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Financial Times

FINANCIAL TIMES

FT Weekend Festival, May 20

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HAY FESTIVAL

June 4th

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CHELTENHAM SCIENCE FESTIVAL

“The world’s greatest scientists help answer big questions at Cheltenham Science Festival”

Located at Imperial Gardens, June 6-11, 2023

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PAST EVENTS

Science and Society

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

This presentation explores these developments and discusses their potential not only to extend humanity’s relationship with nature but also to underscore the urgency of preserving biodiversity.

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WWF PANDAS & PROSE

January 2023; Hosted by WWF, author Karen Bakker and WWF’s Global Data and Technology Lead Scientist Dave Thau have a conversation. 

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GOOGLE

February 21st; Private Event 

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FUTURE TENSE

“A global pandemic treaty; communication vulnerabilities; and talking to the animals”

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DLD

DLD MUNICH 23

DLD is a global media and conference network on innovation, digitization, science and culture. January 12-14th. (Watch here)

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INTERSPECIES INTERNET

Listening Across the Tree of Life: December 3, 2022 at 11:00 am EST (Listen here!)

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RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE AT HARVARD

Radcliffe Institute at Harvard (Cambridge, Massachusetts) on February 8th, 2023

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SCIENCE FRIDAY'S SCIFRI BOOK CLUB

Starting November 1st (Register here)

Newsy In the Loop

NEWSY'S IN THE LOOP

“Artificial Intelligence could help humans talk to pets”

(Watch Here)

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SECRET SCIENCE CLUB

On December 1, join us on Zoom with Karen Bakker of the Smart Earth Project with The Sounds of Life. (Watch here!

Many Minds Podcast

MANY MINDS

“[The Sounds Of Life] is really bursting with insight, science, and stories—all presented with unusual clarity.”

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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”

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IDEAS PODCAST

“Technology often distracts us from nature, but what if it could reconnect us instead?”

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THE JEFFERSON EXCHANGE

“Technology has expanded our ability to detect the sounds of living things, even when they are inaudible to humans”

(Listen Here)

KUOW

KUOW'S SOUNDSIDE

“How technology is mapping the unheard conversations of the natural world…”

Science Review

SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATES TALK

Smithsonian Associates talk (Washington, DC) on November 3, 2022 at 6:45pm EST (Register here)

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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)

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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

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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)

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TALK NERDY

Sounds of Nature with Karen Bakker (and Cara Santa Maria)

(Listen here)

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KEEN ON

“A Digital Dolittle? On Technology That Will Enable Us to Talk With Other Species… Including Plants and Trees”

(Watch here)

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UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL

University of Montreal (Montreal, Quebec) on November 17th, 2022

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THE URBAN BIRDER

Virtual Event on Thursday January 26th, at 7pm GST (Register here

CBC Spark

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”

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TOWNHALL SEATTLE

Town Hall Seattle (Seattle, Washington) on Monday, October 24, 2022 (Register Here)

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SCIENCE ON TAP

Science on Tap (Portland, Oregon) on Wednesday, Oct 26, 2022 at 7pm EST (Register here)