Project CETI
@projectceti.bsky.social
Project CETI is a nonprofit organization applying machine learning and robotics to listen to and translate the communication of whales in Dominica. #ProjectCETI
https://linktr.ee/ProjectCETI
https://linktr.ee/ProjectCETI
Happy World Whale Day!
Did you know that sperm whales are the loudest beings on Earth and they possess the largest brain of any being? Celebrate by listening to and learning about the gentle giants of the deep at projectceti.org/listen!
Video: Kogia.org by Karim Iliya
Did you know that sperm whales are the loudest beings on Earth and they possess the largest brain of any being? Celebrate by listening to and learning about the gentle giants of the deep at projectceti.org/listen!
Video: Kogia.org by Karim Iliya
February 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Happy World Whale Day!
Did you know that sperm whales are the loudest beings on Earth and they possess the largest brain of any being? Celebrate by listening to and learning about the gentle giants of the deep at projectceti.org/listen!
Video: Kogia.org by Karim Iliya
Did you know that sperm whales are the loudest beings on Earth and they possess the largest brain of any being? Celebrate by listening to and learning about the gentle giants of the deep at projectceti.org/listen!
Video: Kogia.org by Karim Iliya
Work with us in Dominica! CETI is hiring a Marine Field Engineer / Glider Pilot to assist in developing, operating and maintaining Project CETI’s Autonomous Glider Program. Learn more and apply here: bit.ly/3OnY6uV
February 14, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Work with us in Dominica! CETI is hiring a Marine Field Engineer / Glider Pilot to assist in developing, operating and maintaining Project CETI’s Autonomous Glider Program. Learn more and apply here: bit.ly/3OnY6uV
Meet Rap, a young female sperm whale from Unit R, and more of the sperm whales we have the privilege of researching in Dominica at projectceti.org/listen!
Photo: Amanda Cotton
Photo: Amanda Cotton
February 13, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Meet Rap, a young female sperm whale from Unit R, and more of the sperm whales we have the privilege of researching in Dominica at projectceti.org/listen!
Photo: Amanda Cotton
Photo: Amanda Cotton
A whale hug to bring some love to your feed this week!🐳💙
Video: Zahrek Gonzalez-Peltier
Video: Zahrek Gonzalez-Peltier
February 12, 2026 at 6:16 PM
A whale hug to bring some love to your feed this week!🐳💙
Video: Zahrek Gonzalez-Peltier
Video: Zahrek Gonzalez-Peltier
Come listen with us - watch the full Listen to the Whales video on the National Geographic Society’s YouTube channel here: bit.ly/3LtKmxN
January 16, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Come listen with us - watch the full Listen to the Whales video on the National Geographic Society’s YouTube channel here: bit.ly/3LtKmxN
“The whole purpose of doing this is to bring the connection to nature closer.”
- CETI’s Founder and Lead David Gruber talks all things CETI with host Alex Honnold on the Planet Visionaries podcast, in partnership with the Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative, listen here: bit.ly/49JcIwa
- CETI’s Founder and Lead David Gruber talks all things CETI with host Alex Honnold on the Planet Visionaries podcast, in partnership with the Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative, listen here: bit.ly/49JcIwa
January 15, 2026 at 10:15 PM
“The whole purpose of doing this is to bring the connection to nature closer.”
- CETI’s Founder and Lead David Gruber talks all things CETI with host Alex Honnold on the Planet Visionaries podcast, in partnership with the Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative, listen here: bit.ly/49JcIwa
- CETI’s Founder and Lead David Gruber talks all things CETI with host Alex Honnold on the Planet Visionaries podcast, in partnership with the Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative, listen here: bit.ly/49JcIwa
Today, together with The National Geographic Society, we launch Listen to the Whales — a global invitation to explore the rich communal lives of sperm whales and discover why deciphering their world matters. Take the plunge and immerse yourself in the journey: Projectceti.org/listen
January 14, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Today, together with The National Geographic Society, we launch Listen to the Whales — a global invitation to explore the rich communal lives of sperm whales and discover why deciphering their world matters. Take the plunge and immerse yourself in the journey: Projectceti.org/listen
Are you ready to listen to whales? Soon, we dive. 👀🐳
Video: Amanda Cotton
Video: Amanda Cotton
January 12, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Are you ready to listen to whales? Soon, we dive. 👀🐳
Video: Amanda Cotton
Video: Amanda Cotton
Thank you @discovermag.bsky.social and Avery Hurt for delving into CETI’s recent publication, “Vowel- and Diphthong-Like Spectral Patterns in Sperm Whale Codas,” by: @begus.bsky.social, Ronald Sprouse, Andrej Leban, Miles Silva & Shane Gero.
