Join us next week at #IBFRA2023, hosted by @LukeFinlandInt & @IBFRA! Explore the changing boreal forest landscape and its impact on ecosystems, communities, & climate. Bekir Afsar University of Jyväskylä presents the innovative Forest/birds prototype Digital Twin. bit.ly/3P9K8Lc

Learn more about this prototype in the #BioDT poster: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… #forest #biodiversity #climatechange

The IBFRA (IBFRA) conference is going extremely well. Many thanks to @LukeFinlandInt. I presented prototype forest digital twin of BioDT. Video recording of my talk: event.prospectumlive.com/ibfra-2023-mon… (My talk is the first one in the video). Here are some photos as well:

Apply for 3-year #postdoc position!🌲😃 Become part of Boreal Ecosystems Research Group to do exciting research at Faculty of Mathematics and Science and @JYU_Wisdom. Themes include #sustainable_forestry #stakeholders #preferences #climateadaptation. Please spread the word. More details 👉🏽 bit.ly/3Owp41F DL: 22 Oct!

Thrilled to share that I've completed the "Qualitative Research Methods" on Coursera! As part of the BioDT project, I'm conducting interviews with real stakeholders in #forest management. My goal? Acquire survival skills in #qualitative analysis for my ongoing project.

🍃 Dive deep into #DataCitation with insights from GBIF 🌎! Discover why it's key to #biodiversity research: ensuring transparency, credibility & collaboration. 🔍 Learn to cite datasets right! 🗓️ Nov 6, 2023 🍃Register: tinyurl.com/ymaw8pzk #Biodiversity #DataCitation

🌾🚀 Join us for a groundbreaking event in Oslo, Norway, from January 23rd to 25th, 2024 - the BioDT Hackathon: Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) - Second End-Users Workshop on Harnessing Digital Twinning for Sustainable Agriculture! 🌱🌍 Register now: tinyurl.com/rj9bnd2d

🌍 🌿 #BioDT will take part in the World #Biodiversity Forum 2024 in Switzerland, from 17th to 20th June. 🗓️ Join us as we explore "#DigitalTwin Applications to Foster Actions for Biodiversity Conservation" in our dedicated session 🌐🌱 🌊🌳🔍 Learn more: tinyurl.com/hacchkps

Recently Bekir Afsar from the #BioDT project took part in the Beyond Dead Wood #hackathon where he discussed some of the challenges we have in our forest digital twin as part of the BioDT project! Learn more about the #biodiversity #digitaltwin: bit.ly/3EqytCt

🌿 BioDT's Bekir Afsar recently gave a keynote talk at CSC event on #digitaltwins and spoke about his work on the #Forest digital twin prototype being developed by the #BioDT project. 🍁 Learn more about our project on our website: tinyurl.com/2x38am8mb

Have presented BioDT's forest prototype digital twin at World Biodiversity Forum 2024 in Davos! For conference attendees, let's connect and discuss! Feel free to reach out. #Biodiversity #digitaltwin #forestmanagement #WBF2024

🌲 New BioDT Research Publication: Advancing #Forest #Biodiversity #Conservation 🌲 This paper presents the development of the BioDT Forest Biodiversity Dynamics Prototype #DigitalTwin (pDT), an innovative tool designed to predict the effects of various forest management

Applications are open for the doctoral program in AI! 🎓 Fully funded PhD positions across 10 Finnish universities 🇫🇮 📹 Watch the video with Arno Solin below ➡️Apply here by Sept. 9 fcai.fi/doctoral-progr…

For the ERC dynaBBO and the HQI project, I am recruiting - PostDocs with interest in black-box optimization, ML, or optimization for quantum computing - research engineer/software developer for iohprofiler.github.io , data base, and ML applications in Paris, Sorbonne Université

Finland is ranked the Happiest Country in the World for eight years running. Thank you. Kiitos! For us Finns being happy or content with life has at least 5,6 million reasons. In other words we all have our own take on happiness. I personally think that happiness is closely

🏆 Thrilled to share that our paper "Can #LIME Make #Interactive #Multiobjective #Optimization Methods Explainable?" received the Outstanding Paper Award at the #IEEE Symposium on #Trustworthy, #Explainable and Responsible #Computational #Intelligence! #ieee #ieeessci2025

Just a heads up: I will be posting on Bluesky from now on, not here on X/Twitter. If you are over there too, feel free to connect me: bsky.app/profile/bekira… #BlueSky

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