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Earth Species Project (ESP) uses AI to decode animal communication, finding new ways of listening to and learning from the rest of nature.
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#BirdCLEF+ 2025 is now open! 🐦💡 ESP is proud to support this year's competition by overseeing a FootPrint Coalition Science Engine grant that funded a key dataset focused on under-studied species from Colombia’s Middle Magdalena Valley. 🔗 Learn more & participate: www.imageclef.org/BirdCLEF2025

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To protect nature, we must rethink our connection to it 🔄🌿 In her recent feature with @chathamhouse.org, ESP’s Jane Lawton shared how AI is helping us understand other species—and why shifting our perspective is key to a regenerative future. Read more ⬇️ bit.ly/43OBolc

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Our Director of Communications, Brittany Solano, is heading to #SXSW2025 next week! Hope to see you on March 10 at 10am for a conversation on how we're leveraging AI to transform the way we understand and engage with the natural world 🌱🌍 📆: schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/...

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Have you heard viral hits on the whale wide web? 🐳 🎶 This week ESP Co-Founder Aza Raskin spoke with @baratunde.com on #LifeWithMachines about how AI is revealing hidden details of animal culture & the responsibility that comes with understanding these voices. 🎙️Listen at: bit.ly/41IF7zD

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The natural world is full of conversations we’ve yet to understand. At ESP, we’re exploring new ways to listen and deepen our connection with the world around us 🌍🤝 This #WorldWildlifeDay, we invite you to reflect with us—when do you feel most connected to the rest of nature?

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We're thrilled to have Senior Research Scientist, Sara Keen represent ESP at the 2025 AI for Animals conference this weekend! Catch her talk on Saturday afternoon to hear more about ESP's latest milestones in transforming bioacoustics research 🔊✨

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ESP co-founder, Aza Raskin spoke with @kncukier.bsky.social on the Babbage podcast by @economist.com, where he shared how we're leveraging AI to decode animal communication and working toward a future of interspecies understanding 🌍 www.economist.com/podcasts/202...

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One of our latest papers, Biodenoising, has been accepted to #ICASSP2025! Biodenoising is our newest method to tackle one of ethology & bioacoustics' biggest data analysis challenges – background noise! 🧵👇🏻 www.earthspecies.org/blog/biodeno...

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Hi Bluesky – excited to officially introduce ourselves! We're Earth Species Project, a non-profit decoding animal communication with advanced AI to illuminate the diverse intelligences on earth. Follow us to join the conversation as we explore the future of interspecies understanding! 💙 🌍

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Congratulations to NatureLM-audio authors David Robinson, Marius Miron, @mhagiwara.bsky.social, and Olivier Pietquin on this huge accomplishment. We're looking forward to presenting at #ICLR2025 in April.

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🎙️ Hear Director of Impact Jane Lawton on The FUTURES Podcast, exploring the profound implications of decoding animal communication—not just for conservation, but for our relationship with the natural world. 🎧 Listen here: futurespodcast.net/episodes/bon...

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Zebra finches are nuanced communicators. In partnership with @loganjames.bsky.social & Sarah Woolley, we’re building AI models to decode their vocalizations. apnews.com/article/arti... (Big thanks to @reidhoffman.bsky.social & @waverleystreet.bsky.social for making this work possible).

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📢 Our paper "BEBE" has been accepted in Movement Ecology! BEBE is the largest and most taxonomically diverse benchmark for comparing ML methods in bio-logger data analysis. Read more: movementecologyjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Using #AI to understand #animal #language. www.nature.com/immersive/d4... @natureportfolio.bsky.social @projectceti1.bsky.social @earthspecies.bsky.social #whales #elephants #monkeys #crows #seals

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We’re thrilled to see @earthspecies and our work with carrion crows in Spain featured in Nature! Read about our modern AI approach here: tinyurl.com/3x4x5kx7. Big thanks to @neilsavage.bsky.social for diving into our technical approach.

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🐋 Big news! We just secured $17M from @reidhoffman.bsky.social & Waverley Street Foundation to advance AI-driven animal communication breakthroughs! With this support, we’re scaling our work to decode animal comms & deepen our connection to the natural world. www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

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See Earth Species Project in a beautiful piece from @newyorker.com on how researchers and scientists are working to unravel the complexities of bird vocalizations. 🐦 Read the piece here: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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🐋🌍 Check out this in-depth interview with ESP's Director of Impact on how we're using tech to drive conservation and reconnect with nature. parley.tv/journal/eart... #AI #Conservation #AnimalCommunication #EarthSpeciesProject

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Read CEO Katie Zacarian's interview in @atmosmagazine.bsky.social exploring the potential - and the ethical challenges - of decoding animal communication. atmos.earth/using-ai-to-...

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Today, we’re introducing NatureLM-audio: the first large audio-language model tailored for understanding animal sounds. arxiv.org/abs/2411.07186 🧵👇

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