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Cara Appel

@cappel.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher at Univ. of British Columbia. 🦉 Wildlife ecology, computer vision, camera traps. 🐾 Also porcupines. 🍃 Nature nerd, reader. 📚 she/her 🔗 appelc.github.io

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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
We're looking for our next cohort of amazing instructors for #CV4Ecology!! CV4E is an intensive workshop designed to empower ecologists to efficiently process their existing data, design new studies around CV, and scale their research to larger datasets.
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The call for applications has just been released for #CV4Ecology2026!! This three-week intensive program trains ecologists and conservation practitioners to develop their own AI tools for their own data. When: Jan 12-30, 2026 Where: SCBI @smconservation.bsky.social
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WILDLABS Community @wildlabs.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
We're observing #InternationalWomensDay by celebrating the incredible women in #conservationtech and the work WILDLABS is doing to honour this year's theme: #AccelerateAction. 📸: Dany Samwel; MarAlliance; Taty Lopez; Laura Kloepper
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Today! Stand Up For Science - Seattle: 12-3pm, Seattle Center, Mural Amphitheatre. #standupforscience
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Stand Up for Science 2025 - Seattle, WA
Eventbrite - Stand up for Science presents Stand Up for Science 2025 - Seattle, WA - Friday, March 7, 2025 at Mural Amphitheatre at Seattle Center, Seattle, WA. Find event and ticket information.
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David Green, PhD @ecologistgreen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
So much science is being deleted & forgotten. It's time for drastic action. We need a scientific 2-pager because: - Length≄Credibility - Strengthening peer review > Removing it - The academic article is outdated Let’s publish our research before it’s too late. 🧪 #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky
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In a time of Trump, we need to rethink the academic paper
The past few weeks have made one thing painfully clear: science is under attack and the integrity of science itself is on the line.
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Cara Appel @cappel.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
What a way to go out
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Spotted owls are disappearing fast, and federal cuts could mean no one's left to count them
U.S. Forest Service layoffs have upended surveys for spotted owls in Southern and Northern California, threatening data collection for the declining birds.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Seattle folks: Stand Up for Science this Friday!
A flier showing the Statue of Liberty and the following info: Seattle Stand Up for Science. March 7, 2025, Seattle Center, 12-3PM. Science is for everyone. Find your local rally site and other ways to get involved: standupforscience2025.org
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
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48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I am incredibly excited to see our SpeciesNet model released!! This represents years of work by the @wildlifeinsights.bsky.social AI team (and completely impossible without the amazing Ștefan Istrate's AI development and implementation). Github: github.com/google/camer... Blog: bit.ly/4i5cKBs
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GitHub - google/cameratrapai: AI models trained by Google to classify species in images from motion-triggered widlife cameras.
AI models trained by Google to classify species in images from motion-triggered widlife cameras. - google/cameratrapai
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Tim Bean @timothybean.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
PORCUPINES, the official mascot of anybody who wants friends but doesn't know how to make them
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Cara Appel @cappel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
So glad to see these critters getting the attention they deserve! Shoutout to my awesome former advisor for this wonderful interview
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Cara Appel @cappel.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
so devastating for international wildlife conservation projects
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Joshua Twining @joshuaptwining.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I am recruiting two funded graduate students (1 MS, 1 PhD) to join the lab and the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences program at Oregon State University! If you are into population ecology and a combination of fieldwork and modeling - then check this out! Please share/repost widely!
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
📖Published📖 Our new Application paper presents Whombat, a user-friendly, browser-based interface for managing audio recordings and annotation projects, with several visualization, exploration and annotation tools 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇 buff.ly/3DddoNt
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cameratraps @ppalencia.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Realy nice review on how do #ecologists estimate #occupancy in practice It seems that single-species is the most common model family, #mammals the most common group, and unmarked #Rpackage the most common software #cameratrapping @ecography.bsky.social
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🎯 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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