"You can agree or disagree with him, but Polanski does not pretend to be something he is not. He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions. Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes." observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

After a few decades as an ecologist, with >60% (~20yrs) spent in the field undertaking terrestrial vert fauna surveys, my biggest take-aways inc: 1. You don't know everything, 2.You will forever keep learning, 3. Indigenous cultural knowledge = landscape ecology = awareness, 4 awareness = knowledge.

This is an education problem, not a tool problem; and we don't want people simply moving from thinking p-values are magic to thinking confidence intervals are.

Testing a YOLO-based computer vision model to ID 13 benthic species from underwater images. It boosts automated species recognition, aiding large-scale biodiversity monitoring & better marine conservation. @azti.bsky.social #AI4Oceans #BenthicEcology #MarineScience #BioBoost+

🚨🚨🚨 New Open-Access Paper, Dataset, Application and Call-to-Action 🚨🚨🚨This one is for the fans of Intertidal Seagrass 🌱🌊 and Findable, Accessible, Interpretable and Reusable (FAIR) data. 🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

probably my most deeply-held belief: it is not possible for a slide deck to be both (1) a good presentation aide; and (2) a standalone document that can be read and understood in isolation.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Hey you wonderful EO scientists. Why not nominate your amazing colleague or team or nominate yourself for the next ESA EO excellence award. Nominations have just opened and close 10th Dec. Research cash prize for lucky winners: www.eoxcellence.com

A few more days to apply!!!

We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher in statistics to develop methods for analyzing large scale biodiversity and ecosystem function data at the University of Helsinki. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to do advanced Bayesian modeling with direct link to real world applications.

Not one needs context for this

A brief glance at the github seems exactly the style of multivariate analysis that needs to become common place! 👏🏻 will try incorporate into my own teaching if i can, and fingers crossed for continuity!

Two weeks ago I organised the first Summer school in Model-based Multivariate analysis for community ecologists. We spent a week in Hjerkinn (NO), teaching 26 international participants about model-based multivariate analysis. Together with Jenni Niku, Pekka Korhonen, Francis Hui and Audun Rugstad.

Check out Simon Oiry’s new paper! We used a combination of satelite and drone optical data alongside high resolution LiDAR to assess the cover of an invasive macroalgae in an estuary in France. Not only that, we looked into historical imagery too www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Have spent an amazing time these last few weeks as Benthic Taxonomist on the RV Tarajoq as part of their annual surveys of the Greenlandic 🇬🇱 Shrimp and Cod! It is always such a privilege and always reminds me how much I love being at sea

I am no longer chairing defenses or joining committees where students use generative AI for their writing statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/18/i...

It just happened again, as it happens multiple times each year: Someone's student asked me to look at their model output, I asked why they chose those variables, they say "these variables might influence outcome". This is a failure of training in biology, not student's fault. Committee is no better!

🦑🌊🧪 Please share among your networks, a Research Fellow post in #Ocean Dynamics and Floating Offshore #Wind Consequences on Key Ecosystem Drivers in the Celtic Sea working with me, @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social & @peterimiller.bsky.social tinyurl.com/44x66b5z #PlanktonImaging #RemoteSensing #AUVs

this one hits different with american academia in 2025 :/

🌍📡 Workshop: Advancing Remote Sensing for Macroalgae & Seagrass Ecosystems - From Sentinel-2 Data to Global Impact 🗓️ April 17 | 13:00–15:00 CEST Organized by #AirCentre under the #BioEcoOcean project. Join experts exploring the future of #RemoteSensing! 🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

New paper! Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should. This is the *first* paper in the peer reviewed scientific literature to explain how Bluesky works and how to use it for #SciComm 🧪🦑🐠 academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...

Are you a marine ecologist specializing in MPAs or marine policy + looking for a #postdoc? Well, look no further: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/323875 #jobfairy #mpalife #marineecology #marinebiodiversity

I recently was at the #Biospace25 conference at @esa.int in Frascatti, Italy where i presented my work about mapping Intertidal Seagrass across the whole of Europe! But don’t worry if you missed it, you can watch the talk here (at around 1:56:00): m.youtube.com/watch?v=naCR...

