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Diogo Veríssimo @diogoverissimo.bsky.social · 11d

🌍 Languages of Life | Línguas da Vida | Bahasa Kehidupan 🗣️🌱

Biodiversity doesn’t speak only English. 🌳🐒
If species cross borders, our words should too.
New paper in @ConLetters : why saving life also means using more languages

🔗https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/conl.13139

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 16d

"We are not here to drop the aid and go home and pat ourselves on the back. We are here to establish a humanitarian corridor for states themselves to assume their responsibilities."

Italy, Spain Deploy Naval Ships After Drones Repeatedly Attack Gaza-Bound Flotilla

Spain and Italy are sending naval vessels to protect the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla after activists said drones repeatedly attacked their boats near Greece on Wednesday. Activists said the most ...

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 19d

very informative, if not very optimistic, piece on Nepal’s upheaval this month, its background and context:

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Nepal’s Violent Gen Z Uprising

Fed up with élite corruption and widening inequality, a youth-led movement toppled the government in forty-eight hours. Now what?

www.newyorker.com

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 19d

Our entirely localized open source processing scripts for The mothbox now have a cool new UI!

JUST SELECT YOUR FOLDERS AND START FINDING COOL BUGS!

@briannaljohns.bsky.social even made nice documentation to show you how to do it!
digital-naturalism-laboratories.github.io/Mothbox/docs...

Start UI

Open Source Low Cost DIY Nocturnal Insect Monitoring

digital-naturalism-laboratories.github.io

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 21d

Queer Night Hike!
We took the local queer activist group, Salva El Grillo, on a fun nocturnal adventure in the rainforest!

Saw so many creatures including: Olingo, caiman, red eyed tree frogs, scorpions, and more!

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Biodiversity Council @biodivcouncil.bsky.social · 23d

✨Science Spotlight✨ A Melbourne study shows gardened nature strips attract more insects than lawn - boosting bees, beetles & butterflies 🐝. Providing habitat and resources in urban spaces can make a big difference for biodiversity 🧪🌍
@philippabell.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Flowers by the roadside. Text overlay says: Citizen-led nature strip gardens attract more insects than lawn, study finds.

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 26d

Testing the MEGA MOTHBEAM. It kicked ass tonight and didn't melt itself!
With @briannaljohns.bsky.social

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · Sep 11

'All paths lead to water' - my newest aerial embroidery, inspired by the grounds of Antony House, Cornwall! I loved the radiating paths through the trees leading to the water edge so here's my take on the landscape... with kayakers! Now available here: victoriaroserichards.co.uk/collection/a...

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. The landscape depicts green-blue water, piers and kayakers with fluffy wool trees and rich green grass.

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · Sep 7

Hard to read but just one example of the human cost of wildfires - with climate change increasing the number of fires each year.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

‘If I Live to 25, I’ve Lived a Good Life’

www.nytimes.com

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · Sep 4

So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!

Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration

digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · Sep 4

Making super low cost moth attractors with Dinalab crew: @wellreadpanda.bsky.social @briannaljohns.bsky.social

A bunch of totally not suspicious looking electronics

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Aug 22

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.

While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

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Bri Johns @briannaljohns.bsky.social · Aug 13

Interested in building & selling Mothboxes locally? We're starting up a working group of vendors across the globe interested in manufacturing Mothboxes ✨ Join us for our first meeting on August 28th at 14:00 UTC! @dinalab.bsky.social
www.openscienceshop.org/join-the-mot...

Join the Mothbox Working Group for our first meeting!

We're kicking off the Mothbox Working Group with our first meeting on August 28th at 14:00 UTC.

www.openscienceshop.org

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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · Aug 10

So this is what I needed the "neutral face" author photo for :) I'm pontificating about why big sticky animals are hard to find. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A huge stick insect has been discovered in Australia. Here’s why that’s important | Gwen Pearson

Yes, they can be hard to spot – but this find in Australia highlights how little we know about creatures crucial to our ecosystem, writes entomologist Gwen Pearson

www.theguardian.com

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · Aug 1

Here's a super cool documentary about the Mothbox!

Learn about the development and use of this fun #openscience #opensource tool for DIY biodiversity monitoring!

youtu.be/1LGz3aWpeVE?...

