My new installation Alaka’i 1777, which imagines the lost song culture of the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō, debuts in NYC 6/21-22! Come hear real-time simulations of extinct birdsongs in 24-channel spatial audio 🦜 Made possible by @cornellbirds.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @divintelligence.bsky.social

Heading to St Andrews this Sunday for the @divintelligence.bsky.social ! Three weeks with researchers and artists exploring what intelligence is and how it evolves. Really excited and grateful for this chance to learn, share, and connect. 🐳 👾 🐝 🌱

✦ 1. ¿Alguna vez te has preguntado si el tiempo es ilusorio? ¿O si el futuro está abierto? Mi #HiloTesis explora si la biología puede ayudarnos en estas disputas metafísicas sobre la naturaleza del tiempo. @crueuniversidades.bsky.social @filarramendi.bsky.social ky.social @uneduniv.bsky.social

Con la participación también de mis brillantes doctorandos @isanchezmoreno.bsky.social y @miguelborrajo.bsky.social. ¡Orgullo máximo!

Mañana a las 10 estaré en directo en Carne Cruda hablando de comunicación animal, con apariciones también de mis doctorandos @isanchezmoreno.bsky.social y @miguelborrajo.bsky.social.

Encantado de haber presentado mi trabajo sobre el uso de la IA en la comunicación animal para el programa de Carne Cruda junto con @isanchezmoreno.bsky.social y @susanamonso.com Pocas cosas tan emocionantes como hacer sonar a los cachalotes en directo! 🌊🐋🌌

1/ Last week, @isanchezmoreno.bsky.social and I presented our posters at ARED in Stirling. We were lucky to exchange ideas with brilliant philosophers working on animal communication, like @giuliapalazzolo.bsky.social, Mike Dacey or Luca Di Vincenzo

Last Tuesday I spoke at PhiLanSci 2025, hosted at my home university @uam.es Felt like playing at home — I shared some thoughts on epistemic limits in AI-based animal communication research. Grateful for the exchange. This weekend: ARED conf. at @stir.ac.uk ⟡ ꙮ 𓆉 @losnerbriones.com thanks 📷✨

Today I'll be giving a talk entitled "Characterizing Exclusion in Evidence-Based Policy: The Case of Distributive Policies" at the PhilLanSci UAM 2025 Conference, held at the Autonomous University of Madrid. It's based on the first paper for my PhD dissertation. See you there!

Please enjoy these delightful images from a 1993 paper on walrus vision, showing estimated visual fields in different poses (I especially love how they look like alternate covers for a scifi novel about space walruses with ray-shooting eyeballs) Source: www.aquaticmammalsjournal.org/wp-content/u...

I’ll be presenting ideas from my current draft at the ARED Conference, held at @stir.ac.uk — focusing on the epistemological models behind AI-driven attempts to “translate” sperm whale vocalizations. 🐋📡 My colleague @isanchezmoreno.bsky.social will be there, talking about dogs and speech buttons. 🐕

Fun with Merlin, and a Zoom h1e. #Birds #Bioacoustics

Two days left to support SoundLab: an #openaccess web app for visualizing & analyzing sounds. This will be a useful & fun tool for all, especially if you're a #bioacoustics researcher, a birdsong or music fan, or teach about sound waves! 🐸🐦‍⬛🐋 Small donations help! 👉 www.indiegogo.com/projects/sou...

great open access paper by Ali Boyle and Simon Brown in the naturalistic section of Philosophy Compass, which I edit.

I’ve just discovered coyote chorusing thanks to the latest @manymindspod.bsky.social episode and I think I’m going to be forever haunted by this sound

New episode!! 📣📣 A chat w/ @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social about vocal communication in animals. The tree of life is a noisy place, bursting with howls, grunts, whines, snorts, and songs. What does it all mean? Does any of this hubbub merit the label of "language"? Listen: disi.org/howl-grunt-s...

👋📜 NEW PAPER !! 👥 My colleague JAPE (known as José Antonio Pérez-Escobar) and Jordi Fairhurst coauthor this paper on 'Hinging Prejudices and Stereotypes in Mathematics'. 📍Just published in: Topoi. 🔗 LINK: doi.org/10.1007/s112... #philosophy #philsci #philmath

Proud supervisor moment! So exciting to see Miguel’s ideas shaping up so nicely. 🤩💪

Last Tuesday I gave a talk at the METIS seminar on how AI is transforming animal communication research. Thanks to METIS for the opportunity, and to everyone who attended for the feedback and support. A pleasure sharing ideas! 🐋 #AI #AnimalCommunication #AnimalCognition

The most achingly beautiful explanation of what science is, from @edyong209.bsky.social: “the idea that much of the world is hidden from us, that we don’t perceive it and don’t understand it, and that it is worth understanding and it is necessary to understand.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

Looking forward to the METIS seminar on February 25, where I’ll explore how AI is used in cetacean communication research. Drawing on Ian Hacking’s concept of observation, I examine what kind of epistemic access AI offers and how it frames our interaction with sperm whale vocalizations. 🐳

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Be a human being. Do not participate in making the world worse. That should be enough, but obviously for some people it is not, so I'll give some examples.

Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... In our new paper we review 130 papers and summarise empirical evidence for socioecological factors affecting vocal communication, as well as evidence for vocal learning in different corvid species.

"... we need better tests for AI sentience... we need more research into animal cognition and behaviour, to uncover as many independently evolved instances of sentience as we possibly can." aeon.co/essays/to-un...