My first contributed talk is done! 🎤 I had a fantastic time at #IBAC2025 with so many inspiring talks, posters, and conversations. Such a welcoming community—I highly recommend anyone in bioacoustics to join the society! www.ibac.info
Picture of a scientific poster. It has a big drawing of a Red Wood ant singing in a microphone in the middle. The top part represents the ecological services that Red Wood ants perform, from seed transport to soil fertilization. On the right side of the singing ant is a drawing representing a recording booth. Two ants are being recorded in the booth. Below the booth drawing is a spectrogram of the sound that has been recorded, it looks like a rattle with several short pulses. The sound is called stridulation. On the left of the big singing ant, there is a drawing representing a playback setup. An ant is standing above a microphone that plays, its trajectory is being analyzed with a video recording setup. Below the playback drawing is a graph showing that Red Wood ants slow down when they hear sounds, particularly when they hear their own stridulation sounds. At the bottom of the poster are the take home messages. This ant species belonged to a family that did not stridulate according to the literature. We do not know how the stridulation is produced yet, neither what it is used for. This work is exploratory and raises more questions that it answers, but it could prove very useful for soil health monitoring.
Presented this poster at #ibac2025. Thank you to all the people who went to chat with me about #ant stridulation, all your compliments were so encouraging! I hope the people who missed the conference/poster session will have fun reading through the poster online.
Ask me anything about it!
Sarah Dobney presented her doctoral studies at the International Bioacoustics Congress #ibac2025 in Kerteminde, Denmark. Way to go @sdobney.bsky.social!
@behaveco.bsky.social was very busy and had a great time this week at #ibac2025, with 2 posters and 3 talks @biologen.bsky.social, @damaris-riedner.bsky.social, @karina-stampe.bsky.social
Me with my poster on the greylag goose vocal repertoire and how data representation types influence the predictions of unsupervised methods
Thank you to everyone at #ibac2025 for this amazing conference. I met so many great people and learned a lot about so many interesting projects. Excited to see you all again some time! And proud that my poster got the student poster price ☺️ stay tuned for the publication!
My first International Bioacoustics Conference - and hopefully not the last! 🐠 🎶 🦜 🐋 What an amazing bunch of researchers and humans. Thanks to the organisers, everyone for the great questions and conversations, and especially grateful for those chats at my poster 🐬🌊 #IBAC2025 #IBACKerteminde
Well, inevitably, as you'd imagine from my toot, this is a photo of jolly folk on a train platform. If you had been at the International Bioacoustics Congress you would even recognise them!
Lots of #ibac2025 folk all taking the big train from Denmark back to Germany! #academictravel
Reporting from #IBAC2025: where marine mammal fan art meets bioacoustics — all on one very Pinterest-board-worthy poster 🐬 🎙️ 🐋
Morning cold plunges keeping me afloat through this marathon week 🌊
Hey #bioacoustics world!
There is a new bacpipe version out! New models, gpu acceleration and much more! github.com/bioacoustic-... This one is packaged, so you can pip install bacpipe! 🎊🥹
And thanks a lot to @inesnolas.bsky.social for presenting our poster on using pretrained models at #ibac2025!
Curious about vocal learning in pinnipeds? Come meet me at my poster at #IBAC2025 today and tomorrow 1 - 3.30 pm, and hear about my newest research on phonatory control in gray seal sound production 🦭🦭 looking forward to seeing you there!
I've been loving the talks and posters being presented at #IBAC2025! Come see my poster today to learn about the "Songs of the studs" 🎤🐦🪺 @dmennill.bsky.social
Elephants show different levels of complexity in vocal usage learning, as well as vocal production learning - exemplified by their ability to imitate human speech. Great presentation of this fascinating trait in elephants @angelastoeger.bsky.social at #IBAC2025. Amazing work and very enjoyable talk!
Some happy people gathered together. But these are in fact super heroes! Or, more precisely, members of the "Bioacoustic AI" doctoral network
Team Bioacoustic AI at IBAC! @bioacousticai #bioacoustics #ibac2025
Fantastic talk by MSc student Isabella Rojas, illustrating her use of Transformers to identify hundreds of species in New Zealand soundscapes, with the use of a customised frequency scale to include ultrasonic audio too. #ibac2025 #bioacoustics
A good conferece is more than just good talks. It is also meeting old friends and making some new ones. So happy to meet @danstowell.bsky.social again after 2 years and @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social after 1 week ;)
#IBAC2025
Today Ben will present the #TABMON project, our work to use active learning and active sampling to tune the performance of a continental-scale real-time acoustic bird monitoring network! #ibac2025
Me and Ben. Key detail is the IBAC conference flag behind us
Arrived at #ibac2025! The Danish sun is smiling on us
Me celebrating the fact that Osnabruck is the oldest "tower train station" (??) in Germany. So the sign says
I'm on route to #ibac2025! Via some big German train stations. #bioacoustics
This week I’ll be giving a talk at #ibac2025 on first results exploring structure of naked mole-rat songs!
If you’re attending, I’d love to connect—whether to chat about our findings or about lab dataset of nearly half a million manually checked vocalizations.
Looking forward to meet everyone!
Next week at #IBAC2025, I'll be presenting our latest work on NatureLM-audio in a poster session.
📍If you’ll be in Denmark too, come find me and Sara Keen to explore how large audio language models can be applied to bioacoustic data.
I'm excited about IBAC next week - *the* conference for anyone interested in animal sounds http://ibac25.com/ #bioacoustics I'm especially excited because my lovely team will be presenting their work there - here's a preview!
🔊 DTO-BioFlow is heading to #IBAC2025 in Kerteminde, Denmark!
We will present the Porpoise Data Upload Tool - come and connect with us!
📅 7–12 Sept
🔗 More info: tinyurl.com/mwjkb44n
#MarineScience #Bioacoustics #DTOBioFlow
