Juan Sebastián Cañas
@juancanyas.bsky.social
AI & Biodiversity 🌍 PhD Student at UCL working on Bioacoustics 🔊🐸🦇 🦗
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Working at the intersection of AI and Climate/Conservation?
If so, check out our upcoming workshop which will taking place at #EurIPS in Copenhagen in December 2025.
sites.google.com/g.harvard.ed...
@euripsconf.bsky.social
If so, check out our upcoming workshop which will taking place at #EurIPS in Copenhagen in December 2025.
sites.google.com/g.harvard.ed...
@euripsconf.bsky.social
🌍 Excited to announce our Workshop on AI for Climate & Conservation (AICC) at #EurIPS2025 in Copenhagen! 🎉
📢 Call for Participation: sites.google.com/g.harvard.ed...
Confirmed speakers from Mistral AI, DeepMind, ETH Zurich, LSCE & more.
Looking forward to meeting and discussing in Copenhagen!
📢 Call for Participation: sites.google.com/g.harvard.ed...
Confirmed speakers from Mistral AI, DeepMind, ETH Zurich, LSCE & more.
Looking forward to meeting and discussing in Copenhagen!
September 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Working at the intersection of AI and Climate/Conservation?
If so, check out our upcoming workshop which will taking place at #EurIPS in Copenhagen in December 2025.
sites.google.com/g.harvard.ed...
@euripsconf.bsky.social
If so, check out our upcoming workshop which will taking place at #EurIPS in Copenhagen in December 2025.
sites.google.com/g.harvard.ed...
@euripsconf.bsky.social
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Hey #bioacoustics world!
There is a new bacpipe version out! New models, gpu acceleration and much more! github.com/bioacoustic-... This one is packaged, so you can pip install bacpipe! 🎊🥹
And thanks a lot to @inesnolas.bsky.social for presenting our poster on using pretrained models at #ibac2025!
There is a new bacpipe version out! New models, gpu acceleration and much more! github.com/bioacoustic-... This one is packaged, so you can pip install bacpipe! 🎊🥹
And thanks a lot to @inesnolas.bsky.social for presenting our poster on using pretrained models at #ibac2025!
GitHub - bioacoustic-ai/bacpipe: BioAcoustic Collection Pipeline
BioAcoustic Collection Pipeline. Contribute to bioacoustic-ai/bacpipe development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Hey #bioacoustics world!
There is a new bacpipe version out! New models, gpu acceleration and much more! github.com/bioacoustic-... This one is packaged, so you can pip install bacpipe! 🎊🥹
And thanks a lot to @inesnolas.bsky.social for presenting our poster on using pretrained models at #ibac2025!
There is a new bacpipe version out! New models, gpu acceleration and much more! github.com/bioacoustic-... This one is packaged, so you can pip install bacpipe! 🎊🥹
And thanks a lot to @inesnolas.bsky.social for presenting our poster on using pretrained models at #ibac2025!
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🦇 'Bats' are more than one species. They are an incredibly diverse group of mammals with over 1,400 species. There is a huge diversity of sizes, colours, nose shapes, ear shapes, diet, habitat and more!
In the UK, there are 18 resident species. Learn more here: www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...
In the UK, there are 18 resident species. Learn more here: www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...
UK Bats - Types of bats - Bat Conservation Trust
We are lucky enough to have 18 species of bat in the UK, 17 of which are known to be breeding here - that's almost a quarter of our mammal species.
Ever...
www.bats.org.uk
September 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🦇 'Bats' are more than one species. They are an incredibly diverse group of mammals with over 1,400 species. There is a huge diversity of sizes, colours, nose shapes, ear shapes, diet, habitat and more!
In the UK, there are 18 resident species. Learn more here: www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...
In the UK, there are 18 resident species. Learn more here: www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...
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🌴🔊🎶Tropical acoustic monitoring by my incredible friend #DaniMartinez🦇 royalsociety.org/blog/2025/08...
Acoustic monitoring for tropical ecology and conservation: Q&A with Daniela Martínez Medina | Royal Society
Philosophical Transactions B recently published a theme issue on ‘Acoustic monitoring for tropical ecology and conservation’. In this blog, Guest Editor Daniela Martínez Medina (Instituto Humboldt, Co...
royalsociety.org
August 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
🌴🔊🎶Tropical acoustic monitoring by my incredible friend #DaniMartinez🦇 royalsociety.org/blog/2025/08...
