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Press play on a different world by tuning into audio selections with whale-listening instructions at projectceti.org/listen!

Photo: Amanda Cotton

Happy World Wildlife Day! A reminder today that we are all a part of one wild world, where every species is woven into the same web of life, and honoring our more-than-human kin is how we ensure we all thrive.

Video: Zahrek Gonzalez-Peltier

Thank you @insideclimatenews.org and @katiesurma.bsky.social for featuring He Whakaputanga Moana (The Whale Protection and Legal Personhood Declaration) and our alliance with Hinemoana Halo and @nyulaw.bsky.social’s MOTH Program to advance the implementation of the declaration. bit.ly/4ry4AWH

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: ideali.st/FoChT

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

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

A whale hug to bring some love to your feed this week!🐳💙

Video: Zahrek Gonzalez-Peltier

He Whakaputanga Moana | Whale rights and legal personhood declaration He Whakaputanga Moana is the first Indigenous-led Declaration recognizing whales as sentient beings with inherent rights. Grounded in Te Ao Māori and Polynesian values, it establishes legal protection...

We have joined @nyulaw.bsky.social’s MOTH Program and Hinemoana Halo, an Aotearoa-based, Indigenous-led conservation organization, to support the implementation of the Whale Protection and Legal Personhood Declaration. Learn more here: www.whaledeclaration.com

An open-source bio-logger for studying cetacean behavior and communication Over the past decade, bioacoustics associated with diverse marine life has become the focus of increasing research. While fixed acoustic devices play important roles in characterizing localized sounds...

Thank you, Anne J Manning for covering the work! Read the paper and see the full list of authors here: bit.ly/4q4VIaa

Tapping Into Whale Talk Open-source bio-logger captures underwater cetacean conversations

“We looked at the state of the art, and there was nothing that really matched what we were looking for. So we made our own.”- CETI Robotics Team Member and first author Daniel Vogt on CETI’s open-source Digital Bioacoustics Sensor for @harvardseas.bsky.social Blog.
seas.harvard.edu/news/tapping...

Thank you, Anne J Manning for covering the work! Read the paper and see the full list of authors here: bit.ly/4q4VIaa

Thank you for featuring our work!🐳

Photo: Amanda Cotton

Project CETI •-- Listen to the whales CETI is a nonprofit organization applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales.

ICYMI: Last week we launched Listen to the Whales with the National Geographic Society! Dive into the website to:
🐳Meet the whales
🔊Hear special audio
🌊Learn about CETI’s vision to reframe our connection to the natural world through listening
Projectceti.org/listen

Come listen with us - watch the full Listen to the Whales video on the National Geographic Society’s YouTube channel here: bit.ly/3LtKmxN

These unearthly whale songs helped save humpbacks from extinction Once at risk of being wiped out, humpback whales charted a remarkable comeback thanks to their songs. In 1979, National Geographic issued a record-breaking album of those tunes alongside a story about...

Learn about the legacy behind the Listen to the Whales campaign in this archival National Geographic piece, written by the late Dr. Roger Payne in 1979, re-released this week in honor of the launch: bit.ly/4jI7Ewy

#PerpetualPlanet

“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

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

Thank you @kaatefishman.bsky.social for covering our research!🐳💙

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

Authors cont’d: Chanuth Weeraratna, Hannah Zink, Stefano Pagani, Germain Meyer, Roee Diamant, Daniela Rus, David Gruber, Shane Gero and Robert Wood.
@harvardseas.bsky.social, @csail.mit.edu, @carleton.ca, @cuny.edu.

By: Daniel Vogt, Joseph DelPreto, Michael Salino-Hugg, Matthew R. Cummings, Michael A.Bell, Aidan Kenny, Peter Malkin, Alyssa M. Hernandez, Andrew L. Wright, Molly A. Duncan, Matthew R. Davidsen, Kaveet Grewal, Saksham Ahuja, Kelly Ostrom, Matthew Garcia, Phillip Shahviri…

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

Find the paper on arXiv here: www.arxiv.org/abs/2512.02206 

Find the open-source code base for WhAM here: github.com/Project-CETI...

CETI Tote: made of 100% recycled materials designed by Dominican artist Jenae Bell with the Waitukubuli Artist Association.

CETI T-Shirt: 100% cotton, printed in NYC, designed by Colombian-born, NYC-based graffiti artist Calicho Arevalo.
📷: Zahrek Gonzalez-Peltier, Jenae Bell, T’Keyah Alleyne.

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

@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, @carleton.ca, @cuny.edu

Animation: Meghan Fenske
Instrumentals: Alon Benjamini

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.