I've just joined the scientific committee of the @CollerDolittle Prize coller-dolittle-24.sites.tau.ac.il offering $100,000 each year for scientific research that has used a non-invasive approach to communicate with or decipher an organism’s communication. Submit by the deadline of September 30th!

🐯🦌🔊Read about the amazing work we're doing in Nepal to prevent human-tiger conflict using AI devices that listen out for deer alarm calls! greatplainsfoundation.com/tiger-conser... And don't forget to watch the fantastic video by @Grizanderson www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnVL...

Once again, Star Trek nails social commentary. Even if the conflict in the Middle East is "over some piece of land", the reality is that "the basis for peace must be personal". Movements like @standing-together.bsky.social and Hand in Hand (www.handinhandk12.org) are building that peace.

📣Check out the Listening Fields podcast, where I talk to the fantastic Dr Vickie Pham about recording animals in the wild, meaning & information in animal calls, and how we use acoustic monitoring to aid conservation of critically endangered species 🐅 soundcloud.com/faderadio/li...

New paper! Using AI to track the frequency of vocalisations across a (very) wide range of species www.ricardmarxer.com/f0-bioacoust... In wolves, dolphins, etc, the up-down of frequency of their calls is where all the information is. Neural nets can do this automatically! ‪

Congratulations Dr ‪@simon-kershenbaum.bsky.social‬ on his first lead author paper 🎉http://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225012969 Variation in phenotype, genotype, and somatic diversity among asexual Schmidtea mediterranea planarians

Just finished reading Ittay Flescher's remarkable book, "The Holy and the Broken". If you are tired of endless dehumanisation of both sides do come to his book launch at Girton College, Cambridge, on July 16th. Sign up on the link here actionnetwork.org/events/the-h... @ukfost.bsky.social

On July 16 I'll be hosting Ittay Flescher for a talk about his book "The Holy and the Broken" - how communities can work together to overcome the hatred and the destruction that we see around us in Israel and Palestine. 6:30 Girton College. Free. Book here: actionnetwork.org/events/the-h...

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There's been a lot of coverage in the media recently of AI and dolphin communication. Here's a good @sciam.bsky.social SciAm podcast that speaks to the actual scientists @drdherzing.bsky.social Denise Herzing about what they're doing. (and to me too) www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

A packed meeting to hear Amin Amara and Uri Weltmann, leaders of @ukfost.bsky.social Standing Together, speak about the role of a grassroots movement of Jewish and Palestinian Israelis in opposing the war in Gaza and in building a cooperative, multinational society.

Finally the book is published! PRIMATES IN PERIL: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates 2023–2025 Updated information about the cao vit gibbon! Link download: static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/120... www.facebook.com/share/p/1E6p...

A reminder of the meeting next week in Cambridge where you can hear from the leaders of Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social working to bring together #Jewish and #Palestinian citizens of #Israel. Sign up on the link below: actionnetwork.org/events/build...

"Cold-blooded culture?" A great new paper out by my collegues Angela Dassow and Holly Root-Gutteridge @hollyhowls.bsky.social and others on the phenomenon of: 🦎🐍🐊🐢CULTURE IN REPTILES 🦎🐍🐊🐢 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

📣Cambridge, come hear Amin and Uri, two leaders of STANDING TOGETHER, a grassroots movenment that mobilises Palestinian and Jewish citizens of Israel against war, occupation, and racism. Thursday May 15 6pm, Woolf Institute, Cambridge actionnetwork.org/events/build... @ukfost.bsky.social

The pace of discoveries in the search for alien life is picking up. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... If you want to know more about what life will be like on other planets, The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy is a good place to start www.penguin.co.uk/books/314542... #scicomm #astrobiology

Another cool podcast, if you want to know more about animal communication 🦧📣 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPGy... #scicom

Here I am talking to Kensy Cooperrider of the @divintelligence.bsky.social podcast about animal communication and animal minds... 🧠 We take a detailed look at why animals make the sounds they make, and what that says about animal consciousness.

🚨📣New paper alert! The jackals are coming! 🦊 We show how we've used a network of acoustic monitoring devices to pinpoint the locations of jackals, which are spreading through Romania and surrounding areas. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

1/3 Watched @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social Blue Ghost successfully land on the moon this morning, together with my team from @interstellarfdn.bsky.social. It was a late night for them (3am)...

Inquiry, with Mark Lynch on WICN 90.5 "Wild animals make a lot of noise. They sing, call, yowl, scream, you name it. They certainly appear to be communicating, but do animals have a language? Could a human ever hold an actual conversation with a wild animal?" wicn.org/podcast/dr-a...

Listen to this episode of the The Colin McEnroe Show where I talk about how we can understand what animals are saying, and @federicorossano.bsky.social talks about training dogs to communicate with us by pressing buttons www.ctpublic.org/show/the-col...

