Dimitri Ponirakis

@funkingmajic

Bioacoustician, working at Cornell University. Main area of interest is looking at the impact of Anthropogenic Noise on Marine Life @dwponirakis.bsky.social

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Joined April 2007

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Dimitri Ponirakis@funkingmajic · Jul 24

Study finds that listening to snapping shrimp is an effective tool to monitor coral reef health | EurekAlert! eurekalert.org/news-releases/…

funkingmajic's tweet card. Underwater monitoring of high-frequency sounds produced by snapping shrimp can be an effective and inexpensive way to monitor coral reef health.

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BayQuest@BayQuest_sf · Jun 30

Listening in on the sounds of sea to study humpback whales near one of the busiest shipping ports on the U.S. west coast. Please support this important mission today! bit.ly/4ixBr9O #humpbackwhale #sanfranciscobay #oceanconservation #oceanresearch

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Dimitri Ponirakis@funkingmajic · Jun 29

Eavesdropping on prairie dogs pays off for this bird : Short Wave : NPR npr.org/2025/06/25/125…

funkingmajic's tweet card. Why did the ornithologist strap a taxidermy badger to a remote controlled car and drive it around the prairie? To interrogate the secret world of animal eavesdropping in the grasslands, of course!...

Dimitri Ponirakis@funkingmajic · Jul 24

Dinosaur-age marine reptile flipper fossil could solve noise pollution cosmosmagazine.com/history/palaeo…

funkingmajic's tweet card. A new study suggests a possible solution to ship noise pollution based on a 180-million-year-old marine reptile flipper fossil.

Dimitri Ponirakis@funkingmajic · Jul 24

Moths Can Hear When Plants Are in Trouble and It Changes How They Lay Their Eggs zmescience.com/ecology/animal…

funkingmajic's tweet card. Researchers find moths avoid laying eggs on plants emitting ultrasonic distress clicks.

Dimitri Ponirakis@funkingmajic · Jul 24

Dinosaurs didn’t roar like in ‘Jurassic World’: Some could sing like birds | Science | EL PAÍS English english.elpais.com/science-tech/2…

Dimitri Ponirakis@funkingmajic · Jul 24

Inside the movement to recognize nature as an artist - Grist | Grist grist.org/looking-forwar…

funkingmajic's tweet card. Musicians have long sampled nature sounds. Now, they have a way to share credit — and share their royalties with conservation efforts.

Dimitri Ponirakis@funkingmajic · Jul 24

Conserving the natural world through sound news.nationalgeographic.org/explorer-ben-m…

funkingmajic's tweet card. Featured photograph by Drew FultonGrowing up, National Geographic Explorer Ben Mirin knew several things about himself: he loved nature, he loved music and he w...

Dimitri Ponirakis@funkingmajic · Jul 24

Zoo soundscapes could be a new frontier in bioacoustics studies phys.org/news/2025-07-z…

funkingmajic's tweet card. Increased collaboration between zoos and sound researchers could open new frontiers in bioacoustics, according to a new paper.

Dimitri Ponirakis@funkingmajic · Jul 24

Soundscapes to Landscapes: Monitoring Animal Biodiversity from Space Using Citizen Scientists | NASA Earthdata earthdata.nasa.gov/about/competit…

Dimitri Ponirakis@funkingmajic · Jul 24

Soundscape analysis shows wildlife rhythms are more predictable than urban noise phys.org/news/2025-07-s…

funkingmajic's tweet card. An international group of researchers collected one hundred years' worth of sounds from around the world to investigate how soundscapes differ between urban and natural environments. They also...

Dimitri Ponirakis@funkingmajic · Jun 29

Few-shot transfer learning enables robust acoustic monitoring of wildlife communities at the landscape scale - ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Dimitri Ponirakis@funkingmajic · Jun 29

Scientists make disturbing discovery at one of most remote locations on Earth: 'Increased levels of the stress hormone' thecooldown.com/outdoors/antar…

funkingmajic's tweet card. The noise pollution caused by human intervention in Antarctica could be negatively affecting the well-being of local wildlife.

Dimitri Ponirakis@funkingmajic · Jun 25

Creature culture: What animal behavior can teach us about saving nature phys.org/news/2025-06-c…

funkingmajic's tweet card. Animal conservationists often move elephants between herds to improve biodiversity and group health, but what if the elephants don't speak the same language?

Dimitri Ponirakis@funkingmajic · Jun 24

Mining the deep could mute the songs of sperm whales | ScienceDaily sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/…

Dimitri Ponirakis@funkingmajic · Jun 24

Territorial birds rule the dawn chorus in tropical forests - Earth.com earth.com/news/territori…

funkingmajic's tweet card. Birds that defend territory and eat many foods sing most at dawn, using the early hours to signal survival and coordinate in groups.

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Dimitri Ponirakis@funkingmajic · Jun 24

Experts stunned after new thermal camera technology reveals unexplained behavior of orcas: 'No one would know they're there' thecooldown.com/outdoors/orca-…

funkingmajic's tweet card. A first-of-its-kind infrared thermal camera for tracking orca movement has been launched in Port Townsend, Washington.

Dimitri Ponirakis@funkingmajic · Jun 24

How dolphin brains have evolved to "see" using echolocation Earth.com earth.com/news/how-dolph…

funkingmajic's tweet card. Scientists mapped dolphin and whale brains to uncover how echolocation works, revealing they may use sound more like touch than sight.

Dimitri Ponirakis@funkingmajic · Jun 12

Audio Spectrogram Transformers Beyond the Lab | Towards Data Science towardsdatascience.com/audio-spectrog…

funkingmajic's tweet card. A recipe for building a portable soundscape monitoring app with AudioMoth, Raspberry Pi, and a decent dose of deep learning.

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Dimitri Ponirakis@funkingmajic · Jun 12

Echolocation research sheds light on how whales and dolphins use sound phys.org/news/2025-06-e…

funkingmajic's tweet card. Toothed whales use sound to find their way around, detect objects, and catch fish. They can investigate their environment by making clicking sounds, and then decoding the "echoic return signal"...