Lily-belle Sweet
@lilybellesweet.bsky.social
PhD student at UFZ - interested in explainable machine learning, agriculture and food security, compound climate events 🌾
I'm really looking forward to leading a student research project at the ELLIS Summer School on AI for Earth and Climate Sciences in Jena this September! What a great lineup of speakers, mentors and tutors www.ellis-jena.eu/summer-schoo... @ellisunitjena.bsky.social @ellis.eu
Summer School 2025
ELLIS Summer School: AI for Earth and Climate Sciences
Jena (Germany), September 1–5, 2025The 2025 ELLIS Summer School on AI for Earth & Climate Sciences is a flagship event for PhD students, MS...
www.ellis-jena.eu
June 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I'm really looking forward to leading a student research project at the ELLIS Summer School on AI for Earth and Climate Sciences in Jena this September! What a great lineup of speakers, mentors and tutors www.ellis-jena.eu/summer-schoo... @ellisunitjena.bsky.social @ellis.eu
So excited to be organising this. Don't forget to register if you'd like to attend! We want to bring together people from different disciplines, so if your background is ML without the Ag, or vice versa, but you're interested in learning a bit about the other side - join us in Leipzig (or online)
📢 The 2nd AgML Workshop will be held at @ufz.de Leipzig from November 3–5th! Let's bring together researchers and practitioners in agriculture and machine learning to share knowledge & create open benchmark datasets and model evaluation protocols.
Register by July 31: events.hifis.net/e/agml2025
Register by July 31: events.hifis.net/e/agml2025
events.hifis.net
June 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
So excited to be organising this. Don't forget to register if you'd like to attend! We want to bring together people from different disciplines, so if your background is ML without the Ag, or vice versa, but you're interested in learning a bit about the other side - join us in Leipzig (or online)
📢 The 2nd AgML Workshop will be held at @ufz.de Leipzig from November 3–5th! Let's bring together researchers and practitioners in agriculture and machine learning to share knowledge & create open benchmark datasets and model evaluation protocols.
Register by July 31: events.hifis.net/e/agml2025
Register by July 31: events.hifis.net/e/agml2025
events.hifis.net
June 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
📢 The 2nd AgML Workshop will be held at @ufz.de Leipzig from November 3–5th! Let's bring together researchers and practitioners in agriculture and machine learning to share knowledge & create open benchmark datasets and model evaluation protocols.
Register by July 31: events.hifis.net/e/agml2025
Register by July 31: events.hifis.net/e/agml2025
📢 Tomorrow (27th May) at 16:00 CET, join our next online seminar on knowledge-guided machine learning for crop growth modelling! We will be hearing from Jingye Han, a researcher at Wageningen University. Open to all - get in touch for the Zoom link or join the AgML mailing list.
May 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
📢 Tomorrow (27th May) at 16:00 CET, join our next online seminar on knowledge-guided machine learning for crop growth modelling! We will be hearing from Jingye Han, a researcher at Wageningen University. Open to all - get in touch for the Zoom link or join the AgML mailing list.
The peat map issues are in the Times today (@catframpton.bsky.social and I are quoted) - www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
May 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The peat map issues are in the Times today (@catframpton.bsky.social and I are quoted) - www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
More and more peat map issues identified. If only all ML maps used in academic research got the kind of painstaking sanity-checking that Cat's been doing
And I have even found a SSSI bog, (brilliantly named as Max Bog!) assessed by natural England and looked after by @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social that is not mapped at all!
But the map shows it’s a sssi and that it’s a bog
Yet not peat?
But bogs are by their very nature made of peat aren’t they??
But the map shows it’s a sssi and that it’s a bog
Yet not peat?
But bogs are by their very nature made of peat aren’t they??
