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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics
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virtual seminar series bridging the neuroscience and ecology of animal sound // monthly talks by early career researchers // run by Nick Jourjine and Maya Woolfolk // website: braincoustics.com
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New seminar coming up!

We are lucky to have @emilyjanedennis.bsky.social of HHMI/Janelia and Stuart Newson of @btobirds.bsky.social tell us about their work on the bioacoustics and neuroscience of acoustic signaling in small mammals

🗓️November 18th @ 11:00 ET
✅Register here: braincoustics.com
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar for Tuesday, November 18th at 11:00AM ET From Emily Dennis: Using sound to study how mice hunt for prey From Stuart Newson: Bioacoustics for Small Mammal Identification
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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The next Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar is happening in 2 weeks!

Join us to learn all about the neuroscience and ecology of acoustic communication in mice from @cliffscience.bsky.social and @leo-perrier.bsky.social

🗓️ October 23rd @ 10:00 EST
✅ Register here: braincoustics.com
Bridging brains and bioacoustics talks for October 23rd @ 10:00 am EST: From Clifford Harpole (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory): Vocal repertoire expansion in singing mice by co-opting a conserved midbrain circuit node From Léo Perrier (Universite de Neuchatel): Unravelling the acoustic network of striped mice
October 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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A huge thank you to our speakers for a great seminar yesterday, and to everyone who joined for the discussion!

Recordings of both talks are now up on our website (where you can also already sign up for next month’s seminar on 🐁)

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A lot of information is encoded in dog calls and we don’t know half of it How to build AI for animal communication? Not straightforward!
September 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics is back!

Please join us next week for fantastic talks from speakers Rada Mihalcea, Álvaro Vega-Hidalgo, and Tamás Faragó

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🗓️September 25th 10:00 EST
✅ Register here: braincoustics.com

#bioacoustics
#neuroskyence
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar for Thursday, September 25th at 10:00 EST From Rada Mihalcea and Álvaro Vega-Hidalgo: Cross-Species AI Models for Decoding Animal Communication From Tamás Faragó: Mapping dogs' vocal repertoires
September 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Big thanks to our speakers Sarah Dagher and Virgile Daunay, and to everyone else who joined in today!

You can check out Virgile’s great talk on human laughter here (sneak peak below): braincoustics.com

We’re taking a summer break, but we’ll be back in September with more talks - see you then!
Screenshot from Virgile Daunay's Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics talk on June 25, 2025. Image shows the following text: Does volitional laughter encode information about social context? Do volitional laughs differ acoustically across contexts? Can listeners accurately decode laughter contexts? Which acoustic features vary across different contexts, and do those features affect listeners' perceptions?
June 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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New seminar!

A lot going on in the world to be unhappy about, so this month we’re going to try to bring some joy: two fantastic talks on the bioacoustics of laughter and play from Sarah Dagher and Virgile Daunay

Hope to see you there!

🗓️ June 25th @ 10:00 EST
✅ Register here: braincoustics.com
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar on June 25th at 10:00am EST From Sarah Dagher: Comparative Analysis of Tickling and Conspecific Play in Tame Mice and Golden Hamsters From Virgile Daunay: What does your laugh mean? Production and perception of volitional laughter across social contexts
June 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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🚨 New BBB Seminar 🚨

Join us next week to learn about *names* from Mickey Pardo (🐘) and David Omer (🐒)

🗓️ April 17th @ 10:00 EDT
✅ Register here: braincoustics.com
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar happening on Thursday, April 17th 2025 at 10:00 EDT from David Omer, Hebrew University: "The Naming of Nonhuman primates " from Michael Pardo, Cornell University: "What's in a name? Discovering individually specific vocal labels in African elephants"
April 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Mark your calendars for a new bridging brain and #bioacoustics seminar!

Join us in two weeks to learn about the ecology and neuroscience of *corvid* vocal behaviors from @wascherclaudia.bsky.social and @daliao.bsky.social 🐦‍⬛

🗓️ March 12th @ 11:00 EDT
✅ Register here: braincoustics.com
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics Seminar for March 12th, 2025 at 11:00 AM ET From Claudia Wascher: "Unsung songbirds: Vocal communication and cognition in corvids" From Diana Liao: "Exploring auditory responses in the crow with functional ultrasound imaging"
February 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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🚨 New seminar! 🚨

Join us on the 19th to discuss the neuroscience and ecology of auditory processing with talks from Johannes Dahmen and Angeles Salles 🦻🧠

Hope to see you there!

🗓️ February 19th @ 11:00 AM ET
✅ Register here: www.braincoustics.com
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics announcement for February 19th, at 11:00 AM ET From Johannes Dahmen (University of Oxford): "Hearing without auditory cortex" From Angeles Salles (University of Illinois Chicago): "Auditory Processing of Bat Social Communication"
February 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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First Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics of 2025!

