Dan Stowell

@danstowell
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I'm a scientist of sound. I apply machine learning to birdsong.

Associate Professor of AI & Biodiversity, at Tilburg University and Naturalis (the Netherlands).

I also post food+drink here: https://hostux.social/@nomnomdan
and music here: https://ravenation.club/@mcldnowplaying

My websitehttps://mcld.co.uk/
Dan Stowell2d ago
Lots of amazing imagery at the "Woman, Life, Freedom" exhibition in Amsterdam's Resistance Museum. Recommended. #Amsterdam #iran #museum
Dan StowellMar 25
I gave an invited class to ecologists in Göttingen this week. In return I was given honey from the university orchard, harvested by ecology students!
Dan StowellMar 2
Tilburg University campus is pretty lovely, on the first springlike day of the year. Soundtrack is blackbirds, goldcrest. Also, it's my 5th anniversary working here. #tilburg
Dan StowellFeb 18
This report by @ketan is excellent. It's extremely valuable to make a clear difference between which "AI" has a huge environmental cost, and which "AI" is expected to give climate benefits. I research in this area! Great to have this documented: https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/big-tech-greenwashing-report/ #ai4good
Show threadDan StowellFeb 11
Inês Nolasco is a researcher in bioacoustics and machine learning. She recently completed her PhD studying how machine learning can identify individual animals from their sounds. She has also co-organised public data challenges in bioacoustics for many years.
https://github.com/inesnolas
Show threadDan StowellFeb 11
Parto Shahroudi is a researcher in AI and image processing. In her PhD she is focussing on how machine learning can reliably classify very difficult fragmented fossil images, so that palaeontologists can make sense of all the “clues” that people find washed up on the beach!
Show threadDan StowellFeb 11
Rita Pucci is a computer vision expert who has studied various aspects of computer vision for nature. Her current mission is to develop new models for animal biodiversity understanding and monitoring, through multimodal AI models grounded on images. https://ritapucci.wordpress.com/
Show threadDan StowellFeb 11
Céline Angonin is an audio research engineer with a background in computing and signal processing. In her PhD she is researching how we can use machine learning to make the best use of the many diverse bioacoustic data collections out there. https://bioacousticai.eu/team-member/celine-angonin/
Show threadDan StowellFeb 11
Leonie Baier is an expert on bats, including the sounds they make and their behaviour. She’s now working with us to build the best open-data collections of bat sounds, and also to use those sounds to build AI species recognition tools for European bats. https://www.surfinbat.org/
Dan StowellFeb 4
I'm interested to follow the reaction to "fatbikes" in the Netherlands - here, this term doesn't just mean anything with fat tyres, the trend is ONLY about electric bikes with fat tyres and a reclining low-effort seat posture. Popular among teens. Many adults are snooty about them. One adult (?) even made this graffiti stencil: #fatbike