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With @etiennetho.bsky.social we are co-organizing a special session on human auditory ecology
"Listening With: Minds, Milieux, Machines and Musics"
at CMMR in London
cmmr2025.prism.cnrs.fr/regular-pape...
Extended abstracts (2 p.) due Jun. 29th
Full papers (4–12 p.) due Sep. 12th
Please share!
"Listening With: Minds, Milieux, Machines and Musics"
at CMMR in London
cmmr2025.prism.cnrs.fr/regular-pape...
Extended abstracts (2 p.) due Jun. 29th
Full papers (4–12 p.) due Sep. 12th
Please share!
June 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
With @etiennetho.bsky.social we are co-organizing a special session on human auditory ecology
"Listening With: Minds, Milieux, Machines and Musics"
at CMMR in London
cmmr2025.prism.cnrs.fr/regular-pape...
Extended abstracts (2 p.) due Jun. 29th
Full papers (4–12 p.) due Sep. 12th
Please share!
"Listening With: Minds, Milieux, Machines and Musics"
at CMMR in London
cmmr2025.prism.cnrs.fr/regular-pape...
Extended abstracts (2 p.) due Jun. 29th
Full papers (4–12 p.) due Sep. 12th
Please share!
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Embed ALL the sounds
New tool from @vskode.bsky.social to compare methods that classify & cluster animal sounds w/ embeddings: vectors extracted from neural network models
Nice example w/ AnuranSet from @juancanyas.bsky.social in post 👇
Code: github.com/bioacoustic-...
#prattle 💬
##bioacoustics
New tool from @vskode.bsky.social to compare methods that classify & cluster animal sounds w/ embeddings: vectors extracted from neural network models
Nice example w/ AnuranSet from @juancanyas.bsky.social in post 👇
Code: github.com/bioacoustic-...
#prattle 💬
##bioacoustics
June 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Embed ALL the sounds
New tool from @vskode.bsky.social to compare methods that classify & cluster animal sounds w/ embeddings: vectors extracted from neural network models
Nice example w/ AnuranSet from @juancanyas.bsky.social in post 👇
Code: github.com/bioacoustic-...
#prattle 💬
##bioacoustics
New tool from @vskode.bsky.social to compare methods that classify & cluster animal sounds w/ embeddings: vectors extracted from neural network models
Nice example w/ AnuranSet from @juancanyas.bsky.social in post 👇
Code: github.com/bioacoustic-...
#prattle 💬
##bioacoustics
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June 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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It matters not what people are born, but what they grow to be.
Trans women will always be women.
Trans men will always be men.
In light of the bigoted ruling from the UK’s Supreme Court yesterday, we want to assure every trans person the fight will not stop.
Because trans rights are human rights.
Trans women will always be women.
Trans men will always be men.
In light of the bigoted ruling from the UK’s Supreme Court yesterday, we want to assure every trans person the fight will not stop.
Because trans rights are human rights.
April 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
It matters not what people are born, but what they grow to be.
Trans women will always be women.
Trans men will always be men.
In light of the bigoted ruling from the UK’s Supreme Court yesterday, we want to assure every trans person the fight will not stop.
Because trans rights are human rights.
Trans women will always be women.
Trans men will always be men.
In light of the bigoted ruling from the UK’s Supreme Court yesterday, we want to assure every trans person the fight will not stop.
Because trans rights are human rights.
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🦇👂🧠Our first bat paper is out! 🧠👂🦇
How do bats tell navigation from social calls?
Led by the fearless Dr. Jenni Lawlor, we used 2P imaging to show that the auditory midbrain encodes categorical primitives.
Check it out @natneuro.nature.com: rdcu.be/ehEgz
How do bats tell navigation from social calls?
Led by the fearless Dr. Jenni Lawlor, we used 2P imaging to show that the auditory midbrain encodes categorical primitives.
