I have been looking a lot at Chalcid wasps recently- an amazingly diverse group of insects that may contain as many as 500,000 species. 🔬 They’re everywhere, but you may live your whole life without ever noticing them because they are so tiny. I think you would be missing out!

Review of session proposals for #TDWG2026 is underway. Call for abstracts, coming soon. Stay tuned! 🎶 #Research #Robot-ready #Biodiversity #Data #Standards

🙋‍♀️ We need you!🙋‍♂️ Join the TDWG 2026 Program Committee and help shape the conference in Oslo. We welcome volunteers from all regions, cultural backgrounds, gender identities, ages, and career stages. 👉 Apply now: tdwg.link/eoi-conferen... #TDWG2026 #Biodiversity #WeNeedYou

📣 7 Days to go to submit a session! Deadline for session proposals: 🗓️ 25 Feb, 23:59 UTC‑10! Submit an organized session for #TDWG2026 in #Oslo. New this year: 🌟Discussion sessions🌟. Theme: 🔬🤖 Research & robot‑ready biodiversity data standards. More info: 🔗 tdwg.link/call-for-ses...

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

The Trump administration planned to kick thousands of American seniors off of their disability benefits. We pushed back — and now, they're backing off. Public pressure works. Keep fighting back.

Asking questions during seminars is a great way to practice public speaking. It helps you learn to be clear and concise and hopefully to think deeply about a subject and to be polite. People around you will notice and take note of your words - good or bad.

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...

If you're going to be at #SC25 tomorrow (Sunday) and are interested in research software engineering #RSEng, you might come to the RSE-HPC-2025 workshop - us-rse.org/rse-hpc-2025/ - from 9:00 to 5:30 in room 267

"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936

A year ago we started developing a bikini that's actually made for movement. In our inaugural SubSurface blog post see what a crash course in supply chain management courtesy of the Functional Fabric Fair looks like. #surfaceathletic #MadeForMovement #fashiondesign #swimwear

Day #2 in Tanzania: The beautiful UNESCO & IUCN listed Jozani Forest (the only national park in Zanzibar): monkeys & elephant shrews #HomewardBound @inaturalist.bsky.social

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

Mandatory garden break: Crisp autumn morning

“The billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30-an-hour that their enemies are those earning $20-an-hour. They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long, broken system.” -Zohran Mamdani

I went to see Shirley Valentine with C and a mate of hers. When he throws the dinner at her early in the film I've never forgotten that collective quiet groan that many women in the audience made. It was the groan of recognition and solidarity. That film had levels. RIP Pauline Collins.

Greetings from NFDI4Bioimage Task Area Leader Björn Grüning at the #EOSCSymposium2025, which is taking place from November 3 to 5 at Brussels. At the conference, Björn Grüning presents the #Galaxy use case, which is one of the first #EOSC candidate use cases. 👉 gxy.io/eosc25 Picture: Nicolas Lobet

Our article about #RegRed (an effort to collate data on species' Red List assessments at regional, national, and sub-national levels) is now available on @natureconservation.pensoft.net. Follow our GitHub project for news and updates 📣 github.com/RegRed-project

Trump says he's sending the National Guard to crime-ridden "hellholes," but homicide rates across major cities have been falling. In Portland, murders were down 39%. In Chicago, they were down 22%. Trump's deployments are about authoritarian control, not "law and order."

We are delighted to announce that we have reached 1,000 followers on Bluesky 🎉 Many thanks to our growing @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social community for your interest in the topics that concern us as a consortium and for accompanying us on our journey towards FAIR-compliant research data management.

Rudolf Meier paraphrases a post from @rdmpage.bsky.social : as ~ 2/3 of the records in GBIF are birds, @gbif.org is primarily a Global Bird Information Facility. To correct this bias, we need to focus on the “ugly” biodiversity. 🪰 🪱 🪳 🦟 @mfnberlin.bsky.social #LivingData2025 x.com/rdmpage/stat...

At #LivingData2025 @rdmpage.bsky.social digs through @boldsystems.bsky.social data trying to improve x-refs to sequences and publications. Need to get data out of publications to be able to make these links.

