New Lecture this Saturday with @berthetmelissa.bsky.social In this lecture, we’ll be exploring evidence that wild bonobos communicate in ways resembling human language 🧠 📅 30 May | Online 🕓 16:00 GMT | 12:00 EDT | 09:00 PDT Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

📣 New Lecture! @berthetmelissa.bsky.social explores new findings that wild bonobos combine calls in ways that resemble the compositional structure of human language 🧠 📅 30 May 🕓 16:00 GMT | 12:00 EDT | 09:00 PDT 📍 Online (Zoom) Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🌱Missed our April talk? “Scientific Speciesism: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism” with @christinewebb.bsky.social‬  is now on YouTube! 🎥 Watch now — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeeqUhUf1w4

🌱Co-creating + Co-existence = harmonious multispecies world? In July 2024, together with Melanie Challenger, we explored how to include other species in the decision-making processes that shape policy and governance. 🎥 Watch the full lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7vGPo2Milw

⭐️ @projectceti.bsky.social: New Paper! “The phonology of sperm whale coda vowels” shows whales produce vowel-like sounds organized in patterns, akin to human phonology.  Learn more here: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.2994

🔊 Throwback to “Co-creating Co-existence in a Multispecies World” with Melanie Challenger   🌱 As exploitation of nature increases and biodiversity declines, we ask: how can we make decisions with other species, not just for them? 🎥 Watch the full lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7vGPo2Milw

This Saturday: “Scientific Speciesism: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism” with @christinewebb.bsky.social How does hidden human bias shape science and our view of other animals? 📅 25 April 🕓 4 PM GMT | 12 PM EST | 9 AM PST 📍 Online (Zoom) 🔗 Register: shorturl.at/ywwEd

📣New Lecture! Humans are often seen as an apex species, but is this accurate? Join @christinewebb.bsky.social for “Scientific Speciesism: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism in Primatology and Beyond.” 📅Saturday, 25 April 🕓4 PM GMT |12 PM EST |9 AM PST 📍Online 🔗Register here: shorturl.at/fsYpx

“WhAM: the Whale Acoustics Model” with Orr Paradise (@projectceti.bsky.social) is now live on our YouTube channel 🐋 🔗Click here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-YH...

🔊 Throwback: "Can Different Species Understand Each Other's Emotions?” with Dr. Elodie Briefer.  Discover how animals communicate emotions, and how machine learning reveals insights into the evolution of cross-species understanding!  📺 Watch the lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TggoBGM1L4

📣 Reminder: New date confirmed! Join us this Saturday for “WhAM: the Whale Acoustics Model” with Orr Paradise (@projectceti.bsky.social) 📅 April 4 | 🕓 4 PM GMT 📍 Online (Zoom) Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🤝Signal Boost 2026 launches with a $25k matching gift from internet pioneer Dr. Vint Cerf.  🌱Support the convening work connecting partners across science & technology to advance ethical interspecies communication.  🔗 Donate here: www.interspecies.io/donate

📣 Rescheduled: Our lecture with Orr Paradise is now on April 4 (same time). 🕓 4 PM GMT | 12 PM EST | 9 AM PST We’ll dive into @projectceti.bsky.social's WhAM — join us! Registered participants have received an updated invite. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🦧 How do great apes communicate—and what can that reveal about human evolution? In May 2024, Catherine “Cat” Hobaiter joined us to explore ape gestures, cognition, and social behavior. 🎥 Watch the lecture now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaU3zhPqTV0

🐋 Join us this Saturday! Orr from @projectceti.bsky.social presents “WhAM: the Whale Acoustics Model.” Don’t miss the chance to learn from the scientists behind this technological breakthrough.  📅Saturday, 28 March🕓12 PM EDT📍Online (Zoom) 🔗Register:https://www.interspecies.io/lectures/orr-paradise

🐋 Curious to know more about the world of sperm whales?  Our upcoming lecture is one not to be missed – “WhAM: the Whale Acoustics Model” with Orr Paradise (@projectceti.bsky.social ) 📅 Saturday, 28 March 🕓 12 PM EDT📍 Online (Zoom) 🔗 Registrations: https://www.interspecies.io/lectures/orr-paradise

🔊 Throwback Thursday: “Ape Talk: Reimagining the Study of Great Ape Communication” with Cat Hobaiter. Explore how wild apes communicate and think! 📺 Watch the lecture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaU3...

