This Saturday: “Scientific Speciesism: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism” with @christinewebb.bsky.social
How does hidden human bias shape science and our view of other animals?
📅 25 April
🕓 4 PM GMT | 12 PM EST | 9 AM PST
📍 Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register: shorturl.at/ywwEd
📣New Lecture! Humans are often seen as an apex species, but is this accurate?
Join @christinewebb.bsky.social for “Scientific Speciesism: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism in Primatology and Beyond.”
📅Saturday, 25 April
🕓4 PM GMT |12 PM EST |9 AM PST
📍Online
🔗Register here: shorturl.at/fsYpx
“WhAM: the Whale Acoustics Model” with Orr Paradise (@projectceti.bsky.social) is now live on our YouTube channel 🐋
🔗Click here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-YH...
🔊 Throwback: "Can Different Species Understand Each Other's Emotions?” with Dr. Elodie Briefer.
Discover how animals communicate emotions, and how machine learning reveals insights into the evolution of cross-species understanding!
📺 Watch the lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TggoBGM1L4
📣 Reminder: New date confirmed!
Join us this Saturday for “WhAM: the Whale Acoustics Model” with Orr Paradise (@projectceti.bsky.social)
📅 April 4 | 🕓 4 PM GMT
📍 Online (Zoom)
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🤝Signal Boost 2026 launches with a $25k matching gift from internet pioneer Dr. Vint Cerf.
🌱Support the convening work connecting partners across science & technology to advance ethical interspecies communication.
🔗 Donate here: www.interspecies.io/donate
📣 Rescheduled: Our lecture with Orr Paradise is now on April 4 (same time).
🕓 4 PM GMT | 12 PM EST | 9 AM PST
We’ll dive into @projectceti.bsky.social's WhAM — join us!
Registered participants have received an updated invite.
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🦧 How do great apes communicate—and what can that reveal about human evolution?
In May 2024, Catherine “Cat” Hobaiter joined us to explore ape gestures, cognition, and social behavior.
🎥 Watch the lecture now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaU3zhPqTV0
🐋 Join us this Saturday!
Orr from @projectceti.bsky.social presents “WhAM: the Whale Acoustics Model.”
Don’t miss the chance to learn from the scientists behind this technological breakthrough.
📅Saturday, 28 March🕓12 PM EDT📍Online (Zoom)
🔗Register:https://www.interspecies.io/lectures/orr-paradise
🐋 Curious to know more about the world of sperm whales?
Our upcoming lecture is one not to be missed – “WhAM: the Whale Acoustics Model” with Orr Paradise (@projectceti.bsky.social )
📅 Saturday, 28 March 🕓 12 PM EDT📍 Online (Zoom)
🔗 Registrations: https://www.interspecies.io/lectures/orr-paradise
🔊 Throwback Thursday: “Ape Talk: Reimagining the Study of Great Ape Communication” with Cat Hobaiter.
Explore how wild apes communicate and think!
📺 Watch the lecture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaU3...
Press play on a different world by tuning into audio selections with whale-listening instructions at projectceti.org/listen!
Photo: Amanda Cotton
📣 New Lecture: WhAM — the Whale Acoustics Model with Orr Paradise
Explore @projectceti.bsky.social transformer-based model that synthesizes & analyzes sperm whale codas!
🗓 Mar 28 | 4pm GMT/ 12 pm EST/ 9am PST | Online
🔗 Registration: https://www.interspecies.io/lectures/orr-paradise
🔊 Canaries, songs, and AI? Meet TweetyBERT.
Tim Gardner takes us inside this model's design and the complexity of songbird communication: using a self-supervised transformer model to decode — without any human-labeled data.
📺 Watch the full lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzA5_dMo-1g
🚀 This is the moment when even a small gift goes twice as far ⭐️
Our Trustee, Vinton G. Cerf, made a generous offer: he will match donations to Interspecies Internet, dollar-for-dollar, up to $25k.
🔗 Help us build the foundations for interspecies communication: https://www.interspecies.io/donate
🔊 Throwback to Tim Gardner’s lecture "TweetyBERT: Uncovering Canary Song Syntax"
In this 2024 lecture, we explored canary syntax and TweetyBERT — a model analyzing birdsong without human-labeled data!
📺 Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzA5_dMo-1g
#AnimalCommunication #AIResearch
🎨 In 2024, Sophia Brueckner gave the talk “Bowerbirds."
🔸 What does it mean if bowerbirds make art?
🔸 Can humans or computers truly mimic their process?
🔸 How are bowerbirds reshaping how we think about generative AI and creativity?
👉The lecture: https://tinyurl.com/5e7f5vjw
🔔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
🔊 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
⏰ 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! 💚
⏰ 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 🔗 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/HpyXUDk...
🦉 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
📣 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...
🦉 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...
🏆✨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!
➡️www.apadivisions.org/division-3/awards/lifeti...
🐝 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
🐝 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
🦇 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
🎙️ 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...
🐋📓 MOTH’s new ethics framework for Nonhuman Animal Communication Technologies is live—catch the panel and explore the report:
🔗mothlife.org/technology-ecology/nonhu... 🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVVSxNDUyUg
