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Sara Beery
@sarameghanbeery.bsky.social
Research on AI and biodiversity 🌍

Asst Prof at MIT CSAIL,
AI for Conservation slack and CV4Ecology founder

#QueerInAI 🏳️‍🌈
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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
COME WORK WITH ME!!!

Very exciting open faculty position at MIT, with ecosystem and biodiversity modeling as a focus!

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November 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Reposted by Sara Beery
Thank you @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social for the invitation to speak on the panel at the #CV4Ecology Workshop at @iccv.bsky.social, alongside Ryan Perroy, Joost Daniels, Justin @kitzeslab.bsky.social, and — Zooming in from the #LivingData conference in Bogotá — Tanya Berger-Wolf (1/3)
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
For the folks heading to the bird walk, rain is clearing! We will wait a few minutes at our starting point for any stragglers who were avoiding the downpour earlier 😅
Are you coming to @iccv.bsky.social??

Do you like BIRDS?!?! The #CVBirdWalk is happening!!!

Oct. 21, 7am, Ala Moana Park. Kick off your conference right!!

#ICCV2025 #AIforConservation
October 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The Computer Vision for Ecology Workshop at @iccv.bsky.social is starting soon!! All day in 323B, see you there!!
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
I’m at #ICCV2025 this week!!

10/19:

Giving a talk this morning (8:45am) at the Instance-Level Representation and Generation Workshop in 306 A

At the Marine Vision (318B) and Earth Observation (307A) workshops throughout the day

Attending the Women in Computer Vision mentorship dinner
October 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Reposted by Sara Beery
I’m definitely going! #iccv2025
Are you coming to @iccv.bsky.social??

Do you like BIRDS?!?! The #CVBirdWalk is happening!!!

Oct. 21, 7am, Ala Moana Park. Kick off your conference right!!

#ICCV2025 #AIforConservation
October 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Are you coming to @iccv.bsky.social??

Do you like BIRDS?!?! The #CVBirdWalk is happening!!!

Oct. 21, 7am, Ala Moana Park. Kick off your conference right!!

#ICCV2025 #AIforConservation
October 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Reposted by Sara Beery
CODA is a smart way to pick the best AI model. It uses the models' own feedback to find the most important data to check, reducing the annotation work by 70%. Brilliant and efficient!
#MLSky #ResearchSky
This new work by @justin-kay.bsky.social provides ML users with an efficient mechanism to wade through the sea of available open-source models and identify which model will work best for their needs!

Check it out below, and learn more at our @iccv.bsky.social poster (highlight!) on 10/21!!
There are now millions of publicly-available AI models – which one is right for you?

We introduce CODA ( #ICCV2025 Highlight! ), a method for *active model selection.* CODA selects the best model for your data with any labeling budget – often as few as 25 labeled examples. 1/

@iccv.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Reposted by Sara Beery
🎙️ Come and meet our amazing keynote speakers
Sara Beery - Assistant Professor at MIT CSAIL
@sarameghanbeery.bsky.social

Matej Kristan - Full professor at the University of Ljubljana
www.vicos.si/people/matej...

Mark Boss - Co-Head of 3D & Image at Stability AI
@markboss.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This new work by @justin-kay.bsky.social provides ML users with an efficient mechanism to wade through the sea of available open-source models and identify which model will work best for their needs!

Check it out below, and learn more at our @iccv.bsky.social poster (highlight!) on 10/21!!
There are now millions of publicly-available AI models – which one is right for you?

We introduce CODA ( #ICCV2025 Highlight! ), a method for *active model selection.* CODA selects the best model for your data with any labeling budget – often as few as 25 labeled examples. 1/

@iccv.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Reposted by Sara Beery
There are now millions of publicly-available AI models – which one is right for you?

