Diandra Duengen
@diandraduengen.bsky.social
Interested in marine mammal bioacoustics, cognition and/or behavior in 🦭🐋🐳🐬 and 🦈
👩🏼🎓 PhD on seal 🦭 vocal learning abilities
👩🏼🎓 MSc in Marine Environmental Sciences
👩🏼🎓 MSc in Biology
🐳 Whale nerd and passionate diver 🌊🤿
👩🏼🎓 PhD on seal 🦭 vocal learning abilities
👩🏼🎓 MSc in Marine Environmental Sciences
👩🏼🎓 MSc in Biology
🐳 Whale nerd and passionate diver 🌊🤿
Pinned
I am mind blown to announce that the day before yesterday I have been awarded the degree of doctor from Radboud University, Nijmegen, with the distinction cum laude, which I learned is the highest distinction in the Netherlands 🤯👩🏼🎓
That my thesis was honored in this way really moves me.
That my thesis was honored in this way really moves me.
Reposted by Diandra Duengen
Fun 🧵 on vocal mimicry by @biotay.bsky.social that starts w/ a ref to this paper☝️ from @wascherclaudia.bsky.social Waterhouse @babeheim.bsky.social
(h/t to @irenegarciaruiz.com who we saw repost it)
bsky.app/profile/biot...
#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics
#R2D2
(h/t to @irenegarciaruiz.com who we saw repost it)
bsky.app/profile/biot...
#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics
#R2D2
1/7 Vocal mimicry, robots, and music
The ability to mimic sounds could be extremely common among corvids. Here, it has been found in 39 species (30%), but it is predicted that it could be present in around 82% of them.
(paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The ability to mimic sounds could be extremely common among corvids. Here, it has been found in 39 species (30%), but it is predicted that it could be present in around 82% of them.
(paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Fun 🧵 on vocal mimicry by @biotay.bsky.social that starts w/ a ref to this paper☝️ from @wascherclaudia.bsky.social Waterhouse @babeheim.bsky.social
(h/t to @irenegarciaruiz.com who we saw repost it)
bsky.app/profile/biot...
#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics
#R2D2
(h/t to @irenegarciaruiz.com who we saw repost it)
bsky.app/profile/biot...
#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics
#R2D2
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Looks like a really nice use of a Bayesian approach to identify vocal mimicry -- now published in Animal Cognition
#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics
#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics
Very happy to see this collaboration with @babeheim.bsky.social published in Animal Cognition: 'Vocal mimicry in corvids'. Since posting the first preprint, we have identified evidence for vocal mimicry in 8 more species, thanks to the community highlighting additional sources #communityscience
November 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Looks like a really nice use of a Bayesian approach to identify vocal mimicry -- now published in Animal Cognition
#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics
#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics
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Vocal convergence during formation of social relationships in vampire bats royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Vocal convergence during formation of social relationships in vampire bats | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
In many group-living birds and mammals, the formation of affiliative relationships is hypothesized to cause vocal convergence (an increase in call similarity between individuals). However, testing this causal effect can be difficult, because it requires ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Vocal convergence during formation of social relationships in vampire bats royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
😂 amazing.
Makin’ these too easy David 😏
1 🦓 🦈 – stripey mcstripe shark
2 🐆 🦈 – spotty fella shark
3 😇 🦈 – holy shark
4 🇬🇱 🦈 – brr island shark
5 🍪 🔪 🦈 – snack attack shark
6 🔨 🙂 🦈 – diy shark
7 👨⚕️ 🦈 – doctor shark
8 🚶 🦈 – walkin shark
9 🎋 🦈 – bamboozled biter shark
10 🐊 🦈 – swamp shark
1 🦓 🦈 – stripey mcstripe shark
2 🐆 🦈 – spotty fella shark
3 😇 🦈 – holy shark
4 🇬🇱 🦈 – brr island shark
5 🍪 🔪 🦈 – snack attack shark
6 🔨 🙂 🦈 – diy shark
7 👨⚕️ 🦈 – doctor shark
8 🚶 🦈 – walkin shark
9 🎋 🦈 – bamboozled biter shark
10 🐊 🦈 – swamp shark
November 6, 2025 at 7:21 AM
😂 amazing.
