Andrea Zampetti
@andrewzampetti.bsky.social
PhD student @ Sapienza University 🇮🇹
🐒🐺🦌Conservation biology 📊 Ecological modeling 📸 Camera-traps
🤖 Leveraging AI to transform wildlife conservation 🐾
📖 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrea-Zampetti-4
🐒🐺🦌Conservation biology 📊 Ecological modeling 📸 Camera-traps
🤖 Leveraging AI to transform wildlife conservation 🐾
📖 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrea-Zampetti-4
Pinned
Can AI improve #cameratrap studies?
Our study in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social shows how #machinelearning can enhance wildlife surveys by automating species detection & classification and enabling unbiased density estimates 📷🦌.
Check it out! ⬇️
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our study in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social shows how #machinelearning can enhance wildlife surveys by automating species detection & classification and enabling unbiased density estimates 📷🦌.
Check it out! ⬇️
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Thrilled to announce our webinar series:
🌱📈 Quantifying Ecology 📈🌱
We are collaborating with our SIG friends to bring you quantitative methods in different ecological contexts.
Kicking off with Dr @jamesaorr.bsky.social and @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social on 5th August. More details to come!
🌱📈 Quantifying Ecology 📈🌱
We are collaborating with our SIG friends to bring you quantitative methods in different ecological contexts.
Kicking off with Dr @jamesaorr.bsky.social and @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social on 5th August. More details to come!
June 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Thrilled to announce our webinar series:
🌱📈 Quantifying Ecology 📈🌱
We are collaborating with our SIG friends to bring you quantitative methods in different ecological contexts.
Kicking off with Dr @jamesaorr.bsky.social and @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social on 5th August. More details to come!
🌱📈 Quantifying Ecology 📈🌱
We are collaborating with our SIG friends to bring you quantitative methods in different ecological contexts.
Kicking off with Dr @jamesaorr.bsky.social and @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social on 5th August. More details to come!
Reposted by Andrea Zampetti
A game-changing new opponent has stepped onto the badminton court. But don’t worry; it’s still a beginner.
Researchers have developed a robot that can successfully volley a shuttlecock, tracking down the object and moving across the court to send it back to its human adversary: scim.ag/4kz3nKW
Researchers have developed a robot that can successfully volley a shuttlecock, tracking down the object and moving across the court to send it back to its human adversary: scim.ag/4kz3nKW
May 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A game-changing new opponent has stepped onto the badminton court. But don’t worry; it’s still a beginner.
Researchers have developed a robot that can successfully volley a shuttlecock, tracking down the object and moving across the court to send it back to its human adversary: scim.ag/4kz3nKW
Researchers have developed a robot that can successfully volley a shuttlecock, tracking down the object and moving across the court to send it back to its human adversary: scim.ag/4kz3nKW
Reposted by Andrea Zampetti
Another promising paper on the transition from AI models for image classification to user friendly apps.
Let's see how it works!
#cameratrapping
peercommunityjournal.org/item/10.2407...
Let's see how it works!
#cameratrapping
peercommunityjournal.org/item/10.2407...
May 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Another promising paper on the transition from AI models for image classification to user friendly apps.
Let's see how it works!
#cameratrapping
peercommunityjournal.org/item/10.2407...
Let's see how it works!
#cameratrapping
peercommunityjournal.org/item/10.2407...
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📖Published📖
Matthew Kling presents phylospatial, a new R package that fully supports probability, abundance, and binary community data across a range of spatial phylogenetic diversity (PD) analyses 🌎 🧪 Check the article out here 👇
buff.ly/onf4BV6
Matthew Kling presents phylospatial, a new R package that fully supports probability, abundance, and binary community data across a range of spatial phylogenetic diversity (PD) analyses 🌎 🧪 Check the article out here 👇
buff.ly/onf4BV6
May 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
📖Published📖
Matthew Kling presents phylospatial, a new R package that fully supports probability, abundance, and binary community data across a range of spatial phylogenetic diversity (PD) analyses 🌎 🧪 Check the article out here 👇
buff.ly/onf4BV6
Matthew Kling presents phylospatial, a new R package that fully supports probability, abundance, and binary community data across a range of spatial phylogenetic diversity (PD) analyses 🌎 🧪 Check the article out here 👇
buff.ly/onf4BV6
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The first paper of the "Urbis project" focusing on the urban ecosystem of Rome is out in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening!
Here we characterize the urban landscape and propose a multiscale framework to better support urban biodiversity research and planning
doi.org/10.1016/j.la...
Here we characterize the urban landscape and propose a multiscale framework to better support urban biodiversity research and planning
doi.org/10.1016/j.la...
