Soon it’ll be time for graphic science book club with the Pollen Power campers @illinoisfunk.bsky.social 🧪📚

Every page in BHL represents libraries, museums, archives, scientists, volunteers & communities working together to preserve biodiversity knowledge 🧪 🌱 This #BiodiversityDay, help support the people & infrastructure behind open biodiversity knowledge. Donate: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLat20

If we'd had the #TARDIS 🔑, @treiceratops.bsky.social & I would have gone back in time to secure/invest $$$ for BHL's future. Sadly we didn't, so we're still reliant on donations/grants to keep BHL going. 🧪 Donate now: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLat20 @biodivlibrary.bsky.social #DrWho #London

Today’s self care. Chilling on my own in a fabulous speakeasy in Indy called Mel’s, sipping a Vesper, and unsubscribing from emails taking up space in my mailbox. This is the BEST.

Not only good advice and information for this set, but for EVERY workplace: “is not their show, it’s our show.” 💜💜 And the #1 rule, be nice to one another.

It is WILD watching elites actively dismantle institutions and undermine our entire creative economy in favor of an overhyped grift and actually expecting everyone to not just sit down and take it, but be excited about it. Absolutely delusional.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

Since 1976, the Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club has documented its local biodiversity through its monthly newsletter, Castlemaine Naturalist. 🌱 Our latest #BHLat20 post celebrates citizen science, community, and 50 years of biodiversity observation: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/05/natu... 🧪

yeah Gutenberg is pretty great, and one of the other ones on there is apparently volunteer-produced, all-human audiobooks from the Gutenberg collection. the Biodiversity Heritage Library is another favorite of mine for public domain resources specifically in biology!

I distinctly remember, now ~decade ago, a campus-level “online learning” committee meeting where we (those with most OL experience) voted that each instructor could decide what learning mgmt system to use. (1/3)

A good read here on how to communicate about science effectively. Useful for everyone from researchers to writers. TL;DR: let people know that science empowers them; helping them better live their values. They'll be more likely to hear you out. 🧪⚕️🔬🧬🛟 #SciComm jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

Our latest #BHLat20 anniversary blog post is very juicy. 🍎🍐🍇 #MuseumsVictoria Archivist Nik McGrath explores the Industrial & Technological Museum’s extraordinary wax fruit collection, and the stunning specimen register that documented it. Read more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/05/itm-...

Now's a great time to check out my piece from a few weeks ago, considering how resistance and revolution are imagined in MachineGames' Wolfenstein reboots, over at @vaultofculture.bsky.social: www.vaultofculture.com/vault/featur...

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“‘There’s one thing more powerful than a billionaire,’ said Lisa Ann Walter, who stars on ‘Abbott Elementary’ and was one of the emcees of the event. ‘And that’s a union.’ Dressed in a white pantsuit with the words ‘Art Belongs to Everyone’ scrawled on the back” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

Learn more about the "The women honoured in flowering plant genera" project by @svmering.bsky.social, @sandyknapp.bsky.social, @siobhanleachman.bsky.social, Heather L. Lindon, Qianqian Gu, Sarah Vincent, and Carmen Ulloa Ulloa: doi.org/10.1002/ppp3... #BHLDay2026 #WomenInScience #HerNaturalHistory

@siobhanleachman.bsky.social (@wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social) and @svmering.bsky.social (@mfnberlin.bsky.social) share the vital role BHL played in their groundbreaking project surfacing the work of #WomenInScience who have had been honoured in the genera names of flowering plants. #BHLDay2026 🧪 📖 🌱

Quote possibly one of the best opening slides I’ve ever seen from a presentation by Siobhan Leachman (@siobhanleachman.bsky.social) and Sabine von Mering (@sabinevonmering.bsky.social) #BHLDay2026 🧪 🪼🐍

If Darwin Correspondence project minted its own, resolvable IDs for people it documents, we could create a Wikidata property and cross-link them. #BHLDay2026

1) Happy 20th birthday #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary! 🎂🥳 This week GBIF Executive Secretary Joe Miller is at the @nhm-london.bsky.social celebrating #BHLDay2026 and the incredible collaborations over the past two decades as well as new bioinformatics opportunities. 📖 BHL Australia

Bianca Crowley and Nicole Kearney (@nicolekearney.bsky.social) present about the eras of BHL (@biodivlibrary.bsky.social), the transition, and the future at #BHLDay2026 at the Natural History Museum London ( @nhm.org). A Long and Winding Road Indeed. 🧪🎵

Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social unofficially officially launches the new BHL Community Forum at #BHLDay2026. Yes, it’s live and buzzing. It’s for the BHL user community, by the BHL user community. Please join the conversation. forum.biodiversitylibrary.org

Yesterday, attendees of the #BHLAnnualMeeting were treated to behind-the-scenes tours of both the @royalsociety.org and the @linneansociety.bsky.social. Thank you the staff of both esteemed learned societies for sharing their incredible treasures and stories.

