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Gail Kampmeier

@gkamp.bsky.social
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entomology, biodiversity informatics, aphids, plant virus epidemiology, photography, language, podcasts, reading, DEI, she/her

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Gail Kampmeier @gkamp.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🧪 www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/06/not-... #climate #AI "“Ask for short answers (‘one word only,’ ‘bullet list,’ or ‘keep it under two sentences’) to reduce unnecessary response tokens, especially in reasoning mode,” Dauner suggests.
anthropocenemagazine.org
Not all AI prompts are equal. Some emit 50x more carbon than others. Here's why.
When researchers delved into the tradeoff between AI sustainability and accuracy, they uncovered strategies for greener chatbots.
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Gail Kampmeier @gkamp.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
#Biodiversity #informatics has long ignored #agricultural biodiversity but this new paper doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... makes use of metabarcoding tools to crack this door open 🧪. #agroecosystems are #ecosystems! @bdj.pensoft.net @tdwg.org
doi.org
Metabarcoding arthropods in agroecosystems in Southern Ontario, Canada
Metabarcoding can generate large numbers of georeferenced occurrence data from bulk samples at low cost. Its integration into the practice of agricultural invertebrate biomonitoring currently lacks bo...
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Gail Kampmeier @gkamp.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Did you know that @tdwg.org is on BlueSky? Calling all creators, managers, and users of bio- and geodiversity information to join us as we work to create and promote #standards for sharing and using knowledge about the world's #biodiversity and #geodiversity. Find out about #LivingData2025
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Gail Kampmeier @gkamp.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This is a challenge for creation and use of @tdwg.org biodiversity data standards as well as the entire community, not only for primary biodiversity data uses shown below, but decision-making in #conservationpolicy. Sounds like a possible #livingdata2025 session topic 👀
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Gail Kampmeier @gkamp.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I see insect wings in the news and immediately think of the bioinspired research on cicadas of the @cotesia.bsky.social lab. Sure enough www.science.org/content/arti... Exciting possibilities and congrats to Yutao Chen on reporting the research. #Science #bioinspiration #cicadas
science.org
Microscopic pillars on insect wings give bugs an antibacterial superpower
New insights into how these “nanopillars” work could inspire better ways to protect humans from infection
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Gail Kampmeier @gkamp.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
📣Call for session proposals - #LivingData2025 🐦 Living Data 2025 is a one-of-a-kind conference jointly organized by GBIF, @TDWG, @OBIS and @GEOBON and hosted by the Instituto Humboldt from 21 to -24 October in Bogotá, #Colombia. 🔗https://www.livingdata2025.com/calls.html
Call for Organized Sessions [banner; invitation to] Submit a proposal! Visit our website for more information.
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Gail Kampmeier @gkamp.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
😍 the colors, the armor, the spikes!
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Gail Kampmeier @gkamp.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Public review of the Latimer Core has begun & will run through 12 January 2024. www.tdwg.org/news/2023/la... Named for Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, it supports the representation & discovery of natural science collections & groups of objects contained in them. Please join us in this review. #Museums
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