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The Surprising Power of Your Nature Photos | Scott Loarie | TED

Scott Loarie has a challenge for you: go outside and take a picture of a living thing. He introduces the global community of people building a living atlas of the natural world by sharing their nature photos with scientists — and shows how you can join in on the fun. (Recorded at TED2025 on April…

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Scott Loarie has a challenge for you: go outside and take a picture of a living thing. He introduces the global community of people building a living atlas of the natural world by sharing their nature photos with scientists — and shows how you can join in on the fun. (Recorded at TED2025 on April 10, 2025)

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  1. @sunshineyone2081

    June 27, 2025 at 11:45 am

    There’s a bright orange clover-looking flower that grows in the field where I grew up. I very clearly recall picking them as a small child. I’m 52 now. As a grown up, I googled and searched high and low for the name. I found out after years of not giving up that it’s a dutch flower. How’d it get to a lower southern state other than being carried by wind, weather, or birds? I only found one other close by place in the US that people have recognized this flower. I find that extremely interesting.

  2. @cosmiclettuce

    June 27, 2025 at 11:57 am

    In this particular example, data collected by humans are used to generate solutions to problems.

    What do foundation models do? They also generate solutions to problems. What do they need (and will pay for)? **DATA** — high-quality, real-world, continuous, and labeled.

    What do humans do? They generate data (as in this example). What do they need? **SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS** — clear, concise, and complete.

  3. @dilshahad1

    June 27, 2025 at 12:23 pm

    Very Nice

  4. @ايميسالم-ذ1ي

    June 27, 2025 at 2:25 pm

    ابغى اعرف التطبيق اللي نشارك فيه الصور مع العلماء لان عندي نباتات كثيييييره تستاهل المشاركه

    • @crescent1122

      June 28, 2025 at 1:14 pm

      iNaturalist

  5. @PeterWFishing

    June 27, 2025 at 3:10 pm

    I’m obsessed with iNaturalist – it’s strengthened my connection with the natural world more than I can tell you. Great talk!

    • @glauberamos

      June 27, 2025 at 8:49 pm

      me too

  6. @NiNiC83

    June 27, 2025 at 3:14 pm

    💝🌍💖🌏💓🌎

  7. @brokenmirror715

    June 27, 2025 at 6:28 pm

    With the inundation of AI slop making it increasingly harder to find real images and videos of animals online, now more than ever is the time to appreciate nature photography and footage.

  8. @mariaantoniettamontella9173

    June 28, 2025 at 4:05 am

    superlativo. Condivido

  9. @vyho1273

    June 28, 2025 at 12:47 pm

    Great 😊😊😊

    • @anantsky

      June 28, 2025 at 8:10 pm

      I💋U

  10. @TâmNguyễn-s2t2n

    June 28, 2025 at 3:15 pm

    The fundamentals here are miles ahead of most AI-labeled tokens. Alaxio’s team isn’t playing around.

  11. @WillardStapleton

    June 29, 2025 at 4:11 am

    so, reason to end government grants since you are making the world work for free

  12. @WillardStapleton

    June 29, 2025 at 4:12 am

    No reason to spend for college to do what other do for free

  13. @sutanmudo88

    June 29, 2025 at 9:05 pm

    Citizen science or citizen journalistic 😅 …i though it was the same

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