📣 EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social! We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now 👏 You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net

I'm hiring a postdoc (start date flexible) and a PhD student (for Fall 2027) to work in any area of computational phylogenetics! More info here: mhibbins.github.io I will be attending both PEQG and Evolution in June, so please reach out if you want to chat at these meetings!

Well over 100 registrations for TaxonWorks Together 2026. Hope to see you there. together.taxonworks.org.

Four years ago as @gbif.org passed 2 billion records, I tweeted that GBIF was, to a first approximation a database of birds x.com/rdmpage/stat.... Four years later we have nearly twice as many records (3.6 billion) and... it's still a mostly a database of birds www.gbif.org/occurrence/t...

📣 Applications for 2026 DataCamp licences are OPEN! 🍄 Join more than 500 biodiversity professionals in the GBIF network who have completed data courses across topics such as Python, RStats, SQL, AI and GitHub. 🔗Apply: gbif.link/DCD_2026 #DataCampDonates

TaxonWorks Together 2026. We're now open to (free) registration. TWT is a little different, we do our best to build in as much time to converse as to listen, fear not the relentless presentations, embrace #chat, bring your perspective (kindly). Please join! #taxonomy together.taxonworks.org

spring diver banding is the one time of year I consistently get into the field and its THE BEST I got up at 3 am this morning to set these traps, my husband said I was crazy as he stayed the warm bed WORTH IT

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

Happy Taxonomist Appreciation Day 🧬 It's a big day...Today we’re celebrating the scientists who make sense of life on Earth by discovering, naming, and classifying species. Shout out to all the taxonomists in the Ocean Census Science Network. We're so proud to work alongside you.

The March Alliance webinar 'Nomenclature in Wormbase & FlyBase' is TOMORROW (Thursday, March 19) at noon EDT. Register by 11pm EDT TONIGHT for a Zoom link tinyurl.com/4f9ycybt

If your application is API first, with careful adherence to semantics behind the scenes, it's pre-adapted to facilitate building fun things. AI-assisted coding + #TaxonWorks #opensource is bonkers fun. twig is TaxonPages in the terminal. Thanks Geoff for this experiment, all done in a weekend.

PhyKIT code coverage is back to 90%+. Unit and integration tests are *key* for software stability

Or if there might be work done, what happens if it’s not executed where the data originated? How do you plan for obsolescence? Maybe we’ll see some answers in BDJ. Sneak peek at a call for a special issue to be announced soon where manuscripts are welcome bdj.pensoft.net/topical_coll...

#biodiversity #bioinformatics Summer School ... 21-26 June in Siegen, Germany co-organised by @sib.swiss & @denbi.bsky.social www.sib.swiss/training/cou... 🟢 eDNA & ecosystems 🟣 pangenome diversity 🔵 population genetics 🟡 comparative genomics Register to apply, selections will start from March 16th

notebooklm.google.com/notebook/225... Press play, bottom right. This podcast is completely generated by pasting 2 links. *LOTS* of missrepresentation, but still, wow.

📢 JOB OPPORTUNITY We are hiring a Research Technologist (Advanced Professional) to design, implement, support, analyze, and report on rigorous research in genetics, entomology, and host-microbe interactions. Please consider and share with others in need. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Staff/jo...

Some big diffs between citizen science observations (from iNaturalist) and specimen records (from digitised museum collections) - cit. sci records biased towards large inverts & exotic spp. Great MSc project with recommendations 🌏🧪@nzhymenoptera.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

And if you want more detail on why I left iNat, I wrote about that too: kueda.net/blog/2026/01...

I'm hiring a postdoc to work with myself, Dr Jim Lyons and the entire NOAA Firebird team on the adaptive management part of our larger project focused on the impacts of prescribed fire on Gulf Coast wetlands Accepting applications until Feb 15th blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/19...

A post about pirate book archives, their inevitable demises, and continuity and complexity of catalogues as new sites emerge. (As well as musings on the challenge of resourcing and financing such illegal [in many jurisdictions] operations at the scale that is needed.) eve.gd/2026/01/01/t...

TAXACOM - The long goodbye lists.ku.edu/pipermail/ta... 😢

Tomorrow! I'll be moderating the first session of #Hymathon2025 with a keynote presentation by @amelialindsey.bsky.social and lots of interesting research on ants, bees, sawflies, and wasps!

Lurking at #Hymathon2025. It's an amazing concept- a 24hr virtual conference engaging researchers on the bees, wasps, and ants, across the globe and across timezones. Ideas already flowing for activites we might facilitate in 2026, stay tuned. Go ISH! www.hymenopterists.org

In TaxonWorks you can extend many models with your own attributes- new buckets to put your stuff in. We sometimes use these buckets as a record of original values when we migrate in data. Just what do we put in those buckets? A viz tool to explore is in testing. #data #science #data-science

We're at #EntSoc25 and ECN too. We'll have lots of time to chat, so find Matt, Debbie, Dmitry and friends.

Has anyone taken up the challenge of finding the adventure game in Mesquite? 🔍

While everyone is having fun @ #LivingData2025 we rolled out our AnatomicalPart model for testing. OWL anatomy ontology integration, multiple origins, source of extracts and sequences, and other parts. One of the last pillars of TaxonWorks 1.0. Thanks Tom for implementing this coolness.

