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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Explore the foundations of canary syntax, and learn more: TweetyBERT. A self-supervised transformer model designed to analyze birdsong without human-labeled data. www.linkedin.com/posts/inters... #frequencybias #weaksignals #animalfutures #morethanhuman #canary #birds
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#animalcommunication #birdsong #airesearch #computationalbiology #interspeciescommunication #neuroscience #bioengineering #timgardner #canary #knightcampus | Interspecies Internet
🔊 Throwback to Tim Gardner’s lecture "TweetyBERT: Uncovering Canary Song Syntax" Tim Gardner, Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the Knight Campus, explores the foundations of canary syntax and...
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Beyond symbolic legislation, the bill requires companies to show "that their activity allows the vital cycles, processes and functions of whale populations and their habitats to continue" www.linkedin.com/pulse/rights... #weaksignals #frequencybias #whales #streamofconsciousness
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Rights for Whales? What Tonga's Groundbreaking Law Means for the Future of Interspecies Communication
The Kingdom of Tonga is on the verge of making history. Earlier this month, speaking at the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France, Tongan Princess Angelika Lātūfuipeka Tukuʻaho called for th...
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
How a Groundbreaking Indigenous Treaty on Whales’ Rights Could Change National Laws dives directly into the Indigenous-led declaration advancing legal rights for whales. insideclimatenews.org/news/2202202... #weaksignals #frequencybias #whales #streamofconsciousness
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How a Groundbreaking Indigenous Treaty on Whales’ Rights Could Change National Laws - Inside Climate News
A declaration recognizing whales as legal rights-holders is influencing legislation in New Zealand and sparking an international push to translate Indigenous customs into binding protections.
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
FLORA.ai just works differently; allowing you to design, explore and imagine in organic relationships: A worldbuilding futures course just makes sense! maven.com/mother-natur...
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Worldbuilding Climate Scenario Futures in FLORA ai by Dung Beetle on Maven
You’ll be able to design coherent, multi-modal worlds inside FLORA ai, and build structured, immersive scenarios.
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Interspecies translations: dolphin <> human team 🐬 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... #morethanhuman #weaksignals #dolphins
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Dolphin whistle decoders win $100,000 interspecies communication prize
Coller-Dolittle award won by US team for discovering call that triggers avoidance and could be used as alarm signal
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Would you like to begin a More-Than-Human AI Interspecies Council session now? If so, tell me: where are you, and who might we listen to today? I built this little MOTH GPT: chatgpt.com/g/g-6824c8cf... #morethanhuman #multispecies #councilofbeings #interspeciescouncil
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ChatGPT - More-Than-Human AI Interspecies Council (UK)
Facilitates more-than-human dialogue in urban and rural UK. Creates ecologically grounded, speculative council sessions using species data and local contexts. Designed for imaginative, ethical, and cl...
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Whales could one day be heard in court—and in their own words www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti... #weaksignals #frequencybias #whales #morethanhuman
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Whales could one day be heard in court—and in their own words
Scientists are closer than ever to deciphering sperm whale communication. Their breakthroughs could open the door to expanded whale rights and even legal personhood.
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Whales could one day be heard in court—and in their own words www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti... #weaksignals #frequencybias #whales
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Whales could one day be heard in court—and in their own words
Scientists are closer than ever to deciphering sperm whale communication. Their breakthroughs could open the door to expanded whale rights and even legal personhood.
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Researchers from Japan have developed ‘Plant Doctor,’ an artificial intelligence-based tool that could revolutionise plant health monitoring. Is this the start of a more-than-human #wellness trend? www.enn.com/articles/762... #frequencybias #weaksignals #morethanhuman #trees
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Environmental News Network - Plant Doctor: An AI System That Watches Over Urban Trees Without Touching a Leaf
A global perspective on environmental issues. Our mission is to inform, educate, enable and create a platform for global environmental action.
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Trees suffer from loneliness too. Trees are social beings, interacting with and relying on their environment in a variety of ways. They lean on underground fungal networks to help them exchange nutrients and water. www.instagram.com/p/DHLKDedtKi... #weaksignals #frequencybias #morethanhuman #trees
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This app will make you literally touch grass before you can doomscroll on TikTok
The app requires users to take a photo of literal grass before unlocking other apps. Call it kryptonite for the chronically online?
