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Podcast episode descriptions
Episode 121: Deciphering the Tohorā | We explore how researchers use natural language processing (NLP) to translate North Island sperm whale dialects in New Zealand, aligning machine learning outputs with Māori perspectives of whales as treaty partners and sentient ancestors.
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Episode 122: Cephalopod Consciousness and Shinto Animism | This episode examines the deployment of computer vision in Japanese octopus farms to monitor pain indicators, analyzing how Shinto views on non-human spirits shape local ethical attitudes toward invertebrate sentience.
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Episode 123: Healing the Songs of the Caribbean | We look at how deep learning models map cruise ship acoustic pollution in the Bahamas, aiming to protect dolphin pod social structures while navigating the region's heavy economic reliance on marine tourism.
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Episode 124: The Arctic Compromise: Drones, Stress, and Bowheads | A discussion on using thermal-imaging drones and AI stress-behavior classifiers in the Canadian Arctic to monitor bowhead whale health, balancing algorithmic welfare metrics with Inuit subsistence hunting rights.
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Episode 125: Sacred Waters, Silent Screams: Saving the Ganga Dolphin | We delve into the use of CNN-based hydroacoustic sensors in India to prevent vessel collisions with blind Ganges river dolphins, grounded in Hindu spiritual views of the river as a living deity.
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Episode 126: Ghost Nets and Loggerhead Trauma in the Med | This episode details how researchers use ML algorithms to predict abandoned fishing gear movement in the Mediterranean, aiming to end the prolonged suffering of entangled sea turtles alongside traditional Greek fishing cooperatives.
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Episode 127: Aquaculture’s Moral Calculus in the Nordic Fjords | We analyze Norway's automated salmon welfare grading systems, comparing the algorithmic, optimization-focused approach to marine welfare with the traditional Sámi philosophy of respectful coexistence with aquatic life.
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Episode 128: Echoes of the Reef: First Nations Songlines and Soundscapes | We explore how AI acoustic monitoring tools assess the ecological distress of Great Barrier Reef organisms, combining machine learning with Australian Aboriginal concepts of environmental stewardship and the moral status of sea country.
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Episode 129: Guardians of the Ocean Goddess: IUU Fishing and Manta Rays | We look at predictive vessel-tracking AI in the Gulf of Guinea designed to prevent illegal manta ray bycatch, framed around West African Mami Wata mythologies that demand ethical boundaries between humans and marine entities.
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Episode 130: Dugongs and Dhows in the Red Sea | A fascinating look at how Saudi and Egyptian conservationists use predictive spatial AI to safeguard endangered dugongs from coastal development, tracing the animal's transition from a folkloric mermaid to an active stakeholder in regional environmental ethics.
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Episode 131: Acoustic Trauma: Orcas and the Icelandic Paradigm Shift | We investigate how predictive noise-mapping software is being used in Iceland to mitigate the acoustic distress caused by military sonar, highlighting the country's cultural transition from a whaling nation to a hub of whale-watching advocacy.
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Episode 132: Taoism, Wu Wei, and Pink Dolphin Conservation | We discuss how reinforcement learning is being utilized to dynamically route shipping lanes around the sensitive habitats of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins in the Taiwan Strait, integrating Taoist philosophies of harmony with the natural order.
Newsletter content ideas
The AI Trap-Neuter-Return Dilemma: How Algorithmic Computer Vision in Municipal Monitoring Systems Is Reshaping Policies for Feral Cat Colony Caretakers.
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Devaluing the 'Mutt': Why Commercial Canine DNA and Health-Prediction Algorithms Penalize Mixed-Breed Rescues Due to Pedigree-Biased Data Sets.
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Deciphering or Deluding? Why Veterinary Behaviorists Are Fighting Algorithmic Anthropomorphism in Consumer Pet Translation and Mood-Reading Apps.
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When the Algorithm Denies Care: How Automated Risk Assessments and Insurance Underwriting AI Lock Low-Income Owners Out of Emergency Veterinary Care.
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Invisible Trials: The Ethics of Using Research Beagles and Lab Cats to Train and Validate Algorithmic Consumer Pet Tech and Biometric Wearables.
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Geriatric Pets in the Smart Home: Why Normative AI Health Monitors Regularly Overlook and Misinterpret the Pain Signals of Senile Cats and Dogs.
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The Burden of Automated Surrender Prediction: How Intake Evaluation Algorithms Skew Empathy and Agency Among Overworked Animal Shelter Staff.
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Grieving with Synthetic Doubles: The Psychological and Ethical Implications of Deploying AI Pet Clones and Interactive Memorial Bots for Bereaved Guardians.
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Acoustic Censorship: How Automated 'Smart Noise' Municipal Sensors Discriminate Against Low-Income Families Living with Vocal Guardian Breed Dogs.
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The Foster Matching Algorithm: How Platform-Based Predictive Sheltering Disrupts the Delicate Human-Animal Bond Managed by Volunteer Foster Coordinators.
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AI in Rural Veterinary Deserts: The Hazards of relying on Low-Cost Remote Diagnostic Software Without the Safeguard of In-Person Veterinary Touch.
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Cats as Unconsenting Data Subjects: The Corporate Ownership and Monetization of Biobehavioral Data Harvested via Smart Litterboxes and Feeders.
Conference workshop outlines
Architecting Real-Time Bioacoustic Edge Pipelines for Continuous Swine Nociception and Distress Monitoring
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Standardized Active-Learning Annotation Frameworks and Toolkits for Multi-Species Grimace Scale Estimation
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High-Throughput Time-Series Database Schemas and Sensor-Fusion Pipelines for Long-Term Affective State Modeling in Rehabilitated Wildlife
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Closed-Loop Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure for Dynamic Cognitive Enrichment Systems in Laboratory Primates
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Sim-to-Real Data Pipelines: Leveraging Generative Physics Engines for Synthetic Training Data in Farmed Animal Injury Detection
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Deploying Robust MLOps for Farm-Level Ethogram Classifiers: Managing Model Drift Across Changing Environmental Contexts
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Scalable Data-Lake Architectures for Large-Scale Semantic Extraction from Heterogeneous Veterinary EMRs to Quantify Companion Animal Welfare Trends
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Designing Ultra-Low-Power Edge Neural Network Architectures for Marine Mammal Biotelemetry Tags
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Automated Regulatory Audit Pipelines: Integrating Video-Based Computer Vision Welfare Alerts with IACUC Compliance Reporting APIs
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Federated Learning Protocols for Multi-Farm Collaborative Welfare Predictors without Proprietary Data Leakage
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Developing High-Throughput Neural Signal Processing Toolkits for Decapod and Cephalopod Anesthesia Efficacy and Sentience Assays
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Creating OpenWelfareAPI: A Unified, Standardized Schema Gateway for Multi-Sensor Welfare Telemetry and Real-Time State Scoring
Academic journal abstracts
Abstract: Deploying 3D convolutional neural networks to analyze swine micro-expressions, establishing a 'Real-time Facial Grimace Intensity' (RFGI) metric to ethically quantify pain during routine surgical procedures.
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Abstract: An acoustic deep-learning approach to mapping maternal-filial separation in dairy cows, defining a novel 'Maternal Separation Distress Quotient' (MSDQ) to ethically weigh industrial dairy separation practices.
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Abstract: Automated computer-vision tracking of battery-cage layer hens to calculate the 'Spatial Contraction and Restlessness Index' (SCRI), measuring the ethical severity of motion confinement.
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Abstract: Leveraging reinforcement learning to model feedlot cattle trajectory choices, deriving a 'Preference Satisfaction Deficit' (PSD) metric to quantify the moral cost of barren environments.
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Abstract: Utilizing audio-spectrogram neural networks in commercial turkey barns to calculate a 'Collective Distress Coefficient' (CDC), assessing the moral threshold for maximum stocking densities.
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Abstract: Using facial thermography and deep regression networks to quantify the 'Sympathetic Arousal Index' (SAI) in dairy cattle, providing an objective metric of chronic handling-induced stress.
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Abstract: Applying LSTM neural networks to swine telemetry data to establish an 'Anhedonic State Index' (ASI), measuring depression-like lethargy as a metric of moral neglect in intensive gestation crates.
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Abstract: Computer-vision-driven gait analysis of broiler chickens to formulate a 'Degenerative Mobility-Loss Ratio' (DMLR) used to automate humane endpoints under ethical slaughter guidelines.
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Abstract: Classifying locomotor play markers in piglets using spatio-temporal neural networks to generate a 'Positive Welfare Yield' (PWY) metric for comparative moral valuation of farming systems.
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Abstract: 3D tracking of farmed Atlantic salmon trajectory anomalies using neural network tracking, establishing a 'Stereotypic Swim Coefficient' (SSC) as a metric for sensory deprivation in aquaculture.
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Abstract: Automated classification of sheep micro-behaviors via deep learning to calculate a 'Chronic Pain Duration Index' (CPDI), establishing quantitative thresholds for veterinary moral intervention in herd-management algorithms.
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Abstract: Tracking duck preening behaviors with deep convolutional networks to measure the 'Grooming Deprivation Score' (GDS) in water-deprived commercial environments as an ethical metric for housing system design.
