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Vendi Information Gain for Active Learning and its Application to Ecology
Quan Nguyen, Adji Bousso Dieng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10390 https://arxiv.org…

Vendi Information Gain for Active Learning and its Application to Ecology
While monitoring biodiversity through camera traps has become an important endeavor for ecological research, identifying species in the captured image data remains a major bottleneck due to limited labeling resources. Active learning -- a machine learning paradigm that selects the most informative data to label and train a predictive model -- offers a promising solution, but typically focuses on uncertainty in the individual predictions without considering uncertainty across the entire dataset.…

Overhaul global food systems to avert worsening land crisis, scientists urge #environment

Overhaul global food systems to avert worsening land crisis, scientists urge
In the journal Nature, 21 leading scientists prescribe ways to use food systems to halt and reverse land degradation, underlining that doing so must become a top global priority to mitigate climate change and stop biodiversity loss.

Inclusive Fitness as a Key Step Towards More Advanced Social Behaviors in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Settings
Andries Rosseau, Rapha\"el Avalos, Ann Now\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12555

Inclusive Fitness as a Key Step Towards More Advanced Social Behaviors in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Settings
The competitive and cooperative forces of natural selection have driven the evolution of intelligence for millions of years, culminating in nature's vast biodiversity and the complexity of human minds. Inspired by this process, we propose a novel multi-agent reinforcement learning framework where each agent is assigned a genotype and where reward functions are modelled after the concept of inclusive fitness. An agent's genetic material may be shared with other agents, and our inclusive reward f…

Oh it seems I'm lacking a bit behind with all the #photos from the #schwarzwald . Well, I don't want to flood you with all the forest. 😄
These photos are from another hike to another hike though the Black Forest and to one of those very cool black lakes. This time I brought my pol…

"More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis"
#Birds #Animals

„Ob die Fledermaus-Sprache auch eine eigene Grammatik hat, ist unklar. Die Forschenden wissen nur: Bei verschiedenen Lautäußerungen, die aus Einzelsilben zusammengesetzt sind, ist die Reihenfolge der Silben wichtig und darf nicht durcheinandergebracht werden.“
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Human-Wildlife interactions in a tropical forest context: modeling, analysis and simulations
Yves Dumont, Marc H\'etier, Valaire Ivric Yatat-Djeumen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10134

Human-Wildlife interactions in a tropical forest context: modeling, analysis and simulations
Anthropisation and excessive hunting in tropical forests threaten biodiversity, ecosystem maintenance and human food security. In this article, we focus on the issue of coexistence between humans and wildlife in an anthropised environment. Assuming that the human population moves between its residential area and the surrounding forest to hunt, we study a resource-consumer model with consumer migration. A comprehensive analysis of the system is carried out using classical theory and monotone sys…

Full Professor Position, of Environmental Biogeochemistry of Metals, at Division of Environmental Geosciences, Uni Vienna (@edge-vienna.bsky.social) #geology #Austria #Österreich

We are hiring: Full Professor of Environmental Biogeochemistry of Metals
Human activities are driving rapid environmental change on a global scale, with pollutants playing a critical role in pushing planetary systems beyond safe limits. These changes have profound consequences for biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human health.

(2020) Economic growth is incompatible with biodiversity conservation #environment

Economic growth is incompatible with biodiversity conservation
The increase in resource consumption and polluting emissions as a result of economic growth is not compatible with biodiversity conservation. However, most international policies on biodiversity and sustainability advocate economic growth. These are the main conclusions of the study "Biodiversity policy beyond economic growth," published this week in the scientific journal Conservation Letters. This contradiction became clear after a review of international scientific and policy work on the sub…

"Global wetlands conference results in resolutions for protection & restoration"
#Wetlands #Environment

Global wetlands conference results in resolutions for restoration & protection
Wetlands are disappearing at three times the rate of forests, alarming conservationists who highlight the ecosystems’ role in achieving global biodiversity and climate goals. To address these challenges and chart a path toward sustainable conservation, delegates gathered in Zimbabwe for the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties (COP15) on Wetlands in July. […]