We're looking for our next cohort of amazing instructors for #CV4Ecology!!

CV4E is an intensive workshop designed to empower ecologists to efficiently process their existing data, design new studies around CV, and scale their research to larger datasets.

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

and more to come :(

We're observing #InternationalWomensDay by celebrating the incredible women in #conservationtech and the work WILDLABS is doing to honour this year's theme: #AccelerateAction.

📸: Dany Samwel; MarAlliance; Taty Lopez; Laura Kloepper

Today! Stand Up For Science - Seattle: 12-3pm, Seattle Center, Mural Amphitheatre.

#standupforscience

In a time of Trump, we need to rethink the academic paper The past few weeks have made one thing painfully clear: science is under attack and the integrity of science itself is on the line.

So much science is being deleted & forgotten. It's time for drastic action.

We need a scientific 2-pager because:
- Length≄Credibility
- Strengthening peer review > Removing it
- The academic article is outdated

Let’s publish our research before it’s too late.

🧪 #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky

Spotted owls are disappearing fast, and federal cuts could mean no one's left to count them U.S. Forest Service layoffs have upended surveys for spotted owls in Southern and Northern California, threatening data collection for the declining birds.

What a way to go out

A flier showing the Statue of Liberty and the following info: Seattle Stand Up for Science. March 7, 2025, Seattle Center, 12-3PM. Science is for everyone. Find your local rally site and other ways to get involved: standupforscience2025.org

Seattle folks: Stand Up for Science this Friday!

48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science 48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.

It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

GitHub - google/cameratrapai: AI models trained by Google to classify species in images from motion-triggered widlife cameras. AI models trained by Google to classify species in images from motion-triggered widlife cameras. - google/cameratrapai

I am incredibly excited to see our SpeciesNet model released!! This represents years of work by the @wildlifeinsights.bsky.social AI team (and completely impossible without the amazing Ștefan Istrate's AI development and implementation).

Github: github.com/google/camer...
Blog: bit.ly/4i5cKBs

PORCUPINES, the official mascot of anybody who wants friends but doesn't know how to make them

The shoutout was very kind!

Here's a porcupette for you, Alie "this one word is the thin string holding up my sanity in 2025" Ward
(also same)
@ologies.bsky.social

a nighttime photo of a woman wearing a fleece jacket and a headlamp. she is smiling and looking down at a large porcupine she is holding in her arms. the porcupine is safely anesthetized and is being handled for research purposes.

image looking up at a woman in a tree as she awkwardly maneuvers a large plastic trash can which is used to capture porcupines.

a porcupine looking up at the camera from inside a large plastic trash can, which has been used to safely capture it for research purposes

a porcupine in the crook of a tall willow tree

Reminiscing with some of my favorite photos from porcupine fieldwork

So glad to see these critters getting the attention they deserve! Shoutout to my awesome former advisor for this wonderful interview

so devastating for international wildlife conservation projects

I am recruiting two funded graduate students (1 MS, 1 PhD) to join the lab and the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences program at Oregon State University!

If you are into population ecology and a combination of fieldwork and modeling - then check this out!

Please share/repost widely!

📖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

Realy nice review on how do #ecologists estimate #occupancy in practice

It seems that single-species is the most common model family, #mammals the most common group, and unmarked #Rpackage the most common software

#cameratrapping
@ecography.bsky.social

🎯 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👇🧵

I'd love to be added too, please!