Fantastic opportunity to contribute to Scottish biodiversity in a role with @naturescot.bsky.social ejki.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Big milestone for biodiversity data! 🌿 The Darwin Core Conceptual Model + Data Package Guide are now officially ratified ✅ → bringing clearer relationships & more flexible data publishing Massive effort over the past years 👏 👉 Learn more: tdwg.link/dwc-additions #DarwinCore #OpenData #DwC-DP

Completing some university training that includes a bit on warning students of the dangers of essay mills which, in 2026, just feels terribly quaint.

New paper in @bdj.pensoft.net led by @andremenegotto.bsky.social - A big analysis of @marinespecies.bsky.social asking, How similar are species names, and why does this matter? Potentially important implications for biodiversity data science. bdj.pensoft.net/article/1969...

The train company has wisely decided not to add an exclamation mark, for once

Nice to see the papers taking such an interest in England’s challenging match in South Africa tomorrow

Saw a curlew mobbing a red kite from Bradfield Edge this morning. First kite I’ve seen there I think - they’re still only ‘2-3 times a year’ frequent here, not yet at the ‘20-30 a mile’ levels down the M40 way.

The #GLLVMs in R with @vdveenb.bsky.social is almost full - last chance to join us next week! Thanks for spreading the word! www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Can you deliver an accessible, inclusive and engaging logo design for a new citizen science project? With a prize of £1,500 for the winning design and deadline of midnight on Sunday 9 August 2026. Find out more bit.ly/birdatlaslogo

Went to see these guys last night and man they put on a good show. Silly, funny, touching, absolutely sincere, phenomenal musicality and exquisite harmonies spookymen.com?v=7885444af42e

Listened to an interview with Liam Young recently and was intrigued by his Planet City project - 10bn people relocate to a single megalopolis leaving the rest of the planet to wilderness. Could be a really fun topic for an MSc workshop… www.liamyoung.org/projects/pla...

Join the EMODnet Biology workshop on the mornings of 5 & 6 October to learn how biodiversity project outputs can be made available through @emodnet.bsky.social #Biology, exchange experiences, and discuss best practices with the community. More info 👉 emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/workshop-... @obis.org

🎉 We've just moved @ropensci.org on Bluesky to a fully independent account! We were previously bridged from our Mastodon account via Bridgy Fed. Same community, same content, fresh start. Give us a follow if you haven't already! 🦋 #RStats

It's quite fun being AE on a new (legit!) journal, but man it's hard to find reviewers. Anyone here interested in extinction…?

When querying for "bat" in a demo tool I created to search @biodivlibrary.bsky.social images I get manta rays popping up iphylo.org/bhl-image-se..., and it's only now that I see that rays resemble bats (although I can't help wonder if the underlying model has also been trained on images of Batman?)

Little bit emotional about the Ben Stokes announcement, not gonna lie.

Have that (Print run of this one now available in my shop at www.stephencollinsillustration.com)

Be nice if major transport infrastructure could find a platform other than X to provide critical service updates. It's the only reason I still have an account there but I feel grubby even just looking.

Anyone else read Slow Productivity? Curious to know if it left you with a more positive impression.

Got my own alert system

Good advice here. Though personally I use the creation / arrangement / editing of slides as part of my thinking process (point 1). And while every slide does need a purpose (point 3) - you can still distribute content over a lot of slides in total.

Unintentional self-awareness in the cricket commentary: "Two slips. Two gullies. No point."

Got the whippets again for a few days

🚨JOB ALERT 🚨 The deadline is approaching! ⏰ Apply to join BirdLife's marine team by the end of next week 🌊🐧

I feel seen

Attempting a four hour journey on a rail network designed for puny 20th century temperatures, maybe not my most enjoyable day, currently stuck in Birmingham. Had to laugh at this though

Happy to announce a postdoc position with me and Jakob Strand, to work on data from the revamped Danish beached bird survey organised by DOF BirdLife Denmark. How many seabirds end up on Danish beached, where do they come from, and why did they die? #seabirds ecos.au.dk/en/about-us/...

Been on the train for four hours with no reception but I shouldn’t think much has happened, probably not worth even checking the headlines.

Just back from a solstice swim in Hathersage pool. A couple of dozen swifts in good voice overhead, lots of people taking advantage of the late opening (I think they’re open through till 3am). Very pleasant.

One of those days where you put the cricket on thinking a miracle might happen. Knowing it won’t, but thinking it might.

Think I made a good decision spending this sunny afternoon in a darkened room watching telly

Getting the final slot on the Friday for my talk means I’m effectively headlining, right?

Fun that a journal interpreted my email autoreply as acceptance of a request to review. Really increases my confidence that there's a human in the loop.

I have serious lawn envy

Nice to see a celebration of @biodivlibrary.bsky.social in today’s Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New @fao.org State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture report shows global fisheries and aquaculture production reached a record 235M tonnes in 2024, with the sector supporting over 600M livelihoods. Aquaculture is now the main growth driver, topping 100M tonnes. https://bit.ly/4eliqb7 #SOFIA2026

IT have done a great job of upping the security on the laptops they’ve sent us into the field with. I mean they don’t work because we’re not physically on the university site. But apart from that.

🦇 We are looking for a Head of Biodiversity (Job share). Deadline to apply is 9:30am, 22 June. More information and how to apply here:

Seasearch guides are among the best - and best value - field id guides out there, in my view. This one, for instance, is great.

Finished my marking just in time to start next year’s teaching. But I get to do that here, so can’t complain too much.

A side effect of LLMs is that many communities are weakening and silently disappearing. Few people asking questions, sharing knowledge, making bonds, and communities slowly fade out Nice read from @dataandme.bsky.social 👇🏼

Further proof that god intended us all to bowl legspin

Quite a complicated discount this

Frontiers of Biogeography, the scientific journal of The International Biogeography Society, is seeking new editors to join the team! If interested, please see the solicitation here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ap...

To celebrate #WorldOceanDay I shall be marking exam essays on how blue food from the sea can help us to create a more sustainable and equitable global food system.

Want to think about ecology differently this summer? Still some spots at the 2026 Unifying Ecology Across Scales GRC. www.grc.org/unifying-eco...

Great job as marine biodiversity researcher / project manager going at VLIZ, really nice place to work: www.vliz.be/en/jobs/vliz...

This is fabulous news, Joe has had a huge influence on phylogenetics. As an undergraduate I spent a small fortune on a computer that ran CP/M and Turbo Pascal, just so that I could compile PHYLIP from Joe's Pascal source code. It was a revelation. I discovered "recursion"... it felt like magic.

Excellent opportunity here: a 5 year senior research fellowship in Life Sciences (broadly defined) at All Souls College Oxford. Many opportunities to work with the diverse & inclusive community here in @biology.ox.ac.uk here in the brand new Life & Mind Buiilding www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...

One of the great apologies