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buzzdetect live!

bioacoustics
tools
buzzdetect analysis

Run a lightweight buzzdetect analysis in your own browser, or from your phone! Try to sound like a bee to trick my models! Watch the pretty colors scroll past!

Aug 13, 2026

extract-positives: a handy tool for pulling detections from recordings

bioacoustics
tools
buzzdetect analysis

extract-positives is a python utility that you can use to extract the source audio corresponding to positive frames in buzzdetect results. Extract a whole dir, filter by time, add additional context on either side of the frames, and more!

Jul 20, 2026

buzzdetect sensitivity - how low can you go?

buzzdetect analysis
bioacoustics

Very low, as it turns out.

Jun 19, 2026

Understanding buzzdetect model metrics

buzzdetect core
bioacoustics
There are a few pieces of jargon we often use when referring to the performance of our buzzdetect models. Fortunately, the tests of our models are fairly straightforward. In…
May 12, 2026

Protocol for deploying recorders for bioacoustic monitoring

bioacoustics
protocols
This is an adapted version of a protocol for deploying, retrieving, and keeping track of the Sony ICD-PX370 recorders we use in our buzzdetect experiments. The original…
May 11, 2026
Luke Hearon, Lilian Johnson

Poster: Daily pollinator activity patterns vary strongly between plants

bioacoustics
research
Below is a poster I presented at the Plant Sciences Symposium hosted at OSU. I mostly went so I could talk to people who know more about plants than I do and pick their…
Apr 12, 2026

A walkthrough for conducting research with buzzdetect

buzzdetect core
guides
bioacoustics
This post is a walkthrough for conducting a bioacoustic analysis using buzzdetect. The following steps will take you from raw audio files to statistical results; by the end…
Mar 30, 2026
 

buzzr is now production-ready!

tools
bioacoustics
buzzdetect core
Having now analyzed a lot of buzzdetect results, I noticed that the first few R scripts for any bioacoustics project are almost identical. For my own convenience, I started…
Feb 27, 2026

SeeNote: an audio-video event annotation tool

tools
bioacoustics
It’s been a while since I originally made this post. I’ve been aggressively developing SeeNote to be my dream annotation tool, and lately my dream tool to deep-dive on…
Jan 28, 2026
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