Just signed the recommendations for inclusive and diversity to increase in the statistical ecology community The International Statistical Ecology Conference. Consider doing it too. Thanks to Gordana Popovic Dr. Rocío Joo, PhD Dr Vianey Leos Barajas Olivier Gimenez 🖖🦦 Res Altwegg et al for leading this (fundamental and important) charge.

Submit an abstract, apply for a visa, attend a conference… easy… right🤔 I mean it’s in Europe after all so easy access… right 🤔 well… not quite 🙄

over a year ago, i commented on how big tech might take African language datasets, collected and curated by underfunded and overworked African researchers and i was dismissed as 'alarmist' 1/

This is for you Matt Bunny

Congrats Samantha Patrick and Tash Gillies !

🚨🚨New Global Fishing Watch paper in Scientific Reports, “Revealing the global longline fleet with satellite radar.” We monitor "dark" longline fleets north of Madagascar & near French Polynesia & Kiribati, & we demonstrate how we could apply these methods globally nature.com/articles/s4159…

Job advert out today - Join us in Liverpool for a post doc on albatross foraging behaviour - identifying foraging success and responses to the environment - closes 11th Jan jobs.ac.uk/job/CVX706/pos…

Responsible AI Panel 🙏📚 I’m hosting: Erin LeDell - ledell.bsky.social, Kim Montgomery and Parul Pandey tomorrow to learn: ✅ Current state of Interpretability in ML ✅ How to effectively deploy these techniques ✅ How H2O.ai solves explainability in ML youtu.be/tsrApIFmWmE

Looking for someone with an #academic background and #RStats / #Python skills to be part of my team at Global Fishing Watch and help coordinate our #research engagement globally and provide #DataScience capacity #AcademicTwitter Tyler Clavelle David Kroodsma

Sadly but not surprisingly, after embracing open science practices, our lab has published less last year. Reviewers do not seem to embrace replications (and extension), carefully documented methodology... This is hurting lab members' careers.

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🚨 #Postdoc offer (2.5 years): Bird population modelling for adaptive harvest management ! Based in IREC (🇪🇸) - in close collaboration with Office français de la biodiversité (🇫🇷) and Aarhus Universitet (🇩🇰). Join us ! 🥳

Las estrellas se alinearon para que pudiera ver estas charlas entonces voy a hacer un hilo recogiendo las ideas que más me llamen la atención 🦜🦜🦜

Do you know how large AI companies label toxic data? They find vulnerable populations of people & pay them very little $ to look at disturbing, traumatizing content all day. Richard, is speaking out about his experience today on Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon 💔 time.com/6247678/openai…

Here's an interesting Stochastic Parrots day reading list from Mirabelle Jones for anyone that missed the event by @timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) MMitchell @safiyanoble @emilymbender.bsky.social and wants to know more about the academic thinking related LLMs, AI ethics, etc docs.google.com/document/d/1bG…

I wrote about how university research ethics processes can be harmful to Indigenous scholars and our co-researchers in Indigenous communities. Kukstemc nature for lifting Indigenous voices in STEM #ecology #nativesinstem @ubcforestry UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems nature.com/articles/d4158…

We're looking for a #geospatial #DataScientist to integrate multiple data sources for the most complete picture of human activity at sea. Join us! globalfishingwatch.org/careers/?gh_ji… #careers #PythonJob #programming #BigData #RemoteJob Tyler Clavelle David Kroodsma

Looking for a junior #DataScientist to be part of the research team at Global Fishing Watch and help investigate cases of forced labor. globalfishingwatch.org/careers/?gh_ji… Please apply if you think you'd be a good fit or help spread the word. Open until May 22. #RemoteJob David Kroodsma

Where will ISEC 2026 take place? Please share widely! Dr. Rocío Joo, PhD Olivier Gimenez 🖖🦦 Juan Manuel Morales Dr Vianey Leos Barajas Len Thomas @fbuderman @RolandLangrock Theoni Photopoulou Marie Auger-Méthé