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Arctic seals edge closer to extinction as sea ice vanishes
Arctic seals edge closer to extinction as sea ice vanishes
Three Arctic seal species have moved closer to extinction, as rapid sea ice loss continues to erode their breeding and feeding grounds, according to the latest update of the IUCN Red List of…
news.mongabay.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Arctic seals edge closer to extinction as sea ice vanishes
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ICYMI: My longest article ever for Scuba Diving Magazine answers one of the most frequent career advice quesions I receive... and the answer probably isn't what you think!
Give it a read and share
www.scubadiving.com/best-schools... 🦑🧪
Give it a read and share
www.scubadiving.com/best-schools... 🦑🧪
What Are the Best Schools to Study Marine Biology?
In this edition of “Ask a Marine Biologist,” Dr. David Shiffman gives aspiring marine scientists things to consider when looking for in a college or university.
www.scubadiving.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
ICYMI: My longest article ever for Scuba Diving Magazine answers one of the most frequent career advice quesions I receive... and the answer probably isn't what you think!
Give it a read and share
www.scubadiving.com/best-schools... 🦑🧪
Give it a read and share
www.scubadiving.com/best-schools... 🦑🧪
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Come join us for a 4-year PhD on effects of rare gene disruptions involved in speech disorder, investigated in human neuronal models (via gene-editing, tissue culture, brain organoids, high-res microscopy, transcriptomics, epigenomics).
More info: www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...
#AcademicJobs #PhDJobs
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More info: www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...
#AcademicJobs #PhDJobs
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October 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Come join us for a 4-year PhD on effects of rare gene disruptions involved in speech disorder, investigated in human neuronal models (via gene-editing, tissue culture, brain organoids, high-res microscopy, transcriptomics, epigenomics).
More info: www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...
#AcademicJobs #PhDJobs
🧬🧪
More info: www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...
#AcademicJobs #PhDJobs
🧬🧪
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🗣️What makes music and language exclusively human?
🐾How do other animals communicate?
🎶Do they perceive melodies and rhythms as we do?
🎧ACOUSTIC WORLD is a podcast to explore bioacoustics and find answers to these and more questions.
Because the world has always spoken, you just need to listen!
🐾How do other animals communicate?
🎶Do they perceive melodies and rhythms as we do?
🎧ACOUSTIC WORLD is a podcast to explore bioacoustics and find answers to these and more questions.
Because the world has always spoken, you just need to listen!
October 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🗣️What makes music and language exclusively human?
🐾How do other animals communicate?
🎶Do they perceive melodies and rhythms as we do?
🎧ACOUSTIC WORLD is a podcast to explore bioacoustics and find answers to these and more questions.
Because the world has always spoken, you just need to listen!
🐾How do other animals communicate?
🎶Do they perceive melodies and rhythms as we do?
🎧ACOUSTIC WORLD is a podcast to explore bioacoustics and find answers to these and more questions.
Because the world has always spoken, you just need to listen!
Congratulations @lsburchardt.bsky.social et al. 🎉🎉 Super interesting!
Brilliant work on the ontogeny of rhythm in zebra finches. "Shared rhythm goes beyond copying the temporal features of individual elements; tutees ...adjust the rhythm of non-shared intervals". 🔊 @lsburchardt.bsky.social & al: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Client Challenge
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October 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Congratulations @lsburchardt.bsky.social et al. 🎉🎉 Super interesting!
Very appreciative of Shishimi et al. sharing these (potentially preliminary) negative results on mirror self-recognition in honeybees 👏🏼
Investigating the potential for mirror self-recognition in honeybees (Apis mellifera): a preliminary study using the mark test https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.14.682345v1
October 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Very appreciative of Shishimi et al. sharing these (potentially preliminary) negative results on mirror self-recognition in honeybees 👏🏼
I am mind blown to announce that the day before yesterday I have been awarded the degree of doctor from Radboud University, Nijmegen, with the distinction cum laude, which I learned is the highest distinction in the Netherlands 🤯👩🏼🎓
That my thesis was honored in this way really moves me.
That my thesis was honored in this way really moves me.