May 26, 2025 at 8:24 AM
More and more peat map issues identified. If only all ML maps used in academic research got the kind of painstaking sanity-checking that Cat's been doing
Reposted by Lily-belle Sweet
The @ufz.de is currently offering funded fellowships for international researchers willing to visit and collaborate with us. I'm involved in this one, with a focus on "Socio-Environmental Modelling of Land and Water Systems": recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/32...
May 16, 2025 at 6:12 AM
The @ufz.de is currently offering funded fellowships for international researchers willing to visit and collaborate with us. I'm involved in this one, with a focus on "Socio-Environmental Modelling of Land and Water Systems": recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/32...
Looked at the report to see how they evaluated model performance and what a surprise - the reported accuracy metrics are based on randomly sampled datapoints. Spatial data is not i.i.d., and model evaluation is the hardest part of any ML project (but not as fun as trying a dozen model architectures)
So this week in the world of farm/environment/land management/ mapping has been “interesting”
And by “interesting” I mean “verging on the utterly bonkers”
Why? Well this week started with Natural England launching a new map
naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/12/a...
And by “interesting” I mean “verging on the utterly bonkers”
Why? Well this week started with Natural England launching a new map
naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/12/a...
A new peat map for England
By Dr Ruth Waters, Director for Evidence, Natural England, and David Jones, Senior Responsible Officer for the Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment, Defra England’s peat deposits are one of our mo...
naturalengland.blog.gov.uk
May 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Looked at the report to see how they evaluated model performance and what a surprise - the reported accuracy metrics are based on randomly sampled datapoints. Spatial data is not i.i.d., and model evaluation is the hardest part of any ML project (but not as fun as trying a dozen model architectures)
Reposted by Lily-belle Sweet
🔥🌍 In a new paper led by Sifang Feng, we find a growing human-induced climate change fingerprint in weekly regional fire extremes.
📈 On average, climate change was responsible for a fraction equal to 8 ± 4% of the predicted probability of more than 700 fire extremes worldwide between 2002 and 2015.
📈 On average, climate change was responsible for a fraction equal to 8 ± 4% of the predicted probability of more than 700 fire extremes worldwide between 2002 and 2015.
Growing human-induced climate change fingerprint in regional weekly fire extremes - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Growing human-induced climate change fingerprint in regional weekly fire extremes
www.nature.com
May 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
🔥🌍 In a new paper led by Sifang Feng, we find a growing human-induced climate change fingerprint in weekly regional fire extremes.
📈 On average, climate change was responsible for a fraction equal to 8 ± 4% of the predicted probability of more than 700 fire extremes worldwide between 2002 and 2015.
📈 On average, climate change was responsible for a fraction equal to 8 ± 4% of the predicted probability of more than 700 fire extremes worldwide between 2002 and 2015.
📢 Today at 16:00 CET: Vasileios Sitokonstantinou presents research on invariant (causal) learning for robust yield predictions, kicking off our monthly seminar series on AI for agricultural research & modelling. Reach out for Zoom link, mailing list members will receive it by email. See you there!
If you, like us, think that these kinds of community activity are needed, we warmly invite you to get involved in AgML. So far, we've created benchmark datasets, organised a workshop, Kaggle competition and there's so much more we'd like to do - join our mailing list: mail.agml.org/mailman/list...
AgML Info Page
mail.agml.org
April 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
📢 Today at 16:00 CET: Vasileios Sitokonstantinou presents research on invariant (causal) learning for robust yield predictions, kicking off our monthly seminar series on AI for agricultural research & modelling. Reach out for Zoom link, mailing list members will receive it by email. See you there!
