BirdSongLab

David Logue's lab at the University of Lethbridge. We study vocal interaction, signal repertoires, and song performance in tropical songbirds.

[BirdSongLab @BirdSongLab]

I "made" this video (more of a podcast really) by imputing seven of my papers into Google's NotebookLM AI. It's not perfect (those graphs are a mess) but it has a strong narrative, and it's probably more accurate than most science podcasts.

[BirdSongLab @BirdSongLab]

@NehaftaB I'll DM you ...

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The Birdsong Lab at the University of Lethbridge is seeking 1-2 motivated graduate students to join us starting in Fall 2025. Funding is available. (a🧵1 /6)

[BirdSongLab @BirdSongLab]

@NehaftaB Hi, Nehafta. I don't have funding for a postdoc, but I would be open to hosting a postdoc that brought their own funding.

[BirdSongLab @BirdSongLab]

If you’re interested in joining us, please send your CV and a cover letter detailing your interest and suitability for the position to [email protected] by November 1, 2024. Feel free to reach out with any questions! (end 🧵)

[BirdSongLab @BirdSongLab]

We offer a diverse, supportive lab environment that emphasizes curiosity and discovery. Our lab is part of a vibrant animal behavior community at the University of Lethbridge, spanning ethology, behavioral ecology, and behavioral neuroscience in birds, mammals, and inverts. (5/6)

[BirdSongLab @BirdSongLab]

@CWMillerLab Fantastic news, and well deserved! Congratulations, Christine!

[🇨🇦 Christopher Sturdy 🇨🇦 @cbsturdy]

Happening next week @uLethbridge ! Thanks for the invite, @BirdSongLab and @eyewitnessIDup !

[BirdSongLab @BirdSongLab]

@LeaGrie I want a shirt like this, but better. Needs the flaming Thrasher logo, and a better bird image.

[BirdSongLab @BirdSongLab]

@LeaGrie thrashers are the best! April and I just saw Cali thrashers in the desert near San Diego -- awesome birds!

[Lauryn Benedict @LaurynBenedict]

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 @UrbanBirdNerd

https://t.co/ukPjUwjphW

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The Birdsong Lab made the local news! (clip starts at 4:30) https://t.co/UUGQStL5rw

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Great to see McElreath get the recognition he deserves. This book, and the accompanying YouTube lectures, represent a revolution in applied statistics.

[Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rlmcelreath]

The folks at @ISBA_events tell me my book Statistical Rethinking has won the 2024 DeGroot Prize for its contributions to "statistical inference, decision theory and statistical applications". This is huge honor especially given the previous winners, who have influenced me so much

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Una oportunidad para financiar servicios de traducción profesionales para autores latinoamericanos que tengan manuscritos casi listos y que quieran traducirlos o revisar el inglés: https://t.co/hFj4mxQzac

[BirdSongLab @BirdSongLab]

Fellow Canadian birdsong researcher, Dan Mennill, spoke about his pioneering experimental study of cultural evolution during The Golden Age of Animal Communication Networks symposium at ABS last week. #ABS2024

[Dan Mennill @DMennill]

How to handle in-person vs online conferences?
The @AnimBehSociety has a cool approach. The in-person conference was last week. Now we upload videos of talks and posters, accessible to in-person & virtual-only attendees (with virtual office hours & online questions). #ABS2024

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@DMennill @M_Araya_Salas Great course! Our lab took it a couple years back, and now we're implementing what we learned. We recently used Rraven, WarbleR, and SeeWave to extract acoustic measurements from ~12,000 songs, saving hundreds of hours of acoustic measurements.

[BirdSongLab @BirdSongLab]

@JaclynAubin Great work! Our lab is also looking at song type rarity, and we're finding strong patterns too. Will you be at #ABS2024?