This is an excellent offer for anybody waffling! about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup... #ILoveBHL

📢 Big news! BHL has a new fiscal sponsor – @clirnews.bsky.social 🎉 This marks a major step forward in BHL’s transition to a more sustainable, community-led future. 🌍 Read all about what this means for BHL: 🔗 blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/08/tran... #ILoveBHL

New on the #BHLblog: "Seeds for the Future" by @tiagolubiana.bsky.social. Tiago has done incredible work connecting BHL with the #Wikimedia ecosystem – building tools, enriching metadata & dramatically increasing the visibility of BHL’s image collections: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/07/seed...

Clocked! Jinkx knows what time it is! ⏰

After we upload historic journals onto BHL, we gather & upload the data for the articles in each volume. This can be time consuming, but it's critical to article discoverability (& to our retrospective assignment of DOIs). We've surfaced 419,456 articles thus far! Many thx to @rdmpage.bsky.social.

In 1758 Carl Linnaeus gave the world's largest cat its 1st scientific name: Felis tigris (he used the genus Felis for all cats). In 1929, Reginald Innes Pocock subordinated the tiger under the genus Panthera. #GlobalTigerDay #InternationalTigerDay www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726936

The #BHLTransition is underway! ⛵ We’re charting the course to a strong and sustainable future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Read our latest update and, if you have visionary ideas about how BHL can evolve and grow, get in touch 🚀: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/07/tran...

In the latest BHL blog post, Technical Coordinator Joel Richard provides insight into recent challenges related to bot traffic and the steps being taken to address them, highlighting a growing challenge for cultural heritage sites. 🧪

If something feels off about someone - in your gut, your body or your intuition, step back, no matter how much you care about them, no matter what they say, no matter what you want or hope for. Press the pause button. Step back. Listen inside.

Thank you @trevorabranch.bsky.social thanks for the shout out!! I and @nicolekearney.bsky.social are ready and able to have these conversations! 🧪

Happy #WorldMeerkatDay! This special day was founded by Australia's Taronga Western Plains Zoo on July 3, 2018. It is now celebrated across the globe! www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31064692

This single effort has made it easier to find and download biology articles and books from the 1700s and 1800s than from the 1900s... (many of the latter are still under copyright)

The animal kingdom, arranged according to its organization, serving as a foundation for the natural history of animals: London: G. Henderson, 1834-1837. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28028027) #nature #illustration #art

🐯 It's #InternationalTigerDay 🐅, a day to celebrate tigers & raise awareness for tiger conservation. Carl Linnaeus gave the tiger its first scientific name in 1758: Felis tigris (now called Panthera tigris). Systema Naturae, v.1: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726936 #ILoveBHL

BHL has been experiencing a significant increase in traffic. Users may be experiencing intermittent service disruptions. If you're downloading data & don't want to put additional pressure on BHL systems, here's how to do that: about.biodiversitylibrary.org/ufaqs/how-do... Thank you!

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

For Black folks music has always been part of our fight for liberation. From communication to channeling joy, strength and comfort. For Day 19 of the #BlackMusicMonthChallenge, in honor of Lift Every Voice being our anthem *before* the US had an official anthem, share YOUR Black National Anthem.

Please feel free to contact me via the email in the call [email protected] OR on Bluesky, I am happy to set up a conversation! 🧪 -Kelli

Today at the Funk Library we are hosting #graphicscience book club with 5th-8th graders participating in #PollenPower at the Institute for Genomic Biology at #UIUC! Reading: Cicadapocalypse by Roger McMullan 🧪 📖 @illinoisfunk.bsky.social

As #NationalVolunteerWeek draws to a close, we thank our fabulous #BHLAustralia volunteers for their incredible work, dedication & passion. They have given 1000s of hours of their time to making biodiversity knowledge freely accessible online. Many have been with us day one (in 2011!) 🙏 🌱 📖 🧪

🆕 Over 16,000 #biodiversity articles from across the #journals we publish on our #ARPHA #publishing #platform are now discoverable & accessible in the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social! 👍 Future papers will be added upon publication. ℹ️ Read more on our blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/05/20/p....

