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Earth is already talkingin channels we are only now able to measure.

A honeybee gives a compass bearing by dancing an angle onto a wall in the dark. A sperm whale stamps a rhythm into a burst of clicks. A rat tells you how it feels at a frequency above the top of human hearing. None of that is metaphor and none of it is new — what is new is that the signals are now measurable, and that a structure test can be scored honestly against chance instead of asserted.

EarthConvergence is a research site about that convergence: the signals, the species that send them, what can honestly be measured in them, and what cannot. Earthwatch, our environmental-impact work, is now part of it too.

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Research, two things to try, and Earthwatch

Try itEncode a sentence for another speciesType a sentence in English, pick a species with a literature-based signal template — honey bee, sperm whale, dolphin, birds, plants, bacteria — and see which concepts its known signals could carry, the form of its native signal, what the model drops, and how strong the published evidence is, with sources. It does not listen to or translate animals.Open Walk itJourneyA quiet world simulator: move through Earth’s biomes and meet the real species that live in each, named with binomials and nothing invented.Open The resultsLanguage Studies5 synthetic-baseline decoder results and structure tests on real recordings from 35 marine mammal species, each printed with its null or baseline, its sample size and its limits. Including the parts that do not flatter us.Open The animalsCross-Species5 anchor species across 5 lineages with the real signal modality, the real ethology, and a hard line between what is established and the 12 problems that are genuinely open.Open Now part of EarthConvergenceEarthwatchThe Earthwatch impact estimator: what trees, solar panels and saved energy are worth in CO₂, with every coefficient printed and its limits stated.Open Seeking partnersDevices for interspecies playAn intermittent-reinforcement fish dispenser for whales and dolphins, a hive link so beekeepers can read their colonies, and three more designs we want to build with aquariums, labs and beekeepers.Open Coming soonDonate computeLend your computer’s idle time to the signal-structure research. Pledge a machine now; we’ll email you when the donor program opens.Open

Computed, not claimed

What is actually on disk

Every figure below is computed at build time from committed files — the recorded decoder leaderboard, the module reproduction counts transcribed in src/lib/content/decoders.ts, the real-recording results transcribed from committed receipts, and the species registry. No figure here depends on a service being up.

marine mammal species with real-recording structure tests (structure only; 0 meanings decoded)

src/lib/content/realAudio.ts (from committed receipts)

synthetic-baseline decoder rows, reproducible bit-for-bit

data/decoder-leaderboard.json

5 / 5

synthetic rows that beat their permutation null at p < 0.05

data/decoder-leaderboard.json

held-out synthetic items behind those rows, in total

decoder module reproduction runs

real anchor species, named with binomials

src/lib/content/species.ts

Read this before the numbers

All 5 recorded decoder rows are a nearest-neighbour baseline, not a trained model, and every dataset behind them is synthetic — generated from a stated biological rule plus noise; no field recording is used in this leaderboard pipeline. What is real there is the scoring gate: seeded, permutation-tested and reproducible with python tournament.py --dry-run. Real recordings are analysed separately, for structure only: committed result files cover 35 marine mammal species (34 from the Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database at WHOI, plus 1,501 Dominica Sperm Whale Project / Project CETI coda recordings, one Orcasound recording of Southern Resident killer whales, one humpback song clip and one clip labelled minke whale). The language-studies page states every result with its null or baseline, its sample size and its limits.

The bar, stated up front

One animal signal has been decoded to meaning, by von Frisch, not by us

One system on this list has been decoded to a checkable meaning, and not by us: the honeybee waggle dance, by Karl von Frisch (1946–67), because the thing it refers to — a place — can be walked to and checked. MasiDyn's own honeybee row is a synthetic baseline. Everything MasiDyn has measured on real recordings is structure — timing, temporal structure, contour shape, call detection, species and location association — and calling any of it translation would be false.

That sentence is the editorial policy of this entire site. We would rather publish a small honest claim than an impressive false one, so every result here is shown with its null or baseline, its sample size and its limits attached — species by species.

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