Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

I'd also like to shout out @carpentries.carpentries.org for leading the way on this, having made a similar decision earlier this year.

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation. I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat! my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

Here's your reach @turingway.bsky.social 😎supporting botanical research into the plant families that give us potatoes and coffee

Great closing quote from Graham Lee in this mornings Track A talk on Where do people come from? "RSE is more than a technical discipline, its a social movement aiming to revolutionise how research engages with software." - Graham Lee #RSECon25

Sorry to miss #RSECon25 - are the talks (or at least the keynotes) being recorded for later viewing?

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Still a few weeks to register for some hands-on training and hacking on open-source tools for analysing animal motion, whole-brain microscopy with @brainglobe.info, and big imaging data. 🧠📈 Aug 11-15 at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social in London. "Free as in beer" and travel stipends available.

📢 Registration is now open 📢 Join us on 7-8 October 2025 at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum for the second Festival of Hidden REF! Explore the indicative schedule, learn more on our website or head straight to the registration page to secure your place! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-festiv...

We're not "over-diagnosing", we're getting BETTER at diagnosing. That was the point of all those years of research. And yes, more people are self-diagnosing, but that's because they are better informed. That was the whole point of raising awareness! #MentalHealth

Okay, I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but BHL is an absolutely VITAL resource for ecologists and evolutionary biologists. There's no other database I'm aware of that provides digital access to species descriptions dating all the way back to the 1800s and beyond.

Oh no - I use BHL collections multiple times a week for my work 😭 it’s open access & the only place the old American Mosquito Control Association journal (Mosquito News) are kept, with a ton of work on disease vector surveillance, ecology, their pathogens, you name it. God.

The most meaningful work of my career has been the 17.5 years I have spent with the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Now BHL faces new challenges, and seeks funding and support. Please share this message, and reach out if you can help. #ILoveBHL

Today we celebrate the incredible biodiversity of our planet – and the power of #OpenAccess to protect it. The Biodiversity Heritage Library makes over 62 million pages of biodiversity knowledge freely available to all. 🔗 biodiversitylibrary.org #EarthDay #EarthDay2025 #Biodiversity #BHLib

Last few days to apply #Metascience post @uniofmanchester.bsky.social working with James Bird, @naubertbonn.bsky.social, Prof Andrew Stewart & me to investigate opportunities and barriers in deploying Electronic Research Notebooks (ERNs) www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #ELN #OpenResearch

👥 If you have written software, code or scripts for research purposes and are from an underrepresented group in research software, we would like to hear from you! Find out how to get involved in our inclusive RSE study at www.software.ac.uk/news/partici...

💪 An anti-acknowledgement: "No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent"

👀 @bionomia.net

Session and workshop submission deadline extended for #LivingData2025! ⏰ 📌New deadline: Friday 14 February 23:59 GMT-5 🔗www.livingdata2025.c...#LivingData2025! #DatosVivos2025 @tdwg.org @gbif.org #OBIS @geobon.org BON #InstitutoHumboldt

Want cutting-edge digital research? Then you want Research Software Engineering. Only a couple of days left to contribute to the evidence base for Research Software Engineering and the impact it brings

Do you work collaboratively (in any discipline) with Research Software Engineers? Please contribute your experience (or knowledge of colleagues' experiences) to this evidence bank that @davidbeavan.bsky.social is building to ensure there is support for more of this kind of collab!!

⏰Time is running out to submit session and workshop proposals for #LivingData2025! Join @‌tdwg.org @gbif.org, @‌obisnetwork.bsky.social & @‌geobon.org at #Inst_Humboldt in Bogotá #Colombia to connect with global biodiversity networks. Deadline: 📌12 Feb 2025

Including many museums...

📣 The 2025 Graduate Researchers Award has opened for nominations! Recognizing the work of two early-career researchers, the programme highlights research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by grad students whose studies rely on GBIF-mediated data. 🧬 🔗 gbif.link/gra-2025

So it turns out that compared to centralized distribution of digital information on the web, printed material in libraries provided a kind of distributed defense against the casual whims of an authoritarian government aiming to rewrite history.

We are pleased to officially announce our £3.5 million funding from Research England for our five-year project, Embedding Trust in Evaluation (E-TIE), we will be working with Research England, the REF 2029 team and the Research Diversity Advisory Panel. hidden-ref.org/campaign-to-...

Applications are open for the DISKAH UK Fellowship Scheme culturedigitalskills.org/diskah-call-... to broaden skills for engagement with #DRI for #ArtsandHumanities research. @uniofbrighton.bsky.social @universityofexeter.bsky.social @durhamuniversity.bsky.social @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social

Also: museums, academia, conservation, ...

✅ Tired of social media being full of ads and irrelevant or content? ✅ Want to take back control of your socials feed? ✅ Curious about open social media, the fediverse, Mastodon, etc. but unsure of where to start? Consider joining biodiversity.social!

🌳 Plants can't run away - but we still haven't described them all. Apply to this #PhD exploring how to use AI to extract species descriptions from literature so we can build ID tools: supporting conservation efforts & populating the World Flora Online. 📅 2025-01-27 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

It's time for the Royal Society to revoke Elon's fellowship. Surely Nazi salutes are against the Code of Conduct? @deevybee.bsky.social's blogpost from Nov last year is evergreen ⬇️ deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

New year, new biodiversity data #goals? In 2024 we cracked 3 billion occurrence records accessible through GBIF.org, so we're excited to see what's in store for 2025!⭐ Interested in contributing to the GBIF biodiversity community? 🔗bit.ly/gbif-voluntee... 🍄www.gbif.org/occurre...

Any historians of science working on the history of open source technologies? Asking for a friend

I’m very excited about this fully FUNDED PhD, which I’ll be supervising along with UCL colleagues. Archives, critical history, Kew, environmentalism, communities – I’d be tempted! tinyurl.com/5n8x38k5