Dr. Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies
@bedeffinian.bsky.social
Post Doctoral Researcher at Nantes University 🇫🇷 Using Novel and Traditional Observational and Analysis Tools 🛰️ 🎣to assess Anthropogenic Impacts on Marine Environments 🐠 Surfing, stats and cycling. He/him
www.BedeFfinianRoweDavies.com
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Marine Ecologist and Statistician bedeffinian@gmail.com
www.BedeFfinianRoweDavies.com
Trying to move as much info from twitter over to here so thought I would highlight some of the research I have been a part of in the last few years! 🦞 Marine Protected Areas to Remote Sensing 🛰️ A thread 🧵 🗺️ 🐟 🌱
More in-depth info and all papers on my website www.BedeFfinianRoweDavies.com
More in-depth info and all papers on my website www.BedeFfinianRoweDavies.com
🚨🚨🚨 New Open-Access Paper, Dataset, Application and Call-to-Action 🚨🚨🚨This one is for the fans of Intertidal Seagrass 🌱🌊 and Findable, Accessible, Interpretable and Reusable (FAIR) data. 🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🚨🚨🚨 New Open-Access Paper, Dataset, Application and Call-to-Action 🚨🚨🚨This one is for the fans of Intertidal Seagrass 🌱🌊 and Findable, Accessible, Interpretable and Reusable (FAIR) data. 🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
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probably my most deeply-held belief: it is not possible for a slide deck to be both (1) a good presentation aide; and (2) a standalone document that can be read and understood in isolation.
October 14, 2025 at 8:08 AM
probably my most deeply-held belief: it is not possible for a slide deck to be both (1) a good presentation aide; and (2) a standalone document that can be read and understood in isolation.
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"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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Hey you wonderful EO scientists. Why not nominate your amazing colleague or team or nominate yourself for the next ESA EO excellence award. Nominations have just opened and close 10th Dec. Research cash prize for lucky winners:
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September 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Hey you wonderful EO scientists. Why not nominate your amazing colleague or team or nominate yourself for the next ESA EO excellence award. Nominations have just opened and close 10th Dec. Research cash prize for lucky winners:
www.eoxcellence.com
www.eoxcellence.com
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A few more days to apply!!!
We are recruiting‼️A permanent university lecturer position in BIOSTATISTICS is available at @helsinki.fi Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Great colleagues, excellent infrastructures and startup support 🙌🏻
DL 14 September
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DL 14 September
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
University Lecturer in Biostatistics
University Lecturer in Biostatistics
jobs.helsinki.fi
September 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
A few more days to apply!!!
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We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher in statistics to develop methods for analyzing large scale biodiversity and ecosystem function data at the University of Helsinki.
This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to do advanced Bayesian modeling with direct link to real world applications.
This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to do advanced Bayesian modeling with direct link to real world applications.
📢 Post doc! Want to join our team?
We are looking for 3 post docs in biodiversity science, genetic indicator assessment, and ecological statistics for a fixed term of 2 years!
Come unravel the drivers and consequences of global change on biodiversity with us!
DL 24.9.
#universityofhelsinki
We are looking for 3 post docs in biodiversity science, genetic indicator assessment, and ecological statistics for a fixed term of 2 years!
Come unravel the drivers and consequences of global change on biodiversity with us!
DL 24.9.
#universityofhelsinki
3 Post doc positions in biodiversity science, genetic indicator assessment and ecological statistics
3 Post doc positions in biodiversity science, genetic indicator assessment and ecological statistics
jobs.helsinki.fi
September 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher in statistics to develop methods for analyzing large scale biodiversity and ecosystem function data at the University of Helsinki.
This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to do advanced Bayesian modeling with direct link to real world applications.
This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to do advanced Bayesian modeling with direct link to real world applications.
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Not one needs context for this
August 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Not one needs context for this
A brief glance at the github seems exactly the style of multivariate analysis that needs to become common place! 👏🏻 will try incorporate into my own teaching if i can, and fingers crossed for continuity!
Two weeks ago I organised the first Summer school in Model-based Multivariate analysis for community ecologists.
We spent a week in Hjerkinn (NO), teaching 26 international participants about model-based multivariate analysis. Together with Jenni Niku, Pekka Korhonen, Francis Hui and Audun Rugstad.
We spent a week in Hjerkinn (NO), teaching 26 international participants about model-based multivariate analysis. Together with Jenni Niku, Pekka Korhonen, Francis Hui and Audun Rugstad.
