Can you predict the UK’s next wheat disease outbreak? Enter SPHERE's forecasting contest, run in collaboration with @ADASgroup! Details (www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...) and GitHub to enter (github.com/SPHERE-PPL/A...)
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A new AI forecasting competition aims to improve prediction of major wheat diseases and support agricultural decision-making.
🌍 Biodiversity post-doc!
🏭 Combine our dataset on European policy and industrial emissions with biodiversity data to figure out what policies work where.
💻 Apply here (www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...), or ask me (profiles.imperial.ac.uk/will.pearse) or Laure (profiles.imperial.ac.uk/l.depreux)
SPHERE's annual meeting is on the 14th of January! Robin Freeman (ZSL), Julie Smith (ADAS), and Eric Daub (Alan Turing Institute) will speak, we'll congratulate the Lyme Disease forecast winners, & announce our next contest in collaboration with the NHS!
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Happy to see my PhD work on birdsong complexity published today! doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 🐦⬛ 🎶 ⬇️
Why are some birdsongs simple and some extremely complex? The answer is long thought to be ‘sexual selection favouring complex signals’. But - really?
out now in Science: @loganjames.bsky.social collected pairs of sounds in 16 species where we *know* which sound is more attractive (to that species)
he played them to ppl on themusiclab.org, asking, in each pair, which was nicer. humans agreed w other animals
doi.org/10.1126/science.aea1202
Will Pearse
Got what it takes to forecast for the NHS? 🏥
We’re releasing 1.3GB of data (2.5 years of records) for a massive forecasting challenge. Predict ambulance & admittance trends to help the NHS. Win 🏆 too...
Join here: github.com/SPHERE-PPL/N...
#DataScience #MachineLearning #NHS #Forecasting
Develop a forecasts of severe patient harm to be used by the NHS!
Every 4-hour delay in Emergency Department admission increases 30-day mortality risk by 8%: join the SPHERE forecasting contest and help the NHS reduce delays before they happen!
Find out more here: www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...
Will Pearse
Boost your skills! 📊
Help identify AI training for environmental forecasting at the SPHERE-PPL Annual Meeting, and network!
📅 14th Jan 2026 | The Alan Turing Institute
Find out more: sphere-ppl.org
Register: forms.gle/iy6jC3Xg3QrT...
#Training #AI #EnvironmentalScience #Forecasting #TuringInstitute
New preprint! 🌳🐛
We combined experimental and genomic methods to study local adaptation of winter moths to variation in oak budburst timing in Wytham Woods, UK.
With @andreaestandia.bsky.social, Lea Beaupere, Ella Cole, and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Abstract. Acoustic signal complexity varies widely in animals, from single notes to highly sophisticated vocal displays. In birds, vocal complexity can evo
For herbivorous insects whose fitness depends on tight phenological synchrony with host plants, spatial variation in plant phenology can impose strong selective pressures and promote local adaptation ...
