Events
Upcoming
SCIENCE FRIDAY'S SCIFRI BOOK CLUB
Starting November 1st (Register here)
INTERSPECIES INTERNET
Listening Across the Tree of Life: December 3, 2022 at 11:00 am EST (Register here)
SECRET SCIENCE CLUB
On December 1, join us on Zoom with Karen Bakker of the Smart Earth Project with The Sounds of Life. Stay tuned for details!
DLD MUNICH 23
DLD is a global media and conference network on innovation, digitization, science and culture. January 12-14th. (Learn More)
STS CIRCLE AT HARVARD
STS Circle at Harvard (Cambridge, Massachusetts) on February 6, 2023
RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE AT HARVARD
Radcliffe Institute at Harvard (Cambridge, Massachusetts) on February 8th, 2023
MASSACHUETTS INTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) in February, 2023
JOHN ADAMS INSTITUTE
John Adams Institute on June 27, 2023
PAST EVENTS
THE JEFFERSON EXCHANGE
“Technology has expanded our ability to detect the sounds of living things, even when they are inaudible to humans”
PLANT YOURSELF
“What do you get when you combine a reverential attitude toward the natural world with a high-tech approach to problem solving?”
Listen on the blog, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Youtube
SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATES TALK
Smithsonian Associates talk (Washington, DC) on November 3, 2022 at 6:45pm EST (Register here)
TALK NERDY
Sounds of Nature with Karen Bakker (and Cara Santa Maria)
(Listen here)
JOHN FUGELSANG PODCAST
“This week John is broadcasting from California…interview[ing] Karen Bakker, author of “The Sounds of Life – How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants”. They talk about the secret world of sound and how other species communicate”
UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL
University of Montreal (Montreal, Quebec) on November 17th, 2022
IDEAS PODCAST
“Technology often distracts us from nature, but what if it could reconnect us instead?”
CBC SPARK
“Explore the tech that helps us understand the language of plants and animals, and how it may hold the key to protecting biodiversity”
KUOW'S SOUNDSIDE
“How technology is mapping the unheard conversations of the natural world…”
SCIENCE ON TAP
Science on Tap (Portland, Oregon) on Wednesday, Oct 26, 2022 at 7pm EST (Register here)
EARTH SPECIES PROJECT
A presentation on decoding animal language by Aza Raskin, followed by a panel discussion hosted at the World Economic Forum in San Francisco on October 25, 2022 exploring how AI is expanding our ability to understand other species and the benefits and potential challenges that this new understanding will bring.
(Watch here)
TOWNHALL SEATTLE
Town Hall Seattle (Seattle, Washington) on Monday, October 24, 2022 (Register Here)
FUTURE PROOF WITH JONATHAN MCCREA
“Jonathan is joined by Karen Bakker, Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies and author of ‘The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants’ to explore the sounds in nature that we cannot hear.”
(Listen here)
KEEN ON
“A Digital Dolittle? On Technology That Will Enable Us to Talk With Other Species… Including Plants and Trees”
(Watch here)