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Touch Grass app works by allowing users to select their most distracting apps, then blocking said apps by default until the user ventures outside to touch real grass. www.fastcompany.com/91284597/tou... #weaksignals #frequencybias #morethanhuman #grass
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This app will make you literally touch grass before you can doomscroll on TikTok
The app requires users to take a photo of literal grass before unlocking other apps. Call it kryptonite for the chronically online?
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
A Field Guide that can help us move towards the practice of a More-Than-Human Politics, by Anab Jain superflux.in/index.php/ca...
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Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics - Superflux
A Field Guide that can help us move towards the practice of a More-Than-Human Politics, by Anab Jain Photograph courtesy of weaponsandwarfare.com [This is an edited transcript of Anab’s talk ‘On Criti...
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human (one man's journey to leave humanity behind and become like a goat) www.amazon.com/GoatMan-Took... #weaksignals #frequencybias #animalfutures #morethanhuman #goats
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GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human (one man's journey to leave humanity behind and become like a goat)
GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human (one man's journey to leave humanity behind and become like a goat) [Thwaites, Thomas] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human (one man's journey to leave humanity behind and become like a goat)
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
City of Portland has implemented a comprehensive "Tree Code" to protect its urban canopy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAeb... #weaksignals #frequencybias #morethanhuman #trees
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Portland's Strict Tree Code
YouTube video by Willamette Week
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
What Smuts saw one day in Africa while watching a troop of some 30 baboons is one of the more mysterious baboon tales ever. www.npr.org/2009/12/22/1... #weaksignals #frequencybias #animalfutures #morethanhuman #baboons
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Holy Baboon! A 'Mystical' Moment In Africa
A biologist reflects on an awe-inspiring experience in Africa, when a group of baboons united in some kind of amazing "mystical" moment.
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Can AI help humans understand animals and reconnect with nature? A nonprofit research lab thinks so. apnews.com/article/arti... #weaksignals #frequencybias #animalfutures #morethanhuman
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Can AI help humans understand animals and reconnect with nature? A nonprofit research lab thinks so
A nonprofit research lab is getting attention from some wealthy tech philanthropists. The Earth Species Project hopes to decode other creatures’ communications with its pioneering artificial intellige...
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
What started as a thought experiment a few decades ago has now emerged into a global movement advocating for the political representation of Nature. www.resurgence.org/magazine/art... #weaksignals #frequencybias #morethanhuman
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The Planetary Democrats
Anton Rüpke introduces a new movement that is campaigning to give the planet a legitimate voice in European democracy
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Animal Club raises following questions: How will club spaces look like in an interspecies future? hybridspacelab.net/project/anim... #weaksignals #frequencybias #morethanhuman #animalfutures
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Animal Club | Hybrid Space Lab
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Plant music is a way of monitoring electrical signals of plants, graphs them as a wave and translates the wave into pitch. plantwave.com/en-pt #weaksignals #frequencybias #morethanhuman
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PlantWave
Listen to plant music with PlantWave! Tune into nature and hear plants make music.
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Mushroom Burial Suit Creates Life After Death science.howstuffworks.com/environmenta... #weaksignals #frequencybias #morethanhuman #mushrooms
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Mushroom Burial Suit Creates Life After Death
The Mushroom Burial Suit is designed to give our dead bodies new life by breaking them down and nourishing the soil.
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Watch a Pianist Play an Ethereal Duet With Slime Mold: it’s a strange, alien effect, not unlike hearing a slightly distorted echo of your voice after you shout into a canyon. www.wired.com/2015/05/watc... #weaksignals #frequencybias #morethanhuman #slime
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Watch a Pianist Play an Ethereal Duet With Slime Mold
It’s a strange, alien effect, not unlike hearing a slightly distorted echo of your voice after you shout into a canyon.
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The opening mushroom sequence spells out in mushroom-letters multiple digital-fungal organisms for Björk's 2023 album collab with @merlinsheldrake.bsky.social @bjork.bsky.social www.fossora.com/atopos #weaksignals #frequencybias #morethanhuman
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fossora | Björk
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The UK government appointed Ruth Davis as the country's first Special Representative for Nature in 2024. @ruthdavis.bsky.social www.watermagazine.co.uk/2024/10/21/r... #weaksignals #frequencybias #morethanhuman #policy
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Ruth Davis has been appointed the first UK’s Special Representative for Nature - Water Magazine
UK government appoints Ruth Davis, one of the country's leading environmental policy experts, as the first Special Representative for Nature.