May 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The first paper of the "Urbis project" focusing on the urban ecosystem of Rome is out in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening!
Here we characterize the urban landscape and propose a multiscale framework to better support urban biodiversity research and planning
doi.org/10.1016/j.la...
Here we characterize the urban landscape and propose a multiscale framework to better support urban biodiversity research and planning
doi.org/10.1016/j.la...
Reposted by Andrea Zampetti
Capuchin monkeys kidnap baby howler monkeys, shocking scientists www.popsci.com/environment/...
Capuchin monkeys kidnap baby howler monkeys, shocking scientists
The disturbing fad could be the result of boredom.
www.popsci.com
May 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Capuchin monkeys kidnap baby howler monkeys, shocking scientists www.popsci.com/environment/...
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A new preprint on the best configuration settings of BirdNET for improving bird detections, lead by Cristian Pérez-Granados & David Funosas. A derived paper of the WABAD dataset, with more than 4,000 minutes of annotated audios. Enjoy reading!! #bioacoustics
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
Optimisation of passive acoustic bird surveys: a global assessment of BirdNET settings
BirdNET is a popular machine learning tool for automated recognition of bird sounds. Here we evaluate how BirdNET settings affect the model performance both at vocalization and species levels, using 4...
www.researchsquare.com
May 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A new preprint on the best configuration settings of BirdNET for improving bird detections, lead by Cristian Pérez-Granados & David Funosas. A derived paper of the WABAD dataset, with more than 4,000 minutes of annotated audios. Enjoy reading!! #bioacoustics
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
Reposted by Andrea Zampetti
This new approach minimises on-the-ground fieldwork in an area where conflict is widespread, and provides vital data needed to support conservation interventions for this rare and iconic subspecies. Find out more:
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Spotted! Remote camera traps used in a novel design reveal a perilous situation for the Critically Endangered Northwest African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus hecki) in a conflict‐affected protected area in Benin
This first long-term study of the Critically Endangered Northwest African cheetah in Benin highlights a very low density. The Pendjari National Park is likely to be a core area for cheetah in the WAP...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This new approach minimises on-the-ground fieldwork in an area where conflict is widespread, and provides vital data needed to support conservation interventions for this rare and iconic subspecies. Find out more:
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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🚨New data paper/open data alert!🚨 BioTIME v2.0 is out now! We've expanded the database with improved spatial and taxonomic coverage, with a new R package! As always, free, public, and open acess :)
Paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Database:
biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk
Paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Database:
biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk
BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series
Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🚨New data paper/open data alert!🚨 BioTIME v2.0 is out now! We've expanded the database with improved spatial and taxonomic coverage, with a new R package! As always, free, public, and open acess :)
Paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Database:
biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk
Paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Database:
biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk
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More shots fired in the #causalInference #ecology literature! 🌍
I'm guessing this is probably very well worth the read! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Ecology needs a causal overhaul
Ecology has yet to embrace causal inference, yet most questions in ecology are causal. Despite the common use of terms that imply causation, such as “shapes”, “drives”, or “impacts”, many studies shy...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
More shots fired in the #causalInference #ecology literature! 🌍
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Our paper is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🎉 We use games from behavioural economics to explore how LLMs behave in repeated social interactions, revealing both self-interested strengths and coordination blind spots, and propose strategies to improve AI-human collaboration.
What happens when Large Language models play repeated economic games? This new study from @elifakata.bsky.social et al investigates across a range of models and games.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Playing repeated games with large language models - Nature Human Behaviour
Large language models perform well in self-interested games such as the iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma but struggle in games that require coordination. Social reasoning strategies can improve cooperative...
www.nature.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Our paper is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🎉 We use games from behavioural economics to explore how LLMs behave in repeated social interactions, revealing both self-interested strengths and coordination blind spots, and propose strategies to improve AI-human collaboration.
Reposted by Andrea Zampetti
Here are a few slides to present our paper in a short talk for the annual days of our national group in statistical ecology ecostat2025.sciencesconf.org
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
May 12, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Here are a few slides to present our paper in a short talk for the annual days of our national group in statistical ecology ecostat2025.sciencesconf.org
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
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The Student Award for Best Oral Presentation goes to @andrewzampetti.bsky.social for his talk on TropiCam-AI: an automated classifier of Neotropical arboreal mammals and birds from camera-traps. Well done, Andrea!
Special mention to Claire Louise Penton for securing 2nd place—congrats! #ECR2025
Special mention to Claire Louise Penton for securing 2nd place—congrats! #ECR2025
May 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The Student Award for Best Oral Presentation goes to @andrewzampetti.bsky.social for his talk on TropiCam-AI: an automated classifier of Neotropical arboreal mammals and birds from camera-traps. Well done, Andrea!
