Ben Best

environmental data scientist with a fondness for marine ecology, reproducible research, R and Python

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

AI will save the world, not destroy it.
A good piece by @pmarca about the destructive moral panic around AI.

[Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery]

I'm so excited to see @FathomNet launch their first ever ML competition as part of the @fgvcworkshop at @CVPR #CVPR2023!! Let's help scientists understand life in the ocean with computer vision! @WILDLABSNET #AIforConservation @cv4ecology #CV4Animals

[Ben Best @ben_d_best]

Having trouble with Esri.OceanBasemap in rstudio::leaflet. Here's a workaround to the tile server endpoint changing 🗺️🌊
https://t.co/9dEAL69LA5

[Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory @UCSBenioffOcean]

Explore this tool that helps visualize important areas for protection
https://t.co/aggHgjTTqt

Want to make high seas parks a reality? Sign this petition
https://t.co/YmfLvOU4ag

Thanks to the wonderful team @pewenvironment, @LGNDHQ, @ben_d_best for their incredible work.
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[Nichola Clark @HighSeasPolicy]

🚨New webtool just dropped!🚨
Once we have a #BBNJ treaty, which #HighSeas areas should we prioritize for protection to help us reach #30x30? Pew launched a new webtool last night at @IMPAC5Canada to help answer that question. Check it out here: 👇
https://t.co/SVa3Rf2lel
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[Ben Best @ben_d_best]

@G_OCeans @pewenvironment @HighSeasPolicy Woohoo, thanks @G_OCeans! Well done spearheading and demonstrating the website, @HighSeasPolicy. Big thanks also to @UCSBenioffOcean, @McCauley_Lab, @McCahan and others from https://t.co/LMM5D2oTob for producing a slick website on top of the scientific results 🙌

[Shubhro Saha @shubroski]

This weekend I built =GPT3(), a way to run GPT-3 prompts in Google Sheets.

It's incredible how tasks that are hard or impossible to do w/ regular formulas become trivial.

For example: sanitize data, write thank you cards, summarize product reviews, categorize feedback...

[Winston Chang @winston_chang]

Just posted on the Quarto blog: The new Shinylive Quarto extension, which lets you put Shiny (for Python) apps in your Quarto document!
It runs Python in the browser, so you don't need a special server to run the app - you can use any static web host.
https://t.co/JLEKJVKzpm

[Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery]

The course materials for the 3-week intensive @caltechRSI @cv4ecology workshop are now public 🥳🥳🥳

We hope they'll be useful for others interested in #CV4Ecology, #TechforWildlife, #AIforConservation, and more broadly for anyone interested in practical, usable #AIforScience!

[Ben Best @ben_d_best]

@1AbbyBenson @ocefpaf @rgaiacs @BeaMilz @chendaniely Sorry so late to the party. You might be interested in https://t.co/uO0xYlEkWy

[Openscapes @[email protected] @openscapes]

.@allison_horst & @juliesquid created an illustrated series that tells a story about why GitHub is so powerful for supporting, reusing, contributing, and failing safely.

https://t.co/40wQ1ZSI4L

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[Global Change Research Group @pinskylab]

Continental shelf area sets a first-order constraint on species 🐠 🦐ability to survive as taxa shift poleward and deeper in the ocean 🌊. New open access paper by @zoejean88 with @BeccaSelden and Hailey Conrad in @GlobalChangeBio

https://t.co/AeYKfAOiJN

[Arthur Welle @ArthurWelle]

Pipes in #RStats! Functions are verbs, aplied to objects. With pipes "|>" we arrange functions in the order that we would think of the actions. Readability for the win! (And I like to read the pipe as "and then...")🎂🥣🥮👩‍🍳🔪🍴

[NOAA Channel Islands NMS @NOAA_CINMS]

It’s #WorldOceanDay! Join us as we celebrate the habitats and humans that make your sanctuaries special.

@limpetsnews @FarallonesNews @CordellBank @GFNMS and CINMS will be highlighting sanctuary resources and the people that work to protect them.

#EarthIsBlue
#ILoveMySanctuary

[Ben Best @ben_d_best]

@ucsb_nceas @allison_horst @BrenUCSB Wow, that’s beautiful @allison_horst 🤩

[Species On The Move Conference @SpeciesOnTheMov]

It's back! Species On The Move May 2023! Come join us at this international conference series on climate change https://t.co/glrZxzlJkO #climatechange #speciesonthemove #evergladesnationalpark

[Mark C. Urban @MarkCUrban]

We are hiring postdocs for a new NASA-funded Ecological Modeling Institute. Candidates with strong ecological forecasting, modeling, or computational skills are especially encouraged to apply. Review of applications starts June 15th - soon! Details here: https://t.co/8T3ZBBBVwO

[Ben Best @ben_d_best]

Listen to underwater sounds around our national sanctuaries here! Was great to take part in this massive multi-disciplinary effort 🐳🐟🦐🚢⛈️🔊

[NOAA NCEI @NOAANCEI]

To better understand underwater sound within National Marine Sanctuaries, @NOAA and the U.S. Navy co-led the Sanctuary Soundscape Monitoring Project (SanctSound). Learn about the project and explore its findings: https://t.co/FW9TKuTZBD @sanctuaries @USNavy @CIRESnews

[Ben Best @ben_d_best]

🚨 RAD JOB ALERT! 🐳🐟🐙🤿🤖🗺️
Besides research diving in Channel Islands @NOAA_CINMS, we'll work together on data viz:
Marine Ecologist
Santa Barbara, CA
https://t.co/1sND2RKyQW

[OBIS @OBISNetwork]

A global analysis of the benthic fauna of the lower bathyal using data from OBIS revealed a surprisingly high level of endemism. The study published in March 2022 by Watling & Lapointe (2022) proposed a revision of the bathyal provinces of the world. https://t.co/WDYUd6mcBs