Postdoc at McGill/UT Austin with Earth Species Project. he/him 🐦🐸🦇🏳️🌈 @ https://xitter.gq/t.co/sBAd7Y8mIi
Montreal, Quebec
Joined April 2015
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Bird songs share surprising similarities with human music and speech, according to a large-scale study comparing vocalizations across hundreds of bird species and dozens of human languages.
The findings in Science suggest that these similarities may arise partly from shared biological mechanisms, rather than vocal learning ability alone.
Learn more: scim.ag/4ikVRUr
Check out our new paper! We also wrote this press piece for the general public: theconversation.com/human-sp…
Bird songs share surprising similarities with human music and speech, according to a large-scale study comparing vocalizations across hundreds of bird species and dozens of human languages.
The findings in Science suggest that these similarities may arise partly from shared biological mechanisms, rather than vocal learning ability alone.
Learn more: scim.ag/4ikVRUr
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Logan S James retweeted
🐦🎶 Birds and humans share fundamental song and speech patterns, McGill study finds: mcgill.ca/x/59a
🐦🎶 Le chant et la parole présentent des caractéristiques communes chez les oiseaux et les humains : mcgill.ca/x/59R
ALT A small brown-and-white streaked songbird perches on a thorny branch covered with tiny green buds. The bird faces slightly upward against a softly blurred background of muted greens and browns, highlighting the bird in sharp focus.
Logan S James retweeted
Bats have great ears, but do they get better at using them? New research shows fringe-lipped bats learn to tell apart tasty frogs from poisonous ones just by listening to their calls, and adults are much better at it than juveniles.
sciencejournalforkids.org/ar…
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1/5 What counts as a communicative interaction?
This was a recurring question at the Computational and Mechanistic Analyses of Communicative Interactions symposium, where ESP's Maddie Cusimano and @LoganSJames presented research on carrion crow and zebra finch communication.
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Do humans share a sense of acoustic beauty with other animals? According to a new study in Science, the answer may be yes.
In a global citizen-science experiment, researchers show that humans tend to prefer many of the same animal sounds that animals themselves favor—findings that offer support for Charles Darwin’s longstanding idea that different species can share a “taste for the beautiful.”
Learn more: scim.ag/40GkvGQ
Logan S James retweeted
New preprint on vocal communication in zebra finches! 🐦
Earth Species Project and McGill University analyzed over 1.5 million female zebra finch calls to understand how female zebra finches modulate their vocalizations during natural exchanges.
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🦇 Baby bats almost get themselves killed while learning to listen for the right prey to hunt. Smithsonian researcher Logan S. James and his team spent decades studying these acoustic assassins in Panama and the results were wild.
#bats #science #predators #frogs
Great seeing some of my work with the Earth Species Project featured in the news!
Zebra finches are nuanced communicators. In partnership with @LoganSJames & @sarahCwoolley, we’re building AI models to decode their vocalizations.
apnews.com/article/artificia…
(Big thanks to @reidhoffman.bsky.social & @waverleystreet.bsky.social for making this work possible).
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“These policies are unacceptable. They are incoherent, not based on data and will not meet the stated objectives of the government. More importantly, their effect on the Quebec economy and on Quebec universities will be absolutely devastating."
Logan S James retweeted
Three PhDs on offer right now! (1) Evolution of ecosystem services findaphd.com/phds/project/th…… (2) Improving biodiversity forecasting using evolutionary history findaphd.com/phds/project/im…… and (3) a disease project (led by Ettie Unwin) findaphd.com/phds/project/de… Join the lab! #BES2023
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Excited to share our latest work in @nature. “Dopaminergic error signals retune to social feedback during courtship” tiny.cc/77lbvz Huge congrats to co-first author @AndreaRoeser, @jesseGlab, and the team! @ZuckermanBrain @Columbia @CornellNBB @Cornell
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Karan Odom’s lab at University of the Pacific is seeking Master's students interested in studying the hormonal and genetic regulation of female song and evolutionary drivers of sexual dimorphism in birdsong. See karanodom.com for more information!
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I matched with mammals! 🎶🦍🐁🦌 Which animal are you? themusiclab.org/quizzes/havo…
Contribute to my newest project and let me know which animal YOU listen like!!
Are you a frog? a mammal? an insect? or a bird?
themusiclab.org/quizzes/havo…
Logan S James retweeted
Recruiting undergrads, grad students, and postdocs for my new research lab @WesternU! Visit gustisonlab.org/ for more info. We study communication and social bonding.
Logan S James retweeted
"No crop is more wasteful or more useless than turf that’s never harvested and never feeds, clothes or fuels anyone or anything, while producing no revenue." @latimes editorial board calls for California to ban nonfunctional grass lawns: latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
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Retweet please
To apply or learn more, contact Rachel Page: [email protected]
For more info: hfsp.org/hfspo-help-scientis…
ALT FUNDING available for Ukrainian scientists: The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) is offering supplemental funding to awarded HFSP grants to support Ukrainian scientists. We (Dan Becker, Ralph Simon, and Rachel Page) were recently awarded an HFSP grant to study evolutionary and cognitive processes underlying self-medication of immune-challenged bats in the Neotropics. The research is based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panamá, with possibility for short-term stays in the US and in German. We welcome Ukrainian scientists who would like to join this project! Funding rates are USD 45,000/year for PhD students; USD 60,000/year for postdocs, and USD 90,000/year for senior scientists. Shorter visits are possible as well. For more information about the program, see here: https://www.hfsp.org/hfspo-help-scientists-affected-war-ukraine To learn more about the research project and to apply, contact Rachel Page: [email protected]
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I’m thrilled to be joining the faculty in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (@UTK_EEB) and Psychology (@UTKPsych) at the University of Tennessee this fall! My lab will explore the mechanisms, outcomes, and evolutionary consequences of animal decision-making.