We’re hiring two Bioacoustic Annotators! 🚀 Help build the datasets advancing the study of animal communication and enabling new discoveries about the rich lives and intelligence of other species. Apply today: earthspecies.org/2026/07/29/w... View all open roles: earthspecies.org/about-us/#jobs

🌟Community Spotlight 🌟 Many insects visit flowers, but not all of them pollinate. 🐝 Researcher Alef Iury Siqueira Ferreira and collaborators built acoustic models to classify bees by ecological function, not just species. 🔗 earthspecies.org/2026/07/29/n...

Revolutionizing Pollination Studies with Machine Learning Insights

Explore how machine learning enhances our understanding of pollination by classifying bees based on ecological functions, not just species.

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We’ve just open-sourced alp-data, the first piece of shared infrastructure for Animal Language Processing! 🚀 One Python package, one interface, 35+ bioacoustic datasets spanning birds, whales, primates, anurans, and insects. Now open and ready to use. Learn more: earthspecies.org/2026/07/22/i...

We're hiring a Senior Accountant! 🚀 Join our small, ambitious team and help build the financial systems that support our mission to decode animal communication with frontier AI. Apply today: earthspecies.org/2026/07/15/w...

We’re Hiring! Senior Accountant

About Earth Species Project Earth Species Project (ESP) is a non-profit using frontier AI to decode animal communication. We believe the exponential progress we’re seeing in AI offers new ways of l…

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For decades, research into animal communication focused on teaching human language to animals. Today, the focus is shifting toward understanding how animals communicate on their own terms. We're excited to be featured in @elpais.com 🙌 📄 Read the full article: english.elpais.com/climate/2026...

Animal talk: How AI is helping us understand other species

We have changed from wanting animals to understand human language to wanting to understand how they communicate with each other

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We love this piece from friend of ESP, Will Marshall, and we agree that AI needs planetary intelligence to help solve the urgent challenges of the physical world. That vision must include the voices of other species, many of whom already possess it. Learn more: time.com/article/2026...

We Need Planetary Intelligence in the Age of AI

Will Marshall, CEO of Planet Labs, argues that planetary intelligence is the key to aligning AI with the best interests of humans.

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We're excited to share that ESP’s Marius Miron is delivering a keynote at the ICML Workshop on Machine Learning for Audio on Animal Language Processing — an emerging frontier for AI and our understanding of life on Earth. @icmlconf.bsky.social 🔗 Learn more: mlforaudioworkshop.github.io

Citizen science projects generate huge amounts of biodiversity data, but turning that data into usable insights remains a challenge. We spoke with Julia Tan about using AI to help researchers identify frog calls and support conservation monitoring at scale. 🔗 earthspecies.org/2026/06/30/f...

From Frog Calls To Global Conservation: Scaling Citizen Science With AI

The Growing Challenge of Biodiversity Data Citizen science projects are generating more data than ever before. Global biodiversity databases now contain millions of species observations, creating a…

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In 2025, we open-sourced NatureLM-audio, launched a multi-year study of killer whale communication with @raincoast.org, expanded collaborations across species, and co-organized the first AI for Non-Human Animal Communication workshop at NeurIPS. Learn more: earthspecies.org/annual-repor...

Fireflies are best known for their glowing displays, but those flashes are also a communication system. Research from @oritpeleg.bsky.social's lab is helping uncover how these signals are coordinated across groups and how synchronized displays emerge. 🔗 Learn more: www.peleglab.com 📸 Nolan Bonnie

In an interview with @raincoast.org, ESP's David Robinson discusses how machine learning is accelerating scientific workflows, allowing Raincoast to spend less time processing data and more time uncovering patterns in killer whale communication. 📃: www.raincoast.org/2026/06/unlo... 📸: John Kelsey

Unlocking large-scale killer whale analysis | Raincoast

Understanding how machine learning is profoundly transforming research efficiency and accessibility.

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We’re still gathering feedback on our working framework for Animal Language Processing (ALP), an approach that uses frontier AI to study animal communication. If you have 5–10 minutes, we'd love your perspective on the terminology, framing, and overall concept. 📝 : docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🔊If AI is going to help us study animal communication, we need to understand what it's learning from sound. In a new paper accepted at @interspeech.bsky.social, we introduce a framework to help researchers better understand, compare, and select bioacoustic models. 📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2606.14662

1/5 What counts as a communicative interaction? This was a recurring question at the recent Computational and Mechanistic Analyses of Communicative Interactions symposium, where ESP's Maddie Cusimano and @loganjames.bsky.social presented their research on carrion crow and zebra finch communication.

On this #WorldEnvironmentDay, we're sharing a conversation between ESP board member Christiana Figueres and Rainn Wilson. Drawing on her experience leading the Paris Climate Agreement, Christiana reflects on climate action, hope, and our relationship with nature. 🎧: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nizh...

