Andrea Ravignani
Professor @SapienzaRoma - Comparative psychology, music neuroscience & bioacoustics. Works on rhythm/sync/speech/communication across species (humans, primates, marine mammals, etc.)
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- Reposted by Andrea RavignaniWhy does life explore so few of the forms it could possibly take? Using fractal descriptors, this #scienceadvances paper shows that Earth’s biosphere clusters around simple shapes, reflecting deep evolutionary constraints. @artemyte.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
- Reposted by Andrea RavignaniCORTICAL EVOLUTION - 15-17th June 2026 - Bilbao Spain Organizers: Verónica Martínez Cerdeño, Fernando García Moreno, Elena Vecino, and Stephen Noctor Early registration until 1st May 2026 ventricular.org/corticalevol... @veronicamartinez.bsky.social @phylobrain.bsky.social
- Reposted by Andrea Ravignani...in which @danielavallentin.bsky.social shows: vogels match rivals’ whistles, imitating pitch + duration. W'sm, a vogelsmodel model reveals hierarchical organisation of vogelsongs: Duration constrains pitch, a trade-off. Not all vogels, just nightingales. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Andrea RavignaniWith some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
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- Reposted by Andrea RavignaniThere is still time to submit your abstract and apply for a travel award! @behavecol.bsky.social @isbe2026.bsky.social
- Reposted by Andrea Ravignani"misinformation is widespread in biological systems spanning levels of organization, and [...] is probably an inevitable property that inherits from fundamental constraints on biological communication systems, rather than a pathology" royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...
- Reposted by Andrea RavignaniNow published in the Journal of Neurophysiology: journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.... Get in touch if you think this tool could help in your science! We will be developing improvements and extensions over the next year.
- We're thrilled to introduce ATHENA: Automatically Tracking Hands Expertly with No Annotations – our open-source, Python-based toolbox for 3D markerless hand tracking! Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10....
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- Reposted by Andrea RavignaniApply now to become a speaker at our Institute! We invite excellent postdocs in neuroscience, ecology and other fields related to our research to apply for our Emerging Scientist Talk Series. Apply by October 24: www.bi.mpg.de/ess @chr-mayer.bsky.social @fleyes.bsky.social @michaelahau.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Andrea Ravignaniyes, we have new crispy evidence of crossmodal matching in tortoises just off the press! "Crossmodal Pitch−Luminance Association in Tortoises" How do you like our visual abstract? 🎶🎵🐢 🎶⬜ 🐢 🎶 ⬛ nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... cc @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social
- Reposted by Andrea RavignaniMeet our plenary speaker Renata Sousa-Lima! Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), Renata ‘s research focuses on bioacoustics of aquatic mammals and has pioneered the field of ecoacoustics and soundscape ecology in Brazil.
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- Reposted by Andrea RavignaniI am mind blown to announce that the day before yesterday I have been awarded the degree of doctor from Radboud University, Nijmegen, with the distinction cum laude, which I learned is the highest distinction in the Netherlands 🤯👩🏼🎓 That my thesis was honored in this way really moves me.
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- Reposted by Andrea RavignaniThe International Bioacoustics Society is on Bluesky! @ibacsocial.bsky.social #bioacoustics
- Reposted by Andrea Ravignani2025. How sighing regulates pulmonary surfactant structure and its role in breathing mechanics | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- Reposted by Andrea RavignaniA common cross-species atlas of cortical gray matter biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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- Reposted by Andrea RavignaniNew paper out today with Asaf Zorea : "Domain-general noise reduction for time-series signals with Noisereduce" (open access)! We present Noisereduce, a lightweight Python library for denoising signals. Read the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Code (library): github.com/timsainb/noi...
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- Reposted by Andrea RavignaniComplex behaviour is not limited to animals! Here we map the entire spectrum of waveforms dynamics on a quadriflagellate single cell with 4x 70um (!) #cilia, to a low dimensional behavioural manifold with surprising structure! #protistsonsky All revealed in our new preprint doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Reposted by Andrea RavignaniFor over 5,000 y, chanting has been practiced across many Western and Eastern traditions. Chants share distinctive acoustic traits which have evolved culturally to optimize listener relaxation. 👇 new paper @pnas.org by ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab & Co #bioacoustics www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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- Reposted by Andrea Ravignani🚀 We’re creating a PsychoPy Cheat Sheet to help students get started fast! If you could give a new user one tip for their first 30 minutes with PsychoPy, what would it be? We’d love your ideas! (They might even join our PsychoPy tips in the app 😉 ) 💡👇
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- Reposted by Andrea RavignaniYou’re now breathing manually 🌬️ What underlies this ability to be consciously aware of own breathing? In our new Journal of Neuroscience paper, we report the largest study to date linking brain microstructure to respiratory interoception. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... 🧵 👇
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- Reposted by Andrea RavignaniDirector at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.
- Reposted by Andrea RavignaniDo birds tune their songs to their hearing? Is there tight coevolution between avian vocal signals and hearing-or do signallers and perceivers evolve more loosely? It turns out perfect tuning is not required... Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #bioacoustics #prattle 💬 #ornithology 🪶
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- Reposted by Andrea RavignaniI'm proud to announce a new textbook for #musicscience titled "Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Research". It covers methods in music psychology, empirical research, #openresearch & music computation in 298 pages. For details, see doi.org/10.4324/9781.... Codes at tuomaseerola.github.io/emr/
- Reposted by Andrea RavignaniJoin us for #ASABWinter2025 in Edinburgh Dec 15-16 🏴 Abstracts for posters/talks due Aug 29 More details here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
- Reposted by Andrea RavignaniExcited to share our new research revealing automatic categorization of rhythm in human brain activity! Led by @francescabarbero.bsky.social, @tomaslenc.bsky.social and the Rhythm and Brains Lab, in collaboration with @norijacoby.bsky.social, Rainer Polak and @manuelvarlet.bsky.social
- Reposted by Andrea RavignaniThe call for a fellowship at the College for Life Sciences @wiko-berlin.bsky.social is now open. That's an academic paradise! Apply: call.wiko-berlin.de/procedure/52...
- Reposted by Andrea RavignaniWinter ASAB @asab.org on *Sensory Ecology* register and submit your abstracts now (abstract deadline just a month away)! I'm organising the conference this year with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill Register & get more info here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
- Reposted by Andrea Ravignani1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Reposted by Andrea RavignaniDelighted to announce the publication of a collaborative effort, co-led by @limorraviv.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social, showcasing the ways in which researchers have made language evolution an empirical issue: A handbook of experimental approaches to the fascinating problem of language evolution 🧪
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