Welcome to the eighth edition of The Call, the Interspecies Internet newsletter. This bimonthly update brings you key moments from our community and the wider field of interspecies communication.
🌍 Massive Interspecies Communication
Observatory | January Workshop
This workshop brought together researchers in the field to explore the possibility of a Massive Interspecies Communication Observatory (MICO): a global, open-science infrastructure for studying interspecies communication at scale.
We explored reinforcement learning theory, insights from citizen-science datasets, and cross-species consciousness research to address questions about shared data standards, ML pipelines, privacy protocols, and what would be required to establish an enduring, global resource.
One major output of this workshop is a forthcoming white paper outlining a research agenda for large-scale, collaborative interspecies communication research – we look forward to sharing it with you once it is ready!
