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Connecting the dots for biodiversity action from the NAS/Royal Society Forum

https://anil.recoil.org/notes/nas-rs-biodiversity-papers · 7 Mar 2026

Summary of the Nine Recommendations and Biodiversity Monitoring Standards Framework papers from the NAS/Royal Society US-UK Forum in summer 2025, and how they connect to my work on collective knowledge systems, TESSERA, and evidence synthesis.

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Weeknote 2026/w6: Vivas, ARIA and interviews

https://anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w6 · 8 Feb 2026

PhD viva for Maddy, presenting TESSERA at ARIA, Nature covers the conservation evidence conference, giving evidence to Parliamentary POST, and a CACM interview.

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Discussing effective conservation with all the UK Chief Scientists

https://anil.recoil.org/notes/red-pill-conservation · 3 Feb 2026

Hosting the UK chief scientists for nature conservation at Pembroke to discuss TESSERA and AI for biodiversity, followed by the Conservation Evidence conference where I talked about choosing the open red pill over black-box AI for conservation decision-mak...

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Five ways to use the LIFE metric for conservation decision-making

https://anil.recoil.org/notes/life-uses-paper · 12 Jan 2026 · 🦋 Bluesky

Our new paper in Biological Conservation demonstrates how the LIFE extinction risk metric can be applied across five diverse case studies, from real-time tropical deforestation monitoring to evaluating conservation project effectiveness.

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.plan-26-02: Back from India and straight into the conservation conference

https://anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w2 · 11 Jan 2026 · 🦋 Bluesky

Hosting the Conservation Evidence conference at Pembroke, recovering from the India trip, and keeping up with LLM developments.

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We become Junior Rangers at Shenandoah

https://anil.recoil.org/notes/junior-rangers · 27 May 2025

Earning Junior Ranger badges at Shenandoah National Park and recording Conservation Concepts video series episode.

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What I learnt at the National Academy of Sciences US-UK Forum on Biodiversity

https://anil.recoil.org/notes/nas-rs-biodiversity · 24 May 2025

Report from NAS/Royal Society forum on standardized biodiversity measurement technologies covering foundation models, eDNA and evidence synthesis.

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Out-of-the-box LLMs are not ready for conservation decision making

https://anil.recoil.org/notes/2024-ce-llm-3 · 16 May 2025

PLOS One publication showing pretrained LLMs perform poorly on conservation questions but improve dramatically with Conservation Evidence database training.

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Learnings from the Cambridge Environmental Sustainability Committee

https://anil.recoil.org/notes/cambridge-essc-progress · 13 May 2025

Insights from Cambridge University's Environmental Sustainability Strategy Committee on carbon reduction, biodiversity, and operational sustainability progress.

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Humans are the ones that will save nature, helped by AI

https://anil.recoil.org/notes/humans-save-nature-not-ai · 7 May 2025

Discussion of responsible AI adoption in conservation, emphasizing human agency and equity over technological solutions.

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