Excited to see this paper from James Crall's team with their advanced automated pollinator monitoring system! Been looking forward to reading this after hearing all about it at the ACCESS Summer school 🙂❤️🐝

britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk/butterfly/or... Let's go team Orange-tip. Who's there in spring, when you need them most? Whose blushing tips are the perfect counterparts to lichen-dappled hindwings? And who can be seen almost anywhere 🧡 even in the city?

📣 Our recent paper, led by Luke Evans, assesses evidence for links between insect abundance & populations of insect-eating birds & bats. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #teammoth 🌍 @savebutterflies.bsky.social 1/3

Just under 2 weeks left to apply for the Aarhus Computational Entomology Summer School 🐛 darsa.info/ACCESS-2026/ 15 successful applicants will be fully-funded by InsectAI to develop skills in AI and sensors for insect monitoring in mid-September 🤖🪰 Feedback for 2025 and 2026 was great!

Inspiring presentation by @abigaillowe.bsky.social working with farmers to monitor moth 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...

Congratulations on a very cool paper @pauenric.bsky.social! It was great to meet you at the ACCESS summer school this year 😆 I've been waiting to see this!

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/

📖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