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Jonathan Sauder
@josauder.bsky.social
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PhD student at EPFL
3D Vision | Underwater SLAM | AI for Conservation
http://josauder.github.io
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sarameghanbeery.bsky.social
The Computer Vision for Ecology Workshop at @iccv.bsky.social is starting soon!! All day in 323B, see you there!!
sarameghanbeery.bsky.social Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 22d
10/20:

I'll be at our Computer Vision for Ecology Workshop (323 B) most of the day, and moderating a FUN panel there at 2:10pm.

Giving a talk at the Curated Data for Efficient Learning workshop (304A) at 10am

At 6pm you’ll find me at the AI for Conservation Happy Hour at Barefoot Bar :)
October 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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oisinmacaodha.bsky.social
Interested in doing a PhD in machine learning at the University of Edinburgh starting Sept 2026?

My group works on topics in vision, machine learning, and AI for climate.

For more information and details on how to get in touch, please check out my website:
homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/omacaod
October 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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coralreefresearch.bsky.social
AWESOME JOB OPPORTUNITY: Tenure-Track Position - Coral Ecology & Diversity (Green Island Marine Research Station, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

biodiv.tw/joinus-20250...

#coralreefs #jobs #jobopportunity #coralecology #coraldiversity #coral #tenuretrack #academia #careers #careerdevelopment #marine
June 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
The return of Abrego-Garcia to face due process in the US, after Trump officials swore he would never ever return to the US, is a reminder that politics matters and pressure works.

Don’t give up. Don’t let the fascists relax.
June 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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aleksispi.bsky.social
Come do your PhD at RISE Lund with myself and Prof. Yifang Ban as supervisors!

You will not only contribute to advancing state-of-the-art ML for Earth observation data — you'll also work hands-on with real-world use cases with diverse project stakeholders.

career.ri.se/en-GB/jobs/5...
PhD Student in Machine Learning - RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB
Do you want to use your expertise in AI to help build a greener future?
career.ri.se
May 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
Can only be described as regime propaganda
May 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
josauder.bsky.social
For those in Switzerland (especially Zürich) - I strongly encourage you to go to the World Press Photo exhibition in the Landesmuseum.

Like every year, it's completely soul-crushing, but so important. I have so much admiration for these photographers.

www.worldpressphoto.org/calendar/202...
Zurich, Switzerland | World Press Photo
www.worldpressphoto.org
May 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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sarameghanbeery.bsky.social
The call for applications has just been released for #CV4Ecology2026!! This three-week intensive program trains ecologists and conservation practitioners to develop their own AI tools for their own data.

When: Jan 12-30, 2026
Where: SCBI @smconservation.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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abursuc.bsky.social
📢 We have a PR[AI]RIE PhD position opening at Inria Paris co-advised with R. de Charette & @tuanhungvu.bsky.social
[please distribute]
💡Topic: Physics-Grounded Vision Foundation Models
⏳Application deadline: 20 May 2025
🗓️ Start date: Fall 2025
📝Detailed description: linked below
April 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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ghjuliasialelli.bsky.social
I’ll be speaking at the upcoming Learning Machines seminar, tune in on May 8th 15:00 CET to hear about ML/RS for biomass estimation 🌳🛰️💻
April 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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therockyfiles.bsky.social
Scientists: there’s only one solution to save coral reefs. “…coral restoration should not be used as a distraction from very-much-needed global actions to reduce carbon emissions and slow down planetary warming.” @MongabayOrg news.mongabay.com/2025/04/scie...
Scientists warn coral restoration can’t keep pace with global reef collapse
Coral restoration won’t save reefs from global warming, according to a recent study – at least, not the way we’re doing it now. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Helsinki and pu...
news.mongabay.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
josauder.bsky.social
We're looking for a motivated PhD student to join the ECEO Lab at EPFL Valais to work on multi-modal foundation models for earth observation! 🌍🛰️💻🤓

