All you ever wanted to know about deep learning but were afraid to ask. Check out this great course by MIT EECS about deep learning for free on OpenCourseWare! Lecture videos included. bit.ly/4rZKl3Z (Illustration by Open Clip Art on Unsplash) @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social @phillipisola.bsky.social

Looking forward to this!!!

Are you ready for a challenge? For this year’s FathomNet Kaggle Competition, we’re tackling one of the biggest challenges in computer vision for marine imagery: incomplete labels. Dive in today: www.kaggle.com/competitions... 🤖🌊🧪🐙

🗓️ AI for Conservation Lunch! 🐻🦊🌳🤖🌿 Join us at ICTC 2026 for an informal chat about using AI for good in conservation. 🤝 📍 Clemete Revilla Park / Dark Monument 🕒 Feb 19 @ 12:30pm ➡️ Meet us there! #AIforConservation #ConservationTech #ICTC2026 @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social

The graduate-level course I co-teach on deep learning each fall at @mit.edu is now publicly and freely available for anyone through MIT's OpenCourseWare!

Our grad-level "Deep Learning" course (MIT's 6.7960) is now freely available online through OpenCourseWare: ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-79... Lecture videos, psets, and readings are all provided. Had a lot of fun teaching this with @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social and @jeremybernste.in!

Hey #AIforConservation folks! If you're heading to the @wildlabs.bsky.social International Conference Technology Conference next week, join us for an informal lunch meetup on Thursday 2/19 at 12:30! We will grab lunch near the conference center and meet up in Clemente Revilla Park!!

Cómo la IA saca a la luz conocimientos científicos ocultos Una conferencia de @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social , Dra. en Ciencias de la Computación y Matemáticas 

FGVC's not dead! The 13th Workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization has been accepted to CVPR 2026, in Denver, Colorado! CALL FOR PAPERS: sites.google.com/view/fgvc13/ From Ecology to Medical Imagining, join us as we tackle the long tail and the limits of visual discrimination! #CVPR2026 #AI

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.

inspiring 🤩

Highly recommend - great discussion by @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social on how AI is transforming #ConservationScience. #MIT #NPR #TEDRadioHour #AI #ResearchSky

After giving my TED Talk, I was invited to speak to the amazing Manoush Zomorodi on NPR's TED Radio Hour about how AI is transforming conservation science. As a lifetime @npr.org listener this was such a bucket list thing for me! I had a blast! Link to listen: www.npr.org/2025/11/28/n...

Going to #NeurIPS2025 San Diego? Escape the conference for a couple hours with a morning bird walk in the trails of Balboa Park. 7 am on Thurs, Dec. 4.

Cool TEDtalk by @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social outlining how we can harness existing data to transform our ecological understanding www.ted.com/talks/sara_b...

Here's a great TED talk by @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social about biodiversity data and how we can harness it!

Great TED talk by @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social about scientific discovery in ecological databases! Full talk: go.ted.com/sarabeery

Inspiring TED talk by Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social 🤩

There is more info in our new preprint: INQUIRE-Search: A Framework for Interactive Discovery in Large-Scale Biodiversity Databases arxiv.org/abs/2511.15656

Check out this fantastic TED talk from Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social In it, she talks about how computer vision techniques can assist with extracting a wealth of information and insights from large image collections that depict the natural world.

How do we do more with biodiversity data we've already collected? I gave a TED Talk on scientific discovery in ecological databases at a joint TED Countdown and Bezos Earth Fund event for #NYClimateWeek this year, and it's now live! @inaturalist.bsky.social #AIforConservation

Excited to share our paper Representational Difference Explanations (RDX) was accepted to #NeurIPS2025! 🎉RDX is a new method for model diffing designed to isolate 🔍 representational differences. 1/7

Prof. @tokehoye.bsky.social (Aarhus University) and I have an open PhD position (jointly advised) on biodiversity monitoring with camera trap networks. Deadline: 15-Jan-2026 Please help us share this post among students you know with an interest in Machine Learning and Biodiversity! 🤖🪲🌱

COME WORK WITH ME!!! Very exciting open faculty position at MIT, with ecosystem and biodiversity modeling as a focus! cee.mit.edu/people/share...

