Arik Kershenbaum
@arikkershenbaum.bsky.social
Zoologist at Girton College, University of Cambridge. Author of 'The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy' and 'Why Animals Talk' https://bit.ly/482925U. Animal communication researcher, https://www.bioacousticsresearchgroup.org/
📢How animals reveal secrets of our intelligence
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#AI, #LLM, and animal communication, with Tim El-Sheikh from The CEO Retort
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#AI, #LLM, and animal communication, with Tim El-Sheikh from The CEO Retort
Leading zoologist: How animals reveal secrets of our intelligence
YouTube video by The CEO Retort
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November 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
📢How animals reveal secrets of our intelligence
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUfq...
#AI, #LLM, and animal communication, with Tim El-Sheikh from The CEO Retort
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUfq...
#AI, #LLM, and animal communication, with Tim El-Sheikh from The CEO Retort
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!
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August 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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...
greatplainsfoundation.com/tiger-conser...
And don't forget to watch the fantastic video by @Grizanderson www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnVL...
Tiger Conservation in Nepal: Real-Time Acoustic Monitoring for Coexistence - Great Plains Foundation
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July 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🐯🦌🔊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...
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.
Movements like @standing-together.bsky.social and Hand in Hand (www.handinhandk12.org) are building that peace.
July 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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.
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 🐅
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July 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
📣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...
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!
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!
July 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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!
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
Variation in phenotype, genotype, and somatic diversity among asexual Schmidtea mediterranea planarians
July 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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
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
July 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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...
6:30 Girton College. Free. Book here: actionnetwork.org/events/the-h...
June 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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...
6:30 Girton College. Free. Book here: actionnetwork.org/events/the-h...
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June 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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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...
www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
An AI-Assisted Chat with Dolphins
A large language model for dolphin vocalization could let us better understand these beloved marine mammals
www.scientificamerican.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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...
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.
May 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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:
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PRIMATES IN PERIL: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates 2023–2025
Updated information about the cao vit gibbon!
Link download:
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www.facebook.com/share/p/1E6p...
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May 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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...
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...
actionnetwork.org/events/build...
Building power through Jewish-Palestinian solidarity: Hear Standing Together leaders speak in Cambridge
UK Friends of Standing Together is proud to host Amin Amara and Uri Weltmann, two members of the Standing Together leadership, for a speaking tour in the UK. Standing Together is a grassroots social ...
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May 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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...
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....
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....
Cold-blooded culture? Assessing cultural behaviour in reptiles and its potential conservation implications | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
It is becoming clear that the cognition of a species plays an important role in successful
conservation, with cultural processes being a fundamental part of this. However, in
contrast to mammals and b...
royalsocietypublishing.org
May 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
"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....
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
Thursday May 15 6pm, Woolf Institute, Cambridge
actionnetwork.org/events/build...
@ukfost.bsky.social
April 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
📣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
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
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
Scientists find promising hints of life on distant planet K2-18b
Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 17, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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
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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPGy...
#scicom
Arik Kershenbaum - Why Animals Talk
YouTube video by A Fresh Face in Hell with Jonathan Evison
www.youtube.com
March 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Another cool podcast, if you want to know more about animal communication 🦧📣
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPGy...
#scicom
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 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...
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...
March 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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/...
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/...
Acoustic Localisation as a Tool to Aid Monitoring of Golden Jackals (Canis aureus)
In this study, we tested the low-cost CARACAL recorder for acoustic localisation of golden jackals in Romania. We successfully detected and localised jackal howls, recommending an optimal recorder sp....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
🚨📣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/...
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)...
March 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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...
"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...
Dr. Arik Kershenbaum - 90.5 WICN Public Radio
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 ...
wicn.org
February 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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...
"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...
www.ctpublic.org/show/the-col...
The secret language of animals and how we're learning to understand it
This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, we learn about how animals communicate with one another and what it can teach us about human language.
www.ctpublic.org
February 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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...
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
www.brainshaman.com/2067421/epis...
#scicomm
Arik Kershenbaum: The Evolution of Animal and Human Communication | Episode 115 - Brain Shaman
This is an interview with zoologist Arik Kershenbaum about communication in animals and humans.
www.brainshaman.com
February 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
📢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
www.brainshaman.com/2067421/epis...
#scicomm