Listen to Zahrek Gonzalez-Peltier, CETI Drone Pilot and David Gruber, CETI Founder & Lead, discuss on @reuters.com how we execute our “tap-and-go” drone based approach to whale tagging & explain advancements it brings to marine mammal research! 🎥:Thank you @reuters.com, watch here: bit.ly/4p498U1

Thank you @sierramagazine.bsky.social and @kathrynhulick.substack.com for highlighting our work!🐋Read the quote from Daniela Rus (@csail.mit.edu), PI on CETI Machine Learning and Robotics Team and more in the piece “Could AI Help Humanity Understand Whales?” here: bit.ly/45tksRL 📸: Arun Madisetti

Thank you @nytimes.com & @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social for diving into our “tap-and-go” drone based approach! & Thanks Jeremy Goldbogen @standforddoerr.bsky.social & Ari Friedlaender @ucscscience.bsky.social for sharing their thoughts! Read here: bit.ly/45uizEI 📸: Jaime Rojo. @harvardseas.bsky.social

Available now!🐬🪸🦜🐋 Listen to experts explored at the fourth annual Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species conference, which we co-hosted in July with the @ucberkelyofficial.bsky.social @simonsinstitute.bsky.social & Oceankind, here: bit.ly/41yYkDe

Guided by the principle of doing no harm, @ProjectCETI.bsky.social Founder & President David Gruber shared with Bioneers how they’re using advanced machine learning & state-of-the-art gentle robotics to translate the clicks and codas of sperm whales. 🐋 Read it here: bioneers.org/can-ai-decod...

Did you know that sperm whales possess a phonetic alphabet & are capable of social learning? @projectceti.bsky.social (Cetacean Translation Initiative) is using ML & robotics with Prof @mmbronstein.bsky.social to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales. #WorldOceanDay

The paradigm of animal rights is shifting as we ask, “What if we understood what animals are saying?” 💬🐋 ▶️ Watch David Gruber & César Rodríguez-Garavito discuss the collaboration between @ProjectCETI.bsky.social & MOTH Rights to harness the tech’s potential while minimizing risk: buff.ly/f62jdDG

🚀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

César Rodríguez-Garavito asks: What is the legal basis for protecting animals’ rights to hearing each other communicate? 🌎 Dive into the perceptual worlds of more-than-human species in this conversation with César of #MOTHRights and David Gruber of @ProjectCETI.bsky.social: buff.ly/8R7ctiC

Dive into our new paper by: Daniel Vogt & Robert Wood from @harvardseas.bsky.social; Stefano Pagani; CETI Drone Pilot Zahrek Gonzalez-Peltier; CETI Biology Lead Shane Gero & CETI Founder and Lead David Gruber; here: bit.ly/4oxVati 🎥: Jaime Rojo, Ganesh Marin, Thor Morales & National Geographic.

🥳Join us to congratulate Antonio, Chelsea, Gordon, Phoenix & T’Keyah, the 2024/2025 cohort of Dominica Marine Conservation Fellows on completing the 10-month multi-module program developed by CETI x The National Geographic Society! Find out more: bit.ly/4kL6v6d. 🎥: One Off Productions

CETI scientists developed a system which accurately locates sperm whales in the deep & the implementation code is available for others! By: Yaakov Buchris & Roee Diamant from the Underwater Acoustics and Navigation lab at University of Haifa & Yaniv Aluma. Read: bit.ly/4kN6wGX%F0%9...: Amanda Cotton

What implications does finding language-like properties in non-humans have for law, ethics, and philosophy? In the talk, I outline how AI interpretability can help us make new discoveries in science: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzde... @projectceti.bsky.social

Thank you @nbcnews.com for offering a glimpse behind the scenes of our research at Harvard’s Microrobotics Lab @harvardseas.bsky.social that features our Founder and Lead David Gruber, CETI Robotics Lead Robert Wood & PI on CETI Robotics Team Stephanie Gil. 🎥: @nbcnews.com watch here: bit.ly/4kPVBMk

Meet Dr. Antonio Torralba! He is a computer vision specialist and Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering & CS at @mit.edu, @csail.mit.edu & head of the AI + Decision Making faculty in the MIT EECS Department. Learn about his work: bit.ly/4nqMYdZ & read his book here: bit.ly/4eo3cjO!

Explore how we take up Carl Sagan’s queries on cetacean intelligence🐋& theorize on how discoveries into their cognition and communication can lead to tangible legal opportunities for them, in our article with @nyulaw.bsky.social’s MOTH Program here: bit.ly/42q1wSy 📸: Amanda Cotton

New CETI T-shirt alert! & All the proceeds support our research!🐋The t-shirt is 100% cotton and printed in NYC with artwork designed by Colombian born, NYC based graffiti artist, Calicho Arevalo. 👕Get yours here: bit.ly/4nxSGul

Join us to congratulate Micheal Awah, CETI Mechanical Engineering Graduate from Harvard SEAS, on his outstanding senior capstone project: a hybrid aerial and underwater vehicle. Micheal won the Hoopes Prize & Dean’s Award for outstanding Engineering Projects for his work. Learn more: bit.ly/4k1lRTy

