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Monique Oliveira @mnqoliveira.bsky.social · Jun 25

He admits we was wrong about the polls.

Screenshot of Matt Yglesias post on twitter:
"Mamdani winning badly refutes one of my main priors — that the candidate who is leading in the polls usually wins — but to refute my view that his main ideas are bad, he would need to actually govern successfully.

And I sincerely hope he does — we’ll see what happens."

Monique Oliveira @mnqoliveira.bsky.social · Jun 23

Frustrated with consistently being interested in a cited reference and it being completely unrelated to the claim. T.T

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Lily-belle Sweet @lilybellesweet.bsky.social · Jun 19

📢 The 2nd AgML Workshop will be held at @ufz.de Leipzig from November 3–5th! Let's bring together researchers and practitioners in agriculture and machine learning to share knowledge & create open benchmark datasets and model evaluation protocols.
Register by July 31: events.hifis.net/e/agml2025

events.hifis.net

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Lily-belle Sweet @lilybellesweet.bsky.social · May 26

📢 Tomorrow (27th May) at 16:00 CET, join our next online seminar on knowledge-guided machine learning for crop growth modelling! We will be hearing from Jingye Han, a researcher at Wageningen University. Open to all - get in touch for the Zoom link or join the AgML mailing list.

Knowledge-guided machine learning for crop growth modelling

The process-based crop modeling paradigm originated in the 1960s. Despite their widespread use, crop models are constrained by fixed representations of underlying processes and the difficulty of parameter estimation. Moreover, improvements to these models can typically only be made by a small group of experts, leading to inefficiencies. Data-driven approaches offer the potential to become the next-generation modeling paradigm for crops, enabling greater use of data while reducing reliance on manual effort. This talk will explore data-driven crop growth modeling, with an emphasis on how to incorporate domain knowledge to address overfitting issues caused by sparse data, and will offer perspectives on the future development of data-driven crop models.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · May 16

The @ufz.de is currently offering funded fellowships for international researchers willing to visit and collaborate with us. I'm involved in this one, with a focus on "Socio-Environmental Modelling of Land and Water Systems": recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/32...

Description of the fellowship offer (to be found on the linked website)

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Lily-belle Sweet @lilybellesweet.bsky.social · Apr 29

📢 Today at 16:00 CET: Vasileios Sitokonstantinou presents research on invariant (causal) learning for robust yield predictions, kicking off our monthly seminar series on AI for agricultural research & modelling. Reach out for Zoom link, mailing list members will receive it by email. See you there!

Lily-belle Sweet @lilybellesweet.bsky.social · Apr 28

If you, like us, think that these kinds of community activity are needed, we warmly invite you to get involved in AgML. So far, we've created benchmark datasets, organised a workshop, Kaggle competition and there's so much more we'd like to do - join our mailing list: mail.agml.org/mailman/list...

AgML Info Page

mail.agml.org

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Lily-belle Sweet @lilybellesweet.bsky.social · Apr 28

If you, like us, think that these kinds of community activity are needed, we warmly invite you to get involved in AgML. So far, we've created benchmark datasets, organised a workshop, Kaggle competition and there's so much more we'd like to do - join our mailing list: mail.agml.org/mailman/list...

AgML Info Page

mail.agml.org

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Monique Oliveira @mnqoliveira.bsky.social · Apr 28

Great work by @lilybellesweet.bsky.social and AgML collaborators. Check it out!

Lily-belle Sweet @lilybellesweet.bsky.social · Apr 28

Transdisciplinary coordination is essential for advancing agricultural modelling with machine learning. The opportunities are great, but to avoid pitfalls, we need to establish benchmarks, evaluation criteria and best practices. Our perspective: www.cell.com/one-earth/fu... @cp-oneearth.bsky.social

Transdisciplinary coordination is essential for advancing agricultural modeling with machine learning

Crop models play a key role in understanding and improving the climate-change resilience of food systems. If appropriately used, machine learning can help tackle some of the critical challenges of agr...

www.cell.com

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Guillaume Lobet @guillaumelobet.bsky.social · Apr 23

🧪🌱💡 #PlantSciJob

Are you passionate about #robust cropping systems? Do you want to explore how #plant #roots impact water flow across different scales?

I am thrilled to say that we have 4 open positions (2 #PhD, 2 #postdocs) @UCLouvain (BE) for the EU project DROOGHT.

More: drooght.github.io

Illustration featuring a series of icons representing different concepts: a camera, a bar graph with mathematical symbols, a wheat stalk, a computer monitor, a shovel, a plant growing in a field, interlocking gears, and an Open Science symbol

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Gatien Falconnier @gatienfalconnier.bsky.social · Apr 11

Accurate simulation of the provision of nitrogen by soil organic matter is critical in low-input smallholder systems.

recrutement.cirad.fr/job/job-cher...

Join us at Cirad - Postdoc position to help with crop model intercomparison @agmip.bsky.social

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Monique Oliveira @mnqoliveira.bsky.social · Apr 15

Group photo and pyramid! Nice!

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Monique Oliveira @mnqoliveira.bsky.social · Apr 4

Also had a great time meeting the AgML people at CIMMYT for #AgMIP10! Great team that will hopefully expand after meeting so many people and different problems at the event for @agmip.bsky.social .

Nine people in alternate positions with the letters CIMMYT on the ground.

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Monique Oliveira @mnqoliveira.bsky.social · Apr 2

Brazilian team from Embrapa and CIMMYT at #AgMIP10 by Norman Borlaug

Five people posing by the statue of Norman Borlaug

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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · Jan 17

Calling post-doctoral researchers working on cities & climate! The @ipcc.bsky.social has several positions available for chapter scientists for our cities special report. It’s a fantastic opportunity. The IPPC’s keen to encourage diversity. (I am a review editor) onedrive.live.com?redeem=aHR0c...

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Monique Oliveira @mnqoliveira.bsky.social · Jan 16

Deadline extended until January 24th!

Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project @agmip.bsky.social · Jan 14

Final call for AgMIP10 abstracts! The abstract submission period closes tomorrow, January 15.

To submit an abstract, go to agmip.org/agmip10-abst.... The AgMIP10 Science Committee anticipates making decisions on all abstracts by late January.

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Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project @agmip.bsky.social · Dec 5

AgMIP's Tenth Global Workshop will take place March 31-April 4, 2025 at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in El Batán, Mexico. Our global workshops bring together AgMIP's international modeling community to assess impacts of climate variability and change on agriculture.

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Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project @agmip.bsky.social · Dec 5

Announcing the AgMIP starter pack! We will regularly update our list, so reach out if you'd like to join!
go.bsky.app/Cw6L6ig

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Monique Oliveira @mnqoliveira.bsky.social · Nov 7

Eu tentei withdraw um artigo antes de começar o processo editorial. A única opção era email. Três emails e o artigo foi pra revisão. :)

Monique Oliveira @mnqoliveira.bsky.social · Aug 9

Vc e a promoção de um dólar por mês por um ano me fizeram assinar o NYT (eu gosto do bot)

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