Wouter Koch
@wouter.no
Biodiversity Informatics guy (he/him) @Artsdatabanken. #Biology PhD on improving use and collection of #CitizenScience data with tools like #MachineLearning. Dad³
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🔓 Open licenses, -data, -science, -source, -hardware, -borders, and minds 🇳🇱🇳🇴🇪🇺🤘⧖
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
Reposted by Wouter Koch
How do we do more with biodiversity data we've already collected?
I gave a TED Talk on scientific discovery in ecological databases at a joint TED Countdown and Bezos Earth Fund event for #NYClimateWeek this year, and it's now live!
@inaturalist.bsky.social #AIforConservation
I gave a TED Talk on scientific discovery in ecological databases at a joint TED Countdown and Bezos Earth Fund event for #NYClimateWeek this year, and it's now live!
@inaturalist.bsky.social #AIforConservation
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
How do we do more with biodiversity data we've already collected?
I gave a TED Talk on scientific discovery in ecological databases at a joint TED Countdown and Bezos Earth Fund event for #NYClimateWeek this year, and it's now live!
@inaturalist.bsky.social #AIforConservation
I gave a TED Talk on scientific discovery in ecological databases at a joint TED Countdown and Bezos Earth Fund event for #NYClimateWeek this year, and it's now live!
@inaturalist.bsky.social #AIforConservation
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“Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.” www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.” www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
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I keep seeing these @ourworldindata.org posts with weird, convoluted visualizations or phrasing.
Researcher: "Please tell me whether you think homosexuality can always be justified, never be justified, or something in between."
Interviewed: "4"
I assume I know what they mean, but wtf.
Researcher: "Please tell me whether you think homosexuality can always be justified, never be justified, or something in between."
Interviewed: "4"
I assume I know what they mean, but wtf.
Hostility toward homosexuality remains common in many of the world’s largest countries—
This chart shows the share of people who say homosexuality cannot be justified across five of the world’s most populous countries.
Together, these countries are home to nearly half of the global population.
This chart shows the share of people who say homosexuality cannot be justified across five of the world’s most populous countries.
Together, these countries are home to nearly half of the global population.
September 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I keep seeing these @ourworldindata.org posts with weird, convoluted visualizations or phrasing.
Researcher: "Please tell me whether you think homosexuality can always be justified, never be justified, or something in between."
Interviewed: "4"
I assume I know what they mean, but wtf.
Researcher: "Please tell me whether you think homosexuality can always be justified, never be justified, or something in between."
Interviewed: "4"
I assume I know what they mean, but wtf.
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Deadline verzet! 🚨
Ben jij een PhD-kandidaat of masterstudent en werk je aan biodiversiteitsgegevens?
Dan kom je in aanmerking voor de Graduate Researchers Award t.w.v. €5000! 🏆
Stuur je inzending voor 25 juni 2025 naar @nielsraes.bsky.social via [email protected]. 📧
Voorwaarden GBIF.org
Ben jij een PhD-kandidaat of masterstudent en werk je aan biodiversiteitsgegevens?
Dan kom je in aanmerking voor de Graduate Researchers Award t.w.v. €5000! 🏆
Stuur je inzending voor 25 juni 2025 naar @nielsraes.bsky.social via [email protected]. 📧
Voorwaarden GBIF.org
Call for nominations opens for 2025 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award
Deadline for GBIF member countries to nominate graduate students whose innovative research relies on biodiversity data: **27 June 2025**
www.gbif.org
June 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Deadline verzet! 🚨
Ben jij een PhD-kandidaat of masterstudent en werk je aan biodiversiteitsgegevens?
Dan kom je in aanmerking voor de Graduate Researchers Award t.w.v. €5000! 🏆
Stuur je inzending voor 25 juni 2025 naar @nielsraes.bsky.social via [email protected]. 📧
Voorwaarden GBIF.org
Ben jij een PhD-kandidaat of masterstudent en werk je aan biodiversiteitsgegevens?
Dan kom je in aanmerking voor de Graduate Researchers Award t.w.v. €5000! 🏆
Stuur je inzending voor 25 juni 2025 naar @nielsraes.bsky.social via [email protected]. 📧
Voorwaarden GBIF.org
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#computer vision #ai #insect #pollinators #vectors A wonderful MC and WG meeting with the InsectAIers at a beautiful venue in Albania. Demonstrations of newly developed camera traps for pollinators but also vectors. Fruitful discussions and new ideas! Many thanks to our host Anila Paparisto!
May 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
#computer vision #ai #insect #pollinators #vectors A wonderful MC and WG meeting with the InsectAIers at a beautiful venue in Albania. Demonstrations of newly developed camera traps for pollinators but also vectors. Fruitful discussions and new ideas! Many thanks to our host Anila Paparisto!
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"Those who know me well know I was eventually going to build a giant curlew"
BBC news: “Man sets off on 53-mile walk dressed as a curlew”. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Man sets off on Nidderdale walk dressed as a curlew
Matt Trevelyan made the Eurasian curlew costume out of polystyrene and bamboo.
www.bbc.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
"Those who know me well know I was eventually going to build a giant curlew"
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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Time for a "hello, world"! Follow me for irregular toots on biology+technology. Long live the true fediverse.
March 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Time for a "hello, world"! Follow me for irregular toots on biology+technology. Long live the true fediverse.