Come work with us under the supervision of Prof. Devis Tuia!

careers.epfl.ch/job/Sion-PhD...
PhD - Multi-Modal Foundation Models for Earth Observation
PhD - Multi-Modal Foundation Models for Earth Observation
careers.epfl.ch
April 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
josauder.bsky.social
Using the Coralscapes dataset, it becomes easy to transfer semantic information directly into 3D point clouds! Here's an example of a few images from a simple camera being used to make a semantic point cloud of an entire transect! #deeplearning #ai #coral #ai4conservation
April 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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mariaa.bsky.social
to quote a colleague quoting a goose: “alignment to what? alignment to what??”
jeremymorrell.dev Jeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev · Apr 5
Meta introduced Llama 4 models and added this section near the very bottom of the announcement 😬

“[LLMs] historically have leaned left when it comes to debated political and social topics.”

ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4...
Meta Addressing bias in LLMs It's well-known that all leading LLMs have had issues with bias-specifically, they historically have leaned left when it comes to debated political and social topics. This is due to the types of training data available on the internet. Our goal is to remove bias from our Al models and to make sure that Llama can understand and articulate both sides of a contentious issue. As part of this work, we're continuing to make Llama more responsive so that it answers questions, can respond to a variety of different viewpoints without passing judgment, and doesn't favor some views over others. We have made improvements on these efforts with this release—Llama 4 performs significantly better than Llama 3 and is comparable to Grok: • Llama 4 refuses less on debated political and social topics overall (from 7% in Lama 3.3 to below 2%). • Llama 4 is dramatically more balanced with which prompts it refuses to respond to (the proportion of unequal response refusals is now less than 1% on a set of debated topical questions). • Our testing shows that Llama 4 responds with strong political lean at a rate comparable to Grok (and at half of the rate of Llama 3.3) on a contentious set of political or social topics. While we are making progress, we know we have more work to do and will continue to drive this rate further down. We're proud of this progress to date and remain committed to our goal of eliminating overall bias in our models.
April 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
josauder.bsky.social
New dataset & pre-print:

The Coralscapes dataset for semantic scene understanding in coral reefs! 🤿🎥🐟🐠🐡

Coralscapes is the first dataset consistently annotated for general-purpose semantic segmentation in reefs, spanning 174k segmentation masks of 39 benthic classes on 2074 images!
March 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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chriswolfvision.bsky.social
Le monde reports that on March 9th a French scientist heading for a conference was denied entry to the US. His computer and cellphone were searched, and messages to friends were found where he expressed his opinion on the Trump admin and their politics wrt to science.

www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
March 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
josauder.bsky.social
@iccv.bsky.social “All authors are required to register as reviewers” - how do I proceed if my submitted paper is interdisciplinary and some of my co-authors don’t have a background in computer vision? They obviously should not review #ICCV2025
March 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
josauder.bsky.social
What will be the moment where the American people finally stand up against this?
March 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
josauder.bsky.social
Very impressive! Looking forward to trying it 🔥
ajdavison.bsky.social Andrew Davison @ajdavison.bsky.social · Feb 25
Shawshank Prison reconstructed with MASt3R-SLAM... from one of the best films ever.
ericdexheimer.bsky.social Eric Dexheimer @ericdexheimer.bsky.social · Feb 25
Here's a reconstruction of a movie establishing shot
February 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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aycatakmaz.bsky.social
I will be giving a talk on open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding at the next ZurichCV meetup!

🗓️ Date: Thursday, January 23rd 18:00 CET

📍Location: @ETH_AI_Center, please see zurichai.ch/events/zurichcv-7 for additional details!
ZurichCV #7 | ZurichAI
Ayca Takmaz on open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding.
zurichai.ch
January 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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oisinmacaodha.bsky.social
Interested in doing a PhD in machine learning at the University of Edinburgh? If so, check out the ML-Systems PhD Programme:
mlsystems.uk

Application deadline is 22nd January (next week).
January 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM