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Ralph Emilio Peterson

@ralph_ep

Neuroscientist & musician interested in sensory processing, natural neuroscience, biological/artificial collective intelligence.
NEU • Harvard • NYU • Basis Joined March 2019
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New preprint!

tl;dr — We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧵

w/ Dima Batenkov, @zamakany, @e_mackevicius

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
www.biorxiv.org Computational Urban Ecology of New York City Rats Urban rats are highly adaptable, thriving in the dynamic and often inhospitable conditions of modern cities. Despite substantial mitigation efforts, they remain an enduring presence in urban enviro...
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Ralph Emilio Peterson @ralph_ep
Had a great time speaking about our work at the National Urban Rat Summit last week! We are building AI tools to sense the natural world and uncover patterns that humans cannot perceive, e.g. human-inaudible ultrasonic rat vocalizations.
Basis Verified account @BasisOrg Oct 1
Last week Basis researchers attended the National Urban Rat Summit, where @Ralph_Ep presented our work using acoustic monitoring to study rat behavior, while Nick Jourjine showcased monitoring devices on a nighttime “rat walk” 🐀.
Ralph and @e_Mackevicius also met @MayorWu. Ralph spoke with WBUR about the research: wbur.org/news/2026/09/2…
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Also, thank you to @eLife for featuring our work with an eLife digest!
elifesciences.org/digests/89892/…
elifesciences.org Eavesdropping on gerbil dialects Families of Mongolian gerbils communicate using different vocal patterns, which may help individuals identify their relatives.
Ralph Emilio Peterson @ralph_ep Dec 26, 2024
Happy holidays, happy new year, happy to reintroduce our gerbil vocal dialect paper! Final version now available in eLife elifesciences.org/articles/89892
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Happy holidays, happy new year, happy to reintroduce our gerbil vocal dialect paper! Final version now available in eLife elifesciences.org/articles/89892
elifesciences.org Unsupervised discovery of family specific vocal usage in the Mongolian gerbil Gerbils exhibit stable, family-specific vocal dialects over weeks, suggesting vocal communication may play a key role in representing kinship in natural social groups.
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