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Ari Strandburg-Peshkin @arispeshkin.bsky.social · 13d

⭐PhD position available!⭐
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

Analysis of communication and collective behavior in animal groups

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Dan Stowell @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

BioDCASE workshop - registration closes next week Oct 10th https://biodcase.github.io/workshop2025/ - Hope to see you there! #bioacoustics

BioDCASE Workshop - BioDCASE

Join us for the BioDCASE Workshop held in Barcelona, Spain on the 29th of October! The workshop will be held at the Campus del Poblenou of Universitat Pompeu Fabra. The BioDCASE workshop will be hosted the day before the DCASE workshop on the 30-31st of October at the same venue …

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danstowell.bsky.social @danstowell.bsky.social · 15d

I wish I could answer your question, but I'm afraid I can't, since I moved out of that field! In C4DM I had colleagues working on some of these things, specifically putting tech-driven interactivity together with these media format standards...

danstowell.bsky.social @danstowell.bsky.social · 22d

This sounds amazingly similar to the promises made for media formats such as SMIL more than 15 years ago. Just as back then: does anyone really want a personalised playback experience? (etc) I'm doubtful...

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Dan Stowell @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22d

SURVIVAL IS AN ACT OF DEFIANCE. I'm here for my queer and trans friends. I'm here for my Palestinian, Ukrainian friends, everyone fighting fascism, and more, and more. -- We're all feeling the pressure, not just you folks at the sharp end. And yet we're still here. We do what we can, in […]

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Dan Stowell @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24d

New paper from us! "Grid-Aware Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks for Multi-Horizon Load Forecasting" https://energy.acm.org/eir/grid-aware-spatio-temporal-graph-neural-networks-for-multi-horizon-load-forecasting/ From Ugochukwu Orji, working with us on AI for sustainable energy. #ai4good

Grid-Aware Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks for Multi-Horizon Load Forecasting - Energy Informatics Review

Ugochukwu Orji (Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS), Tilburg University, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands); Çiçek Güven (Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands); Dan Stowell (Department […]

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👻👻 Ben, but rationalized a reason to stay on Xitter 💀💀 @benfields.net · 24d

The mere announcement of this from Reform should result in a massive increase in current ILR holders becoming citizens and voting to keep these fascist arseholes from destroying this country.

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Become a British citizen by naturalisation (form AN)

Apply for citizenship by naturalisation if you live in the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, a British Overseas Territory or if you live elsewhere and want to apply by post.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Sep 14

Oystercatchers are so CUTE. Great color scheme, solid hustle, really good bird.

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Manjari Jain @manjarijain.bsky.social · Sep 8

A good conferece is more than just good talks. It is also meeting old friends and making some new ones. So happy to meet @danstowell.bsky.social again after 2 years and @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social after 1 week ;)
#IBAC2025

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danstowell.bsky.social @danstowell.bsky.social · Sep 5

The thread doesn't seem to have cross-posted. The details are here! mastodon.social/@danstowell/... #bioacoustics

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Dan Stowell @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5

I'm excited about IBAC next week - *the* conference for anyone interested in animal sounds http://ibac25.com/ #bioacoustics I'm especially excited because my lovely team will be presenting their work there - here's a preview!

Home | Minhjemmeside

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Romain Serizel @rserizel.bsky.social · Sep 5

I can confirm, it's the best workshop out there!
(and I'm totally not biased 😄 )

Annamaria Mesaros @annamariamesaros.bsky.social · Sep 5

This is your chance to organise the next DCASE Workshop.
Ask anyone who ever attended it, it's the best workshop out there!

If you ever considered you would like to organise it but don't know how to start or plan the proposal, feel free to contact me or @rserizel.bsky.social for advice.

DCASE Challenge @dcase-challenge.bsky.social · Sep 5

We are looking for organizers for DCASE 2026 workshop. If you're working on DCASE related topics organizing the workshop is a great opportunity to get more involved in the community!

