Glenn Moncrieff
@gmoncrieff.bsky.social
Spatial Data Science @ TNC.
Maps, Remote Sensing, ML and Biodiversity.
⛰️ 🌊 🌵 🇿🇦
Environmental science
80%
Geography
20%
Glenn Moncrieff
@gmoncrieff.bsky.social
· Feb 26
This is wonderful work, and it is so great that inat have released it with such a permissive license. We have big plans for this data at TNC!
Glenn Moncrieff
@gmoncrieff.bsky.social
· Dec 19
I agree, but that does not mean we cannot try identify the range of natural communities that would occur in the absence of industrial human influence. Because 'natural' can encompass a range of states does not imply we should do away with the notion in restoration.
Glenn Moncrieff
@gmoncrieff.bsky.social
· Dec 11
This also shows why things like spectral resolution, atmospheric correction and SNR are very important for hyperspectral data. The subtle signal of the phenomena we are looking for can easily be obscured
Glenn Moncrieff
@gmoncrieff.bsky.social
· Dec 11
I was told exactly this by one of the best scientists in the field. The signal we are interested in is often found in small differences that are lost if you do PCA before analyses
I have seen early versions of this. It is way more than your average sci-comm film. It is an audiovisual masterpiece by some of the most talented nature filmmakers in the world
The film is a celebration of local biodiversity, NASA’s role in conservation, and the potential of next-generation remote sensing to change how we measure and monitor ecosystems around the world. If that is not enough to motivate you, apparently, there will be free snacks 🍩
If you are at #AGU24 next week, do yourself a favour and come to the film premiere of 'The Spectrum of Life' - a short documentary about NASA’s first biodiversity airborne campaign in South Africa, BioSCape agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me... at 6pm on 9 Dec, River Birch Ballroom, The Westin DC Downtown
Cool paper. Congrats!
Glenn Moncrieff
@gmoncrieff.bsky.social
· Nov 28
How do we address this imbalance? If we ignore it, I fear we will face a reckoning in open science
Glenn Moncrieff
@gmoncrieff.bsky.social
· Nov 28
At the same time, companies, funders, and the media are venerating AI as our saviour, pouring money and resources into R&D. AI researchers are paid about 10X what the technicians who actually collect 'training data' are, despite these skills being incredibly rare and valuable.
Glenn Moncrieff
@gmoncrieff.bsky.social
· Nov 28
I think a similar power imbalance between ML/AI researchers and foundational environmental science exists. Those who maintain weather stations for the public good or taxonomists who ID species are chronically underfunded and a dying breed. Without them, there is no AI to solve our problems
Glenn Moncrieff
@gmoncrieff.bsky.social
· Nov 28
First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
bluesky-community/one-million-bluesky-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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The hatred and vitriol directed at AI here seems to come most strongly from journalists, musicians etc - who feel their work is being exploited. It probably doesn't help that these creators are receiving little compensation for their work. What does this signal for AI in environmental science? 🧵
bluesky-community/one-million-bluesky-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
Glenn Moncrieff
@gmoncrieff.bsky.social
· Nov 26
Hello, I'm a way to save bookmarks until we get a real bookmarking feature.
Just DM me a post by tapping the three dots on the bottom right and selecting 'Send via direct message'. Type my handle (@bookmarkit.bsky.social) to find me and send me the post.
You can practice on this post if you like 🔖
Just DM me a post by tapping the three dots on the bottom right and selecting 'Send via direct message'. Type my handle (@bookmarkit.bsky.social) to find me and send me the post.
You can practice on this post if you like 🔖
It is a pain that there is not yet a native bookmarking feature in bsky. This is a great intermediate solution. I now have a bookmarks feed in my homepage.
Glenn Moncrieff
@gmoncrieff.bsky.social
· Nov 24
The small cute Dinos are the ones I would be worried about. We have not been very successful at controlling small mammal invasions
Glenn Moncrieff
@gmoncrieff.bsky.social
· Nov 24
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Glenn Moncrieff
@gmoncrieff.bsky.social
· Nov 21
A favourite story of mine: revealing the spatial legacy of Apartheid using historical aerial photos
gmoncrieff.github.io/posts/wiped-...
gmoncrieff.github.io/posts/wiped-...
Glenn Moncrieff
@gmoncrieff.bsky.social
· Nov 20
The mismeasure of conservation
One of the basic purposes of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation interventions is to achieve conservation impact, the sum of a…
www.sciencedirect.com
Focussing on outcomes is not enough. We need to think about impact
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Reposted by Glenn R. Moncrieff, Jonathan von Oppen
Brian Maitner
@maitner.bsky.social
· Nov 18
I'm looking for Masters students to join my lab in Fall 2025! Work could focus on either field-based studies of plant community ecology and trait-based ecology and/or computational work (on any taxa with data) focusing on questions in community ecology or macroecology.
Reposted by Glenn R. Moncrieff
DM to bookmark
@bookmarkit.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Hello, I'm a way to save bookmarks until we get a real bookmarking feature.
Just DM me a post by tapping the three dots on the bottom right and selecting 'Send via direct message'. Type my handle (@bookmarkit.bsky.social) to find me and send me the post.
You can practice on this post if you like 🔖
Just DM me a post by tapping the three dots on the bottom right and selecting 'Send via direct message'. Type my handle (@bookmarkit.bsky.social) to find me and send me the post.
You can practice on this post if you like 🔖
Glenn Moncrieff
@gmoncrieff.bsky.social
· Nov 10
really enjoyed reading this. well done!