Plenary by @natashamhatre.bsky.social - on her 'random biased walk in science" - featuring the coolest insect acoustics, tool-use by crickets, many cool FEM animations and hearing #IBAC25

Fieldwork - this time with the lab! Fieldwork in the campus @uni-konstanz.de by the lake with a view, and WiFi, what a luxury 😎 @albertodoimo.bsky.social @adityamoger.bsky.social

Just some water-striders doing their very cool thing of walking on water.

Reading a paper that uses mics to record a cool animal sound, and then the sentence along the lines of .... 'gain was regulated continuously to improve signal-to-noise' ratio....sigh.

If you already have a bad SNR, amping up the gain will only make everything 'bigger', but SNR doesn't change!

We also develop & collab to build computational methods to analyse the weird data that we generate from studying so many active-sensing agents together: e.g. models of sound directivity, LiDAR-thermal scene alignment, source-localisation in reverberant & overlapping audio. 4/n

We use multi-sensor field studies, swarm robotics and computational modelling to understand the 'what', 'how' and hopefully the 'why' of it all. Tagging our collaborators @swarmdynamics.bsky.social @joefresna.bsky.social @icouzin.bsky.social & Kalle Åström at Uni. Lund 3/n

In our group we study how groups of active-sensing agents manage to sense their surroundings and show collective behaviour despite the challenge it presents.
Why is it challenging - because each bat in the group is emitting really loud sounds - and listening for faint echoes 2/n

This is us (Gabriele, Alberto & I - L to R) totally not doing a staged photo-op. The screen does show some real data of our active-sensing Ro-BAT (the small white thing above the laptop) - with the spectrogram of the emitted call and the resulting echoes that are captured by the mic array.

Hello World!
After almost a month of starting a research group - finally the announcement :)
We are the 'Active Sensing Collectives' group (tinyurl.com/yckehxys) at the CASCB in the University of Konstanz. We're still growing, see PhD position ad below. @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de z.de

Just got my copy a few days earlier than expected. 70 pages in. So many valid points and much re-thinking to be done (esp for my own work) - looking forward to going through the book more times even in the future @ambikamath.bsky.social !

An extremely confusing use/declaration of AI (most prob an LLM. Reading the Aldi-Süd monthly catalog with the image of a cheesy pizza served next to a bowl of...what appears to be..more cheese? And the text below which says 'serving suggestion generated with AI'... Is this a flex, hand-washing...or?

For a teeny tiny moment, I thought @joefresna.bsky.social had a really successful tortellini side-gig going on Germany-wide in all the LIDL's. And then it all came crashing down once I looked again.

Another day at the office.

Suddenly being hit with the fragility of all data. Trying to backup precious data from 2018, and seeing the backup only happens halfway through before the drive gives up.

Oh, also, there's an occasional clicking sound .

Another day at the office. Snow, and frozen windshield wiper fluid.

Hello BlueSky. A view from the office today.