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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies

@bedeffinian.bsky.social
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Post Doctoral Researcher 🇫🇷 Using Novel and Traditional Observational and Analysis Tools 🛰️ 🎣 to assess Anthropogenic Impacts on Marine Environments 🐠 Surfing, stats and cycling. He/him www.BedeFfinianRoweDavies.com

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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This work showed patterns of heatshock causing discolouration that can be identified by multispectral sensors (Sentinel-2) and used this to show shock then recovery of a known seagrass bed in Quiberon France before during and after a Heatwave. Check out the full paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
When intertidal Seagrass experiences heat shock, it can cause discolouration to the leaves. We often use colour of vegetation to assess percentage cover of leaves from optical remote sensing, so understanding heatwave effects to colouration is highly important for our estimates of seagrass cover!
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🚨🚨 New Intertidal Seagrass Paper Alert🚨 🚨 This time led by Simon Oiry who utilised a compination of laboratory 👨🏻‍🔬 and satelitte 🛰️ experiments to assess the effects of Heatwaves on the optical properties of Seagrass and developed the novel (and widely applicable) Seagrass Heat Shock Index!
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
It’s happeninggggg! ☺️☺️☺️ My go to for stats learning, refreshing and rethinking! m.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbY... get ready for lots of memes and hopefully owls being drawn @rmcelreath.bsky.social github.com/rmcelreath/s...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
"You can agree or disagree with him, but Polanski does not pretend to be something he is not. He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions. Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes." observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Zack Polanski: ‘People will have to find some other way to hurt me’ | The Observer
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I cannot agree more!
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
That makes sense, in academia it is the same struggle of balance! Just with less nature for my liking! But maybe that is just the grass always being greener
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Oh wow yes, i can only imagine! I come from the other extreme of perhaps (if i am lucky from my point of view) 50 days of fieldwork a year! (But that doesnt include data processing/analysis/repotrting!)
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
60% in the field?!?! Damn, that is the dream!!!
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Eddy Cannella @eddyc.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
After a few decades as an ecologist, with >60% (~20yrs) spent in the field undertaking terrestrial vert fauna surveys, my biggest take-aways inc: 1. You don't know everything, 2.You will forever keep learning, 3. Indigenous cultural knowledge = landscape ecology = awareness, 4 awareness = knowledge.
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This is an education problem, not a tool problem; and we don't want people simply moving from thinking p-values are magic to thinking confidence intervals are.
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Bioboost+ @bioboostplus.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Testing a YOLO-based computer vision model to ID 13 benthic species from underwater images. It boosts automated species recognition, aiding large-scale biodiversity monitoring & better marine conservation. @azti.bsky.social #AI4Oceans #BenthicEcology #MarineScience #BioBoost+
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.rs... User-Friendly Application: s2maxextenticecreams.projects.earthengine.app/view/europea... ICE CREAMS: github.com/bedeffinian/...
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
We also found some general latitudinal patterns in intertidal seagrass, with the proportion of the intertidal area covered by seagrass increasing as you go south, and not only that, the cover/density of that seagrass tends to increase the further south you go.
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
From this total area we found hotspots of intertidal seagrass across the whole of Europe, with three notable hotspots coming out as the biggest in the North Frisian Wadden Sea (Germany), Arcachon Bay (France) and Ria Formosa (Portugal).
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Then using a cloud-computing approach we classified the over 15,100 km ² of intertidal area in Europe, finding an area larger than both Paris and Lisbon combined appeared to be seagrass at over 50 % cover (212 +/- 18.8 km ²)
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
By updating the ICE CREAMS model, we improved its accuracy from 82 % in previous work to 91 % by decreased its’ false positive rate on over 60,000 independent and openly accessible validation data.
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
5) lead a Call-to-Action for the availability of data following the FAIR principles to improve future iterations of this European scale map. Through this work we feel we successfully achieved all of the first four aims and hope that this paper will achieve the fifth: a Call-to-Action!
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
2) use ICE CREAMS to create a contemporary map of Intertidal Seagrass for Europe 3) provide a robust and scalable methodology to allow others to map intertidal seagrass at large scales 4) provide an open-access and hopefully easy to use tool to view this map
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
We had 5 main aims: 1) improve and fine tune the open access model Intertidal Classification of Europe: Categorising Reflectance of Emerged Areas of Marine vegetation with Sentinel-2 (ICE CREAMS 🍨)
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
We aimed to do this by using products or data that were openly available and consistent across Europe from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery, the Google Earth Engine cloud-computing used to sort this imagery, the ICE CREAMS model used to classify the imagery even down to the outputs themselves.
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
We have managed to create *An Intitial Map of European Intertidal Seagrass*. This is, to our knowledge, the first ever attempt to map Intertidal Seagrass at the scale of Europe (or any continental scale for that matter)! s2maxextenticecreams.projects.earthengine.app/view/europea...
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🚨🚨🚨 New Open-Access Paper, Dataset, Application and Call-to-Action 🚨🚨🚨This one is for the fans of Intertidal Seagrass 🌱🌊 and Findable, Accessible, Interpretable and Reusable (FAIR) data. 🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
probably my most deeply-held belief: it is not possible for a slide deck to be both (1) a good presentation aide; and (2) a standalone document that can be read and understood in isolation.
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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
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Jonathan Bamber @jlbamber.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Hey you wonderful EO scientists. Why not nominate your amazing colleague or team or nominate yourself for the next ESA EO excellence award. Nominations have just opened and close 10th Dec. Research cash prize for lucky winners: www.eoxcellence.com
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Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
A few more days to apply!!!