Read the article here: bit.ly/3MKqR45
📷: Amanda Cotton
Read the article here: bit.ly/3MKqR45
📷: Amanda Cotton
December 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Thank you @discovermag.bsky.social and Avery Hurt for delving into CETI’s recent publication, “Vowel- and Diphthong-Like Spectral Patterns in Sperm Whale Codas,” by: @begus.bsky.social, Ronald Sprouse, Andrej Leban, Miles Silva & Shane Gero.
Read the article here: bit.ly/3MKqR45
📷: Amanda Cotton
Read the article here: bit.ly/3MKqR45
📷: Amanda Cotton
Bioacoustics just got more accessible, as CETI Scientists led by CETI Robotics Team Member, Daniel Vogt, have published the first fully open-source digital bioacoustics sensor for studying marine animals!
Explore here: bit.ly/4q4VIaa
🎨: PACT. Media
Explore here: bit.ly/4q4VIaa
🎨: PACT. Media
December 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Bioacoustics just got more accessible, as CETI Scientists led by CETI Robotics Team Member, Daniel Vogt, have published the first fully open-source digital bioacoustics sensor for studying marine animals!
Explore here: bit.ly/4q4VIaa
🎨: PACT. Media
Explore here: bit.ly/4q4VIaa
🎨: PACT. Media
This Giving Tuesday, join us on our audacious interspecies understanding journey! Support our research by donating or by purchasing sustainable, limited-edition CETI collectables through our website here: bit.ly/4ikRWGO
December 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This Giving Tuesday, join us on our audacious interspecies understanding journey! Support our research by donating or by purchasing sustainable, limited-edition CETI collectables through our website here: bit.ly/4ikRWGO
Introducing WhAM: An A.I model that transforms any audio into authentic-sounding sperm whale vocalizations!
Learn more: bit.ly/48g0885
By: Orr Paradise, Pranav Muralikrishnan, Liangyuan Chen, Hugo Flores García, Bryan Pardo, Roee Diamant, David Gruber, Shane Gero and Shafi Goldwasser.
Learn more: bit.ly/48g0885
By: Orr Paradise, Pranav Muralikrishnan, Liangyuan Chen, Hugo Flores García, Bryan Pardo, Roee Diamant, David Gruber, Shane Gero and Shafi Goldwasser.
December 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Introducing WhAM: An A.I model that transforms any audio into authentic-sounding sperm whale vocalizations!
Learn more: bit.ly/48g0885
By: Orr Paradise, Pranav Muralikrishnan, Liangyuan Chen, Hugo Flores García, Bryan Pardo, Roee Diamant, David Gruber, Shane Gero and Shafi Goldwasser.
Learn more: bit.ly/48g0885
By: Orr Paradise, Pranav Muralikrishnan, Liangyuan Chen, Hugo Flores García, Bryan Pardo, Roee Diamant, David Gruber, Shane Gero and Shafi Goldwasser.
Read how CETI Founder and Lead David Gruber believes technology can be a powerful tool in fostering connection between humanity and the more-than-human world, in his @nytimes.com op-ed here: bit.ly/482imd6
November 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Read how CETI Founder and Lead David Gruber believes technology can be a powerful tool in fostering connection between humanity and the more-than-human world, in his @nytimes.com op-ed here: bit.ly/482imd6
A new study shows that sperm whales don’t move randomly — they follow structured, socially influenced patterns that are also predictable.
Read here: bit.ly/3JTnMh0
By: Yaly Mevorach, Alaa Maalouf, Guy Gubnitsky, Pernille Tønnesen, David Gruber, Daniela Rus, Dan Tchernov & Shane Gero.
Read here: bit.ly/3JTnMh0
By: Yaly Mevorach, Alaa Maalouf, Guy Gubnitsky, Pernille Tønnesen, David Gruber, Daniela Rus, Dan Tchernov & Shane Gero.
