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Correlates of song evolution in male AND FEMALE fairywrens! Great stuff from Female Bird Song Michelle L Hall Erik Enbody John Anthony Jones Jenélle Dowling Fairywren Project and others. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.100…

Thanks for attending my talk, you might remember this paper from last year when it was just about finished, the year before when it was just about finished, and the year before that when it was just about finished.

Join us for the Department's 2SLGBTQIA+ community hour this Thursday 28th March from 11am-12noon in P328! Hosted by EDI committee members moriah deimeke and Ben Whittaker 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Chickadees activate unique neural “barcodes” each time they hide food. These barcoded #memories then light up in the brain when they retrieve it. More in Cell: cell.com/cell/fulltext/… Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute Selmaan Chettih, Emily Mackevicius, Stephanie Hale, & Dmitriy Aronov

"In the future, comparative cognition needs to be, and will be, broader in scope and impact... Together, the articles [of this year's CCBR] paint an exciting picture of the kind of progress and impact we might expect from the field in the coming decades." …ve-cognition-and-behavior-reviews.org/current_issue/

Songbird Neuroethology Laboratory is branching out - Michelle presenting some marine animal play work with moriah deimeke and company at #CO3_2024 !

Some of us were away at #CO32024 but the amazing honors students from Songbird Neuroethology Laboratory were making us proud at the Dept of Psych UAlberta Brian Harder Honors Day conference! Dept of Psych UAlberta University of Alberta Faculty of Arts University of Alberta

SO EXCITED for these #SongSparrow models (designed & printed by Savi Made) being painted by Bryce W. Robinson, Amaya Bechler & Hannah Pryor. They already look so good! #research

New research by CUNY ASRC exec. director and The Graduate Center faculty member on backyard bird diversity is out for #earthday: eurekalert.org/news-releases/… with OrnithoLogic Devin Goodson C.J. van Riper

To bioacousticians (and other interested people): SUNG datasets (Small, Unbalanced, Noisy, but Genuine) are characterized by a limited number of recordings, most often noisy, and unbalanced in number between the individuals or categories of vocalizations. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

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Songbird Neuroethology Laboratory member moriah deimeke talks songs and tseets at #csbbcs2024 CSBBCS/SCSCCC Dept of Psych UAlberta University of Alberta University of Alberta Faculty of Arts UAlbertaScience University of Alberta

What do zebra say 🦓🦓🦓? My PhD student Bing Xie revisited their vocal repertoire using machine learning algorithms and assessed how individualised calls are. ⁦UCPH Behavioural Ecology Group⁩ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

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The Ethics of Playback: Using Recorded Birdsong To Attract Birds - Emagazine.com emagazine.com/the-ethics-of-…

New cuckoo paper from our lab. Winiarska et al. Common cuckoo vocalisations as an indicator for the avian diversity – A study with passive acoustic monitoring doi.org/10.1016/j.ecol…

How have we studied female bird song? Does female song function the same way as male song? Sometimes. . . Congratulations to Cristina Barros for summarizing the literature on this topic with Karina Sanchez, PhD authors.elsevier.com/c/1jczNmjM6FvO

Off on another field trip to study hippo acoustic communication... By the way, did you read this paper published in Current Biology ? cell.com/current-biolog…

Please join us for the Department's 2SLGBTQIA+ community hour next Thursday (Oct 17) from 11-12! Coffee and cups provided. Hosted by moriah deimeke and Ben Whittaker 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️