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Callan Alexander
@callanalexander.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at QUT, Threatened Species Technical Coordinator at BirdLife Australia.

Bioacoustics & Machine Learning

Music: www.clnmusic.com/about
Wasn’t expecting to see this on my walk yesterday - Noisy Pitta in suburban Brisbane!

They’re usually rainforest birds but migrate at this time of year and can show up in weird places.

Haven’t added any new species to my home patch list (now at 98) in ages, this will be hard to beat.
May 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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It's Qld Labor in Bonner. This is massive. This seat hasn't moved from Qld LNP since 2010. #ausvotes
May 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Stoked to have a cover photo for @ecography.bsky.social! In our paper doi.org/10.1111/ecog... we included temporal dynamics into SSFs, resulting in daily patterns of movement and habitat selection.
Simulating gave us dynamic spatial predictions across the landscape.
Code! github.com/swforrest/dy...
February 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Introducing Open Ecoacoustics: a platform for continental-scale ecological monitoring and research in Australia. As part of ARDC's Machine Observation Data Processing Infrastructure, we use ecoacoustic technologies to promote open science and conservation. #OpenScience #Ecoacoustics #bioacoustics
Open Ecoacoustics | ARDC
The Open Ecoacoustics platform is enabling continental-scale ecological monitoring and research.
doi.org
January 31, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Excited to present our latest paper where we take a close look at what we know (and are yet to know) about biodiversity in Antarctica!

🔗 Check out a summary of the work: arcsaef.com/story/new-an...

🔗 Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
January 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Are you a scientist that analyses/creates models using data from cameras, acoustics, drones or satellites to understand biodiversity? Join the Biodiversity Monitoring starter pack. Point me to your research to be added. ECRs and PhDs welcome! 🧪🌏 #AI #conservation

go.bsky.app/eFMQQX
January 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
New pre-print! 🎙️🦉

Automated Note Annotation after Bioacoustic Classification: Unsupervised Clustering of Extracted Acoustic Features Improves Detection of a Cryptic Owl

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

#bioacoustics #machinelearning #conservation
January 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
First time birding in NZ. Cannot believe how many exotics there are everywhere. House sparrow chatter definitely most common noise of the day (Blackbird song close second).

Loved the Gannet colony!
December 30, 2024 at 7:27 AM
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@callanalexander.bsky.social on birds in vineyards - heaps of native birds present, and using a cool combination of supervised and unsupervised machine learning models to overcome false positive issues in AI detection of bird calls
#ESAus2024
December 12, 2024 at 3:08 AM
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Good morning, #ESAus2024! Lots of people joined the starter pack yesterday. Take a(nother) look for other austral ecologists to follow and check out the hashtag for interesting talks coming up today.

go.bsky.app/5YmZLNm
December 8, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Excited for #ESAus2024 this week! I'm speaking about birds, wine & machine learning on Thursday afternoon.
December 8, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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Hello Bioacousticians,
Turns out there wasn't a bioacoustics starter pack.

Just realised I myself am following the bare minimum number required to make a starter pack.

Please share & nominate yourself!

Hoping to see this pack grow.

go.bsky.app/2Qmjek6
November 20, 2024 at 9:50 AM
Finally joined BlueSky!

I'm a PhD candidate mostly working on #bioacoustics, #machinelearning & #conservation.

This black squiggle (a spectrogram) may not seem like much, but it’s the first Eastern Bristlebird heard in QLD in 5+ years found using acoustic recorders + a deep learning model.
December 7, 2024 at 10:22 PM