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Sara Beery

@sarameghanbeery.bsky.social
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Research on AI and biodiversity 🌍 Asst Prof at MIT CSAIL, AI for Conservation slack and CV4Ecology founder #QueerInAI 🏳️‍🌈

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Pier @pierl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
@thegoodailab.org and @msf.org are launching the first edition of #CV4GOOD 🌱 at #ECCV2026, @eccv.bsky.social. Speaking: Yann Rebois (MSF) Lorenz Wendt (Univ. of Salzburg) Jamon Van Den Hoek (Oregon State) Corey Scher (Oregon State) @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social (MIT) Joseph Redmon (Ai2, OlmoEarth)
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Azade Farshad @azadef.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Want to know more about retrieval models in ecology? Join us at Malmömassan C1 for the second talk at MELEX #ECCV2026 Workshop by Prof. @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social @eccv.bsky.social @bazilas.bsky.social @lanalpa.bsky.social
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#CVBirdWalk strikes again at #ECCV26! We will meet at Pildammsparken on Friday, September 11th at 7am to find birds in Malmo's biggest urban park! Meeting point is near the Triangeln metro stop: maps.app.goo.gl/WvSnMtNyFokU... No birding experience necessary!!
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
RECRUITING 3 Senior Research Associates to develop responsible AI-enabled approaches to unlock animal behaviour for conservation. Roles include: 🧠 AI/Computer Vision 🐠 Behavioural Ecology 🌊 Marine Field Ecology Join @lec-reefs.bsky.social & @dsailu.bsky.social, Lancaster Uni, UK. Ads coming soon!
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Nico Lang @nicolang.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The key is to find the right proxy tasks and regularization so that the representations can be optimized at test time without using any golden labels. Thanks so much to Miriam Cha, @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social and the whole organizing team for the invitation to present our work. [3/n]
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MONTI 2026
About MONTI at CVPR 2026
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I'm looking forward to exploring the future of American science at Revolutions in Science tomorrow, hosted by @nasonline.org and the Smithsonian Institution as the US marks its 250th anniversary. Register to watch the livestream: events.nationalacademies.org/revolutions-...
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I'm excited to be at the World Biodiversity Forum in Davos this week! If you're here, there are three presentations today (6/15) from members of my group! Read more 👇
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Mongabay Latam @mongabaylatam.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
La investigadora Sara Beery, profesora del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT), conversó con Mongabay Latam sobre el potencial y los desafíos del uso de la inteligencia artificial para proteger la biodiversidad. es.mongabay.com/2026/06/desi...
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“Existen desigualdades en cuanto al acceso a la IA para la conservación” | ENTREVISTA
Sara Beery, profesora del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT), conversó con Mongabay Latam sobre los desafíos de la inteligencia artificial (IA) para la conservación.
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
There is a little less than a week left to apply for the 5th CV4Ecology Short Course!! This program is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for ecologists to DIRECTLY build robust, applied AI expertise that is immediately usable and useful in their own research, for their own projects, on their own data.
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CV4Ecology Workshop
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
My students and collaborators are presenting posters at the #CVPR26 #CV4Animals workshop today from 11:30-12:30! Antoine Salaun is presenting interactive Elephant Re-Identification 🐘 Mridul Khurana is presenting taxonomic-aligned image generation of fine-grained species 🐦⬛ (More 👇)
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Happening tomorrow morning!!! Come outside, see birds, and talk to cool researchers 🤩🤩🤩
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Coming to #CVPR?? Like birds?? Like touching grass?? Join us for the #CVBirdWalk!! No birding experience required :) Meet us bright and early at 7am on June 5th at Commons Park, here: goo.gl/maps/aa3auUM... Or walk over with us from the conference center at 6:30!
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
If you're interested in applying for the CV4Ecology school this year but have questions regarding the program or application join us tomorrow, 5/27, for an Infosession at 11am ET (5pm CEST) Register here: tinyurl.com/4xbjyhv6 Recording shared to all registered attendees
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CV4Ecology 2027 Info Session. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CV4Ecology 2027 Info Session. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Oisin Mac Aodha @oisinmacaodha.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🎓 Announcing the 1st Bath Summer School in Machine Learning 📅 5–7 August 2026 | 📍 University of Bath Topics: ODEs/SDEs, Bayesian methods, Self-Supervised Learning, World Models Open to PhDs, postdocs & staff at EU/UK universities www.bathmlsummerschool.org
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
We are VERY excited to announce the call for applications has just been released for the 5th CV4Ecology Short Course!! This two-and-a-half-week intensive program trains ecologists and conservation practitioners to develop their own AI tools for their own data. Tell your friends! Apply now!
