The result could be used as a blueprint by other cities in Germany and far beyond, says @svmering.bsky.social.

@svmering.bsky.social shares how @mfnberlin.bsky.social is digitally cataloguing and digitizing its vast natural history collection of approximately 30 million objects and building a #Wikidata knowledge graph connecting taxa, specimens, people, places, publications, and events. #LivingData2025 🧪 🔗

The wonderful speakers from @tiagolubiana.bsky.social’s #Wikimedia & #BiodiversityData session at #LivingData2025 (we also had the fabulous @siobhanleachman.bsky.social online). 🧪🔗🌎👩🏼‍💻 @rdmpage.bsky.social @svmering.bsky.social @biodivlibrary.bsky.social @wikimediafoundation.org

Sabine von Mering @svmering.bsky.social will be talking about the creation of a Museum Knowledge Graph to open up and link the collection using #Wikidata (and the Wikiverse) and connecting this to content in BHL and data from GBIF. #LivingData2025 #DatosVivos2025 #ILoveBHL

20 Jahre Darßer Naturfilmfestival-im Oktober sind Naturschützer und Kreative an der Ostsee,um Natur zu bewundern und hieran zu erinnern: „1990 war eine Sternstunde des deutschen Naturschutzes. 5 Nationalparks, 6 Biosphärenreservate und 3 Naturparks entstanden auf 4,5% der Landesfläche der DDR.“

Our article "Wikidata for botanists: benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data" is part of this new issue of @annbot.bsky.social See: doi.org/10.1093/aob/... Result of a great #collaboration @siobhanleachman.bsky.social @joaquimsantos1978.bsky.social Heidi Meudt! #Wikidata #LOD

An article I collaborated on - "Wikidata for botanists: benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data" - is in this issue! See academic.oup.com/aob/article/... #Wikidata #Botanists #LinkedOpenData

Very excited to have this opportunity!

📸 Aus der Vogelperspektive ausgezeichnet: @tannebergerf.bsky.social ( @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social / @unigreifswald.bsky.social ) wird Ehrenmitglied der @dornitholges.bsky.social für ihr Engagement für den Seggenrohrsänger & den Moorschutz! 🥳👏 #ornithologie #moorschutz #artenvielfalt

Last night we were invited to the old town hall of Erfurt, which was mainly built between 1870 and 1875. It is an impressive building and we are thankful to the town of Erfurt for welcoming us.

During this year's conference we are celebrating the 175th anniversary of the German Ornithological Society! Today, we honored this event with a special session.

Carnivorous #bats that hug? 🦇 New study on the spectral bat reveals prey provision, grooming and even wing-wrapped greetings – complex social behaviour with big implications for #conservation! 🌎 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 📸 Marisa Tietge #science #sciencenews

🎉Meet Dmitry Sokoloff, session chair & speaker at the @annbot.bsky.social sponsored symposium “Evolutionary history of the Gnetales” during Botany 2025, and researcher at Tel Aviv University. Get to know his passion for evo-devo biology 🧵 Se alt text for the full answers 1/10

Have a look at the @botany.one blog post 🌿 about our #Wikidata article "Wikidata for botanists: benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data"! With @siobhanleachman.bsky.social, @joaquimsantos1978.bsky.social & Heidi Meudt

Have a look at this blog post about our new article "Wikidata for botanists: Benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data" with @siobhanleachman.bsky.social, @joaquimsantos1978.bsky.social and Heidi Meudt: blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2025/07/14/t... #Wikidata #LOD #botany

Can't wait for Grace Exley and her research as Munby Fellow @theul.bsky.social and the Natural History Humanities initiative with us! #GLAM

This paper came about as a result of a wonderful collaboration with my colleagues including the marvellous @svmering.bsky.social as well as Carmen Ulloa, Sandy Knapp, Heather Lindon, Qianqian Gu and Sarah Vincent! It was a privilege to work with them all!

Whoohoo my new paper has just been published! The women honoured in flowering plant genera: From myth to reality. See doi.org/10.1002/ppp3... #Women #Botanists #Wikidata

Our book Race & the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820 can now be pre-ordered (publication date is in August). @brucealexb.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... #skystorians #colonialhistory #enlightenment #histsci

If anyone is around London on June 27th and 28th, I'm presenting at this fabulous conference at the British Library on the global histories of plants and gardens. If interested, you can get your ticket using the link below. Hope to see you there! events.bl.uk/events/garde...

