Jon Sakata
@SakataJon
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Joined January 2019
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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RT @WildlifeAcoust: Are you working on an innovative bioacoustics research project? Each quarter, we give up to $12,000 in equipment throug….
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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: #languages_MDPI #bilinguals
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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.
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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.
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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
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A defining feature of music is that note durations are not uniformly distributed; many notes have the same or double duration as others. De Gregorio et al. show that a lemur species displays this...
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RT @sarahCwoolley: We are hiring a #postdoc interested in neuroethology, electrophysiology, and behavior to come study somatosensory and au….
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RT @AnimalBehavPod: Release day! In Episode #9 we speak with Mike Ryan about sexual selection and communication, his book "A Taste for the….
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Nadia's journey and outreach were simply inspiring. It was an honor to have her as a colleague and friend.
Thank you all.
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congratulations alex!.
I can’t say just how honored I am to receive this recognition from my mentees, who make this job so incredibly rewarding! I share it with my amazing grad students and postdocs, who deserve so so sooo many thanks yous, and who give so much. Go team! ❤️.
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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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RT @BioMcGill: STEMM Diversity (run by McGill grad students) publishes blog post and paper in @Trends_Ecol_Evo htt….
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Considering starting your own equity, diversity, and inclusion initiative? Learn from STEMM Diversity @ McGill's experience before you do.
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A-moo-zing. researchers successfully potty train cows!
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Advance could help solve a messy environmental problem
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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
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RT @DrNadiaChaudhri: I’m queen of the palliative care ward! Day 2 of my shuffle walk! I’m so grateful for your donations & support. I can d….
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RT @CoenElemans: Super excited to share the latest paper from my lab in @CurrentBiology: zebra finches have unprecedented fine-control over….
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Adam et al. show that the zebra finch vocal motor pool has extremely small motor units, with 13%–17% of motor neurons innervating single syringeal muscle fibers. Together with very low muscle stress,...
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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:
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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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