📢 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!

Released 0.51.0. Changelog: github.com/SpeciesFileG... A major #GIS focused release adds a new user-defined spatial Gazetteer, unified shape storage, new spatial facets and cross-model queries, spatial query performance improvements, and batch georeferencing. Many bugs (the only bad kind) squashed.

TaxonWorks Together opens in exactly 24hrs from now. There is still time to join almost 200 other registrants, for free. Come join the conversation. together.taxonworks.org

📣 URGENT FUNDRAISING MATCH OPPORTUNITY! A generous donor has offered to match donations to the Flocks project, our joint project with @amornith.bsky.social & @fieldornith.bsky.social to promote diversity & belonging in #ornithology, until FRIDAY. Help us meet our goal!

🔔 Mark your calendar for the upcoming practical training session on 14 May hosted by @gbif.org 📊 #DataOccurrenceCubes #DataCubes #BiodiversityData #DataUseClub @inbo.be

It is one week until TaxonWorks Together 2025. With 7 in-depth conversations ranging from eDNA to Research Software Engineers and the role of vouchering, and stories of #data in transition, there's more than TaxonWorks on the table. Join over 125 registrants, for free, at together.taxonworks.org.

Released 0.50.0. Changelog: github.com/SpeciesFileG... Music to our ears! Add Sounds- code their metadata in a matrix, link them as Conveyances to, well, the Things they convey. Numerous curation-related quality of life improvements. More Container integration. A good handful of bugs squashed too.

From our staff to you: here's what you should know about using the new iNaturalist iPhone app on your next adventure! 🧵 ⤵️

Wow! CONSISTENT #genome annotations for 200 insect species from different families, including 85 species previously lacking annotations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📢The Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 2026 abstract submission portal is NOW OPEN 🐛🐜🕷️🦠🪱 Abstracts are due July 15th 23:59 PDT ‼️ Submit an abstract 👇 globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/abstract/

We've hit 100 registrations for the free, virtual TaxonWorks Together 2025! Lurk, learn, participate, join us and contribute to our conversations on #biodiversity #informatics. together.taxonworks.org. #species #taxonomy #naturalhistorycollections

Do you use Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) genomes for your work or grant applications? If so, can you please fill out this form? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We are gathering info on how DToL genomes are used. It will help us raise money to continue producing publicly available high-quality genomes.

📢The Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 2026 call for symposia proposals are due March 31, 2025 🐛🐜🕷️🦠🪱 Get your proposals in before then ‼️ Apply 👇 www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/gsb4 @gsb2026.bsky.social

A full draft of TaxonWorks Together 2025 schedule is now available. A majority of sessions are moderated discussions with opportunities for your input. Hear from people that inspire us, and revel in the on-line conversation that pervades throughout. Registration is open! together.taxonworks.org