Interspecies Internet
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Interspecies Internet
@interspecies-io.bsky.social
🌐 Think-tank to accelerate our understanding of interspecies communication.

👉 Supported by Google & MIT

https://www.interspecies.io/
🔔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
February 13, 2026 at 3:56 PM
🔊 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
February 12, 2026 at 12:38 PM
⏰ 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! 💚
📣 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...
February 6, 2026 at 2:02 PM
⏰ 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<a href="/hashtag/%2Fregistration" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#/registration
February 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
🦉 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
January 29, 2026 at 1:02 PM
📣 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...
January 29, 2026 at 12:33 PM
🦉 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...
January 22, 2026 at 11:52 AM
🏆✨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
January 16, 2026 at 12:02 PM
🐝 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
January 15, 2026 at 3:03 PM
🐝 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
December 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
🦇 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
December 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
🎙️ 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...
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
🐋📓 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
November 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🦇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
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
✍🏽 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
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🎥 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
November 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
🔊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
November 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🌿 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
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🌿 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
October 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🚀 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
October 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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
October 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🔊 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
October 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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
October 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
✍🏽 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...
October 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
🐬 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...
October 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM