Cara Appel
@cappel.bsky.social
Wildlife Science PhD candidate at Oregon State Univ. 🦉📈 Bioacoustics, owls, camera traps, computer vision. 🐾 Also porcupines. 🍃 Nature nerd, reader. 📚 she/her
🔗 https://appelc.github.io/
🔗 https://appelc.github.io/
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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
When: Jan 12-30, 2026
Where: SCBI @smconservation.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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
When: Jan 12-30, 2026
Where: SCBI @smconservation.bsky.social
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We're observing #InternationalWomensDay by celebrating the incredible women in #conservationtech and the work WILDLABS is doing to honour this year's theme: #AccelerateAction.
📸: Dany Samwel; MarAlliance; Taty Lopez; Laura Kloepper
📸: Dany Samwel; MarAlliance; Taty Lopez; Laura Kloepper
March 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
We're observing #InternationalWomensDay by celebrating the incredible women in #conservationtech and the work WILDLABS is doing to honour this year's theme: #AccelerateAction.
📸: Dany Samwel; MarAlliance; Taty Lopez; Laura Kloepper
📸: Dany Samwel; MarAlliance; Taty Lopez; Laura Kloepper
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Today! Stand Up For Science - Seattle: 12-3pm, Seattle Center, Mural Amphitheatre.
#standupforscience
#standupforscience
Stand Up for Science 2025 - Seattle, WA
Eventbrite - Stand up for Science presents Stand Up for Science 2025 - Seattle, WA - Friday, March 7, 2025 at Mural Amphitheatre at Seattle Center, Seattle, WA. Find event and ticket information.
www.eventbrite.com
March 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Today! Stand Up For Science - Seattle: 12-3pm, Seattle Center, Mural Amphitheatre.
#standupforscience
#standupforscience
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So much science is being deleted & forgotten. It's time for drastic action.
We need a scientific 2-pager because:
- Length≄Credibility
- Strengthening peer review > Removing it
- The academic article is outdated
Let’s publish our research before it’s too late.
🧪 #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky
We need a scientific 2-pager because:
- Length≄Credibility
- Strengthening peer review > Removing it
- The academic article is outdated
Let’s publish our research before it’s too late.
🧪 #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky
In a time of Trump, we need to rethink the academic paper
The past few weeks have made one thing painfully clear: science is under attack and the integrity of science itself is on the line.
www.stacksjournal.org
March 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
So much science is being deleted & forgotten. It's time for drastic action.
We need a scientific 2-pager because:
- Length≄Credibility
- Strengthening peer review > Removing it
- The academic article is outdated
Let’s publish our research before it’s too late.
🧪 #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky
We need a scientific 2-pager because:
- Length≄Credibility
- Strengthening peer review > Removing it
- The academic article is outdated
Let’s publish our research before it’s too late.
🧪 #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky
What a way to go out
Spotted owls are disappearing fast, and federal cuts could mean no one's left to count them
U.S. Forest Service layoffs have upended surveys for spotted owls in Southern and Northern California, threatening data collection for the declining birds.
www.latimes.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:41 AM
What a way to go out
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Seattle folks: Stand Up for Science this Friday!
March 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Seattle folks: Stand Up for Science this Friday!
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Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
www.ucsusa.org
March 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
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I am incredibly excited to see our SpeciesNet model released!! This represents years of work by the @wildlifeinsights.bsky.social AI team (and completely impossible without the amazing Ștefan Istrate's AI development and implementation).
Github: github.com/google/camer...
Blog: bit.ly/4i5cKBs
Github: github.com/google/camer...
Blog: bit.ly/4i5cKBs
GitHub - google/cameratrapai: AI models trained by Google to classify species in images from motion-triggered widlife cameras.
AI models trained by Google to classify species in images from motion-triggered widlife cameras. - google/cameratrapai
github.com
March 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I am incredibly excited to see our SpeciesNet model released!! This represents years of work by the @wildlifeinsights.bsky.social AI team (and completely impossible without the amazing Ștefan Istrate's AI development and implementation).
Github: github.com/google/camer...
Blog: bit.ly/4i5cKBs
Github: github.com/google/camer...
Blog: bit.ly/4i5cKBs
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PORCUPINES, the official mascot of anybody who wants friends but doesn't know how to make them
Barbs. Grunts. Bone caves. Dogs who got too close. Romance that goes hard. We got PORCUPINES, folks.
#Erethizonology expert Dr. Tim Bean of Cal Poly is as charming an ologist you can get. Also, one word: porcupette.
www.alieward.com/ologies/eret...
#Erethizonology expert Dr. Tim Bean of Cal Poly is as charming an ologist you can get. Also, one word: porcupette.
www.alieward.com/ologies/eret...
