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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Only a few more days left to see “Dutch, More or Less” which includes Deep Steward, my collaboration with @theun.bsky.social, at @nieuweinstituut.nl in Rotterdam. nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/...

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Dutch, More or Less

Dutch, More or Less: Architecture, Design and Digital Culture Since the 1990s

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This conference is going to be chock-full of good stuff on machine learning-backed bioacoustics! And we’re chuffed to be part of it!

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The Woodiest, Nevermore-A-Matic, and other of my robots are included in Madeline Schwartzman’s new book, Alive, along with an excellent collection of the work of many fantastic artists, engineers, and scientists. Review on Bookpage: www.bookpage.com/reviews/aliv...

Photo of the cover of Madeline Schwartzman’s new book, Alive. Light blue background with a bird figure made of electronics and clear plastic and the word Alive in prominent font.

Photo of two page spread about The Woodiest, a robot that communicates with woodpeckers using their drumming and tapping signals. Includes photos of the robot with its two green heads both in the gallery and deployed in the woods.

Photo of a page in the book that talks about a set of my robots, with photos of Nevemore-A-Matic, Cinderella, Rat Re-embodied as a Robot, and Doctor Maggotty is Anxious About The End.

Photo of the table of contents of the new book, Alive, with a tantalizing list of chapters.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Last week of the exhibition, AI Ecologies, at Artphy curated by @petervanderputten.bsky.social and Roland van Dierendonck. It includes two of my robots plus many other fantastic works e.g. a device that finds faces in grains of sand, a machine-constructed alphabet from the bark patterns of a tree.

Sign for the exhibition AI Ecologies outside the gallery on a country road. The sign shows a glamorous person holding a potato, all generated by AI as part of an ad campaign for potatoes.

A two-headed white woodpecker robot strapped to the vestiges of a tree in a large interior space with vaulted ceilings. The heads of the woodpecker robot are two different shades of green.

A concrete-floored “sub-floor” in the Artphy art gallery, looking down plain wooden stairs at some art pieces in the show AI Ecologies.

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Aryn Wilder @arynwilder.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Excited to share our new paper on genetic rescue in the Pacific pocket mouse! To conserve this endangered species, we sought to understand whether small populations at risk of outbreeding depression are better managed in isolation or with gene flow. @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Fitness benefits of genetic rescue despite chromosomal differences in an endangered pocket mouse

Two-thirds of Earth’s species have undergone population declines, leaving many vulnerable to genomic erosion and inbreeding depression. Genetic rescue can boost the fitness of small populations, but p...

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

AI Ecologies opens in two days at Artphy. The exhibition includes The Woodiest, a robot that, in the performance Nobody Told the Woodpeckers, explains climate change to woodpeckers. www.artphy.nl/2025/06/20/a...

Photo of a two-headed woodpecker robot attached to a birch tree with a strap. One head is a metallic lime green and the other a metallic forest green. The former head is positioned by its motor, ready to execute the territorial drumming of the Pileated woodpecker on the tree trunk.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

AI Ecologies at Artphy opens in two weeks. I will have robots in the exhibition. Curated by Peter van der Putten and Roland van Dierendonck. www.artphy.nl/2025/06/20/a...

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AI Ecologies - Kunsthal Artphy

Mens, natuur en AI in ontmoeting! Vorig jaar organiseerde Artphy haar eerste AI expo. Een nieuwe materie! (Zie ook De expo en de lezing). Een mooi begin! Nu verder. Met […]

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

When I was a youth, I ate many tiny, tiny shrimp. I found a good source of tiny, tiny shrimp recently and, eating them, have been thinking of them as krill and of myself as a whale. I drink them in water, press the water out through gaps between my teeth, and lick the filtered shrimp into my gullet.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I had Hedgehog going all the way and defeating Polar Bear in the final. I cannot resist supporting the underhedgehog.

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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

"We propose an alternative lightweight computer vision method for fish counting based on analyzing echograms" Make everything a computer vision problem 😆 Cool study from @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social et al. Might be more broadly applicable to PAM and acoustic behavior? #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

We have two openings for stipended ugrad fellows at the Conservation Technology Lab at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. One is in CV/ML for field camera systems: us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor... Second is in field device design (image or sound): us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

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Job opportunity at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance - Conservation Science Summer Fellow - Population Sustainability, Machine Learning - San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

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Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... In our new paper we review 130 papers and summarise empirical evidence for socioecological factors affecting vocal communication, as well as evidence for vocal learning in different corvid species.

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Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review

Vocal communication is broadly distributed in a wide range of nonhuman animal species and is hypothesized to play an important role in mate attraction…

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

When the earth is no longer a suitable home, the earthworms will transmogrify into beings better aligned with an increasingly plastic world.

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Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This paper is a fantastic resource for researchers doing biodiversity monitoring, especially occupancy modeling. Check it out! Congrats & thanks to @ben-r-goldstein.bsky.social, @kendallcalhoun.bsky.social, @drpheebs.bsky.social, and other authors :)

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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I started to put together a starter pack for research in AI+Ecology, check it out and let me know if you would like to be added! go.bsky.app/8zugFF6

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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

🎯 How can we empower scientific discovery in millions of nature photos? Introducing INQUIRE: A benchmark testing if AI vision-language models can help scientists find biodiversity patterns- from disease symptoms to rare behaviors- hidden in vast image collections. Thread👇🧵

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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Looks like a cool #bioacoustics gig

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Kitzes Lab @kitzeslab.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

If you're looking for bioacoustics tips and help, check out the #Bioacoustics Resource Page (run by Sam Lapp and the Kitzes Lab) - bit.ly/bioacoustics-resource-page It has links to tons of tutorials, datasets, software, forums, #AudioMoth info, and more

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Bioacoustics Resource Page

Bioacoustics Resources A list curated by the Kitzes Lab hint: bookmark this page :) Educational Materials Workshops by the Kitzes Lab Lecture series from Computer Vision for Ecology workshop Class...

