Congrats to our #TWT2026 awardees, to name 3 @bwwilliams.bsky.social @ddpichenumonidae.bsky.social @weevil-see.bsky.social recognizing their invaluable roles for work we do to empower #science #software #collaboration. See more of them at together.taxonworks.org

Whoop whoop! My first book, Animal Kingdom: A Natural History in 100 Objects is out again in a new reprint! 🤩 It explores the *astonishing* things we can learn about the natural world from incredible specimens in natural history #museums. Go get your hands on it! #OneHundredAnimals

T-1 Days until TaxonWorks Together together.taxonworks.org BTW there are a ton of #insect #taxonomy talks at TWT, come see what some cutting edge bug world informatics looks like! #entomology #beetles #grasshoppers #fleas #wasps

One of the underrated aspects of coding with AI is that you can discover new concepts as the AI works through the problem. For example, I knew about Hilbert curves, but not Jakub Červený’s modification the “gilbert” curve github.com/jakubcerveny... Thanks to Claude Code now I do!

Less that 1 week until TaxonWorks Together! A marvelous slate of conversations to be had, some difficult, all amazing. Join registrants from over 25 countries at together.taxonworks.org. Registration processing is soon subject to time constraints, i.e. it's tough to work last second!

Smithsonian Fish Curator position announcement! Note the application dates of May 12 – June 2, 2026. Should be posted here tomorrow: trustcareers.si.edu#js-careers-j...

In celebration, and demonstration for TaxonWorks Together, we've create a #iNaturalist Bioblitz. We'll demonstrate the integration live during TWT. iNat is a wonderful way to illustrate the scope of a community, hope to see you on the map! www.inaturalist.org/projects/tax...

🧵8 #AI at #TWT2026? Of course. 5 sessions explore #dataviz #datacapture #naturalhistorycollections #literature extraction #imageanalysis #showandtell individual to #aggregator experiences. Details and register together.taxonworks.org & join the #iNat bioblitz!

🧵7 #TWT2026 May 19-21 An #Unconference on Day 2: Does It Do That? Should It? Bring your ideas, discover #TaxonWorks new features like auto-select and import #taxon names from a desired source. Details and register together.taxonworks.org & join the #iNat bioblitz!

🧵6 #TWT2026 May 19-21. On day 2 join Damla Cinoğlu & @jhhartman.bsky.social for Genomes, #eDNA, Barcodes: Should #TaxonWorks Engage DNA? Existing projects discuss needs in Conservation Genomics and more. Register together.taxonworks.org & join the #iNat bioblitz! @gbif.org @markdavis79.bsky.social

🧵5 #TWT2026 May 19-21. On day 2 14:30 UTC join Christiane Weirauch, John Heraty, and Toby Schuh to hear about milestones getting #truebug #taxonomy into #TaxonWorks. Details and to register see together.taxonworks.org and join the #iNat bioblitz! @moonirene.bsky.social @amnh.org #plantbug

Scientists at the Université de Montréal's affiliated Montreal Clinical Research Institute have identified a new family of natural molecules with strong antiviral activity, notably against the Ebola virus and SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for #COVID19. phys.org/news/2026-04...

🧵4 #TWT2026 May 19-21. #hands-on #taxonomy with @taxonworks.bsky.social on day 1 at 18:30 UTC experience #TaxonWorks software. For details and to register see together.taxonworks.org and join the #iNat bioblitz!

🧵3 #TWT2026 May 19-21. On Day 2 at 12:30 UTC please join @bwwilliams.bsky.social @mccullermi.bsky.social on combining #survey and #crayfish #collections community and data in @taxonworks.bsky.social Register soon together.taxonworks.org and join the #iNat bioblitz!

🧵2 #TWT2026 May 19-21. On Day 1 at 16:30 UTC- join @gbif.org's Morten Høfft and the Species File Group Session on GBIF Hosted Community Portals Lightning Intro and Alignment Roundtable Discussion. Register together.taxonworks.org soonest and join the bioblitz!