Special mention to Claire Louise Penton for securing 2nd place—congrats! #ECR2025
Special mention to Claire Louise Penton for securing 2nd place—congrats! #ECR2025
Reposted by Andrea Zampetti
Currently, roughly 90–95% of AI usage in biodiversity
and conservation research is simply identifying
a species of interest in gobs of data, says
@sarameghanbeery.bsky.social of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, co-founder of MegaDetector.
But that promises to change swiftly.
and conservation research is simply identifying
a species of interest in gobs of data, says
@sarameghanbeery.bsky.social of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, co-founder of MegaDetector.
But that promises to change swiftly.
In this month's Technology Feature, journalist @virginiagewin.bsky.social explores how scientists working in the ecology, biodiversity and conservation fields are adopting AI tools to accelerate their research.
Read it here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read it here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
AI carves out a niche in ecology and conservation research - Nature Methods
Scientists who study biodiversity are in the rapid adoption phase of AI. They are finding that what AI can — and can’t — do is shifting rapidly.
www.nature.com
May 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Currently, roughly 90–95% of AI usage in biodiversity
and conservation research is simply identifying
a species of interest in gobs of data, says
@sarameghanbeery.bsky.social of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, co-founder of MegaDetector.
But that promises to change swiftly.
and conservation research is simply identifying
a species of interest in gobs of data, says
@sarameghanbeery.bsky.social of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, co-founder of MegaDetector.
But that promises to change swiftly.
Reposted by Andrea Zampetti
Excited to share that Martina Fernando, PhD student at our Global Mammal Assessment Lab, just presented her work "Developing a global probability map of illegal hunting on terrestrial mammals"with Michela Pacifici and Marco Davoli 🐘🌍 #ConservationScience #IllegalHunting #ECR2025
May 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Excited to share that Martina Fernando, PhD student at our Global Mammal Assessment Lab, just presented her work "Developing a global probability map of illegal hunting on terrestrial mammals"with Michela Pacifici and Marco Davoli 🐘🌍 #ConservationScience #IllegalHunting #ECR2025
Reposted by Andrea Zampetti
The SDM (Species Distribution Modelling) course is back, now in its 10th edition. With Babak Naimi.
www.maraujolab.eu/2025/02/13/2...
www.maraujolab.eu/2025/02/13/2...
2025 Species Distributions Modelling Course
Several people wrote Miguel Araújo and Babak Naimi expressing interest in a new edition of the SDM course. In response to those requests a full 10th edition of the course is now scheduled for November...
www.maraujolab.eu
February 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The SDM (Species Distribution Modelling) course is back, now in its 10th edition. With Babak Naimi.
www.maraujolab.eu/2025/02/13/2...
www.maraujolab.eu/2025/02/13/2...
Reposted by Andrea Zampetti
Adoption of AI in conservation will lead to beneficial outcomes for conservation effectiveness and improve our understanding of the natural world. However, it will not wholly replace established conservation techniques, education, and on-the-ground research.
📑 doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
📑 doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
December 20, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Adoption of AI in conservation will lead to beneficial outcomes for conservation effectiveness and improve our understanding of the natural world. However, it will not wholly replace established conservation techniques, education, and on-the-ground research.
📑 doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
📑 doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
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😳 WithdrarXiv 🙏
- Dataset of 14K+ withdrawn arXiv papers
- associated retraction comments
- entire history through 09/24
- taxonomy of retraction reasons, from critical errors to policy violations
- WithdrarXiv-SciFy, enriched version w/ scripts for parsed full-text PDFs
arxiv.org/abs/2412.03775
- Dataset of 14K+ withdrawn arXiv papers
- associated retraction comments
- entire history through 09/24
- taxonomy of retraction reasons, from critical errors to policy violations
- WithdrarXiv-SciFy, enriched version w/ scripts for parsed full-text PDFs
arxiv.org/abs/2412.03775
WithdrarXiv: A Large-Scale Dataset for Retraction Study
Retractions play a vital role in maintaining scientific integrity, yet systematic studies of retractions in computer science and other STEM fields remain scarce. We present WithdrarXiv, the first larg...