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Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Searching for #bioacoustics tools to classify species, organize data, triangulate sounds, ...? 🦉🐋🦇🦗 Check out the (newly updated) Bioacoustics Software Database! rhine3.github.io/bioacoustics...

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Bioacoustics Software Database

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

A wee woodland robot called Lizardless Legs competes for territory with local lizards. The robot’s body is reduced to the bare minimum necessary to execute the territorial push-up gesture the lizards use to claim their diminutive domains and to fight their bloodless ceremonial bobbing battles.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The Conservation Technology Lab at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance has an opening for a postdoc from computer science or a related field with strong experience in machine learning to work on bioacoustics projects in ecology and conservation: us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

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Job opportunity at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance - Post Doctoral Associate - San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

In Nobody Told the Woodpeckers, a robot called The Woodiest translates territorial drumming between closely related woodpecker species that might encounter each other for the first time due to habitat disruption. Then it explains anthropogenic climate change to them in Morse Code on the tree trunk.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

A rat king is a mischief of rats entangled at the tails, forced to live every moment of their lives together. In the installation Rat King, rats are re-embodied as robots entangled into the neglected spaces of the building that the rats call their home.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

The feathery robotic being On Beyond Mother Goose has two dance partners to guide her pirouettes and tail flicks: her mate On Beyond Father Gander–far away yet mirroring her moves in perfect synchrony–and the Earth’s magnetic field that they both feel flow through the sensors at their core.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

The turtle’s eye at the boundary between water and air.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

My collaboration with Theun Karelse, Deep Steward (2018-present), is included in the 2-year exhibition “Dutch, More or Less: Contemporary Architecture, Design, and Digital Culture” at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, opening this Friday, May 31st. nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/...

Screenshot of one screen of Deep Steward’s display from its installation at the Milan Triennial 2022 showing its stained glass window-like view of the tree outside the museum and some of its efforts to interpret that tree and the life within it.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

Tomorrow, I am giving a talk about my robots for animals following the “Of Beasts and Bytes” film program of the Go Short Film Festival. www.goshort.nl/en/program/?...

Go Short Film Festival banner, showing the dates of the festival: 3-7 April 2024

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

Are the mitochondria the pearls of the eukaryotic cell?

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Become a forest. Speak to an ocean. I am very pleased to have work in the bright, buoyant show, Y3K: On Distant Keys, at UMass Amherst with a fabulous group of artists and other collaborators. It is open till April 26th. www.umass.edu/humanities-a...

Poster for art exhibition, Y3K: On Distant Keys, showing title of show against backdrop of colorful, organic forms.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Having my first real look at “The Field Guide to Machine Wilderness” book that documents the various projects at ARTIS Royal Zoo done during the Machine Wilderness residences, including mine. Wonderful illustrations and texts by the organizers, Theun Karelse and Alice Smits, and the artists.

Cover of “A Field Guide to Machine Wilderness” book showing baboon being observed.

Inside cover of book with illustration compositing natural history illustrations with some of the residency projects including two of my robots.

Front two pages of Theun Karelse’s essay about my residency at ARTIS.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

A Whiskerer is a rat re-embodied as a robot that gently whisks flowers with its whiskers. www.ianingram.org/m/a-whiskere...

Photo of a robotic artwork that is tubular and black, white, and red. It has whiskers and is using them to lightly whisk some blossoming, white geraniums.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

The soul of the soil permeates the vermiform robots, making them yearn to shed their plastic shells, become flesh, and dig to the Earth’s core.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

The robot Nevermore-A-Matic tells our stories about the end of the world to ravens through beak wipes. Using human language coded in machine language coded in the beak wipes—a signal with significant salience to the birds—it tries to relate the apocalypses that we have imagined or might create.

Black robot with two raven beaks wipes one of them on the branch upon which it is perched.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

The robot Nevermore-a-Matic feels the coming winter and prepares to once again tell its tales of gloom and doom to ravens and crows.

A black robot with two raven beaks and a camera eye in its tail sits upon a branch that is losing its leaves for the autumn, silhouetted against a cloudy sky.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

In Nobody Told the Woodpeckers, a robot called The Woodiest translates territorial woodpecker drumming signals between species that might meet for the first time in mega-anna due to habitat disruption. It then tries to explain anthropogenic climate change to them in Morse Code on the tree trunk.

Three photos of a two-headed woodpecker robot called the Woodiest. Its structure is white plastic with two heads shaped like the skulls of the Pileated woodpecker and the Black woodpecker, respectively. These are painted two separate shades of metallic green. Motors and electronics are visible and the whole object is strapped to a tree. In the first image both heads are down and in the subsequent two each of the heads is drumming.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

In the museum, the sod surrounding Danger Squirrel Nutkin slowly dies, revealing the deathlessness of the robot’s tiny square patch of ersatz lawn.

View of a part of the robot Danger Squirrel Nutkin from above, showing its core external actuators and mechanics and its camera. The sod it is set upon has died and turned brown over the months in the museum making the bright green of the robot’s fake grass very salient.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

The robot Danger Squirrel Nutkin and a park squirrel try to see tail to tail.

An Eastern grey squirrel observes a robot constructed from three Eastern grey squirrel tails on a boom connected to motors that actuate the tails and the boom, all mounted on a base of small square patch of fake grass.

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