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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 & 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?

Have you heard viral hits on the whale wide web? 🐳🎶 This week Aza Raskin spoke with Baratunde on #LifeWithMachines about how AI is revealing hidden details of animal culture & the responsibility that comes with understanding these voices. 🎙️Listen at: youtube.com/watch?v=qqbWJw…

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/PP…

To protect nature, we must rethink our connection to it 🔄 🌿 In her recent feature with Chatham House, 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

#BirdCLEF+ 2025 is now open! 🐦💡 ESP is proud to support this year's competition by overseeing a FootPrint Coalition grant that funded a key dataset focused on under-studied species from Colombia’s Middle Magdalena Valley. 🔗 Learn more & participate: imageclef.org/BirdCLEF2025

We’ve grown our research team! This high-caliber group, led by Chief Scientist Olivier Pietquin, is already working hard to scale our models & projects and drive our progress toward a future of interspecies understanding 🔬🌍 Learn more about our work: bit.ly/4iMmNLE

We’ve been looking ahead – last week we shared the very first look at our guiding strategy in our newsletter✨ Missed it? Catch up below & join our mailing list to always get our latest updates👇🏽 mailchi.mp/dd109cf2828d/y…

ESP Senior Research Scientist, Sara C Keen's talk from the 2025 AI for Animals conference is now available on YouTube! 📺🔊 Watch below to learn more about our work using cutting-edge tools in bioacoustics and AI. 🔗: youtube.com/watch?v=0nI_JN…

What does it mean to understand another species? For the first time, experts from across ethology, biology & tech have developed a set of critera for decoding animal communication. Learn more in Interspecies Internet's landmark report: interspecies.io/publication

ESP is heading to #ICASSP2025! We'll be presenting our recent paper, Biodenoising, at the Bio Acoustic III poster session on 4/11 at 8:30am. We're looking forward to sharing our work & connecting with other teams in Hyderabad 🌟 Watch the demo: earthspecies.github.io/biodenoising/

📢#BioDCASE2025 is here! This new challenge brings DCASE-style evaluation to #bioacoustics—applying #machinelearning to better understand the sounds of the natural world. ESP helped organize one of this year’s tasks & we can’t wait to see you tackle it👇🏽 biodcase.github.io

AVES is now pip-installable 🎉 This self-supervised, transformer-based model is pretrained on large-scale animal vocalization datasets & thanks to our incredible engineering team is now more accessible than ever–ready to run with just a single command. 🔗bit.ly/44uTbhN

I'll be at #ICLR2025 in Singapore this Saturday for poster session 6, co-presenting our NatureLM-audio project! If you're around and interested in AI for bioacoustics, ecology, or related areas, would love to meet up — feel free to reach out!

#ICYMI the ESP research team presented at #ICLR2025 last week, sharing the latest updates on NatureLM-audio. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to connect, exchange ideas & hear about this exciting work. Explore NatureLM-audio, now open-sourced: earthspecies.github.io/naturelm-audio…

ESP co-founder & president Aza Raskin delivered the keynote at the 2025 California Academy of Sciences fundraising gala, where he spoke about the importance of investing in science & how approaches like frontier #AI are shaping a more resilient & connected future. Watch the talk: youtube.com/live/PHYplEWTo…

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 Sarah Scoles for highlighting this work & asking the challenging questions that come with it ⬇️

Wildlife populations have declined by 73% since 1970—up from 69% in 2022, according to WWF. At ESP, we believe every species has a voice. This #WorldBiodiversityDay, we invite you to reflect on why listening matters now more than ever. Learn more: livingplanet.panda.org/en-US/