During David’s 2023 lecture "Reconstructing the Natural History of Awareness", we dived deep into octopus behavior, eye evolution, and awareness in invertebrates. 💡🧠
Join the conversation! Watch the lecture ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9sNYf63Ddo
31.07.2025 19:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🐋 TOMORROW! 🚨
Join @begus.bsky.social to explore sperm whale “codas” and what they mean for language, AI, & law.
📅Sat, July 19 | 🕓 4PM GMT / 12PM EST / 9AM PST
📍Online
🔗 RSVP now: https://www.interspecies.io/lectures/gasper-begus
#AIethics #AnimalCommunication #ProjectCETI
18.07.2025 16:03 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
🐋 Meet Brenda McCowan — Professor of Ethology and Director of the McCowan-Vandeleest Lab at the University of California.
🚀Explore insights from over 40 thought leaders in the Workshop Proceedings ➡️ www.interspecies.io/publication
Thank you to @sfiscience.bsky.social + @xprize.org 🙌🏽
16.07.2025 19:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🔊 Throwback to David Edelman's lecture on octopus consciousness!
🐙 A Neuroscientist exploring why octopuses offer a unique window into the origins of sensory awareness and consciousness in animals without backbones.
Watch full lecture on YouTube ➡️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9sNYf63Ddo
10.07.2025 18:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🦠Meet Brandon Ogbunu —a computational biologist exploring epidemiology, evolutionary genetics, and population biology at Yale University
🚀Explore insights from over 40 thought leaders in the Workshop Proceedings➡️ www.interspecies.io/publication
Thank you to @sfiscience.bsky.social + @xprize.org 🙌🏽
09.07.2025 16:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚀Meet our new speaker: @begus.bsky.social — @projectceti.bsky.social Linguistics Lead & AI researcher asking how sperm whale codas could reshape our view of language (and interspecies legal standing).
📅Sat, July 19 |🕓4PM GMT/12PM EST/9AM PST |📍Zoom
🔗Info & RSVP: www.interspecies.io/lectures/gas...
08.07.2025 16:29 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🚀 New Interspecies Lecture with @begus.bsky.social !
Did you know sperm whales use vowel-like sounds?
Discover what this means for language, AI, and law!
📅Saturday, July 19🕓4 PM GMT | 12 PM EST | 9 AM PST📍Online via Zoom
🔗 More info & registration: https://encr.pw/LKH6i
@projectceti.bsky.social
02.07.2025 17:02 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🌍🌿 Meet Kate Armstrong — Executive Director of Interspecies Internet and a strategist for emergent futures.
🚀 Explore insights from over 40 thought leaders in the Workshop Proceedings ➡️ https://www.interspecies.io/publication
Thank you to @sfiscience.bsky.social + @xprize.org 🙌🏽
01.07.2025 18:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🐋 Tom Mustill's lecture "How to Speak Whale" explores how technology is transforming our understanding of interspecies communication.
A brilliant dive into storytelling, science, and ethics.
📺 Watch the lecture → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGyxTlG_jjE
26.06.2025 16:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🔊 Filmmaker and author Tom Mustill asks: how can we protect animals from new technologies and make sure we are not harming or exploiting them?
🌊 Revisit Tom's 2023 lecture and Q&A: "How to Speak Whale"
📺 Watch now ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGyxTlG_jjE
19.06.2025 18:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
⚡️🌱 Missed Paco’s talk "Do Plants Talk Back? Only If We Learn to Listen" last Saturday? Catch the full conversation on our YouTube channel!
🔗 Watch the full recording – https://youtu.be/YVl3caS72h0
16.06.2025 17:04 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🐵🌎 Meet Cat Hobaiter — a researcher studying wild apes across Africa to uncover the roots of how language and thought evolved!
🚀 Explore insights from over 40 scientists in the Workshop Proceedings ➡️ https://www.interspecies.io/publication
Thank you to @sfiscience.bsky.social + @xprize.org 🙌🏽
13.06.2025 20:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
⚡️Join us tomorrow as Paco Calvo shares insights from his research on plant cognition and behavior!
What counts as communication? Why do we assume meaningful interaction ends where nervous systems do?
🌳 Don’t miss it! Register now: www.interspecies.io/lectures/paco
13.06.2025 13:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
✍🏽 In 2022, Karen Bakker (1971–2023) delivered the lecture: “Listening Across the Tree of Life.”
She proposed a powerful hypothesis: “Every living organism on the planet, unless proven otherwise, is sensitive to sound.”
