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🌐 Think-tank to accelerate our understanding of interspecies communication.

👉 Supported by Google & MIT

https://www.interspecies.io/
🐋📓 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
Jane Goodall (1934–2025). 

A trailblazer in science and conservation. Her impact is one of a kind, immeasurable, and far-reaching. Dr. Jane Goodall's legacy lives on in all of us. 💚🌱

📽️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPI5Uw3tCQ4
October 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
🐬 New Lecture! “Decoding Dolphins in the Wild. How difficult can it be?”

Dr. Denise Herzing will share how DolphinGemma and CHAT are transforming research into dolphin sounds & meaning.

📆 Oct 11 | 12 pm EST | Online
🔗 Register: https://www.interspecies.io/lectures/denise-herzing
September 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🔊 Throwback to Oscar Salguero’s lecture "Interspecies Library: Books as Portals to Interspecies Futures"

Explore visionary books that are reshaping interspecies discourse!

📺 Watch on YouTube → www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B6A...
September 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🌍🚨 Final week! The Edge AI Earth Guardians Challenge closes Sept 30.

Submit your Edge AI project for conservation + sustainability 🌱✨

👉 https://www.hackster.io/contests/earthguardians
September 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
During @earthspecies.bsky.social' 2023 lecture "AI to Unlock Interspecies Communication", we explored how AI is reshaping our understanding of animal societies and driving conservation.

Join the conversation! Revisit the lecture ➡️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9SvPs1cCds
September 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
⚡️🐒Missed Dr. Omer’s talk "The Naming of Nonhuman Primates: Vocal Labeling of Others by Marmoset Monkeys" last Saturday?

🔗 Catch the full conversation on our YouTube channel!
https://youtu.be/aeLDYcyaQCE
September 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
⏰ Tomorrow!

Dr. David Omer on how marmoset monkeys use calls to “name” each other 🐒🔊

📆 Sept 13 | 4pm GMT / 12pm EST / 9am PST | 📍Zoom
🔗 Register: https://shorturl.at/IjkHg

#PrimateCommunication #Neuroscience
September 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
👋 Meet our next speaker, neuroscientist Dr. David Omer!

His lab’s work with marmosets is changing how we understand communication, social behavior & the origins of language.

📆 Sept 13 | ⏰ 12pm EST / 9am PST | 📍Zoom
🔗 Register to join: https://shorturl.at/VPXvN

#Neuroscience #PrimateCommunication
September 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New Lecture: The Naming of Nonhuman Primates 🐒🔊

Join us as Dr. David Omer reveals how marmoset monkeys use calls to “name” one another!

📆 Sept 13 | ⏰ 4pm GMT / 12pm EST / 9am PST | 📍Zoom
🔗 Register: https://www.interspecies.io/lectures/david-omer

#PrimateCommunication
September 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
🔊How can AI help unlock interspecies communication?

In their lecture, Katie Zacarian and Sara Keen explored the foundations of the
@earthspecies.bsky.social ’s work and the challenges of using AI & ML to better understand the non-human world.

🎥Watch now➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9SvPs1cCds
August 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🐾 How do we build shared tools for interspecies communication research?
 
Our new roundtable tackled this question while brainstorming open-source solutions. The conversation is continuing on Slack. 

🚀 Join us and watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XCAkI-KqeQ
August 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🔔 Reminder: Tomorrow, join our Interspecies Conversations roundtable (with 5 amazing guests), moderated by Neil Gershenfeld.

🔗 Registrations & Lecture Details: interspecies.io/lectures/dat...
August 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM