Xavier Mouy

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Seal pup

Koen de Reus recorded 1,000+ hours of pup calls for his PhD at our Institute and Radboud University, with @pieterburen.bsky.social He discovered seal pups take turns when they ‘talk’ and even develop local accents. Surprisingly human!

#LanguageEvolution #VocalLearning

🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨
#AnimalBehaviour #Ethology

"Acoustic repertoire and anatomical features of the flying gurnard from the Adriatic Sea"
Horvatić & Vieira et al. with SPE members Manuel Vieira, M Clara Amorim, and Paulo Fonseca @ Journal of zoology

Upcoming Sonic Connexions meet-up: Listening at Scale: Edge and Cloud Computing for Large Bioacoustic Datasets

Join the conversation on March 5th!

Register here:
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@asa-news.bsky.social
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Aversive behavioural responses of killer whales to sounds of long-finned pilot whales - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Aversive behavioural responses of killer whales to sounds of long-finned pilot whales

A top predator on the run! New paper on aversive responses of killer whales to the sounds of long-finned pilot whales – out now in Scientific reports – open access: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Below a short summary of the main results.
🔈🐳🤓
#bioacoustics #MarineMammals #whales

UVic researchers decipher fish sounds | Watch News Videos Online Watch UVic researchers decipher fish sounds Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

globalnews.ca/video/116073... 🐟🔊🧪

Interested in #ocean #sound? Did you know that it is an Essential Ocean Variable? What does this mean and why do we care?
TUNE in to the upcoming webinar that highlights the importance of ocean sound and its best practices: 12 December 2025, 8 am UTC. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Knock knock, who's there? Identifying wild species‐specific fish sounds with passive acoustic localization and random forest models Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is a useful non-destructive tool for evaluating species presence, diversity and abundance. However, in marine environments, a dearth of tools and methods for identif....

Excited to see this paper out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

> 1,000 fish calls from 8 fish species identified including 5 whose wild calls had never been documented. The paper shows species-specific sound characteristics that offers a foundation for future species-specific detectors
🐟🔊🧪

Does a total solar eclipse trigger singing a new dawn chorus?
"It's an empirical question!"

If you were at the @animbehsociety.bsky.social #ABS2025 session honoring Steve Nowicki you saw @rosvall-lab.bsky.social talk about this awesome work! Now in @science.org

#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics

Postdoctoral Scholar Program - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Eighteen-month Postdoctoral Scholar awards are offered to recipients of new or recent doctorates in the fields of chemistry, engineering, geology, geophysics, mathematics, meteorology, physics, and bi...

🧪🐟🔉WHOI's Postdoctoral Scholars Program is now accepting applications.

Application deadline: December 1, 2025.

If you’re interested in bioacoustics, signal processing, AI/ML, or low-cost instrumentation, and are considering applying, feel free to get in touch with me.

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Modeling the detection range of pulsed calls from resident killer whale in nearshore waters of British Columbia, Canada Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) using underwater listening stations is widely employed to assess the presence and movements of marine mammals. Accurate interpretation of PAM data requires knowledge ...

Excited to share our new open‑access paper in PLOS ONE! We present a Monte Carlo framework to estimate how far resident killer whale pulsed calls can be detected in the Salish Sea by combining in‑situ ambient noise, tagging data and propagation modeling. 🧪🔊🐋

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

New Sonic Connexions online meet-up coming up on Sep 24! This one will be on Bioacoustics AI with Liz Ferguson. Register now to join the discussions!! #bioacoustics 🔊🧪

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Python: The Documentary | An origin story YouTube video by CultRepo (formerly Honeypot)

With the risk of revealing the nerd that I am, here is a great documentary about the origin of the python programming language... Make me love the language even more..

youtu.be/GfH4QL4VqJ0?...

New Sonic Connexions event coming up on August 12! 🧪🔉#bioacoustics

Register here:
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Dr. Mel Consentino

We're heartbroken to share that Dr. Mel Consentino, former Treasurer of SCB MARINE, has passed away.
Born in Argentina with a passion for orcas that would define her life's work, Mel dedicated herself to marine conservation in the most meaningful way. 🐋

Excited to share this new gorgeous science-informed kids book all about fish sounds! Our team is grateful for the opportunity to consult on the book and can't wait to use it during outreach events ❤️ 🐠 🔉

What does it represent?