🎥 Full lecture on YouTube → → https://rb.gy/9a9tsb
12.06.2025 14:01 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🌿What are plants saying? Can they be considered intelligent?
Join Paco Calvo as he shares the latest discoveries in plant behaviour and non-neural cognition.
📆 Saturday, June 14 ⏰ 4 pm GMT |12 pm EST |9 am PST
🔗 Register here: www.interspecies.io/lectures/paco
06.06.2025 14:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🔊 Revisiting Dr. Karen Bakker’s Lecture: "Listening Across the Tree of Life"
🐢We warmly remember our discussion on how bio- and ecoacoustics are transforming environmental science, conservation, and interspecies communication.
📺 Watch here: rb.gy/9a9tsb
05.06.2025 14:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚀 Join Paco Calvo for the lecture “Do Plants Talk Back? Only If We Learn to Listen"
Plants exhibit forms of sensitivity that challenge conventional cognitive boundaries! Ready to listen to them?
📆Saturday, June 14 ⏰4 pm GMT |12 pm EST |9 am PST 🔗Register here: https://rb.gy/ey3kdp
30.05.2025 17:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
✍🏽 In 2022, Blaise Agüera y Arcas asked: “Can Machines Learn How to Behave?”
We explored AI and how emerging technologies might help us translate animal communication and create an Interspecies Internet!
Watch the full lecture → www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grzn...
29.05.2025 15:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
⚡️🐶Missed @federicorossano.bsky.social's talk last Saturday?
Can Our Pets Tell Us What They’re Thinking? — Watch the full discussion on our YouTube channel to find out! 👀
🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=RpjF...
21.05.2025 18:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AI may never give us a Rosetta Stone for animal communication—but like the telescope, has the potential to expand what humans are able to perceive.
Thank you @sarahscoles.bsky.social for highlighting this work & asking the challenging questions that come with it ⬇️
16.05.2025 20:35 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
A year ago I was at @sfiscience.bsky.social talking about the exiting new landscape in science where we can study humans, animals, and AI in many new ways.
20.05.2025 02:14 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I had the most wonderful time presenting our current progress on this project to the amazing @interspecies-io.bsky.social community! If you could not attend but are interested in finding out more about our work, check out the lecture here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpjF...
20.05.2025 23:52 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🐋 Meet @begus.bsky.social — Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley and Linguistics Lead at @projectceti.bsky.social, researching how humans and machines learn language!
🚀 Explore more insights in the Workshop Proceedings ➡️ www.interspecies.io/publication
Thanks @sfiscience.bsky.social + @xprize.org 🙌🏽
16.05.2025 16:01 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
🔊 Explore Artificial Intelligence and its relevance to an Interspecies Internet with Blaise Agüera y Arcas.
Revisit his 2022 lecture and Q&A: "Can Machines Learn How to Behave?"
📺 Watch now ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrznM4B2etU
15.05.2025 18:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us this Saturday as Federico Rossano shares how dogs and cats across 47 countries are using buttons to "speak" with humans.
💬 Discover the potential, the limits, and what it means for our bond with animals!
👉 Register now: www.interspecies.io/lectures/fed...
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13.05.2025 16:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚀 New talk: Can Our Pets Tell Us What They’re Thinking? with @federicorossano.bsky.social
Join this lecture and explore the potential and limitations of button-based devices for interspecies communication! 🐶💭
📆Saturday, May 17 ⏰4 pm GMT |12 pm EST |9 am PST 🔗Register here: https://rb.gy/w8ikcn
06.05.2025 20:15 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 2
🌎 Meet Chris Kempes—Professor and member of the Science Steering Committee at @sfiscience.bsky.social
🚀 Explore insights from over 40 scientists in the Animals in Translation Workshop Proceedings ➡️ interspecies.io/publication
Thank you to @sfiscience.bsky.social + @xprize.org 🙌🏽
30.04.2025 18:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What if animals could actively participate in our economy? 🐾💬
🎥 Join Jonathan Ledgard and Neil Gershenfeld for a groundbreaking conversation on interspecies equity through digital, AI and economic representation — now on our YouTube channel: rb.gy/zti7gy
29.04.2025 20:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Support our mission and explore animal cognition, ethics & interspecies empathy. Your donation fuels free public programs and advances research!
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29.04.2025 11:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🔊 Is there any reason to consider octopuses as aliens? Could they have come from outer space?
🐙🧠 Watch Dr. Jennifer Mather’s 2022 lecture, "Octopuses and Intelligent Aliens from Space, What?" and explore the evidence! ➡️ https://rb.gy/s19kyj
24.04.2025 15:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
