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Climate Change AI @climatechangeai.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Register for the Climate Change AI Virtual Summer School 2026 starting July 19! The program will feature an exciting lineup of lectures and tutorials exploring the intersections of artificial intelligence and climate action. 🎉🤖🌱

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Climate Change AI @climatechangeai.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

We're excited to announce our latest rounds of Innovation Grantees! Check out funded projects here: www.climatechange.ai/press_releas... 🌱🌍 Made possible thanks to support by the Quadrature Climate Foundation, Google DeepMind, Global Methane Hub & @futureearth.bsky.social.

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David Rolnick @drolnick.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Going to #NeurIPS2025 San Diego? Escape the conference for a couple hours with a morning bird walk in the trails of Balboa Park. 7 am on Thurs, Dec. 4.

A poster with pictures of birds, and the meeting point - SW corner, Balboa Park: https://maps.app.goo.gl/KRCTQ4ZteqKj3jj66

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Climate Change AI @climatechangeai.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

We're excited to be part of #COP30 in Brazil with @drolnick.bsky.social, @daviddao.org and Maria João Sousa! We will be part of and organizing several events, starting on Nov 10. To learn more, check our website: www.climatechange.ai/events/cop30

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David Rolnick @drolnick.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Congratulations to the amazing Priya Donti for this very well-deserved honor!

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Environmental Data Science @envdatascience.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Recent article! 🌳🌍 Tree semantic segmentation from aerial image time series 👉 doi.org/10.1017/eds.... ✍️ Venkatesh Ramesh @arthurouaknine.bsky.social & @drolnick.bsky.social Research that advances #forest monitoring using #deeplearning on aerial imagery time series.

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David Rolnick @drolnick.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Our remote sensing foundation model Galileo has been accepted to ICML 2025! Galileo outperforms state-of-the-art across different input data modalities and shapes, and using it requires only minimal data and compute. More at: arxiv.org/abs/2502.09356

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David Rolnick @drolnick.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Our paper on detecting abandoned oil wells with machine learning, led by @pratinavseth.bsky.social, is accepted at ICML 2025! These wells are a major source of emissions (and groundwater pollution). More details in the thread, and preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2410.09032

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Alberta Wells Dataset: Pinpointing Oil and Gas Wells from Satellite Imagery

Millions of abandoned oil and gas wells are scattered across the world, leaching methane into the atmosphere and toxic compounds into the groundwater. Many of these locations are unknown, preventing t...

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Mila - Institut québécois d'IA @mila-quebec.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Mila members David Rolnick, Yuyan Chen and Mélisande Teng have arrived in Panama to test an algorithm to discover new species. Among a team of entomologists and computer scientists, they have installed camera traps to automatically monitor biodiversity. Stay tuned to learn more about their journey!

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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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David Rolnick @drolnick.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

We have a new internship opportunity in multimodal machine learning for forest monitoring using 3D point clouds. More details here: community.climatechange.ai/c/internship...

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Internship at Mila in machine learning on 3D point clouds for forest monitoring | Climate Change AI

See attachment for details!

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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

To assist in that upskilling, and to foster a community in which those impacted can help each other build AI skills, the CV4Ecology program is organizing a two-week remote workshop in May of 2025 that will teach AI methods to former US public sector conservation scientists.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I'm organizing a "Data for Good Rapid Response Team", i.e. a set of people who can be mobilized to work on short data science projects to help various groups and organizations. Sign up here if this is of interest to you, and please share with others with data science skills.

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Data-for-good rapid response team

I'm collecting people with data science skills who may want to hear about sporadic opportunities to use their skills for good on short projects. Project themes will center on topics I am connected wit...

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McGill University @mcgill.ca · 12/03/2025

AI could revolutionize biodiversity conservation 🌱 A team of McGill researchers found untapped potential to accelerate species discovery, track ecosystems & help meet global conservation targets. Read more: mcgill.ca/x/iwo

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Mila - Institut québécois d'IA @mila-quebec.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

A new study from McGill University researchers, including Mila members Laura J. Pollock and @drolnick.bsky.social, shows that AI can accelerate species discovery, improve ecosystem tracking and help meet global conservation targets.

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Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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David Rolnick @drolnick.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Announcing our new paper (led by @ArthurOuaknine) compiling data on AI for forests, a fast-growing area important for land management, biodiversity preservation, and nature-based climate solutions. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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David Rolnick @drolnick.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I'm honored to have been selected as one of this year's Sloan Research Fellows. Thank you to the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social and to all the incredible students, engineers, citizen scientists, and other collaborators that make our research possible!

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David Rolnick @drolnick.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Curious about what this picture has to do with current AI trends? Check out my talk at AI, Science, and Society (Paris AI Action Summit). www.youtube.com/live/6HDjVnc...

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David Rolnick @drolnick.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Looking forward to speaking this Tuesday at the Sustainable AI Forum as part of the Paris AI Action Summit. Livestream available here (in English): www.youtube.com/live/1e3hojU...

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Forum dédié à l’IA durable, à l’Hôtel de Roquelaure

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David Rolnick @drolnick.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Internship in our group at Mila in reinforcement learning + graphs for reducing energy use in buildings. More info and submit an application by Jan 13 here: forms.gle/TCChXnvSAHqz... Questions? Email donna.vakalis@mila.quebec with [intern!] in the subject line.

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Climate Change AI @climatechangeai.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

We're excited to announce the next edition of our workshop "Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning" at #ICLR2025 in Singapore! ▶️ Mentorship program deadline: Dec 27, 2024 ▶️ Paper submission deadline: Jan 31, 2025 Learn more & submit: climatechange.ai/events/iclr2...

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David Rolnick @drolnick.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

The Climate Change AI workshop at NeurIPS tomorrow will be livestreamed for free, even if you weren't able to register for NeurIPS (which was oversubscribed this year)!

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David Rolnick @drolnick.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I'm honored to be included in this year's list of AI2050 Fellows! Looking forward to engaging with this great cohort of researchers on AI for the benefit of humanity. www.schmidtsciences.org/schmidt-scie...

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Schmidt Sciences to Award $12 Million to Advance Research on Beneficial AI

AI2050 fellowships recognize scholars working to create AI for a better world

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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

New paper! We've just published a manuscript covering technical details of the AI models behind Wildlife Insights, with systematic analysis at scale of cropping vs not cropping in #CameraTrap image classifiers 🫎🦌🦒🦘🪿🫏🐘🐫🦬🦛🐿️ ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1049/...

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To crop or not to crop: Comparing whole‐image and cropped classification on a large dataset of camera trap images

In this work, the authors assess the hypothesis that classifying animals cropped from camera trap images using a species-agnostic detector yields better accuracy than classifying whole images. We fin....

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David Rolnick @drolnick.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

ICLR reviewer: Thanks, you've addressed all my concerns and the paper's great! Same ICLR reviewer: I'm still going to keep my score at Borderline Accept.

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David Rolnick @drolnick.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Thanks to Découverte / Radio-Canada for featuring our work on AI for insects, with the Montreal Insectarium and Automated Monitoring of Insects consortium! ici.radio-canada.ca/tele/decouve...

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Un algorithme au secours des insectes | Découverte

Les populations d'insectes s'effondrent à un rythme sans précédent, et il manque de scientifiques pour documenter ce déclin.

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David Rolnick @drolnick.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

We are looking for new PhD / MSc students! Machine learning innovations for tackling climate change - e.g. remote sensing, climate informatics, materials discovery, & biodiversity monitoring. Apply by submitting applications to *both* Mila Quebec AI Institute (by Dec 1) & McGill University (Dec 15)

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