October 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I am mind blown to announce that the day before yesterday I have been awarded the degree of doctor from Radboud University, Nijmegen, with the distinction cum laude, which I learned is the highest distinction in the Netherlands 🤯👩🏼🎓
That my thesis was honored in this way really moves me.
That my thesis was honored in this way really moves me.
Woohoo!!
October 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Woohoo!!
Dream PhD position at the Alfred Wegener Institute Bremerhaven, Germany available 😍 if I hadn't my defense coming up ... 🙈😂 Application deadline October 2nd. Please share widely!
#OceanOpportunities PhD position: Site-fidelity and feeding behaviour of fin whales at Antarctic feeding grounds - Deadline 02 October 2025
nf-pogo-alumni.org/26092025-6/
nf-pogo-alumni.org/26092025-6/
PhD position: Site-fidelity and feeding behaviour of fin whales at Antarctic feeding grounds - Deadline 02 October 2025 - NANO | NF-POGO Alumni Network for the Ocean
Background You will be part of the Marine Mammal Ecology Working Group in the AWI section Polar Biological Oceanography, Bremerhaven, in collaboration with the Institute of Marine Ecosystem and Fisher...
nf-pogo-alumni.org
September 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Dream PhD position at the Alfred Wegener Institute Bremerhaven, Germany available 😍 if I hadn't my defense coming up ... 🙈😂 Application deadline October 2nd. Please share widely!
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Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...
March 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...
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Bioacoustics Winter School - January 2026
Time to apply! 👇Program and application form👇
www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-...
Time to apply! 👇Program and application form👇
www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-...
Bioacoustics Winter School | ENES lab
www.eneslab.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Bioacoustics Winter School - January 2026
Time to apply! 👇Program and application form👇
www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-...
Time to apply! 👇Program and application form👇
www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-...
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New preprint in collaboration with @babeheim.bsky.social: Vocal mimicry in corvids. We describe vocal mimicry, i.e., copying of sounds produced by another species or the environment, in 31 out of 128 corvid species (24%). (1/2)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 31, 2025 at 8:58 AM
New preprint in collaboration with @babeheim.bsky.social: Vocal mimicry in corvids. We describe vocal mimicry, i.e., copying of sounds produced by another species or the environment, in 31 out of 128 corvid species (24%). (1/2)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This is so worth contributing to!
Sharks are essential to the ecosystem we all rely on: the ocean. Read below article to find out how you can support and donate!
Sharks are essential to the ecosystem we all rely on: the ocean. Read below article to find out how you can support and donate!
Friends, I am helping the The Natural History Society of Maryland to design a shark science and conservation exhibit, and we can use your help funding it!
Learn more about the exhibit and learn how you can donate here: 🧪🦑🌎🦈 #SciComm
www.southernfriedscience.com/help-support...
Learn more about the exhibit and learn how you can donate here: 🧪🦑🌎🦈 #SciComm
www.southernfriedscience.com/help-support...
www.southernfriedscience.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This is so worth contributing to!
Sharks are essential to the ecosystem we all rely on: the ocean. Read below article to find out how you can support and donate!
Sharks are essential to the ecosystem we all rely on: the ocean. Read below article to find out how you can support and donate!
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🐀 ultrasonic vocalizations be wildin' 🐀
@nicolasmathevon.bsky.social etc al. use @openacousticdevices.info to study how striped mice use USVs in the wild, new in @currentbiology.bsky.social
See graphical abstract for summary of results (does the work for us 😇) 👇
#bioacoustics
#prattle 💬
@nicolasmathevon.bsky.social etc al. use @openacousticdevices.info to study how striped mice use USVs in the wild, new in @currentbiology.bsky.social
See graphical abstract for summary of results (does the work for us 😇) 👇
#bioacoustics
#prattle 💬
September 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
🐀 ultrasonic vocalizations be wildin' 🐀
@nicolasmathevon.bsky.social etc al. use @openacousticdevices.info to study how striped mice use USVs in the wild, new in @currentbiology.bsky.social
See graphical abstract for summary of results (does the work for us 😇) 👇
#bioacoustics
#prattle 💬
@nicolasmathevon.bsky.social etc al. use @openacousticdevices.info to study how striped mice use USVs in the wild, new in @currentbiology.bsky.social
See graphical abstract for summary of results (does the work for us 😇) 👇
#bioacoustics
#prattle 💬
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You’re now breathing manually 🌬️
What underlies this ability to be consciously aware of own breathing?
