Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence tool to track wildlife high in the trees. TropiCam-AI can identify tree-dwelling species with 95% accuracy, filling a major gap in automated conservation tech that previously focused almost entirely on the ground.

What is the relationship between population density and home range? and what are the implications in terms of home range overlap? Our latest paper tackling these questions is finally out! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @giannijacca.bsky.social @marleetucker.bsky.social

🚀 TetraDENSITY now has a dedicated web app! Explore the dataset interactively, filter by taxa 🐾, country 🌍 & more. Generate descriptive stats 📊 (overall or subsets), download data 💾 in seconds, and flag missing data or errors ⚠️ Dive in and have fun 🎉 andrewzamp.github.io/TetraDENSITY

New #causalinference paper just dropped! As an ecologist, I was trained to ask: "What do the data tell me?" This paper: there are only specific instances when this question is appropriate—when you lack domain knowledge, which we often have! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#ECCB2026 deadline extended! The deadline for parallel (regular) sessions is now March 1, 2026. 📍 July 6th-10th, Leiden, NL 👉 Submit here: eccb26leiden.eu/parallel-ses... Share this opportunity with colleagues and collaborators who might be interested in participating! #conservation #networking

New paper out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! 📷We present TropiCam-AI: a machine learning model that identifies 84 taxa of Neotropical arboreal mammals and birds from camera-trap images and videos. 🐒🦜 📃Paper → doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70213 🌐Project → github.com/andrewzamp/TropiCam-AI

Un nuovo BioSpritz è in arrivo! 🍹 Questa volta, @andrewzampetti.bsky.social ci parlerà di intelligenza virtuale e biodiversità 🖥️🌿 Appuntamento fissato per il 23 febbraio alle ore 18.00, in Viale dell'Università 32 (Roma)📆 Link: forms.gle/vUkcziENT1bU... #scbitaly #conservationbiology

How do we do more with biodiversity data we've already collected? I gave a TED Talk on scientific discovery in ecological databases at a joint TED Countdown and Bezos Earth Fund event for #NYClimateWeek this year, and it's now live! @inaturalist.bsky.social #AIforConservation

Does survey area extent bias population density estimates? Spoiler: yes, and method matters. Want the details? Come check my poster next week at @britishecologicalsociety.org #BES2025 (Tuesday 16th, 18:00 - Lennox Suite, n°A5.25), and let's have a chat!💬 Co-authored with @lsantinieco.bsky.social.

🎉Proud to share GMA Lab member Marco Davoli won the Early Career Researcher Best Paper Award2024 @consbiog.bsky.social🏆Thanks to @jcsvenning.bsky.social @tobiaskuemmerle.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy Sophie Monsarrat Jennifer Crees Michela Pacifici Andrea Cristiano onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Thrilled to announce our webinar series: 🌱📈 Quantifying Ecology 📈🌱 We are collaborating with our SIG friends to bring you quantitative methods in different ecological contexts. Kicking off with Dr @jamesaorr.bsky.social and @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social on 5th August. More details to come!

A game-changing new opponent has stepped onto the badminton court. But don’t worry; it’s still a beginner. Researchers have developed a robot that can successfully volley a shuttlecock, tracking down the object and moving across the court to send it back to its human adversary: scim.ag/4kz3nKW

Another promising paper on the transition from AI models for image classification to user friendly apps. Let's see how it works! #cameratrapping peercommunityjournal.org/item/10.2407...

📖Published📖 Matthew Kling presents phylospatial, a new R package that fully supports probability, abundance, and binary community data across a range of spatial phylogenetic diversity (PD) analyses 🌎 🧪 Check the article out here 👇 buff.ly/onf4BV6

The first paper of the "Urbis project" focusing on the urban ecosystem of Rome is out in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening! Here we characterize the urban landscape and propose a multiscale framework to better support urban biodiversity research and planning doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

Capuchin monkeys kidnap baby howler monkeys, shocking scientists www.popsci.com/environment/...

A new preprint on the best configuration settings of BirdNET for improving bird detections, lead by Cristian Pérez-Granados & David Funosas. A derived paper of the WABAD dataset, with more than 4,000 minutes of annotated audios. Enjoy reading!! #bioacoustics www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

This new approach minimises on-the-ground fieldwork in an area where conflict is widespread, and provides vital data needed to support conservation interventions for this rare and iconic subspecies. Find out more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨New data paper/open data alert!🚨 BioTIME v2.0 is out now! We've expanded the database with improved spatial and taxonomic coverage, with a new R package! As always, free, public, and open acess :) Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Database: biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk

More shots fired in the #causalInference #ecology literature! 🌍

Our paper is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🎉 We use games from behavioural economics to explore how LLMs behave in repeated social interactions, revealing both self-interested strengths and coordination blind spots, and propose strategies to improve AI-human collaboration.

