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?

Our Intelligent Earth Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for the Environment @intelligentearth.bsky.social @universityofoxford.bsky.social is accepting applications! > 20 fully-funded PhD studentships available. Deadline 8 January. Virtual open day on 26 Nov: intelligent-earth.ox.ac.uk/how-apply

"CLEANING" THE OCEAN USING NETS IS A DANGEROUS IDEA. The Ocean Cleanup is using boats & a net to collect ocean plastic (left). I've circles all the animals trapped in their early prototypes (right). There are better ways to solve the ocean plastic problem... 🧵 #INC5 #PlasticsTreaty #PlasticTreaty

A handy starter pack for anyone wanting to follow @bas.ac.uk people and projects. Let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/TaqF39K

🌍 Interested in #MachineLearning applications in remote sensing & ice? 💻🛰️🧊 📢 Submit your abstract to our #EGU25 session in Vienna (27 Apr–2 May 2025)! 🔗 Session info: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... 📅 Deadline: 15 Jan 2025 👉 How to submit: egu25.eu/programme/ho...

🚀 The #CESAB is launching its 1st training course “AI for Ecologists: a Toolkit”! 📅 May 19–23, 2025, Montpellier, France 💡 Learn AI concepts & tools : lectures + hands-on practice on ecological data 🎯 Adapt algorithms for your research 👉 250€ (lunch included). Registration : bit.ly/3ZmClyI 🧪🌍🌐

I can't recommend highly enough to put an AirTag in your scientific shipment. I shipped a container from Iceland to Hawaiʻi in July, which was supposed to take a month. It still hasn't arrived. Along the way, the shipper has given misinformation about its location, but I could always tell.

Are you a scientist that uses cameras, acoustics or drones to monitor wildlife? Are you using satellite imagery to assess forests? Join the Biodiversity Monitoring starter pack and let the world know! Reply below and point me to your research to be added. ECRs and PhDs welcome😊 go.bsky.app/eFMQQX

Who should you nominate as reviewers for your manuscript? After a long chat with a post-grad it appears that there's a lot of misguided advice out there. Thread 👇

My first starter pack - please do suggest people to join go.bsky.app/9T8hneP

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

One way we know Bluesky has the juice is because the starter packs used to be super generic like “Environmentalists 😀” and now they are super specific like “North Atlantic salmonid fisheries scientists whose names start with T-Z” and they have the full 150 people in them

A starter pack - scientists that monitor plants and animals using different platforms (cameras, drones, satellites) and sensors (RGB, thermal, acoustic, LiDAR …) to detect and monitor biodiversity. Reply below to me know you’d like to be included. ECRs and PhDs welcome! 🧪🦊 go.bsky.app/eFMQQX

Tenure Track Faculty Opening at Carnegie Mellon in Decarbonization, Climate Change Adaptation, & Related Fields. Please share airb your networks or consider applying. One reason I left a think tank for CMU is because CMU has a lot of folks working on energy & climate. 🔌💡 apply.interfolio.com/154848

A couple years old, but unfortunately still relevant: the hidden dangers of deep-sea mining for the ocean. [Free link] Because of sediments, effects will not be limited to neat, square boxes on the seafloor. A treasured collaboration with Dr. Anela Choy. 🦑🧪🌊 www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/o...

New Paper: "Downscaling precipitation over High-mountain Asia using multi-fidelity Gaussian processes: improved estimates from ERA5", Tazi et al., @antarcticsurvey.bsky.social hess.copernicus.org/articles/28/...

The AI for Conservation community on BlueSky is growing quick! Here's a starter pack of folks working in this area - please share and nominate more folks (yourself or others) to be added. And if you are on the list but wish to be removed, please let me know! #AI4E 🧪 go.bsky.app/UNUCejU

Last stop: the Falkland Islands. Full steam to Antarctica! The RRS Sir David Attenborough is on its way to the frozen continent - scheduled to arrive at Rothera Research Station as our summer science season gets going. This is the view from our SDA webcam 🚢 ⬇️ www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-dat...