We introduce CODA ( #ICCV2025 Highlight! ), a method for *active model selection.* CODA selects the best model for your data with any labeling budget – often as few as 25 labeled examples. 1/

@iccv.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is going to be fun! I'll be talking about our recent work on dataset subselection for specialization instead of generalization - how do we build optimal models for specific end users given a big pool of generalist data?
October 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It's awesome to see the thriving AI + Environment community come together! Thanks for inviting me 💚
The @ai-env-summit.bsky.social is getting started 🚀 First speaker: the amazing @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social on species modeling 🦌
October 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Coming up this Saturday!

There's still time to register if you want to join us for the #AIforConservation Boston Meetup, details below :)

See you all there!
Are you interested in #AIforConservation #AIforBiodiversity #AIforWildlife or #AIforNature?? Are you located in the Boston Area?

If so, come join us!! The AI for Conservation Slack community is doing our first local-area Boston meetup, partnering with iNaturalist and TEDx Boston!
September 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Reposted by Sara Beery
🌍 Excited to announce our Workshop on AI for Climate & Conservation (AICC) at #EurIPS2025 in Copenhagen! 🎉

📢 Call for Participation: sites.google.com/g.harvard.ed...

Confirmed speakers from Mistral AI, DeepMind, ETH Zurich, LSCE & more.

Looking forward to meeting and discussing in Copenhagen!
September 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Reposted by Sara Beery
There’s a fun Easter egg in this front page figure @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social @oisinmacaodha.bsky.social (INQUIRE is one of the super interesting and extremely challenging benchmarks we consider!)
September 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Reposted by Sara Beery
"GenAI is just a tool, scientists are the ones who add value." Great point from @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social, reminding us that human expertise remains central to the research process.
#MITGenAISymposium #MGAIC #AIForBiodiversity
September 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
We’ve just opened up applications to serve as an instructor for the CV4Ecology Program 2026!

CV4Ecology (cv4ecology.caltech.edu) is an interdisciplinary AI education program focused on building AI expertise in the ecological community.
September 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Are you interested in #AIforConservation #AIforBiodiversity #AIforWildlife or #AIforNature?? Are you located in the Boston Area?

If so, come join us!! The AI for Conservation Slack community is doing our first local-area Boston meetup, partnering with iNaturalist and TEDx Boston!
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Reposted by Sara Beery
What EyeRIS revealed was incredible, fine-scale detail of the 3D movements of octopus arms as they crawled over the seafloor completely unconstrained. We learned that octopus crawl by creating a modified foot that persists throughout the behavior, a simplification that could aid roboticists. 8/n
August 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Reposted by Sara Beery
Two beautiful camera trap images of an Iberian lynx and an Eurasian lynx in the wild 💚
August 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Looking forward to speaking in the "Machines as Observers in Ecological Monitoring" session this morning at the @amstatnews.bsky.social Joint Statistical Meetings!

If you're here, come by!

10:30-12:30 in CC-210

Speaker schedule and more info: ww3.aievolution.com/JSMAnnual202...
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ww3.aievolution.com
August 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Submit your non-archival AI+Ecology papers to the
CV4Eecology Research Workshop at #ICCV2025
now!! (this includes preliminary and recently published submissions).

The *updated deadline* is August 15th, 2025, submission details here: cv4e.netlify.app/submit/
Submit a paper or abstract | CV4E
Submit to CV4E at ICCV 2025! The Computer Vision for Ecology workshop aims to bring together experts to foster discussion on the automation of ecological data collection, collation, and analysis.
cv4e.netlify.app
August 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Reposted by Sara Beery
So… I have an idea! For those of us attending ICCV 2025 in Hawaii, I thought it would be very exciting and fun to collect an exotic dataset of tropical plants and animal species.

I’m staying for vacations after the conference, and would like to combine it with the data collection. Who is joining?
July 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Reposted by Sara Beery
@sarameghanbeery.bsky.social @serge.belongie.com I know you’ve been working on fine-grained classification of animals/plants, so maybe it’s of interest? Could you circulate to people that might be interested? @iccv.bsky.social #ICCV2025
July 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM