Comparative Bioacoustics Group

Out now in @CellCellPress! doi.org/10.1016/j.cell… Historically marginalized student representation drastically drops from undergrad to grad school. Are underrepresented students unqualified? Or are grad school admissions unnecessarily confusing, costly, & gatekeeping? 1/🧵

🎉The program of CogEvo 2023 is finally out! 🗣️Check it on our website to have a glimpse of our wonderful plenary talks: #programmers" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">event.unitn.it/cogevo/#progra… 👉Abstract submission by June 10th 👉Registration by June 20th @gVallortigara @Matildede_ @ElenaLorenzi3 @ElisaFrasnelli

How do male harbor seals learn their breeding songs? Why do pups show vocal plasticity at a few weeks of age? And why are harbor seals vocal production learners? @AndreaRavignani @MPI_NL doi.org/10.1111/eth.13… A 🦭🧵...

The paradox of learned song in a semi-solitary mammal. New paper by @DiandraDuengen & @AndreaRavignani doi.org/10.1111/eth.13…

Sensitivity to syllable stress regularities in externally but not self‐triggered speech in Dutch. New paper (open access) by @AlexEmmendorfer et al. doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16….

The deadline for the first applications for these new Travel Grants 15 July 2023 🧵4/4 biologists.com/grants/kicksta… biologists.com/grants/ecr-vis…

ECR Visiting Fellowships provide up to £3000 (or currency equivalent) to junior faculty to attract and support an early-career researcher to undertake a defined research project in their lab for one to three months. biologists.com/grants/ecr-vis… 🧵3/4

Applications for the Tropical Bioacoustics School are now open! A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. @Univ_St_Etienne @SyddanskUni @Le_Museum eneslab.com/tropicalbioaco…

5/5) As always, the underlying data and code are available at @OSFramework: osf.io/jnpqh/. This work was done at @ComBioacoustics @MPI_NL and the illustrations are by the very talented @alinevjoustra.

4/5) Not sure where to start? Our decision tree can help users determine which level of reporting is most suitable for their specific situation. With more widespread and consistent reporting, big-picture rhythm questions will be within reach.

2/5) Framework levels fall into 2 categories—metric reporting and data sharing—and are generally quite straightforward. This is intentional! Many acoustics studies, even those not focused on rhythm, are just a few small steps away from contributing to comparative rhythm research.

1/5) I would call this one a labor of love but it was mostly just love… new Perspective out in @MethodsEcolEvol with @AndreaRavignani and @LaraBurchardt! We introduce an eight-level reporting framework for research on acoustic rhythms. Read the paper at: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Yesterday we hosted Jelle van der Werff, from the @ComBioacoustics at the @MPI_NL. He gave an overview of his research with @AndreaRavignani and introduced a new Python package: thebeat. #rhythm #beat

Robust rhythm reporting will advance ecological and evolutionary research. New paper by @taylorahersh , @AndreaRavignani and @LaraBurchardt . doi.org/10.1111/2041-2….

Announcing this month's Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics! Join us in a few weeks for two 🔥 talks on rodent vocal communication from Nicole Pranic @m_pranic and Ralph Peterson @ralph_ep 🗓️ May 23rd @ 16:00 CET ✅ Register here: bit.ly/3HqDH2d

Integrating the field of cultural evolution of music with the larger literature on language evolution will enrich our understanding of both music and language (evolution) psyarxiv.com/s7apx/

Nice one from recent New Yorker

Researchers @blasi_lang and @laserhedvig from @MPI_EVA_Leipzig have developed Grambank, a comparative grammatical database with over 400,000 data points and 2400 languages used to systematically describe the diversity of human languages. scim.ag/2m7

Excited to share this preprint (psyarxiv.com/fy4kn), a practical guide to EEG hyperscanning for joint action, which summarizes the collective wisdom of this wonderful group of co-authors: @janeenloehr @cordulavesper @SINeLabDTU Simon L. Kappel @oleadrian @PVuust @perikeller