Watch the entire conversation between Diana Reiss and David Krakauer with amazing perspectives from Peter Gabriel (Peter Gabriel), Cat Hobaiter (Cat Hobaiter), Brandon Ogbunu (C. Brandon Ogbunu) and others: youtube.com/live/sYn0gRVKJ…

“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder,” according to 20th-century historian Arnold Toynbee. He claimed every great culture collapses internally due to a divergence in values between the ruling class and the common people…🧵

The abandoned dolphins in Bahamas have been transferred to Atlantis! Still a captive facility, but at least they will get proper care. Much gratitude to Richard O'Barry and Dolphin Project for making this happen and yahoo for providing media on the situation.

A Baby on Mum's back! Near Penguin Island off Western Australia's coast, 2 hours away from the city of Perth! Photo credit Mandy Wilson.

Après avoir procédé à la construction d'un baleinier flambant neuf, le Japon ajoute le rorqual commun à sa funeste liste 😔 sain-et-naturel.ouest-france.fr/chasse-au-rorq…

Japan's efforts to develop whaling, a marginal activity elevated to the rank of national pride. Tokyo's decision to hunt fin whales confirms its determination to continue #whaling despite criticism and the Japanese public's low appetite for whale meat. lemonde.fr/en/environment…

Any bird that travels 10 months, 15,000 miles thro 26 countries to come here and eat our flies deserves a better home e.g. a #swiftbrick

🚨OpenAI has just made a demo showing GPT-4o's capabilities. At one point, an OpenAI employee asks the system to detect his emotion (see the screenshot below). A reminder that according to the EU AI Act, the following AI practice is prohibited: "the placing on the market, the

Are you an undergraduate looking for paid research experience this summer??😎 @denrisch and I have an opportunity for you to gain experience helping us to continue to develop a deep learning detector for minke whale vocalisations 🐳🔊 ➡️Find out more tinyurl.com/3vxmsn89

Seems like a good time to repost this piece. softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llment… @fakebaldur

We're less than a month away from going after Iceland's richest and most powerful man. Kristján Loftsson has inflicted immense harm on whales, and we intend to put an end to this massacre for good. Your donations will support us in the fight for the whales, for the oceans, and

A small but telling thing in the Russian information war. Google is accepting money from Russian connected sources to run sponsored ads repeating Russian propaganda about me. This is relatively minor, but I would imagine this is being done widely on many issues.

Spring Update webinar! Thursday May 23, 4pm ET. Join Dr. Lori Marino and Charles Vinick for an update on our work in establishing the sanctuary in Nova Scotia and welcoming the first whales. Register here: bit.ly/3QS9Jc6

Join us for the AI & Bioacoustics 101 workshop, an online, two day event, where our speakers will take you through an exploration of the innovative applications of AI in the field. Abstract submission for short talks is open now aibioacoustics101.com/abstract-submi…

Signal strongly opposes this proposal. Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees. This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice. It's surveillance wine in safety bottles.

Every European summer I like to reshare this chart to remind everyone about the importance of urban trees.

Repeated glider paths across the Honguedo Strait in the Gulf of St Lawrence (E Canada) heard plenty of blue whale D-calls and arch-calls (feeding and social calls) but rarely A-calls (reproductive songs). doi.org/10.3354/esr013…

🐾 On June 22, @elodiebriefer joined our Interspecies Conversations series! We explored signaling and the perception of emotions across species, focusing on the vocal expressions in horses, pigs, goats, cattle, and wild ungulates. 🐗 📺 Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=-TggoB…

How artificial intelligence can help prevent illegal wildlife trade phys.org/news/2024-07-a…

I bet you have never seen a humpback whale that looks like this 👇🏽 Find out why and how you can keep whales safe in Australian waters. #whaleon #humpbackhighway theconversation.com/the-return-of-…