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 🎥🔭

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The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

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Congrats to Moritz Lürig @mluerig.bsky.social! 👏👏👏 He has been awarded a group starter grant by the European Research Council @erc.europa.eu to create an atlas for moth and butterfly wing patterns using machine learning.
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/mori...
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hey folks, happy to announce that I was awarded an @erc.europa.eu starting grant to investigate the phenomics of butterfly and moth diversification using computer vision and AI. I'll be looking for phd students and postdocs starting in late 2026/early 2027. will post more details soon!