This post doesn’t have a direct link to the PhD position but @lanipai.bsky.social web page is academics.aut.ac.nz/leilani.walk...

Editing #Wikipedia is not just all about creating new articles. There's lots other other ways you can contribute and @hildabast.bsky.social shows you how.

#FlyFriday one of my favorite assassin flies - Sisyrnodytes subater Oldroyd, 1957 (Asilidae: Willistonininae, USNMENT00870084) - collected in north-western South Africa near Pella - more info here n2t.net/ark:/65665/3... #asiloidflies

The stalk-eyed Crustacea Cambridge, Printed for the Museum, 1895. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13885377) #nature #illustration #art

🥕 Home vegetable gardening from A to Z Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & company, 1918. [Source]

@nhmdk.bsky.social is advertising a PhD fellowship in collection-based Natural History Research focused on dark taxa and unknown species, preferably including representatives of Danish flora, fauna or geology deadline 5 October 2025 candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

So for our anniversary celebration we're watching a Bily Joel doco, drinking AMAZING wine - Pol Roger 2012 and Hommage A Jacques Perrin 1998 and eating rib eye on the bone. (In absolutely no particular order of importance - you know all I REALLY care about is the WINE!)

Possibly the most chaotic #museum collection I've ever seen: a drawer containing literally thousands of pinned #flies, at the Chau Chak Wing Museum at @sydney.edu.au. True fact: this drawer contains more museum objects than the entire UK National Gallery.

Lovely hubby & I have been together THIRTY ONE years today. I feel like I met him yesterday, last week, a year at the most. Still have those butterflies of excitement & adoration. In the immortal works of Ferris Bueller "Life moves pretty fast." I'm currently looking around intensely smelling roses.

For the LIANZA conference next week I only have ten minutes to talk about @wikisource.bsky.social so I make a little zine—or perhaps a wikitract—to hand out.

🌿 A second century of ferns London: Dulau, 1864. [Source]

This #ThreatenedThursday we’re highlighting another small creature first described by Baldwin Spencer: the #kowari. The kowari is a small marsupial of the gibber desert. Its distinguishing feature is its tail, with those black hairs at the end. Stylish! www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57973468

The natural history of British fishes: London: Printed for the author, and for F. and C. Rivington, 1802-08. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5897394) #nature #illustration #art

This year I have the pleasure of watching stick insect hatch from their tiny eggs! These are native species Acanthoxyla inermis according to @morganemerien.bsky.social very cute! #NZLabLife #Insects en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acantho...

Geologists of bluesky, great opportunity at Otago Uni, NZ for a Lecturer in Earth Science! Special shout out to my #biomarker colleagues, the dept has a well set up, near new Org Geochem lab without a PI, with GCMS/FID and HPLC, if anyone wants a change of scene! ⚒🧪🥼🌊 otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

As I'm preparing new lecture material, I'm reminded again of what a wonderful ressource the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social is! It's the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives and it is well worth a visit (the images and the thematic collections are amazing)💚

Prepping for the LIANZA conference next week in Wellington: giving a lightning talk about Wikisource and joining the local Wikimedia meetup. Happy to catch up with Wellington people in my free time—do message me.

Currently having a lovely time with #OpenRefine. That is until what I want to do runs into the reef that is my lack of OpenRefine skills. But at the moment it is smooth sailing! A very big thank you to all those that contribute to this wonder.

Does anyone know what has happened to the Encyclopaedia of Life website? I've been getting this notification for weeks when I attempt to access it. www.eol.org

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the past week! www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida...

New this week! We’ve recently uploaded the “Handbook of forest trees for Victorian foresters”. The work of botanist Alfred Ewart, this book had an intended audience of forest officers & students of botany and forestry. Explore the volume here: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/65053311

The BHL online collection just hit 200,000 titles! A title could be a single rare book or an entire 200-year journal run, so 200,000 titles is huge (63+ million pages!). Check out BHL's MAMMOTH collection here: www.biodiversitylibrary.org 📖 🧪 🦣 #OpenAccess #OpenScience #ILoveBHL

Love listening to my Dad. Thinking of him today. www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/...

There is going to be a walking tour and #editathon on Women in Architecture in #Auckland. If you are keen you can book FREE tickets here events.humanitix.com/a-w-nz-x-wik... #Wikipedia #Architecture

🦄 Hawaiian fishes Honolulu, Hawaii, Tongg publishing company, 1944. [Source]

We just pushed a new version of the global bird phylogeny to Github. Updated topology (v1.5), and now in the most recent Clements/eBird taxonomy. We'll push to CRAN soon too, but head over and grab the most recent clootl version now. @snacktavish.bsky.social github.com/eliotmiller/...

