📣 Bring your voice to #LivingData2025! We give you the opportunity to bring out your questions directly to the OBIS sessions co-leads up to 24 hours before each session⏱️ 👉 Check the sessions and submit: obis.org/2025/09/29/o... #OneOceanManyVoices #OBISDataSuperPowers

Remember the dodgy carbon-offset project in Zimbabwe from a couple of years ago? A probe by registry Verra has found most of the credits attached to it didn't help the climate. So who's going to close the gap of 12.5m tons of emissions that were "offset" but not actually avoided? TBD! [gift link]

Important new carbon markets story from @benelgin.bsky.social in Bloomberg: Verra acknowledges it issued too many carbon credits to a controversial forest offset project, but hasn't implemented a remedy — despite backing companies' use of these credits. 🎁 Gift link below.

💙💛 #Ukraine joins GBIF as the 23rd Associate Participant! Despite the profound disruptions caused by war, more than 2.4 million records have been mobilized by institutes in Ukraine to GBIF to date, supporting research and decision making. 🔗 Learn more: gbif.link/ukraine

Reached for shadow docket comment, Justice Brett Kavanaugh explained, "The questioning in such circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly leaf…er, uh…leave after making clear to da goons that they are U.S. natives or non-invasives.”

Good night, sweet prince.

[Exit Angelo.]

Mayor Harrell Announces Police Officers Will Recite Land Acknowledgement Before Sweeping Homeless Native Americans on Indigenous Peoples’ Day: tinyurl.com/35b9yp9f

The most dangerous form of government is theocracy.  Because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God.

In Pinochet’s Chile, “it was whispered” that an “unrepentant Nazi” had served as “an adviser to the dictatorship’s secret police and even [became] an interrogator. But was it true?” —Ariel Dorfman

This is Australia, but you could apply it anywhere.

🌱 How do disasters impact plant communities? After the Kakhovka Reservoir collapse, researchers surveyed Khortytsia Island floodplains in Ukraine to study vegetation shifts from altered hydrology. Explore the dataset shared via @gbifnorway.bsky.social 💚 🔗 gbif.link/Khortytsia...

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Belarus rarely makes Western headlines — but it should this week. A quiet move by the Trump administration has just handed Alexander Lukashenka, and indirectly Vladimir Putin, an unexpected gift. 🧵👇

¡Felicidades a Esteban Marentes, de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, ganador del Graduate Researchers Award 2025 por su innovador uso de datos de @gbif.org para estimar la diversidad de coleópteros en Colombia! ¡Enhorabuena también al nodo SiBColombia! 🏆 www.gbif.org/news/1fyZVi9...

¡Gran noticia desde Nigeria 🌍!: Kumdet Panshak Solomon, doctorando en la Universidad de Jos (Nigeria), gana el Graduate Researchers Award 2025 por su trabajo sobre aves endémicas y #cienciaciudadana con datos de @gbif.org . ¡Segundo africano en lograrlo! 👏 🏆 www.gbif.org/news/6uC3zYj...

Great #civicScience opportunity for the @gbif.org network that will feed records from transcribed mollusk labels from the #FieldMuseum !

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

This is the logical endpoint of the far-right media echo chamber / isolation booth: a confused, elderly man has become president and, with Fox et al as the only source of information he believes, he thinks archival footage of things that happened over years is all stuff that’s happening now.

TIL the only way to make this nugget of etymological wisdom from Eleanor Barraclough’s fascinating book, Embers of the Hands, more fitting would have been to read it yesterday, lordag.

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations…”

Fond of the idea that the first female PM of #Japan shares her first name with a dear friend and teacher, #Sanae Tokizane, literary critic and scholar of #Faulkner and the epistolary form who left this Easter egg of an inscription in my copy of her book, Faulkner and/or Writing: On Absalom, Absalom!

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...

PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.

He’s BACKKKK! 🤣 Happy Friday! 🎉🎈

Just walked past East 56th where, amidst barricades and a company of NYC cops, a lone sniper was stretched out atop a black Chevy Suburban intently scoping out targets across Park Avenue.

“Ecuador’s plans to auction new oil blocks in the Amazon are doomed to fail. Indigenous resistance, civil society mobilization, & growing international pressure will continue to expose these projects as illegitimate, unlawful, & unfinanceable.”-Kevin Koenig of @AmazonWatch apnews.com/article/oil-...

Netanyahu had fewer attendees than an 8am panel at the MLA.

This is going to end up being the most pointless and expensive "this meeting could have been an email" in history.

Re: "hot things can look cold": cf. García Márquez G (1967), ch.1: "Aureliano, on the other hand, took a step forward and put his hand on it, withdrawing it immediately. 'It's boiling,' he exclaimed, startled.”

The GBIF Guide for Publishing Biological Survey Data has been released! 📊✨ This guide supports ecologists, monitoring professionals and data managers publish survey data to GBIF using the Darwin Core standard and FAIR data principles. 🔎 gbif.link/SAM_guide @heathnecologist.bsky.social

The administration is hedging its bets on different modes of mass death: why limit yourself to the next pandemic or untreated mortal disease (to say nothing of mere neglect and poverty) when you can have nuclear disaster, too? Such generosity, this utter emptiness of human compassion and care!

"Neither the companies nor the administration has shared the science backing the claim that recycling nuclear fuel at commercial scale using current industry techniques is safe or practical."

Act quickly; you have until November 3, 2025, to let Microsoft know that you don't want your LinkedIn data used for AI training. You're opted in by default... Head to Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement & toggle the switch off.

🦀 Don't forget to join the GBIF #DataUseClub session TODAY! 📍 23 September 2025 15:00 - 16:30 CEST Join Matt Blissett and John Waller from the Secretariat for our next Data Use Club practical session: Making occurrence maps. 🗺️ 🔗 gbif.link/DUC_mapping#DataUseClub

📢Extended Deadline: October 11 ICIMOD is seeking a Senior Regional Information Services Manager to lead our Regional Information Service.

Let's talk a-bao-t data! 🥟 GBIF Head of Communications @kylecopas.bsky.social is presenting in at #ClimateWeekNYC alongside Lisett Luik and Peter Ward in a unique session hosted by Alex Logan called "Data and Dumplings" 🐙 in Lenapehoking (aka New York City). Register: luma.com/lt9ss2t6

Triumph of the Shill

Convenient development at @gbif.org as I pack for a flight Lenapehoking and #ClimateWeekNYC. Not much time left to cram, though, so maybe stick to the highlights: www.gbif.org/resource/sea...

Come for the data, stay for the dumplings—or vice versa! 🥟 Register & join @lisettl.bsky.social, Peter Ward & me as Alex Logan of Cecil serves up our "Data and Dumplings" panel next Tues am luma.com/lt9ss2t6 #NYClimateWeek #ClimateWeekLenapeHoking @arbonics.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social

From Feb 4th 1939

This is the only place where I care to see a “Prove me wrong” banner:

The Republican Party that hated racial quotas sure does seem to like racial quotas

Saints of superscript, preserve us

Will “Horst Wessel Song” covers and remixes start dropping next week?

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

Dear @adobe.com, is there an upper bound on the number of times I need to tell you I don’t need you AI assistant? Maybe especially in Acrobat? I will do my own reading, thank you.