November is #ManateeAwarenessMonth! This beautiful Manatee #SciArt is from Biologia Centrali-Americana (1879-1882), illustrated by Josef Wolf. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/570882 #ILoveBHL #OpenAccess #SaveTheManatee #SeaCow 🧪 🌎 📖 🌱

And this is why the global BHL community does what we do: so others can build on, use, and share 500+ years (63 million pages) of biodiversity knowledge & spectacular #SciArt. Over to you… 📖 🌏 🦆 🌱

Great Barrier Reef Anemones (1893) by William Saville-Kent, from The Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Source: RawPixel / Biodiversity Heritage Library https://pdimagearchive.org/images/cb31c75a-4597-4175-aaa3-bb1e925bb3e0 #biodiversity #fish #invertebrates #australia #art #publicdomain

Here's the full book thanks to the heroes at @biodivlibrary.bsky.social and @archive.org and Cornell. 📚 🍃 www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/115196#...

All issues of Mycotaxon (1974–2024) are now digitised, #OpenAccess & discoverable in BHL! Thx to the work of Diane Rielinger & BHL’s Team #RetroPIDs, every article now has a DOI, connecting 50 years of #Mycology to today’s scholarly network. #Fungi 🍄 🧪 🔗 www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography...

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

Alfred Mayor's "Medusae of the world" (1910) attempted to describe all known forms from all parts of the world. The #SciArt is based on drawings, from life, by William K. Brooks and Louis Murbach. View it in #BHLib: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... #WorldJellyfishDay #ILoveBHL

Does anyone have an unlocked copy of Bateson (1907) “Facts limiting the theory of heredity” in Science? Apparently our subscription does not cover fresh papers from 118 years ago. Surely this is public domain by now?

Meet the Numbat, Australia's only truly diurnal marsupial. This beautiful #SciArt is from John Gould's "Mammals of Australia" (1863): "with its beautiful tail spread out to the full extent, it offers a great resemblance to the Squirrels". doi.org/10.5962/p.31... #InternationalNumbatDay #ILoveBHL 🧪

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has donated to BHL’s Fundraising Campaign so far! 💚 Your generosity will help us build an independent, sustainable future for open biodiversity knowledge. 🌿 📖 🌏 🧪 Every gift helps: 🔗 ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDona... #ILoveBHL #OpenAccess

I was journal manager of Canadian Field-Naturalist when we partnered with Biodiversity Heritage Library. BHL was great to work with. Make older issues freely available so they can be used. Win for authors, readers, the journal, and biodiversity knowledge. Great team at BHL!

The Biodiversity Heritage Library doesn't just provide access to historic literature. There are publications on BHL from 1469 to 2025. The Canadian Field-Naturalist is one of many in-copyright publications we've made freely accessible online (with permission from the rights holders of course). 🧪 ©️ 📖

#InternationalGibbonDay is dedicated to raising awareness of our overlooked, under-protected "lesser" apes. This Hainan gibbon #SciArt is from the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1905). This species is now critically endangered. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31887889 🧪 📖 🌱

In celebration of #WorldKangarooDay 🦘, we present the first scientific description of "The Great Kanguroo, Macropus giganteus", from Shaw's The Naturalist's Miscellany (1790), which begins "the Kanguroo is a very anomalous and extraordinary quadruped". doi.org/10.5962/p.31... 🧪 📖 🌏 #ILoveBHL

📣 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

During lunch #LivingData2025 I watch presentations I've missed by attending other sessions. I don't know if others have noticed this theme, but this is at least the THIRD presentation where the challenge of access to literature has been raised. @biodivlibrary.bsky.social can help solve this.

So many of the projects shared at #LivingData2025 rely on the knowledge and data in BHL. BHL is truly the foundation of our understanding of biodiversity. Securing its future is essential. Donate now: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDona... #ILoveBHL 🧪🌎🌱

Materials from my presentation at #LivingData2025 are available at github.com/mlichtenberg.... Slides, helpful links, code and SPARQL samples. #ILoveBHL

More than 50,000 journal articles on BHL now have DOIs, including the very first scientific description of the Duck-billed Platypus, published in 1799: lnkd.in/g5WMsRb5 www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/304567

I value this incredible resource-- Biodiversity Heritage Library. BHL’s future depends on the generosity of its global community. Join me in helping keep the world’s biodiversity knowledge open and free for everyone. ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDona...

Slides from my #livingdata2025 talk "Wikis as sources of data and signal for the Biodiversity Heritage Library" are on @figshare.com doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... @biodivlibrary.bsky.social @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social #wikispecies @wikipedia.org

Learn more about how exhibition data makes its way into the Wikiverse in this excellent presentation by @siobhanleachman.bsky.social #LivingData2025 🧪

Trait data is crucial to our understand of biodiversity & informing how species respond to climate change. So much of this essential data is in BHL, captured in species descriptions in the literature. Says Ben Scott @nhm-london.bsky.social at #LivingData2025 @biodivlibrary.bsky.social #ILoveBHL 🌱🧪🌿

Ben Scott @nhm-london.bsky.social shares how his team has extracted trait data from species descriptions on BHL. Result? 706,842 trait terms & the largest trait database in the world. BHL = the foundation of our understanding of biodiversity. #LivingData2025 @biodivlibrary.bsky.social

The Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia, originally Felis uncia) was scientifically described by Schreber in 1778. 🧪 ❄️ 🐆 Plate: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31064602 Text: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42529094 #SnowLeopardDay #23for23 #SaveSnowLeopards #ILoveBHL

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

Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social spoke at #LivingData2025 today about the critical role BHL plays in making the publications of small organizations freely accessible. This is a title BHL Australia digitized and uploaded this week, which before now was available nowhere else online. #OpenAccess 🧪📖

