Please join us in a shared communications space for the Interspecies Internet community.

We created a Slack Workspace for the Interspecies Internet community. You can read more about Slack here and access our Workspace here. Our Workspace is an open, online environment for members of our community to get to know each other and share information, inspiration, and research related to animal communication, behaviour, intelligence and welfare. More than 600 users have joined the space since its launch in 2020, and our community has exchanged more than 3,000 messages in that time.

To join others who are working to advance the vision of Interspecies Internet and affiliated areas of research and advocacy, or to invite others that you think would benefit from being part of our community, click on or share this link.

Of special interest is this ad that Slack made in 2015. Maybe they knew we would be joining them?

We have created channels organised around topics or projects such as “in-the-news”, “events”, “machine-learning” and “introductions”. In addition to those public Channels, we can also set-up private Channels that only selected members can access. Anyone can also Direct Message (DM) one or more people on the service to share one-to-one messages or one-to-many messages. Web-based resources and other digital files (e.g. images) can easily be added to the system, and you can go back and edit your posts if you notice a spelling mistake or want to make other changes. Slack also supports direct voice and video-based communications between members.

To get the most of our Slack, we encourage you to install the iOS or Android app on your phone and/or the Windows or macOS app on your computer. Many of you are probably already using Slack at work with other projects you are involved with. Once you have set-up Slack for one Workspace, switching between others is easy.

The purpose of this space is to support our work and the growing community involved with it. We set it up and are evolving it to do just that. If you have suggestions about how we can help make this service best meet your needs, or just have general questions or requests, please don’t hesitate to DM me “Mark Graham”. Or, if you can’t figure out how to do that, feel free to email me at mark@archive.org.

Note: Please make sure to familiarize yourself with our community guidelines, which can be consulted here. These guidelines are in place to ensure a respectful and productive environment for all members.