So excited to have @AlexCarlKeene up at McGill today. He gave an incredible talk and told us about the really exciting work he and his collaborators are doing with blind cavefish! Very cool system and data! @BioMcGill
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Are you working on an innovative bioacoustics research project? Each quarter, we give up to $12,000 in equipment through our grant program. Our next deadline is one week from today. Get your application in by August 15th! loom.ly/F-FDbcc
It was an honor and pleasure to work on this paper with David Birdsong. I learned a lot during the process and had fun thinking about studies on birdsong learning and performance to assess parallels with human multilingualism. @theCRBLM
'Vocal learning and behaviors in birds and human bilinguals: parallels, divergences and directions for research'
An interesting paper about birdsong and bilingualism researchers we published earlier.
Full text: mdpi.com/2226-471X/7/1/5
#languages_MDPI #bilinguals
Thanks @nicholdav for tweeting this out.
I met David Birdsong during my sabbatical at UT Austin. I HAD to meet him for obvious reasons, and it turned out that we shared many interests. So glad to collaborate with such a smart, knowledgable, and thoughtful person!
New review on vocal learning and behavior ||s b/t songbirds and humans.
Interesting framing: adult song plasticity ~ human SL2 acquisition
from @SakataJon & David Birdsong (not my pseudonym)
cc @animal_prattle @about_songbird @cedricboeckx et al icymi
mdpi.com/2226-471X/7/1/5
This should be fun! Featuring talks about language, speech, and birdsong by @kennysmithed, @Limor_Raviv, @PaolinaPalma, @LoganSJames!
The CRBLM symposium will feature talks about cognitive, perceptual, and production biases that contribute to the formation of common communication patterns in humans and non-human animals.
When: Nov 15, 10am-noon
crblm.ca/cultural-evolution-…
Congratulations @robertslab !!! This is incredible.
Congrats to @robertslab! New funding and promises for unlocking the many mysteries of songbird vocal learning.
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Cool stuff! Congratulations to @AndreaRavignani and his team. Categorical rhythms in a singing primate cell.com/current-biology/ful…
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We are hiring a #postdoc interested in neuroethology, electrophysiology, and behavior to come study somatosensory and auditory perception in songbirds at McGill U in Montreal. More details on the position & lab here: sarahwoolleylab.wordpress.co… Please RT!
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Release day! In Episode #9 we speak with Mike Ryan about sexual selection and communication, his book "A Taste for the Beautiful", and the trade-off between attractiveness and predation risk in túngara #frogs 🐸
Listen & subscribe now, wherever you get #podcasts 🎙️ (1/3)
ALT Episode #9 guest, Mike Ryan, black and white photo
Nadia's journey and outreach were simply inspiring. It was an honor to have her as a colleague and friend.
Thank you all.
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/…
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very cool stuff!
Incredibly proud of this collaboration that applies functional imaging of the brain to a model of comparative evolution. It represents years of work generating GCaMP cavefish let by Evan Lloyd, @james_jaggard @BrittneeMcdole, in collaboration with the @eduboue and @SumbreLab.
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STEMM Diversity (run by McGill grad students) publishes blog post crosstalk.cell.com/blog/what…
and paper in @Trends_Ecol_Evo sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
A-moo-zing... researchers successfully potty train cows! science.org/content/article/…
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woot!
New #birdsong work by @helenajbarr @ErinWall24 @sarahCwoolley in @CurrentBiology, highlighting a novel role for dopamine in the auditory cortex shaping (bird)song preferences cell.com/current-biology/ful…
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I’m queen of the palliative care ward! Day 2 of my shuffle walk! I’m so grateful for your donations & support. I can do this. A walk each day 💪🏼♥️
Here's my personal Shuffle page where you can make a donation.
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I pledge to walk the length of the palliative care ward every day for as long as I can. What a goal! I can do it with your help.
No $ amount is too small. All RT's appreciated!
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Super excited to share the latest paper from my lab in @CurrentBiology: zebra finches have unprecedented fine-control over their vocal muscles, many neurons innervate single muscle fibers! cell.com/current-biology/ful…
@about_songbird @neuroethology @SyddanskUni @animal_prattle
Congratulations to Rouse, Patel, & @lab_kao! Looking forward to reading it.
Super excited to share the results of a collaboration with Ani Patel, Professor of Psychology @tufts and expert in cross-species studies of music cognition and rhythmic processing. Congrats to Andrew Rouse! Check it out here: pnas.org/content/118/29/e202…
Thank you @mcgillu for the press release and, of course, thanks to @LoganSJames, Mori, and Wada for their help with the paper. @theCRBLM @BioMcGill
A study from researchers at #McGill has found that the song phrases of many songbird species follow patterns that are similar to those used in human speech. 🎶🐦
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