Transdisciplinary coordination is essential for advancing agricultural modelling with machine learning. The opportunities are great, but to avoid pitfalls, we need to establish benchmarks, evaluation criteria and best practices. Our perspective: www.cell.com/one-earth/fu... @cp-oneearth.bsky.social
Transdisciplinary coordination is essential for advancing agricultural modeling with machine learning
Crop models play a key role in understanding and improving the climate-change resilience
of food systems. If appropriately used, machine learning can help tackle some of the
critical challenges of agr...
www.cell.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Transdisciplinary coordination is essential for advancing agricultural modelling with machine learning. The opportunities are great, but to avoid pitfalls, we need to establish benchmarks, evaluation criteria and best practices. Our perspective: www.cell.com/one-earth/fu... @cp-oneearth.bsky.social
Reposted by Lily-belle Sweet
We are hiring 3 PhDs at the UFZ PhD Cohort SEESAW - Societal and environmental impacts of complex extremes in a changing world
I'll be supervising a project looking at the interactions of flood and drought impacts 💧🔆
Apply here: recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/31...
#academicjobs
I'll be supervising a project looking at the interactions of flood and drought impacts 💧🔆
Apply here: recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/31...
#academicjobs
December 11, 2024 at 9:45 AM
We are hiring 3 PhDs at the UFZ PhD Cohort SEESAW - Societal and environmental impacts of complex extremes in a changing world
I'll be supervising a project looking at the interactions of flood and drought impacts 💧🔆
Apply here: recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/31...
#academicjobs
I'll be supervising a project looking at the interactions of flood and drought impacts 💧🔆
Apply here: recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/31...
#academicjobs
Another nice office for the morning - the State Library of Western Australia in Perth
December 10, 2024 at 2:09 AM
Another nice office for the morning - the State Library of Western Australia in Perth
Reposted by Lily-belle Sweet
Announcing the AgMIP starter pack! We will regularly update our list, so reach out if you'd like to join!
go.bsky.app/Cw6L6ig
go.bsky.app/Cw6L6ig
December 5, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Announcing the AgMIP starter pack! We will regularly update our list, so reach out if you'd like to join!
go.bsky.app/Cw6L6ig
go.bsky.app/Cw6L6ig
Another day, another office...the Edge at State Library Queensland. Great view, lovely coffee!
November 27, 2024 at 8:21 AM
Another day, another office...the Edge at State Library Queensland. Great view, lovely coffee!
Reposted by Lily-belle Sweet
I've put together a starter pack of PhD students working in sustainable food systems, food justice, and environmental sciences, for anyone that would like to connect with fellow PhD students.
Let me know if you would like to be added!
#academicsky #foodstudies
go.bsky.app/Rh1AvK5
Let me know if you would like to be added!
#academicsky #foodstudies
go.bsky.app/Rh1AvK5
November 26, 2024 at 9:34 AM
I've put together a starter pack of PhD students working in sustainable food systems, food justice, and environmental sciences, for anyone that would like to connect with fellow PhD students.
Let me know if you would like to be added!
#academicsky #foodstudies
go.bsky.app/Rh1AvK5
Let me know if you would like to be added!
#academicsky #foodstudies
go.bsky.app/Rh1AvK5
Saying goodbye to Gold Coast & its beautiful orb-weaver spiders - I'll be in Brisbane until Saturday (visiting CSIRO on Friday & hopefully giving a short talk). Get in touch if you're in the area!
November 26, 2024 at 8:09 AM
Saying goodbye to Gold Coast & its beautiful orb-weaver spiders - I'll be in Brisbane until Saturday (visiting CSIRO on Friday & hopefully giving a short talk). Get in touch if you're in the area!
Reposted by Lily-belle Sweet
Excited to share our recent paper led by Sophie Johnson on the relationship between sequential humid heat and precipitation events 🌡️☔
We identify where humid heat is associated with suppressed or enhanced rainfall, with implications for compound extremes!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
We identify where humid heat is associated with suppressed or enhanced rainfall, with implications for compound extremes!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Temporal connections between extreme precipitation and humid heat - IOPscienceSearch
Temporal connections between extreme precipitation and humid heat, Sophie Johnson, Catherine Ivanovich, Radley M Horton, Mingfang Ting, Kai Kornhuber, Corey Lesk
iopscience.iop.org
November 25, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Excited to share our recent paper led by Sophie Johnson on the relationship between sequential humid heat and precipitation events 🌡️☔
We identify where humid heat is associated with suppressed or enhanced rainfall, with implications for compound extremes!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
We identify where humid heat is associated with suppressed or enhanced rainfall, with implications for compound extremes!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Reposted by Lily-belle Sweet
If you're new to #Bluesky, our #Plant Modelling Scientists starter pack can help you find users you can follow to help you get started:
bsky.app/starter-pack... #PlantScience
Let us know in the comments or DM if you'd like to be added.