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Call for Applications
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Eric R. Snyder @soundsnyder.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I had the privilege of attending CV4Ecology as a student in January, and it was an incredible experience! I highly recommend applying to be an instructor. It's a great opportunity to have meet awesome people and have a big, positive impact on ecological researchers.
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Applications are still open until April 5th! Come join an amazing group of passionate, interdisciplinary researchers at the intersection of CV and Ecology as we teach the next generation of ecologists to develop their own AI-enabled approaches to scale their ecological research!
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FathomNet @fathomnet.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Tag someone who should join the FathomNetCLEF data challenge! 🤖🌊🐙 @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social @jbhaurum.bsky.social @oisinmacaodha.bsky.social @nicolang.bsky.social @fgvcworkshop.bsky.social @mbarinews.bsky.social @kaggle.com #CVPR #LifeCLEF #Kaggle #CV4Ecology #ComputerVision #MachineLearning
Promotional poster. On the right, an image of squids swimming in the ocean. On the left text: CVPR-FGVC 13 Workshop call for participation. FathomNet26 Positive-Unlabeled Object Detection in Marine Images. End of competition May 7.
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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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MIT OpenCourseWare @mitocw.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
All you ever wanted to know about deep learning but were afraid to ask. Check out this great course by MIT EECS about deep learning for free on OpenCourseWare! Lecture videos included. bit.ly/4rZKl3Z (Illustration by Open Clip Art on Unsplash) @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social @phillipisola.bsky.social
A complex network of interconnected black lines forms an abstract representation of a brain on a white background.
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Looking forward to this!!!
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FathomNet @fathomnet.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Are you ready for a challenge? For this year’s FathomNet Kaggle Competition, we’re tackling one of the biggest challenges in computer vision for marine imagery: incomplete labels. Dive in today: www.kaggle.com/competitions... 🤖🌊🧪🐙
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FathomNetCLEF2026 @ LifeCLEF & CVPR-FGVC
Positive-Unlabeled Object Detection in Marine Images
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Arky @arky.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
🗓️ AI for Conservation Lunch! 🐻🦊🌳🤖🌿 Join us at ICTC 2026 for an informal chat about using AI for good in conservation. 🤝 📍 Clemete Revilla Park / Dark Monument 🕒 Feb 19 @ 12:30pm ➡️ Meet us there! #AIforConservation #ConservationTech #ICTC2026 @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social
AI for Conservation Lunch during ICTC 2026. Join us for an informal lunch during ICTC and chat with fellow AI for conservation members. We'll meet at Clemete revilla park dark monument at around 19 feb 12:30pm
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The graduate-level course I co-teach on deep learning each fall at @mit.edu is now publicly and freely available for anyone through MIT's OpenCourseWare!
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Phillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Our grad-level "Deep Learning" course (MIT's 6.7960) is now freely available online through OpenCourseWare: ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-79... Lecture videos, psets, and readings are all provided. Had a lot of fun teaching this with @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social and @jeremybernste.in!
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Hey #AIforConservation folks! If you're heading to the @wildlabs.bsky.social International Conference Technology Conference next week, join us for an informal lunch meetup on Thursday 2/19 at 12:30! We will grab lunch near the conference center and meet up in Clemente Revilla Park!!
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Mujeres con ciencia @mujeresconciencia.com · 08/02/2026
Cómo la IA saca a la luz conocimientos científicos ocultos Una conferencia de @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social , Dra. en Ciencias de la Computación y Matemáticas 
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Cómo la IA saca a la luz conocimientos científicos ocultos - Mujeres con ciencia
IA. Conocimientos científicos ocultos. Sara Beery. Monitoreo ambiental. Visión artificial. Diversidad de la vida en la Tierra.
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FGVC Workshop @fgvcworkshop.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
FGVC's not dead! The 13th Workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization has been accepted to CVPR 2026, in Denver, Colorado! CALL FOR PAPERS: sites.google.com/view/fgvc13/ From Ecology to Medical Imagining, join us as we tackle the long tail and the limits of visual discrimination! #CVPR2026 #AI
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Oisin Mac Aodha @oisinmacaodha.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
We have two open PhD positions at the interface of AI and ecology. Start dates are Sept 2026. We are looking for candidates with a background in AI/CS, Math, Stats, or Physics that are passionate about solving challenging problems in these domains.  Application deadline is in two weeks.
