Lara S. Burchardt
@lsburchardt.bsky.social
Behavioural Biologist at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin| Rhythm and Beat Precision in Acoustic Communication and Other Systems | PhD from MfN Berlin and Free University Berlin | coding in R | she/her
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🔊3 years in the making OUT NOW & #OA: "Zebra finch tutees not only share the melody but also the rhythm of their tutor’s song" in #ScientificReports together with Judith Varkevisser and Michelle Spierings, APCs covered by #projectDEAL.
#bioacoustics #rhythm #zebrafinch #AnimalBehavior
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#bioacoustics #rhythm #zebrafinch #AnimalBehavior
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Amazing opportunity to work with @stephanielking.bsky.social AND Dolphins 🐬
3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Amazing opportunity to work with @stephanielking.bsky.social AND Dolphins 🐬
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A richly annotated dataset of co-speech hand gestures across diverse speaker contexts www.nature.com/articles/s41... Dataset comprising 2373 annotated gestures, 9 speakers across 3 distinct categories: University lecturers, Politicians, and Psychotherapists can be accessed at doi.org/10.17605/OSF...
A richly annotated dataset of co-speech hand gestures across diverse speaker contexts - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A richly annotated dataset of co-speech hand gestures across diverse speaker contexts
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A richly annotated dataset of co-speech hand gestures across diverse speaker contexts www.nature.com/articles/s41... Dataset comprising 2373 annotated gestures, 9 speakers across 3 distinct categories: University lecturers, Politicians, and Psychotherapists can be accessed at doi.org/10.17605/OSF...
Reposted by Lara S. Burchardt
BehaveAI is live!
Our biologically inspired video analysis tool sees motion as colour. Track animals or objects, classify their behaviour, and handle complex natural scenes with ease.
Semi-supervised annotation, no GPUs required, user-friendly, free & open source.
Pre-print tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
Our biologically inspired video analysis tool sees motion as colour. Track animals or objects, classify their behaviour, and handle complex natural scenes with ease.
Semi-supervised annotation, no GPUs required, user-friendly, free & open source.
Pre-print tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
November 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
BehaveAI is live!
Our biologically inspired video analysis tool sees motion as colour. Track animals or objects, classify their behaviour, and handle complex natural scenes with ease.
Semi-supervised annotation, no GPUs required, user-friendly, free & open source.
Pre-print tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
Our biologically inspired video analysis tool sees motion as colour. Track animals or objects, classify their behaviour, and handle complex natural scenes with ease.
Semi-supervised annotation, no GPUs required, user-friendly, free & open source.
Pre-print tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
Reposted by Lara S. Burchardt
Only 5 days left to register! ⏰
Don’t miss the chance to connect with animal behaviour researchers from around the world and discover the latest in behavioural science.
📅 13–14 November; free, online & open to all worldwide 🌍
🔗https://ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org/
Don’t miss the chance to connect with animal behaviour researchers from around the world and discover the latest in behavioural science.
📅 13–14 November; free, online & open to all worldwide 🌍
🔗https://ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org/
November 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Only 5 days left to register! ⏰
Don’t miss the chance to connect with animal behaviour researchers from around the world and discover the latest in behavioural science.
📅 13–14 November; free, online & open to all worldwide 🌍
🔗https://ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org/
Don’t miss the chance to connect with animal behaviour researchers from around the world and discover the latest in behavioural science.
📅 13–14 November; free, online & open to all worldwide 🌍
🔗https://ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org/
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🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity!
We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
October 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity!
We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
Reposted by Lara S. Burchardt
1️⃣ month to go! ⏰
#ABL2025, our annual international online conference is on the 13–14 Nov 🎉
6 plenaries • 24 talks • 40+ posters • 3 workshops • lively Discord chats.. and more !
🌐 Free registration — register now!
👉 ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org
#ABL2025, our annual international online conference is on the 13–14 Nov 🎉
6 plenaries • 24 talks • 40+ posters • 3 workshops • lively Discord chats.. and more !
🌐 Free registration — register now!
👉 ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org
October 14, 2025 at 6:54 AM
1️⃣ month to go! ⏰
#ABL2025, our annual international online conference is on the 13–14 Nov 🎉
6 plenaries • 24 talks • 40+ posters • 3 workshops • lively Discord chats.. and more !
🌐 Free registration — register now!
👉 ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org
#ABL2025, our annual international online conference is on the 13–14 Nov 🎉
6 plenaries • 24 talks • 40+ posters • 3 workshops • lively Discord chats.. and more !
🌐 Free registration — register now!
👉 ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org
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Paper & incredible science alert: Our assistant professor @laurastidsholt.bsky.social & a passionate team @elena-tena.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social found proof for greater nocturnal #bats 🦇 preying on migratory birds 🐦 AND devouring them in flight! #bioacoustics
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Paper & incredible science alert: Our assistant professor @laurastidsholt.bsky.social & a passionate team @elena-tena.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social found proof for greater nocturnal #bats 🦇 preying on migratory birds 🐦 AND devouring them in flight! #bioacoustics
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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This year marks the 100th birthday of #bioacoustics, established by Ivan Regen in 1925, which studies how animals hear, produce and propagate sound.