At #BHLDay2026, Amanda Boczar & Sydney Jordan from @usflibraries.bsky.social (new BHL member!) will share how 106,000+ Florida environment & ornithology records are being prepared for BHL & what this means for future archival ingest. Register 29 April: about.biodiversitylibrary.org/get-involved...

Cannot wait till we can have everyone @biodivlibrary.bsky.social back again someday @uofilsystem.bsky.social!

If you are joining the BHL Annual Meeting or #BHLDay2026, ether in person or online, please join our BHL iNaturalist Project: www.inaturalist.org/projects/202... Wherever you are in the world, we'd love to see your biodiversity observations. 🐛🦎🐝🐦🌱🦌🌲🐌🕷️🦊🌿

What might a new BHL interface look like? At #BHLDay2026, @rdmpage.bsky.social explores new ways to search, browse and visualise BHL content in the context of the current "Cambrian explosion" of AI-based tools. Register now: about.biodiversitylibrary.org/get-involved... 🧪

Meetings: DPLA West and other meetings | CAS / CDL / Apple (April 2012, San Francisco & Oakland) www.biodivlibrary.org/2026/04/meet...

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📔 Explore BHL’s newest oldest item! In our #BHLat20 series, we’re highlighting Circa Instans (c. 1190), now the oldest work in BHL, predating the previous oldest item by 300 years. From the @nybg.bsky.social’s Mertz Library, now online: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/04/circ...

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs. But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅 First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti. #rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Yeah, because being healthy is totally woke. Nothing says military readiness like being under qualified, under resourced, and ill to boot.

It’s time for the 8th Annual Solving the World’s Challenges at the Funk Library @illinoisfunk.bsky.social

🦇 Happy #BatAppreciationDay! The ghost bat (Macroderma gigas), native to Australia, gets its name from its extremely thin wing membrane, which gives it a ghostly appearance at night. #SciArt: Proc Zool Soc London (1880) on BHL via @nhm-london.bsky.social: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28522650

How do scientists use biodiversity literature? At #BHLDay2026, Lauren Hughes, Principal Curator In Charge @nhm-london.bsky.social, will explore how BHL is the bridge between taxonomy @marinespecies.bsky.social & the evidence behind it. 📅 29 April: London + online 🎟️ Register now: bit.ly/bhlday2026

From threats to (and victories for) intellectual freedom, to increasing services for incarcerated people, to a whirlwind of legislative and legal battles, 2025 proved pivotal for our nation's libraries. Read more in our State of America's Libraries Report: A Snapshot of 2025: https://bit.ly/3ORpvpE

My (12 year old) nephew created his own #Betrayal game expansion, for Supernatural, it is awesome! The only account I can find to tag is 🪽 @mishacollins.bsky.social

If you look closely you will see my dog Zero! 🐾 #nationallibraryweek #nationalpetday

On April 21, we'll be hosting our annual panel focused on Invasive Species! If you attend in-person, you'll be entered into a raffle to win Invaders of the Great Lakes or The Book of Invasive Species! To learn about the panel or register to attend online visit go.library.illinois.edu/FunkACESLibr...

A new office cat joined this week. Steve is doing the onboarding. Steve loves cats.

The wrong question is dominating the energy crisis debate. Every interview starts the same: where do we find replacement fossil fuels and what happens to prices? In this BBC interview I push back. This is the moment to talk about escaping fossil fuel dependence - not the daily market noise.

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." The real world outside DC's elite bubble know the deal: Elon's fascist funhouse is basically an ugly, diminished, toxic shell of Twitter's former self. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Follow along in the dramatic saga of @biodivlibrary.bsky.social BHL's Battle of the Bots and how the Technical Team is leveraging tools to prevent site disruption!

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Recent Publication: "Data Born in Literature: The @biodivlibrary.bsky.social – A Global Digital Library Serving the Planet" (2025) / Learn more at bit.ly/4bmezYD

Looking back at the 2017 @biodivlibrary.bsky.social meetings in Singapore / bit.ly/4dlEJNu

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is turning 20! 🎉 We’re starting celebrations with a special anniversary blog series #BHLat20: Treasures from BHL, featuring remarkable works chosen by the people who know them best: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/03/cele... #ILoveBHL