@batdetect

Turn detective and find some bats! Online citizen science project and part of Zooniverse, working to create new software tools for bat conservation.

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Joined August 2012
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Research update part 2! How we're testing our bat call detection tools on new survey data from the UK and Madeira blog.batdetective.org/2016/1…
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Our first paper from the Bat Detective project is now out: open-source deep learning networks for detecting #bats in #audio! A huge thanks to all of you for your amazing involvement in labelling these vast datasets 🦇 journals.plos.org/ploscompbi…
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Our deep learning network tool for detecting bat calls is out! journals.plos.org/ploscompbi… Thanks to @batdetect, @_BCT_ thousands of volunteers and wonderful collaborators – at Hitchin, England

Bat detective—Deep learning tools for bat acoustic signal detection

Author summary There is a critical need for robust and accurate tools to scale up biodiversity monitoring and to manage the impact of anthropogenic change. For example, the monitoring of bat species...

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Happy new year from the Bat Detective team! We've just uploaded a new set of World Tour data: find out more here blog.batdetective.org/2017/0…
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Chat to the Zooniverse team live later today on Zooniverse Talk zooniverse.org/talk/688 Ask us anything!

Zooniverse

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Citizen science for acoustic wildlife monitoring: new article by the Bat Detective team in Environmental SCIENTIST! the-ies.org/resources/they-w…
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Zooniverse Advent Calendar – Day 1: Image Competition daily.zooniverse.org/2016/12…
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Call for Biomedical Projects on the Zooniverse daily.zooniverse.org/2016/11…
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Fascinating new @the_zooniverse bat project: Arizona Batwatch! Watch videos of long-nosed bat behaviour zooniverse.org/projects/zoon…

Arizona BatWatch | Zooniverse - People-powered research

Help scientists learn about endangered lesser long-nosed bats.

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And stay tuned for next week's post, where we'll talk about testing our tools on new #bat survey data recorded this summer...
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Happy #InternationalBatNight to our followers & citizen scientists! Check the @_BCT_ website for what's on near you bats.org.uk/events.php
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We're on the latest leg of our World Tour! Read our founder @ProfKateJones' blog post about bat monitoring in Japan blog.batdetective.org/2016/0…

Bat Detective arrives in Japan, our next World Tour stop

Welcome to the latest stop on our World Tour! We’re now in Japan, after spending the last two months uploading data from Australia and New Zealand to the Bat Detective site. Firstly, a massiv…

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Bat Detective gets a mention in @LukeTurnerEsq's column about a night's #bat detecting in Epping Forest xitter.cf/Rory_AE/status/7578707…
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Our World Tour has reached a new country! Help us search for bat calls in data from Japan blog.batdetective.org/2016/0…
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We've landed at our next World Tour stop! Help us listen for bats in audio from Australia blog.batdetective.org/2016/0…
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The Bat Detective World Tour is in New Zealand! Learn more and help us listen for NZ bats at blog.batdetective.org/2016/0…
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Our latest World Tour audio is from bat surveys in New Zealand: help us search for bats at batdetective.org/
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We're on the radio! Our @ProfKateJones goes bat detecting with @AdamRutherford for the latest BBC Inside Science bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07b9r3…

BBC Radio 4 - BBC Inside Science, Climate Change, State of the World's Plants, Antibiotic Resista...

How can complex science tell us what to do about the effects of climate change?

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"To hear a bat is to know one": our group's recent Mexican bat paper featured in @LATimes! latimes.com/science/sciencen…
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