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Yesterday I gave a talk on the status of fruit bats in Northern Nigeria from the ecological to the conservation perspective at the ongoing #SCCS conference in Cambridge.
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I am glad to be selected for the West African Mammal Fellowship. It was a rigorous and life changing experience in the field and in the class. With hands-on field techniques, research & project design, R stats including an exposé of key ecological concepts and more...Grateful!

Happy to share that our paper on the effect of urbanization on acoustic communication in Afrotropical birds is out now. Take a look.

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We’re having a blast hosting the new cohort of the West African Mammal Fellowship for our two-week intensive field course.

Nine passionate postgrad students who are keen to advance small mammal research/conservation across the region.

#WAMF2024 #WestAfrica #bats #Smallmammals

I’m currently in the midst of selecting the first PhD candidate for my group. The number of exceptional candidates who applied has made this process quite challenging. However, I’d like to share some key aspects I was specifically looking for during the initial selection process.

Sensory Safari: A Journey of Nigeria's Birdsong and the Wild Rhythms of the Southern African Bush
Time: Nov 2, 2023 16:30 Johannesburg

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3-year funded PhD position 'YELLOWHAMMER: Individual acoustic monitoring to study song culture evolution within and between dialect areas' 🎵

More info here: natur.cuni.cz/biology/ecolog…

Early coauthorship with top scientists predicts success in academic careers | Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

continued evolution of H5N1. Let's not talk about THE H5N1 strain, its important to keep track of what all this reassortment does. Now also effects seen with ' European' influenza virus genes retrieved in birds from Korea. This truly is a global epizootic wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29…

Did you know that if you open your R-Studio and press 'option + shift + K' (on Mac) or 'Alt + shift + K' (on Windows), you'd see the list of all keyboard shortcuts in R-Studio?

Try it and see. #rstats #rstudio #programming

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More than 50,000 wild birds in UK killed by avian flu – double previous estimates theguardian.com/environment/20…

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The final African Thrush from A.P.Leventis Ornithological Research Institute in Nigeria is now carrying a Lotek Sunbird Tag. That’s 7 birds now sending movement and migration data. A big thank you to the ringing team for all your efforts this week Dickson Anoibi Matthew Talatu Tende 🐦🇳🇬

It's been great having to be trained on tagging and tracking bird.

In-studio playback tests of Bucket Baffle for recording flight calls:
1. Amplitude of background insect noise is LOWER below bucket (🟠 graphs). I.e. the sound-dampening foam works.
2. Amplitude of flight calls is HIGHER above bucket (🔴🟣 graphs). I.e. the cone is a reflector.

You may not be the best but be at your best. That's what truly matters!

On Friday 10th March, we are running a free event for early career UK Acoustics Network Plus members on Building a Career in Acoustics with speakers including Trevor Cox, Stephen Turner Stephen Turner IOA, Elly Martin, and Antonio Torija Martinez Dr Antonio J Torija. acoustics.ac.uk/building-a-car…

Classification of group-specific variations in songs within House Wren species using machine learing... - goo.gl/scholar/VyhMQy #ScholarAlerts #bioacoustics #ASR