The right way to pace the frontier is to commit to a robust, open-source AI ecosystem, thereby diluting the power of these badly behaving frontier labs.

Ben Recht@beenwrekt.bsky.social · last wk.

Oh boy, Dario has put up another insufferable post. darioamodei.com/post/we-must...

CoralscapesV2 is out! Come see my oral at the #ECCV2026 workshop on marine vision! TL;DR: 1. CoralscapesV2 is better than V1 in every way (bigger, higher quality, more diverse, more classes) 2. 65k *exhaustive* fish instance annotations (painstaking is an understatement) 3. Better models on HF 🤗!

Couldn’t agree more that papers as a metric rather than something worth reading have broken ML conferences. But how would you design microconferences so it’s not just nepotism + which institutions have the funding to attend/organize?

Ben Recht@beenwrekt.bsky.social · last mo.

Microconferences: A modest proposal for alternative systems to generate, evaluate, and share knowledge.

My position on AI consciousness is that you really should try to eat less meat if you can

We're looking for a CV/ML Engineer to help us improve the machine learning systems that power iNaturalist's species identification and geographic range modeling. If you're excited to help build tools that help millions of people engage with nature, we'd love to hear from you! Apply: buff.ly/YZqaW6c

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Dan Vergano@danvergano.bsky.social · 4mo ago

White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

Releasing a new version of DeepReefMap today! 🪸 Together with Hugues Sibille (EPFL), we reshaped the original DeepReefMap software to be more flexible and easier to work with!

We are VERY excited to announce the call for applications has just been released for the 5th CV4Ecology Short Course!! This two-and-a-half-week intensive program trains ecologists and conservation practitioners to develop their own AI tools for their own data. Tell your friends! Apply now!

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

No, it's not "back to business as usual." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

No, It’s Not Back to Business as Usual

Marco Rubio was more civil than J. D. Vance had been, but the message to longtime allies was the same.

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The ‘world order’ didn’t collapse bc Russia invaded Ukraine. It collapsed because the free world chose not to stop them. By refusing to use our wealth & power to defend even a European democracy, we showed dictators everywhere that aggression pays. That was the death blow. We did this to ourselves.

What should academics be doing right now? I have been writing up some thoughts on what the research says about effective action, and what universities specifically can do. davidbau.github.io/poetsandnurs... It's on GitHub. Suggestions and pull requests welcome. github.com/davidbau/poe...

Yikes

Valérie Masson-Delmotte@valmasdel.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Secession also from IBPES, IUCN, UN Oceans and UN Water...

We have two open PhD positions at the interface of AI and ecology. Start dates are Sept 2026. We are looking for candidates with a background in AI/CS, Math, Stats, or Physics that are passionate about solving challenging problems in these domains.  Application deadline is in two weeks.

You know what season it is! Right. Internship application season. Niantic Spatial is offering research internships on a multitude of 3D vision topics: relocalization, reconstruction, 3D VLMs... Top tier papers regularly come out of our internships 🚀 nianticspatial.careers.hibob.com/jobs/0fc4871...

Come work with my team in Sweden on machine learning for remote sensing and urban climate resilience! www.ri.se/sv/om-rise/j...

The Computer Vision for Ecology Workshop at @iccv.bsky.social is starting soon!! All day in 323B, see you there!!

Sara Beery@sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 11mo ago

10/20: I'll be at our Computer Vision for Ecology Workshop (323 B) most of the day, and moderating a FUN panel there at 2:10pm. Giving a talk at the Curated Data for Efficient Learning workshop (304A) at 10am At 6pm you’ll find me at the AI for Conservation Happy Hour at Barefoot Bar :)

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

AWESOME JOB OPPORTUNITY: Tenure-Track Position - Coral Ecology & Diversity (Green Island Marine Research Station, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) biodiv.tw/joinus-20250... #coralreefs #jobs #jobopportunity #coralecology #coraldiversity #coral #tenuretrack #academia #careers #careerdevelopment #marine

The return of Abrego-Garcia to face due process in the US, after Trump officials swore he would never ever return to the US, is a reminder that politics matters and pressure works. Don’t give up. Don’t let the fascists relax.

Come do your PhD at RISE Lund with myself and Prof. Yifang Ban as supervisors! You will not only contribute to advancing state-of-the-art ML for Earth observation data — you'll also work hands-on with real-world use cases with diverse project stakeholders. career.ri.se/en-GB/jobs/5...

PhD Student in Machine Learning - RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB

Do you want to use your expertise in AI to help build a greener future?

career.ri.se

Can only be described as regime propaganda

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · last yr.

The DHS press release announcing the Harvard thing is truly batshit

For those in Switzerland (especially Zürich) - I strongly encourage you to go to the World Press Photo exhibition in the Landesmuseum. Like every year, it's completely soul-crushing, but so important. I have so much admiration for these photographers. www.worldpressphoto.org/calendar/202...

The call for applications has just been released for #CV4Ecology2026!! This three-week intensive program trains ecologists and conservation practitioners to develop their own AI tools for their own data. When: Jan 12-30, 2026 Where: SCBI @smconservation.bsky.social

📢 We have a PR[AI]RIE PhD position opening at Inria Paris co-advised with R. de Charette & @tuanhungvu.bsky.social [please distribute] 💡Topic: Physics-Grounded Vision Foundation Models ⏳Application deadline: 20 May 2025 🗓️ Start date: Fall 2025 📝Detailed description: linked below

I’ll be speaking at the upcoming Learning Machines seminar, tune in on May 8th 15:00 CET to hear about ML/RS for biomass estimation 🌳🛰️💻

Climate AI Nordics@climateainordics.com · last yr.

April's newsletter is out, just in time for Walpurgis! Recent and coming seminars, workshops, and monitoring the lives of Common Guillemots using AI-based soundscape analysis! Also, we are now more than 150 Nordic researchers in our network! Yay! climateainordics.com/newsletter/2...

Scientists: there’s only one solution to save coral reefs. “…coral restoration should not be used as a distraction from very-much-needed global actions to reduce carbon emissions and slow down planetary warming.” @MongabayOrg news.mongabay.com/2025/04/scie...

Scientists warn coral restoration can’t keep pace with global reef collapse

Coral restoration won’t save reefs from global warming, according to a recent study – at least, not the way we’re doing it now. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Helsinki and pu...

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We're looking for a motivated PhD student to join the ECEO Lab at EPFL Valais to work on multi-modal foundation models for earth observation! 🌍🛰️💻🤓 Come work with us under the supervision of Prof. Devis Tuia! careers.epfl.ch/job/Sion-PhD...

Using the Coralscapes dataset, it becomes easy to transfer semantic information directly into 3D point clouds! Here's an example of a few images from a simple camera being used to make a semantic point cloud of an entire transect! #deeplearning #ai #coral #ai4conservation