Sara Beery

A poster with pictures of birds, and the meeting point - SW corner, Balboa Park: https://maps.app.goo.gl/KRCTQ4ZteqKj3jj66

Going to #NeurIPS2025 San Diego? Escape the conference for a couple hours with a morning bird walk in the trails of Balboa Park. 7 am on Thurs, Dec. 4.

How AI is unearthing hidden scientific knowledge Scientists estimate that 80 percent of life on Earth is still unknown to humanity. But as global temperatures rise, habitats shrink and food and water sources dry up, we're losing these species faster...

Cool TEDtalk by @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social outlining how we can harness existing data to transform our ecological understanding www.ted.com/talks/sara_b...

Here's a great TED talk by @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social about biodiversity data and how we can harness it!

Great TED talk by @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social about scientific discovery in ecological databases!

Full talk: go.ted.com/sarabeery

Inspiring TED talk by Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social 🤩

There is more info in our new preprint:

INQUIRE-Search: A Framework for Interactive Discovery in Large-Scale Biodiversity Databases

arxiv.org/abs/2511.15656

Check out this fantastic TED talk from Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social

In it, she talks about how computer vision techniques can assist with extracting a wealth of information and insights from large image collections that depict the natural world.

And a big thanks to TED Conferences and Bezos Earth Fund for putting on the AI for Climate and Nature event at NY Climate Week! You can read more about it here: countdown.ted.com/ai-for-clima...

The work has been supported in part by my @schmidtsciences.bsky.social AI2050 fellowship, and the Schmidt Virtual Institute of Scientific Software has recently supported our effort to deploy the tool on iNaturalist in partnership with the @gatechengineers.bsky.social SSEC (ssecenter.cc.gatech.edu)

This work is a collaboration with a large team of diverse ecologists, led by my students Edward Vendrow, @juliachae.bsky.social and @rupakvendhan.bsky.social.

It started, as many AI efforts to address new challenges do, with the development of a benchmark: inquire-benchmark.github.io (NeurIPS 24)

How AI is unearthing hidden scientific knowledge Scientists estimate that 80 percent of life on Earth is still unknown to humanity. But as global temperatures rise, habitats shrink and food and water sources dry up, we're losing these species faster...

Watch the full talk at go.ted.com/sarabeery

If you're interested in learning more about the science behind it, we've just released a preprint describing the methodology and the tool we've built: arxiv.org/abs/2511.15656

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

Excited to share our paper Representational Difference Explanations (RDX) was accepted to #NeurIPS2025! 🎉RDX is a new method for model diffing designed to isolate 🔍 representational differences. 1/7

Prof. @tokehoye.bsky.social (Aarhus University) and I have an open PhD position (jointly advised) on biodiversity monitoring with camera trap networks. Deadline: 15-Jan-2026

Please help us share this post among students you know with an interest in Machine Learning and Biodiversity! 🤖🪲🌱

COME WORK WITH ME!!!

Very exciting open faculty position at MIT, with ecosystem and biodiversity modeling as a focus!

cee.mit.edu/people/share...

It was great to have you!! You have led by example, showing the CV community the opportunities that are possible when we engage thoughtfully and constructively with other disciplines ❤️

Thank you @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social for the invitation to speak on the panel at the #CV4Ecology Workshop at @iccv.bsky.social, alongside Ryan Perroy, Joost Daniels, Justin @kitzeslab.bsky.social, and — Zooming in from the #LivingData conference in Bogotá — Tanya Berger-Wolf (1/3)

Badass birders braving the rain this morning!! We got soaked, saw cool birds, and got a beautiful rainbow as a reward 🌈

For the folks heading to the bird walk, rain is clearing! We will wait a few minutes at our starting point for any stragglers who were avoiding the downpour earlier 😅

The Computer Vision for Ecology Workshop at @iccv.bsky.social is starting soon!! All day in 323B, see you there!!

10/21:

CVBirdWalk!!!! Meeting 7am at Ala Moana Park, by the pond near the parking lot.

At 11:45am I’ll be with @justin-kay.bsky.social presenting our highlight poster on Consensus-Driven active Model Selection

At 1:30pm I’ll be co-chairing Oral session 2B on Efficient Learning

10/20:

I'll be at our Computer Vision for Ecology Workshop (323 B) most of the day, and moderating a FUN panel there at 2:10pm.

Giving a talk at the Curated Data for Efficient Learning workshop (304A) at 10am

At 6pm you’ll find me at the AI for Conservation Happy Hour at Barefoot Bar :)

I’m at #ICCV2025 this week!!

10/19:

Giving a talk this morning (8:45am) at the Instance-Level Representation and Generation Workshop in 306 A

At the Marine Vision (318B) and Earth Observation (307A) workshops throughout the day

Attending the Women in Computer Vision mentorship dinner

I’m definitely going! #iccv2025

Of course, there are lots of AMAZING places to see birds on the island, so consider this an opportunity to find bird buddies to coordinate bigger adventures with later in the week :)

We went back and forth a bunch on location, but since local transport in Waikiki can be a bit tricky decided to stay within walking distance of the conference center. We'll be taking an early-morning walk through Ala Moana Park, and will make it back before the first oral session!

Are you coming to @iccv.bsky.social??

Do you like BIRDS?!?! The #CVBirdWalk is happening!!!

Oct. 21, 7am, Ala Moana Park. Kick off your conference right!!

#ICCV2025 #AIforConservation

CODA is a smart way to pick the best AI model. It uses the models' own feedback to find the most important data to check, reducing the annotation work by 70%. Brilliant and efficient!
#MLSky #ResearchSky

🎙️ Come and meet our amazing keynote speakers
Sara Beery - Assistant Professor at MIT CSAIL
@sarameghanbeery.bsky.social

Matej Kristan - Full professor at the University of Ljubljana
www.vicos.si/people/matej...

Mark Boss - Co-Head of 3D & Image at Stability AI
@markboss.bsky.social

This new work by @justin-kay.bsky.social provides ML users with an efficient mechanism to wade through the sea of available open-source models and identify which model will work best for their needs!

Check it out below, and learn more at our @iccv.bsky.social poster (highlight!) on 10/21!!