Toke Thomas Høye

Insect monitoring without pitfalls: Seven steps for robust insect sensing systems

Sensors and AI can transform understanding of insect biodiversity 🪰📈

BUT we must be wary of the AI hype-train 🚆 and respect existing data and traditional monitoring 🙇

Our new synthetic review lays out seven steps to realise the potential of insect sensing systems 🎥🔭

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Thanks @aislingirwin.bsky.social for preparing such an interesting story!

Nice to see our work described in this News Feature @nature.com😊 I certainly value my field biology background as someone working a lot with AI these days. In fact, my motivation for AI solution is largely driven by a curiosity to better understand ecological dynamics at my favorite field sites.

@serge.belongie.com @insectai.bsky.social @mambo-project.eu @onestop-project.eu @bmd-project.eu @pollinators-antenna.eu @biodiversa.eu

📢Please share📢 We have an opening for an exciting fully-funded PhD project on computer vision and machine learning applied to biodiversity monitoring with amazing Serge Belongie @belongielab.org and @aicentre.dk. Application deadline coming up on 15 January!
phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

Thanks to superb leadership by @atengstedt.bsky.social and based on our samples of the endangered butterfly🦋(E. aurinia), we show how genetic rescue may be more conservation relevant and less risky than previously thought

🌍🪲 Biodiversity faces major challenges!

At #ECE2026Tours, the BIODIVERSITY thematic session will explore insect decline & conservation, species distribution, and new insect monitoring approaches with keynote @roelvanklink.bsky.social and @tokehoye.bsky.social

More info ➡️https://www.ece2026.org/

@insectai.bsky.social join us in April! Scan and propose a session! Send an abstract! Only a few days left! @cholvimaria.bsky.social @tokehoye.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social

Cc: @tokehoye.bsky.social @au.dk

@nanitundra.bsky.social 😊

Thanks for all your insights @allyphillimore.bsky.social and for hosting @soerinegerlich.bsky.social during her phd thesis work.

Keeping up with climate change: have Arctic arthropods reached their phenological limits? | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Many arthropods show earlier seasonal activity with warming, but these responses cannot continue indefinitely. Identifying such phenological thresholds is crucial for understanding limits to climate tracking and species persistence, but few studies test ...

As #climatechange becomes more extreme, organisms may no longer keep track in their phenology or seasonal activity e.g flowering, swarming or egg laying. @soerinegerlich.bsky.social led our study showing this is real for highly sensitive #arctic #arthropods royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

We need to better understand #phenological responses to #climatic variation at 1) the species level, 2) for understudied taxa and 3) in regions of rapid climate change. Today, we published work meeting all three criteria - enjoy: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Harmonising digitised herbarium data to enhance biodiversity knowledge: Major steps towards an updated checklist for the flora of Greenland Herbaria worldwide hold centuries of plant data that are key to understanding and protecting biodiversity; however, even with increased digital access, differences in plant naming systems make it dif....

I am excited to share that the first chapter of my PhD thesis has been published! The paper is titled “Harmonising digitised herbarium data to enhance biodiversity knowledge: Major steps towards an updated checklist for the flora of Greenland”.

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Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic - Nature Warming temperatures and interactions between plants are the main drivers of changes in Arctic plant communities in response to climate change, and there is no evidence of overall biotic homogenizatio...

Here is a link to the #Openaccess paper brilliantly led by @nanitundra.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41... and our press release: via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel...

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Great to speak about our new @nature.com paper on Arctic vegetation dynamics and climate change on Live TV this morning play.tv2.dk/serie/go-mor...

At #AlternetConference2025, @tokehoye.bsky.social (@au.dk) presented on automated species monitoring 🔍

Drawing from large-scale monitoring programmes and projects such as @mambo-project.eu, @biodiversa.eu and #OneSTOP 📊

💡 Find out more: onestop-project.eu/news/automat...

#Bioinvasions #IAS

Excited to be giving a keynote on automater biodiversity monitoring today at the @alterneteurope.bsky.social conference @mambo-project.eu @biodiversa.eu @onestop-project.eu @insectai.bsky.social

This scrub encroachment is endangering several Northern Alpine butterflies in Europe, a seemingly unstoppable impact

#Shrubs are encroaching tundra vegetation due to #climatechange, but not everywhere and all at once. Plant responses are context-specific. Only a coordinated international data collection, excellent leadership and rigorous analyses could tease this apart. Huge credit to @nanitundra.bsky.social

Illustration of a Greenlandic landscape, showing in the foreground Rhododendron lapponicum on a cliff, with sea ice and icebergs in the background. Illustration by Alberto S. Ballesteros (@asbillustration.bsky.social)

🌸Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic 🌸

Our new study @nature.com analysed plant diversity change in >2000 tundra plots over 4 decades. We found that plants changed unevenly, mostly driven by warming and biotic interactions.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Towards edge processing of images from insect camera traps The advancement of light traps with camera-based monitoring systems for nocturnal insects necessitates effective and flexible pipelines for analysing recorded images. In this paper, we present a flex...

#Cameratraps can record rich and #standardized data on a wide range of #insect #species and thus help track #biodiversity recovery and #ecologicalrestoration. Here, we present real time image processing @mambo-project.eu @insectai.bsky.social zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

An aerial view of a Danish woodland

🚨We’re hiring a postdoc in Woodland Phenology & Climate Change at Uni Southern Denmark!🚨

Combines fieldwork (Sweden & Denmark), remote sensing (drone/camera) & genetics to study phenological response to climate.

Link: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com.mcas.ms/hcmUI/Candid...

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💡 Innovation in action — @asgersvenning.bsky.social opens a world of possibilities —through technological advancement in ecology! 🐞

🦋 At the #FutureforButterflies symposium, @tokehoye.bsky.social (@au.dk) talked about long-term #monitoring using insect cameras 📸

He also co-authored a new paper on emerging tools for #PollinatorMonitoring 🐝

👉 Read more: tinyurl.com/yc7t5xjk

@biodiversaplus.bsky.social @mambo-project.eu

@asgersvenning.bsky.social rocks the boat with this new paper, code and data describing an amazing enabling #computervision tool to localize #insects in images. So many applications in #entomology, #monitoring and #conservation @insectai.bsky.social @mambo-project.eu @onestop-project.eu

Great to see @onestop-project.eu visual presence. In WP2, we develop scalable #computervision, #eDNA, #iEcology and #citizenscience tools for early detection of invasive alien species. Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates from this exciting project!

🗣️ @tokehoye.bsky.social is presenting his latest research paper on #biodiversitymonitoring at the #FutureforButterflies 🦋

🎶 Stay tuned for updates and find out more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity - Nature A comparison of alpha diversity (number of plant species) and dark diversity (species that are currently absent from a site despite being ecologically suitable) demonstrates the negative effects of re...

Important new study in @nature.com on how #darkdiversity can give insights on the diversity in local #plant communities that observed #diversity can't. With contributions from me, my two @au.dk colleagues @tokehoye.bsky.social & Signe Normand and many others. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Emerging technologies for pollinator monitoring Efficient tools for monitoring pollinator populations are urgently needed to address their reported declines. Here, we review advanced technologies fo…

Great to be at the #FutureforButterflies. Tomorrow I will speak about this new paper and our work with #biodiversitymonitoring using #Insect #cameratraps and #AI as part of @mambo-project.eu @onestop-project.eu and @insectai.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...?