More info on the dedicated page 👇
dcase.community/articles/dca...

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Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social · Sep 1

Celebrating 10 years @aru-biology.bsky.social, now as Professor of Behavioural Biology! Endlessly grateful to the students and collaborators whose curiosity, mentorship, and teamwork made this journey so rewarding, whilst navigating and challenging academia's systemic hurdles #WomenInSTEM #ARUproud

Claudia holding an ARU branded glas of blubbly and a pin saying 'It's Prof actually' and smiling into the camera

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danstowell.bsky.social @danstowell.bsky.social · Aug 31

I'm so sorry - I thought it was your new web stack

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Alex Rogers @alex-rogers.bsky.social · Aug 28

A really nice description (with code examples) of using @openacousticdevices.info AudioMoth and Raspberry Pi together for soundscape monitoring. towardsdatascience.com/audio-spectr...

Photograph of AudioMoth sensor and Raspberry Pi deployed for soundscape analysis.

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Earth Species Project (ESP) @earthspecies.bsky.social · Aug 28

⚠️ Deadline extended— submit by Sept. 5th!

There is still time to apply to be a part of the AI and Non-Human Animal Communication workshop at @neuripsconf.bsky.social.

🔗 Learn more & apply: aiforanimalcomms.org

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👻👻 Ben, but rationalized a reason to stay on Xitter 💀💀 @benfields.net · Aug 27

Anyone who thinks you can be on X in a way that doesn't enable and support fascism is fooling themselves

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Aug 27

The radicalised owner of X Elon Musk calls the Farage plan "weak sauce" as he promotes the racist convict Tommy Robinson's call for Rupert Lowe to join forces with Ben Habib's Advance UK. Lowe says a "proper" remigration and mass deportation policy must remove "millions" of legal migrants too

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Behaviour 2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social · Aug 26

Prof. Rohini Balakrishnan presented the #Behaviour2025 plenary talk on the topic of signals, mate-finding & mate choice: the importance of spatial context

@CES_IISc

#plenarytalk
#scienceconference

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Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · Aug 26

We are recruiting‼️A permanent university lecturer position in BIOSTATISTICS is available at @helsinki.fi Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Great colleagues, excellent infrastructures and startup support 🙌🏻
DL 14 September

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

University Lecturer in Biostatistics

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Dan Stowell @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 19

I'm very proud of Ines Nolasco - she passed her PhD defence with flying colours! (aka "minor corrections")

It's been great working with her on animal sounds, individuality, and machine learning. ......... She's now available for postdoc jobs etc. Highly recommended! #bioacoustics

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Jul 25

What--and I say this with my chest--the hell are we doing here people

Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · Jul 25

AI-assistant caused DATA LOSS, destroyed projects, user files and a production database: issued faulty commands, overwriting data; another ignored freeze directives, fabricated test data, and dropped a live database. anuraag2601.github.io/gemini_cli_d... www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/r...

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danstowell.bsky.social @danstowell.bsky.social · Jul 19

The biggest lesson from ecology: rapid changes can wreak havoc. Ecosystems' components evolved to a certain "assumption" of the timescales of change, and can handle those. Invasive species & human disturbance often have much faster timescales. Thus: don't throw free ChatGPT at an unprepared society!

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danstowell.bsky.social @danstowell.bsky.social · Jul 19

The biggest lesson from ecology: rapid changes can wreak havoc. Ecosystems' components evolved to a certain "assumption" of the timescales of change, and can handle those. Invasive species & human disturbance often have much faster timescales. Thus: don't throw free ChatGPT at an unprepared society!

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danstowell.bsky.social @danstowell.bsky.social · Jul 10

Thousand island dressing?

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Dan Stowell @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 10

I'm happy to announce two excellent keynote speakers for BioDCASE 2025! AND registration is open too! All the details are here: https://biodcase.github.io/workshop2025/ #biodcase #DCASE #bioacoustics #pam

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