The CODCAST This four episode podcast series explores the discovery of a sound. It is a faint but distinct sound produced by a fish, the Arctic cod. Only recently have scientists realized how important sound is i...

Oh no sorry to hear. Try this other link here: codcast.transistor.fm

A map of Scotland and the North Atlantic, showing density of vessel tracking data (also known as AIS data), which highlights areas in red where there are a lot of AIS vessels and blue where there are less. The map shows coastal Scottish waters are very busy (i.e. coloured red) with AIS traffic.

⚓ NEW PUBLICATION! Thrilled that the first paper of the Scottish Vessel Project is now published in Marine Policy showing how AIS data only represents ~40% of coastal vessel traffic around Scotland.

🚤 Why is this important? Read below: 👇⛴

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

The CODCAST Podcast · Shaye Ogurek · This four episode podcast series explores the discovery of a sound. It is a faint but distinct sound produced by a fish, the Arctic cod. Only recently have scientists realized...

Check out the Codcast - a new podcast about the discovery of new fish sounds

#bioacoustics 🐟🧪

open.spotify.com/show/4xjrZMU...

Join us for the the second edition of Sonic Connexions on May 5th, 2025 !

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#bioacoustics 🧪

Welcome to Ocean Acoustics & Technology! 👋 We are so glad you are here! This forum aims to provide a place for people who do fisheries acoustics, ocean propagation modelling and analysis, and ocean sensing to get together and ask each other q...

This is a new Discourse in Ocean Acoustics and Technology

Very cool to have this platform to ask questions and connect with colleagues

discourse.ocean-acoustics.org/t/welcome-to...

Check out the free web software SoundLab to visualize and explore sounds and consider contributing to their crowdfunding campaign.

Bridge to Ocean Acoustics & Technology: An open education program for ocean acoustics via executable tutorials

🌊 How do whales chat across oceans? How to track fish & map seafloor using sound?

🔊 Learn ocean acoustics w/ interactive Jupyter notebooks in BOAT New Orleans workshop!
👉 boat-ocean-acoustics.github.io

Application deadline Mar 21. Travel support available.

#oceanography #fisheries #bioacoustics

The War on Science Science Vs · Episode

A summary of what the new US administration is doing to science....

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Possible summer projects include (but are not limited to):

- Developing of deep neural network models
- Analyzing 3D passive acoustic localizations and video imagery to identify new sounds from fish
- Developing low-cost audio-video recorders
- Creating graphical interfaces for data analysis

Summer Student Fellowship - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The Summer Student Fellow program brings bright, talented students to Woods Hole to learn more about ocean science, attend lectures by Woods Hole scientists, and conduct independent research working a...

Are you an undergrad student interested in gaining experience in marine bioacoustics? Apply for the Summer Student Fellowship at @whoi.bsky.social and come work with me. Application deadline: February 5, 2025. Reach out to me if you are interested.
#Bioacoustics

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Flyer for a community-led special issue discussion on Jan. 10 at 9 am Pacific. Register at FishSounds.net/Educate.js

The FishSounds Educate #bioacoustics seminar series resumes Jan 10 at 9 am Pacific—this time with a break in format! We'll be hosting a discussion about a community-led special issue on underwater sounds and are eager for broad involvement! Register here: uvic.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The Voices of Nature Songs, barks, roars, hoots, squeals, and growls: exploring the mysteries of how animals communicate by sound

The paperback edition of "The Voices of Nature. How and Why Animals Communicate" is announced!
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Killer whale (Orcinus orca) occurrence in Icelandic waters revealed by passive acoustic monitoring The distribution and occurrence of killer whales around Iceland are primarily studied in coastal herring grounds, with limited knowledge beyond these areas. This study employed opportunistic passive ...

🔔 NEW PAPER 🔔
Our latest paper is out, led by our student Giulia Bellon, using passive acoustic monitoring to investigate the occurrence of killer whales in Icelandic waters. You can read all about it (open access) here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...