Jamie Alison
@jamiealison.bsky.social
Tenure track researcher at the Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University.
Champion for automated insect monitoring with cameras and computer vision.
Champion for automated insect monitoring with cameras and computer vision.
Congratulations on a very cool paper @pauenric.bsky.social!
It was great to meet you at the ACCESS summer school this year 😆 I've been waiting to see this!
It was great to meet you at the ACCESS summer school this year 😆 I've been waiting to see this!
‼️🚨My first PhD paper out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
We built an automated camera system to detect plant–pollinator interactions (day & night) and compared networks from cameras vs. focal observations.
📜👉 doi.org/10.1111/2041...
@annatraveset.bsky.social
@imedea.bsky.social
We built an automated camera system to detect plant–pollinator interactions (day & night) and compared networks from cameras vs. focal observations.
📜👉 doi.org/10.1111/2041...
@annatraveset.bsky.social
@imedea.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Congratulations on a very cool paper @pauenric.bsky.social!
It was great to meet you at the ACCESS summer school this year 😆 I've been waiting to see this!
It was great to meet you at the ACCESS summer school this year 😆 I've been waiting to see this!
Detecting pollinators with AI isn't as easy as people say 🔎🐝
Studies show high scores on one dataset 📈 then imply the model is useful elsewhere 🤥
@veralis.bsky.social & co. don't board the AI hype train 🤖🚆
They expose real challenges when deploying GBIF-trained AI for pollinator surveillance 🐞🪰👍
Studies show high scores on one dataset 📈 then imply the model is useful elsewhere 🤥
@veralis.bsky.social & co. don't board the AI hype train 🤖🚆
They expose real challenges when deploying GBIF-trained AI for pollinator surveillance 🐞🪰👍
Our latest research explores how YOLO object detectors, trained on citizen science images, perform on unseen time-lapse images of pollinators captured with a fixed smartphone setup. While successful for larger pollinators, detecting smaller or blurrier flower visitors remains a challenge.
August 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Detecting pollinators with AI isn't as easy as people say 🔎🐝
Studies show high scores on one dataset 📈 then imply the model is useful elsewhere 🤥
@veralis.bsky.social & co. don't board the AI hype train 🤖🚆
They expose real challenges when deploying GBIF-trained AI for pollinator surveillance 🐞🪰👍
Studies show high scores on one dataset 📈 then imply the model is useful elsewhere 🤥
@veralis.bsky.social & co. don't board the AI hype train 🤖🚆
They expose real challenges when deploying GBIF-trained AI for pollinator surveillance 🐞🪰👍
Reposted by Jamie Alison
🚨 In press in Journal of Ecology 🍀 We found plant community thermophilisation 🌿☘️🌡📈 & rapid species range shifts towards 🏔 summits in the 🇨🇭 Alps, but 🌿☘️🌡📈 only shows up when using 0-1 data
➡️ Weighting by 🌿 abundance data dilutes the signal 🌐🧪
@journalofecology.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/4u2y8rft
➡️ Weighting by 🌿 abundance data dilutes the signal 🌐🧪
@journalofecology.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/4u2y8rft
July 24, 2025 at 5:42 AM
🚨 In press in Journal of Ecology 🍀 We found plant community thermophilisation 🌿☘️🌡📈 & rapid species range shifts towards 🏔 summits in the 🇨🇭 Alps, but 🌿☘️🌡📈 only shows up when using 0-1 data
➡️ Weighting by 🌿 abundance data dilutes the signal 🌐🧪
@journalofecology.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/4u2y8rft
➡️ Weighting by 🌿 abundance data dilutes the signal 🌐🧪
@journalofecology.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/4u2y8rft
You may have heard of MegaDetector 🐅
What about a MiniDetector? 🪰
In my opinion flatbug is the closest thing we have to a universal insect detector.
Open source and free to use.
Amazing & groundbreaking work lead by @asgersvenning.bsky.social & @qgeissmann.bsky.social
What about a MiniDetector? 🪰
In my opinion flatbug is the closest thing we have to a universal insect detector.
Open source and free to use.
Amazing & groundbreaking work lead by @asgersvenning.bsky.social & @qgeissmann.bsky.social
I am excited to share that my first first-author paper, “A General Method for Detection and Segmentation of Terrestrial Arthropods in Images,” is now available on preprint.
If you are interested take a look at my blog (asgersvenning.com/flat-bug/) or consider reading the pre-print (linked below).
If you are interested take a look at my blog (asgersvenning.com/flat-bug/) or consider reading the pre-print (linked below).
April 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
You may have heard of MegaDetector 🐅
What about a MiniDetector? 🪰
In my opinion flatbug is the closest thing we have to a universal insect detector.
Open source and free to use.
Amazing & groundbreaking work lead by @asgersvenning.bsky.social & @qgeissmann.bsky.social
What about a MiniDetector? 🪰
In my opinion flatbug is the closest thing we have to a universal insect detector.
Open source and free to use.