Mothbox - Wildlabs Award 2024

YouTube video by Digital Naturalism Laboratories (Andrew Quitmeyer)

youtu.be

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Open Science Hardware Foundation @opensciencehw.bsky.social · Jul 28

🚨 REMINDER: We're #hiring a new Executive Director!
📍 Remote ⏰ Full-time 💰 USD 100–115k
Help grow the OSHF, lead programs+fundraising, and support #openscience & #openhardware:
opensciencehardware.org/2025/07/were...

#job #opensource #sciencejob

We’re hiring: Executive Director - Open Science Hardware Foundation

Job Summary The Open Science Hardware Foundation (OSHF) is a U.S.-based 501c3 not-for-profit organization working to foster enabling ecosystem for open-source development of scientific instruments, eq...

opensciencehardware.org

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · Jul 27

Have you wanted a mothbox? But didn't have time to build one yourself? We have a rare opportunity of a couple extra moth boxes in the USA that we could potentially ship to people at cost.

It's basically $375 in parts plus shipping!

Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · Nov 26

Hiya folks! For new people here's the big project we have been working on in Panamá!
The Mothbox!

It's a fully #opensource insect camera trap with loads of documentation to build the whole thing yourself from off the shelf parts!

digital-naturalism-laboratories.github.io/Mothbox/

Home

The Mothbox is a low cost DIY insect monitor

digital-naturalism-laboratories.github.io

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · Jul 18

Doing Mothbox surveys in Indonesia during Dinacon led to serendipity where we could quickly see if the mothbox could be used as an undersea monitor for the coral restoration projects. Turns out it's pretty easy to do! youtu.be/-0oF8C5FCJU?...

Mothbox Undersea Tests

YouTube video by Digital Naturalism Laboratories (Andrew Quitmeyer)

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · Jul 1

Happy Gosh Gathering from Dinacon!! 10 years ago @goshcommunity.bsky.social made a goal to make open science hardware ubiquitous by 2025!

The time has arrived and we are celebrating #opentools here with 53 people at Dinacon!
#openscience #opensource

Andy and bri celebrate with shirts snd people making pcbs

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Jun 11

Fulbright board members are resigning “rather than endorse unprecedented actions that we believe are impermissible under the law, compromise U.S. national interests and integrity, and undermine the mission"
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference

The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.

www.nytimes.com

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Melissa McMasters @melissamactn.bsky.social · Jun 11

I think your power users, the ones who consistently contribute high-quality observations or IDs, understand the diff btw the LLM you use now and GenAI, and many of us are VERY wary of the latter. Is it worth making the UX better for casual users at the expense of the ones who are really committed?

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Jun 10

“Instead of just offering AI species suggestions of what you saw, we want to offer a why as well.”

iNaturalist now has a statement explaining their controversial decision to partner with Google on a limited generative AI tool.

www.inaturalist.org/blog/113184-...

iNaturalist receives grant to improve species suggestions

iNaturalist is excited to announce an award from Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI to help build tools to improve the identification experience for the iNaturalist community. The project we propos...

www.inaturalist.org

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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · Jun 10

For #PrideMonth , an updated reading list
by @jjinsing.bsky.social
via
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/w...
List
jayjinsing.github.io/ReadingList/

& be sure to read Jay's coauthored ICB work
Cross-sexual Transfer Revisited.

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

#LGTBQI #Pride

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · Jun 4

Cool new article from @hacksterio.bsky.social about the Mothbox!

www.hackster.io/news/mothbox...

Mothbox 4.5 Takes Advantage of AI and Open Source Hardware for Insect Identification

Low-cost, high-performance insect monitor allows users to deploy the platform in remote locations.

www.hackster.io

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · May 29

For Fulbright Applicants, a DEI Disqualifier

The Trump administration staged an unprecedented intervention in this year’s Fulbright selection process, rejecting finalists whose research deals with race, gender or climate change. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4kg5Fii

Fulbright Applicants Rejected Over “DEI” Research Proposals

The Trump administration staged an unprecedented intervention in this year’s Fulbright selection process, rejecting finalists whose research deals with race, gender or climate change.

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