Róbert PéterDec 19
📝Last week was inspiring for our #AVOBMAT project: three events showcased its potential for #DigitalHumanities! AVOBMAT is already used in 40 countries.
💻Vienna Hackathon within the PCPSce #COSTAction, explored databases e.g. on Ukrainian baroque poetry & the writings of F. von Hagedorn.
https://pcps-ce.eu
🏛️“Digital Source Criticism and Text Mining: Analysis of the Hungarian Miners' Journal” paper at the Hungarian National Archives.
🌍AVOBMAT #webinar hosted by #GWDG.
https://tinyurl.com/v2htzz66
Rebecca NordquistDec 4

How do you talk about animals' emotions in educational contexts? How do people react when you ask how the animal feels about what is going on? And how do you get your message across teaching in different contexts?

Are you a researcher in animal behaviour, or a teacher who works with animals in class? Come join us at our Training School April 20-21, 2026 in Romania on talking about animal emotions in educational contexts! Details in flyer.

#animalBehaviour #training #COSTAction #animalBehavior

ComuniFAC UMANov 3
📍@ComuniFac acoge la reunión del WG4 proyecto europeo OPINION (@OPINIONnet) (“What are Opinions? Integrating Theory and Methods for Automatically Analyzing Opinionated Communication”) 👉 https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA21129/
Liderado por Carlos Arcila, con participación de @LauTeruel, que investiga los retos éticos clave en la investigación digital con LLM.
#COSTAction #Comunifac #UMA #Research #AI #Ethics
RIO JournalMay 29, 2025

🖼️ Most recently, the #ParAqua #COSTAction consortium added to their #openscience project collection their poster presenting the ParAqua database, the first structured initiative aimed at centralising & harmonising data on #zoosporic #parasites of #algae by integrating in situ observations, genetic data from NCBI, and literature sources.

🔗 Poster: https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e157676

🔗 Collection: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.coll.192

RIO JournalFeb 11, 2025

📸 Bulk image collection and AI technologies to support #insect #monitoring and #conservation.

🐜 This is the mission of #InsectAI : a #COSTAction that began in 2023 and set to continue until 2027.

📄 Grant Proposal: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e134825.

#SDGs #biodiversity #entomology #speciesloss #species

Using Image-based AI for insect monitoring and conservation - InsectAI COST Action

The InsectAI COST action will support insect monitoring and conservation at the national and continental scale in order to understand and counteract widespread insect declines. The Action will bring together a critical mass of researchers and stakeholders in image-based insect AI technologies to direct and drive the research agenda, build research capacity across Europe and support innovation and application.There is mounting evidence that populations of insects around the world are in sharp decline. Understanding trends in species and their drivers is key to knowing the size of the challenge, its causes and how to address it. To identify solutions that lead to sustainable biodiversity alongside economic prosperity, insect monitoring should be efficient and provide standardised and frequently updated status indicators to guide conservation actions.The EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030 identifies the critical challenge of delivering standardised information about the state of nature and image-based insect AI can contribute to this. Specifically, the EU Nature Restoration Law will likely set binding targets for the high resolution data that cameras can provide. Thus, outputs of the Action will contribute directly to EU policies implementation, where biodiversity monitoring is considered a key component.The InsectAI COST Action will organise workshops, conferences, short-term scientific missions, hackathons, design-sprints and much more, across four Working Groups. These groups will address how image-based insect AI technologies can best address Societal Needs, support innovation in Image Collection hardware, create standardised approaches for Image Processing and develop novel Data Analysis and Integration methods for turning data into actionable insights.

Research Ideas and Outcomes
Rebecca NordquistFeb 5, 2025

I'm very excited about COST action Affect-Evo on animal affect, and equal parts excited and dauted to have taken on leadership of WG2, "Societal impacts of understanding animals’ affective states". Looking forward to working with social scientists, law scholars, and animal behaviour peeps.

We're still working on the website but have a logo. That means the project is official, right?

https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA23106/#tabs+Name:Description

#AnimalBehaviour #emotions #COST #network #COSTAction #AffectEvo #AnimalBehavior

An Evolutionary View to Understanding Affective States across Species

Understanding the affective states (emotions and moods) of non-human animals is crucial to understand their needs, improve their welfare, and assess the effects of treatments for affective disorders i...