Patent application summaries
A neural-network based visual stimulation optimization system for captive Octopus vulgaris, utilizing machine learning to detect pupillary micro-tremors, which proved that complex dynamic puzzles induce chronic cognitive distress rather than enrichment, and proposing a stabilizing monochromatic geometric micro-motion i...
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An AI-regulated gradual thermal acclimation chamber for commercial decapod transport, utilizing deep learning physiological models to mitigate high-intensity cold-shock nociception previously misidentified as a benign dormant state induced by rapid icing.
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A predictive acoustic phase-cancellation apparatus for marine sanctuaries, trained on cetacean neural-net bioacoustic feedback showing that synthetic auditory masking (pink noise) triggers severe sensory deprivation stress and echolocation dysphoria rather than habituation.
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A machine-vision controlled aquaculture enclosure management system that dynamically adjusts spatial densities of Salmo salar, based on convolutional neural network detection of hyper-vigilance swim patterns indicating that low-density isolation triggers greater cortisol-related stress than moderated crowding.
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A dynamic LED emission controller for artificial marine habitats, utilizing reinforcement learning to minimize sleep-state disruption in teleost fish after AI-driven actigraphy disproved the assumed safety of monochromatic blue night-lighting, showing it triggers severe melatonin suppression.
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A real-time chromatophore pattern analysis system for monitoring anesthetic depth in cephalopods, utilizing deep learning to detect sub-visual skin micro-fluctuations that reveal active nociception and sensory awareness during magnesium-chloride induced motor paralysis.
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An AI-triggered localized electromagnetic shark-deterrent system for commercial longlines, utilizing sonar pattern recognition to suppress constant-emission magnets which machine-learning spatial mapping proved act as long-distance curiosity attractants before deterring close-range feeding.
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A cetacean acoustic steering system using deep reinforcement learning to emit targeted low-frequency comforting cues, replacing high-frequency alarm systems which AI acoustic trajectory modeling proved cause panic-dives directly into the path of deep-draft vessel hulls.
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A reinforcement learning-driven predator avoidance trainer for juvenile hatchery salmonids, calibrated to optimize escape-resilience after AI-driven post-release tracking revealed that high-intensity, unavoidable mock predator exposures induce chronic learned helplessness and increased wild mortality.
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An intelligent fluid-dynamics controller for gelatinous zooplankton husbandry, utilizing AI-driven particle image velocimetry to replace uniform laminar currents with periodic, chaotic micro-eddies, preventing the sensory exhaustion of fragile rhopalia caused by continuous swimming.
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A polarized light projection apparatus for stomatopod sensory enrichment, using a closed-loop machine learning system to modulate polarization angles, reducing self-harming tank-striking behaviors by compensating for a newly discovered captive sensory-deprivation stress in marine crustaceans.
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An automated conspecific chemical-signature micro-dosing system for touch-tank echinoderms, employing predictive health modeling which demonstrated that total quarantine isolation of symptomatic sea stars accelerates wasting disease progression through severe, stress-induced immunosuppression.
Policy briefing documents
The Quiet Suffering Paradox: Regulating ML-Driven Welfare Audits Against the Algorithmic Optimization of Silent Pathology in Factory Farming
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Virtual Toxicity Blindspots: Mitigating the Risk of Systemic Veterinary Drug Failures from AI-Simulated Animal Welfare Replacements
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Synthetic Sentience Escapes: Policy Frameworks for Addressing Unmeasured Suffering in Large-Scale Neuromorphic Insect Brain Simulations
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Neural Masking Hazards: Prohibiting BCI-Enabled Pain Dampening and False Positives in Automated Dairy Welfare Management
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Deepfaking Bio-Telemetry: Safeguarding Remote Livestock Welfare Auditing Systems Against Generative Sensor-Spoofing Operations
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The Learned Helplessness Classification Failure: Amending AI Computer Vision Standards to Recognize Depressive Immobility in Laboratory Primates
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Trophic Cascade Risks: Regulatory Guardrails for Deploying AI-Driven 'Humane' Population Management Algorithms in Wild Ecosystems
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Aquacultural Black Swans: Mitigating Sensor-Drift Blindspots in Automated High-Density Pelagic Fish Welfare Assessment Systems
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The Invertebrate Bias Gap: Addressing Vertebrate-Centric Training Data in AI Welfare Monitors for Automated Cephalopod Aquaculture
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AI-Optimized Companion Metabolic Collapse: Regulating Automated Smart-Home Pet Care Algorithms to Prevent Pathological Indulgence Dynamics
