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The Narwhal
The NarwhalOct 14, 2026
Frustrated with government inaction, Quebec First Nation takes caribou conservation fight to court
The Lac Simon Anishnabe Nation has filed a lawsuit against the federal government, arguing its failure to protect the caribou from the impacts of mining and forestry threatens their members' constitutional rights
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Helga Bruderer
Helga BrudererOct 1, 2026
The American Mortar Wasp – On the Trail of an Extraordinary Hunter
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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageSep 30, 2026
LIFE, Zarr and everything
Serving LIFE v1.01 as a streamable Zarr v3 store, and three new clients in JavaScript, Python and R.
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The Narwhal
The NarwhalSep 29, 2026
Ontario farmers are finding ways to help the environment — and it starts with a pair of underwear
By incorporating new methods of planting, fertilizing and generally operating, farmers are reducing their negative impacts and growing more food
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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageSep 27, 2026
.plan-26-39: End of my sabbatical, and I feeeel fine!
Reflections on the end of my sabbatical, with a reading list on societal change, Tessera's embeddings finish converting, Scrutineer continues to find security fixes galore, good news from Scotland.
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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageSep 24, 2026
Mapping millions of little trees across the Cairngorms with airborne LiDAR
A good news paper in the Journal of Applied Ecology, using airborne LiDAR over Cairngorms Connect to map 2.65 million young trees and finding deer management is working.
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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageSep 20, 2026
.plan-26-38: Near, far, wherever you are, Tessera infers on
Working through dClimate's wall-to-wall v1.1 Tessera embeddings, and finding threatened species near you with the Dash of Life.
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The Narwhal
The NarwhalSep 9, 2026
Inside the search for a mysterious salmon killer
For years, scientists and First Nations couldn’t explain the rash of coho deaths that followed heavy rain. Now it’s been traced back to car tires — and they’re racing to keep highly toxic chemicals out of the water
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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageAug 30, 2026
.plan-26-35: All I want for Tesseramas is (GP)U
Tessera v1.1 now also synced to Source Cooperative but we're short on GPUs for v2, Scrutineer security scans driven by a local GLM, PROPL 2026 videos are live, and TDM reservations in OCaml for Evidence TAP.
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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageJul 26, 2026
.plan-26-30: Bananas ripen, models open, and OxCaml releases
An OpenUK openness interview, prototyping the Evidence TAP site with exe.dev, Windows eio support finds a user in Forester, and a new grant for optimising ranger patrols.
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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageJul 12, 2026
.plan-26-28: What fun papers piled up while I was out at sea
Back from the Arctic into a heatwave, hacking on Eio for the TESSERA sync engine, the Conservation Evidence team demoing at Parliament, and TESSERA on stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris.
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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageJun 28, 2026
.plan-26-26: Gelato, geospatial, and players of games
Spoke at CHIA's annual conference on AI for a changing world, as well as the first Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum outside the US, and started moving TESSERA's embeddings onto Source Cooperative.
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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageJun 21, 2026
.plan-26-25: Planetary scale plans, Windows file-descriptor scale problems
Ten years of the CCI with Sir David Attenborough, Andrew's Royal Society Environment Medal lecture, and the third PROPL at PLDI, while wrapping a local DeepSeek agent in OCaml and a first stab at getting Eio fleshed out on Windows.
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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageJun 18, 2026
Sir David Attenborough joins us to celebrate the Cambridge Conservation Initiative
Sir David Attenborough drops by for the Cambridge Conservation Initiative's tenth birthday in the DAB, and I spend the afternoon demoing TESSERA and the Dash of Life to a campus packed with visitors.
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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageJun 16, 2026
The Royal Society Environmental Prize lecture on feeding the world without costing the earth
Notes from Andrew Balmford's Royal Society Environment Medal lecture, on why shifting diets and cutting food waste are necessary but not sufficient, and why sustainable high-yield farming tied to land sparing is the key to slowing the extinction crisis.
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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageJun 7, 2026
Tessera at CVPR 2026, and the front page of the European Space Agency!
TESSERA gets its CVPR debut in Denver, the BBC hedgehog story trots on into national news, and the European Space Agency puts our model on their homepage!
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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageMar 7, 2026
Connecting the dots for biodiversity action from the NAS/Royal Society Forum
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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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageFeb 15, 2026
.plan-26-07: Storage, Lego, Echo, and the IUCN
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.
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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageFeb 8, 2026
Weeknote 2026/w6: Vivas, ARIA and interviews
PhD viva for Maddy, presenting TESSERA at ARIA, Nature covers the conservation evidence conference, giving evidence to Parliamentary POST, and a CACM interview.
tesseraconservation
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageFeb 3, 2026
Discussing effective conservation with all the UK Chief Scientists
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-making.
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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageJan 12, 2026
Five ways to use the LIFE metric for conservation decision-making
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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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageNov 23, 2025
Four Ps for Building Massive Collective Knowledge Systems
Design principles for collective knowledge systems—permanence, provenance, permission, and placement—that enable robust networks for evidence-based decision making.
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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageNov 6, 2025
Food and the long term risk to life
A Cambridge article explores our research on how food consumption affects the extinction risk of 30,875 land-dwelling animal species, with an interactive tool to examine biodiversity impacts across different countries and diets.
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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageSep 10, 2025
Do not rule out nature from climate action; an open letter
Open letter to UN Article 6.4 supervisory body advocating for nature-based climate solutions alongside durable carbon sequestration technologies.
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