arxiv.org
December 15, 2024 at 6:34 PM
😳 WithdrarXiv 🙏
- Dataset of 14K+ withdrawn arXiv papers
- associated retraction comments
- entire history through 09/24
- taxonomy of retraction reasons, from critical errors to policy violations
- WithdrarXiv-SciFy, enriched version w/ scripts for parsed full-text PDFs
arxiv.org/abs/2412.03775
- Dataset of 14K+ withdrawn arXiv papers
- associated retraction comments
- entire history through 09/24
- taxonomy of retraction reasons, from critical errors to policy violations
- WithdrarXiv-SciFy, enriched version w/ scripts for parsed full-text PDFs
arxiv.org/abs/2412.03775
Reposted by Andrea Zampetti
Great worflow and R package for any one working of ecological trait database !!
by Elizabeth Wenk et al. in Ecological Informatics Nov. 2024
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧪🌐🌍
by Elizabeth Wenk et al. in Ecological Informatics Nov. 2024
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧪🌐🌍
December 13, 2024 at 12:05 PM
Great worflow and R package for any one working of ecological trait database !!
by Elizabeth Wenk et al. in Ecological Informatics Nov. 2024
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧪🌐🌍
by Elizabeth Wenk et al. in Ecological Informatics Nov. 2024
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧪🌐🌍
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New paper! If you use time-lapse cameras, this one's for you!
Proud of this collaboration with UEA Computing Sciences' Marcus Jenkins & Michal Mackiewicz to improve object detection for time-lapse imagery using temporal features. 📷🖥️⏲️
Open Access in Sensors: mdpi.com/3088004
Proud of this collaboration with UEA Computing Sciences' Marcus Jenkins & Michal Mackiewicz to improve object detection for time-lapse imagery using temporal features. 📷🖥️⏲️
Open Access in Sensors: mdpi.com/3088004
December 14, 2024 at 6:29 PM
New paper! If you use time-lapse cameras, this one's for you!
Proud of this collaboration with UEA Computing Sciences' Marcus Jenkins & Michal Mackiewicz to improve object detection for time-lapse imagery using temporal features. 📷🖥️⏲️
Open Access in Sensors: mdpi.com/3088004
Proud of this collaboration with UEA Computing Sciences' Marcus Jenkins & Michal Mackiewicz to improve object detection for time-lapse imagery using temporal features. 📷🖥️⏲️
Open Access in Sensors: mdpi.com/3088004
Reposted by Andrea Zampetti
I started to put together a starter pack for research in AI+Ecology, check it out and let me know if you would like to be added!
go.bsky.app/8zugFF6
go.bsky.app/8zugFF6
December 4, 2024 at 6:35 PM
I started to put together a starter pack for research in AI+Ecology, check it out and let me know if you would like to be added!
go.bsky.app/8zugFF6
go.bsky.app/8zugFF6
Can AI improve #cameratrap studies?
Our study in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social shows how #machinelearning can enhance wildlife surveys by automating species detection & classification and enabling unbiased density estimates 📷🦌.
Check it out! ⬇️
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our study in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social shows how #machinelearning can enhance wildlife surveys by automating species detection & classification and enabling unbiased density estimates 📷🦌.
Check it out! ⬇️
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
December 3, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Can AI improve #cameratrap studies?
Our study in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social shows how #machinelearning can enhance wildlife surveys by automating species detection & classification and enabling unbiased density estimates 📷🦌.
Check it out! ⬇️
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our study in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social shows how #machinelearning can enhance wildlife surveys by automating species detection & classification and enabling unbiased density estimates 📷🦌.
Check it out! ⬇️
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Andrea Zampetti
Welcome to all the researchers and scientists joining Bluesky, here’s a good resource to help get started!
Since there are so many new users here you might be struggling to find who to follow. Here's a spreadsheet that tracks all of the active lists. Pin the ones that resonate, follow the people that are posting!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
BlueSky Science-Related Feeds
docs.google.com
November 11, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Welcome to all the researchers and scientists joining Bluesky, here’s a good resource to help get started!
Reposted by Andrea Zampetti
Wildlife hates noisy neighbors as much as I do!
Thrilled to announce my first paper, published online in GECCO! We explore how wildlife adjusts its spatio-temporal niche in the short term, to cope with human presence.
Read it here! 👉https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e03053
Thrilled to announce my first paper, published online in GECCO! We explore how wildlife adjusts its spatio-temporal niche in the short term, to cope with human presence.
Read it here! 👉https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e03053
Redirecting
doi.org
November 28, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Wildlife hates noisy neighbors as much as I do!
Thrilled to announce my first paper, published online in GECCO! We explore how wildlife adjusts its spatio-temporal niche in the short term, to cope with human presence.
Read it here! 👉https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e03053
Thrilled to announce my first paper, published online in GECCO! We explore how wildlife adjusts its spatio-temporal niche in the short term, to cope with human presence.
Read it here! 👉https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e03053