Let’s discover this discipline with @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social, Professor of Saint Etienne University, in the first episode of Acoustic World.
Let’s discover this discipline with @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social, Professor of Saint Etienne University, in the first episode of Acoustic World.
October 20, 2025 at 6:33 AM
This year marks the 100th birthday of #bioacoustics, established by Ivan Regen in 1925, which studies how animals hear, produce and propagate sound.
Let’s discover this discipline with @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social, Professor of Saint Etienne University, in the first episode of Acoustic World.
Let’s discover this discipline with @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social, Professor of Saint Etienne University, in the first episode of Acoustic World.
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🚨🚨Job! 🚨🚨Permanent (75% time) job! We are a pretty awesome research group & seek a manager who deals with everything: personnel tasks, organizing retreats, preparing code for teaching / data structures for research... Fluency in German & English essential. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/51527
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de
October 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
🚨🚨Job! 🚨🚨Permanent (75% time) job! We are a pretty awesome research group & seek a manager who deals with everything: personnel tasks, organizing retreats, preparing code for teaching / data structures for research... Fluency in German & English essential. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/51527
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Brown rats are preying on bats at urban hibernation sites – even snatching them mid-air. Conservation efforts must include non-native rodent control at key bat roosts.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Brown rats are preying on bats at urban hibernation sites – even snatching them mid-air. Conservation efforts must include non-native rodent control at key bat roosts.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
October 6, 2025 at 5:56 AM
🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
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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
www.nature.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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...
🔊3 years in the making OUT NOW & #OA: "Zebra finch tutees not only share the melody but also the rhythm of their tutor’s song" in #ScientificReports together with Judith Varkevisser and Michelle Spierings, APCs covered by #projectDEAL.
#bioacoustics #rhythm #zebrafinch #AnimalBehavior
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#bioacoustics #rhythm #zebrafinch #AnimalBehavior
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October 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🔊3 years in the making OUT NOW & #OA: "Zebra finch tutees not only share the melody but also the rhythm of their tutor’s song" in #ScientificReports together with Judith Varkevisser and Michelle Spierings, APCs covered by #projectDEAL.
#bioacoustics #rhythm #zebrafinch #AnimalBehavior
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#bioacoustics #rhythm #zebrafinch #AnimalBehavior
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Bugg is now available through GroupGets! groupgets.com/products/bug...
Real-time acoustic monitoring devices, tested from the Arctic to the tropics over long (1y+) deployments - with no maintenance!
Say goodbye to fiddly SD card retrievals and hello to instant ecological insights
Real-time acoustic monitoring devices, tested from the Arctic to the tropics over long (1y+) deployments - with no maintenance!
Say goodbye to fiddly SD card retrievals and hello to instant ecological insights
Bugg v4 - Pre-Order
Bugg is the world’s first real-time bioacoustic monitoring device. Once set up, sit back and watch as live audio data streams in over months and years with almost no maintenance required.
groupgets.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Bugg is now available through GroupGets! groupgets.com/products/bug...
Real-time acoustic monitoring devices, tested from the Arctic to the tropics over long (1y+) deployments - with no maintenance!
Say goodbye to fiddly SD card retrievals and hello to instant ecological insights
Real-time acoustic monitoring devices, tested from the Arctic to the tropics over long (1y+) deployments - with no maintenance!
Say goodbye to fiddly SD card retrievals and hello to instant ecological insights
Reposted by Lara S. Burchardt
🔊 This the season! Looking or two MSc students to tackle
1. vocal efficiency across pipit species
and, surpsingly,
2. vocal tract anatomy of the great cormorant (bonus: I also have the heads to model hearing!)
Drop me a line! I love people! :)
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
1. vocal efficiency across pipit species
and, surpsingly,
2. vocal tract anatomy of the great cormorant (bonus: I also have the heads to model hearing!)
Drop me a line! I love people! :)
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
MSc project
MSc thesis projects in animal communication Laws of brevity across pipit (Anthus) species Across many human languages, there are several general principles in temporal patterning: most frequent word...
docs.google.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:09 PM
🔊 This the season! Looking or two MSc students to tackle
1. vocal efficiency across pipit species
and, surpsingly,
2. vocal tract anatomy of the great cormorant (bonus: I also have the heads to model hearing!)
Drop me a line! I love people! :)
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
1. vocal efficiency across pipit species
and, surpsingly,
2. vocal tract anatomy of the great cormorant (bonus: I also have the heads to model hearing!)
Drop me a line! I love people! :)
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Reposted by Lara S. Burchardt
At this workshop today about where hand gestures get their rhythm from - participants can join online.
sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltun...
sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltun...
October 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
At this workshop today about where hand gestures get their rhythm from - participants can join online.
sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltun...
sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltun...
Reposted by Lara S. Burchardt
I’m often asked for temperature anomaly plots using a “pre-industrial” baseline (1850–1900). I update a full set of these graphics each month, now through August 2025: zacklabe.com/climate-chan.... Always free to use and share!