August 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A brief glance at the github seems exactly the style of multivariate analysis that needs to become common place! 👏🏻 will try incorporate into my own teaching if i can, and fingers crossed for continuity!
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Two weeks ago I organised the first Summer school in Model-based Multivariate analysis for community ecologists.
We spent a week in Hjerkinn (NO), teaching 26 international participants about model-based multivariate analysis. Together with Jenni Niku, Pekka Korhonen, Francis Hui and Audun Rugstad.
We spent a week in Hjerkinn (NO), teaching 26 international participants about model-based multivariate analysis. Together with Jenni Niku, Pekka Korhonen, Francis Hui and Audun Rugstad.
August 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Two weeks ago I organised the first Summer school in Model-based Multivariate analysis for community ecologists.
We spent a week in Hjerkinn (NO), teaching 26 international participants about model-based multivariate analysis. Together with Jenni Niku, Pekka Korhonen, Francis Hui and Audun Rugstad.
We spent a week in Hjerkinn (NO), teaching 26 international participants about model-based multivariate analysis. Together with Jenni Niku, Pekka Korhonen, Francis Hui and Audun Rugstad.
Check out Simon Oiry’s new paper! We used a combination of satelite and drone optical data alongside high resolution LiDAR to assess the cover of an invasive macroalgae in an estuary in France. Not only that, we looked into historical imagery too www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Mapping the distribution of the alien invasive Gracilaria vermiculophylla at the site of its first European introduction
The invasive red macroalga Gracilaria vermiculophylla has significantly impacted intertidal ecosystems in temperate estuaries globally. This study uti…
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August 2, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Check out Simon Oiry’s new paper! We used a combination of satelite and drone optical data alongside high resolution LiDAR to assess the cover of an invasive macroalgae in an estuary in France. Not only that, we looked into historical imagery too www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Have spent an amazing time these last few weeks as Benthic Taxonomist on the RV Tarajoq as part of their annual surveys of the Greenlandic 🇬🇱 Shrimp and Cod! It is always such a privilege and always reminds me how much I love being at sea
July 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Have spent an amazing time these last few weeks as Benthic Taxonomist on the RV Tarajoq as part of their annual surveys of the Greenlandic 🇬🇱 Shrimp and Cod! It is always such a privilege and always reminds me how much I love being at sea
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I am no longer chairing defenses or joining committees where students use generative AI for their writing
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I am no longer chairing defenses or joining committees where students use generative AI for their writing | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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July 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I am no longer chairing defenses or joining committees where students use generative AI for their writing
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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/18/i...
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It just happened again, as it happens multiple times each year: Someone's student asked me to look at their model output, I asked why they chose those variables, they say "these variables might influence outcome". This is a failure of training in biology, not student's fault. Committee is no better!
June 27, 2025 at 7:42 AM
It just happened again, as it happens multiple times each year: Someone's student asked me to look at their model output, I asked why they chose those variables, they say "these variables might influence outcome". This is a failure of training in biology, not student's fault. Committee is no better!
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🦑🌊🧪 Please share among your networks, a Research Fellow post in #Ocean Dynamics and Floating Offshore #Wind Consequences on Key Ecosystem Drivers in the Celtic Sea working with me, @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social & @peterimiller.bsky.social tinyurl.com/44x66b5z #PlanktonImaging #RemoteSensing #AUVs
June 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
🦑🌊🧪 Please share among your networks, a Research Fellow post in #Ocean Dynamics and Floating Offshore #Wind Consequences on Key Ecosystem Drivers in the Celtic Sea working with me, @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social & @peterimiller.bsky.social tinyurl.com/44x66b5z #PlanktonImaging #RemoteSensing #AUVs
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this one hits different with american academia in 2025 :/
May 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
this one hits different with american academia in 2025 :/
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🌍📡 Workshop: Advancing Remote Sensing for Macroalgae & Seagrass Ecosystems - From Sentinel-2 Data to Global Impact 🗓️ April 17 | 13:00–15:00 CEST Organized by #AirCentre under the #BioEcoOcean project.
Join experts exploring the future of #RemoteSensing!
🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join experts exploring the future of #RemoteSensing!
🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Workshop on Advancing Remote Sensing for Macroalgae and Seagrass Ecosystems: From Sentinel-2 Data to Global Impact. After registering, you will receive a c...
