Thanks to Florence Levréro and @tozbu.bsky.social for two days of talks and fun at ENES in St. Etienne for the interlab meeting of the Southern France Primate Behavioural Ecology Meeting.

Painting process of a #raven (Corvus frugilegus).

Long associated with bad luck in folklore, ravens are in fact impressively curious and intelligent birds. Some have even been observed using tools!

🎨 #SciArt #BirdIllustration #Corvids #NatureArt #Rook #Corvus

Silence will not shield scientists from the consequences of an increasingly hostile political landscape.

UK and other non-US scientists must act to support our US colleagues.

Here's what I think we should be doing...

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📣Call for abstracts! 📣

We are excited to announce that the call for abstracts for the third edition of JJBA is now open ! If you’re a young researcher in bioacoustics looking to present your work in a friendly yet serious setting, without the pressure of large academic events, this call is for you!

Meet the #𝐶𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑢𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑠, the silky weaver #ant !
Their iridescence and nest-weaving skills showcase nature's brilliance. These #ants play a crucial role in maintaining #ecosystem balance through teamwork.

🌿 #NatureWonders #Sciart

🧵 (1/5) 👀So what is open science?? Open data science refers to the tools and practices enabling reproducible, transparent, and inclusive practices for data intensive science!

Still not sure what we mean? We’ve got you! Examples below🫡

Lefèvre et al: Machine learning algorithms can predict emotional valence across ungulate vocalizations
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Tomorrow = start of the 2nd week of the Bioacoustics Winter School! During the next days 👇, BWS students are going to hear about soundscapes, whales, dolphins, apes, bats, insects, humans... - FYI: the next (and 10th) edition of the BWS will be on January 5-16 2026!
www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-...

🚨 New paper! 🚨
Using #XROMM on 15 #bird species, we show that trachea deforms with neck movements. This reshaping could impact sound frequencies, showing that #biomechanics of the entire vocal system is important to consider when studying birdsong 🐦🎶 #ornithology

Now in @jexpbiol.bsky.social!

If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Please enjoy this article on the origin of joking by Erica Cartmill, who studies the evolution of cognition and communication. Her observations of great apes clowning around are delightful, and she has fascinating ideas about why these behaviors evolved 🧪

www.scientificamerican.com/article/grea...

THREAD

This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact

An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
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New paper🚨 So time for one last 🧪 🧵 of 2024! TLDR: Wild chimpanzees love big butt-resses (we can not lie), and are fussy about which ones they choose, but not quite in the way we predicted 😂
tinyurl.com/DrumTrees
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Hoots to Wytse W; @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social; Vesta Eleuteri & #teamDrum

Want to make beautiful scientific figures? Easy!

The NIH released a library of 2000+ free scientific illustrations called *BioArt*.

Check it out! bioart.niaid.nih.gov

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧠🟦 🧪

How does emotional valence influence vocal individuality? Made some imporant revisions to the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#bioacoustics #animalbehaviour

If you're looking for bioacoustics tips and help, check out the #Bioacoustics Resource Page (run by Sam Lapp and the Kitzes Lab) - bit.ly/bioacoustics-resource-page

It has links to tons of tutorials, datasets, software, forums, #AudioMoth info, and more

There is NO evidence of plants communicating with each other via the acoustic channel. Not convinced ? Read👇 paper in New Phytologist.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...