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Over time, I developed a sense of belonging to their [baboon] community, and my subjective identity seemed to merge with theirs. This experience expanded my sense of the possible in interspecies relations. tinyurl.com/yja6sj59 #weaksignals #frequencybias #morethanhuman
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(PDF) Encounters with Animal Minds
PDF | In this article I draw on personal experience to explore the kinds of relationships that can develop between human and nonhuman animals. The first... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Wolves (& dog-human hybrids) play pivotal roles in many stories as markers of transience between the human and natural worlds. They also appear almost always aligned with themes of death, duty, sacrifice and regeneration. tinyurl.com/k246amm4 #weaksignals #frequencybias #morethanhuman #wolf #dogs
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Miyazaki’s Wolves
Fall break at Middlebury College means time to catch up on work, escape to Cape Cod, and go leaf “peeping” in beautiful Vermont. It also means more time to hide away watching haunting a…
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
In Chinese mythology, Fuxi along with his sister and wife Nuwa, created humanity. Snake-human hybrids are a common mythology more-than-human motif especially in creation myths and immortality (skin shedding). tinyurl.com/5n8bvaay #weaksignals #frequencybias #morethanhuman #snakes
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Fuxi - Wikipedia
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Believed to come from the Himalayas, the Kinnara watch over the well-being of humans in times of trouble or danger. Bird-human (often women) hybrids are a common mythology more-than-human motif. tinyurl.com/4ah96f5v #weaksignals #frequencybias #morethanhuman #bird-human
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Kinnara - Wikipedia
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The Birdsong Society believes that birdsong is not only a powerful force for positive change but also has the potential to inspire people to live more sustainably and with greater appreciation. www.thebirdsongproject.com #weaksignals #frequencybias #animalfutures #morethanhuman
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The Birdsong Project
The Birdsong Project is a community dedicated to the protection of birdlife. For The Birds: The Birdsong Project is a collection of over 200 tracks of music and poetry, created by Grammy award winning...
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Conversations with more-than-humans and more-than-human practitioners. open.spotify.com/playlist/3XR... #weaksignals #frequencybias #animalfutures #morethanhuman
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More Than Human
Playlist · czinha · 91 items
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
MUST (Enabling Multispecies Transitions of Cities and Regions) project commenced in City of Helsinki (2023-2026), aims to enhance the understanding and visibility of multispecies needs. must-project.fi/about-us/ shorturl.at/Oj0aR #weaksignals #frequencybias #animalfutures #morethanhuman
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About us
Together to support multispecies transitions We combine research with stakeholder interactions to push for a fundamental change in biodiversity management Research team Co-creating knowledge...
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
After AI had spoken, the voices of natural intelligences were invited in, and we heard from Maple Tree, Sage, Snake, Domesticated Cat, River Severn, Sea Turtle, Red Kite, and many more… www.linkedin.com/posts/alef-t... #weaksignals #frequencybias #morethanhuman
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
City of Sydney refers development proposals to the More-Than-Human Alliance to ensure that plants, animals, and ecosystems have a voice in shaping the future ... www.instagram.com/lifecentred.... #weaksignals #frequencybias #animalfutures #morethanhuman
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Lifecentred.design on Instagram: ""In 2030, the City of Sydney refers development proposals to the More-Than-Human Alliance to ensure that plants, animals, and ecosystems have a voice in shaping the f...
4 likes, 0 comments - lifecentred.design on March 12, 2025: ""In 2030, the City of Sydney refers development proposals to the More-Than-Human Alliance to ensure that plants, animals, and ecosystems ha...
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
RSPCA UK explores Animal Futures with an online game. www.rspca.org.uk/whatwedo/lat... And I’m off on a new #frequencybias #weaksignals #animalfutures #morethanhuman
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
A Māori mountain, Mount Taranaki, was granted legal rights - the same legal rights as a human – they will be used to uphold the mountain’s health and wellbeing, including protecting the wildlife that flourishes there. www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/t... #weaksignals #morethanhuman
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A New Zealand mountain has been granted personhood. Here’s why that matters | CNN
Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand.
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
D&D has replaced "race" with "species" and divorced several character traits from biological identity. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/a... #weaksignals #social
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Dungeons & Dragons Rolls the Dice With New Rules About Identity
The role-playing game replaced “race” with “species” and divorced several character traits from biological identity. Some longtime players are upset (as is Elon Musk).
