Some big diffs between citizen science observations (from iNaturalist) and specimen records (from digitised museum collections) - cit. sci records biased towards large inverts & exotic spp. Great MSc project with recommendations 🌏🧪@nzhymenoptera.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We need to focus less on charismatic species and more on where they live ->Scimex | #biodiversity #species | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

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Oh! The irony 😂

"A COP is a bit like a potluck dinner," @katharinehayhoe.com said. Each participant brings an offering to the table and "it's obvious who took the time to bake and who dug out the frozen chicken nuggets." 🙃 #COP30

Love to hear your thought on this. @rdmpage.bsky.social @dshorthouse.bsky.social @debpaul.bsky.social 🦉 I wrote a post on treating species identifiers with the same rigour as enterprise entity resolution. Not a new idea but we have to think about the scale. www.linkedin.com/pulse/one-sp...

bmd-project.eu/news/new-sur... The @bmd-project.eu is inviting Europe’s natural site managers to take part in a survey on the monitoring and analysis needs of protected and restored natural sites. #Biodiversity #Natura2000 @eea.europa.eu

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected. More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.

Jamaica set for post-Melissa payout but experts warn of limits to hurricane insurance.

sadnewsletter.substack.com/p/when-neutr... The #Python Software Foundation recently had to pass on a US$1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation for PyPI maintenance. One condition of the funding was that the they drop any DEI efforts. My thoughts on this.

If you take the time to read the whole Gates memo (which I did), the bulk of the content was mostly solid and encouraging. Really! It was the FRAME that was off--very off, from the first line. And when your framing is off, then how you make decisions and set priorities is off. THAT'S the problem.

👻 Enter if you dare....explore the terrifying world of GBIF where you can find some truly creepy curiosities! 👀 #Halloween Drop your biodiversity nightmare below 👇

Interesting study: the role of media and climate anxiety. Even though #biodiversity crisis has not been covered by the media the same way, I wonder how does this apply apply to understanding environmental issues in general? How can biodiversity research take into account the role of media/anxiety? 🌎

honestly probably good for society

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Our Wouter Addink at #LivingData2025 presenting the roadmap for @dissco.bsky.social's #digitalspecimen enrollment. His message: Join the future of #naturalhistory collections by getting onboard with DiSSCo. Deadline getting close! Free pre-registration 👉 dissco.eu/ds-enrollment/

#Biodiversity data should not disappear when projects end but too often, it does. #LivingData2025 session talking about how we can properly ensure knowledge transfer and maintain continuity across research projects. 🧪🌏📚🧬

Thank goodness I can rewatch this keynote by Rudolf Meier. His hugely data rich presentation points out how much knowledge we lack. #LivingData2025

My slides for the talk “One vision for building the ‘bibliography of life’” are on @figshare.com doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... from the Disentis symposium #livingdata2025

You're invited to the second day of our #LivingData2025 symposium - it starts at 10:45! Projects like @bioagora.eu, @forsaid.eu, @wildposh.eu, and @ip4os.eu will be presented

Most scientists are not great at communicating their science, says Dean Pentcheff #LivingData2025. #ScienceCommunication is effective when we use narratives. Tell your story. Then you’ll get into people’s hearts. #JaneGoodall

Really interesting presentation on the importance of the @gbif.org #GRSciColl database by Marie Grosjean. scientific-collections.gbif.org Here is the "how to" if you want to contribute! scientific-collections.gbif.org/how-to #LivingData2025

Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social spoke at #LivingData2025 today about the critical role BHL plays in making the publications of small organizations freely accessible. This is a title BHL Australia digitized and uploaded this week, which before now was available nowhere else online. #OpenAccess 🧪📖

Interesting and thought provoking suggestions from @rdmpage.bsky.social on what the biodiversity literature community should consider doing. #LivingData2025

The amazing Nicky Nicolson presenting on "Developing an open and participatory literature data extraction workflow using Zotero and Large Language Models". #LivingData2025

Presenting our #arthropod trait text-mining @snsf.ch project at Disentis Roadmap session at #LivingData2025 a use-case on the importance of liberating data from publications

ontributions to biodiversity data in the Global South by Cristiana Serejo. #LivingData2025 "Nearly three thousand entomological type material images captured in the SiBBr Project were crucial for the digital preservation[...] since almost all physical specimens were destroyed in the 2018 fire."