Welcome Miridae (and Reduviidae) to TaxonWorks! Comprehensive plant (and assassin) bug nomenclature with >44k names, distribution and host records are now imported. Christiane Weirauch, R. Toby Schuh and Michael Schwartz lead the evolution of this decades long effort on these important #insects.

#Taxonomy is *very* collaborative, this is authorship of the stonefly family Perlidae. The Sankey viz illustrates the connection between authors as defined by both being involved in the authorship of a TaxonName. Dynamic report coming to TW soon. #biodiversity #species #taxonomy #viz

Early experiments playing with Claude Code X TaxonWorks. Since we have some nice conventions in the code-base it very quickly was able to turn data into a classic #D3 Sankey plot, here linking taxon name authors to their fellow authors according to the number of times they worked together.

Released 0.54.0. Changelog: github.com/SpeciesFileG.... One stop configuration for serving DwCArchives via a single fixed endpoint (get your data to #GBIF without an IPT, fileserver, etc.). Colors (see screenshot)! Interactive key guided "traditional" key creation. TaxonPage endpoints & much more.

New @vliz.be @WRMarineSpecies paper. Marine biodiversity discovery: the metrics of new species descriptions. Figure: country of institutional affiliation of first authors: Belgium in the top 10 www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

#Biodiversity is vast. Building keys for hundreds or thousands of species? Now available in TaxonWorks- powerful new tools to create dynamic "traditional" keys from interactive keys using matrices of trait/observations/character data. #species #taxonomy

IAPT Webinar Series: Sharing taxonomic data with biodiversity and nomenclature databases! Join us on October 22nd to celebrate the International Day of Climate Action and World Sustainability Day! 🪸🍄🌸🎉 @barbarathiers.bsky.social @pjimmej.bsky.social @isabellarridon.bsky.social

Celebrating the UCF Collection of Arthropods. Feels very good to see them use TaxonWork's ability to ingest Darwin Core in support of collections. In the past 10 weeks UCF imported >350k collection objects, transforming single rows of data into a networks of Things to be annotated and extended.

I think we've figured out the right solution at the Evolution Meetings: Bang for your buck, a virtual meeting two weeks before the in-person is the most cost-effective way to involve remote participants. A couple thoughts 🧵

Who wants a job like mine? If so you may be in luck! 🥳 Virginia Tech is hiring an Insect Identification Laboratory Manager: careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us... Follow the link for info and to apply.

Please help us spread the word! Please amplify! We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝 Applications are due October 6 2025. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C... #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

I have posted 11 issues on the repo for @makedatacount.bsky.social @datacite.org github.com/Make-Data-Co... and not a single one has had any response, not one. Why ask for feedback when you don't respond? to it?

Thanks to @debpaul.bsky.social our YT www.youtube.com/@taxonworks now has four excellent conversations originating from TaxonWorks Together. Hear from Mark Davis, @waynemaddison.bsky.social, Dan Runfola and Daniel Katz on the topics of eDNA, taxonomy, geoBoundaries and Research Software Engineers.

Released 0.53.0. Changelog: github.com/SpeciesFileG... New "Monograph facilitator"- spatially visualize and annotate specimens. Extended AssertedDistributions- generically assert *where* data occurred ((A ate B found_on C) in Illinois). New power-tools for building (large) keys. Bugs crushed.

The Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG) is seeking ten taxonomic specialists in Collembola or any of the following insect orders - Blattodea, Ephemeroptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera, Trichoptera! graduatestudies.uoguelph.ca/postdoctoral...

Before there are #species there are #specimens. A new UI is coming to spatially explore and batch annotate collection objects- for taxonomists who monograph, and collections that digitally extend their specimens. #taxonomy

Mesquite 4.0 released! A major update — many new features, small and large (phylogenomics, visualizations, workflow management, &c). Check out the trailer video: www.mesquiteproject.org. Come discuss in our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-project). @bembidion.bsky.social ‬🧪 #evolbio

Released 0.52.1. Changelog: github.com/SpeciesFileG... A small release with bug fixes, changes to label consistency, improved metadata display, and some editing advances to batch editing data attributes. Also, Dark Mode, a feature so stealthy it didn't make the changelog.

What's up? Dark mode.

The Biodiversity Heritage LIbrary is the foundation in many ways for #biodiversityinformatics. They have an important new blog post at blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran.... Please engage and share!

Released 0.52.0. Changelog: github.com/SpeciesFileG... A big update "under the hood". Lots of code DRYing. Performance improvements, particularly for #CatalogueofLife data packages. Many filter/facet additions with more options for batch updating. Lots of UI QoL improvements. Bugs squashed.

Check out our new paper in #BioScience!!! If COVID taught us anything, we very much need to be doubling down on our scientific structure and not regressing, and we need to improve collaborative networks that transcend geopolitical boundaries. #naturalhistory #collectionsareessential

TaxonWorks will be nicely represented at #SPNHC2025. Come find Debbie, Matt, or Lily if you'd like a high-bandwidth discussion on TaxonWorks and it's use a collections management tool. We've all got talks that touch on the topic as well!