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ESA Early Career Ecologists @esa-earlycareer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

⚠️ SPOTS OPEN for mentees and mentors! ESA Early Career Mentorship Program [Deadline June 12] 🌱 Are you an Early Career Ecologist looking for a mentor? 🌳 Are you an established, mid-career, or senior ecologist looking to be a mentor? For more info and to join, click the link in bio! 🔗

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ESA Early Career Ecologists @esa-earlycareer.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Re: Mentorship Program and Officer Elections! 🌱 Want to be mentored, or give back and be a mentor? 🌱 Want to join the ECE team as Vice Chair or Secretary-Treasurer? Learn more and apply by clicking the link in bio! 🔗 🐥 Mentorship Program - due May 31st 🗳️ Elections - due June 5th

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ESA Early Career Ecologists @esa-earlycareer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

🙇 APPLICATIONS OPEN! We are now accepting applications for our Travel Awards and our Outstanding Paper by an Early Career Ecologist Award. Learn more and apply by clicking the link in bio! 🔗 📝 Outstanding Paper Award - due April 20 ✈️ Travel Award - due 5pm EST, May 1st

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Alyson East @alyeast.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I've been thrilled to engage with this great group to contribute as a coauthor to the Nature Record terrestrial ecosystems chapter. The assessment draft is now open for comment, let us know what you think! Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/c...

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Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently

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Alyson East @alyeast.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Interested in optimizing an existing sampling network? Or regions of reasonable inference of EFRN sites? Check out our new paper in @conbiology.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

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Conservation Biology @conbiology.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

In this article, East et al discuss their comprehensive framework for assessing and optimizing existing research networks. 🍃 Learn more at doi.org/10.1111/cobi... #conservation #science

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Diogo B Proietti @provete.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

What a strong and necessary piece! Mil gracias @darmenteras.bsky.social por hablar por nosotros! Viva a América Latina

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

📖Published📖 Our new review article by East et al. provides the first comprehensive practical framework for optimizing biological specimen imaging for computer vision applications 🦋 🌍 🧪 Find out more here 👇 buff.ly/TjRPrvD

Overview of the considerations for creating biological specimen images suited for computer vision tasks. Topics are grouped into two functional categories by colour: Blue for optimizing image capture and orange for data quality and usability. Ornithoptera aesacus (Ney, 1903) butterfly image adapted from Denver Museum of Nature & Science—Entomology, ZE.131439, under CC BY-NC from DMNS (2024).

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Alyson East @alyeast.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

New paper published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! "Optimizing Image Capture for Computer Vision-Powered Taxonomic Identification and Trait Recognition of Biodiversity Specimens" is now online! A huge shout-out to all co-authors for bringing this vision to life. @imageomics.bsky.social

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Alyson East @alyeast.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Check out our recent publication in the Bulletin

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Alyson East @alyeast.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Thats a wrap. That you all for such a great #ESA2025. I have loved my time at Chair of the @esa-earlycareer.bsky.social section, and am so happy to pass the seat to Cait for 2026 🎉

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Alyson East @alyeast.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Fantastic time this weekend as the @esa-earlycareer.bsky.social representative to the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social governing board meeting. #ESA2025 here we go.

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ESA Early Career Ecologists @esa-earlycareer.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

The ESA Annual Meeting is right around the corner!! Here are some ECE-sponsored events you can find us at. Can't wait to see everyone! 🌱

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Ecological Society of America @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Why attend #ESA2025? @alyeast.bsky.social says "It's where I've found mentorship, made lasting connections ... & felt supported by a community that values both science & collaboration." The early-bird deadline is just a few days away -- register by 6/26 & save! www.esa.org/baltimore202...

A quote by Alyson East, "The ESA Annual Meeting has been an instrumental part of my professional growth. It's where I’ve found mentorship, made lasting connections across career stages and paths, and felt supported by a community that values both science and collaboration."

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arXiv cs.CV Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition @cscv-bot.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

S M Rayeed, Alyson East, Samuel Stevens, Sydne Record, Charles V Stewart: BeetleVerse: A study on taxonomic classification of ground beetles arxiv.org/abs/2504.13393 arxiv.org/pdf/2504.13393 arxiv.org/html/2504.13393

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arxiv cs.CV @arxiv-cs-cv.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Alyson East, Elizabeth G. Campolongo, Luke Meyers, S M Rayeed, Samuel Stevens, Iuliia Zarubiieva, Isadora E. Fluck, ... Optimizing Image Capture for Computer Vision-Powered Taxonomic Identification and Trait Recognition of Biodiversity Specimens arxiv.org/abs/2505.17317

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ESA Early Career Ecologists @esa-earlycareer.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

“I have been able to contribute to the team through leading our Outstanding Paper Award, contributing to the annual meeting with a workshop on how to do an elevator pitch and network, and publish a paper on early career ecologists publishing” -John (Sec-Treas, 2023-2025) (9/10)

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Early‐Career Publishing and Reviewing: Pitfalls and Perspectives

While the publishing landscape has drastically changed in recent decades, publishing productivity metrics (e.g., citation scores) and support for early-career researchers (ECRs) have not kept pace. E....

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Alyson East @alyeast.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Looking forward to Funcapalooza this year at the OSU: applications open until June 23, 2025 imageomics.osu.edu/news/2025/06...

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Bring the Data Funk: FuncaPalooza 2025 Workshop Announced

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