Just under 2 weeks left to apply for the Aarhus Computational Entomology Summer School 🐛
darsa.info/ACCESS-2026/
15 successful applicants will be fully-funded by InsectAI to develop skills in AI and sensors for insect monitoring in mid-September 🤖🪰
Feedback for 2025 and 2026 was great!
Inspiring presentation by @abigaillowe.bsky.social working with farmers to monitor moth biodiversity 🦋💙
#SundayScience | Moth Monitoring & AI 🦋
Discover how Dr @abigaillowe.bsky.social worked with farmers using LED light traps and AI to monitor moths across England. Explore citizen science, data, and biodiversity in farmland in this #SundayScience webinar.
▶️ youtu.be/8Nljgi5yjf8
@ukceh.bsky.social
Credit to @insectai.bsky.social, Status of Insects RCN (@cbahlai.bsky.social) & co-authors @cohyuval.bsky.social @birgenhaest.bsky.social @charlieouthwaite.bsky.social @tomaugust.bsky.social @qgeissmann.bsky.social @veralis.bsky.social @tokehoye.bsky.social @mluerig.bsky.social @asgersvenning.com
Insect monitoring without pitfalls: Seven steps for robust insect sensing systems
Sensors and AI can transform understanding of insect biodiversity 🪰📈
BUT we must be wary of the AI hype-train 🚆 and respect existing data and traditional monitoring 🙇
Our new synthetic review lays out seven steps to realise the potential of insect sensing systems 🎥🔭
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Congratulations on a very cool paper @pauenric.bsky.social!
It was great to meet you at the ACCESS summer school this year 😆 I've been waiting to see this!
Would you consider moving to Denmark? I don't know what opportunities there might be, just wondering...
Detecting pollinators with AI isn't as easy as people say 🔎🐝
Studies show high scores on one dataset 📈 then imply the model is useful elsewhere 🤥
@veralis.bsky.social & co. don't board the AI hype train 🤖🚆
They expose real challenges when deploying GBIF-trained AI for pollinator surveillance 🐞🪰👍
🚨 In press in Journal of Ecology 🍀 We found plant community thermophilisation 🌿☘️🌡📈 & rapid species range shifts towards 🏔 summits in the 🇨🇭 Alps, but 🌿☘️🌡📈 only shows up when using 0-1 data
➡️ Weighting by 🌿 abundance data dilutes the signal 🌐🧪
@journalofecology.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/4u2y8rft
You may have heard of MegaDetector 🐅
What about a MiniDetector? 🪰
In my opinion flatbug is the closest thing we have to a universal insect detector.
Open source and free to use.
Amazing & groundbreaking work lead by @asgersvenning.bsky.social & @qgeissmann.bsky.social
Last year we hosted the first Aarhus Computational Entomology Summer School 💻🐞
20 talented participants got inspired about AI for insect monitoring 🤖📸🐝
So much 5⭐ feedback
A week of free tuition, food and lodging in a National Park 🐎 so not surprising
This year: Up to 20 more lucky people! 🍀
@qgeissmann.bsky.social @tokehoye.bsky.social
🚨WEBINAR ALERT🚨(free)
The #insect monitoring toolbox includes a suite of #sensors for automated data collection.
But what can they achieve?
Find out next Friday with fascinating talks from
@drolnick.bsky.social, Emily Bick, Mikkel Brydegaard & Eva Knop
wildlabs.net/event/automa...
webinar on bioacoustics
Listen up! Our next monitoring webinar explores #bioacoustics
Explore implementation w/ insights from Carlos Abrahams & @jamiealison.bsky.social
🗓️ 21 Jan., 13:00-14:30 CET
👉 Register: www.biodiversa.eu/2025/01/16/unveiling-bio...
📖Published📖
In our new perspective article, Cowans et al. attempt to conceptualise a general workflow associated with automated tools in ecology. Read more here 👇
https://buff.ly/427sDSz