Join us to learn all about vocal communication in pinnipeds from Diandra Düngen and Mathilde Martin 🦭

#Bioacoustics

🗓️: Friday, January 17th @ 10:00 am ET
Register here: braincoustics.com
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics announcement for January 2025, 10:00am ET from Diandra Düngen: Testing vocal learning in pinnipeds from Mathilde Martin: Mother-pup individual vocal recognition in the Cape fur seal
January 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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New Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics Seminar!

Join us next week to learn about the evolution of vocal learning in birds from Nick Audet and Anastasia Krasheninnikova 🦜🐦‍⬛

🗓️ December 13th at 10:00 AM EST
✅ Register here: www.braincoustics.com
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar for December 13th at 10:00am EST From Nick Audet: "Vocal learning complexity, problem-solving and brain size in birds" From Anastasia Krasheninnikova: "Insights into the phylogenetic distribution and evolution of vocal production learning in parrots"
December 2, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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New Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics!

Join us next week to learn about the neuroscience and ecology of bat vocalization from Shivani Hariharan and Maria Sagot 🦇🦇

🗓️Friday, November 22
✅Register here: braincoustics.com
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics Seminar for Friday, November 22 at 10:00 EST From Shivani Hariharan: Cerebellar Activity Predicts Vocalization in Fruit Bats From Maria Sagot: Group Vocal Strategies and Collective Decision-Making in Roost Finding by Spix’s Disk-winged Bats
November 12, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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New Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics next week!

Join us to learn about the ecology and neuroscience of emotion in animal communication from Elodie Briefer and Zahra Ghasemahmad

🗓️October 24th @ 10:00 EST
✅Register here: braincoustics.com
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar for October 24th at 10:00am EST The Evolution of Vocal Expression of Emotions: Insights from Ungulates (Elodie Briefer, University of Copenhagen) Emotional Vocalizations: The modulation of Behavior and Neurochemicals (Zahra Ghasemahmad, Harvard Medical School)
October 16, 2024 at 10:34 AM
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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics next week!

Join us for a seminar on the genetics and evolution of birdsong from Matteo Sebastianelli and Javier Sierro

🗓️September 25th @ 9:00 EST
✅Register here: braincoustics.com

#Bioacoustics
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar for September 25th, 2024 at 9:00 Eastern US time. From Matteo Sebastianelli : GWAS reveals candidate regions underlying vocal rhythm in a wild non-passerine bird From Javier Sierro: How to master birdsong, a mating perspective
September 19, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics this Wednesday!

Join us to learn about the neuroscience and ecology of cricket song from Jan Clemens and Keren Levy

🗓️ July 24th at 10:00 EST
✅ Register here: braincoustics.com

#Bioacoustics
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics Seminar on July 24th, 2024 at 10:00am EST From Keren Levy: The effects of light pollution on circadian behavior in a cricket From Jan Celemens: The evolution of song recognition in crickets
July 22, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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New seminar!

Join us next week to learn about the neuroscience and ecology of substrate born acoustic signals from Erica Huey and Malcolm Rosenthal #Bioacoustics

🗓️June 27th at 10:00 EST
✅Register here: braincoustics.com
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics Seminar on Wednesday, June 27th at 10:00am EST From Erica Huey: The auditory midbrain mediates tactile vibration sensing From Malcolm Rosenthal: The song of the spider: how environmental variability drives he evolution of substrate-borne acoustic signals
June 18, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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New Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics!

Join us in two weeks to learn about the ecology and neuroscience of human-animal communication from Marianna Boros and Claire Spottiswoode
🗣️🐦‍⬛🐕

🗓️May 14th @ 12pm EST
✅Register here: braincoustics.com
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics: May 14th 2024 at 12pm EST from Marianna Boros: How do dogs understand words? Evidence from a semantic violation paradigm with non-invasive EEG from Claire Spottiswoode: Show me the honey: communication between people and wild birds in Africa
May 3, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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New BBB seminar!

Join us on March 25th to learn all about vocal communication in Budgerigars from Zhilei Zhao and Alondra Villalba 🦜🦜🦜

🗓️March 25th @ 12:00pm EST
✅ Register here: braincoustics.com
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar on March 25th at 12:00pm From Alondra Villalba: Interactive effects of chronic stress on the physiological stress response of budgerigars From Zhilei Zhao: Evolution of forebrain vocal learning circuits in songbirds and parrots
March 14, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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Excited to announce our first seminar on here!

Join us next week for two talks on inter-species communication from Gašper Beguš (@begus.bsky.social) and Claire Spottiswoode

🗓️February 22nd @ 12 noon EST
✅Register here: braincoustics.com
Seminar announcement for Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics on February 22nd at 12 noon EST Show me the honey: communication between people and wild birds in Africa Claire Spottiswoode, University of Cambridge Uncovering Meaningful Properties from Unknown Data with AI Interpretability: The Case of Vowels and Diphthongs in Sperm Whales Gašper Beguš, University of California, Berkeley
February 13, 2024 at 3:55 PM