Climate change indicators
All data are referenced at My visualizations: Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Se…
zacklabe.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I’m often asked for temperature anomaly plots using a “pre-industrial” baseline (1850–1900). I update a full set of these graphics each month, now through August 2025: zacklabe.com/climate-chan.... Always free to use and share!
Reposted by Lara S. Burchardt
Ironically, it appears that AI chatbots hallucinate for the same reason that students feel compelled to use them:
They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.
They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.
September 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Ironically, it appears that AI chatbots hallucinate for the same reason that students feel compelled to use them:
They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.
They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.
Reposted by Lara S. Burchardt
A harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) shows extensive respiratory control in sound production. New paper by @diandraduengen.bsky.social , Yannick Jadoul & @andrearavignani.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1186/s12862-025-02404-9
doi.org/10.1186/s12862-025-02404-9
A harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) shows extensive respiratory control in sound production - BMC Ecology and Evolution
The duration of animal vocalizations varies between and within species. Which mammals can learn to control this duration? Such respiratory production learning is a scarcely studied subcomponent of voc...
doi.org
September 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
A harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) shows extensive respiratory control in sound production. New paper by @diandraduengen.bsky.social , Yannick Jadoul & @andrearavignani.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1186/s12862-025-02404-9
doi.org/10.1186/s12862-025-02404-9
Reposted by Lara S. Burchardt
⏳ Time is ticking… Only 5 days left!
Don’t miss your chance to share your work at #ABL2025, our free online conference on animal behavior research.
🎤 15-min oral talks
🎥 5-min video posters
📅 Deadline: September 7
📄 Submit your abstract now 👉 ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org
Don’t miss your chance to share your work at #ABL2025, our free online conference on animal behavior research.
🎤 15-min oral talks
🎥 5-min video posters
📅 Deadline: September 7
📄 Submit your abstract now 👉 ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org
September 2, 2025 at 6:24 AM
⏳ Time is ticking… Only 5 days left!
Don’t miss your chance to share your work at #ABL2025, our free online conference on animal behavior research.
🎤 15-min oral talks
🎥 5-min video posters
📅 Deadline: September 7
📄 Submit your abstract now 👉 ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org
Don’t miss your chance to share your work at #ABL2025, our free online conference on animal behavior research.
🎤 15-min oral talks
🎥 5-min video posters
📅 Deadline: September 7
📄 Submit your abstract now 👉 ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org
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📷 The 2025 SORTEE conference program is now online!
Visit sortee.org/upcoming/ to register and explore the exciting lineup of various sessions.
#SORTEE2025
If you know a great open science project, now is the time to nominate it for a SORTEE Award www.sortee.org/awards/
Visit sortee.org/upcoming/ to register and explore the exciting lineup of various sessions.
#SORTEE2025
If you know a great open science project, now is the time to nominate it for a SORTEE Award www.sortee.org/awards/
August 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
📷 The 2025 SORTEE conference program is now online!
Visit sortee.org/upcoming/ to register and explore the exciting lineup of various sessions.
#SORTEE2025
If you know a great open science project, now is the time to nominate it for a SORTEE Award www.sortee.org/awards/
Visit sortee.org/upcoming/ to register and explore the exciting lineup of various sessions.
#SORTEE2025
If you know a great open science project, now is the time to nominate it for a SORTEE Award www.sortee.org/awards/
Thanks @animal-prattle.bsky.social for reminding me to post about this project🐋🎵
Mia Davitt (+ col), musician from 🇺🇸, attempted to transcribe whale sounds in Western musical style. Turns out to work quite well, so we #preprint ed these interesting results: osf.io/preprints/os...
#OSF #bioacoustics
Mia Davitt (+ col), musician from 🇺🇸, attempted to transcribe whale sounds in Western musical style. Turns out to work quite well, so we #preprint ed these interesting results: osf.io/preprints/os...
#OSF #bioacoustics
August 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Thanks @animal-prattle.bsky.social for reminding me to post about this project🐋🎵
Mia Davitt (+ col), musician from 🇺🇸, attempted to transcribe whale sounds in Western musical style. Turns out to work quite well, so we #preprint ed these interesting results: osf.io/preprints/os...
#OSF #bioacoustics
Mia Davitt (+ col), musician from 🇺🇸, attempted to transcribe whale sounds in Western musical style. Turns out to work quite well, so we #preprint ed these interesting results: osf.io/preprints/os...
#OSF #bioacoustics
Reposted by Lara S. Burchardt
Great initiative by Wiley! The publisher has started marking retracted papers in reference lists. When you click on the retraction notice, you can also see the date and reason for the retraction.
All publishers should adopt this practice. But also screen references during submission.
All publishers should adopt this practice. But also screen references during submission.
August 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Great initiative by Wiley! The publisher has started marking retracted papers in reference lists. When you click on the retraction notice, you can also see the date and reason for the retraction.
All publishers should adopt this practice. But also screen references during submission.
All publishers should adopt this practice. But also screen references during submission.
Reposted by Lara S. Burchardt
Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻
July 31, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