November 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
A new study shows that sperm whales don’t move randomly — they follow structured, socially influenced patterns that are also predictable.
Read here: bit.ly/3JTnMh0
By: Yaly Mevorach, Alaa Maalouf, Guy Gubnitsky, Pernille Tønnesen, David Gruber, Daniela Rus, Dan Tchernov & Shane Gero.
Read here: bit.ly/3JTnMh0
By: Yaly Mevorach, Alaa Maalouf, Guy Gubnitsky, Pernille Tønnesen, David Gruber, Daniela Rus, Dan Tchernov & Shane Gero.
CETI scientists have discovered vowel and diphthong-like patterns in sperm whale communication! Read: bit.ly/3WSn9rc
By: @begus.bsky.social, Ronald Sprouse, Andrej Leban, Miles Silva & Shane Gero.
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, @umich.edu, @carleton.ca, @csail.mit.edu
Animation: Meghan Fenske
By: @begus.bsky.social, Ronald Sprouse, Andrej Leban, Miles Silva & Shane Gero.
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, @umich.edu, @carleton.ca, @csail.mit.edu
Animation: Meghan Fenske
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
CETI scientists have discovered vowel and diphthong-like patterns in sperm whale communication! Read: bit.ly/3WSn9rc
By: @begus.bsky.social, Ronald Sprouse, Andrej Leban, Miles Silva & Shane Gero.
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, @umich.edu, @carleton.ca, @csail.mit.edu
Animation: Meghan Fenske
By: @begus.bsky.social, Ronald Sprouse, Andrej Leban, Miles Silva & Shane Gero.
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, @umich.edu, @carleton.ca, @csail.mit.edu
Animation: Meghan Fenske
CETI Scientists developed a system which uses the pressure variations of whales’ dives to regenerate a vacuum in the suction cups on our bio-inspired whale digital bioacoustic sensors! By: Germain Meyer, Daniel Vogt, Xinyi Yang & Robert Wood from @harvardseas.bsky.social.
Read:https://bit.ly/47TM9U5
Read:https://bit.ly/47TM9U5
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
CETI Scientists developed a system which uses the pressure variations of whales’ dives to regenerate a vacuum in the suction cups on our bio-inspired whale digital bioacoustic sensors! By: Germain Meyer, Daniel Vogt, Xinyi Yang & Robert Wood from @harvardseas.bsky.social.
Read:https://bit.ly/47TM9U5
Read:https://bit.ly/47TM9U5
We are honored to be featured in Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist @elizkolbert.bsky.social’s new book! It is a collection of thought-provoking essays, including her piece on CETI and witnessing a sperm whale birth with our scientists in Dominica in 2023. Learn more: bit.ly/4qOY91N.
November 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
We are honored to be featured in Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist @elizkolbert.bsky.social’s new book! It is a collection of thought-provoking essays, including her piece on CETI and witnessing a sperm whale birth with our scientists in Dominica in 2023. Learn more: bit.ly/4qOY91N.
Dive into our article written in partnership with MOTH (@nyulaw.bsky.social) now published in Ecology Law Quarterly (ELQ) here: bit.ly/4hnUfbz 🐋🐝🐘🦋Co-authored by: César Rodríguez Garavito, David Gruber, Ashley Otilia Nemeth and @begus.bsky.social. 📸:Amanda Cotton, 🎨: Alejandro Ospina.
October 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Dive into our article written in partnership with MOTH (@nyulaw.bsky.social) now published in Ecology Law Quarterly (ELQ) here: bit.ly/4hnUfbz 🐋🐝🐘🦋Co-authored by: César Rodríguez Garavito, David Gruber, Ashley Otilia Nemeth and @begus.bsky.social. 📸:Amanda Cotton, 🎨: Alejandro Ospina.
Thank you @cacmmag.bsky.social and @neilsavage.bsky.social for highlighting our work! Read the article here: bit.ly/42wEV6q
Featuring our team: Shafi Goldwasser, Shane Gero, Jacob Andreas, Pratyusha Sharma, @begus.bsky.social and David Gruber.
Featuring our team: Shafi Goldwasser, Shane Gero, Jacob Andreas, Pratyusha Sharma, @begus.bsky.social and David Gruber.
