Throughout March, we are featuring articles shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May Prize. The Robert May Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution written by an early career author. Kal Backman’s article ‘Human inspired deep learning to locate and classify terrestrial and arboreal animals in thermal drone surveys‘ is one of those shortlisted for the award. About … Continue reading Kal Backman: Human inspired deep learning to locate and classify terrestrial and arboreal animals in thermal drone surveys