I'll be at ICML in Vienna this week (and I'm hiring PhD and postdocs this fall!) Please each out if you want to chat about geospatial ML 🌏, ML for satellite data 🛰️, statistical notions of representation in training data 📊, or related topics 😎!

Really excited to share our work on rigorous statistical methods for satellite imagery! Remote sensing images are usually analyzed with ML algs followed by regression. To get valid confidence intervals that correct for the errors in the ML step, use methods like this 👇

UC Berkeley is hiring 5 new faculty in “AI, Inequality, and Society", to positions spanning the I School, CS, Law, Sociology, and Statistics. Great to see us double down in this space! Please distribute (and note the early application deadline of 9/16!): aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04498

Does smoke pollution have a smoggy, silver lining? Research from Center on Food Security and the Environment alums A. Patrick Behrer and Sherrie Wang indicates that low density plumes from wildfire smoke actually enhance crop yields in the Midwest. 🌱 Read more here: ow.ly/5Lgr50SCx35

Code now available here: github.com/Earth-Intellig… If you want to try prediction-powered inference (PPI) on your remote sensing application, check out the examples for area estimation and regression coefficient estimation!

Biodiversiy is declining, yet we have limited knowledge about how that affects human well-being. My work linking bats, insecticide use, and human infant health is out today in Science (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…), and tells a complex story about how those are connected.