The IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers is available now! 🏡 Explore this first of it’s kind report highlighting methods and actions to measure and respond to business impacts and dependencies on nature.🌍 🧪 https://ipbes.canto.de/b/JTB1U

Today is #InternationalWomensDay 🌿 We celebrate the women contributing to biodiversity research at iDiv and across our partner institutions. Their work – from field studies to global analyses – helps us better understand and protect life on Earth. #WomenInScience #Biodiversity

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 🎥🔭 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

There are now millions of publicly-available AI models – which one is right for you? We introduce CODA ( #ICCV2025 Highlight! ), a method for *active model selection.* CODA selects the best model for your data with any labeling budget – often as few as 25 labeled examples. 1/ @iccv.bsky.social

Too many mediocre men talk over capable women. Study of problem-solving teams: Men dominate the conversation, taking 50% more turns and saying 69% more than women. Men with low skill speak more than women with high skill. It's long past time to value competence over confidence.

📢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...

Turns out, a lot of the plants we use for bee habit enhancement are already common and mostly support those darn common generalists! Thanks @joseblanuza.bsky.social for the help getting this across the line besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

‼️🚨My first PhD paper out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social We built an automated camera system to detect plant–pollinator interactions (day & night) and compared networks from cameras vs. focal observations. 📜👉 doi.org/10.1111/2041... @annatraveset.bsky.social @imedea.bsky.social

Excited to share a new paper led by our colleagues at #DLR! We trained AI to recognize 15 European fly pollinator families and estimate how confident it is, helping ecologists use AI more responsibly. Paper: lnkd.in/dBAWW3hB Code: lnkd.in/du7dD2hc #pollinators #aiforgood #aifornature #UFZ #iDiv

Our latest research explores how YOLO object detectors, trained on citizen science images, perform on unseen time-lapse images of pollinators captured with a fixed smartphone setup. While successful for larger pollinators, detecting smaller or blurrier flower visitors remains a challenge.

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

[new paper] EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant-Pollinator Networks onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Another wonderful paper of @joseblanuza.bsky.social making open more than >1500 networks and looking at their properties. Come for the data, stay for the cool figures!

2025 starts with a methodology publication by Ștefan et al. on Utilising affordable smartphones and open-source time-lapse photography for pollinator image collection and annotation - Happy new year! doi.org/10.26786/192...

Our research center (iDiv) will host a very interesting summer school (25 – 29 August 2025) - Deep learning for biodiversity and ecological research. More details here: www.idiv.de/events/summe... #biodiversity #education #aiforgood #technology #idiv