Mountain #biodiversity assessment efforts require extraction of information from many publications in several languages at #LivingData2025

Britt Andermann talks about the importance of archival materials (field notes, journals, registers, and excursion reports) as critical sources of biodiversity data, and shares a process for extracting this data and making it accessible & discoverable @gbif.org. #LivingData2025 🧪📚

Mathias Dillen from Meise Botanic Garden, Belgium talking about "MIDS in practice": Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen www.tdwg.org/community/cd... @dissco.bsky.social @tdwg.org #LivingData2025. 🧪🌏

Elspeth Haston talking about MIDS: Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen "What is the status of global digitisation? MIDS as an institutional & global digitisation standard" #LivingData2025 🧪🌏 @dissco.bsky.social

#LivingData2025 I am talking about (virtually) "Building and Serving FAIR Terms and Vocabularies for open Digital Specimen" part of "Data model for global implementation of open Digital Specimen & the status of specimen digitization" #FAIRdata 🧪🌏 @dissco.bsky.social

importance of open documentation and #opensource practice. Towards a Common Language for Digital Specimens: Exploring the openDS Data Model #FAIRdata #biodiversity 🧪🌏 #LivingData2025

"Towards a Common Language for Digital Specimens: Exploring the openDS Data Model". importance of links and relationships. #openDS #DigitalSpecimen @dissco.bsky.social 🧪🌏

The Disentis Roadmap and the vision of our future "Libroscope" of data liberated from #Biodiversity literature at #LivingData2025

Materials from my presentation "Implementing FAIR Digital Objects for Molecular and Traditional Taxonomy Integration" part of "Integrating DNA Reference Databases and Molecular Taxon Concepts in Biodiversity Databases" #LivingData2025 🧪🌏🧬 @biogeneurope.bsky.social github.com/bge-barcodin...

Presenting on the important relationship between a project - @biogeneurope.bsky.social - and a community - @ergabiodiv.bsky.social at #LivingData2025

#LivingData2025 Sam Leeflang begins the session on openDS: Data model for global implementation of open #DigitalSpecimen & the status of specimen digitization @dissco.bsky.social 🧪🌏 #biodiversity #FAIRdata

Presenting FAIR actions from @ergabiodiv.bsky.social and @biogeneurope.bsky.social at #LivingData2025 in Bogota

The #LivingData2025 conference starts tomorrow and @dissco.bsky.social will be there! See below a summary of the DiSSCo-related sessions. More info: www.livingdata2025.com #biodiversity #bioinformatics #FAIRdata @disscoflanders.bsky.social

In a new paper Zurell et al. state countries are not on track to meet the #Kunming-Montreal Global #Biodiversity Strategy goals. They suggest expanding predictive #models in #conservation & a research agenda to improve predictive understanding @zurelllab.bsky.social @pnas.org doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Predicting the way forward for the Global Biodiversity Framework | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

It’s quite interesting spending the morning hearing about the importance of open information, open data, open infrastructure, open software - at the same time as the AWS outage perfectly highlights the risks of digital enclosure and the consolidation of infrastructure!

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

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An important study by Heidi Imker examining 9 life science databases. These resources that are critical to global scientific research are constantly on the brink of collapse. expertise. link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... I also wrote a short comment: www.linkedin.com/posts/sharif...

“Wait, I heard you found a whole other country and thought it was me. Is that true? That’s so embarrassing. Why are you obsessed with me?” 😂

We love you Neil! We're always here for you. @neilyoungarchives.bsky.social variety.com/2025/music/n...

Today we honor and recognize the struggles Indigenous people continue to face in America, while celebrating the rich culture and history of Indigenous communities. Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!