Here are a few slides to present our paper in a short talk for the annual days of our national group in statistical ecology ecostat2025.sciencesconf.org doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

The Student Award for Best Oral Presentation goes to @andrewzampetti.bsky.social for his talk on TropiCam-AI: an automated classifier of Neotropical arboreal mammals and birds from camera-traps. Well done, Andrea! Special mention to Claire Louise Penton for securing 2nd place—congrats! #ECR2025

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.

Excited to share that Martina Fernando, PhD student at our Global Mammal Assessment Lab, just presented her work "Developing a global probability map of illegal hunting on terrestrial mammals"with Michela Pacifici and Marco Davoli 🐘🌍 #ConservationScience #IllegalHunting #ECR2025

The SDM (Species Distribution Modelling) course is back, now in its 10th edition. With Babak Naimi. www.maraujolab.eu/2025/02/13/2...

Adoption of AI in conservation will lead to beneficial outcomes for conservation effectiveness and improve our understanding of the natural world. However, it will not wholly replace established conservation techniques, education, and on-the-ground research. 📑 doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

😳 WithdrarXiv 🙏 - Dataset of 14K+ withdrawn arXiv papers - associated retraction comments - entire history through 09/24 - taxonomy of retraction reasons, from critical errors to policy violations - WithdrarXiv-SciFy, enriched version w/ scripts for parsed full-text PDFs arxiv.org/abs/2412.03775

Great worflow and R package for any one working of ecological trait database !! by Elizabeth Wenk et al. in Ecological Informatics Nov. 2024 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🌐🌍

New paper! If you use time-lapse cameras, this one's for you! Proud of this collaboration with UEA Computing Sciences' Marcus Jenkins & Michal Mackiewicz to improve object detection for time-lapse imagery using temporal features. 📷🖥️⏲️ Open Access in Sensors: mdpi.com/3088004

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

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/...

Welcome to all the researchers and scientists joining Bluesky, here’s a good resource to help get started!

Wildlife hates noisy neighbors as much as I do! Thrilled to announce my first paper, published online in GECCO! We explore how wildlife adjusts its spatio-temporal niche in the short term, to cope with human presence. Read it here! 👉https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e03053

I made this starter pack to connect all early career researchers (ECR) interested in conservation biology topics! 🌍🌱🐼 If you would like to be added DM me or comment! 🔊 Let's grow it to increase connections 🌐 go.bsky.app/KXiSj3j #ConservationBiology #EarlyCareerResearchers #Conservationists

I guess a must read for a macrecologist. The Equilibrium Theory of Biodiversity Dynamics: A General Framework for Scaling Species Richness and Community Abundance along Environmental Gradients www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #macroecology

We finally released version 1 of SpeciesDistributionToolkit.jl, a series of #JuliaLang packages to work with species distribution and bioclimatic data. To find out more, or to suggest tutorials / vignettes, head over to the discussion page on GitHub: github.com/PoisotLab/Sp...

✨The Call for Abstracts for #ICCB2025 is now open!✨ We’re excited to invite conservationists, scientists, and practitioners from around the world to share their research and insights in Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia in June. Learn more: conbio.org/mini-sites/i... #conservation #MarineLife 🌍

Interested in quantifying animal diel activity with hierarchical models? Check out this amazing how-to guide from @fa-bio-la.bsky.social , @science-action.bsky.social , and John Fieberg! 🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

In the simpler days of 2015/16 we wrote the BES Guide to Reproducible Code: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/wp-content/u.... It’s time for a refresh! Would you like to help? I’m looking for people to review the existing booklet by 5th December.

Welcome to all new arrivals here on Bluesky! :) Here's a starter pack of people working on computer vision. go.bsky.app/PkAKJu5

We have a starter pack for scientists using camera traps! 📸 If you work with camera trap data in any way, either collecting data, running ecological models, training CV/ML models, let me know I’ll add you to this list 🎉 go.bsky.app/CbJkbVw

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🚨 New release: TetraDENSITY 2.0 database now features 54,300 population density estimates for 3,717 species of tetrapods! 🌍🐸🦎🦉🦧 Now also including marine species 🐋 check it out at doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Ignoring sex-biased dispersal can lead to overestimation of species range shift potential 🐾 Sex-specific dispersal estimates are key for forecasting species distribution under climate change 🌍🔥 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Cool recent paper led by Ruth Rivkin looking at possibility of maladaptation to climate change by polar bear populations 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Real nice paper estimating density of rainforest animals w camera traps & comparing w secr & line transects. Great job thinking through all the details of these models. Community density estimates possible w cams but need >25 detections for decent precision link.springer.com/article/10.1...