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Millie Chapman
@milliechapman.bsky.social
assistant professor of environmental policy @ ETH Zurich 🌎🌱

ecology, decision theory, data & algorithmic justice

https://milliechapman.info

stay curious, have fun
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Great presentation today by Melissa Chapman on 'Designing equitable strategies to meet global conservation and restoration targets' in the IED Seminar at ETH Zürich @milliechapman.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social

Homepage Environmental Policy Lab: epl.ethz.ch
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Launching AI for Public Goods Fast Grants!

We'll distribute $150k to advance critical work connecting AI and public goods.

💰 $10k per project
💰 $800 reviewer compensation

PUBLIC GOODS := open source, ecosystem services, climate, urban infrastructure, communication, education, science, and more.
Announcing AI for Public Goods Fast Grants (AI4PG) 2025

Up to $10K for AI research improving decision making in public goods funding.

Fast review (within 4 weeks), simple applications (max 1000 words), open to any researchers worldwide. Call for reviewers now open!

recerts.org/ai4pg2025
Recerts
Recerts Journal of Mechanism Design for Public Goods
recerts.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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After engaging presentations from Michael Anthony, S. Karthik Mukkavilli and @milliechapman.bsky.social, we are now discussing the pipeline from AI to Impact, moderated by Sarah Tariq. Take home message: the fairness and trustworthiness of models are key for supporting society as a whole.
October 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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New article out in Geo: Geography and Environment with an interdisciplinary dream team of coauthors: “From maps to models: Participation and contestability in the dynamic management of natural resources.”
doi.org/10.1002/geo2... (open access)
September 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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The High Seas Treaty is poised to be ratified, creating a legal instrument for protected areas in the high seas. We see a crucial role for "Collective Science" to provide robust biodiversity data and to help inform protection of this vast 3D space. Read more in Ecology Letters: tinyurl.com/33637jax
Collective Science to Inform Global Ocean Protections
Signatories are poised to ratify the UN High Seas Treaty, providing a legal mechanism to create protected areas in our greatest global commons. Robust, publicly accessible biodiversity data is needed...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The Environmental Policy Lab at @ethz.ch is hiring!

🌱 A Postdoc broadly interested in resilient data infrastructure & policy for biodiversity governance
🌱 Two PhD students interested in biodiversity policy and spatial planning

more info here: epl.ethz.ch/the-group/op...

Please share widely! 🌍
Open Positions
We are currently hiring for multiple PhD and postdoc positions (see below)!  If you are interested in applying to independent fellowships (e.g. SNSF Ambizione, MSCA Postdoc Fellowship, ETH4D graduate ...
epl.ethz.ch
July 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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📢 New research out today! Led by Justin Johnson from the @umn-econ.bsky.social our article presents 🌏 Earth-Economy (EE) modelling as a general approach for decision support for sustainability through a review of progress in Earth-Economy models linking Earth system and economic modelling.
July 18, 2025 at 4:09 AM
"We suggest that the scientific community needs to think carefully about where we find worth in what we do. LLMs are eroding that space. Let’s not lose sight of the depth and complexity inherent in the human activity of science."
A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes.

This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .
AI, peer review and the human activity of science
When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.
www.nature.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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@milliechapman.bsky.social is getting into film... to me, these images really encapsulate the feeling of a cold Monterey Peninsula surf in rhythm with the kelp, waves, and wildlife
May 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Integrated spatial planning is used to identify where restoration, conservation and production across Europe could maximize benefits to species conservation and climate mitigation under changing needs for food, bioenergy and timber to 2030 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Meeting European Union biodiversity targets under future land-use demands - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Integrated spatial planning of the European Union Nature Restoration Regulation under multiple implementation scenarios is used to identify where restoration, conservation and production across Europe...
www.nature.com
May 7, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Our new work led by @milliechapman.bsky.social on the NRR is out in @natureecoevo.bsky.social 🎉
Integrated spatial planning can identify opportunities for restoration, while considering future land demand and burden sharing.
Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@iiasa.ac.at @naturaconnect.bsky.social
Meeting European Union biodiversity targets under future land-use demands - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Integrated spatial planning of the European Union Nature Restoration Regulation under multiple implementation scenarios is used to identify where restoration, conservation and production across Europe...
doi.org
April 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Look what came in the mail today 👀
April 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Sumatra's mind-bending reef breaks and landscapes @milliechapman.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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With the 2025 UN Ocean Conference approaching & the High Seas Treaty poised for ratification, there is a need & opportunity for collective science action to inform global ocean protections. Our preprint explores collective science for ocean biodiversity data & conservation: tinyurl.com/4cu987ea
April 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Tofino, British Columbia, Nov 2024
@milliechapman.bsky.social
March 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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I know for a fact that should AGI come about, it will not be able to do the cognitive task that most matters to me: engage with the world, figure out what I think and believe and then express those things to others as part of a community. Who's with me? www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...
More Than Words
A veteran writing teacher makes a “moving” (Rick Wormeli) argument that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be replaced by...
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March 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Big Sur, CA. March 1, 2025. with @milliechapman.bsky.social , photos by/of one-another
March 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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We're excited to announce the next edition of our workshop "Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning" at #ICLR2025 in Singapore!

▶️ Mentorship program deadline: Dec 27, 2024
▶️ Paper submission deadline: Jan 31, 2025

Learn more & submit: climatechange.ai/events/iclr2...
December 17, 2024 at 3:35 PM
check out our new preprint on participation and contestibility in the dynamic management of natural resources!
I’ve got a new preprint with an interdisciplinary dream team of coauthors:

“From Maps to Models: Participation and Contestability in the Dynamic Management of Natural Resources

Check it out and let us know what you think: osf.io/ac7hx/
October 26, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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Exciting opportunity for multiple postdoctoral scholars to join our growing UC Berkeley team at DSE! Focus areas in Climate resilience in our National Parks, Indigenous Environmental Stewardship, Applied hydrology, + Tools for Working Lands. ~ $87K - $95K + plus benefits

dse.berkeley.edu/postdocs
Postdoctoral Scholars - Environmental Science / Data Science | The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for...
dse.berkeley.edu
January 17, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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Thrilled to see "Biodiversity monitoring for a just planetary future" now out in Science! Led by @milliechapman.bsky.social in collaboration with 14 coauthors from ecology, sociology, geography, computer science and other disciplines. 🌏 🦋 doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Biodiversity monitoring for a just planetary future
Data that influence policy and major investment decisions risk entrenching social and political inequities
doi.org
January 5, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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I'm stoked to see that "Biodiversity monitoring for a just planetary future" is now out in Science! This effort was led by
@milliechapman.bsky.social in collaboration with 14 coauthors including myself spanning many disciplines. Preview below. DM for PDF. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
January 4, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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"Environment, Society, and Machine Learning" is now live! I had the privilege of coauthoring this piece with 9 brilliant colleagues. Thanks, Christian Borch & @pardoguerra.bsky.social for including our chapter in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of ML! doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
December 19, 2023 at 7:30 PM