There's a lot of buzz around this dataset

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A clown made of orbs holds up a card with "PRIESTESS - CLASS: S" printed on it. The face on the card matches her current expression exactly

She DOES work for a god after all
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#Limerick #entertainment #humor #Seattle #Washington #prattle #conquests #PugetSound www.youtube.com/channel/UCnf...

Forget about bouba and kiki, can you tell me if humans and Panamanian frogs both prefer EDM to dubstep?

Very cool comparative work, shows shared sound preferences across species, from @loganjames.bsky.social @sarahcwoolley.bsky.social @sakatalab.bsky.social @mehr.nz et al.

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Female cardinal song followed by her mate’s song. #birds #prattle

The song of a southern northern cardinal vs northern northern cardinal. Birds have regional dialects, and the cardinal’s is particularly pronounced, noticeable even to those with an untrained ear. #prattle #birds #naturesky #okefenokee

How does vocal behavior of tropical wrens change when predators like owls Fly Into the Danger Zone around their nest?

Stop making references to that song from the Top Gun movie, and read this thread instead on a paper that answers that question

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Interesting use of AI methods of self-supervised learning, to analyze canary song.

Authors demo on seasonal changes

Just published in Patterns:
doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...

Code: github.com/georgevenven...

Data: datadryad.org/dataset/doi:...

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tired: dog whistles
wired: horse whistles

(h/t @arnavraha.bsky.social)

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C'mon people, let's show some love for a first paper

bro I didn't even know Eastern Bristlebirds existed 5 minutes ago, awesome name by the way and now I'm learning about their song structure and dialects?

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IT IS DONE
COME AND MEET MALLET
HUGE THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED ME WITH THIS
@taxiderby.coven.cafe for providing Prattles voice
@hyperchaotix.bsky.social for assistance with shot composition
and @biborig.bsky.social for audio design help!!

#ChaoArt #prattle #mallet #oc #Blender3D

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics Seminar announcement for Friday, January 30th at 12:30 ET From Audrey Looby, University of Victoria: "The Prevalence and Important of Soniferous Fishes" From Brooke Vetter, University of St. Thomas "Anthropogenic Noise and Fish Hearing: From Ecological Impacts to Invasive Species Management"

📣 New Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics Seminar next week!

Join us to learn about the ecology and neuroscience of soniferous fish from Audrey Looby and Brooke Vetter
🐟🐠🐡

@FishSounds.bsky.social

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🗓️ January 30th, 12:30 ET
✅ Register here: www.braincoustics.com

A few additional #:
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GitHub - hwiora/semi_automated_clustering: Interactive tool for semi-automated clustering of high-dimensional data using UMAP embeddings Interactive tool for semi-automated clustering of high-dimensional data using UMAP embeddings - hwiora/semi_automated_clustering

Try it yourself!

code: github.com/hwiora/semi_...
data: zenodo.org/records/1815...

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Figure seven from paper, two boxplots with x axis showing different categories of clustering and y axis as score. Left plot uses adjusted rand index and right plot uses normalized mutual information. Here there is more variance in scores, see paper for details

Using song syllables from 3 zebra finches, authors compare automated & semi-automated methods, w/manual as baseline.

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figure six from paper, two box plots comparing feature representations methods for clustering zebra finch song syllables, left box plot uses adjusted rand index and right box plot uses normalized mutual information. Both show highest score for manual vs manual, comparing three human expert clusterers. This is expected since it's the baseline. Results clearly show that embeddings from the Whisper model gave the next highest score

"Benchmarking Automated and Semi-Automated Vocal Clustering Methods", new from Lee et al. (Hahnloser group)

www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/16...

Abstract:
"...while fully automated methods provide a useful baseline, they generally fall short of human-level consistency."

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Using neural networks to analyze animal communication?

Check out this new #python package from @masonyoungblood.bsky.social, provides a full workflow; builds on approaches from @timsainburg.bsky.social @jmxpearson.bsky.social @nilomr.bsky.social & others

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A sketch page of my main 3 cretins making various faces. Mostly wild takes.