Amazing & groundbreaking work lead by @asgersvenning.bsky.social & @qgeissmann.bsky.social
Last year we hosted the first Aarhus Computational Entomology Summer School 💻🐞
20 talented participants got inspired about AI for insect monitoring 🤖📸🐝
So much 5⭐ feedback
A week of free tuition, food and lodging in a National Park 🐎 so not surprising
This year: Up to 20 more lucky people! 🍀
20 talented participants got inspired about AI for insect monitoring 🤖📸🐝
So much 5⭐ feedback
A week of free tuition, food and lodging in a National Park 🐎 so not surprising
This year: Up to 20 more lucky people! 🍀
Aarhus Comprehensive Computational Entomology Summer School (ACCESS-2025). Learn how to develop and apply novel technologies to insect ecology. *Deadline April 15th* for this fully funded (through @insectai.bsky.social) opportunity! More on darsa.info/ACCESS-2025/
March 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Last year we hosted the first Aarhus Computational Entomology Summer School 💻🐞
20 talented participants got inspired about AI for insect monitoring 🤖📸🐝
So much 5⭐ feedback
A week of free tuition, food and lodging in a National Park 🐎 so not surprising
This year: Up to 20 more lucky people! 🍀
20 talented participants got inspired about AI for insect monitoring 🤖📸🐝
So much 5⭐ feedback
A week of free tuition, food and lodging in a National Park 🐎 so not surprising
This year: Up to 20 more lucky people! 🍀
🚨WEBINAR ALERT🚨(free)
The #insect monitoring toolbox includes a suite of #sensors for automated data collection.
But what can they achieve?
Find out next Friday with fascinating talks from
@drolnick.bsky.social, Emily Bick, Mikkel Brydegaard & Eva Knop
wildlabs.net/event/automa...
The #insect monitoring toolbox includes a suite of #sensors for automated data collection.
But what can they achieve?
Find out next Friday with fascinating talks from
@drolnick.bsky.social, Emily Bick, Mikkel Brydegaard & Eva Knop
wildlabs.net/event/automa...
Automated Insect Monitoring Across Modalities | WILDLABS
Webinar on insect sensing systems
wildlabs.net
January 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🚨WEBINAR ALERT🚨(free)
The #insect monitoring toolbox includes a suite of #sensors for automated data collection.
But what can they achieve?
Find out next Friday with fascinating talks from
@drolnick.bsky.social, Emily Bick, Mikkel Brydegaard & Eva Knop
wildlabs.net/event/automa...
The #insect monitoring toolbox includes a suite of #sensors for automated data collection.
But what can they achieve?
Find out next Friday with fascinating talks from
@drolnick.bsky.social, Emily Bick, Mikkel Brydegaard & Eva Knop
wildlabs.net/event/automa...
Reposted by Jamie Alison
Listen up! Our next monitoring webinar explores #bioacoustics
Explore implementation w/ insights from Carlos Abrahams & @jamiealison.bsky.social
🗓️ 21 Jan., 13:00-14:30 CET
👉 Register: https://www.biodiversa.eu/2025/01/16/unveiling-biodiversity-with-sound-a-bioacoustics-monitoring-webinar/
Explore implementation w/ insights from Carlos Abrahams & @jamiealison.bsky.social
🗓️ 21 Jan., 13:00-14:30 CET
👉 Register: https://www.biodiversa.eu/2025/01/16/unveiling-biodiversity-with-sound-a-bioacoustics-monitoring-webinar/
January 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Listen up! Our next monitoring webinar explores #bioacoustics
Explore implementation w/ insights from Carlos Abrahams & @jamiealison.bsky.social
🗓️ 21 Jan., 13:00-14:30 CET
👉 Register: https://www.biodiversa.eu/2025/01/16/unveiling-biodiversity-with-sound-a-bioacoustics-monitoring-webinar/
Explore implementation w/ insights from Carlos Abrahams & @jamiealison.bsky.social
🗓️ 21 Jan., 13:00-14:30 CET
👉 Register: https://www.biodiversa.eu/2025/01/16/unveiling-biodiversity-with-sound-a-bioacoustics-monitoring-webinar/
Reposted by Jamie Alison
📢 Excited to share our new paper: "Utilising affordable smartphones and open-source time-lapse photography for pollinator image collection and annotation" 🌼📸
What taxonomists can achieve using only field-captured images from a fixed setup?
🔗 Read it here: www.pollinationecology.org/index.php/jp...
What taxonomists can achieve using only field-captured images from a fixed setup?
🔗 Read it here: www.pollinationecology.org/index.php/jp...
January 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
📢 Excited to share our new paper: "Utilising affordable smartphones and open-source time-lapse photography for pollinator image collection and annotation" 🌼📸
What taxonomists can achieve using only field-captured images from a fixed setup?
🔗 Read it here: www.pollinationecology.org/index.php/jp...
What taxonomists can achieve using only field-captured images from a fixed setup?
🔗 Read it here: www.pollinationecology.org/index.php/jp...
Reposted by Jamie Alison
📖Published📖
In our new perspective article, Cowans et al. attempt to conceptualise a general workflow associated with automated tools in ecology. Read more here 👇
https://buff.ly/427sDSz
In our new perspective article, Cowans et al. attempt to conceptualise a general workflow associated with automated tools in ecology. Read more here 👇
https://buff.ly/427sDSz
January 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
📖Published📖
In our new perspective article, Cowans et al. attempt to conceptualise a general workflow associated with automated tools in ecology. Read more here 👇
https://buff.ly/427sDSz
In our new perspective article, Cowans et al. attempt to conceptualise a general workflow associated with automated tools in ecology. Read more here 👇
https://buff.ly/427sDSz