Sensors and AI can transform understanding of insect biodiversity 🪰📈
BUT we must be wary of the AI hype-train 🚆 and respect existing data and traditional monitoring 🙇
Our new synthetic review lays out seven steps to realise the potential of insect sensing systems 🎥🔭
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📢Please share📢 We have an opening for an exciting fully-funded PhD project on computer vision and machine learning applied to biodiversity monitoring with amazing Serge Belongie @belongielab.org and @aicentre.dk. Application deadline coming up on 15 January!
phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...
Nice to see our work described in this News Feature @nature.com😊 I certainly value my field biology background as someone working a lot with AI these days. In fact, my motivation for AI solution is largely driven by a curiosity to better understand ecological dynamics at my favorite field sites.
As #climatechange becomes more extreme, organisms may no longer keep track in their phenology or seasonal activity e.g flowering, swarming or egg laying. @soerinegerlich.bsky.social led our study showing this is real for highly sensitive #arctic #arthropods royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@insectai.bsky.social join us in April! Scan and propose a session! Send an abstract! Only a few days left! @cholvimaria.bsky.social @tokehoye.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social
Many arthropods show earlier seasonal activity with warming, but these responses cannot continue indefinitely. Identifying such phenological thresholds is crucial for understanding limits to climate tracking and species persistence, but few studies test ...
The ecologists who study nature without going outside bit.ly/3YtoSnu @tadeorp.bsky.social @sarabssethi.bsky.social @tokehoye.bsky.social @billsutherland.bsky.social @bessonmarc.bsky.social @laura-pollock.bsky.social @kevinjgaston.bsky.social
Thanks to superb leadership by @atengstedt.bsky.social and based on our samples of the endangered butterfly🦋(E. aurinia), we show how genetic rescue may be more conservation relevant and less risky than previously thought
In the race to embrace new technologies, some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature.
Great to be at #BioMonWeek2026 to represent @biodiversa.eu and the pilot programs, @mambo-project.eu, @onestop-project.eu and beyond, to meet new and old friends and to forge new collaborations. Very exciting indeed!
