First InsectAI jave arrived! Super excited Helen Roy

Excited to be starting the first annual meeting of InsectAI in #Cyprus with kelly Martinou, Tom August and many others #computervision #machinelearning #entomology #biodiversity #monitoring🦋🐛🐜🐝🪲🐞🕷🪳🦟🪰

Using #bioacoustics and #AI to assess the potential of #bats as biological #pest control agents 🦇🔊🪰

Truly inspiring technologies and early career researchers giving enlightening talks Toke Thomas Høye Tom August Helen Roy David Roy 🐛 COST

Ami trap David Roy 🐛 InsectAI Helen Roy wonderful to hear the progress on such an exciting tool For monitoring!

The JSHU, The Cyprus Institute and Enalia Physis ERC organised the first EU COST meeting on insect monitoring and artificial intelligence. Experts from 30 different EU countries visited the AEEC, including the Υπ. Γεωργίας, Αγροτικής Ανάπτυξης & Περιβάλλοντος and local Universities. #BritishBases #Cyprus #SBAs #Insects

Thread of the most beautiful metro stations on Earth 🧵 1. Toledo, Naples

You can also spot, take picture and report #InvasiveAlienSpecies of Union concern!!!

It's #SharkWeek! Check out what Benny the bone shark has been up to. Celebrate these amazing creatures and spread the shark love! 🦈💓 #sthelena #StHelenaIsland #whaleshark #mpa #seasonalvisitors #nationaltrust

6 Powerful Psychology Facts. 1.

First detection of the #InvasiveAlienSpecies flatworm #ObamaNungara in Liguria region, Italy, thanks to a #CitizenScience volunteer!!! arpal.liguria.it

Why do we need taxonomists? Naturalists? Ecologists? Because nature isn’t just a number - what species are and what they do, how they interact - everything about them - that is nature Obvs flies are the best nature Natural History Museum Royal Entomological Society British Ecological Society

You are interested in the #IPBES Invasive Alien Species report but don't have time to read its ~1000 pages? Got you. Nor the ~50p of the summary for policymakers?Okay. What about the ~6p from our summary of summary in NatureEcoEvo? A great reading!😉👇 nature.com/articles/s4155…

"Protected Mediterranean invertebrates: The known and the unknown". Inadequate protection of Mediterranean "protected" invertebrates. Multiple threats and mainly declining population trends. Read our new paper: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jXig1R%7EeW…

youtu.be/K-n60eVOpm8?fe… Act locally to fight a global problem Martinou Lab Helen Roy Biodiversity Challenge Funds World Mosquito Day!

#DYK that #InvasiveAlienSpecies are one of the five most important direct drivers of biodiversity loss? 🤔 Learn more about this global environmental threat that has severe local impacts! Read the #IAS ipbes Assessment or watch 1 of our summary videos ipbes.net/ias

In the Financial Times Weekend Essay, an in-depth look at insect declines and the difficulties of interpreting data and trends. Includes input from Gary Powney and many more entomologists, including DRUID 🦋🪰🪲 ft.com/content/e7403c… (might be behind paywall)

🌍 Call for Applications: Joint EMRO/TDR Impact Grants for 2024-25! Researchers in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region can apply for grants upto 10,000 USD, focused on implementation research in infectious diseases of poverty. 📅 Apply by Sep 15: ow.ly/31ik50T9RPV

🌿Big news for #EUBiodiversity - the Nature Restoration Law is in force! 🌍 Key targets: • 20% of EU land & sea restored by 2030 • Urban tree canopy expansion • 25,000 km of free-flowing rivers restored • Farmland bird population growth 📰EU Environment bit.ly/3MvOBpb

Jon Bray @neobiota2024 on bridging human, animal, plant algae, and ecosystems health through One Biosecurity.