October 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Thank you @cacmmag.bsky.social and @neilsavage.bsky.social for highlighting our work! Read the article here: bit.ly/42wEV6q
Featuring our team: Shafi Goldwasser, Shane Gero, Jacob Andreas, Pratyusha Sharma, @begus.bsky.social and David Gruber.
Featuring our team: Shafi Goldwasser, Shane Gero, Jacob Andreas, Pratyusha Sharma, @begus.bsky.social and David Gruber.
Thank you BBC World Service and Maria Margaronis for having our Founder and Lead David Gruber on The Documentary Podcast! Listen to the episode here: www.bbc.com/audio/play/p...
October 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Thank you BBC World Service and Maria Margaronis for having our Founder and Lead David Gruber on The Documentary Podcast! Listen to the episode here: www.bbc.com/audio/play/p...
Listen to Zahrek Gonzalez-Peltier, CETI Drone Pilot and David Gruber, CETI Founder & Lead, discuss on @reuters.com how we execute our “tap-and-go” drone based approach to whale tagging & explain advancements it brings to marine mammal research! 🎥:Thank you @reuters.com, watch here: bit.ly/4p498U1
September 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Listen to Zahrek Gonzalez-Peltier, CETI Drone Pilot and David Gruber, CETI Founder & Lead, discuss on @reuters.com how we execute our “tap-and-go” drone based approach to whale tagging & explain advancements it brings to marine mammal research! 🎥:Thank you @reuters.com, watch here: bit.ly/4p498U1
Thank you @sierramagazine.bsky.social and @kathrynhulick.substack.com for highlighting our work!🐋Read the quote from Daniela Rus (@csail.mit.edu), PI on CETI Machine Learning and Robotics Team and more in the piece “Could AI Help Humanity Understand Whales?” here: bit.ly/45tksRL 📸: Arun Madisetti
September 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Thank you @sierramagazine.bsky.social and @kathrynhulick.substack.com for highlighting our work!🐋Read the quote from Daniela Rus (@csail.mit.edu), PI on CETI Machine Learning and Robotics Team and more in the piece “Could AI Help Humanity Understand Whales?” here: bit.ly/45tksRL 📸: Arun Madisetti
Thank you @nytimes.com & @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social for diving into our “tap-and-go” drone based approach! & Thanks Jeremy Goldbogen @standforddoerr.bsky.social & Ari Friedlaender @ucscscience.bsky.social for sharing their thoughts! Read here: bit.ly/45uizEI 📸: Jaime Rojo.
@harvardseas.bsky.social
@harvardseas.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Thank you @nytimes.com & @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social for diving into our “tap-and-go” drone based approach! & Thanks Jeremy Goldbogen @standforddoerr.bsky.social & Ari Friedlaender @ucscscience.bsky.social for sharing their thoughts! Read here: bit.ly/45uizEI 📸: Jaime Rojo.
@harvardseas.bsky.social
@harvardseas.bsky.social
Available now!🐬🪸🦜🐋 Listen to experts explored at the fourth annual Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species conference, which we co-hosted in July with the @ucberkelyofficial.bsky.social @simonsinstitute.bsky.social & Oceankind, here: bit.ly/41yYkDe
September 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Available now!🐬🪸🦜🐋 Listen to experts explored at the fourth annual Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species conference, which we co-hosted in July with the @ucberkelyofficial.bsky.social @simonsinstitute.bsky.social & Oceankind, here: bit.ly/41yYkDe
Dive into our new paper by: Daniel Vogt & Robert Wood from @harvardseas.bsky.social; Stefano Pagani; CETI Drone Pilot Zahrek Gonzalez-Peltier; CETI Biology Lead Shane Gero & CETI Founder and Lead David Gruber; here: bit.ly/4oxVati
🎥: Jaime Rojo, Ganesh Marin, Thor Morales & National Geographic.
🎥: Jaime Rojo, Ganesh Marin, Thor Morales & National Geographic.
August 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Dive into our new paper by: Daniel Vogt & Robert Wood from @harvardseas.bsky.social; Stefano Pagani; CETI Drone Pilot Zahrek Gonzalez-Peltier; CETI Biology Lead Shane Gero & CETI Founder and Lead David Gruber; here: bit.ly/4oxVati
🎥: Jaime Rojo, Ganesh Marin, Thor Morales & National Geographic.
🎥: Jaime Rojo, Ganesh Marin, Thor Morales & National Geographic.