TaxonWorks version 0.63.1 live 📢 Changes on this release: github.com/SpeciesFileG... 📝

If biodiversity matters for prosperity, why are all the rich countries poor in biodiversity while those with great biodiversity are economically poor? In People and Nature we resolve this paradox and call for a reframing of the conservation agenda besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/IBRPPA...

🥁 Introducing.... the new and improved GBIF.org! 😍 Our refreshed website brings a series of enhancements to both the technical capabilities and user experience of GBIF infrastructure. Explore the new features on GBIF.org:🐅 🔗 gbif.link/new-gbif.org

🐛 Check out @gbif.org's brand new website (yay 🎉), which officially appoints Catalogue of Life as the default taxonomy for occurrence data: www.gbif.org

Try it yourself — upload your own images and explore the tool here 👉 haag-1.cc.gatech.edu

Got a digitised collection that needs OCR? uv-scripts is a set of single-file Python scripts that OCR a whole image dataset to markdown in one command — 20+ open VLMs to pick from, nothing to install but uv. github.com/davanstrien/...

If you love Ruby (we do), and you want to play in the biodiversity informatics sphere, we have something tasty for you! github.com/SpeciesFileG... is a meta wrapper, in part from our new Labs effort. API wrappers for everything in the kitchen sink. @rubylang.bsky.social #biodiversity #informatics

You're building new #species concepts. You took time to photograph specimens, developed your film, carefully cut the negatives into individual frames, put them in little cardboard frames, laid everything out on a big light table and now you start to move slides around. That, but digital. And more.

TaxonWorks Together 2026 was lovely! A participant: "...the event was such a positive experience that I missed the group the next day. It was a very welcoming and inspiring space to learn." This years Award Winners get a "Don't Panic" towel. Help congratulate them! together.taxonworks.org#Awards

NSCA expresses profound concern about the future of the Academy of Natural Sciences of #Drexel University. The Academy is a globally important natural history #collection & center for #biodiversity #research. #naturalhistory #NSCA nscalliance.org/statement-on...

Fincredible resource, for those interested! 🔗 www.phylopic.org/images

👉 The BMD training portal has been officially launched, and in the last session of the day, we are planning its further development: training.lifewatch.eu/en/categorie...

5 days, hundreds of experts, one shared ambition: turn biodiversity data into a system the world can act on. Read the full highlights of #BioMonWeek2026: www.biodiversa.eu/2026/05/04/b... Co-organised by @biodiversa.eu, #AllianceforNature, @bioagora.eu, @gbif.org and @marco-bolo.bsky.social

"a paper today is a Frankensteined-together patchwork of supplementary files that run longer than the manuscript, datasets in repositories...code posted to GitHub without documentation. The paper has been replaced....by a mess" www.thetransmitter.org/from-bench-t...

We hit 200 registrants and had a marvelous first day at TaxonWorks Together. Day 2 starting now! together.taxonworks.org

An immense work by my colleague Tom Wood @naturalis.bsky.social - really impressive achievement! 🐝 #bee #taxonomy

💡 #KnowledgeHighlight | Webinar: BioSamples: a FAIR sample metadata archive by @training.ebi.embl.org @embl.org www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve... Explore open-access training materials in the ERGA #KnowledgeHub ➡️ knowledge.erga-biodiversity.eu #biosamples #FAIR #datamanagement #metadata

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

Evaluating two preservation methods, six DNA extraction protocols, and two post-extraction clean-up steps for their effects on DNA quality and PacBio HiFi sequencing yield www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #biodiversity #genomics

Nearly everyone we collaborate with wants #species pages that include a diverse range of data, think next gen Encyclopedia of Life. Do not miss José's amazing presentation at TWT on TaxonPages, and the conversation with #GBIF afterwards looking for ways to converge on common goals. #taxonomy

www.alliancegenome.org version 9.0.0 is now live. In addition to data refreshes from each of the model organism source databases, we've added some new features and made backend improvements. Details are available in the Alliance Release notes www.alliancegenome.org/release-notes

Do you access www.alliancegenome.org via API? A number of significant backend changes have removed or modified existing Alliance public API endpoints. You can find details in the Release Notes www.alliancegenome.org/release-notes

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!

Are you getting the quarterly TAIR newsletter? 📬 Sign up now ▶️▶️▶️ omniform1.com/forms/v1/lan... #plantscience #plantbiology #Arabidopsis 🧪

🧵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

🧵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

You can now explore host-plant associations on "Curculionidae of the World Online"! We have almost 3000 associations in the database. Huge thanks to the team of TaxonWorks who got the Biological Associations tab for TaxonPages running with the latest release! curculionidae.github.io/taxa/#/otus/...

To keep track with everything, we love to make lists. They give us the illusion of order in a chaotic reality. For this project, there is a large database in the background (TaxonWorks), and a data portal as frontend (TaxonPages: curculionidae.github.io/taxa)

It’s funny how me deciding 6 months ago that I wanted to build a home server to store my photos, spending 2 weeks frantically learning about docker containers, network, virtualisation, would give me the skills to create an instance for a TaxonWorks database, but here we are.

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!

Using AI to create logos while the data centers used to power AI accelerate the climate crisis and cause untold damage to the environment? ✔️ Creating AI-generated art for use in a logo despite the fact that AI scrapes artists' work for training without compensation? ✔️

With our 0.62.0 release comes new iNaturalist integration. Import observations, images (that are shared), sounds, and occurrences with georeferences by simply referencing lists of iNat URLs. A powerful new way to meld your #taxonomy with citizen contributions. @inaturalist.bsky.social

We've dropped the ball on release mentions here, but on the cusp of TWT (together.taxonworks.org) we've dropped a big one. See the Changelog at github.com/SpeciesFileG....

AI agents + biology? 🤖🧬 Learn how MCP lets LLMs query and reason over biological data. Tutorial organized by: Damian Szklarczyk Register here: 👉 eccb2026.org/registration... #ECCB2026 #AIinBiology

Exploring 218,567 pages of @bhl-au.bsky.social content using a "gilbert" curve. Just some of the content added by @nicolekearney.bsky.social and her team, HT to @cajunjoel.bsky.social for putting @biodivlibrary.bsky.social images on AWS which made this visualisation possible.

I don't know about many of its features, but AntWeb uses TaxonWorks for a lot of infrastructure, and it works pretty well for a large, partially collaborative and partially centrally curated database with different data types. I hear your reservations tho

I've released my experimental Open Tree of Life browser at iphylo.org/ott-viewer. You can navigate the Open Tree of Life synthesis tree in all its (complicated) glory. Single click on a node for information, double click to focus on that node, search for node by name.

Derpy? ✓ Bad AI generated hands? ✓ Cutting edge labs? ✓ Need for responsible AI use disclosure? ✓ Our new Labs logo indicates experimental libraries, browser plugins, TUIs and more. Created with AI, or in a burst of quick-and-dirty hacks, it tags tools we find awesome, but perhaps unsustainable.

📣 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