Erethizonology (PORCUPINES) with Dr. Tim Bean — alie ward
Barbs. Grunts. Bone caves. Dogs who got too close. We got porcupines, folks. Dr. Tim Bean of Cal Poly is as charming an ologist you can get, fielding questions about porcupine squeaks, stanks, cartoon...
www.alieward.com
February 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
PORCUPINES, the official mascot of anybody who wants friends but doesn't know how to make them
So glad to see these critters getting the attention they deserve! Shoutout to my awesome former advisor for this wonderful interview
Barbs. Grunts. Bone caves. Dogs who got too close. Romance that goes hard. We got PORCUPINES, folks.
#Erethizonology expert Dr. Tim Bean of Cal Poly is as charming an ologist you can get. Also, one word: porcupette.
www.alieward.com/ologies/eret...
#Erethizonology expert Dr. Tim Bean of Cal Poly is as charming an ologist you can get. Also, one word: porcupette.
www.alieward.com/ologies/eret...
Erethizonology (PORCUPINES) with Dr. Tim Bean — alie ward
Barbs. Grunts. Bone caves. Dogs who got too close. We got porcupines, folks. Dr. Tim Bean of Cal Poly is as charming an ologist you can get, fielding questions about porcupine squeaks, stanks, cartoon...
www.alieward.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
So glad to see these critters getting the attention they deserve! Shoutout to my awesome former advisor for this wonderful interview
so devastating for international wildlife conservation projects
February 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
so devastating for international wildlife conservation projects
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I am recruiting two funded graduate students (1 MS, 1 PhD) to join the lab and the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences program at Oregon State University!
If you are into population ecology and a combination of fieldwork and modeling - then check this out!
Please share/repost widely!
If you are into population ecology and a combination of fieldwork and modeling - then check this out!
Please share/repost widely!
January 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I am recruiting two funded graduate students (1 MS, 1 PhD) to join the lab and the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences program at Oregon State University!
If you are into population ecology and a combination of fieldwork and modeling - then check this out!
Please share/repost widely!
If you are into population ecology and a combination of fieldwork and modeling - then check this out!
Please share/repost widely!
Reposted by Cara Appel
📖Published📖
Our new Application paper presents Whombat, a user-friendly, browser-based interface for managing audio recordings and annotation projects, with several visualization, exploration and annotation tools 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇
https://buff.ly/3DddoNt
Our new Application paper presents Whombat, a user-friendly, browser-based interface for managing audio recordings and annotation projects, with several visualization, exploration and annotation tools 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇
https://buff.ly/3DddoNt
December 19, 2024 at 12:00 PM
📖Published📖
Our new Application paper presents Whombat, a user-friendly, browser-based interface for managing audio recordings and annotation projects, with several visualization, exploration and annotation tools 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇
https://buff.ly/3DddoNt
Our new Application paper presents Whombat, a user-friendly, browser-based interface for managing audio recordings and annotation projects, with several visualization, exploration and annotation tools 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇
https://buff.ly/3DddoNt
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Realy nice review on how do #ecologists estimate #occupancy in practice
It seems that single-species is the most common model family, #mammals the most common group, and unmarked #Rpackage the most common software
#cameratrapping
@ecography.bsky.social
It seems that single-species is the most common model family, #mammals the most common group, and unmarked #Rpackage the most common software
#cameratrapping
@ecography.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 12:31 PM
Realy nice review on how do #ecologists estimate #occupancy in practice
It seems that single-species is the most common model family, #mammals the most common group, and unmarked #Rpackage the most common software
#cameratrapping
@ecography.bsky.social
It seems that single-species is the most common model family, #mammals the most common group, and unmarked #Rpackage the most common software
#cameratrapping
@ecography.bsky.social
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🎯 How can we empower scientific discovery in millions of nature photos?
Introducing INQUIRE: A benchmark testing if AI vision-language models can help scientists find biodiversity patterns- from disease symptoms to rare behaviors- hidden in vast image collections.
Thread👇🧵
Introducing INQUIRE: A benchmark testing if AI vision-language models can help scientists find biodiversity patterns- from disease symptoms to rare behaviors- hidden in vast image collections.
Thread👇🧵
December 6, 2024 at 8:28 PM
🎯 How can we empower scientific discovery in millions of nature photos?
Introducing INQUIRE: A benchmark testing if AI vision-language models can help scientists find biodiversity patterns- from disease symptoms to rare behaviors- hidden in vast image collections.
Thread👇🧵
Introducing INQUIRE: A benchmark testing if AI vision-language models can help scientists find biodiversity patterns- from disease symptoms to rare behaviors- hidden in vast image collections.
Thread👇🧵