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Jarno Vanhatalo @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher in statistics to develop methods for analyzing large scale biodiversity and ecosystem function data at the University of Helsinki. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to do advanced Bayesian modeling with direct link to real world applications.
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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Not one needs context for this
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
A brief glance at the github seems exactly the style of multivariate analysis that needs to become common place! 👏🏻 will try incorporate into my own teaching if i can, and fingers crossed for continuity!
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Bert van der Veen @vdveenb.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Two weeks ago I organised the first Summer school in Model-based Multivariate analysis for community ecologists. We spent a week in Hjerkinn (NO), teaching 26 international participants about model-based multivariate analysis. Together with Jenni Niku, Pekka Korhonen, Francis Hui and Audun Rugstad.
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Check out Simon Oiry’s new paper! We used a combination of satelite and drone optical data alongside high resolution LiDAR to assess the cover of an invasive macroalgae in an estuary in France. Not only that, we looked into historical imagery too www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Mapping the distribution of the alien invasive Gracilaria vermiculophylla at the site of its first European introduction
The invasive red macroalga Gracilaria vermiculophylla has significantly impacted intertidal ecosystems in temperate estuaries globally. This study uti…
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Have spent an amazing time these last few weeks as Benthic Taxonomist on the RV Tarajoq as part of their annual surveys of the Greenlandic 🇬🇱 Shrimp and Cod! It is always such a privilege and always reminds me how much I love being at sea
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I am no longer chairing defenses or joining committees where students use generative AI for their writing statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/18/i...
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I am no longer chairing defenses or joining committees where students use generative AI for their writing | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
It just happened again, as it happens multiple times each year: Someone's student asked me to look at their model output, I asked why they chose those variables, they say "these variables might influence outcome". This is a failure of training in biology, not student's fault. Committee is no better!
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Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
🦑🌊🧪 Please share among your networks, a Research Fellow post in #Ocean Dynamics and Floating Offshore #Wind Consequences on Key Ecosystem Drivers in the Celtic Sea working with me, @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social & @peterimiller.bsky.social tinyurl.com/44x66b5z #PlanktonImaging #RemoteSensing #AUVs
Advert for Research Fellow post including remote and AUV-based sensing of ocean dynamics to understand impacts of floating offshore wind on fronts and other key ecosystem drivers. It shows an AUV and underwater plankton imaging and other sensors.
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 18/05/2025
this one hits different with american academia in 2025 :/
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BioEcoOcean @bioecoocean.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🌍📡 Workshop: Advancing Remote Sensing for Macroalgae & Seagrass Ecosystems - From Sentinel-2 Data to Global Impact 🗓️ April 17 | 13:00–15:00 CEST Organized by #AirCentre under the #BioEcoOcean project. Join experts exploring the future of #RemoteSensing! 🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Workshop on Advancing Remote Sensing for Macroalgae and Seagrass Ecosystems: From Sentinel-2 Data to Global Impact. After registering, you will receive a c...
April,17th, 2025 13:00-15:00 CEST This workshop, organized under the EU Horizon-funded project BioEcoOcean (https://bioecoocean.org/), will bring together experts and researchers to explore the lates...
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
New paper! Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should. This is the *first* paper in the peer reviewed scientific literature to explain how Bluesky works and how to use it for #SciComm 🧪🦑🐠 academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...
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Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should
ABSTRACT. Social media tools have revolutionized how people communicate with one another. A 2018 paper in Fisheries summarized the use of Twitter, Facebook
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Rude of you to want to know exactly where a map is in relation to things and/or stuff
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Dorota Kolbuk @dotklobuk.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Are you a marine ecologist specializing in MPAs or marine policy + looking for a #postdoc? Well, look no further: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/323875 #jobfairy #mpalife #marineecology #marinebiodiversity
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UCD Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Applications are invited for a temporary post of a UCD Post-doctoral Research Fellow Level 1 - Marine ecology to underpin designation of Marine Protected Areaswithin UCD School of Biology and Environm...
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I recently was at the #Biospace25 conference at @esa.int in Frascatti, Italy where i presented my work about mapping Intertidal Seagrass across the whole of Europe! But don’t worry if you missed it, you can watch the talk here (at around 1:56:00): m.youtube.com/watch?v=naCR...
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BioSpace25 Day 3 Magellan
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Counting Walruses from space? #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int using commercially available Very High resolution satellite data with citizen science and validation with in situ drone data
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Genetics from space?? #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int Genetics, of course, not possible to be sampled from Satellite observations 🛰️ but habitats can be defined and mapped
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Now moving into the open ocean for modelling but considering local structure #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int work from the same lab (MARBEC @umontpellier.bsky.social) using image Convulutional neural networks to model fish 🐟 distributions
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Now we move onto Habitat Suitability and Species Distribution Modelling #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int here work at MARBEC lab using Neural Network transfer learning to predict abundance of Fish Species
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
How depressing: 250 companies causing 73% of Ecosystem Damage globally #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int
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Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies @bedeffinian.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Todays keynotes discussing Earth Observation for sustainability #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int Nature Positive and Economics of Conservation
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Rachel Neugarten @rachelneugarten.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
OPEN DATA ALERT World Bank created a Global Biodiversity Species Global Grid database, based on data from GBIF and machine-based pattern recognition to generate species occurrence maps 🧪🌍https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/a-new-world-bank-database-to-support-a-new-era-in-biodiversity-c
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A new World Bank database to support a new era in biodiversity conservation
The World Bank's new biodiversity database includes over 600,000 species, providing critical, high-resolution data to enhance conservation strategies and support global initiatives like the 30x30 fram...
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