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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · Sep 8

Here’s a link for the exhibition website: www.artphy.nl/2025/06/20/a...

Mens, natuur en AI in ontmoeting! Vast vooruitkijken? Het tentoonstellingsboekje staat HIER. AI Ecologies onderzoekt hoe kunstmatige intelligentie (AI) onze kijk op natuur, technologie en onszelf vera...

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · Sep 8

Last week of the exhibition, AI Ecologies, at Artphy curated by @petervanderputten.bsky.social and Roland van Dierendonck. It includes two of my robots plus many other fantastic works e.g. a device that finds faces in grains of sand, a machine-constructed alphabet from the bark patterns of a tree.

Sign for the exhibition AI Ecologies outside the gallery on a country road. The sign shows a glamorous person holding a potato, all generated by AI as part of an ad campaign for potatoes.

A two-headed white woodpecker robot strapped to the vestiges of a tree in a large interior space with vaulted ceilings. The heads of the woodpecker robot are two different shades of green.

A concrete-floored “sub-floor” in the Artphy art gallery, looking down plain wooden stairs at some art pieces in the show AI Ecologies.

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Aryn Wilder @arynwilder.bsky.social · Aug 21

Excited to share our new paper on genetic rescue in the Pacific pocket mouse! To conserve this endangered species, we sought to understand whether small populations at risk of outbreeding depression are better managed in isolation or with gene flow. @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fitness benefits of genetic rescue despite chromosomal differences in an endangered pocket mouse

Two-thirds of Earth’s species have undergone population declines, leaving many vulnerable to genomic erosion and inbreeding depression. Genetic rescue can boost the fitness of small populations, but p...

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · Jul 4

AI Ecologies opens in two days at Artphy. The exhibition includes The Woodiest, a robot that, in the performance Nobody Told the Woodpeckers, explains climate change to woodpeckers.
www.artphy.nl/2025/06/20/a...

Photo of a two-headed woodpecker robot attached to a birch tree with a strap. One head is a metallic lime green and the other a metallic forest green. The former head is positioned by its motor, ready to execute the territorial drumming of the Pileated woodpecker on the tree trunk.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · Jun 22

AI Ecologies at Artphy opens in two weeks. I will have robots in the exhibition.

Curated by Peter van der Putten and Roland van Dierendonck.

www.artphy.nl/2025/06/20/a...

AI Ecologies - Kunsthal Artphy

Mens, natuur en AI in ontmoeting! Vorig jaar organiseerde Artphy haar eerste AI expo. Een nieuwe materie! (Zie ook De expo en de lezing). Een mooi begin! Nu verder. Met […]

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · Jun 15

I will have robots in this exhibition on AI Ecologies at Artphy: www.artphy.nl/2025/03/28/a...

07-2025 AI Ecologies - Kunsthal Artphy

Expositie AI Ecologies 06-07 t/m 30-08 Natuur, mens en technologie. Hoe leven mens, natuur en technologie samen, nu en in de toekomst? Hoe verandert de ontwikkeling van Artificiële Intelligentie onze ...

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · Mar 30

I almost can’t look at it.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · Mar 22

When I was a youth, I ate many tiny, tiny shrimp. I found a good source of tiny, tiny shrimp recently and, eating them, have been thinking of them as krill and of myself as a whale. I drink them in water, press the water out through gaps between my teeth, and lick the filtered shrimp into my gullet.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · Mar 19

I had Hedgehog going all the way and defeating Polar Bear in the final. I cannot resist supporting the underhedgehog.

Marc Kissel @marckissel.bsky.social · Mar 18

Hedgehog, grateful for being overlooked and unnoticed, uncurls and on tiny adorable feet pitter patters into the leaf litter to search for termites away from the digging bear and exiting the field of battle #2025MMM

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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · Feb 15

"We propose an alternative lightweight computer vision method for fish counting based on analyzing echograms"

Make everything a computer vision problem 😆

Cool study from @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social et al.

Might be more broadly applicable to PAM and acoustic behavior?

