Growing the Ceph cluster for TESSERA embeddings, a Lego brainstorming session for the Evidence TAP, hosting Echo Labs from ARIA, and Shane's IUCN Red List seminar.

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

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...

Scaling TESSERA embeddings on Vultr AMD GPUs, speaking at the AI4Nature launch in London, and picking up Tomas Petricek's new PL book.

Reflections on the Franco-British AI collaboration workshops exploring how AI is transforming scientific practice, plus follow-up funding for the Conservation Copilot project.

Live notes from Royal Society conference on scientific publishing challenges including peer review crisis, AI poisoning threats and open access economics.

Nature comment on AI-generated paper threats to evidence synthesis proposing federated living evidence databases with human-in-loop review.

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