✨New CETI research shows that sperm whale vocalizations behave like human vowels!🐋 Written by @begus.bsky.social, Maksymilian Dąbkowski and Ronald Sprouse, David Gruber & Shane Gero. Read here: bit.ly/40e6HTX @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @carleton.ca @cuny.edu 📸: Arun Madisetti

✨Our Founder and Lead David Gruber, explored the future of our oceans & the role humanity & emerging technology can play in that effort, in the panel, “What’s Next for Oceans?” at @milkeninstitute.org’s Global Conference here: bit.ly/4kK3uU1 #MIGlobal📸: Jane Kachmer; @milkeninstitute.org

🌟Join us in NYC for “Listening to the Whales” at @pioneerwork.bsky.social on Tues. June 24 at 8pm! Our Founder and Lead David Gruber will be in conversation with comparative anatomist Joy Reidenberg and hosted by astrophysicist Janna Levin! 🎟️RSVP for FREE here: bit.ly/4jP1b0Z

🐋🎉As seen in @naturecomms.nature.com- Our collaborative paper, which elucidates the sperm whale phonetic alphabet is among the Top 25! By: Pratyusha Sharma, Shane Gero, Roger Payne, David Gruber, Daniela Rus, Antonio Torralba & Jacob Andreas. Read here: go.nature.com/3FLJwcK 📷: Amanda Cotton

Breaking news: Whales May Someday Be Heard in Court & In Their Own Words.🐋Learn how decoding nonhuman animals’ communication can unlock new legal possibilities in the #natgeo article diving into MOTHxCETI’s partnership & #ELQ_Berkeley article here: bit.ly/4kfYzu1 📷:#NatGeo

We won a Webby!🌟 Thanks for voting! We are honored to be a 2025 Webby Winner and to have the opportunity to keep listening to the whales!🐋🏆Learn more: bit.ly/3S5TKHz 📸: Amanda Cotton #TheWebbyAwards

🐋Decoding sperm whale communication is just the beginning- we hope to revolutionize nonhuman animal research for good. Learn how we are pioneering and prioritizing non-invasive technologies and ethical research practices in our 2024 Annual Report here: bit.ly/4dtnBUj 🎨: Pact Media

🎨Art has the power to transcend borders, languages, and even species– read our 2024 Annual Report to see how our interdisciplinary approach is bringing the stories of the Dominican sperm whales to the world.🇩🇲🌎 Read the report here: bit.ly/4dtnBUj Design: Pact Media

Our 2024 Annual Report is live!🐋💙Dive into what we have discovered from listening to the whales over the past year- and reminisce with us on the milestones that are fueling an interspecies future! Read the report here: bit.ly/4dtnBUj 🎨: Pact Media

We won a #RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award from #TheRobotReport! 🤖🎉✨ Thanks to CETI #Robotics Team members from Harvard SEAS: Stephanie Gil, Sushmita Bhattacharya and Ninad Jadhav for accepting the award for CETI. Learn more here: bit.ly/4jHMFcn

✨Join us this Saturday, May 10th in NYC at @natural-history.bsky.social’s “Expedition AI” showcase from 2-4pm at The #GilderCenter and discover how AI is shaping society and science!🤖 Entry is free with museum admission! Learn more here: bit.ly/4iFps9r 📸: Arun Madisetti, iStock

Thank you MOTH and the NYU Center for Human Rights & Global Justice for having our Founder, David Gruber in conversation with César Rodríguez-Garavito, Founding Director of MOTH at the MOTH Festival of Ideas! 📸: Jake Olson

⭐️Our new op-ed, written by CETI’s founder David Gruber and César Rodríguez-Garavito, Founding Director of @nyulaw.bsky.social’s More-Than-Human Life Program is out now in #TIMEMagazine!🐋 Read here: bit.ly/3Yd083d 📸: iStock byGettyImages

🌎Happy #EarthMonth! This month we wanted to share some inspiring words from Ed Yong’s profound 2022 novel, “An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us.”🐋🪲🦍🐞🐝🦒 📸: Amanda Cotton

In a new article in #ELQ_Quarterly, CETIxMOTH @nyulaw.bsky.social explore how advances in understanding nonhuman animal communication can be used to generate legal protections for them. By: César Rodríguez-Garavito, David Gruber, Ashley Otilia Nemeth and @begus.bsky.social Read here: bit.ly/42q1wSy

⭐️New #CETIPaper out in #SciReports! CETI scientists developed the first automatic sperm whale coda detector and annotator. Read the paper here: bit.ly/42SwWAb and find the publicly available code on our #Github: ​​https://github.com/Project-CETI/Coda-detector ! 📸: Amanda Cotton

👨🏻‍🔬Introducing #CETIScientist, Dr. Giovanni Petri (@lordgrilo.bsky.social), CETI’s Network Science Lead! Giovanni is a Professor at @nunetsi.bsky.social in London and a Principal Researcher at the CENTAI Institute. Learn more about Giovanni and his work here: lordgrilo.github.io 📸: Synapse Conclave

CETI is a #WebbyAwards Nominee! 🎉🐋 Out of 13,000+ projects, our work to decode whale communication is in the top 12%, competing for The Webby People's Voice Award! 🔗Vote by April 17, 11:59 PM PDT via the link here: bit.ly/4luwrVm #webbys #whales 📸: Arun Madisetti