Been doing some more out-there expression practice with my troupe!
They all have very unusual faces and it's really fun to figure out how to push them
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This one is finally out! We found that local conspecific density does affect vocal individuality in a non-learning species🦉. For more details, check out our new paper 👉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Fig. 1. Spectrograms and oscillograms of (A) two meows and (B) two purrs. Oscillograms depict sound pressure over time, and spectrograms depict frequency over time. All spectrograms were created with a 1024-point FFT, 16-bit depth, and a Hamming Window with 87.5% overlap (sampling rate: 96 kHz, frequency resolution: 94 Hz, time resolution: 1.33 ms). The two pictures on the right depict Koda, a 15-year-old male Ragdoll cat, meowing and purring (credit: Marisa Idolo).

what's in a meow?? 🐈

New from @berlinbatlab.bsky.social!

1. "we examined meows and purrs to establish how individual identity is encoded"
2. stronger individual signature in purrs than in meows
3. domestic cat meows more variable than those of wild felids

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A deep learning approach for the analysis of birdsong An open-source deep learning toolkit performs accurate annotation and similarity scoring of zebra finch song, along with comprehensive feature extraction, enabling consistent, interpretable comparison...

Congrats to @robertslab.bsky.social, the version of record of this paper is now published in @elife.bsky.social

Nice use of optimal transport methods to measure acoustic distance, if you're into that sort of thing 😉

elifesciences.org/articles/101...

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How do you build a brain that lets mice sing? 🎤🐭

If you enjoyed @cliffscience.bsky.social's talk @braincoustics.bsky.social on this work, now you can read it in @currentbiology.bsky.social!

(w / 1st author @xmikezheng20.bsky.social, @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social group)

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Thanks so much to this week‘s speakers and to everyone who joined for the discussion!

Recordings of the talks are now up on our website for those who missed them live - enjoy!

www.braincoustics.com

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A shiny, colorful clown made of simple shapes balances on one foot while pointing and winking at the camera!

WOAH! HEY!! WHO'S THAT!?
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An enormous festive monster gives a wicked grin to the camera while it's creations climb all over its winding body. A jester-like magician peeks over the monsters ruffled collar, pointing and yelling at a small clown who seems excited just to be there. It seems like they're egging each other on. A taller maid-like person sits in the foreground and watches the scene unfold. A handful of additional creatures are dotted around the monsters body. Some quietly watching, others peacefully snoozing.

I reeeeally like playing with the scale of The Showrunner. I like imagining Its little guys climbing all over it up in the rafters of their theater
God I am so excited to animate this thing
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Building on recent work, Ursu et al. (Leblois group):

🐦 replicate result that cerebellar lesions change syllable duration
🐦 show brain cell activity locked to syllable on/offsets in Cb. lobule IV, suggests -> role in timing of song!

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🧠 time 2 study #cerebellum in birdsong? 🧠

In #neuroskyence songbirds are a model to study learned motor skills like speaking a language

The cerebellum plays a role in these behaviors in humans.
It remains unclear if it interacts w/song system, brain areas for song in songbirds

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Fun 🧵 on vocal mimicry by @biotay.bsky.social that starts w/ a ref to this paper☝️ from @wascherclaudia.bsky.social Waterhouse @babeheim.bsky.social

(h/t to @irenegarciaruiz.com who we saw repost it)

bsky.app/profile/biot...

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Looks like a really nice use of a Bayesian approach to identify vocal mimicry -- now published in Animal Cognition

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Big week for mouse squeaks coming up! 🐁 💬

🗓️11/18: BBB seminar with @emilyjanedennis.bsky.social and Stuart Newson of the @btobirds.bsky.social
✅ braincoustics.com

🗓️11/20-21: 4th Annual Ultrasonic Vocalization Conference (free!)
✅ bit.ly/3JRVOCu

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