If you’re at #LivingData2025, visit us at the Biodiversity Heritage Library booth. Ask us about the 63 million pages of #BiodiversityKnowledge we’ve made accessible & discoverable online, and how we’re transitioning to become an independent, global and sustainable consortium. #ILoveBHL

BHL Lead Programmer, Mike Lichtenberg, shares BHL’s process for exchanging persistent identifiers between BHL and Wikidata, and how this enhances discoverability of biodiversity literature, and builds stronger links between BHL and other biodiversity platforms. #LivingData2025 #IloveBHL 🌱 🔗 📖

The transition of BHL from the Smithsonian is an opportunity to rethink the BHL and to explore its relationships with other projects (e.g. Wikis). @rdmpage.bsky.social shares his test bed for exploring new interfaces at #LivingData2025 bhl-light-806b8b6fa073.herokuapp.com

Wikipedia has 76,413 links to BHL pages. Wikispecies has 71,876. Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social shares which of those pages are the most viewed on each platform. #LivingData2025

Fab presentation by Mike Lichtenberg on #BHL @biodivlibrary.bsky.social using #Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social to add the Wikidata item to their catalogue AND to extract OTHER IDENTIFIERS to their catalogue. BHL also produces an error report to help improve Wikidata. #LivingData2025

For those eager to see @siobhanleachman.bsky.social's wonderful #LivingData2025 #Wikidata presentation (there was a technical hiccup at the conference), you can find it here: Video: youtu.be/ySyiwfIi_Wc Slides: bit.ly/LivingDataEx... Documentation: bit.ly/BHLWikidataW... #DatosVivos2025. 📖 👩‍💻 🔗

Happy #WombatDay! "This animal has not any claim to swiftness of foot". This is one of our favourite quotes from the historic literature ("An account of the English colony in New South Wales", David Collins, 1804) biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45924805 via #MuseumsVictoria #Wombat #ILoveBHL 📖 🧪

It’s International #OpenAccess week! @biodivlibrary.bsky.social provides open access to biodiversity literature, democratizing access to scientific information! BHL does *not* require a login and you can freely read or download content. #ILoveBHL www.biodiversity.org.

It's #WombatDay! The Wombat was first described in 1800 as "the largest of all the Opossums: size of a Badger: colour pale yellow: fur longish and sub-erect: nose strongly divided by a furrow" www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19632636. (#SciArt 1798: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25448864) 🧪 📖 🌏

Happy #WorldEarthwormDay! 🪱 To celebrate, here is a beautiful plate of an Earthworm (& friends) from "Natural history of the animal kingdom for the use of young people" (1889) digitised for BHL by Smithsonian Libraries & Archives www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28687600. #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🪱

In recognition of #ReptileAwarenessDay, here's a Frilled-neck Lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii) from Erpétologie Générale, Vol. 3 Atlas (1854). Contributed to BHL by Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31895846 #SciArt #ILoveBHL 🌱 📖 🧪 🦎

During @nicolekearney.bsky.social presentation she points out that @biodivlibrary.bsky.social relies very much on donations. Support #BHL via the donate button on www.biodiversitylibrary.org #LivingData2025

So @nicolekearney.bsky.social talks about the fragility of infrastructure for and funding of the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social during her presentation at #LivingData2025

These are the big players in the biodiversity space in the US who have freely given data to GBIF – BHL and so many more. This data was put together by JJ Dearborn, while she was the Data Manager for BHL. Via Stephen Formel #LivingData2025 @gbif.org

📢 It's day #1 of #LivingData2025! Don't miss our Communication Director @nicolekearney.bsky.social's talk today (11:30). She'll be providing a crucial update about BHL's Transition from the #Smithsonian to a sustainable & autonomous global consortium: www.livingdata2025.com/program.html... 🌱 📖 🌏

📢 Check out all the BHL presentations at #LivingData2025! Day #2 has an entire session dedicated to Wikimedia and Biodiversity Data, chaired by BHL's fabulous #WikimedianInResidence @tiagolubiana.bsky.social. Details: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:L... #DatosVivos2025 @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social

The @biodivlibrary.bsky.social donate button is live, joining other key parts of our knowledge infrastructure @wikimediafoundation.org @archive.org @inaturalist.bsky.social that rely on donations as part of their funding.

Please consider making a donation to @biodivlibrary.bsky.social today! If you have the capacity, consider a legacy gift, contact me for more information. #ILoveBHL

DYK? The type specimen of the Okapi is a belt! The Okapi was described by zoologist PL Sclater in 1901 based on two waist-belts: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31590976. Sclater later presented the Zoological Society with this painting: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31888385 #WorldOkapiDay

🌱 Help secure the future of the Biodiversity Heritage Library! 🙏 Your donation will keep biodiversity knowledge open, connected, and growing, and fund the dedicated staff who make it all possible. 📖 👩‍💻 🌱 🌏 🧪 🔗 Donate: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDona... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL

🚀 Big news from BHL! 🌱 We’ve launched our Transition Fundraising Campaign to help BHL navigate the move to independence and secure a sustainable, global future for open biodiversity knowledge. #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL #OpenAccess 🔗 Read more and donate: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/10/dona...

@biodivlibrary.bsky.social and @gbif.org are amazing! We'd written that a wasp was collected in Delalande, South Africa. I got suspicious. So look at the species data in GBIF, then read the (1846!) species description in BHL, and yes.. Delalande is a person, not a place. 🧪

#InternationalSawfishDay is an annual event on Oct 17 to raise awareness of endangered sawfish and the threats they face. This Common sawfish is from Ichthyologie; ou, Histoire naturelle des poissons (1796 ). The species is now critically #endangered www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4786809 🧪