The BHL global community met in Berlin last week for our #BHLAnnualMeeting and the #BHLDay2025 public symposium. Thank you to the speakers, participants, tour guides, and our wonderful host @mfnberlin.bsky.social (🙏@ehrmn.bsky.social) for making this such a fascinating and inspiring event.

Hi Bluesky, the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest #OpenAccess digital library of biodiversity literature and archives. We're a global consortium of 660 contributors who've made 63 million pages of biodiversity knowledge freely accessible online. www.biodiversitylibrary.org

BHL Day 2025 on 9–10 April 🌍 Join us in #Berlin or online to explore how #OpenData is transforming #biodiversity research. With talks from @svmering.bsky.social on including BHL images in #Wikimedia Commons, strategies to improve accessibility and more! 🔍 🔗 Register now: s.si.edu/bhlday2025

📢Registration is open for the #BHLDay2025! Be quick and save your seat or join us virtually on April 9 about.biodiversitylibrary.org/get-involved...

Looking forward to #BHLDay2025 at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin! Participation is possible in person and online. Interesting topics and great speakers, I am honoured to be part of it! @siobhanleachman.bsky.social @rdmpage.bsky.social @nicolekearney.bsky.social et al. @mfnberlin.bsky.social

Join us for #BHLDay2025 in Berlin. I have the honour of speaking alongside @rdmpage.bsky.social, @siobhanleachman.bsky.social, @miketrizna.bsky.social, @myrmoteras.bsky.social, Laurence Bénichou, Patricia Mergen & Gitanjali Yadav @biodivlibrary.bsky.social. Register now: s.si.edu/bhlday2025

Very excited to be presenting @nhmwien.bsky.social during a week dedicated to women's history! The talk (in German) will be streamed. ⤵️

A team of researchers, including @svmering.bsky.social , @sandyknapp.bsky.social, @siobhanleachman.bsky.social, and @vorontsovams.bsky.social created a dataset of 728 genera honouring women and female beings. doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we're spotlighting a fantastic project published in BDJ, which used the power of data to uncover the hidden stories of women in science and publish them as a freely available resource. blog.pensoft.net/2023/12/06/e...

Nach unserer Auftaktveranstaltung mit 100 Teilnehmer:innen geht es nächsten Donnerstag, 13.2., mit Session 2 zum Thema "Ethik von Sammlungen" weiter. Sprechen werden Birgit Scheps-Bretschneider und Sabine von Mering @svmering.bsky.social. Schaut vorbei! Anmeldung für Session 2: hu.berlin/14571

I've just assigned DOIs to 3399 articles in the Journal of Conchology from 1874 to 2005. Assigning DOIs is easy, but the gathering & checking of historic article data takes time (even with AI). All these articles are now discoverable & easily citable: e.g doi.org/10.5962/p.39... #RetroPIDs #BHLib

The #Expeditia tool by @joaquimsantos1978.bsky.social is just so fabulous. To be able to add research expedition data to #Wikidata & have it visualised via expeditia.info is wonderful! Have a look at some examples. I like the Harriman expedition ('cause I worked on it.) expeditia.info?QID=Q1586167

Plant genera named for women - dataset amplifying roles in botany, over time, geographical, mythical & non-mythical work from @sandyknapp.bsky.social @siobhanleachman.bsky.social @svmering.bsky.social @vorontsovams.bsky.social &al. 👉https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/114408/element/2/10525382

I haven't posted it in a while...so a reminder, a starter pack of Wiki-related accounts is here go.bsky.app/AfwLrsM feel free to let me know if you should be on it!

Science on Bluesky is growing rapidly! Science friends, introduce yourselves below and I’ll share! Who are you? What do you work on? Where are you based? I’ll go first. I’m David, and I study sharks and their conservation. I’m based in the Washington, DC area. 🧪🦑🌎🦈🐡

Neue Artikelserie unter Mitwirkung von Kolleg*innen unserer Fachstelle #Museum zur #Digitalisierung & Datenfeldern! Auftakt: Domenic Städtler (Institut für Museumsforschung, @kulturspk.bsky.social) zur Erfassung von Museumsobjekten im Vergleich zu #Bibliothek und #Archiv: zenodo.org/records/1047...

Vortrag "Wem gehört die Natur? Über die Rechte der Natur" am 21.11.24 @mfnberlin von Tilo Wesche (Uni Oldenburg) - Eröffnungsveranstaltung der internationalen Vortragsreihe "Heritage and Justice. Unpacking Legal Narratives in Natural History" ⤵️ www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/de/museum/ve...