COST
RIO JournalJan 30, 2025

🆕 The abstracts booklet from the #ParAqua #COSTAction conference held last April was added to the project's dedicated #openscience outcomes collection.

👇 Thanks to our intergration with #ARPHA #Preprints, the collection shares the original PDF file.

🔗 Explore all ParAqua COST Action outputs published to date in the collection: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.coll.192

🔗 Check out the booklet at: https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e148125

ParAqua Scientific Outcomes and Dissemination Products

This collection hosts outcomes and products from the COST Action CA20125 ParAqua "Applications for zoosporic parasites in aquatic ecosystems". The Action is funded by the EU (2021-2024) and aims to organise and coordinate an innovative and dynamic European network connecting academia, industry and water management authorities to advance and apply knowledge and expertise on zoosporic parasites (i.e. aquatic fungi and fungi-like microorganisms) and the relation with their hosts in natural and industrial systems. Zoosporic parasites cause severe host mortality, the economic impacts of parasitic diseases are notable in microalgae biotech industry, affecting production of food ingredients, biofuels, pharma- and nutraceuticals. But zoosporic parasites also constitute important drivers of natural populations, potentially influencing aquatic food webs and community dynamics, including maintaining and promoting diversity. Main aim and objective of the Action is to organise and coordinate an innovative and dynamic Network connecting academia, industries and water management authorities to advance and apply knowledge and expertise on zoosporic parasites and the relation with their hosts in natural ecosystems and industrial algal biotech production. The collection includes a range of different outputs and products, including the Grant Proposal (MoU), the Data Management Plan, the Action dissemination products, reports, protocols, methodologies, and research papers.

Research Ideas and Outcomes
RIO JournalOct 17, 2024

🤩 Brilliant example by the #ParAqua EU #COSTAction how #openscience project #collections in our #journal work to provide permanent access & findability to valuable - yet non-conventional ❗️ -#researh ouptuts, such as #posters!

👉 Have a closer look at the poster: https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e131654

👉 Check out all ParAqua EU COST Action outputs #published with us to date: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.coll.192

@University of Geneva @niooknaw @cwts University

Sinking Stars: Experimental Design for Sinking Rates of Chytrid Infected Diatom Asterionella formosa

Poster showing the experimental design for a laboratory assay for sinking rates of chytrid infected diatom Asterionella formosa.

ARPHA Preprints
RIO JournalJul 3, 2024

👌 Research outputs from the #ParAqua #COSTAction: "Applications for #zoosporic #parasites in #aquatic #ecosystems" are piling up fast!

👉 So far, in their #openscience #project collection: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.coll.192 you will find Workshop reports, Methods papers, DMPs, Software management plans & more!

#openresearch #euprojects #marinescience #marine #conservation #ecology #marinelife

ParAqua Scientific Outcomes and Dissemination Products

This collection hosts outcomes and products from the COST Action CA20125 ParAqua "Applications for zoosporic parasites in aquatic ecosystems". The Action is funded by the EU (2021-2024) and aims to organise and coordinate an innovative and dynamic European network connecting academia, industry and water management authorities to advance and apply knowledge and expertise on zoosporic parasites (i.e. aquatic fungi and fungi-like microorganisms) and the relation with their hosts in natural and industrial systems. Zoosporic parasites cause severe host mortality, the economic impacts of parasitic diseases are notable in microalgae biotech industry, affecting production of food ingredients, biofuels, pharma- and nutraceuticals. But zoosporic parasites also constitute important drivers of natural populations, potentially influencing aquatic food webs and community dynamics, including maintaining and promoting diversity. Main aim and objective of the Action is to organise and coordinate an innovative and dynamic Network connecting academia, industries and water management authorities to advance and apply knowledge and expertise on zoosporic parasites and the relation with their hosts in natural ecosystems and industrial algal biotech production. The collection includes a range of different outputs and products, including the Grant Proposal (MoU), the Data Management Plan, the Action dissemination products, reports, protocols, methodologies, and research papers.

Research Ideas and Outcomes
WATSON Cost ActionMay 16, 2024

The last section of WATSON meeting is finished. We had updates from the working groups and committees and four very interesting presentations.

@COSTprogramme

#waterstableisotopes
#COSTAction
#tritium
#nitrogenpollution
#cleanwater
#groundwaterrecharge
#irrigation