Thank you @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social for the invitation to speak on the panel at the #CV4Ecology Workshop at @iccv.bsky.social, alongside Ryan Perroy, Joost Daniels, Justin @kitzeslab.bsky.social, and — Zooming in from the #LivingData conference in Bogotá — Tanya Berger-Wolf (1/3)

For the folks heading to the bird walk, rain is clearing! We will wait a few minutes at our starting point for any stragglers who were avoiding the downpour earlier 😅

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

I’m at #ICCV2025 this week!! 10/19: Giving a talk this morning (8:45am) at the Instance-Level Representation and Generation Workshop in 306 A At the Marine Vision (318B) and Earth Observation (307A) workshops throughout the day Attending the Women in Computer Vision mentorship dinner

I’m definitely going! #iccv2025

Are you coming to @iccv.bsky.social?? Do you like BIRDS?!?! The #CVBirdWalk is happening!!! Oct. 21, 7am, Ala Moana Park. Kick off your conference right!! #ICCV2025 #AIforConservation

CODA is a smart way to pick the best AI model. It uses the models' own feedback to find the most important data to check, reducing the annotation work by 70%. Brilliant and efficient! #MLSky #ResearchSky

🎙️ Come and meet our amazing keynote speakers Sara Beery - Assistant Professor at MIT CSAIL @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social Matej Kristan - Full professor at the University of Ljubljana www.vicos.si/people/matej... Mark Boss - Co-Head of 3D & Image at Stability AI @markboss.bsky.social

This new work by @justin-kay.bsky.social provides ML users with an efficient mechanism to wade through the sea of available open-source models and identify which model will work best for their needs! Check it out below, and learn more at our @iccv.bsky.social poster (highlight!) on 10/21!!

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

This is going to be fun! I'll be talking about our recent work on dataset subselection for specialization instead of generalization - how do we build optimal models for specific end users given a big pool of generalist data?

It's awesome to see the thriving AI + Environment community come together! Thanks for inviting me 💚

Coming up this Saturday! There's still time to register if you want to join us for the #AIforConservation Boston Meetup, details below :) See you all there!

🌍 Excited to announce our Workshop on AI for Climate & Conservation (AICC) at #EurIPS2025 in Copenhagen! 🎉 📢 Call for Participation: sites.google.com/g.harvard.ed... Confirmed speakers from Mistral AI, DeepMind, ETH Zurich, LSCE & more. Looking forward to meeting and discussing in Copenhagen!

There’s a fun Easter egg in this front page figure @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social @oisinmacaodha.bsky.social (INQUIRE is one of the super interesting and extremely challenging benchmarks we consider!)

"GenAI is just a tool, scientists are the ones who add value." Great point from @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social, reminding us that human expertise remains central to the research process. #MITGenAISymposium #MGAIC #AIForBiodiversity

We’ve just opened up applications to serve as an instructor for the CV4Ecology Program 2026! CV4Ecology (cv4ecology.caltech.edu) is an interdisciplinary AI education program focused on building AI expertise in the ecological community.

Are you interested in #AIforConservation #AIforBiodiversity #AIforWildlife or #AIforNature?? Are you located in the Boston Area? If so, come join us!! The AI for Conservation Slack community is doing our first local-area Boston meetup, partnering with iNaturalist and TEDx Boston!

What EyeRIS revealed was incredible, fine-scale detail of the 3D movements of octopus arms as they crawled over the seafloor completely unconstrained. We learned that octopus crawl by creating a modified foot that persists throughout the behavior, a simplification that could aid roboticists. 8/n

Two beautiful camera trap images of an Iberian lynx and an Eurasian lynx in the wild 💚

Looking forward to speaking in the "Machines as Observers in Ecological Monitoring" session this morning at the @amstatnews.bsky.social Joint Statistical Meetings! If you're here, come by! 10:30-12:30 in CC-210 Speaker schedule and more info: ww3.aievolution.com/JSMAnnual202...

Submit your non-archival AI+Ecology papers to the CV4Eecology Research Workshop at #ICCV2025 now!! (this includes preliminary and recently published submissions). The *updated deadline* is August 15th, 2025, submission details here: cv4e.netlify.app/submit/

So… I have an idea! For those of us attending ICCV 2025 in Hawaii, I thought it would be very exciting and fun to collect an exotic dataset of tropical plants and animal species. I’m staying for vacations after the conference, and would like to combine it with the data collection. Who is joining?

@sarameghanbeery.bsky.social @serge.belongie.com I know you’ve been working on fine-grained classification of animals/plants, so maybe it’s of interest? Could you circulate to people that might be interested? @iccv.bsky.social #ICCV2025

Check out our new #NeurIPS2025 competition on data curation!!

Special thanks to the BlueSky DCVLR crew: @yuhuiz.bsky.social @thaottn.bsky.social @vishaalurao.bsky.social @saining.bsky.social @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social