Just finished my first talk at the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science! Huge thanks to UQ Centre for Biodiversity & Conservation Science , Dr Tatsuya Amano Tatsuya Amano and all the listeners for their great support.

Welcome Naoki Katayama to UQ Centre for Biodiversity & Conservation Science! He has recently joined the translatE project and Kaizen Conservation Group as an academic visitor for a year. Great talk today about his work on farmland biodiversity. Look forward to some exciting collaboration!

My first day City of Edmonton University of Alberta - here to create a Centre for Open Science & Synthesis in #Ecology & #Evolution. Looking for ~5 postdocs to join me in establishing the centre. Please apply - i-deel.org/opportunities.… Please RT

Great kick off meeting today for ICCB Language Accessibility subcommittee! Discussed lots of options and actions to support non-native English speakers before and at the conference. #languagebarriers

PhD with me and Tatsuya Amano at University of Exeter! Come and do the first research into responsible AI for biodiversity monitoring, developing ways to ensure these AIs are safe, unbiased and accountable. *Deadline June 28* findaphd.com/phds/project/t… PLEASE REPOST/SHARE WIDELY!

Exciting opportunity to do PhD with Benno Simmons and me on responsible AI for biodiversity monitoring University of Exeter and UQ Centre for Biodiversity & Conservation Science funded by QUEX PhD!

Our #ICCB2025 host city: Meanjin/Brisbane! Get ready for innovative conservation discussions, breathtaking nature, and vibrant city life. Mark your calendars and join us in this beautiful city! #ICCB2025 #Conservation #Brisbane #Australia conbio.org/mini-sites/icc…

Come and chat about ICCB at the SCB exhibitor booth during NACCB 2024 June 2025 is a wonderful time of year to visit Brisbane, make a holiday of it! Call for symposia open now. Don't miss an opportunity to join us at the largest conservation conference💚

Carpet python at Boondall Wetlands

New paper out now in BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈: how can we estimate spatiotemporal sampling biases in citizen science datasets like eBird or iNaturalist? What effects do biases have on the inferences we make from models built on citizen science data? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Searching in Chinese identified 114 Chinese-language studies that had not been included in a previous systematic literature review; 97% of 8,680 Cochrane reviews searched none of the five major Chinese databases indexing 2,500 journals. doi.org/10.1186/s13643… #languagebarriers

Large language models (LLMs) are often seen as the silver bullet for solving language barriers. But only a handful of languages may benefit - for 99% of the world’s languages spoken by 1.5 billion people, LLMs still have little to offer: doi.org/10.1038/s41562… #languagebarriers

Very excited for this opportunity to meet old and new people and visit the UK after almost 6 years!

ICCB2025 is now calling fo symposia, forums, workshops and training courses (until 15th Oct) including proposals for bi-/multilingual symposia. Also see information on the measures we are exploring to reduce #languagebarriers participants here: conbio.org/mini-sites/icc… ICCB

I can't say congratulations enough!! Bill Sutherland selected as the winner of the 2024 International Cosmos Prize for his pioneering contribution to evidence-based conservation: expo-cosmos.or.jp/english/cosmos…

We are pleased to welcome two new members to our translatE project! Nayelli is starting her PhD and Ayontika has started her master research project. translatesciences.com/two-new-member… Nayelli came from Mexico with this beautiful alebrije.

Researchers gave successive versions of a large language model information produced by previous generations of the AI — and observed rapid collapse go.nature.com/3y0WK1z

A big congratulations to Dr Tatsuya Amano, who has been named the British Ecological Society Equality and Diversity Champion! 🥳🎉 More: tinyurl.com/3enzb77w UQ News UQ Centre for Biodiversity & Conservation Science

Such a great honour! An achievement made possible by our project members and over 130 (and growing) collaborators translatesciences.com/people/ Hopefully I can meet some of you at the meeting.