We've curated some exciting new phylogenies, and those will be incorporated in v1.6, which should be released within the next two months. That'll be available in the new unified global avian taxonomy, aka Avilist www.birds.cornell.edu/home/avilist...

#nzpol First they closed the streets to cars Then they encouraged cycling Now they're adding more rail Where will it end? Hint: an easily accessible and liveable city

Currently being triggered at a nice restaurant by a patron wearing a beanie at the table. Yes dear reader, I’m getting old.

Did someone say bugs 🐜 ? These illustrations by entomologist William Joseph Rainbow come from the Records of the Australian Museum. They present the Goliath Stick Insect and the Children’s stick insect. ➡️ www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6951790 ➡️ www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6951794

This #FloralFriday let us present you this #bouquet from the “Jardin de la Malmaison”. This selection includes the botanical work of Pierre Joseph Redouté, who served Marie Antoinette and then Empress Josephine: artistic and political skills both on point! www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43518521

So, just who is Emmy Noether? Read about her on #Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_No...

This is SUCH good news. #ThreatenedSpecies

Two native Hawaiian land snails rediscovered on Kaua‘i | Big Island Now #molluscmonday bigislandnow.com/2025/09/10/t...

A reminder to New Zealand #Wiki editors, our Aotearoa New Zealand Wiki monthly online meetup is happening on Sunday the 14th of September, noon until 2pm. See the meet up page for the link and more information. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... #Wikipedia #Wikidata #Wikicommons #Wikisource

🖼️ Some English gardens;. and Bombay, Longmans, Green & Co., 1904.. [Source]

A nice explainer from @wmau.bsky.social about Wikipedia’s annual fundraising drive. Because the site runs no ads, it’s completely dependent on donations. wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Why_do_...

BHL's future is uncertain, but hopeful. Securing its future requires new partners & sustained investment. For more information, follow along here & on the #BHLblog: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition. Help us safeguard the world’s collective biodiversity knowledge. #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🌱 🌏

Can’t overstate how valuable a resource BHL is

Japanische Meeres-Conchylien T1 Cassel, T. Fischer, 1869-1874. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40929) #nature #illustration #art

Local candidates: it's not much help telling us you're married with 3 kids and have run your own business. I need to know where you stand on issues: fluoridation, cycleways, water, homelessness, climate change mitigation, housing density, libraries, and which issues you care about most.

I've been managing BHL's #Bluesky account for 4 months now. It's an honour to share such beautiful & significant content, particularly at this critical time. BHL's future is uncertain, but hopeful. Follow along @biodivlibrary.bsky.social & on the #BHLblog: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition

Accounts to follow that are better than what's going on right now (4) 👇🏼

Thank you to everyone that attended the #WomenInEntomology morning at #Ento25, what a fantastic turnout! Special thanks to @ukladybirds.bsky.social, @hayleyento.bsky.social, Anna Platoni and Gia Aradottir 🐞🪴🪰🦗 Read more about women in entomology 🔽 buff.ly/9OBCyNM WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience

These are the wasps we're looking at. Ichneumonidae, subfamily Pimplinae. They lay eggs on caterpillars, spiders, sometimes spider eggs.. the egg hatches and eats the host. They're also incredibly pretty. 🧪

This week we’re digitising the Bulletin of the Australian Society for Limnology, which is not available anywhere online. It’ll soon be freely accessible on @biodivlibrary.bsky.social. Stay tuned… #ILoveBHL #Freshwater #Biodiversity

The Australian branch of BHL regularly adds in-copyright content to BHL that is not available anywhere else online (alongside their digitisation of #RareBooks, #HistoricJournals & #Archives). Follow along here: @bhl-au.bsky.social. 🇦🇺 🦘 🐨 🌏 📖 🧪

Folk attending the Australasian Systematic Botany Society conference #ASBS2025 have the opportunity to attend a FREE in-person “Wiki for Botanists” workshop. To be held on Sunday 2 November from 9am to 5pm. Only 25 spots are available. #Wikipedia #Wikidata #Wikicommons asbs.org.au/conferences/...

Back in April I ran a workshop in Adelaide on adding photos to Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, and ultimately Wikipedia, called The Commons Workflow. It went so well I've turned it into a three-session short course. It's NZ$20 to register, starting 1 Oct. the-commons-workflow-oct-2025.lilregie.com

My amazing #Wiki colleague @tiagolubiana.bsky.social has released this lovely video on the #BHLImageExporer. This tool (bhl-gallery.toolforge.org) explores @biodivlibrary.bsky.social images in #Wikicommons. It facilities image reuse in the #Wikiverse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK9i... #ILoveBHL