Heading to ICTC in Lima, Peru? Join us Mon, Feb 16 for the Edge Conservation Workshop, a pre-conference deep dive into edge AI & autonomous sensing for conservation science. @wildlabs.bsky.social Register here: jennamk14.github.io/edgeAI-ICTC-... #EdgeAI #ICTC2025 #ConservationTechnology

Sharing a few photos from last week’s SA-FARI kickoff hosted by @conservationxlabs.bsky.social and Meta. Really enjoyed connecting with people working at the intersection of conservation and technology! #AI4Good #ConservationTech

Loved seeing our OSU collaborator Sam Stevens featured at the #NeurIPS SAIL Media Booth w/ @natolambert.bsky.social! Great convo on how AI accelerates scientific discovery (not just bigger models 🙃). Clips ⬇️ youtube.com/shorts/v0k5D... youtube.com/shorts/4R-BF... #AI4Science #NeurIPS2025

New paper! We built an edge-native, behavior-adaptive drone system to detect group-level vigilance in real time to avoid stressing wildlife while improving data. Started with 3 weeks of manual piloting in Kenya (KABR) → WildWing → now real-time behavior monitoring. Presenting today at #SEC25!

🚁🦓 Heading to DC for #SEC25! Sharing new work on behavior-adaptive wildlife drones, building on KABR + WildWing + fieldwork in Kenya & Ohio Big question we’re tackling: how do we know when drones affect animal behavior? More soon 👀

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

SmartWilds is out in the wild at the Imageomics Workshop at NeurIPS! 🐾📡 So excited to share our first multimodal dataset with The Wilds in Ohio, including drone imagery, camera traps, and bioacoustics all synced in time + space for AI + ecology research. If you’re at NeurIPS, come say hi!

New paper: Drones & Computer Vision for Collective Animal Behavior 🐾 We show how edge AI + smart mission design turn drone footage into real-time behavior insights—with less disturbance. 🎥 Video Abstract: youtu.be/0DErP4Z5C7Q 📄 Paper: doi.org/10.1111/2041...

🆕Announcing a new WILDLABS group: Edge Computing! Connect with others working at the intersection of #edgeAI and #edgecomputing to share approaches, tools, models, and solutions focused on real-time, on-device data processing in remote environments. Join today: wildlabs.net/groups/edge-...

Check out our recent publication in the Bulletin

The new Edge Computing group on @wildlabs.bsky.social is now live! Edge AI isn’t just a buzzword—it’s the future of conservation in the field 🌎 wildlabs.net/article/new-...

🎸 Calling all AI/ecology/data heads! Join us at FuncaPalooza 2025 (Aug 18–21 @ Ohio State) for a hands-on workshop exploring how we extract functional traits from images with tools like BioCLIP 2 & Prompt-CAM. Apply by June 23! 🔗 imageomics.osu.edu/news/2025/06... #CV4Nature #ecology #AI

🌿 Work on Edge AI for conservation? From camera traps to bioacoustics to drones, we’re proposing a new WILDLABS group to connect the community. Share your expertise + join the discussion here: wildlabs.net/discussion/e... @wildlabs.bsky.social #AI4Nature #EdgeAI #ConservationTech

Want to expand your network, give back to #conservationtech, and make an impact in your field during a 12-month term? Apply to become a WILDLABS Group Leader by June 20! Learn more about the programme here: wildlabs.net/article/appl...

Excited to present MMLA: Multi-Environment, Multi-Species, Low-Altitude Drone Dataset at the #CV4Animals workshop at #CVPR2025! 🦓🌍 Looking forward to connecting with the #robotics and #AI4Nature community @cvprconference.bsky.social

New from NatureDrones: an interactive map tracking drone-based conservation activities globally. It's an invaluable resource to see who's doing what in the field! Submit your project here: dronesinnatureconservation.org #DronesInConservation #WildlifeTech #ConservationTech

Excited to attend the #ClimateRoboticsSummit! It's been fantastic learning from others in the field, especially the panel on biodiversity. On Wednesday, I’ll pitch my research on ‘Edge AI for Autonomous, Scalable, Real-time Ecosystem Monitoring with Drones.’

Check out this new article on how AI (plus drones!) is reshaping wildlife conservation, including interviews with experts from @abcglobalcenter.bsky.social. It's worth a read! www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... #AI #WildlifeConservation #TechForGood

Our project, autonomous tracking of animals with drones, was featured in Ohio State News! Check out the article here 👉 news.osu.edu/how-a-new-dr...

Want to build & fly drones this summer? Join SDU’s Drones for Computer Vision Summer School! Open to undergrads, master’s & PhDs! 📅 Aug 4–15, 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=loKz...

Please share broadly to your networks so this can reach its intended audience! And we are also looking for volunteers to help instruct/mentor. Details here: cv4ecology.caltech.edu/ai-upskillin...

This Friday, I’ll be giving a talk at the University of Findlay: "Drones and AI in Field Animal Ecology: Integrating Biology, Animal Science, and Technology." Open to the public—join me to explore how tech is transforming wildlife research! 🦓🤖 #WildlifeTech oilers.findlay.edu/pages/events...

Check out our new blog post by @jennakline.bsky.social and find out more about WildWing, an unmanned aerial system for animal behavioural video monitoring 🦓 ✈️

Thanks to my collaborators who made this project possible! Want to try it out yourself? Check out the code here 👉 imageomics.github.io/wildwing/

Visited Muskingum University this weekend to give a talk at the Conservation Science Symposium hosted by The Wilds. My talk, From Ohio to Kenya: Autonomous Drones in Field Ecology and Conservation, explored how edge AI aids real-time animal detection and tracking.

