Anna N Osiecka 🍉

Science Communication Awards 2023-2025 The 2025 awards include content created between 1 March 2023 and 1 October 2025. Each award recipient will receive a cash prize.

🔊Yay!! Our zine on little auk communication received an honorable mention at the @asa-news.bsky.social Science Communication Awards - thank you!

Illustrations by F.Żurawska&B.Kwiatkowska 💙

You can get the zine here: doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/H7MSZ
or at ResearchGate.
acoustics.org/science-comm...

A small boost to this little paper as I'm working on the proofs:

Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) males sing using individual isochronous rhythms and maximise rhythmic dissimilarity with neighbours

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A golden retriever stands at the waterline of a beach with waves crashing behind it, panting happily. Below is the university logo and text saying “Exciting opportunity, Research Fellow in Animal Welfare Science (Canine Welfare Science)”

Come work with me! unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex... #postdoc #animalwelfare #TeamHappyDogs #science

Postdoctoral Associate – Wild Animal Welfare Program at NY Uni. Looks awesome and like one could smuggle plenty of animal comm into the group! apply.interfolio.com/180942

Thrilled to share my first PhD publication - gannets put more effort into diving when they are in groups 🐟🐟🐟

Out now in @meps-ir.bsky.social www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...

+Thanks to my coauthors who put a lot of effort into collecting the videos!

#seabirds #ornithology #animalbehaviour

Atlantic Puffin at Hornøya, Norway

New opening for a 3-year PhD project in 'Seabird Ecology in a Changing Arctic' at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (Tromsø) and the Arctic University of Norway (UiT). Apply before 25 Mar 2026. #seabirdscience @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social nina.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/84-phd-...

🚨JOB alert🚨

We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.

Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology

⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026
🙏Please circulate widely

😊Come join us!

Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

A small practice in gratitude: happy to say that my proposal with @oeaw.bsky.social received the Seal of Excellence this year, with a result way over the threshold.

Hoping the 🦭 will attract some funds to still work on this amazing project!

Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of t...

🔊Loconsole and colleagues: You know how humans match sounds and shapes based on their perceived "roundness"/"spikiness"? Chicks do that too! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🔊 #bioacoustics #anatomy

Interested in some waterbird carcasses and/or vocal tract casts for research?

I am looking for someone able to take over a project - long tailed ducks and cormorants are available. Happy to cover shipping of the casts and possibly some other costs.

DM if interested 🦆

#bioacoustics

I am beyond excited! 🤩

Uu, good news! We need songs annotated at element/syllable level, which is probably not within XC scope? We'll link all annotations back to XC files to ease future automation though!

🔊P.S. Do you have song recordings of pipits (Anthus) species not- or under-represented in @xeno-canto.bsky.social ? I'd love to have you on board!

🔊Looking for STUDENT ASSISTANTS or PROFESSIONAL AUDIO ANNOTATORS

Come help us process large audio libraries to understand the evolution of rhythm in a globally distributed songbird genus!

Funds and pubs possible. Straightforward tasks with awesome outcomes!

tinyurl.com/song-anthus

Expect plenty of little auks!

Organised by my old colleagues in my hometown so I might be partial, but I think this will be awesome.

‘If musicality did not arise from language, where did it come from?’ New preprint, Curr. Biol. In press. : doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Graphic explaining the process to annotate sperm whale codas in western music notation. Step 1: Graphic of a person with headphones, listening. Step 2: A Spektrogram, showing sound amplitude over time, with four sperm whale clicks and three musical beats as red line. Step 3: Western Musical Notation, a 3/4 rhythm, four notes are shown.

Paper Out in #NYAS: Using Rhythmic Notation and Musical Analysis on Animal Communication: A Case Study on Sperm Whales🔊🐳
doi.org/10.1111/nyas...
We use Western music notation to transcribe sperm whale codas. What can we learn about them using musical analysis🎼🎶?