🧵1 #TWT2026 May 19-21 TaxonWorks new features, #biodiversityinformatics, AI experiences, #datastandards, #taxonomy syncing (curious?!), #iNat #bioblitz, #geospatial data, and more -- see together.taxonworks.org @taxonworks.bsky.social Pls register soonest and join the bioblitz

Curious to learn more about our new Labs initiative from the Species File Group? Join us for #TWT2026 together.taxonworks.org < visit link to find out more about our online meeting from May 19 - 21 and join our @inaturalist.bsky.social #bioblitz too!

#open #digitalcuration if you're a human immersed in #biodiversity #data across collection, observation, research, outreach, vouchering, to #software and #standards development - please bring your @abtagenda.bsky.social style stories to our #TDWG2026 symposium!

Sessions have been announced. Register and join us for the #TDWG 2026 Online #WorkingSessions. This is an opportunity to have a first row view on how standards are developed. 🗓️11 to 22 May 💻 Registration is free Full list of sessions and registration here: 👉 tdwg.link/working-sess...

@tdwg.org #TDWG2026 opportunity! contribute to this #digitalcuration #roundtripping topic at the conference and in the BDJ. @sharifx.bsky.social @nickynicolson.bsky.social @miketrizna.bsky.social @evomri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @aguentsch.bsky.social @njdowdy.bsky.social @cabbageleek.bsky.social

Species descriptions should not be confined to "summary" PDFs only providing access to a fraction of the data underlying the conclusions. We here argue for "digitally native species" built around structured, specimen-linked, machine-actionable evidence from day one. rdcu.be/fcbwh

We just passed 3 million human curated Citations in the SFG instance of TaxonWorks. We see this as potential "gold" in Gold Standards usable to fuel next-generation AI-facilitated high-resolution processing of the science that circumscribes the Earth's species, #taxonomy

@tettris.eu please join us at #twt2026 May 19-21. #taxonomy #taxonomists #describeLife central to our conversations such as Syncing Taxonomy at a Global Scale Across System Aggregators and Plant Bug Taxonomy in TaxonWorks: Milestones from Past to Present, and future Data Capture.

#twt2026 Registration together.taxonworks.org Menu? spanning grand challenges for our collective communities - #data capture, global #opensource #software engineering, #geospatial data, #AI experiences, #taxonomy, cross-community #collaboration, #biodiversityinformatics, and #TaxonWorks, of course!

May 19-21 #TWT2026 see intriguing topics together.taxonworks.org join conversations with @jhhartman.bsky.social @bwwilliams.bsky.social @monotomidae.bsky.social @njdowdy.bsky.social @vmshirey.bsky.social @ddpichenumonidae.bsky.social & peeps from @marinespecies.bsky.social and more (see website).

BMD promotes mobilising data to FAIR platforms like @gbif.org, @obis.org, Catalogue of Life & ENA. 🫱🏻‍🫲🏻 💻 Our Access Gate offers access to tutorials from these platforms and serves as a base for the BMD training portal, hosted by @lifewatcheric.bsky.social. 🔗 training.lifewatch.eu/en/categorie...

🚀 The 2026 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge is OPEN! Have an idea, tool or prototype that uses GBIF biodiversity data to advance open science, research or policy? Submit it to GBIF’s annual Challenge and compete for a share of €20,000 in prizes! 💸 ⭐ Deadline: 26 June 2026 🔗 gbif.link/ENC-2026

Curious to learn how standards are developed? 🤔 Do you want to know who makes the magic happen? 🪄 Have you been thinking of joining a Task or Interest Group?👷‍♀️ 🗓️ Then save the date!, #TDWG will be running online working sessions from 11 to 22 May, everybody welcome! More details coming shortly!

🍄 Fungi collected in Shropshire and other neighborhoods [England], [1860-1902] [Source]

These billionaires pay their workers so little that many of their workers need public assistance. Meanwhile, their companies just got another round of tax cuts from a bill that gutted the public assistance their workers have to rely on to get by. Trickle-down economics is a sham.

You know what all teams in the men's Final Four (and both women's teams in so far) have in common? HERBARIA. UConn is threatening to cut the staff of our nat history collections (plus many other awful budget cuts). If only we cared as much about biodiversity as we do about buzzer beaters!

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