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/
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 🐅
soundcloud.com/faderadio/li...
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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!
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...
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.
📣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
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
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
February 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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
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
The Emerging Bioacousticians' Days (JJBA) is a scientific conference designed by and for young researchers in the field of bioacoustics.
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jjbioacoustique.wixsite.com/jjba/en/insc...
February 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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...
jjbioacoustique.wixsite.com/jjba/en/insc...
3/3 Tigers, rhinos, leopards all take a toll on the villagers and their livestock, but as one said to me, "When I go into the forest, I'm going into the tiger's home. He's not coming into mine."
Find out more here www.bioacousticsresearchgroup.org/our-projects
Find out more here www.bioacousticsresearchgroup.org/our-projects
January 31, 2025 at 11:56 AM
3/3 Tigers, rhinos, leopards all take a toll on the villagers and their livestock, but as one said to me, "When I go into the forest, I'm going into the tiger's home. He's not coming into mine."
Find out more here www.bioacousticsresearchgroup.org/our-projects
Find out more here www.bioacousticsresearchgroup.org/our-projects
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...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
January 31, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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.
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.
January 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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.
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
January 15, 2025 at 7:17 AM
🌔 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
@yellowstonenationalpark
January 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
There ARE wolves here...
@yellowstonenationalpark
@yellowstonenationalpark
Back in Yellowstone National Park 🤩. Lots of hiking through the snow, but worth it for all the wolf howls 🐺
January 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Back in Yellowstone National Park 🤩. Lots of hiking through the snow, but worth it for all the wolf howls 🐺
Young members of the #Bardia Nature Conservation Club, #Nepal, help us assemble our equipment for reducing human - #tiger conflict using #bioacoustics monitoring
December 14, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Young members of the #Bardia Nature Conservation Club, #Nepal, help us assemble our equipment for reducing human - #tiger conflict using #bioacoustics monitoring
📔 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?" 🪐
Including my chapter: "Are we alone in the universe?" 🪐
November 27, 2024 at 10:06 AM
📔 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?" 🪐
Including my chapter: "Are we alone in the universe?" 🪐
New book from Denise Herzing just arrived!
November 5, 2024 at 5:05 PM
New book from Denise Herzing just arrived!
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"
"DRUMMING TREES AND STONE PERCUSSION: An Evolution of Rhythm"
October 28, 2024 at 10:54 AM
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"
"DRUMMING TREES AND STONE PERCUSSION: An Evolution of Rhythm"
Taking the Eurostar train to the Göttingen Literature Festival. Better than flying!
October 18, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Taking the Eurostar train to the Göttingen Literature Festival. Better than flying!
Today we leafleted outside the Freshers' Fair in support of UK Friends of Standing Together. "Standing Together" is a progressive grassroots movement mobilizing Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel against the occupation and for peace, equality, and social justice. www.standing-together.org/en
October 8, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Today we leafleted outside the Freshers' Fair in support of UK Friends of Standing Together. "Standing Together" is a progressive grassroots movement mobilizing Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel against the occupation and for peace, equality, and social justice. www.standing-together.org/en
🏅 I am very proud to have been awarded the Science Communication Medal by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and the Göttingen Literary Festival. Come hear me talk about The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy on October 19th!
www.literaturherbst.com/programm/fes...
www.literaturherbst.com/programm/fes...
October 7, 2024 at 2:24 PM
🏅 I am very proud to have been awarded the Science Communication Medal by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and the Göttingen Literary Festival. Come hear me talk about The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy on October 19th!
www.literaturherbst.com/programm/fes...
www.literaturherbst.com/programm/fes...
Had such a great time at the Sevenoaks Literary Festival, talking to room full of young people interested in science, animal communication, and what it means to be a zoologist studying animals in the wild
September 17, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Had such a great time at the Sevenoaks Literary Festival, talking to room full of young people interested in science, animal communication, and what it means to be a zoologist studying animals in the wild
I'm a sucker for old zoology books, so when I saw this one for £3 at G. David in Cambridge, I snapped it up. Only to find that a previous owner had placed several carefully snipped newspaper articles and little sketches between the pages 🤩. A window into a Victorian amateur naturalist's life
August 29, 2024 at 1:42 PM
I'm a sucker for old zoology books, so when I saw this one for £3 at G. David in Cambridge, I snapped it up. Only to find that a previous owner had placed several carefully snipped newspaper articles and little sketches between the pages 🤩. A window into a Victorian amateur naturalist's life