🎓 Student job alert! Are you studying in #Copenhagen, have an interest in open data and scientific literature and want to make some extra cash💰 ⏰ 10-12 hours per week 💸 Competitive hourly wage 😍 Flexible hours 📍 Deadline: 27 February 2026 🔗 gbif.link/student-job

A parable for generative AI youtu.be/TWl-3vzVwwE?...

Not been in a good place the last several weeks. I have to continually remind myself that ruminating rarely works and that there is an unproductive limit to problem solving when solutions always affect family, friends, and colleagues. ❤️

📣 Call for sessions for TDWG 2026 You're invited to submit a proposal for an organized session at TDWG 2026 in #Oslo, Norway. Conference theme: 🤖 Research & robot-ready biodiversity data standards ⭐Deadline 26 Feb 2026, 10:59 GMT +1 Learn more: 🔗 tdwg.link/call-for-ses...

📣 Join us - we’re hiring an engagement officer for the CAN BON 🍁 initiative! An effort to transform Canada’s capacity to mobilize its knowledge about the changing state of nature. See the job posting here👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

Have my eye on an ice-out canoe trip somewhere near here mid-May. It’s never too early to plan an adventure, especially when there are deafening spring peepers to hear, perhaps too the gulping of American bitterns, and slippery brook trout to catch.

A persistent pinch of life stress was relaxed a bit for me today and I gave myself permission to dream about the summer. I know now how insidiously addictive stress is and so I’m taking it slow.

Have you herd? 🦓 We've just published the GBIF quarterly global and country analytics reports! Explore dazzling data ✨such as occurrence records by taxa, time and seasonality trends, completeness and precision metrics, data sharing trends by country and more! 🔗 www.gbif.org/analyti...

And if you want more detail on why I left iNat, I wrote about that too: kueda.net/blog/2026/01...

I quit my job at #iNaturalist, the product I co-founded. If you'd like me to keep working on natural history software, support me on Patreon: patreon.com/kueda. FWIW, I'm building an iNat backup tool and an app for viewing geologic maps. Or, if you think you'd like to hire me, get in touch!

Half of my YouTube subscriptions list says something about my year. The other half says the same thing for next year. 🛶

In The Great White North, we have yellow snow warnings.

Colleague, cleaning out her lab Damn

Got my eye on another 9 canoe trips next paddling season, some with challenging portages, some with no known maps, and a good 3 day trip on the Western reaches of Killarney Prov. Park for the whole family.

TAXACOM - The long goodbye lists.ku.edu/pipermail/ta... 😢

“Overall, these findings suggest that the value of natural history collections as global research infrastructure is eroding due to decreased collecting of specimen data across species, locations, and time.“ doi.org/10.1038/s414... Interesting analysis based on @gbif.org data.

Announcing the Gem Fellowship, a grant program for improvements to Ruby-related open source projects. https://gem.coop/fellowship/ Want to improve your favorite gem? Submit a proposal, starting next month.

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...

Received a notice that Akamai's long-in-the-tooth "Social Login" used by www.simplemappr.net will be retired Dec. 31, 2026. That means I have one year to either rewrite the integration (with considerable pain, tbh), hand it off to someone else to have a go, or shutdown SimpleMappr entirely. 🤔

The end of an era: the Tree of Life Web Project is going dark after 3 decades. Anyone interested in communicating phylogeny online should read David's account of goals, history, and future. @bembidion.bsky.social subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...

(Re-)stumbled onto @rdmpage.bsky.social 13 YEAR OLD (!!) iPhylo post about the stability of @gbif.org occurrenceIDs, iphylo.blogspot.com/2012/07/dear.... Great improvements to stability have been made since then & there is new awareness. But, the source of the instability remains exactly the same.

BHL had a strong presence at #LivingData2025 + the #GBIF #GB32 Governing Board Meeting in Bogotá 🇨🇴. We shared our transition progress, rallied support & strengthened collaborations for linked open biodiversity data. 🧪 🌎 📚 🌱🔗 Read more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/11/livi... #OpenScience

New paper in Ecology Letters using @gbif.org mediated data: Natural History Collections at the Crossroads: Shifting Priorities and Data‐Driven Opportunities 🇦🇺 #CiteTheDOI: ❌ https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70188

Solo paddling adventure last weekend in Algonquin Provincial Park in -4C weather was...adventurous. I flipped butt-over-teakettle, ironically fetching water for a late night tea. Many colourful words zinged Clamshell Lake. I later read this spot is 210ft deep, being the base of an old waterfall. 😬

📣 Calling all biodiversity institutions! Meise Botanic Garden is supporting the continuation of BHL by auditing/cancelling non-Open Access journal subscriptions & diverting all saved funds to BHL. Patricia Mergen encourages other institutions to do the same 🧪 🌱🌎 #LivingData2025 #OpenAccess #ILoveBHL

We are proud and delighted to announce the signing of a renewed partnership between OBIS and @gbif.org at #LivingData2025 With this, we strengthen our shared commitment to make marine biodiversity data more interoperable, accessible, and actionable! ⤵️ Read more obis.org/2025/10/23/o...

