Ian Ingram

Photo of the cover of Madeline Schwartzman’s new book, Alive. Light blue background with a bird figure made of electronics and clear plastic and the word Alive in prominent font.

Photo of two page spread about The Woodiest, a robot that communicates with woodpeckers using their drumming and tapping signals. Includes photos of the robot with its two green heads both in the gallery and deployed in the woods.

Photo of a page in the book that talks about a set of my robots, with photos of Nevemore-A-Matic, Cinderella, Rat Re-embodied as a Robot, and Doctor Maggotty is Anxious About The End.

Photo of the table of contents of the new book, Alive, with a tantalizing list of chapters.

The Woodiest, Nevermore-A-Matic, and other of my robots are included in Madeline Schwartzman’s new book, Alive, along with an excellent collection of the work of many fantastic artists, engineers, and scientists.

Review on Bookpage:

www.bookpage.com/reviews/aliv...

AI Ecologies - Kunsthal Artphy Mens, natuur en AI in ontmoeting! Vast vooruitkijken? Het tentoonstellingsboekje staat HIER. AI Ecologies onderzoekt hoe kunstmatige intelligentie (AI) onze kijk op natuur, technologie en onszelf vera...

Here’s a link for the exhibition website: www.artphy.nl/2025/06/20/a...

Sign for the exhibition AI Ecologies outside the gallery on a country road. The sign shows a glamorous person holding a potato, all generated by AI as part of an ad campaign for potatoes.

A two-headed white woodpecker robot strapped to the vestiges of a tree in a large interior space with vaulted ceilings. The heads of the woodpecker robot are two different shades of green.

A concrete-floored “sub-floor” in the Artphy art gallery, looking down plain wooden stairs at some art pieces in the show AI Ecologies.

Last week of the exhibition, AI Ecologies, at Artphy curated by @petervanderputten.bsky.social and Roland van Dierendonck. It includes two of my robots plus many other fantastic works e.g. a device that finds faces in grains of sand, a machine-constructed alphabet from the bark patterns of a tree.

Fitness benefits of genetic rescue despite chromosomal differences in an endangered pocket mouse Two-thirds of Earth’s species have undergone population declines, leaving many vulnerable to genomic erosion and inbreeding depression. Genetic rescue can boost the fitness of small populations, but p...

Excited to share our new paper on genetic rescue in the Pacific pocket mouse! To conserve this endangered species, we sought to understand whether small populations at risk of outbreeding depression are better managed in isolation or with gene flow. @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Photo of a two-headed woodpecker robot attached to a birch tree with a strap. One head is a metallic lime green and the other a metallic forest green. The former head is positioned by its motor, ready to execute the territorial drumming of the Pileated woodpecker on the tree trunk.

AI Ecologies opens in two days at Artphy. The exhibition includes The Woodiest, a robot that, in the performance Nobody Told the Woodpeckers, explains climate change to woodpeckers.
www.artphy.nl/2025/06/20/a...

AI Ecologies - Kunsthal Artphy Mens, natuur en AI in ontmoeting! Vorig jaar organiseerde Artphy haar eerste AI expo. Een nieuwe materie! (Zie ook De expo en de lezing). Een mooi begin! Nu verder. Met […]

AI Ecologies at Artphy opens in two weeks. I will have robots in the exhibition.

Curated by Peter van der Putten and Roland van Dierendonck.

www.artphy.nl/2025/06/20/a...

07-2025 AI Ecologies - Kunsthal Artphy Expositie AI Ecologies 06-07 t/m 30-08 Natuur, mens en technologie. Hoe leven mens, natuur en technologie samen, nu en in de toekomst? Hoe verandert de ontwikkeling van Artificiële Intelligentie onze ...

I will have robots in this exhibition on AI Ecologies at Artphy: www.artphy.nl/2025/03/28/a...

I almost can’t look at it.

When I was a youth, I ate many tiny, tiny shrimp. I found a good source of tiny, tiny shrimp recently and, eating them, have been thinking of them as krill and of myself as a whale. I drink them in water, press the water out through gaps between my teeth, and lick the filtered shrimp into my gullet.

I had Hedgehog going all the way and defeating Polar Bear in the final. I cannot resist supporting the underhedgehog.

"We propose an alternative lightweight computer vision method for fish counting based on analyzing echograms"

Make everything a computer vision problem 😆

Cool study from @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social et al.

Might be more broadly applicable to PAM and acoustic behavior?

#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics

We have two openings for stipended ugrad fellows at the Conservation Technology Lab at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.

One is in CV/ML for field camera systems:

us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

Second is in field device design (image or sound):

us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review Vocal communication is broadly distributed in a wide range of nonhuman animal species and is hypothesized to play an important role in mate attraction…

Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... In our new paper we review 130 papers and summarise empirical evidence for socioecological factors affecting vocal communication, as well as evidence for vocal learning in different corvid species.

When the earth is no longer a suitable home, the earthworms will transmogrify into beings better aligned with an increasingly plastic world.

This paper is a fantastic resource for researchers doing biodiversity monitoring, especially occupancy modeling. Check it out!

Congrats & thanks to @ben-r-goldstein.bsky.social, @kendallcalhoun.bsky.social, @drpheebs.bsky.social, and other authors :)

I started to put together a starter pack for research in AI+Ecology, check it out and let me know if you would like to be added!

go.bsky.app/8zugFF6

🎯 How can we empower scientific discovery in millions of nature photos?

Introducing INQUIRE: A benchmark testing if AI vision-language models can help scientists find biodiversity patterns- from disease symptoms to rare behaviors- hidden in vast image collections.

Thread👇🧵

Looks like a cool #bioacoustics gig

Bioacoustics Resource Page Bioacoustics Resources A list curated by the Kitzes Lab hint: bookmark this page :) Educational Materials Workshops by the Kitzes Lab Lecture series from Computer Vision for Ecology workshop Class...

If you're looking for bioacoustics tips and help, check out the #Bioacoustics Resource Page (run by Sam Lapp and the Kitzes Lab) - bit.ly/bioacoustics-resource-page

It has links to tons of tutorials, datasets, software, forums, #AudioMoth info, and more

The link has been re-activated!

Hey folks! The link to apply at this posting is inactive as of today but the search is still active. In the meantime, please reach out to me if you are qualified and interested in the position.

Thanks, Kyle! The link to apply on this posting went inactive today but the search is still active. While we work on fixing the link, please contact me if you are interested in the position.

Searching for #bioacoustics tools to classify species, organize data, triangulate sounds, ...? 🦉🐋🦇🦗

Check out the (newly updated) Bioacoustics Software Database! rhine3.github.io/bioacoustics...

A wee woodland robot called Lizardless Legs competes for territory with local lizards.

The robot’s body is reduced to the bare minimum necessary to execute the territorial push-up gesture the lizards use to claim their diminutive domains and to fight their bloodless ceremonial bobbing battles.

It looks like it is going to dance.

MANIFESTO: A Moderate Proposal - e-flux Education MANIFESTO: A Moderate Proposal // January 20–March 30, 2018

I wrote it in 2017. It was for this exhibition in 2018: www.e-flux.com/announcement...

The Smallist Manifesto December 18th, 2017

It’s on Medium: medium.com/@ian_ingram/...

The Smallist Manifesto nailed to a door.

I wrote “The Smallist Manifesto” about Smallism for an exhibition about manifestos. Does that count?

Cool! Yeah, it’s not even called the ICR anymore. We’re like a species that keeps getting renamed each time a taxonomist discovers something fresh and new about us.