#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics

arxiv cs.CV @arxiv-cs-cv.bsky.social · Feb 10

Kai Van Brunt, Justin Kay, Timm Haucke, Pietro Perona, Grant Van Horn, Sara Beery
Counting Fish with Temporal Representations of Sonar Video
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05129

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · Feb 6

We have two openings for stipended ugrad fellows at the Conservation Technology Lab at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.

One is in CV/ML for field camera systems:

us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

Second is in field device design (image or sound):

us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

Job opportunity at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance - Conservation Science Summer Fellow - Population Sustainability, Machine Learning - San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

us242.dayforcehcm.com

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Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social · Jan 22

Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... In our new paper we review 130 papers and summarise empirical evidence for socioecological factors affecting vocal communication, as well as evidence for vocal learning in different corvid species.

Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review

Vocal communication is broadly distributed in a wide range of nonhuman animal species and is hypothesized to play an important role in mate attraction…

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · Jan 26

When the earth is no longer a suitable home, the earthworms will transmogrify into beings better aligned with an increasingly plastic world.

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Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social · Dec 13

This paper is a fantastic resource for researchers doing biodiversity monitoring, especially occupancy modeling. Check it out!

Congrats & thanks to @ben-r-goldstein.bsky.social, @kendallcalhoun.bsky.social, @drpheebs.bsky.social, and other authors :)

Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · Dec 11

How do ecologists estimate occupancy in practice? https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.07402 #SDM

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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · Dec 4

I started to put together a starter pack for research in AI+Ecology, check it out and let me know if you would like to be added!

go.bsky.app/8zugFF6

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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · Dec 6

🎯 How can we empower scientific discovery in millions of nature photos?

Introducing INQUIRE: A benchmark testing if AI vision-language models can help scientists find biodiversity patterns- from disease symptoms to rare behaviors- hidden in vast image collections.

Thread👇🧵

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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · Dec 1

Looks like a cool #bioacoustics gig

Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · Nov 24

The Conservation Technology Lab at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance has an opening for a postdoc from computer science or a related field with strong experience in machine learning to work on bioacoustics projects in ecology and conservation:

us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

Job opportunity at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance - Post Doctoral Associate - San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

us242.dayforcehcm.com

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Kitzes Lab @kitzeslab.bsky.social · Dec 2

If you're looking for bioacoustics tips and help, check out the #Bioacoustics Resource Page (run by Sam Lapp and the Kitzes Lab) - bit.ly/bioacoustics-resource-page

It has links to tons of tutorials, datasets, software, forums, #AudioMoth info, and more

Bioacoustics Resource Page

Bioacoustics Resources A list curated by the Kitzes Lab hint: bookmark this page :) Educational Materials Workshops by the Kitzes Lab Lecture series from Computer Vision for Ecology workshop Class...

docs.google.com

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · Dec 3

The link has been re-activated!

Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · Dec 2

Hey folks! The link to apply at this posting is inactive as of today but the search is still active. In the meantime, please reach out to me if you are qualified and interested in the position.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · Dec 2

Thanks, Kyle! The link to apply on this posting went inactive today but the search is still active. While we work on fixing the link, please contact me if you are interested in the position.

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Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social · Nov 30

Searching for #bioacoustics tools to classify species, organize data, triangulate sounds, ...? 🦉🐋🦇🦗

Check out the (newly updated) Bioacoustics Software Database! rhine3.github.io/bioacoustics...

Bioacoustics Software Database

rhine3.github.io

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · Dec 1

A wee woodland robot called Lizardless Legs competes for territory with local lizards.

The robot’s body is reduced to the bare minimum necessary to execute the territorial push-up gesture the lizards use to claim their diminutive domains and to fight their bloodless ceremonial bobbing battles.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · Nov 28

It looks like it is going to dance.

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Ian Ingram @ianingram.bsky.social · Nov 28

I wrote it in 2017. It was for this exhibition in 2018: www.e-flux.com/announcement...

MANIFESTO: A Moderate Proposal - e-flux Education

MANIFESTO: A Moderate Proposal // January 20–March 30, 2018

www.e-flux.com

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