I am liking butterflies, biological recording and BRC...especially when all 3 together
wallingford, oxfordshire
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I’m involved in developing the ButterflyCount app to help monitor butterflies (ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media/new…) - part of the Assessing Butterfly for Europe (ABLE) project. Here is my thread on why it adds to other ways of recording and monitoring and how you can get involved. 1/14
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Fully-funded PhD on moth trapping, automated ID, climate extremes & predator responses, with @DavidRoyBRC and me at @UniExeCEC in Cornwall. Deadline ** 29 July **. Please share! exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/a…
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New paper just dropped! 👇
We looked at the impact of intensive agriculture on temporal trends in the biomass and abundance of flies in Quebec, Canada. 🪰🌾
The work was funded by the @UKRI and
@MitacsCanada Globalink grant I received during my PhD.
doi.org/10.1111/icad.12770
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PhD available on insect responses to climate extremes using long-term datasets and novel tech #ai #biodiversity with Jenna Lawson @j_chapman2 @Tom_H_Oliver joint @UK_CEH @UniofExeter @UniofReading. Apply by 29th July
exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/a…
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Today I decided to get away from my desk & into the field with the amazing #TEELab @ntu_ase team setting up our automated #AI #biodiversity monitoring systems across SG. A super exciting project in collaboration with @UK_CEH @turinginst @nparksbuzz. Watch this space! 📷 @MarxYim
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What drives innovation in machine learning?
In a new paper, we argue that application-driven work is systemically under-valued in the machine learning community, but that it's essential for both innovation and impact.
arxiv.org/abs/2403.17381
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ALT A figure with two columns. Under "Methods-driven ML" are the attributes "stereotyped benchmarks", "narrow set of evaluation metrics", "massive datasets", and "problem-agnostic methods". Under "Application-driven-ML" are the attributes "real-world tasks", "application-specific evaluation metrics", "auxiliary domain knowledge", and "use-inspired methods".
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A year ago today we launched #PlantAtlas2020: the most in-depth survey ever undertaken of the British & Irish flora.
Website free to browse for info on 3,495 wild plant species: plantatlas2020.org/
Book published by @PrincetonNature
Find out more: bsbi.org/plant-atlas-2020
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Transforming Environmental Data in R
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Save £70! Early bird discount until 15 March
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Interested in emerging tech for #biodiversity, #ecology, #entomology #monitoring? Sign up for a blast of a summer school at a beautiful venue with a dream team of teachers!
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Check out episode 3 of our Costa Rica #fieldwork diaries, where Jenna Lawson is currently deploying automated biodiversity monitoring systems as part of the AMBER project 👀⤵️
📹 Episode 3: Deployment! Jenna describes the different locations where AMI-traps are now set up at La Selva @tropicalstudies #BiodiversityMonitoring #FieldworkDiaries #WomenInSTEM
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Follow Jenna from @UK_CEH as she sets up the AMI systems in Costa Rica. The first tropical sites for the #AMBER project. Singapore is up next! At #TEELab @ntu_ase we are busy receeing our field sites with @nparksbuzz. Exciting times!
📽 Join biologist Jenna Lawson behind-the-scenes on fieldwork in Costa Rica. Episode 1: Meet Jenna!
Catch further episodes over coming days as Jenna & collaborators at @TropicalStudies deploy innovative systems to monitor Costa Rica's diverse wildlife🦋🦇🐦🐵
#WomenInScience
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Eco/Epi modelling position available in our great interdisciplinary team. Happy to discuss with applicants. Please RT.
📢 #JOB: Ecological Modeller Research Associate
Exciting opportunity to join our dynamic Population Ecology team led by Prof @UKLadybirds & Dr @bethan_purse
🌍🪰🍃 Co-develop models and tools focused on invasive non-native species & infectious diseases
ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en…
ALT Ixodes ricinus, castor bean tick; and the words Job vacancy: Ecological modeller research associate
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📽 Join biologist Jenna Lawson behind-the-scenes on fieldwork in Costa Rica. Episode 1: Meet Jenna!
Catch further episodes over coming days as Jenna & collaborators at @TropicalStudies deploy innovative systems to monitor Costa Rica's diverse wildlife🦋🦇🐦🐵
#WomenInScience
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👀 In episode 2, Jenna explains the checking and debugging which the AMI-trap systems need before deployment in the field 🔧🔌
#FieldworkFriday #FieldworkDiaries #WomenInScience @TropicalStudies
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Are you passionate about the environment and want to make a real impact? We seek 3 exceptional individuals to join our board of trustees!
🌟A new Chair with outstanding leadership experience
🌟Trustees with strong backgrounds in science and finance
🔗 ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media/new…
ALT Four UKCEH at work, in the field, lab, on a lake, and in a computer server room
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Interested in Automated Pollinator Monitoring, and want to see the state of the art?
Can't recommend this webinar enough, featuring Max Sittinger, @jamesdcrall, @ChantalHuijbers, @BrianSpiesman, @LucaPegoraro3
Previous webinar: wildlabs.net/event/automated…
wildlabs.net/event/computati…
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📢Very excited to announce the new project I'm working on @UK_CEH! We're going to be forecasting future biodiversity trajectories under different pathways of socioeconomic and environmental change in the UK.
We're seeking collaborators on the project; see below to get involved👇
Imagine a future where nature is thriving… What do you see and how do we get there?🐸🐦⬛🪲🌳
Biodiversity Pathways is a new project aiming to understand future #biodiversity change under various scenarios. Get involved to inform its development!
▶️ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media/new…
ALT Biodiversity Pathways logo with red, green and yellow roundel
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#training via @UK_CEH
Field Electronics and Sensors
Edinburgh 13-14 March 2024
from £225
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BSBI is considering a monthly wildflower hunt using the NYPH method - tracking phenology and floral resources across the whole year using fixed transects. Chris Preston has been doing something similar in Cambridge since 2015 doi.org/10.33928/bib.2020.02…
A soggy #NewYearPlantHunt in Pannal. A rural route with 8 spp in flower (21 same day last month). That’s only 4% of the 199 plants recorded along the 5km route, and no more than a few indivs of each in flower. Will be interesting to see how these figures change through 2024
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Our @UK_CEH SPEED: Spatially-explicit Projections of EnvironmEntal Drivers and impacts project has produced useful scenario datasets for the UK
We aimed to produce coordinated projections of changes to multiple environmental drivers for a whole system approach to impacts 🧵