bsky.app/starter-pack... #PlantScience
Let us know in the comments or DM if you'd like to be added.
November 25, 2024 at 7:45 PM
If you're new to #Bluesky, our #Plant Modelling Scientists starter pack can help you find users you can follow to help you get started:
bsky.app/starter-pack... #PlantScience
Let us know in the comments or DM if you'd like to be added.
bsky.app/starter-pack... #PlantScience
Let us know in the comments or DM if you'd like to be added.
Reposted by Lily-belle Sweet
Coming soon: I’ll be hiring a PhD candidate to explore regions in Germany disproportionately affected by floods & droughts, focusing on cross-sector impacts and using NLP-driven datasets #academicjobs
November 22, 2024 at 11:38 AM
Coming soon: I’ll be hiring a PhD candidate to explore regions in Germany disproportionately affected by floods & droughts, focusing on cross-sector impacts and using NLP-driven datasets #academicjobs
Reposted by Lily-belle Sweet
November 20, 2024 at 7:16 AM
Reposted by Lily-belle Sweet
Exciting Postdoc Opportunity! 🌟🌊🌏
Research fellow position at University of Melbourne to study the ocean's role in climate variability. You'll be working with myself, @nicolamaher.bsky.social and @andyhogg.bsky.social and also interacting with the ocean team from CliMA.
bit.ly/4fmIFv4
Research fellow position at University of Melbourne to study the ocean's role in climate variability. You'll be working with myself, @nicolamaher.bsky.social and @andyhogg.bsky.social and also interacting with the ocean team from CliMA.
bit.ly/4fmIFv4
Details : Research Fellow in Physical Oceanography and Climate Variability : The University of Melbourne
Careers at The University of Melbourne
jobs.unimelb.edu.au
October 29, 2024 at 6:29 AM
Exciting Postdoc Opportunity! 🌟🌊🌏
Research fellow position at University of Melbourne to study the ocean's role in climate variability. You'll be working with myself, @nicolamaher.bsky.social and @andyhogg.bsky.social and also interacting with the ocean team from CliMA.
bit.ly/4fmIFv4
Research fellow position at University of Melbourne to study the ocean's role in climate variability. You'll be working with myself, @nicolamaher.bsky.social and @andyhogg.bsky.social and also interacting with the ocean team from CliMA.
bit.ly/4fmIFv4
Welcome to my office (for today)...
November 19, 2024 at 3:40 AM
Welcome to my office (for today)...
Reposted by Lily-belle Sweet
New policy brief, initiated by Ralf Seppelt, on the complexity of the concept of agricultural productivity beyond yield per area
www.ufz.de/index.php?en...
www.ufz.de/index.php?en...
November 17, 2024 at 8:05 PM
New policy brief, initiated by Ralf Seppelt, on the complexity of the concept of agricultural productivity beyond yield per area
www.ufz.de/index.php?en...
www.ufz.de/index.php?en...
Pretty happy with my office today! this is the State Library in Melbourne, where I did a couple of hours' work before visiting a local colony of fairy penguins. I'm in Australia for a few weeks, reach out if you're also down under :)
November 17, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Pretty happy with my office today! this is the State Library in Melbourne, where I did a couple of hours' work before visiting a local colony of fairy penguins. I'm in Australia for a few weeks, reach out if you're also down under :)