Onni Talas Foundation Marine Science Discovery internship at Tvärminne 2026 | Tvärminne Zoological Station | University of Helsinki The Onni Talas Foundation supports Baltic Sea research at Tvärminne Zoological Station. The Marine Science Discovery internship aims at providing young students with insights into conducting marine re...

BSc summer internships with Onni Talas Foundation (that pay better than my first 2 postdocs): www.helsinki.fi/en/research-...

Distress calls as social stressors affecting chicken welfare Abstract. Social signals about current environmental risks can shape development in young animals. Distress calls made by young chickens (Gallus gallus dom

Herborn and colleagues with a really great paper on how exposure to conspecifics' stress vocalisations impacts chicks: Distress calls as social stressors affecting chicken welfare
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

Considering affective state as a central component of the response of animals to environmental changes Abstract. Current environmental changes are often considered as negatively impacting the affective state of animals. Yet, the interplay between environment

Beaulieu: Considering affective state as a central component of the response of animals to environmental changes royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

Right side: A group of meerkats representing the researchers that submitted a symposia proposal for ECBB 2026. Left side: The sad, lonely meerkat representing the one that forgot. All by themself. Submission deadline 31 January!

We know you don't want to start your year by forgetting to submit a symposia proposal before the 31 January deadline.

www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-...
#academicsky #ecbb2026

Internships are now available with the Cornish Jackdaw Project! 🐦‍⬛

Duties will include assisting with nest monitoring, bird ringing, data entry, and the potential to help with ongoing research projects.

Unique rhythmic signatures in arrhythmic birdsong Animal rhythms are gaining increasing attention in the studies of behaviour and musicology. Recently, it has been shown that rhythm itself can be used as an information coding channel. Now we ask: doe...

🔊Our last paper of the year: Unique rhythmic signatures in arrhythmic birdsong

First evidence: rhythm analysis can reliably describe arrhythmic sequences. In tawny pipits, (ar)rhythmic differences are individual, and indicate singers' population of origin!

doi.org/10.64898/202...

Science is important. Thank you, vet med, for letting Miecio, my favourite person and the love of my life, live for 17 happy years despite FIV and arthritis. I am broken but will forever be beyond grateful for these good years. 🖤

Unique rhythmic signatures in arrhythmic birdsong Animal rhythms are gaining increasing attention in the studies of behaviour and musicology. Recently, it has been shown that rhythm itself can be used as an information coding channel. Now we ask: doe...

🔊Our last paper of the year: Unique rhythmic signatures in arrhythmic birdsong

First evidence: rhythm analysis can reliably describe arrhythmic sequences. In tawny pipits, (ar)rhythmic differences are individual, and indicate singers' population of origin!

doi.org/10.64898/202...

At Sentient Futures, we're looking for ambitious mentees to work on projects related to nonhuman sentience and welfare. I'm happy to support projects focused on bioacoustics for animal health & welfare.

Consider applying here by Jan 12: sentientfutures.ai/projectincub...

Job vacancies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Sweet postdoc in ML for budgie bioacoustics 🔊
www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeaw-home...

Unlocking Avian Secrets: How Tiny Biologgers Are Revealing the Hidden Communication of Carrion Crows - Earth Species Project Lightweight biologgers and ESP's machine learning tools reveal the hidden vocal world of wild carrion crows, capturing over 127,000 calls from quiet murmurs to long-distance signals.

🐦‍⬛ New paper in Animal Cognition covering our carrion crow project with partners at @Univeristy of Leon.

52 mini-biologgers were deployed on wild carrion crows in Spain — capturing 127K+ vocalizations.

🔗: www.earthspecies.org/blog/unlocki...

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A call for CARE in animal behaviour: an holistic ethical research framework Despite increasing awareness of animal welfare, there are vast discrepancies between legal protections and recommended practices for different species…

🚨 Our new paper is out!! A call for CARE in animal behaviour: an holistic ethical research framework 🐾💚 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...