Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies
@bedeffinian.bsky.social
Post Doctoral Researcher 🇫🇷 Using Novel and Traditional Observational and Analysis Tools 🛰️ 🎣 to assess Anthropogenic Impacts on Marine Environments 🐠 Surfing, stats and cycling. He/him www.BedeFfinianRoweDavies.com
🚨🚨 New Intertidal Seagrass Paper Alert🚨 🚨 This time led by Simon Oiry who utilised a compination of laboratory 👨🏻🔬 and satelitte 🛰️ experiments to assess the effects of Heatwaves on the optical properties of Seagrass and developed the novel (and widely applicable) Seagrass Heat Shock Index!
It’s happeninggggg! ☺️☺️☺️ My go to for stats learning, refreshing and rethinking! m.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbY... get ready for lots of memes and hopefully owls being drawn @rmcelreath.bsky.social github.com/rmcelreath/s...
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"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...
Zack Polanski: ‘People will have to find some other way to hurt me’ | The Observer
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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.
Elisabeth Bik@elisabethbik.bsky.social · 10mo agoNext: Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social with 'Statistical significance and p values: The researcher’s heroin' * p values are highly unrealiable - don't trust them, don't use them! www.thenewstatistics.com tiny.cc/osfsigroulette #IRICSydney
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...
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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...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
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 limi...
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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!!!
Anna-Liisa Laine@annaliisalaine.bsky.social · last yr.We are recruiting‼️A permanent university lecturer position in BIOSTATISTICS is available at @helsinki.fi Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Great colleagues, excellent infrastructures and startup support 🙌🏻 DL 14 September jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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.
Research Centre For Ecological Change@rececochange.bsky.social · last yr.📢 Post doc! Want to join our team? We are looking for 3 post docs in biodiversity science, genetic indicator assessment, and ecological statistics for a fixed term of 2 years! Come unravel the drivers and consequences of global change on biodiversity with us! DL 24.9. #universityofhelsinki
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Klaus Pforr@klauspforr.eurosky.social · last yr.new terminology dropped
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!
Bert van der Veen@vdveenb.bsky.social · last yr.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.
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...
Mapping the distribution of the alien invasive Gracilaria vermiculophylla at the site of its first European introduction
The invasive red macroalga Gracilaria vermiculophylla has significantly impacted intertidal ecosystems in temperate estuaries globally. This study uti…
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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...
I am no longer chairing defenses or joining committees where students use generative AI for their writing | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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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
🌍📡 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...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Workshop on Advancing Remote Sensing for Macroalgae and Seagrass Ecosystems: From Sentinel-2 Data to Global Impact. After registering, you will receive a c...
April,17th, 2025 13:00-15:00 CEST This workshop, organized under the EU Horizon-funded project BioEcoOcean (https://bioecoocean.org/), will bring together experts and researchers to explore the lates...
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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...
Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should
ABSTRACT. Social media tools have revolutionized how people communicate with one another. A 2018 paper in Fisheries summarized the use of Twitter, Facebook
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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
UCD Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Applications are invited for a temporary post of a UCD Post-doctoral Research Fellow Level 1 - Marine ecology to underpin designation of Marine Protected Areaswithin UCD School of Biology and Environm...
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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...
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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
Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies@bedeffinian.bsky.social · 2y agoNow 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
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
