Detecting pollinators with AI isn't as easy as people say 🔎🐝 Studies show high scores on one dataset 📈 then imply the model is useful elsewhere 🤥 @veralis.bsky.social & co. don't board the AI hype train 🤖🚆 They expose real challenges when deploying GBIF-trained AI for pollinator surveillance 🐞🪰👍

🚨 In press in Journal of Ecology 🍀 We found plant community thermophilisation 🌿☘️🌡📈 & rapid species range shifts towards 🏔 summits in the 🇨🇭 Alps, but 🌿☘️🌡📈 only shows up when using 0-1 data ➡️ Weighting by 🌿 abundance data dilutes the signal 🌐🧪 @journalofecology.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4u2y8rft

You may have heard of MegaDetector 🐅 What about a MiniDetector? 🪰 In my opinion flatbug is the closest thing we have to a universal insect detector. Open source and free to use. Amazing & groundbreaking work lead by @asgersvenning.bsky.social & @qgeissmann.bsky.social

Last year we hosted the first Aarhus Computational Entomology Summer School 💻🐞 20 talented participants got inspired about AI for insect monitoring 🤖📸🐝 So much 5⭐ feedback A week of free tuition, food and lodging in a National Park 🐎 so not surprising This year: Up to 20 more lucky people! 🍀

🚨WEBINAR ALERT🚨(free) The #insect monitoring toolbox includes a suite of #sensors for automated data collection. But what can they achieve? Find out next Friday with fascinating talks from @drolnick.bsky.social, Emily Bick, Mikkel Brydegaard & Eva Knop wildlabs.net/event/automa...

Listen up! Our next monitoring webinar explores #bioacoustics Explore implementation w/ insights from Carlos Abrahams & @jamiealison.bsky.social 🗓️ 21 Jan., 13:00-14:30 CET 👉 Register: https://www.biodiversa.eu/2025/01/16/unveiling-biodiversity-with-sound-a-bioacoustics-monitoring-webinar/

📢 Excited to share our new paper: "Utilising affordable smartphones and open-source time-lapse photography for pollinator image collection and annotation" 🌼📸 What taxonomists can achieve using only field-captured images from a fixed setup? 🔗 Read it here: www.pollinationecology.org/index.php/jp...

📖Published📖 In our new perspective article, Cowans et al. attempt to conceptualise a general workflow associated with automated tools in ecology. Read more here 👇 https://buff.ly/427sDSz