Had a full-circle moment at the Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing #OCWiC this weekend! I first attended two years ago as a junior PhD student, fresh from my first field trip to Kenya. Now, as a PhD candidate, I returned to present my latest work after a second Kenya trip.

Super cool demo! I tested out the segmentation on some drone imagery of zebras I collected in Kenya a few weeks back - it worked really well!

I put together a short video to share what it’s like doing field research in Kenya as a computer scientist—testing autonomous drones, tracking wildlife, and working with an incredible team at the #WildDroneEU Hackathon in Ol Pejeta Conservancy 🦓🎬 #WildlifeTech #Fieldwork

🌍🐾 Greetings from Kenya! I'm here doing fieldwork with the #WildDroneEU Hackathon. We're an interdisciplinary research collaboration working to develop autonomous drones for wildlife conservation. Excited to share this adventure! 🚁📸🦓 #AI4Wildlife #FieldworkDiaries #ConservationTech #OlPejeta

🚨 New Publication Alert! We deep dive into KABR: a dataset for ungulate behavior recognition from drone footage at Mpala Research Centre, Kenya. 🦒🦓 KABR features reticulated giraffes, plains zebras, and Grévy’s zebras with 10+ hours of annotated video. Explore: kabrdata.xyz

📖Published📖 Our new Application paper presents Whombat, a user-friendly, browser-based interface for managing audio recordings and annotation projects, with several visualization, exploration and annotation tools 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇 https://buff.ly/3DddoNt

Exciting news from Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab: introducing Project SPARROW (Solar-Powered Acoustic and Remote Recording Observation Watch)—a sustainable biodiversity monitoring solution that integrates edge AI and satellite tech to collect data autonomously. 🌍🐾 #AIforGood #Biodiversity

Counting down to winter break with three books on my must-read list: The Exceptions 📖 (thrilling women-in-STEM history), The Internet of Animals 🐾 (exploring tech & wildlife connections), and SPQR 🏛️ (inspired by my recent trip). What are you reading this winter? Any recommendations? 📚❄️

Are you a scientist that analyses/creates models using data from cameras, acoustics, drones or satellites to understand biodiversity? Join the Biodiversity Monitoring starter pack. Point me to your research to be added. ECRs and PhDs welcome! 🧪🌏 #AI #conservation go.bsky.app/eFMQQX

I'm excited to be in #Vancouver for #NeurIPS 2024 where I brought a bunch of @LEGO_Group bricks in my bag! *no, I'm not Santa!

Amazing application of #art and #science to engineer new flowers! 🌺 #scicomm

Real-time AI in action! 🐦 Researchers used YOLOv10 to monitor curlews & chicks in Wales with 95%+ accuracy. Incredible progress in using tech to protect biodiversity! 🌍💡 Read here: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.15263 #ConservationTech #EdgeAI #Biodiversity

Happy Birthday to #AdaLovelace, the first computer programmer! 🎉💻

🚀 Want to run your #ComputerVision models in real-time, right in the field? 🌍 Don't miss these awesome #EdgeComputing papers from #SEC on Video/Image Analytics: 📄 www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~anshul/sec2... 📄 hal.science/hal-04767869v1 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2410.18919 🔍 Ready to unlock real-time insights? 🐾

🎯 How can we empower scientific discovery in millions of nature photos? Introducing INQUIRE: A benchmark testing if AI vision-language models can help scientists find biodiversity patterns- from disease symptoms to rare behaviors- hidden in vast image collections. Thread👇🧵

📢 Edge AI is revolutionizing animal ecology! 🦓🐋 From camera traps to drones, running AI directly on edge devices lets us study wildlife in their natural habitats 🌱 without constant internet. Thrilled to have presented this at #SEC in Rome! 🇮🇹 Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.01000 #Ecology #EdgeAI

New demo from the Symposium on Edge Computing: making smart sensors in remote areas cheaper and easier! With federated learning, on-board models adapt over time to distribution shifts. Learn more 👉 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/... #SEC #EdgeAI #cameratrap #bioacoustics

Excited to be in Rome for ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing 2024! Learn more about the event: acm-ieee-sec.org/2024/program.... #EdgeComputing #SEC

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

www.ab.mpg.de/641446/news_... 🥳 Very excited, that one of our recordings won the @royalsociety.org Photography competition! Congratulations @albiangela.bsky.social @icouzin.bsky.social Luke Costello, Tristan Walter and all others contributing to this project. @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, cascb

Honored to have given an invited lecture at the University of Bologna at Cesena! I shared my research on autonomous aerial systems for animal ecology studies, and had great discussions with students and faculty. Thank you for the warm welcome and engaging questions! #ScienceOutreach #ResearchTalks

📢 New review on deep learning in animal #behavior and ecological #conservation research! It highlights how drones & #robotics are advancing group dynamics studies in natural habitats using DL. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌟 Featured in the latest #Imageomics newsletter! 🌟 Excited to share my research on AI-driven drones for wildlife ecology—merging #AI & #ecology to uncover new insights into #biodiversity. 🌍🐾 Explore our work at the Imageomics Institute! 🔗 imageomics.osu.edu/news/2024/11...

Searching for #bioacoustics tools to classify species, organize data, triangulate sounds, ...? 🦉🐋🦇🦗 Check out the (newly updated) Bioacoustics Software Database! rhine3.github.io/bioacoustics...

🌱How can robotics save biodiversity? A UK-RAS white paper explores how Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) can revolutionize terrestrial biodiversity monitoring and transform global conservation efforts, from species ID to ecosystem analysis. #Sustainability #Robotics #Biodiversity #RAS #Robots