“…It is not surprising then that identification or classification of individuals or species from image, video, and sound data is the most common use of deep learning in the field (Figure 3). These efforts already span many taxa, from bacteria (Satoto et al, 2020), through protozoans (Hsiang et al, 2019), plants (Unger et al, 2016;Carranza-Rojas et al, 2017;Schuettpelz et al, 2017;Younis et al, 2018) to insects (Marques et al, 2018;Boer and Vos, 2018;Valan et al, 2019;Hansen et al, 2020) and vertebrates (Villon et al, 2018;Norouzzadeh et al, 2018), both extant and fossil (Liu and Song, 2020;Miele et al, 2020;de Lima et al, 2020) and at scales ranging from local to global. Intensifying efforts to digitize natural history collections provide troves of image data that can be used for this purpose (Smith and Blagoderov, 2012).…”