Counting Walruses from space? #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int using commercially available Very High resolution satellite data with citizen science and validation with in situ drone data

Genetics from space?? #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int Genetics, of course, not possible to be sampled from Satellite observations 🛰️ but habitats can be defined and mapped

Now moving into the open ocean for modelling but considering local structure #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int work from the same lab (MARBEC @umontpellier.bsky.social) using image Convulutional neural networks to model fish 🐟 distributions

Now we move onto Habitat Suitability and Species Distribution Modelling #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int here work at MARBEC lab using Neural Network transfer learning to predict abundance of Fish Species

How depressing: 250 companies causing 73% of Ecosystem Damage globally #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int

Todays keynotes discussing Earth Observation for sustainability #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int Nature Positive and Economics of Conservation

OPEN DATA ALERT World Bank created a Global Biodiversity Species Global Grid database, based on data from GBIF and machine-based pattern recognition to generate species occurrence maps 🧪🌍https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/a-new-world-bank-database-to-support-a-new-era-in-biodiversity-c

Victoire Martinez setting up the workshop on Marine Biodiversity from space #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int what are the specific needs to fulfil our science and policy needs

The final talk of the Coastal Ecosystem is coming back to Seagrasses in the intertidal area, but specifically impacts of Marine and Terrestrial Heatwaves #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int using combinations of experimental assessments of seagrass with Satellite Remote Sensing 🛰️

The Coastal Ecosystem session is moving a little bit further from the coast now: but not too far! #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int the first kelp forest assessment across British Columbia, Canada

Come check out the Coastal Ecosystem session if you are interested in Coastal Ecosystem monitoring with satellites 🛰️ #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int if you can’t make it then this link can be used for live streaming the session

Time to ‘get our feet wet’ in the Marine Ecosystem session #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int here discussing plankton communities around Florida

Today’s keynote discusses how None Government Organisations and Civil Societies can aid and influence Government strategies, guidelines and even laws using informative Remote Sensing to maximise conservation #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int 🛰️

Now we move on to foundational models for modelling soil biodiversity in comparison to tabular data 📊 🛰️ #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int so quick summary is: foundational modelling performs worse than high quality tabular data but could be a good alternative when in situ data are lacking

The session continues looking at biodiversity monitoring across different realms: terrestrial, coastal and marine #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int

Now it’s on to habitat mapping with Earth Observation #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int Current available data are lacking for model training, testing and validation, but perhaps more importantly there is a lack of consistency in model protocols 🧪 📊 🛰️

Kicking off this morning is the discussion of what is coming next in Satellite 🛰️ #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int will any of the new satellites be a Swiss Army knife, one satellite fits all?! Spoilers: No

How will we know if the curve of biodiversity loss is bending back towards sustainable goals? #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int Monitor Monitor Monitor at spatial and temporal scales that are essential for policy makers 🛰️🧪

Straight to the necessity of this research #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int can we better inform and collaborate with all researchers in the field of biodiversity monitoring?

Kicking off the #BioSpace conference at @esa.int! 5 days of Satellite 🛰️ Biodiversity monitoring and assessment!

In Rome this week for the #BioSpace conference at @esa.int 🛰️ stay tuned for spacey science 🌱 🌊 🗺️

This Registered Report masterpiece just dropped at BMC Biology, brilliantly led by a great team with the help of 300+ analysts & reviewers Same question, same data: go figure! tl;dr: Substantial heterogeneity among results comes from differences among analytical choices 🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s129...

5 years. Not one good thing has happened as a result. Not one. We're weak, isolated, divided and poorer.

Since nobody asked, here is a map showing where polar bears have been found in Iceland after drifting over from Greenland on icebergs.

Postdoc researcher in data analysis and biological signals in marine ecosystem (18 months) Location : @mioceanologie.bsky.social Employer : @univ-amu.fr 📅 Deadline : June 1, 2025 9:00 a.m. ➡️ urls.fr/9sYVrK

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

Biology is not easier than physics or chemistry, it's a lot harder. Brown (1994) www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....