It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Releasing a new version of DeepReefMap today! 🪸 Together with Hugues Sibille (EPFL), we reshaped the original DeepReefMap software to be more flexible and easier to work with!

We are VERY excited to announce the call for applications has just been released for the 5th CV4Ecology Short Course!! This two-and-a-half-week intensive program trains ecologists and conservation practitioners to develop their own AI tools for their own data. Tell your friends! Apply now!

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

No, it's not "back to business as usual." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The ‘world order’ didn’t collapse bc Russia invaded Ukraine. It collapsed because the free world chose not to stop them. By refusing to use our wealth & power to defend even a European democracy, we showed dictators everywhere that aggression pays. That was the death blow. We did this to ourselves.

What should academics be doing right now? I have been writing up some thoughts on what the research says about effective action, and what universities specifically can do. davidbau.github.io/poetsandnurs... It's on GitHub. Suggestions and pull requests welcome. github.com/davidbau/poe...

Yikes

We have two open PhD positions at the interface of AI and ecology. Start dates are Sept 2026. We are looking for candidates with a background in AI/CS, Math, Stats, or Physics that are passionate about solving challenging problems in these domains.  Application deadline is in two weeks.

You know what season it is! Right. Internship application season. Niantic Spatial is offering research internships on a multitude of 3D vision topics: relocalization, reconstruction, 3D VLMs... Top tier papers regularly come out of our internships 🚀 nianticspatial.careers.hibob.com/jobs/0fc4871...

Come work with my team in Sweden on machine learning for remote sensing and urban climate resilience! www.ri.se/sv/om-rise/j...

The Computer Vision for Ecology Workshop at @iccv.bsky.social is starting soon!! All day in 323B, see you there!!

Interested in doing a PhD in machine learning at the University of Edinburgh starting Sept 2026? My group works on topics in vision, machine learning, and AI for climate. For more information and details on how to get in touch, please check out my website: homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/omacaod

AWESOME JOB OPPORTUNITY: Tenure-Track Position - Coral Ecology & Diversity (Green Island Marine Research Station, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) biodiv.tw/joinus-20250... #coralreefs #jobs #jobopportunity #coralecology #coraldiversity #coral #tenuretrack #academia #careers #careerdevelopment #marine

The return of Abrego-Garcia to face due process in the US, after Trump officials swore he would never ever return to the US, is a reminder that politics matters and pressure works. Don’t give up. Don’t let the fascists relax.

Come do your PhD at RISE Lund with myself and Prof. Yifang Ban as supervisors! You will not only contribute to advancing state-of-the-art ML for Earth observation data — you'll also work hands-on with real-world use cases with diverse project stakeholders. career.ri.se/en-GB/jobs/5...

Can only be described as regime propaganda

For those in Switzerland (especially Zürich) - I strongly encourage you to go to the World Press Photo exhibition in the Landesmuseum. Like every year, it's completely soul-crushing, but so important. I have so much admiration for these photographers. www.worldpressphoto.org/calendar/202...

The call for applications has just been released for #CV4Ecology2026!! This three-week intensive program trains ecologists and conservation practitioners to develop their own AI tools for their own data. When: Jan 12-30, 2026 Where: SCBI @smconservation.bsky.social

📢 We have a PR[AI]RIE PhD position opening at Inria Paris co-advised with R. de Charette & @tuanhungvu.bsky.social [please distribute] 💡Topic: Physics-Grounded Vision Foundation Models ⏳Application deadline: 20 May 2025 🗓️ Start date: Fall 2025 📝Detailed description: linked below

I’ll be speaking at the upcoming Learning Machines seminar, tune in on May 8th 15:00 CET to hear about ML/RS for biomass estimation 🌳🛰️💻

Scientists: there’s only one solution to save coral reefs. “…coral restoration should not be used as a distraction from very-much-needed global actions to reduce carbon emissions and slow down planetary warming.” @MongabayOrg news.mongabay.com/2025/04/scie...

We're looking for a motivated PhD student to join the ECEO Lab at EPFL Valais to work on multi-modal foundation models for earth observation! 🌍🛰️💻🤓 Come work with us under the supervision of Prof. Devis Tuia! careers.epfl.ch/job/Sion-PhD...

Using the Coralscapes dataset, it becomes easy to transfer semantic information directly into 3D point clouds! Here's an example of a few images from a simple camera being used to make a semantic point cloud of an entire transect! #deeplearning #ai #coral #ai4conservation

to quote a colleague quoting a goose: “alignment to what? alignment to what??”

New dataset & pre-print: The Coralscapes dataset for semantic scene understanding in coral reefs! 🤿🎥🐟🐠🐡 Coralscapes is the first dataset consistently annotated for general-purpose semantic segmentation in reefs, spanning 174k segmentation masks of 39 benthic classes on 2074 images!

Le monde reports that on March 9th a French scientist heading for a conference was denied entry to the US. His computer and cellphone were searched, and messages to friends were found where he expressed his opinion on the Trump admin and their politics wrt to science. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

@iccv.bsky.social “All authors are required to register as reviewers” - how do I proceed if my submitted paper is interdisciplinary and some of my co-authors don’t have a background in computer vision? They obviously should not review #ICCV2025

What will be the moment where the American people finally stand up against this?

Very impressive! Looking forward to trying it 🔥

I will be giving a talk on open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding at the next ZurichCV meetup! 🗓️ Date: Thursday, January 23rd 18:00 CET 📍Location: @ETH_AI_Center, please see zurichai.ch/events/zurichcv-7 for additional details!

Interested in doing a PhD in machine learning at the University of Edinburgh? If so, check out the ML-Systems PhD Programme: mlsystems.uk Application deadline is 22nd January (next week).