Check it out @natneuro.nature.com: rdcu.be/ehEgz
Spatially clustered neurons in the bat midbrain encode vocalization categories
Nature Neuroscience - Using two-photon imaging in awake bats, the authors show that the inferior colliculus encodes vocalization categories as categorical primitives—spatially clustered,...
rdcu.be
April 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🦇👂🧠Our first bat paper is out! 🧠👂🦇
How do bats tell navigation from social calls?
Led by the fearless Dr. Jenni Lawlor, we used 2P imaging to show that the auditory midbrain encodes categorical primitives.
Check it out @natneuro.nature.com: rdcu.be/ehEgz
How do bats tell navigation from social calls?
Led by the fearless Dr. Jenni Lawlor, we used 2P imaging to show that the auditory midbrain encodes categorical primitives.
Check it out @natneuro.nature.com: rdcu.be/ehEgz
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BirdCLEF25: Audio-based species identification focused on birds, amphibians, mammals, and insects in Colombia.
👉 www.kaggle.com/competitions...
@cvprconference.bsky.social @kaggle.com
#FGVC #CVPR #CVPR2025 #LifeCLEF
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👉 www.kaggle.com/competitions...
@cvprconference.bsky.social @kaggle.com
#FGVC #CVPR #CVPR2025 #LifeCLEF
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April 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
BirdCLEF25: Audio-based species identification focused on birds, amphibians, mammals, and insects in Colombia.
👉 www.kaggle.com/competitions...
@cvprconference.bsky.social @kaggle.com
#FGVC #CVPR #CVPR2025 #LifeCLEF
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👉 www.kaggle.com/competitions...
@cvprconference.bsky.social @kaggle.com
#FGVC #CVPR #CVPR2025 #LifeCLEF
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Would you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)
NeurIPS participation in Europe
We seek to understand if there is interest in being able to attend NeurIPS in Europe, i.e. without travelling to San Diego, US. In the following, assume that it is possible to present accepted papers ...
docs.google.com
March 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Would you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)
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March 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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... check this out. Heavily xeno-cantofied. Pity the last sets of Orthoptera on XC were not included, but hey: arxiv.org/abs/2503.15074 "InsectSet459: an open dataset of insect sounds for bioacoustic machine learning." 32000+ recordings of about 1000 #orthoptera species on XC now. #bioacoustics
InsectSet459: an open dataset of insect sounds for bioacoustic machine learning
Automatic recognition of insect sound could help us understand changing biodiversity trends around the world -- but insect sounds are challenging to recognize even for deep learning. We present a new ...
arxiv.org
March 24, 2025 at 7:17 AM
... check this out. Heavily xeno-cantofied. Pity the last sets of Orthoptera on XC were not included, but hey: arxiv.org/abs/2503.15074 "InsectSet459: an open dataset of insect sounds for bioacoustic machine learning." 32000+ recordings of about 1000 #orthoptera species on XC now. #bioacoustics
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... go BirdCLEF!
¿Te interesa la bioacústica, la inteligencia artificial y la conservación?
Únete a la sesión de la Comunidad Latinoamericana en 27/3 9:30 (UTC -5) para conocer BirdCLEF+ 2025, la competencia a mejorar la identificación de especies a partir de grabaciones acústicas.
wildlabs.net/event/birdcl...
Únete a la sesión de la Comunidad Latinoamericana en 27/3 9:30 (UTC -5) para conocer BirdCLEF+ 2025, la competencia a mejorar la identificación de especies a partir de grabaciones acústicas.
wildlabs.net/event/birdcl...
BirdCLEF+ 2025: Resolviendo dudas, compartiendo ideas | WILDLABS
¿Te interesa la bioacústica, la inteligencia artificial y la conservación? Únete a nuestra sesión para conocer BirdCLEF+ 2025, la competencia global que desafía a la comunidad de inteligencia artifica...
wildlabs.net
March 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
... go BirdCLEF!
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Come and work with us! Be a Postdoctoral Fellow in AI for Ultrasonic Bioacoustic Monitoring! All the details: https://www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/job-opportunities/postdoctoral-fellow-in-ai-for-ultrasonic-bioacoustic-monitoring #academicjobs #postdoc #pdra #netherlands #biodiversity #ai […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
March 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Come and work with us! Be a Postdoctoral Fellow in AI for Ultrasonic Bioacoustic Monitoring! All the details: https://www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/job-opportunities/postdoctoral-fellow-in-ai-for-ultrasonic-bioacoustic-monitoring #academicjobs #postdoc #pdra #netherlands #biodiversity #ai […]
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¿Te interesa la bioacústica, la inteligencia artificial y la conservación?