📢Another podcast, with a different direction. This time I'm talking about #animal #communication with BrainShaman, a "philosophical and scientific journey towards better brain health." www.brainshaman.com/2067421/epis... #scicomm

Who's planning to go to Behaviour 2025 in Kolkata? behaviourindia2025.in

Yesterday, 11th of Shvat, was the second anniversary of Darwin's passing 💔💔💔 Those of you who knew him, please remember a dog who was always there to cheer up anyone he met, and whose absence still weighs so heavily on those who loved him

A new podcast with me discussing Why Animals Talk (this time with video!) from The Point Blank Show www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0qc...

The Emerging Bioacousticians' Days (JJBA) is a scientific conference designed by and for young researchers in the field of bioacoustics. jjbioacoustique.wixsite.com/jjba/en/insc...

📚 A nice little review of "Why Animals Talk" bookmunch.wordpress.com/2025/01/30/a...

1/3 🐯🧵I work with local communities in #Nepal to find ways of coexisiting with #tiger populations. The loss of human life is staggering, but it's not just a question of "too many tigers". The interaction between humans and the environment is key... www.bbc.com/news/article...

🏅"Why Animals Talk" has been named part of the American Library Association’s 2025 Notable Books List: Year’s Best in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry! global.penguinrandomhouse.com/announcement...

Chúc mừng năm mới cho tất cả các bạn và đồng nghiệp người Việt Nam của tôi! Happy Tết to all my Vietnamese friends and colleagues! và tất cả các thành viên của Nhóm Giám Sát Vượn. and all the members of the FFI #Vietnam Gibbon Conservation Team.

🌔 Up at 06:00 to watch the launch of the @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social Blue Ghost mission to the moon along with the rest of the Interstellar Foundation's mission team. BG carries the IF's ASPIRE One message our first step designing a theoretical framework for planetary-scale archival communication

There ARE wolves here... @yellowstonenationalpark

Back in Yellowstone National Park 🤩. Lots of hiking through the snow, but worth it for all the wolf howls 🐺

New podcast! www.paulmeier.com/2025/01/01/e...

Just finished this really interesting book by @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social His exploration of WHY took him down some fascinating paths: eg the connection between song & emotion as a way to think about how understanding is conveyed reminded me of the book Hidden Spring by Mark Solms.

My prediction for what will happen in 2025 in the field of animal communication research. In @wired.com www.wired.com/story/artifi...

Young members of the #Bardia Nature Conservation Club, #Nepal, help us assemble our equipment for reducing human - #tiger conflict using #bioacoustics monitoring

🚨 New podcast from Nature Podcasts! Will humans ever speak wolf? 🐺 🐺 A scientist unravels the complexities of animal chatter Zoologist Arik Kershenbaum joins us to talk about his book Why Animals Talk. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Why Animals Talk", by my wonderful Girton College colleague @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social, is one of the Guardian's "best ideas books of 2024"! www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d... If you want to find out more about it, listen to this great episode of "Word of Mouth": www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

🎁Looking for a gift idea? 📚 "The best ideas books of 2024" from @theguardian.com . Including "Why Animals Talk"! www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

🎙️I recorded a podcast for the excellent But Why Kids series from Vermont Public, where young kids ask science questions. This episode is on "Why can’t animals talk to us?" 🐺🐦🐒🐬 Listen here: www.vermontpublic.org/podcast/but-...

Just published: I wrote an article for kids about animal sociality in Frontiers for Young Minds: kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

📔 The book "Isolation – solitude, secrets, atoms . . ." that accompanies the 2023 Darwin College Lectures is now available online for free! www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/d573d9... Including my chapter: "Are we alone in the universe?" 🪐

New book from Denise Herzing just arrived!

🐺 My colleague Amy Fontaine has just published this important paper on management of captive critically endangered red wolves. With 95% of all the remaining animals of this species in captivity, keeping them healthy is a top conservation priority! www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/14...

If you want to hear my talk "Why Animals Talk - and how much, actually?" given to Interspecies Internet you can find it here www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTWV...

Huge congratulations to Dr Vickie Anh-Vy Pham who graduated this weekend with her PhD on #chimpanzee buttress drumming and rhythm in flint #knapping. 🙉🔨🎶 "DRUMMING TREES AND STONE PERCUSSION: An Evolution of Rhythm"

🦜Why animals talk? with Arik Kershenbaum 📖 Join Arik Kershenbaum's Interspecies Conversations lecture on animal communication evolutionary pressures & the idea of "meaning" beyond human parallels. 📅Oct 26 ⏰5pm BST | 12pm EDT | 9am PST 🔗Register: www.interspecies.io/lectures/ari...