our methodology:
https://mrkup.org/demoted-main-mastodon
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