Press play on a different world by tuning into audio selections with whale-listening instructions at projectceti.org/listen! Photo: Amanda Cotton

📣 New Lecture: WhAM — the Whale Acoustics Model with Orr Paradise Explore @projectceti.bsky.social transformer-based model that synthesizes & analyzes sperm whale codas! 🗓 Mar 28 | 4pm GMT/ 12 pm EST/ 9am PST | Online 🔗 Registration: https://www.interspecies.io/lectures/orr-paradise

🔊 Canaries, songs, and AI? Meet TweetyBERT. Tim Gardner takes us inside this model's design and the complexity of songbird communication: using a self-supervised transformer model to decode — without any human-labeled data. 📺 Watch the full lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzA5_dMo-1g

🚀 This is the moment when even a small gift goes twice as far ⭐️ Our Trustee, Vinton G. Cerf, made a generous offer: he will match donations to Interspecies Internet, dollar-for-dollar, up to $25k. 🔗 Help us build the foundations for interspecies communication: https://www.interspecies.io/donate

🔊 Throwback to Tim Gardner’s lecture "TweetyBERT: Uncovering Canary Song Syntax" In this 2024 lecture, we explored canary syntax and TweetyBERT — a model analyzing birdsong without human-labeled data! 📺 Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzA5_dMo-1g #AnimalCommunication #AIResearch

🎨 In 2024, Sophia Brueckner gave the talk “Bowerbirds." 🔸 What does it mean if bowerbirds make art? 🔸 Can humans or computers truly mimic their process? 🔸 How are bowerbirds reshaping how we think about generative AI and creativity? 👉The lecture: https://tinyurl.com/5e7f5vjw

🔔Missed Saturday’s talk? “Letting Animals Speak: Increasing Animal Agency with Animal-Computer Interaction” is now live. ✅ Dr Browning explores what animal agency is, why it matters, and how tech can empower animals with choice and control. 📺Watch: rb.gy/de5azn

🔊 Throwback Thursday! Explore with artist–engineer Sophia Brueckner how bowerbirds can help us rethink aesthetics, optimization, and “non-human artists.” 📺 Watch here → www.youtube.com/watch?v=A54T... #InterspeciesInternet #Bowerbirds #AnimalCommunication #ArtAndScience

⏰ Reminder: Tomorrow's Lecture! Dr. Heather Browning joins us to discuss how technology can amplify animal voices and choice. 🔗 Register now: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... See you tomorrow! 💚

⏰ This Saturday (7 Feb): “Letting Animals Speak” with @zoophilosophy.bsky.social (University of Southampton). How can animal-computer interaction support animal agency and welfare?  📅 5 PM GMT | Online 🔗 https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/HpyXUDk7QSOsH3tyGiHE4A#/registration

🦉 Throwback to Carl Safina’s 2023 lecture, Alfie & Me. Ecologist and author Carl Safina explores animal psychology, human–nature connections, and what we gain when we deepen our bonds with the living world.  📺 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC6TGKdM8yU

📣 What if animals could help design their own worlds? Join @zoophilosophy.bsky.social for Letting Animals Speak—a lecture on animal agency, ethics & animal-computer interaction. 📅 Feb 7 | Online | Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🦉 What if your friend group included a screech owl named Alfie? Ecologist Dr. Carl Safina shares how a rescued owl’s journey became a lasting bond, and what it teaches us about connecting with the web of life. 📺 Watch the full lecture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC6T...

🏆✨Congratulations to Dr. Irene Pepperberg, recipient of the 2025 Division 3 Lifetime Achievement Award, honoring her decades-long work transforming our understanding of animal cognition! ➡️https://www.apadivisions.org/division-3/awards/lifetime-achievement?tab=3

🐝 Dame Jane Goodall introduces Lars Chittka’s bee research in her MasterClass. 📺 Watch Dr. Chittka’s full lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSaqi2ysDoA

🐝 Did you know bees play just for fun? Throwback to Lars Chittka's lecture "The Mind of a Bee." Bees learn by watching, experience emotions, and solve problems they've never encountered before. 📺 Full lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSaqi2ysDoA #Bees #AnimalIntelligence #Conservation

🦇 You've never seen bats like this The greater sac-winged bats are charismatic communicators — and Dr. Mirjam Knörnschild has the footage and data to prove it! Join the bat talk! Watch the lecture ➡️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z_vSbsUaZ4