Nobody Cares About Earth | Soul Boom

YouTube video by Soul Boom w/ Rainn Wilson

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Exciting opportunity to join our team! 🚀 We're hiring a Director of Development to help shape and lead our fundraising efforts as we continue to push the boundaries of interspecies understanding. Apply today: earthspecies.org/2026/03/24/w...

We’re Hiring! Director of Development

About Earth Species Project Earth Species Project (ESP) is a non-profit using frontier AI to decode animal communication. We believe the exponential progress we’re seeing in AI offers new ways of l…

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This Friday at McGill University, @loganjames.bsky.social and Maddie Cusimano will join researchers exploring computational approaches to animal communication at the symposium “Computational and Mechanistic Analyses of Communicative Interactions.” Register at: logansjames.github.io/events.html

Using our models, ESP and the University of León found that most crow communication happens through soft, close-range murmurs. At @raincoast.org, ESP's tools are accelerating killer whale research by processing field note recordings in hours instead of months. 📄: news.mongabay.com/2026/05/from...

We’re hiring for a Director of Development to help take our fundraising to the next level! 🚀 If you’ve raised at scale, enjoy building relationships from the ground up, and care about the natural world, we’d love to hear from you. Apply here: earthspecies.org/2026/03/24/w...

We’re Hiring! Director of Development

About Earth Species Project Earth Species Project (ESP) is a non-profit using frontier AI to decode animal communication. We believe the exponential progress we’re seeing in AI offers new ways of l…

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It's hard to protect what we don’t feel connected to. At #ChangeNOW, ESP’s Director of Strategic Impact, Jane Lawton, spoke about how connection, storytelling, and listening more deeply can reshape how we see and value all life on Earth. 🌍 🎥 Watch the full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N83P...

Zebra finches live in dynamic social groups which makes it difficult to tell who is communicating with whom. Using BirdAVES, Hugo & Aneesh showed that vocalizations can be separated by likely individuals, making it possible to study wild social structures at scale. earthspecies.org/2026/05/05/f...

From What to Who? AI Learns to Recognize Individual Animals

Individual ID in Chatty Species In the wild, zebra finches don’t sing in isolation. They move through dynamic social groups, calling and responding to one another across space and time. For ecologi…

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📄 New preprint: carrion crow communication For the first time, along with the University of León, we charted the vocal repertoire of a crow population and mapped it to social functions and behavioral context. 📄: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🔊: projects.earthspecies.org/cooperative-...

ESP is heading to #ICASSP2026! We’ll be presenting our paper: Multi-Layer Attentive Probing Improves Transfer of Audio Representations for Bioacoustics. See you in Barcelona 🌟 Learn more: www.scilit.com/publications/ed058249cd6daf336c32c773c191a2c0

🌍 Happy Earth Day 🌍 Across oceans, forests, and skies, Earth is alive with conversations we are only beginning to hear. The field of Animal Language Processing is deeply interdisciplinary, and there is a lot of incredible work unfolding. What’s inspiring you today this #EarthDay?

ESP is heading to ICLR 2026, where we’ll be presenting our paper on AVEX! We've also just added nine new usage examples and an interactive Model Selector to the AVEX project page. 🗓 Learn more: iclr.cc/virtual/2026... 📄 Project page: projects.earthspecies.org/avex/

We’re hiring for a Director of Development to help take our fundraising to the next level! 🚀 If you’ve raised at scale, enjoy building relationships from the ground up, and care about the natural world, we’d love to hear from you. Apply here: earthspecies.org/2026/03/24/w...

We’re Hiring! Director of Development

About Earth Species Project Earth Species Project (ESP) is a non-profit using frontier AI to decode animal communication. We believe the exponential progress we’re seeing in AI offers new ways of l…

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As a founding researcher @mhagiwara.bsky.social shaped what ESP is today. His legacy at ESP is everywhere. We miss him dearly as a friend and colleague. 🔗 Read his words: masatohagiwara.net/lcl.html 💙 Support his family: www.gofundme.com/f/support-ma...

We just updated our interactive demo of NatureLM-audio with a new version of the model, v1.1. To learn what you can do with it now, check out our Prompting Guide! 🤗Demo: huggingface.co/spaces/Earth... 📄Guide: projects.earthspecies.org/naturelm-aud...

🌟Community Spotlight 🌟 We recently spoke with Felipe Parodi, the lead developer of PrimateFace, an open-source platform for automated facial analysis across the primate order. Learn more earthspecies.org/2026/04/07/w...

1/4 Over the last decade, we’ve observed a converge in #animalcommunication research as large-scale behavioral & #bioacoustic datasets + advancing ML methods are transforming what was once species-specific, hypothesis-limited work into something far broader.🧵👇