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

The deadline for the 2026 CV4Ecology workshop has been extended until June 21! Spread the word! Tell your friends! Get those applications over the finish line! cv4ecology.caltech.edu/call_for_app...

Adde et al.: Spatial #Biodiversity Indicators and a Composite #Index for #Conservation #Prioritization in Switzerland 🇨🇭@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social 🌍🌐🐟🦐🦋🌳🪰 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/5 🧵 as part of speed2zero.ethz.ch/de/ & great thanks to everyone involved who moved this forward!

Are you working on instance recognition or personalized computer vision? Are you at @cvprconference.bsky.social? Are you looking for an INTERESTING NEW CHALLENGE?? Come join us today (6/12) at the first EVER Animal Re-Identification Tutorial!! 8:30am-12pm in 202C sites.google.com/view/animal-...

We've posted a clearly marked update at the bottom of the blog post: www.inaturalist.org/blog/113184-...

Emperor penguins may never set foot on land. They breed and forage from sea ice and need it to remain stable for 8-9 months. But that's changing. @ptfretwell.bsky.social et al's analysis of satellite imagery suggests the birds’ numbers declined 22% over a 15-year period www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/e...

Come join us for the 12th Workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC). Starting today at 9am at @cvprconference.bsky.social. We will be in room 104E. #FGVC #CVPR2025 @fgvcworkshop.bsky.social

I'm excited to be at #CVPR2025 in Nashville! I'll be giving a few talks today and tomorrow: 6/11 Standing Out in a Crowd (209 A-C): “If the Community Doesn't Exist, Build It" 2:50-3:10 pm, panel 3:30-4 pm (cont'd)

We are so honored to welcome @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social 🌱

Join us on June 11, 9am to discuss all things fine-grained! We are looking forward to a series of talks on semantic granularity, covering topics such as machine teaching, interpretability and much more! Room 104 E Schedule & details: sites.google.com/view/fgvc12 @cvprconference.bsky.social #CVPR25

IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN!!!! Time to wake up early and go watch birds at the @cvprconference.bsky.social #CVBirdWalk Friday, June 13th, from 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM at the scenic Shelby Bottoms Nature Center & Greenway (1900 Davidson St, Nashville, TN 37206). maps.app.goo.gl/Km8oWJzgVQyo...

The #CVPR2025 main conference open access proceedings is up: openaccess.thecvf.com/CVPR2025 Workshop papers will be posted shortly. Stay tuned...

We’re excited to share that we will be hosting half-day tutorial on Animal Re-Identification at #CVPR2025! 🐅🐘🐄🦓🐳 When: June 12, 2025, 8:00–12:00 Where: Room 202 C, CVPR (hybrid format available!) Full details and program: sites.google.com/view/animal-...

Applications due this Friday, June 6th!!

Dave Thau, @lilyxu.bsky.social, and I are organizing a webinar series on AI for Biodiversity for the United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU) AI for Good. The talks will be part pre-recorded, part live-streamed, and launch in June.

We are happy to announce the #ICCV2025 Workshop on Curated Data for Efficient Learning! Our workshop focuses on all things involving the curation of datasets, including synthetic data generation, sample filtering, and dataset distillation. curateddata.github.io 1/

We also have a fantastic lineup of invited speakers, including @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social (MIT), Alyosha Efros (Berkley), Olga Russakovsky (Princeton), and Zhuang Liu (Princeton). We're looking forward to a great workshop and hope to see all of you there! 🌴 3/

Great opportunity to sharpen your skills in the AI, data science, ecology & conservation space! Highly recommend #cv4ecology, after wrapping up a 2-week remote version that was graciously provided in support of our community. Many thanks to the organizers & volunteers for broadening our toolkit!

Sharing for reach in our community!

Dave Thau, @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social, and I are organizing biodiversity webinar talks for @itu.int AI for Good. Next week, I'll chat with Iadine Chades (Monash) on the promise and impact of decision AI for biodiversity. Please share questions you'd love to ask Iadine or our upcoming speakers!

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

Currently, roughly 90–95% of AI usage in biodiversity and conservation research is simply identifying a species of interest in gobs of data, says @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, co-founder of MegaDetector. But that promises to change swiftly.

Co-organizing with wonderful collaborators from MIT, NYU, Stanford and UW: @thaottn.bsky.social , @sewoong79.bsky.social , @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social , @yuhuiz.bsky.social !

Interested in Data-centric AI?? Check out our new @icmlconf.bsky.social workshop 🥳🥳 #icml25