🌍 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

🚨 Exciting Opportunity for Students and Early-Stage Researchers! WildINTEL is hiring a student or PhD student to work on mammal community dynamics using camera trap data, AI tools, and citizen science. 👉 panel.iop.krakow.pl/uploads/232/...

Have you ever wondered what makes two models different? We all know the ViT-Large performs better than the Resnet-50, but what visual concepts drive this difference? Our new ICLR 2025 paper addresses this question! nkondapa.github.io/rsvc-page/

BirdCLEF25: Audio-based species identification focused on birds, amphibians, mammals, and insects in Colombia. 👉 www.kaggle.com/competitions... @cvprconference.bsky.social @kaggle.com #FGVC #CVPR #CVPR2025 #LifeCLEF [1/4]

ALDI has recently been featured in TMLR, and we've expanded it to include YOLO and DETR! Check out out 👇

Project webpage: aldi-daod.github.io Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2403.12029 Codebase (consider giving us a star!): github.com/justinkay/aldi Dataset: github.com/visipedia/ca... Team: @timm.haucke.xyz, Suzanne Stathatos, Siqi Deng, Erik Young, Pietro Perona, @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social, and Grant Van Horn

Adapt object detectors to new data *without labels* with Align and Distill (ALDI), our domain adaptation framework published last week in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (with a Featured Certification [Spotlight]!)

GeoLifeCLEF25: Location-based species presence prediction 👉 www.kaggle.com/competitions... @cvprconference.bsky.social @kaggle.com #FGVC #CVPR #CVPR2025 #LifeCLEF [1/3]

PlantCLEF25: Multi-species plant identification in vegetation quadrat images 👉 www.kaggle.com/competitions... @cvprconference.bsky.social @kaggle.com #FGVC #CVPR #CVPR2025 #LifeCLEF [1/4]

Have you registered for the #FathomNetWorkshop??

FungiCLEF25: Few-shot classification with rare fungi species 👉 www.kaggle.com/competitions... @cvprconference.bsky.social @kaggle.com #FGVC #CVPR #CVPR2025 #LifeCLEF [1/2]

Looking for a challenge? Along with FGVC12 at #CVPR2025, multiple fine-grained computer vision competitions have been launched. These well-curated datasets allow you to leverage your AI skills to boost applications with impact! Let's go: sites.google.com/view/fgvc12/... @cvprconference.bsky.social

We extended the deadline for non-archival submissions to *April 02*. More infos on the call for papers and the link to the CMT portal can be found here: sites.google.com/view/fgvc12/...

The Computer Vision for Ecology program is organizing a 2-week remote workshop in May to teach AI methods to former US public sector scientists - Please consider sharing with your networks! We are also looking for volunteer instructors/mentors. Details here: cv4ecology.caltech.edu/ai-upskillin...

The AI for wildlife conservation community has been impacted by recent layoffs in the US public sector; many conservation scientists have reached out to AI practitioners for advice on building AI skills before re-entering the workforce.