🦀 Spider decorator crabs (C. retusa) stick bits of sea life & debris onto the spiny hairs on their legs, making them difficult to spot. #SciArt via "Dictionnaire Classique des Sciences Naturelles" Atlas (1853) in #BHLib via @cornelluniversity.bsky.social ➡️ www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42266333

Native to South America, the pineapple was an important economic plant in the development of Indigenous civilizations in the Americas. It was a source of food and medicine, and its fibers were used for textiles. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/677923 🎨 Johann Jacob Haid after Georg Dionysius Ehret.

The king ragworm (Alitta virens) is an annelid worm that burrows in wet sand and mud. Illustrated by Roberta McIntosh for William McIntosh's 1910 work, A Monograph of the British Annelids, via #SILibraries: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38533302 #HerNaturalHistory #WormWednesday 🪱 🧪 #ILoveBHL

There are so many hidden treasures in the BHL!

It's bedtime but I can't drag myself away from the Biodiversity Heritage Library!

In an 1847 report to the British Museum, Darwin and his peers declared that "The cultivation of natural science cannot be efficiently carried out without reference to an extensive library." Still so true today... #ILoveBHL 63 million #OpenAccess pages & counting! www.biodiversitylibrary.org

How do you know you’re in farm country? When you follow a combine ALL the way to work onto the campus of a major university. #Illinois 🧡💙

Two resolutions just passed #UIUC Campus Senate today, to read them lookie here: 1. www.senate.illinois.edu/2024-2025/20... 2. www.senate.illinois.edu/2024-2025/20... #academicfreedom ILL!

When I’m at a casino I channel Big Jule from #GuysandDolls: “I came to shoot craps, let’s shoot craps!

That's a good boy! ❤️

Alice Walker, “The World We Want is Us”https://poets.org/poem/world-we-want-us

A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop. www.wired.com/story/scient...

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Me talking about how much I love the Biodiversity Heritage Library ▶️ blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2021/02/bhl-... I work in mycology at @rbgkew.bsky.social these days - a career move that was largely inspired by things I read in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. 📚 All together now: #ILoveBHL

The most meaningful work of my career has been the 17.5 years I have spent with the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Now BHL faces new challenges, and seeks funding and support. Please share this message, and reach out if you can help. #ILoveBHL

Hear Hear! The BHL is an extraordinary resource and extremely important as well, follow them here on Bluesky as well: @biodivlibrary.bsky.social #ILOVEBHL!

To help, they're calling for ideas, donations, and spreading the message. Please do what you can. At this point, I'm donating to Wikipedia, The Internet Archive, and now this. Sorry, Dropout and MaxFun, this is more important 🥲 blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...

In addition to EVERY-FUCKING-THING ELSE The most vital of tools, the Biodiversity Heritage Library, is apparently homed at the Smithsonian. For obv reasons, the Smithsonian cannot retain it For free, you can access biodiversity-related texts going back to the 1400s! www.biodiversitylibrary.org

Change is in the air for BHL! In 2026, BHL hosting will transition away from the Smithsonian, opening doors to reimagine our future. Rest assured, our 63 million pages of biodiversity knowledge remain secure and accessible. Learn what's next for BHL ➡️

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.

@pnas.org @science.org @amersocvirology.bsky.social @sciam.bsky.social @plos.org @aaas.org

🚨 Sound off, colleagues 🚨 @nature.com @springernature.com @tandfresearch.bsky.social @wolterskluwer.com @bmj.com @thelancet.bsky.social @acmedsci.bsky.social #Academicsky #HigherEd Tag others please.

🧪Make no mistake, fascists are coming for #peerreview. Scholarly literature is not about “debate”, it’s about presenting reproducible evidence to solve problems. Peer review stands between funder bias & dissemination. Not perfect but paramount, everyone needs to understand how it works & defend it.

Hi Bluesky, the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest #OpenAccess digital library of biodiversity literature and archives. We're a global consortium of 660 contributors who've made 63 million pages of biodiversity knowledge freely accessible online. www.biodiversitylibrary.org

Just added this to our defense compact resolution!

If anyone needs draft language for your campus, DM me!

That’s the energy we need.