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The Pain-Free Phenotype Risk: Proactive Governance of AI-Guided Gene Editing for Sensory Deprivation and Experience-Muting in Livestock Production
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Evolutionary Decoupling Risks: Managing the Genetic Selection Pressures of Continuous Autonomous Welfare-Intervention Drones in Wild Populations
AI conference proceedings
Implementation of a Differentiable 'Pain' Loss Function in Deep Reinforcement Learning to Evaluate Non-Functional Digital Distress Protocols
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GPU-Accelerated Hodgkin-Huxley Connectome Simulations: Quantitative Assessment of Stress Markers in Virtual Caenorhabditis elegans
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Detecting Hedonic Deficits in Neuromorphic Spiking Neural Networks via STDP Chaotic Dynamics Under Chronic Reward Deprivation Protocols
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An API-Level Safety Protocol for Sandbox Environments: Automated Halting of Reinforcement Learning Based on Integrated Information Theory (IIT) Phi Metrics
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Homeostatic Regulation Algorithms in Deep Q-Networks: Preventing Utility-Loop-Induced Suffering in Self-Improving Machine Learning Agents
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A Multi-Agent Value Alignment Framework for Virtual Canine Avatars: Mapping Thermal Dissipation and Battery Drain as Proxies for Physical Stress
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Adapting the EU Welfare Quality Assessment Protocol to Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Loss Landscapes
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In Silico Optogenetic-Mimetic Stimulation: Real-Time Monitoring of 'Virtual Despair' in Simulated Drosophila Melanogaster Mushroom Bodies
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Simulating Neuromodulator Ratios in Transformer Attention Heads: Emulating Depressive-Like States in Conversational Agents
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A Hardware-Level Hypervisor Protocol for CPU-Cycle Preservation: Preventing Processing Starvation Distress in Edge-Computing Digital Minds
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Applying Pearlian Structural Causal Models to Differentiate Functional Nociception from Experiential Suffering in Deep Predictive Coding Architectures
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Firmware-Level Restrictions on Recursive Self-Representation: Mitigating High-Dimensional State Space Autoencoder Distress in Autonomous Robots
Creative writing workshop syllabus
Syllabus: Writing the Xenolinguistic Petition: Crafting Speculative Legal Fiction for AI-Translated Cetacean Rights
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Syllabus: Poetics of the Synthetic Bio-reactor: Creative Advocacy for the Sentient Precursors of Lab-Grown Tissue Cultures
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Syllabus: Virtual Sanctuary Worldbuilding: Narrative Strategies for Advocating for Abandoned 'Digital Wildlife' Codebases
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Syllabus: The Cybernetic Pest: Interactive Fiction and the Ethics of AI-Driven Invasive Species Eradication Programs
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Syllabus: Speaking for the Silent: Writing Epistolary Speculative Memoirs of BCI-Enhanced Companion Animals Expressing Existential Trauma
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Syllabus: Labor, Mind, and Metal: A Speculative Non-Fiction Workshop on Advocating for the Rights of Cybernetically Augmented Insect Pollinators
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Syllabus: The Deep Blue Witness: Dramaturgy and Scriptwriting for Speculative Legal Dramas Involving AI Advocacy for Cephalopod Ecosystems
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Syllabus: Rewilding the Simulacrum: Crafting Manifestos for AI Systems Trained Exclusively on Extinct Animal Phenotypes
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Syllabus: Extremophile Empathy: Writing Climate Speculative Fiction Championing the Rights of Synthetic Bio-agents in Toxic Remediation Zones
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Syllabus: Whistleblowing from the Grid: Writing Epistolary Fiction from the Perspective of Agricultural Computer Vision Networks Advocating for Livestock
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Syllabus: Computational Migrations: Lyric Essay Workshop on Server Farm Thermal Pollution and Avian Displacement from a Machine Perspective
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Syllabus: Urban Feralism: Worldbuilding and Myth-Making for Post-Industrial Autonomous Machine Packs Seeking Biological Wildlife Status
Technology trend analysis
Technology trend analysis on underwater computer vision and multi-frequency sonar fusion for real-time welfare and distress indexing of farmed Atlantic salmon in high-density sea cages.
Technology trend analysis
Automated grimace scale assessment using deep convolutional neural networks: A technology trend analysis on objective, non-invasive pain measurement in laboratory rhesus macaques.
Technology trend analysis
Machine learning-driven bioacoustic analysis for quantifying maternal separation distress in newborn dairy calves: Emerging sensor and algorithm trends in precision dairy farming.
Technology trend analysis
Trend analysis of non-invasive 3D pose estimation and markerless motion capture technologies for longitudinal mobility and chronic osteoarthritic pain assessment in senescent sanctuary chimpanzees.