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Laura Weihl @lauraweihl.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
inspiring 🤩
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Andy Tseng @andytseng.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Highly recommend - great discussion by @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social on how AI is transforming #ConservationScience. #MIT #NPR #TEDRadioHour #AI #ResearchSky
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
After giving my TED Talk, I was invited to speak to the amazing Manoush Zomorodi on NPR's TED Radio Hour about how AI is transforming conservation science. As a lifetime @npr.org listener this was such a bucket list thing for me! I had a blast! Link to listen: www.npr.org/2025/11/28/n...
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How AI is transforming conservation science
A new AI tool called Inquire is trained on millions of wildlife photos from citizen scientists worldwide. Researcher Sara Beery hopes it will supercharge ecosystem conservation.
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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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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Cool TEDtalk by @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social outlining how we can harness existing data to transform our ecological understanding www.ted.com/talks/sara_b...
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How AI is unearthing hidden scientific knowledge
Scientists estimate that 80 percent of life on Earth is still unknown to humanity. But as global temperatures rise, habitats shrink and food and water sources dry up, we're losing these species faster...
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Ed Miller @bluevalhalla.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Here's a great TED talk by @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social about biodiversity data and how we can harness it!
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Olof Mogren @mogren.ml · 26/11/2025
Great TED talk by @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social about scientific discovery in ecological databases! Full talk: go.ted.com/sarabeery
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How AI is unearthing hidden scientific knowledge
Scientists estimate that 80 percent of life on Earth is still unknown to humanity. But as global temperatures rise, habitats shrink and food and water sources dry up, we're losing these species faster...
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Nico Lang @nicolang.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Inspiring TED talk by Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social 🤩
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Oisin Mac Aodha @oisinmacaodha.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
There is more info in our new preprint: INQUIRE-Search: A Framework for Interactive Discovery in Large-Scale Biodiversity Databases arxiv.org/abs/2511.15656
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Oisin Mac Aodha @oisinmacaodha.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Check out this fantastic TED talk from Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social In it, she talks about how computer vision techniques can assist with extracting a wealth of information and insights from large image collections that depict the natural world.
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
How do we do more with biodiversity data we've already collected? I gave a TED Talk on scientific discovery in ecological databases at a joint TED Countdown and Bezos Earth Fund event for #NYClimateWeek this year, and it's now live! @inaturalist.bsky.social #AIforConservation
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Neehar Kondapaneni @therealpaneni.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Excited to share our paper Representational Difference Explanations (RDX) was accepted to #NeurIPS2025! 🎉RDX is a new method for model diffing designed to isolate 🔍 representational differences. 1/7
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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 11/11/2025
Prof. @tokehoye.bsky.social (Aarhus University) and I have an open PhD position (jointly advised) on biodiversity monitoring with camera trap networks. Deadline: 15-Jan-2026 Please help us share this post among students you know with an interest in Machine Learning and Biodiversity! 🤖🪲🌱
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
COME WORK WITH ME!!! Very exciting open faculty position at MIT, with ecosystem and biodiversity modeling as a focus! cee.mit.edu/people/share...
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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 22/10/2025
Thank you @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social for the invitation to speak on the panel at the #CV4Ecology Workshop at @iccv.bsky.social, alongside Ryan Perroy, Joost Daniels, Justin @kitzeslab.bsky.social, and — Zooming in from the #LivingData conference in Bogotá — Tanya Berger-Wolf (1/3)
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
For the folks heading to the bird walk, rain is clearing! We will wait a few minutes at our starting point for any stragglers who were avoiding the downpour earlier 😅
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The Computer Vision for Ecology Workshop at @iccv.bsky.social is starting soon!! All day in 323B, see you there!!
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I’m at #ICCV2025 this week!! 10/19: Giving a talk this morning (8:45am) at the Instance-Level Representation and Generation Workshop in 306 A At the Marine Vision (318B) and Earth Observation (307A) workshops throughout the day Attending the Women in Computer Vision mentorship dinner
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Evangelos Kazakos @ekazakos.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I’m definitely going! #iccv2025
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Are you coming to @iccv.bsky.social?? Do you like BIRDS?!?! The #CVBirdWalk is happening!!! Oct. 21, 7am, Ala Moana Park. Kick off your conference right!! #ICCV2025 #AIforConservation
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Andy Tseng @andytseng.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
CODA is a smart way to pick the best AI model. It uses the models' own feedback to find the most important data to check, reducing the annotation work by 70%. Brilliant and efficient! #MLSky #ResearchSky
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