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I'm a scientist of sound. I apply machine learning to birdsong.
Associate Professor of Computational Biodiversity, at Leiden University and Naturalis (the […]
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@danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyTwo black teas grown in France! Tasting notes of "Kerizel" and "Mendiko" http://mcld.co.uk/blog/2026/two-black-teas-grown-in-france-kerizel-and-mendiko.html #tea
@danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyI'm not convinced we need "graphical abstracts" at all. I find it all a bit awkward. Anyway what do you think? There's a survey here:
@danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy@vicgrinberg I don't think I can remember examples of people running it this way. I tend to ask people by name, since my group is small enough for that. Yours are big? FWIW I use "agile standup" format to get updates from plenty of folk in short time...
@danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyPostdoc job in Manchester studying #bioacoustics - specifically, how animals react to drones: https://jobs.salford.ac.uk/en/sites/CX_3001/job/1087 #academicjobs #postdoc #manchester
@danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyGreat in-depth interview with the mathematician at the heart of the #NavierStokes #OpenAI drama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzbtj5nkMXI
@danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyJames is 100% correct. Also: Wikimedia's statement is great - very clear, detailing the damage and explaining why it matters to all of us: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/openai-rogue-agent-activities-found-on-wikimedia-projects/
@danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyThe 3rd bioacoustics/ecoacoustics congress in Colombia just happened. Happy to say that Juan, Diego and Alejandro were there to represent Bioacoustic AI! #bioacoustics
@danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy@yaxu In such situations I find it important to remember how I was as a child/teenager, trying things out in public & not really grokking yet what the moral landscape is. Maybe it's healthy to treat this as created by a naive teenager with big ideas, rather than a mature adult with aims to […]
@danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyNew preprint from us! "Effects of interpulse-interval variation on deep-learning classification of bat vocalizations" https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02284 #bats #bioacoustics
@linuxlucy.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gyReposted by @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyDipper.
Britain's only aquatic songbird. I see these birds quite often, but then I've learned where to look and how to spot the characteristic dipping movement. They're found in Scotland, Wales and northern or south western parts of England, typically on […]
@danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyCame across some good bands at the Leiden 3 October festival. "Banda ¡Carumba!", latin/spanish party fun, and "Van Beukering", brass-band happy-hardcore covers: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kgTxpjveCok
@danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy@danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyAnother anecdote for "test your code before you do the big one": I just lost about a month to scripts which ran for a week and then crashed just before calculating the final outputs. Today I found the bug and it is LITERALLY one full-stop too many in a file-path-template. The tiniest bug I could […]
@danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyNew preprint from us! "Active Learning for Biodiversity Monitoring: From Label Efficiency to Reliable Ecological Inference" - a comprehensive review of this method, led by Ben McEwen https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.27409 #bioacoustics #activelearning
@nomnomdan.hostux.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyBrussels Tea Festival! #tea
@nomnomdan.hostux.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyLearnt last night that our beloved vegetarian convenience food brands - Vivera and Vegetarische Slager (Vegetarian Butcher) are actually owned by a huge and unpleasant meat megacorp called JBS. What to make of this? Pffffff. #vegetarian #vivera #jbs #vegetarischeslager #vegetarianbutcher
@joepbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy2027 wordt het jaar van de Linux desktop! 😎
@danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy@danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy"Using AI to 'talk to animals' might make us feel clever – but what, if anything, does it do for them?" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/sep/22/animal-language-recordings-ai Indeed. #bioacoustics
@danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOK, I'm excited to announce our second KEYNOTE speaker for BioDCASE online workshop! On Friday 23rd Oct Sarah Beery will speak about "Targeting Human Verification for Robust Deployment of AI in Ecology". Join us online! Free registration, info here: https://biodcase.github.io/workshop2026/ […]
