Wouter Koch

Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

How do we do more with biodiversity data we've already collected?

I gave a TED Talk on scientific discovery in ecological databases at a joint TED Countdown and Bezos Earth Fund event for #NYClimateWeek this year, and it's now live!

@inaturalist.bsky.social #AIforConservation

Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.

“Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.” www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

🟠 We need you!!

I keep seeing these @ourworldindata.org posts with weird, convoluted visualizations or phrasing.

Researcher: "Please tell me whether you think homosexuality can always be justified, never be justified, or something in between."
Interviewed: "4"

I assume I know what they mean, but wtf.

Important message, but it took me a while to understand the chart. It clicked when I finally realized that this should never have been a pie chart. The point is basically "2% of something is not a lot", but we're not talking about some total being divided between two groups.

Even uw aandacht graag! Korte berichtgeving: Ondergenoemde Is niet meer in beeld- Wat hier (behalve voor Onbelangstellenden) Hartelijk groetend Wordt medegedeeld Drs. P H.H. Polzer Thun 24 augustus 1919 - Amterdam 13 juni 2015 echgenoot van Mieke Polzer-Burgers

Heimwee naar Drs. P.

Call for nominations opens for 2025 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award Deadline for GBIF member countries to nominate graduate students whose innovative research relies on biodiversity data: **27 June 2025**

Deadline verzet! 🚨

Ben jij een PhD-kandidaat of masterstudent en werk je aan biodiversiteitsgegevens?

Dan kom je in aanmerking voor de Graduate Researchers Award t.w.v. €5000! 🏆

Stuur je inzending voor 25 juni 2025 naar @nielsraes.bsky.social via nlbif@naturalis.nl. 📧

Voorwaarden GBIF.org

#computer vision #ai #insect #pollinators #vectors A wonderful MC and WG meeting with the InsectAIers at a beautiful venue in Albania. Demonstrations of newly developed camera traps for pollinators but also vectors. Fruitful discussions and new ideas! Many thanks to our host Anila Paparisto!

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

"Those who know me well know I was eventually going to build a giant curlew"

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Time for a "hello, world"! Follow me for irregular toots on biology+technology. Long live the true fediverse.