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Enrico Di Minin
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Professor of Conservation Geography @helsinki.fi. Leads @helicslab.bsky.social. Director of Taita Research Station in Kenya. Loves 🦏

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Enrico Di Minin @ediminin.bsky.social Β· Apr 11
πŸ“£ We are recruiting!!

1. Postdoctoral Researcher in Machine Learning for Nature Conservation: lnkd.in/dV-dfwgx 🐸

2. Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Science for Nature Conservation: lnkd.in/dwm35ufd 🦈

3. Doctoral Researcher in Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences: lnkd.in/dfpsfby8 🌴

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Enrico Di Minin @ediminin.bsky.social Β· Feb 17
Thanks for sharing this

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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com Β· Jan 15
Here we go! The first issue of Nature Reviews Biodiversity is now liveπŸ₯³πŸŽ‰πŸ₯‚.
Thank you to our authors, reviewers, and community for the support! We hope you enjoy the reading. www.nature.com/nrbd/volumes...
Two birds of different species looking at each other from different sides of a river

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Enrico Di Minin @ediminin.bsky.social Β· Dec 20
Really grateful to the Global Environmental Facility for funding our project titled 'Revolutionizing Indicators of (Un)sustainable Wildlife Use and Trade by Harnessing Social Media Big Data' and excited at the prospects of working with so many talented partners.

www.thegef.org/newsroom/pre...
GEF announces winners of first Innovation Window funds
The Global Environment Facility has selected seven projects as winners of its first Innovation Window, which will provide $12.3 million in grants to initiatives that test and pilot new solutions to st...
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Enrico Di Minin @ediminin.bsky.social Β· Dec 20
🚨 I am a coauthor in a new horizon scan paper highlighting the potential for AI to revolutionize conservation.

🌱🐘🐦🐍🐒

πŸ‘‰ Here is a link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The potential for AI to revolutionize conservation: a horizon scan
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an emerging tool that could be leveraged to identify the effective conservation solutions demanded by the urgent biodi…
www.sciencedirect.com

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Enrico Di Minin @ediminin.bsky.social Β· Dec 3
I am deeply honoured, humbled, and very proud of receiving a prestigious #ERC Consolidator Grant for investigating opportunities for transformative change in biodiversity conservation, using novel methods such as big data analytics and gamification.

www.helsinki.fi/en/news/heal...
EU grants worth €2 million to three University of Helsinki researchers | University of Helsinki
The ERC Consolidator Grant -funded projects will investigate the disease risk of evening-types and biodiversity loss, as well as develop rapid algorithms for bioinformatics.
www.helsinki.fi

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Corey Bradshaw @conservbytes.bsky.social Β· Nov 24
Dismantling the #poachernomics of the illegal wildlife trade www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#wildlifetrade #poaching #ivory #rhinohorn

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Dismantling the poachernomics of the illegal wildlife trade
Persistent poaching fuelled by demand for elephant ivory and rhino horn continues to threaten these species. Despite international trade restrictions …
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Enrico Di Minin @ediminin.bsky.social Β· Jan 18
Our geography @GeoHelsinkiUni students had the chance of learning about human wildlife conflicts from @WRTIKenya scientists and species distributions from the rangers @Taitahillresort and #lumo conservancy over the last couple of days. We are really thankful! Chawucha sana!

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Enrico Di Minin @ediminin.bsky.social Β· Nov 10
Check out our latest contribution about online wildlife trade in species of conservation concern in Conservation Letters conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…
The Society for Conservation Biology
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

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Enrico Di Minin @ediminin.bsky.social Β· Nov 4
It was great spending time together in Taita!