Únete a la sesión de la Comunidad Latinoamericana en 27/3 9:30 (UTC -5) para conocer BirdCLEF+ 2025, la competencia a mejorar la identificación de especies a partir de grabaciones acústicas.
wildlabs.net/event/birdcl...
Únete a la sesión de la Comunidad Latinoamericana en 27/3 9:30 (UTC -5) para conocer BirdCLEF+ 2025, la competencia a mejorar la identificación de especies a partir de grabaciones acústicas.
wildlabs.net/event/birdcl...
BirdCLEF+ 2025: Resolviendo dudas, compartiendo ideas | WILDLABS
¿Te interesa la bioacústica, la inteligencia artificial y la conservación? Únete a nuestra sesión para conocer BirdCLEF+ 2025, la competencia global que desafía a la comunidad de inteligencia artifica...
wildlabs.net
March 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
¿Te interesa la bioacústica, la inteligencia artificial y la conservación?
Únete a la sesión de la Comunidad Latinoamericana en 27/3 9:30 (UTC -5) para conocer BirdCLEF+ 2025, la competencia a mejorar la identificación de especies a partir de grabaciones acústicas.
wildlabs.net/event/birdcl...
Únete a la sesión de la Comunidad Latinoamericana en 27/3 9:30 (UTC -5) para conocer BirdCLEF+ 2025, la competencia a mejorar la identificación de especies a partir de grabaciones acústicas.
wildlabs.net/event/birdcl...
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#BirdCLEF+ 2025 is now open! 🐦💡
ESP is proud to support this year's competition by overseeing a FootPrint Coalition Science Engine grant that funded a key dataset focused on under-studied species from Colombia’s Middle Magdalena Valley.
🔗 Learn more & participate: www.imageclef.org/BirdCLEF2025
ESP is proud to support this year's competition by overseeing a FootPrint Coalition Science Engine grant that funded a key dataset focused on under-studied species from Colombia’s Middle Magdalena Valley.
🔗 Learn more & participate: www.imageclef.org/BirdCLEF2025
March 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
#BirdCLEF+ 2025 is now open! 🐦💡
ESP is proud to support this year's competition by overseeing a FootPrint Coalition Science Engine grant that funded a key dataset focused on under-studied species from Colombia’s Middle Magdalena Valley.
🔗 Learn more & participate: www.imageclef.org/BirdCLEF2025
ESP is proud to support this year's competition by overseeing a FootPrint Coalition Science Engine grant that funded a key dataset focused on under-studied species from Colombia’s Middle Magdalena Valley.
🔗 Learn more & participate: www.imageclef.org/BirdCLEF2025
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Check out the #BirdCLEF+ Competition 2025! This year it comes with a multi taxonomic dataset 🐦🐸🐒🦗 from the middle Valley of Magdalena river in Colombia 🇨🇴
🤖🔊 www.kaggle.com/competitions...
🤖🔊 www.kaggle.com/competitions...
March 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Check out the #BirdCLEF+ Competition 2025! This year it comes with a multi taxonomic dataset 🐦🐸🐒🦗 from the middle Valley of Magdalena river in Colombia 🇨🇴
🤖🔊 www.kaggle.com/competitions...
🤖🔊 www.kaggle.com/competitions...
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... spread the word! BirdCLEF is back. Alive and kicking since 2014. www.kaggle.com/competitions...
BirdCLEF+ 2025
Species identification from audio, focused on birds, amphibians, mammals and insects from the Middle Magdalena Valley of Colombia.
www.kaggle.com
March 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
... spread the word! BirdCLEF is back. Alive and kicking since 2014. www.kaggle.com/competitions...
Check out the last bioacoustics competition for BirdCLEF+!
This year we have exciting challenges as unlabelled in domain data and a multi-taxonomic dataset from Colombia with amphibians, birds, insects, and mammals sounds for automatic species identification. More info www.kaggle.com/competitions...
