🌊 Computer Vision Training for Marine Ecologists 🗓️ 10-11/3/26 🏠 @bas.ac.uk 2-day workshop on applying computer vision to marine research. No ML experience needed! Covers data processing, analyses, & interpreting outputs. 📅 Deadline: 30/1/26, 5pm (UK) 🔗 Apply: sams-tom.github.io/marine-works...

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

The academic starter pack.

#ICCV25 was a blast! Presented my work on automating Southern Ocean benthic monitoring at the Marine Vision workshop & joined the AI for Conservation bird walk. I loved seeing my Northumberland Dolphin Dataset still used for benchmarking segmentation models! Lots of collab ahead! 📄 bit.ly/4qItEdQ

The CVPR 2026 Workshop Proposal site is now live on OpenReview! 🎉 Submit your ideas and help shape the future of computer vision and AI: openreview.net/group?id=the... @cvprconference.bsky.social

Badass birders braving the rain this morning!! We got soaked, saw cool birds, and got a beautiful rainbow as a reward 🌈

🌟 ‘Automated Detection of Antarctic Benthic Organisms to Aid Biodiversity Monitoring’ is by Cameron Trotter, Huw Griffiths, Tasnuva Ming Khan + Rowan Whittle. It was published at the Joint Workshop on Marine Vision, at the International Conference on Computer Vision ⬇️ www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/a...

📣 Dr @camerontrotter.bsky.social explains: "The images are packed full of weird and unusually shaped animals, often living on top of each other - some of which have never been seen before." The team trained AI to identify seafloor creatures near Antarctica, like starfish, corals, and fish. 🧵 2/4

Supercharged seafloor spotting! 🐚 Our AI and science teams have been using machine learning to label surveys of the Antarctic seafloor. It's dramatically sped them up from <8 hours per photo, to a few seconds. This one looks like a quick job. But stay with us as we up the difficulty... 🧵 1/4

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/s... An unknown sea otter was spotted stealing surfboards at Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz this week. Is 841 back to her old ways or have other otters learned to hang 10? Check out my latest for @nytimes.com

One way sighted people can determine what to put in alt text: Imagine you sent the post or article to a friend, and the image didn't load. What would someone need to know to get the equivalent experience and context? This will help you identify the important details.

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

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

Heading to Honolulu for #ICCV? 🌺 Ease into the week with my talk on automating detection of seafloor organisms around Antarctica for biodiversity monitoring! 🐙 Catch it at the Joint Workshop on Marine Vision, Oct 19, Room 318B, 09:50–10:20. 📄: arxiv.org/abs/2507.21665

Welcome to #Plymouth, @bas.ac.uk 🌊 The #RRSDavidAttenborough arrived here safe and sound yesterday, and we're excited to share our team will be heading on board later today. Stay tuned for updates! 📹 Filmed by PML's Jani Pewter, from our lab roof! #BoatyMcBoatface #PolarScience #MarineScience

🎉 ECR milestone achieved: My research has now been cited 100 times! 🎉

Great time at this year’s NERC Digital Gathering, chatting with colleagues from across NERC-funded centres and sharing ideas about the role of emerging technologies in environmental science. Lots of interesting discussion from my talk on Southern Ocean benthic image analysis using computer vision!

Congratulations to everyone who got their @neuripsconf.bsky.social papers accepted 🎉🎉🎉 At #EurIPS we are looking forward to welcoming presentations of all accepted NeurIPS papers, including a new “Salon des Refusés” track for papers which were rejected due to space constraints!

We are hiring: bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v...

🇦🇶 Our new paper detailing the automated detection of Antarctic benthic organisms using high-res in situ imagery has been accepted to the #ICCV2025 Joint Workshop on Marine Vision! 📄 Read the preprint now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.21665 🧵1/4

EurIPS is coming! 📣 Mark your calendar for Dec. 2-7, 2025 in Copenhagen 📅 EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu eurips.cc

Join us at the Joint Workshop for Marine Vision at #ICCV25 We have full-paper and nectar tracks. Accepted papers are included in the official ICCV workshop proceedings. Submission deadline: June 30 More at: vap.aau.dk/marinevision/ @iccv.bsky.social @jbhaurum.bsky.social @justin-kay.bsky.social

Inkscape plugin to rescale figures without distorting the text, and other useful features! github.com/burghoff/Sci...

