Excited to share this paper led by @rdinnager.bsky.social. It is truly years of team effort to get to this point. We are currently finalizing the data, which will be included in PhenoBase and will be open early next year. @er1ngrady.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PhenoVision: A framework for automating and delivering research‐ready plant phenology data from field images

Plant phenology plays a fundamental role in shaping ecosystems, and global change-induced shifts in phenology have cascading impacts on species interactions and ecosystem structure and function. D...

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🚀 New paper led by Dr Becks Spake! We make the case for precision ecology—using big data & predictive tools to tailor conservation actions to local contexts. Can ecology learn from medicine & marketing to boost impact? We think so. Read it here: rdcu.be/eoaR4 #Conservation #Ecology #BigData

Precision ecology for targeted conservation action

Nature Ecology & Evolution - The fields of medicine and marketing use large data volumes and computational power to target individuals. This Perspective argues that applied ecologists should...

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Excited to share my latest preprint: NicheFlow - which aims to be one of the first true foundation models for ecology! 🎉 It's like having an AI ecologist that learns from millions of species observations to predict where ANY species might live. Ask me about it and its applications at #Evol2025! 🧵👇

NicheFlow: Towards a foundation model for Species Distribution Modelling

1. Species distribution models (SDMs) are crucial tools for understanding and predicting biodiversity patterns, yet they often struggle with limited data, biased sampling, and complex species-environm...

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Hey everybody! A few months ago @americanbeetles.bsky.social had the idea to do a Schoolhouse Rock-style video about the important work insect taxonomists do, so I wrote a song and she illustrated it. Please share as widely as you can! youtu.be/yYSIhzb14QI

The Pest Is Still To Come

YouTube video by Dan Warren

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What if we could teach machines to think in the logic of evolution? 🌱🤖 That's what I'll be discussing at #Evol2025 in Athens, Georgia - showing how AI reveals that evolution moves along curved paths, not straight lines. June 24, 12:15pm, Computational Biology session. See you there? 🧵👇

New to Bluesky! I'm Russell Dinnage, developing AI foundation models for organismal biology @FIU (moving to @UAlberta July 2025) My mission: Create AI systems that understand life from molecules to ecosystems, bridging computational innovation with biological insight 🧬🤖 🧵1/3