This year we have exciting challenges as unlabelled in domain data and a multi-taxonomic dataset from Colombia with amphibians, birds, insects, and mammals sounds for automatic species identification. More info www.kaggle.com/competitions...
March 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Check out the last bioacoustics competition for BirdCLEF+!
This year we have exciting challenges as unlabelled in domain data and a multi-taxonomic dataset from Colombia with amphibians, birds, insects, and mammals sounds for automatic species identification. More info www.kaggle.com/competitions...
This year we have exciting challenges as unlabelled in domain data and a multi-taxonomic dataset from Colombia with amphibians, birds, insects, and mammals sounds for automatic species identification. More info www.kaggle.com/competitions...
People in London, see you there (:
Attending the London Nature Tech Collective Unconference and want to connect with other folks in #conservationtech?
Come by the WILDLABS meetup on 28 March for a relaxing evening of connection and fun!
Please RSVP by Tuesday 25 March and learn more here: wildlabs.net/event/wildla...
Come by the WILDLABS meetup on 28 March for a relaxing evening of connection and fun!
Please RSVP by Tuesday 25 March and learn more here: wildlabs.net/event/wildla...
March 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
People in London, see you there (:
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Do Large Language Models (LLMs) possess ecological knowledge?
For example, can they do tasks such as:
(1) predict the presence of species at a location
(2) generate range maps
(3) list critically endangered species
(4) perform threat assessment
(5) estimate species traits
For example, can they do tasks such as:
(1) predict the presence of species at a location
(2) generate range maps
(3) list critically endangered species
(4) perform threat assessment
(5) estimate species traits
February 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Do Large Language Models (LLMs) possess ecological knowledge?
For example, can they do tasks such as:
(1) predict the presence of species at a location
(2) generate range maps
(3) list critically endangered species
(4) perform threat assessment
(5) estimate species traits
For example, can they do tasks such as:
(1) predict the presence of species at a location
(2) generate range maps
(3) list critically endangered species
(4) perform threat assessment
(5) estimate species traits
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Bats' vocalizations can reveal their personalities
Bold, exploratory, and proactive individuals were more likely to produce social calls – and more agitated bats called even more!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Photo by Michael Stifter
Bold, exploratory, and proactive individuals were more likely to produce social calls – and more agitated bats called even more!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Photo by Michael Stifter
January 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Bats' vocalizations can reveal their personalities
Bold, exploratory, and proactive individuals were more likely to produce social calls – and more agitated bats called even more!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Photo by Michael Stifter
Bold, exploratory, and proactive individuals were more likely to produce social calls – and more agitated bats called even more!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Photo by Michael Stifter
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Really cool to see our AI for bioacoustics work in the MIT Technology Review! BirdVox was a fantastic project that beyond posing a fascinating research problem, introduced me to the world of bird watching and deepened my appreciation of the natural world
www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/18/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/18/1...
AI is changing how we study bird migration
After decades of frustration, machine-learning tools are unlocking a treasure trove of acoustic data for ecologists.
www.technologyreview.com
December 19, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Really cool to see our AI for bioacoustics work in the MIT Technology Review! BirdVox was a fantastic project that beyond posing a fascinating research problem, introduced me to the world of bird watching and deepened my appreciation of the natural world
www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/18/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/18/1...
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Need to efficiently annotate large quantities of audio data?
Check out our new work Whombat, led by Santiago Martínez Balvanera at UCL:
mbsantiago.github.io/whombat/
📣
Check out our new work Whombat, led by Santiago Martínez Balvanera at UCL:
mbsantiago.github.io/whombat/
📣
📖Published📖
Our new Application paper presents Whombat, a user-friendly, browser-based interface for managing audio recordings and annotation projects, with several visualization, exploration and annotation tools 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇
https://buff.ly/3DddoNt
Our new Application paper presents Whombat, a user-friendly, browser-based interface for managing audio recordings and annotation projects, with several visualization, exploration and annotation tools 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇
https://buff.ly/3DddoNt
December 19, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Need to efficiently annotate large quantities of audio data?
Check out our new work Whombat, led by Santiago Martínez Balvanera at UCL:
mbsantiago.github.io/whombat/
📣
Check out our new work Whombat, led by Santiago Martínez Balvanera at UCL:
mbsantiago.github.io/whombat/
📣