‘Indecency has become a new hallmark’: writer and historian Jelani Cobb on race in Donald Trump’s America

No one needs to "prove" MAGA attacks on protests wrong; they are wrong. Nonviolence should be the chosen path in principle, not as an attempt to appease MAGA critics who will surely find another excuse to smear the protesters, regardless of what they do. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

💪Train today, mobilize data tomorrow ⚡ Delegates from around the world at the Global Nodes Training are participating in modules organized by the GBIF Community and Capacity team and led by subject-matter expert trainers. #Bogotá #Colombia

Can you get your #biodiversitydata to @gbif.org sans #IPT direct from @taxonworks.bsky.social? Yes! with open extended specimen data too (resource relationships, biological associations, media)

#People #Networks. @vmshirey.bsky.social does this bring back memories? #TaxonName #Authors #dataviz #WoRMS #CatalogueOfLife look!

Imagine what you might see if you could visualize relationships across data object-entity relationships in your database. See #TaxonWorks #biologicalassociations #magic #Miridae. @entcollnet.bsky.social @gbif.org @dissco.bsky.social have a look-see

A fish survey was conducted at a total of 26 sites across four river channels on alluvial fans in the Kofu Basin, central Japan. #ichthyofauna #watershed #rivers doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

@nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social Task Area Leaders Josh Moore and Christian Tischer will introduce participants to the history and basics of OME-Zarr at the international 2025 OME-NGFF Symposium from November 10–11 in Zurich, SW. Register here: 👉 www.ema.uzh.ch/de/register/... Picture by BioVisionCenter

#microCT scan of the left palpal bulb (male copulatory organ) of a grass spider I found wandering Beckman's hallways last week! 😍(He was on his last legs when he was preserved for the scan). Taken in the Microscopy Suite of @beckmanillinois.bsky.social and rendered in the Visualization Lab.

BREAKING: A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's deployment of 200 Oregon National Guard members to Portland over the governor's objections. This decision reinforces one of our country's core principles: The military has no place policing our communities.

Federal agents reporting to Secretary Noem have spent weeks snatching up families, scaring law-abiding residents, violating due process rights, and even detaining U.S. citizens. They fail to focus on violent criminals and instead create panic in our communities.

📣The next virtual data mobilization workshop for Asia has been announced for December 2025! 🌏Join the GBIF Asia Support Team for a workshop based on the GBIF Biodiversity Data Mobilization curriculum. Applications are limited to 30 spaces and close 1 Nov 🔗 gbif.link/Asia-workshop

#AIBS joined a coalition of more than 50 scientific societies in urging Congress to provide necessary oversight at federal science agencies to prevent potentially significant damage to US science leadership. #polnews #scipol www.aibs.org/news/2025/25...

David Zinn. #Autumn Street Art. 🍂

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“.. The U.S. soybean harvest began in September without any orders from the world’s largest buyer: China .. “.. In a typical year, China buys more than half of all U.S. soybean exports.” @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.agriculture.com/partners-u-s...

Just came across this collection of essays from earlier this year making "The Scientific Case for DEI" "In light of attacks on DEI, we gathered articles that lay out the evidence in favor of fostering racially diverse and equitable schools, workplaces, cities, and societies."

Come one come all! Our new #BINHM exhibit is up at the #AMNH! @blackinnhms.bsky.social www.amnh.org/exhibitions/...

Is #icanhazpdf a thing here? I'm looking for "La base de données GICIM: Gestion informatisée des collections ichthyologiques du Muséum". FishBase cites the book's 3-page appendix II for size data, but there's no data at all in there. I suspect they're throughout the whole book...?

We need to sell about 500 of these to fully fund the native plant project for 2026. We're at about 90 so far so we're getting there! Tell your animal loving friends about this calendar 😘

Workshop "CARE-ing about Indigenous Data in a Wide World" by @fairagro.bsky.social, #NFDI4Biodiversity, @nfdi4earth.bsky.social - 07.10.2025, 14:30-16:00 - #IndigenousData Sovereignty, Governance, and Ethics, Application of #CARE Principles, Practical case studies. fairagro.net/en/event/car...

Just another reminder that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625% which is FAR lower than private sector retirement programs.

Americans like the U.N. a lot more than they like their president: 57% (Pew poll) vs. 39% (YouGov poll)

👂We hear that recognising & opening up #research outputs beyond #research articles has come up multiple times at #OASPA2025. 🫣We suspect there are those not yet aware of our #openscience #journal: optimising #scholarly #communication for research ideas, grant proposals, guidelines etc. 👇See more:

Since being released on bail, Mahmoud Khalil has been enjoying everyday activities like cooking homemade meals and spending time with family. No matter how hard the Trump administration tries to punish him for his speech, we'll always fight to keep Mahmoud together with his family.

Trump and Republicans would rather shut down the government than work with Democrats to lower costs and protect health care for working families and cancer patients. More chaos and more pain for the American people.