April,17th, 2025
13:00-15:00 CEST
This workshop, organized under the EU Horizon-funded project BioEcoOcean (https://bioecoocean.org/), will bring together experts and researchers to explore the lates...
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April 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
🌍📡 Workshop: Advancing Remote Sensing for Macroalgae & Seagrass Ecosystems - From Sentinel-2 Data to Global Impact 🗓️ April 17 | 13:00–15:00 CEST Organized by #AirCentre under the #BioEcoOcean project.
Join experts exploring the future of #RemoteSensing!
🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join experts exploring the future of #RemoteSensing!
🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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New paper!
Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should.
This is the *first* paper in the peer reviewed scientific literature to explain how Bluesky works and how to use it for #SciComm 🧪🦑🐠
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Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should.
This is the *first* paper in the peer reviewed scientific literature to explain how Bluesky works and how to use it for #SciComm 🧪🦑🐠
academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...
Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should
ABSTRACT. Social media tools have revolutionized how people communicate with one another. A 2018 paper in Fisheries summarized the use of Twitter, Facebook
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April 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
New paper!
Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should.
This is the *first* paper in the peer reviewed scientific literature to explain how Bluesky works and how to use it for #SciComm 🧪🦑🐠
academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...
Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should.
This is the *first* paper in the peer reviewed scientific literature to explain how Bluesky works and how to use it for #SciComm 🧪🦑🐠
academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...
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Are you a marine ecologist specializing in MPAs or marine policy + looking for a #postdoc? Well, look no further: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/323875
#jobfairy #mpalife #marineecology #marinebiodiversity
#jobfairy #mpalife #marineecology #marinebiodiversity
UCD Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Applications are invited for a temporary post of a UCD Post-doctoral Research Fellow Level 1 - Marine ecology to underpin designation of Marine Protected Areaswithin UCD School of Biology and Environm...
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March 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Are you a marine ecologist specializing in MPAs or marine policy + looking for a #postdoc? Well, look no further: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/323875
#jobfairy #mpalife #marineecology #marinebiodiversity
#jobfairy #mpalife #marineecology #marinebiodiversity
I recently was at the #Biospace25 conference at @esa.int in Frascatti, Italy where i presented my work about mapping Intertidal Seagrass across the whole of Europe! But don’t worry if you missed it, you can watch the talk here (at around 1:56:00): m.youtube.com/watch?v=naCR...
BioSpace25 Day 3 Magellan
YouTube video by EO Open Science
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March 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I recently was at the #Biospace25 conference at @esa.int in Frascatti, Italy where i presented my work about mapping Intertidal Seagrass across the whole of Europe! But don’t worry if you missed it, you can watch the talk here (at around 1:56:00): m.youtube.com/watch?v=naCR...
Counting Walruses from space? #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int using commercially available Very High resolution satellite data with citizen science and validation with in situ drone data
February 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Counting Walruses from space? #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int using commercially available Very High resolution satellite data with citizen science and validation with in situ drone data
Genetics from space?? #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int Genetics, of course, not possible to be sampled from Satellite observations 🛰️ but habitats can be defined and mapped
February 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Genetics from space?? #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int Genetics, of course, not possible to be sampled from Satellite observations 🛰️ but habitats can be defined and mapped
Now moving into the open ocean for modelling but considering local structure #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int work from the same lab (MARBEC @umontpellier.bsky.social) using image Convulutional neural networks to model fish 🐟 distributions
February 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Now moving into the open ocean for modelling but considering local structure #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int work from the same lab (MARBEC @umontpellier.bsky.social) using image Convulutional neural networks to model fish 🐟 distributions
Now we move onto Habitat Suitability and Species Distribution Modelling #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int here work at MARBEC lab using Neural Network transfer learning to predict abundance of Fish Species
February 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Now we move onto Habitat Suitability and Species Distribution Modelling #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int here work at MARBEC lab using Neural Network transfer learning to predict abundance of Fish Species
How depressing: 250 companies causing 73% of Ecosystem Damage globally #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int
February 13, 2025 at 8:26 AM
How depressing: 250 companies causing 73% of Ecosystem Damage globally #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int
Todays keynotes discussing Earth Observation for sustainability #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int Nature Positive and Economics of Conservation
February 13, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Todays keynotes discussing Earth Observation for sustainability #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int Nature Positive and Economics of Conservation