Paddling solo in N. Algonquin Park starting tomorrow for three days. Marathon 8km of portaging (if I feel like it), a bit of rain, -4C at night, & unlikely to be any humans. Maybe moose and bears. A good fire will zap the chill. Bring it on!

@gbif.org Do you have any docs on how you process the subtypes of checklists published via an IPT? This is an excellent guide ipt.gbif.org/manual/en/ip... but am looking if subtypes are differentially treated/processed.

(1) 🥁 Announcing the 2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge winners! First place: 🥇 @rukayaj.bsky.social (@gbifnorway.bsky.social) for BDQEmail Sharing first place: 🥇 @daxkellie.bsky.social, Amanda Buyan, @shandiya.bsky.social and @rowdynerd.bsky.social (Atlas of Living Australia) for galaxias!

Have some pancakes with maple syrup at sunrise in Algonquin Provincial Park. I’m sorry, I ate half.

Preparing for a chilly Canadian Thanksgiving paddle with several 2km+ portages in Algonquin Provincial Park with a friend from my high school years. Might be the last one of the season. 🛶 💪 🦃 🥶

First time I've not fully unpacked from the previous paddling adventure that the next one is underway. And, the first one where ticks are a consideration. Kawartha Highlands here I come with my eldest son. www.canoedaddy.com/home/trip-re...

Very excited to have this opportunity!

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

RIP #JaneGoodall - one of the modern pioneers of profound interconnections between people, animals and ecosystems. Her life was lived through science, compassion and tireless advocacy for the multiple values of nature - leaving a legacy that will endure for people and planet.

Stunning and other-worldly solo canoe trip circumnavigating Philip Edward Island on the NE shore of Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada. Two nights and three days, not a cloud in the sky and what little wind there was, it was at my back.

Departing on another paddling adventure to somewhere near here, the greatest concentration of freshwater islands in the world.

Back from a 4-day solo canoe trip to N. Algonquin. Beaver dams, lift overs, lining, oh my! Been so luck with the weather on my adventures this summer.

A four-day solo paddle with multiple, lengthy portages starts tomorrow morning. It's been at least 20 years since the last time I was truly all alone, fending for myself. I am grateful for my family who understand that I have been quietly aching for this. #MyLittleRedCanoe

What to do with scraps of uneaten dehydrated food from the last canoe trip? Plan another one! Son and I couldn't complete this Algonquin trip in May; he had a rotten virus. Good on him to tap the mat. At that time we were deafened by spring peepers and an American Bittern youtu.be/bAxAEoAVmuc?...

Doing a 3.5 day solo canoe trip next weekend that’ll have a bit of rigour to get the heart pumping. Five portages over 800m! A fire ban is unfortunate but we need rain in Eastern Ontario, Canada.

🚀 Four weeks left to submit your entry to the 2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge! Who can enter the Challenge? 😎 individuals 💪teams 🏢 companies 🔍 governmental agencies from anywhere in the world! Submissions close 7 September 2025 🔗 gbif.link/ebbe-2025 Enter to win a share of €20,000! 💸

🕷️#Arachnews alert! 🦂 New Foelix (the definitive reference for general spider biology, a must-have for every arachnologist & arachnophile) just dropped. Now called Spider Biology, this is an completely rewritten & updated version of the Biology of Spiders (2011). link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

iDigBio is hosting a zoom webinar on Monday, August 18, 1pm - 2pm (it says ET in one place and CT in another place, I'm assuming it's ET??) to discuss how their new agentic LLM chatbot iChatBio is "transforming" biodiversity research. I'm sure it is. ufl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Kopka River Provincial Park portages are no joke! All hands on deck. #trailheadcanoes youtube.com/shorts/XDtXb...

Retrieving the dewy canoe while the boy sleeps. Photo by @cabbageleek.bsky.social

Drove 4,500+ km without leaving the province of Ontario, Canada these past few weeks (though a hop into Gatineau, Québec from Ottawa doesn’t really count). That’s like driving from Paris to Sicily and back.

Last week’s canoe portage in Wabakimi was brought to us by the ladder, eh?! 🤔

Wabakimi with @cabbageleek.bsky.social, James Macklin and my son, Thomas was next level. Trip report on 8 day adventure to come soon.

Excellent hike up to the gorge on the Sleeping Giant east of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada today. Fires from Manitoba and Saskatchewan made for a challenging hike.