I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

🍂 Applications are now open for our ML-for-Behavior 5-day course at Jackson Labs in Bar Harbor, ME. Talks and hands-on workshops cover pose estimation, supervised/unsupervised behavior quantification, and downstream behavior analyses. Financial aid is available! www.jax.org/education-an...

I am currently advertising a new 3-year research position in my TerraLuma team: Research Associate in Drone Field Operations (Academic Level A) The position will support the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network’s (@TERN_Aus) Dronescape project. careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/50...

Announcing the WildDrone Summer School Sept 22-26. Registration open at wilddrone.eu/summer-school/ Join us in Konstanz for a week of drones, computer vision and conservation ecology! 🧪🌍

Announcing the WildDrone Summer School Sept 22-26. Registration open at wilddrone.eu/summer-school/ Join us in Konstanz for a week of drones, computer vision and conservation ecology! 🧪🌍

Hot off the press 📣: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using white-faced capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇

Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)

This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit. This cannot be allowed to happen.

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Postdoc job alert! I'm hiring a 3-yr postdoc to work on our Social Modifiers of Primate Lifespans grant. Job info and how to apply below. Deadline June 1. Pls share! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

The outcome of our @asab.org Interdisciplinary Workshop (a great initiative! see www.asab.org/workshop-gra... for funding support) is now published. Led by @marinapapa.bsky.social and me, with contributions from all workshop participants as co-authors! paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Two Senior Marine Ornithologist posts at the Marine Directorate of the Scottish Government. Deadline for applications is 21/04/2025, 23:59 #seabirds #ornithology #renewables fa-evxn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Follow us on social media! BlueSky and Instagram will be our new main accounts. Check back for conference information, outreach, and opportunities for involvement in ABS :)

Looking forward to taking part in this Women in Data Science event next Friday, March 7th! More info and registration here: widscambridge.org

‼️Save the date‼️The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program kicks off its first call for applications from April 1, 2025; applications can be submitted until May 13, 2025. mpg.de/en/max-planc... #ScienceCareer

We have two openings for stipended ugrad fellows at the Conservation Technology Lab at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. One is in CV/ML for field camera systems: us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor... Second is in field device design (image or sound): us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

Pls share: Konstanz School of Collective behavior from 21st July - 8th August. Application deadline: April, 15. An amazing line up of speakers spanning all aspects of collective behavior . For info: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/ @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

1/ Exactly this 🎯 I’ve had many conversations & email exchanges in the past few days with people worried their entire programs will grind to a halt. multiple jobs are on the line in in-country programmes. The Musk-Trump combo could be disastrous for tackling #IWT in the longer term

Find out more about the WildDrone project here 👉 wilddrone.eu

🌍🐾 Greetings from Kenya! I'm here doing fieldwork with the #WildDroneEU Hackathon. We're an interdisciplinary research collaboration working to develop autonomous drones for wildlife conservation. Excited to share this adventure! 🚁📸🦓 #AI4Wildlife #FieldworkDiaries #ConservationTech #OlPejeta

Just 3 more weeks to apply for the Princeton EEB Fellows Program! 🌵🦥🦩🦠🧫🌻Please identify at least 2 faculty collaborators, craft your research program, & apply here: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app... @sse-evolution.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social Please repost &/or apply!

We have to define what we mean by “AI.” Because the model that advanced our understanding of protein folding and the LLMs that churn out the nonsense slop that fills the internet both get called “AI.” And the latter is co-opting the usefulness of the former to create this exactly perception.

AI generated imagery is an automatic block for me

On the left, my image. On the right, the Al image that was clearly trained on, and designed to plagiarize, my image. All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.

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🎯 How can we empower scientific discovery in millions of nature photos? Introducing INQUIRE: A benchmark testing if AI vision-language models can help scientists find biodiversity patterns- from disease symptoms to rare behaviors- hidden in vast image collections. Thread👇🧵

5 exciting PhD opportunities to join the Center for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter in Sept 2025. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro...

I'm very excited to offer this #PhD on the majestic Atlantic bluefin #tuna in Southwest UK waters using #drones, remote sensing, #ocean profiling & eDNA! Working with #anglers & this fantastic team: @bd-stew.bsky.social @peterimiller.bsky.social @marinemicrobes.bsky.social 🧪🌊🦑 tinyurl.com/mrxyh62t

📢 Edge AI is revolutionizing animal ecology! 🦓🐋 From camera traps to drones, running AI directly on edge devices lets us study wildlife in their natural habitats 🌱 without constant internet. Thrilled to have presented this at #SEC in Rome! 🇮🇹 Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.01000 #Ecology #EdgeAI

We're hiring!📣 Do you have experience of influencing policy in Brussels at EU and member state level. Do you want to ensure that our EU waters are protected for the benefit of people and the planet? Our EU policy manager role could be for you. Apply 👉 www.bluemarinefoundation.com/vacancy/eu-p...

The AI for Conservation community on BlueSky is growing quick! Here's a starter pack of folks working in this area - please share and nominate more folks (yourself or others) to be added. And if you are on the list but wish to be removed, please let me know! #AI4E 🧪 go.bsky.app/UNUCejU

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I started to put together a starter pack for research in AI+Ecology, check it out and let me know if you would like to be added! go.bsky.app/8zugFF6

BREAKING: A measure to ban trans Representative Zooey Zephyr from using women's restrooms has FAILED to pass Montana's House Rules committee, with several Republicans voting against it.

MIT News covered our recent work on developing 4D models of individual trees in urban forests, read here :) news.mit.edu/2024/advanci...

Actually, I made way more mistakes than that, Owl.

Another #WildDrone project update, this one from Camille who spent the summer using drones to film harbor porpoises in Denmark 🧪 youtu.be/EagV_0we744?...

Two species of ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago. Fossilized footprints in Kenya captured the moment, according to a new study.

Super exciting project using thermal drones to track whales 🐳!!

Since the WildDrone project is not (yet) on BlueSky, here is another update from one of our PhD students, Lucie, who is developing methods to use thermal drones to track whales using their "fluke prints". 🧪 youtu.be/1suxq_YjAsI?...

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JOB: Caroline Schuppli, I, and others at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social are hiring a research tech to develop short term, remote tag attachment mechanisms for wild primates that do not require capture or handling stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/7...

Delighted to say that this email led to a grant application, submitted today 🎊

Writing a letter of reference for someone? Or (gasp) drafting for someone who’s writing for you? If you haven’t seen this graphic on avoiding gender bias, read it. Ref letters are broadly biased in both major and seemingly tiny ways. The bias is avoidable once you’re aware.

The Faculty of Science at Stockholm University is recruiting up to three Assistant Professors in Biodiversity to tackle the critical global issue of biodiversity loss caused by human-driven factors such as climate change, habitat alteration and pollution. www.su.se/department-o...