⏰ 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

🔊 Throwback to Oscar Salguero’s lecture "Interspecies Library: Books as Portals to Interspecies Futures" Explore visionary books that are reshaping interspecies discourse! 📺 Watch on YouTube → www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B6A...

🌍🚨 Final week! The Edge AI Earth Guardians Challenge closes Sept 30. Submit your Edge AI project for conservation + sustainability 🌱✨ 👉 https://www.hackster.io/contests/earthguardians

During @earthspecies.bsky.social' 2023 lecture "AI to Unlock Interspecies Communication", we explored how AI is reshaping our understanding of animal societies and driving conservation. Join the conversation! Revisit the lecture ➡️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9SvPs1cCds

⚡️🐒Missed Dr. Omer’s talk "The Naming of Nonhuman Primates: Vocal Labeling of Others by Marmoset Monkeys" last Saturday? 🔗 Catch the full conversation on our YouTube channel! https://youtu.be/aeLDYcyaQCE

⏰ Tomorrow! Dr. David Omer on how marmoset monkeys use calls to “name” each other 🐒🔊 📆 Sept 13 | 4pm GMT / 12pm EST / 9am PST | 📍Zoom 🔗 Register: https://shorturl.at/IjkHg #PrimateCommunication #Neuroscience

👋 Meet our next speaker, neuroscientist Dr. David Omer! His lab’s work with marmosets is changing how we understand communication, social behavior & the origins of language. 📆 Sept 13 | ⏰ 12pm EST / 9am PST | 📍Zoom 🔗 Register to join: https://shorturl.at/VPXvN #Neuroscience #PrimateCommunication

New Lecture: The Naming of Nonhuman Primates 🐒🔊 Join us as Dr. David Omer reveals how marmoset monkeys use calls to “name” one another! 📆 Sept 13 | ⏰ 4pm GMT / 12pm EST / 9am PST | 📍Zoom 🔗 Register: https://www.interspecies.io/lectures/david-omer #PrimateCommunication

🔊How can AI help unlock interspecies communication? In their lecture, Katie Zacarian and Sara Keen explored the foundations of the @earthspecies.bsky.social ’s work and the challenges of using AI & ML to better understand the non-human world. 🎥Watch now➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9SvPs1cCds

🐾 How do we build shared tools for interspecies communication research?   Our new roundtable tackled this question while brainstorming open-source solutions. The conversation is continuing on Slack.  🚀 Join us and watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XCAkI-KqeQ

🔔 Reminder: Tomorrow, join our Interspecies Conversations roundtable (with 5 amazing guests), moderated by Neil Gershenfeld. 🔗 Registrations & Lecture Details: interspecies.io/lectures/dat...

During the 2023 lecture "Conversing with Whales,” Lisa and Josephine dived deep into why humpbacks are a remarkable model for understanding interspecies communication.💡🧠 Join the conversation! Watch the lecture ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY3tWAeG66k

📣 This Saturday, join a conversation with leading researchers actively building interspecies communication tools as they map out the next steps together. 🙌🏽 ⏰ 12:00 EST | 09:00 PST | 17:00 BST 📅 Aug 23, Saturday → Register here: www.interspecies.io/lectures/dat...

Want to know how we're building the future of cross-species communication? Aug 23 — Join our live conversation with: 🐻Grizzly Systems 🦏CollarID 🐕 FluentPet 🌳 humaneLABs 🌐 Seeed Studio → Registrations: shorturl.at/2ZNdC

🔊 Throwback to Josephine Hubbard & Lisa Walker lecture on humpback whales. The discussion delves into their insights from playback experiments with these ocean giants. 🐋 📺 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY3tWAeG66k #HumpbackWhales #AnimalCommunication #SETI #WhaleSongs

🚀New Lecture: Interspecies Data Collection & Interaction — a roundtable moderated by Neil Gershenfeld on cross-species design, conservation, ecology & emerging tech. 📆Aug 23, 9AM PT | 12PM ET | 4PM GMT 📍Zoom 🔗 shorturl.at/LjNJO

During David’s 2023 lecture "Reconstructing the Natural History of Awareness", we dived deep into octopus behavior, eye evolution, and awareness in invertebrates. 💡🧠 Join the conversation! Watch the lecture ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9sNYf63Ddo

🐋 TOMORROW! 🚨 Join @begus.bsky.social to explore sperm whale “codas” and what they mean for language, AI, & law. 📅Sat, July 19 | 🕓 4PM GMT / 12PM EST / 9AM PST 📍Online 🔗 RSVP now: https://www.interspecies.io/lectures/gasper-begus #AIethics #AnimalCommunication #ProjectCETI

🐋 Meet Brenda McCowan — Professor of Ethology and Director of the McCowan-Vandeleest Lab at the University of California. 🚀Explore insights from over 40 thought leaders in the Workshop Proceedings ➡️ www.interspecies.io/publication Thank you to @sfiscience.bsky.social + @xprize.org 🙌🏽

🔊 Throwback to David Edelman's lecture on octopus consciousness! 🐙 A Neuroscientist exploring why octopuses offer a unique window into the origins of sensory awareness and consciousness in animals without backbones. Watch full lecture on YouTube ➡️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9sNYf63Ddo

🦠Meet Brandon Ogbunu —a computational biologist exploring epidemiology, evolutionary genetics, and population biology at Yale University 🚀Explore insights from over 40 thought leaders in the Workshop Proceedings➡️ www.interspecies.io/publication Thank you to @sfiscience.bsky.social + @xprize.org 🙌🏽

🚀Meet our new speaker: @begus.bsky.social — @projectceti.bsky.social Linguistics Lead & AI researcher asking how sperm whale codas could reshape our view of language (and interspecies legal standing). 📅Sat, July 19 |🕓4PM GMT/12PM EST/9AM PST |📍Zoom 🔗Info & RSVP: www.interspecies.io/lectures/gas...

🚀 New Interspecies Lecture with @begus.bsky.social ! Did you know sperm whales use vowel-like sounds? Discover what this means for language, AI, and law! 📅Saturday, July 19🕓4 PM GMT | 12 PM EST | 9 AM PST📍Online via Zoom 🔗 More info & registration: https://encr.pw/LKH6i @projectceti.bsky.social

🌍🌿 Meet Kate Armstrong — Executive Director of Interspecies Internet and a strategist for emergent futures.  🚀 Explore insights from over 40 thought leaders in the Workshop Proceedings ➡️ https://www.interspecies.io/publication Thank you to @sfiscience.bsky.social + @xprize.org 🙌🏽

🐋 Tom Mustill's lecture "How to Speak Whale" explores how technology is transforming our understanding of interspecies communication. A brilliant dive into storytelling, science, and ethics. 📺 Watch the lecture → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGyxTlG_jjE

🔊 Filmmaker and author Tom Mustill asks: how can we protect animals from new technologies and make sure we are not harming or exploiting them? 🌊 Revisit Tom's 2023 lecture and Q&A: "How to Speak Whale"  📺 Watch now ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGyxTlG_jjE

⚡️🌱 Missed Paco’s talk "Do Plants Talk Back? Only If We Learn to Listen" last Saturday? Catch the full conversation on our YouTube channel! 🔗 Watch the full recording – https://youtu.be/YVl3caS72h0