In our new Journal of Neuroscience paper, we report the largest study to date linking brain microstructure to respiratory interoception.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... 🧵 👇
What underlies this ability to be consciously aware of own breathing?
In our new Journal of Neuroscience paper, we report the largest study to date linking brain microstructure to respiratory interoception.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... 🧵 👇
Microstructural Brain Correlates of Inter-individual Differences in Respiratory Interoception
Interoception, the perception and integration of physiological signals, is a fundamental aspect of self-awareness and homeostasis. While previous work has explored interoceptive processing in the card...
www.jneurosci.org
August 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
You’re now breathing manually 🌬️
What underlies this ability to be consciously aware of own breathing?
In our new Journal of Neuroscience paper, we report the largest study to date linking brain microstructure to respiratory interoception.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... 🧵 👇
What underlies this ability to be consciously aware of own breathing?
In our new Journal of Neuroscience paper, we report the largest study to date linking brain microstructure to respiratory interoception.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... 🧵 👇
Curious about vocal learning in pinnipeds? Come meet me at my poster at #IBAC2025 today and tomorrow 1 - 3.30 pm, and hear about my newest research on phonatory control in gray seal sound production 🦭🦭 looking forward to seeing you there!
September 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Curious about vocal learning in pinnipeds? Come meet me at my poster at #IBAC2025 today and tomorrow 1 - 3.30 pm, and hear about my newest research on phonatory control in gray seal sound production 🦭🦭 looking forward to seeing you there!
Elephants show different levels of complexity in vocal usage learning, as well as vocal production learning - exemplified by their ability to imitate human speech. Great presentation of this fascinating trait in elephants @angelastoeger.bsky.social at #IBAC2025. Amazing work and very enjoyable talk!
some impression from my presentation on elephant vocal learning - IBAC2025
September 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Elephants show different levels of complexity in vocal usage learning, as well as vocal production learning - exemplified by their ability to imitate human speech. Great presentation of this fascinating trait in elephants @angelastoeger.bsky.social at #IBAC2025. Amazing work and very enjoyable talk!
Check out our new paper on a male harbor seal's 🦭 excellent respiratory control: within just a few weeks, this young seal learned to produce vocalizations that spanned over two orders of magnitude in duration! ...
September 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Check out our new paper on a male harbor seal's 🦭 excellent respiratory control: within just a few weeks, this young seal learned to produce vocalizations that spanned over two orders of magnitude in duration! ...
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Scientists Record First Known Shark Sounds | Scientific American
Scientists Record First Known Shark Sounds
Clicklike noises made by a small species of shark represent the first instance of a shark actively producing sound
www.scientificamerican.com
July 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Scientists Record First Known Shark Sounds | Scientific American
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Ocean warming increases residency at summering grounds for migrating bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) 🦑🌎🐟🦈 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Ocean warming increases residency at summering grounds for migrating bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas)
Globally, climate change is driving warming ocean temperatures, increasing the frequency and severity of extreme temperature events and altering curre…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Ocean warming increases residency at summering grounds for migrating bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) 🦑🌎🐟🦈 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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You need rapid measurement and identification of changes in coral reefs soundscapes? Try the new software "CoralSoundExplorer" by the ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab & Co 👇
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#bioacoustics #ecology #coralreef #ecoacoustics #globalchanges #ocean #sound @plos.org
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#bioacoustics #ecology #coralreef #ecoacoustics #globalchanges #ocean #sound @plos.org
Visualization and quantification of coral reef soundscapes using CoralSoundExplorer software
Author summary Passive acoustic monitoring is an increasingly popular method for monitoring ecosystems, but analyzing the data generated by this approach remains complex. In this paper, we present Cor...
journals.plos.org
April 15, 2025 at 6:25 AM
You need rapid measurement and identification of changes in coral reefs soundscapes? Try the new software "CoralSoundExplorer" by the ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab & Co 👇
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#bioacoustics #ecology #coralreef #ecoacoustics #globalchanges #ocean #sound @plos.org
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#bioacoustics #ecology #coralreef #ecoacoustics #globalchanges #ocean #sound @plos.org