🎙️ On the Humans in the Loop podcast, our Director Kate Armstrong explores the world our community is building — from interspecies communication to real-world applications. 🎧 Full episode: Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/0302... Apple podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

🐋📓 MOTH’s new ethics framework for Nonhuman Animal Communication Technologies is live—catch the panel and explore the report:  🔗https://mothlife.org/technology-ecology/nonhuman-animal-communication-technologies/ 🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVVSxNDUyUg

🦇Did you know bats sing and take turns “talking”? In her lecture Bats in Translation, Mirjam Knörnschild shares insights from 20+ years studying how bats learn and use social calls in the wild.  Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z_vSbsUaZ4 #AnimalCommunication #Bioacoustics #BatResearch

✍🏽 In 2023, Rébecca Kleinberger gave the talk “From DJ Macaw to Video-Flocking” Key themes:  🔸 Sonic interfaces for animal agency  🔸 Tech supporting communication  🔸 Rethinking enrichment through interspecies connection  👉Watch the full lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NhMcXMU1pY

🎥 Missed our talk? "Nature Perspectives: Unlocking Human–Nature Connection with AI" is now live on YouTube! ⚡️ Explore how AI enables meaningful conversations with the natural world w/ Gal Zanir. 🔗 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCeQe3JG8es

🔊Throwback to Rébecca Kleinberger’s lecture "From DJ Macaw to Video-Flocking: Leveraging Audio Technology for Animals’ Social and Cognitive Enrichment" Explore tech interventions that enhance the cognitive and social experiences of animals! 📺Watch here → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NhMcXMU1pY

🌿 Tomorrow’s the day!  Come explore Nature Perspectives with Gal Zanir and see how AI can help us converse with the natural world.  📆 Nov 8 | Online | Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/xVpMNiWkRYSmHgKUvMyacQ

🌿 Join Gal Zanir for Nature Perspectives: Unlocking Human–Nature Connection with AI.  How can AI simulations foster newfound empathy for nature? Could they help shift our systems from exploitative to collaborative? 📆 Nov 8 | Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/xVpMNiWkRYSmHgKUvMyacQ

🚀 New Lecture: Nature Perspectives with Gal Zanir Discover first-person AI experiences that foster empathy and bring nature’s stories and perspectives into public consciousness. 📅 Nov 8 | Online | 5 PM GMT / 12 PM EST / 9 AM PST 🔗Register: https://www.interspecies.io/lectures/gal-zanir

How is open hardware transforming conservation? 🛠️ Jinger Zeng shared great examples, from elephant anti-poaching systems to ocean biodiversity monitoring — all built by citizen scientists using affordable, accessible tools. Watch Jinger's lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zUJLfmvnhU

🔊 Throwback: Jinger Zeng on "Open Hardware Communities to Empower Citizen Science" 🛠️ Can a $1 microscope unlock new ocean species? Could bamboo drones transform conservation? 🌴 Find out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zUJLfmvnhU

Missed Dr. Denise Herzing’s talk “Decoding Dolphins in the Wild: How difficult can it be?” last Saturday? 🐬 Catch the full conversation on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diwxGf0H1XQ #Dolphins #AnimalIntelligence #DeniseHerzing

✍🏽 In July 2023, Oscar Salguero gave an Interspecies Conversations lecture on the Interspecies Library, an archive of visionary artists’ books. Explore the intersections of art + science and nonhuman futures 🐋 📺 Watch on YouTube → www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B6A...

🐬 Join the conversation: Decoding Dolphins in the Wild! Learn about Dr. Herzing's work @dolphinproject.bsky.social, and the incredible tool that is DolphinGemma, a large language model for dolphin vocalizations. 📅 Sat, Oct 11 | ⏰ 4pm GMT | 📍 Online 🔗 Join us: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Jane Goodall (1934–2025).  A trailblazer in science and conservation. Her impact is one of a kind, immeasurable, and far-reaching. Dr. Jane Goodall's legacy lives on in all of us. 💚🌱 📽️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPI5Uw3tCQ4

🐬 New Lecture! “Decoding Dolphins in the Wild. How difficult can it be?” Dr. Denise Herzing will share how DolphinGemma and CHAT are transforming research into dolphin sounds & meaning. 📆 Oct 11 | 12 pm EST | Online 🔗 Register: https://www.interspecies.io/lectures/denise-herzing