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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · Aug 19

I've just joined the scientific committee of the @CollerDolittle Prize coller-dolittle-24.sites.tau.ac.il offering $100,000 each year for scientific research that has used a non-invasive approach to communicate with or decipher an organism’s communication. Submit by the deadline of September 30th!

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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · Jul 29

More information about our group here:
➡️https://www.bioacousticsresearchgroup.org/
@hollyhowls.bsky.social @bethysmith.bsky.social
#TigerConservation #Nepal #bioacoustics

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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · Jul 29

🐯🦌🔊Read about the amazing work we're doing in Nepal to prevent human-tiger conflict using AI devices that listen out for deer alarm calls!
greatplainsfoundation.com/tiger-conser...
And don't forget to watch the fantastic video by @Grizanderson www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnVL...

Tiger Conservation in Nepal: Real-Time Acoustic Monitoring for Coexistence - Great Plains Foundation

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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · Jul 26

Once again, Star Trek nails social commentary. Even if the conflict in the Middle East is "over some piece of land", the reality is that "the basis for peace must be personal".

Movements like @standing-together.bsky.social and Hand in Hand (www.handinhandk12.org) are building that peace.

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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · Jul 8

📣Check out the Listening Fields podcast, where I talk to the fantastic Dr Vickie Pham about recording animals in the wild, meaning & information in animal calls, and how we use acoustic monitoring to aid conservation of critically endangered species 🐅
soundcloud.com/faderadio/li...

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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · Jul 8

@ricard.bsky.social‬ @hollyhowls.bsky.social

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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · Jul 8

New paper! Using AI to track the frequency of vocalisations across a (very) wide range of species
www.ricardmarxer.com/f0-bioacoust...
In wolves, dolphins, etc, the up-down of frequency of their calls is where all the information is. Neural nets can do this automatically!
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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · Jul 5

Turns out that even splittling in half is a bottleneck of some kind - not as good as a single cell, it's true, but still advantageous. Also, Simon's flatworms have remarkable genetic diversity for organisms that should be identical. There's more going on there than we realised!

Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · Jul 5

Organisms can avoid their own cells being selfish (i.e. cancer) by reproducing via a single-cell bottleneck (i.e. egg). But flatworms reproduce by splitting into 2! How do they avoid cancer?

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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · Jul 5

Congratulations Dr ‪@simon-kershenbaum.bsky.social‬ on his first lead author paper 🎉http://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225012969
Variation in phenotype, genotype, and somatic diversity among asexual Schmidtea mediterranea planarians

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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · Jul 4

Just finished reading Ittay Flescher's remarkable book, "The Holy and the Broken". If you are tired of endless dehumanisation of both sides do come to his book launch at Girton College, Cambridge, on July 16th. Sign up on the link here actionnetwork.org/events/the-h... @ukfost.bsky.social

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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · Jun 23

‪@ittay78.bsky.social‬‬ @ukfost.bsky.social @standing-together.bsky.social

Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · Jun 23

On July 16 I'll be hosting Ittay Flescher for a talk about his book "The Holy and the Broken" - how communities can work together to overcome the hatred and the destruction that we see around us in Israel and Palestine.
6:30 Girton College. Free. Book here: actionnetwork.org/events/the-h...

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Ricard Marxer @ricard.bsky.social · Jun 20

‪@brbbfreitas.bsky.social‬ ‪@frantsjensen.bsky.social‬ @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social‬ @malavika-m.bsky.social‬ @hollyhowls.bsky.social‬

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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · May 23

There's been a lot of coverage in the media recently of AI and dolphin communication. Here's a good @sciam.bsky.social SciAm podcast that speaks to the actual scientists @drdherzing.bsky.social Denise Herzing about what they're doing. (and to me too)
www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

An AI-Assisted Chat with Dolphins

A large language model for dolphin vocalization could let us better understand these beloved marine mammals

www.scientificamerican.com

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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · May 15

A packed meeting to hear Amin Amara and Uri Weltmann, leaders of @ukfost.bsky.social Standing Together, speak about the role of a grassroots movement of Jewish and Palestinian Israelis in opposing the war in Gaza and in building a cooperative, multinational society.

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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · May 10

Finally the book is published!
PRIMATES IN PERIL: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates 2023–2025
Updated information about the cao vit gibbon!
Link download:
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www.facebook.com/share/p/1E6p...

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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · May 5

A reminder of the meeting next week in Cambridge where you can hear from the leaders of Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social working to bring together #Jewish and #Palestinian citizens of #Israel. Sign up on the link below:
actionnetwork.org/events/build...

Building power through Jewish-Palestinian solidarity: Hear Standing Together leaders speak in Cambridge

UK Friends of Standing Together is proud to host Amin Amara and Uri Weltmann, two members of the Standing Together leadership, for a speaking tour in the UK. Standing Together is a grassroots social ...

actionnetwork.org

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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · May 5

"Cold-blooded culture?"
A great new paper out by my collegues Angela Dassow and Holly Root-Gutteridge @hollyhowls.bsky.social and others on the phenomenon of:
🦎🐍🐊🐢CULTURE IN REPTILES 🦎🐍🐊🐢
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Cold-blooded culture? Assessing cultural behaviour in reptiles and its potential conservation implications | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

It is becoming clear that the cognition of a species plays an important role in successful conservation, with cultural processes being a fundamental part of this. However, in contrast to mammals and b...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · Apr 20

📣Cambridge, come hear Amin and Uri, two leaders of STANDING TOGETHER, a grassroots movenment that mobilises Palestinian and Jewish citizens of Israel against war, occupation, and racism.
Thursday May 15 6pm, Woolf Institute, Cambridge
actionnetwork.org/events/build...
@ukfost.bsky.social

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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · Apr 17

The pace of discoveries in the search for alien life is picking up.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If you want to know more about what life will be like on other planets, The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy is a good place to start
www.penguin.co.uk/books/314542...
#scicomm #astrobiology

Scientists find promising hints of life on distant planet K2-18b

Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · Apr 15

www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-...

New AI Models Could Let Us Chat with Dolphins

Google is developing an LLM that could help us communicate with dolphins

www.scientificamerican.com

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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · Mar 26

Another cool podcast, if you want to know more about animal communication 🦧📣
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPGy...
#scicom

Arik Kershenbaum - Why Animals Talk

YouTube video by A Fresh Face in Hell with Jonathan Evison

www.youtube.com

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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · Mar 7

Here I am talking to Kensy Cooperrider of the @divintelligence.bsky.social podcast about animal communication and animal minds... 🧠 We take a detailed look at why animals make the sounds they make, and what that says about animal consciousness.

Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · Mar 7

New episode!! 📣📣

A chat w/ @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social about vocal communication in animals.

The tree of life is a noisy place, bursting with howls, grunts, whines, snorts, and songs. What does it all mean? Does any of this hubbub merit the label of "language"?

Listen: disi.org/howl-grunt-s...

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Arik Kershenbaum @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social · Mar 6

🚨📣New paper alert!
The jackals are coming! 🦊
We show how we've used a network of acoustic monitoring devices to pinpoint the locations of jackals, which are spreading through Romania and surrounding areas.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Acoustic Localisation as a Tool to Aid Monitoring of Golden Jackals (Canis aureus)

In this study, we tested the low-cost CARACAL recorder for acoustic localisation of golden jackals in Romania. We successfully detected and localised jackal howls, recommending an optimal recorder sp....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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