Heading to San Sebastián 🇪🇸 for the @azti.bsky.social #SummerSchool25 the low-carbon way! Looking forward to seeing how others are using AI in the benthos, similar to my work @bas.ac.uk. First leg: Newcastle to London Kings Cross

We invite submissions to the #ICCV Joint Workshop on Marine Vision dedicated to advancing computer vision for monitoring and assessing marine environments through underwater imagery and related technologies. ⏰ Deadline June 30 📣Notification July 11 📷Camera ready Aug 8 🏆Best paper award-$1,000

Come hear me chat about my work building an AI assistant for Southern Ocean biodiversity monitoring @bas.ac.uk! I promise there will be lots of pictures of sea critters 🪸🦑🦀

A spectacular and emotional experience leaving #SouthGeorgia and passing through a group of around 500 #humpback #whales. They were everywhere! #biopole2 #marninebiology #cetaceans #Antarctic @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk

Brilliance from @privateeyenews.bsky.social !! @bas.ac.uk ❄️🥼🧪🌊

BAS Scientists are not only found in Antarctica, they also appear on bookshelves! 📖 Here is a selection of children’s books that feature the expertise of BAS scientists ⬇️

We are still recruiting Brazilian experts in species ID at Pivotal. It's remote flexible work so a really handy side gig. If you can identify Brazilian plants or mammals from photos, of frogs, bats or birds from audio, please apply! 🧪 www.researchgate.net/job/1018369_...

🚨 New paper 🚨 Benthic ecologist curious about using computer vision? 🤖 Computer scientist wondering how to help protect benthic biodiversity? 🦀 Our latest review bridges the gap between these fields! Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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).

The Antarctic Environments Portal has published a new summary & infographic on marine non-native species (NNMS) in Antarctica, exploring pathways, risks, and climate impacts. Key threats: ship biofouling and ballast water. Prevention is critical. 🌊 Full article: doi.org/10.48361/KTP...

Awesome opportunity! Please RT for potential PhD students on our new AI & Biodiversity PhD Programme

✨PhD opportunity! Citizen science is vital for biodiversity monitoring. Could we use AI to support citizen scientists and improve data quality? Help us find out in this PhD with myself and Tom August based at @ukceh.bsky.social Apply 27th Jan www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

17-year-long Scottish study of 82,000+ adults finds commuting by bike reduces your risk of: • early death • hospitalisation for any reason • cardiovascular disease • cancer mortality • treatment for mental health problems. Yeah, but those LTNs and bike lanes are *really* annoying.

It's time for the penguin weigh-in! 🐧 These three macaroni penguins from the 'Little Mac' colony on Bird Island near Antarctica are off to forage at sea to feed their new chicks. We use an automated weighbridge to monitor their weight and foraging patterns! 🪶 THE SOUND OF THEIR LITTLE FEET 😭

Do we think the UKRI/NERC Comms team can count this as long-term impact?!

At the start of the emperor penguin chick fledging season five colonies have already been affected by early sea ice breakup. The purple dots below show which ones. Not as bad as the last two years, but worse than average.

Climate data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social shows, it is virtual certainty that 2024 will be the warmest year on record and the first calendar year above 1.5°C. This does not mean the Paris Agreement has been breached, it means ambitious #climateaction is more urgent than ever 🧪⚒️🌏🌡️📈

PhD Opportunity: 'Eocene sea-floor ecosystem structure in response to environmental change'. Student will be based at British Antarctic Survey (Cambridge), with Bristol University. Project and contact details: www.bas.ac.uk/wp-content/u... Deadline 13th January www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/apply

Is there anything more isolating than getting a code error, googling it, and the only relevant result being a GitHub issue you raised 6 months ago about the same error with 0 replies…

🚨 PhD opportunity @bas.ac.uk with Rowan Whittle, @sauravdutta.bsky.social (BAS), Dani Schmidt (Bristol), @dralexdunhill.bsky.social (Leeds) & me! Interested in marine palaeoecology & links to climate in the Eocene of #Antarctica? Get in touch for more info. 🧪⚒️ www.bas.ac.uk/science/scie...

I started to put together a starter pack for research in AI+Ecology, check it out and let me know if you would like to be added! go.bsky.app/8zugFF6

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Applications for the 2025 Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society Scholarships and Internships are now open! For more information, visit owuscholarship.org Complete applications must be submitted no later than January 31, 2025, at 11:59pm Pacific Standard Time.

Can AI improve #cameratrap studies? Our study in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social shows how #machinelearning can enhance wildlife surveys by automating species detection & classification and enabling unbiased density estimates 📷🦌. Check it out! ⬇️ besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧨 Systematic reviews are in peril ! AI will be soon (if not already) massively be used to generate tons of fake and/or replicated papers; this wave will becomes a tsunami 🌊 ... There really is a need for falsification/copy control in science now! 🧪🌐🌍🦤 www.science.org/content/arti...

Earlier this year, I received news that fake peer reviews were allegedly being submitted impersonating me and approximately six others I shared my story with Science to, hopefully, reduce the chance of this kind of breach happening again www.science.org/content/arti...

UK PhD stipends have not been increasing in line with the national minimum wage, and since the generous COVID increase haven’t even bothered to be anchored against an inflation metric. I’m lucky enough to have a spouse to support me but in what world is this not a barrier to entry for others?