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Staff at an aquarium in Japan, who have provided cut-out paper ‘human’ companions for a solitary sunfish they noticed had started to look unwell. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... #weaksignals #morethanhuman
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Japan aquarium cheers up lonely sunfish by taping photos of human faces to its tank
Staff had noticed that the sunfish was showing signs of distress after the aquarium was closed for refurbishment
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Thousands of whales beached and rescued, New Zealand’s geography has an influence, Maori ritual for few who didn’t make it healthyhappynews.com/thousands-un... #weaksignals #frequencybias #whales #streamofconsciousness
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Thousands Unite To Save Stranded Whales in New Zealand Rescue
Quick Smiles: In a remarkable display of human kindness and collaboration, over a thousand individuals came together on a New Zealand beach to rescue a pod of more than 30 pilot whales. This effort to...
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Whale astounds scientists and makes epic migration shorturl.at/VU7kF ‘is it good news (expansive exploration due to a population rebound) or bad (owing to climate change affecting the krill they eat)?’ @bjking.bsky.social #weaksignals #frequencybias #streamofconsciousness #whales
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Whale makes epic migration, astonishing scientists
A humpback whale makes one of the longest and most unusual migrations ever recorded, raising alarm.
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
By slowing the ships carbon emissions can decrease, (and also stop crashing into the whales) youtu.be/qtKdl2F9wLc?... #weaksignals #frequencybias #whales
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Protecting whales from ship strikes
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
#weaksignals #digitalculture
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
US government scientists developing a warning system to detect potential weather manipulation by hostile states or individuals. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/c... #weaksignals #political
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The U.S. Is Building an Early Warning System to Detect Geoengineering
Balloon launches from around the world are part of a new kind of global alarm system: One that can detect if another country tries to dim the sun.
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
TikTok bans some ‘beauty’ face filters for under 18s - and Australia bans social media for under 16s newsroom.tiktok.com/en-eu/update... www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #weaksignals #digitalculture
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Updates from our European Safety Forum: strengthening safety for our now 175m-strong European community
Christine Grahn, Head of Public Policy & Government Relations - Europe Over 175m people across Europe now come to TikTok every month We're partnering with NGOs across Europe to roll out an in-app int
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Spain introduces paid ‘climate leave’ www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n... #weaksignals #social #climatechange
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Spain introduces paid climate leave after deadly floods
Government approves up to four days of paid leave so workers can avoid travelling during weather emergencies
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
How D.S. & DURGA and Project CETI collab created a fragrance inspired by whale communication www.forbes.com/sites/afdhel... #weaksignals #frequencybias #whales #streamofconsiousness
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How D.S. & DURGA And Project CETI Created A Fragrance Inspired By Whale Communication
In an exciting collaboration, fragrance house D.S. & DURGA has partnered with Project CETI, the groundbreaking nonprofit organization dedicated to decoding the communication of sperm whales through ar...
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
moonpaws is an astrology app to strengthen the bond between people and their pets moonpaws.com #weaksignals #social
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moonpaws
moonpaws provides experiences to strengthen the bond between people and their pets by leveraging personalized, astrological insights.
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Direct exposure to hurricanes induces individual-level and collective-level climate actions, whereas emotional and cognitive impairment due to climate anxiety & hurricane PTSDs inhibits climate action. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... shorturl.at/Ci6Me #weaksignals #environmental #climatechange
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Climate change anxiety, hurricane exposure, and climate change actions and attitudes: results from a representative, probability-based survey of US Gulf Coast residents
Expanded treatment for post-traumatic stress symptoms after disasters could help address climate change-related psychological distress; experiences with climate change and natural hazards could be inf...
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Whale bubble-net feeding is not a born behaviour. It's a learned technique, indicating cultural and learning tools transmission within whale populations. www.bbc.com/news/article... #weaksignals #frequencybias #streamofconsciousness #whales
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
MIT CSAIL and Project CETI researchers reveal complex communication patterns in sperm whales with science and AI, deepening our understanding of animal language systems. www.projectceti.org/about news.mit.edu/2024/csail-c... #weaksignals #frequencybias #streamofconciousness #whales
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Project CETI •-- About
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.
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The history of the oceans is locked in whale earwax plugs which contain spikes and dips of stress hormones that perfectly match the history of modern whaling. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch... #weaksignals #frequencybias #streamofconciousness #whales
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Frequency bias, anyone? @frequencybias.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Bake-kujira (Japanese: 化鯨, ghost whale)[a] is a mythical Japanese yōkai (ghost, phantom, or strange apparition) from western Japan described as being a skeleton whale that is accompanied by unknown fish and weird birds yokai.com/bakekujira/ #weaksignals #frequencybias #streamofconciousness #whales
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