Roger J Burkhalter
@paleorogerb.bsky.social
Retired Invertebrate Paleontologist at the Sam Noble Museum. Still active in TDWG and Paleo Database Working Group.
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Yes dear reader, I'm definitely a digital connector rather than a natural history specimen collector.
December 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Yes dear reader, I'm definitely a digital connector rather than a natural history specimen collector.
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I wrote up some brief notes on Model Context Protocol (MCP) and triple stores iphylo.blogspot.com/2025/11/mode.... The idea of querying knowledge graphs using natural language is intoxicating.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) and triple stores: natural language queries for knowledge graphs
Blog by Rod Page on biodiversity informatics, taxonomy, systematics, phylogeny, knowledge graphs, and other topics.
iphylo.blogspot.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I wrote up some brief notes on Model Context Protocol (MCP) and triple stores iphylo.blogspot.com/2025/11/mode.... The idea of querying knowledge graphs using natural language is intoxicating.
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Imagine what you might see if you could visualize relationships across data object-entity relationships in your database. See #TaxonWorks #biologicalassociations #magic #Miridae. @entcollnet.bsky.social @gbif.org @dissco.bsky.social have a look-see
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.
Michael Schwartz lead the evolution of this decades long effort on these important #insects.
October 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Imagine what you might see if you could visualize relationships across data object-entity relationships in your database. See #TaxonWorks #biologicalassociations #magic #Miridae. @entcollnet.bsky.social @gbif.org @dissco.bsky.social have a look-see
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#People #Networks. @vmshirey.bsky.social does this bring back memories? #TaxonName #Authors #dataviz #WoRMS #CatalogueOfLife look!
#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
#biodiversity #species #taxonomy #viz
October 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM
#People #Networks. @vmshirey.bsky.social does this bring back memories? #TaxonName #Authors #dataviz #WoRMS #CatalogueOfLife look!
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Can you get your #biodiversitydata to @gbif.org sans #IPT direct from @taxonworks.bsky.social? Yes! with open extended specimen data too (resource relationships, biological associations, media)
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.
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.
October 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Can you get your #biodiversitydata to @gbif.org sans #IPT direct from @taxonworks.bsky.social? Yes! with open extended specimen data too (resource relationships, biological associations, media)
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Capacity building needed to reap the benefits of access to biodiversity collections @cabbageleek.bsky.social et al
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
Capacity building needed to reap the benefits of access to biodiversity collections
Global conservation efforts increasingly depend on digitised natural history collections, yet the benefits of this digital data are not equally shared. We analysed biodiversity specimens and citation...
doi.org
June 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Capacity building needed to reap the benefits of access to biodiversity collections @cabbageleek.bsky.social et al
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
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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
Come join the conversation.
together.taxonworks.org
TaxonWorks Together
Annual event about the collective work in the creation of data to Describe life
together.taxonworks.org
May 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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
Come join the conversation.
together.taxonworks.org
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Links:
- Maoricicada alec-demo.herokuapp.com/Q6753679
- Norm Platnick alec-demo.herokuapp.com/Q1333409
- 昆虫学报 alec-demo.herokuapp.com/Q21386079
- NHMD alec-demo.herokuapp.com/Q978464
- Maoricicada alec-demo.herokuapp.com/Q6753679
- Norm Platnick alec-demo.herokuapp.com/Q1333409
- 昆虫学报 alec-demo.herokuapp.com/Q21386079
- NHMD alec-demo.herokuapp.com/Q978464
May 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Links:
- Maoricicada alec-demo.herokuapp.com/Q6753679
- Norm Platnick alec-demo.herokuapp.com/Q1333409
- 昆虫学报 alec-demo.herokuapp.com/Q21386079
- NHMD alec-demo.herokuapp.com/Q978464
- Maoricicada alec-demo.herokuapp.com/Q6753679
- Norm Platnick alec-demo.herokuapp.com/Q1333409
- 昆虫学报 alec-demo.herokuapp.com/Q21386079
- NHMD alec-demo.herokuapp.com/Q978464
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ALEC aims to make it easy to explore #wikidata content such as journals, articles, people, taxa, museums, etc. Examples shown below include cicadas, the late Norm Platnick, Acta Entomologica Sinica (=昆虫学报), and @nhmdk.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
ALEC aims to make it easy to explore #wikidata content such as journals, articles, people, taxa, museums, etc. Examples shown below include cicadas, the late Norm Platnick, Acta Entomologica Sinica (=昆虫学报), and @nhmdk.bsky.social
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The great split in the Wikidata graph has happened, separating scholarly articles from the rest of Wikidata. Hence apps querying articles in Wikidata need a rewrite. My little Wikidata browser "ALEC" has been updated to handle the graph split. So far things seem OK #sparql #wikidata #wikicite
May 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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@lilzrockz.bsky.social
Our new work out-- a preliminary test of the impact of volcanic aerosols on biogeochemical cycling in deep time... #dust #LPIA #volcanoes doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...
Our new work out-- a preliminary test of the impact of volcanic aerosols on biogeochemical cycling in deep time... #dust #LPIA #volcanoes doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...
March 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
@lilzrockz.bsky.social
Our new work out-- a preliminary test of the impact of volcanic aerosols on biogeochemical cycling in deep time... #dust #LPIA #volcanoes doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...
Our new work out-- a preliminary test of the impact of volcanic aerosols on biogeochemical cycling in deep time... #dust #LPIA #volcanoes doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...
@cabaleducator.bsky.social congratulations Kimberly!!! If I was in your Ward, I would have cast my vote for you.
February 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
@cabaleducator.bsky.social congratulations Kimberly!!! If I was in your Ward, I would have cast my vote for you.
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So grateful to be part of this incredible and diverse group. I'm learning so much and beyond pleased to be able to share outputs from an amazing working group meeting we had together in Geneva. This came out today in Nature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Two-Eyed Seeing and other Indigenous perspectives for neuroscience - Nature
Combining Indigenous insights with neuroscience methods through Two-Eyed Seeing can broaden the understanding of brain function and mental wellbeing by merging reductionist and holistic perspectives a...
www.nature.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
So grateful to be part of this incredible and diverse group. I'm learning so much and beyond pleased to be able to share outputs from an amazing working group meeting we had together in Geneva. This came out today in Nature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Bionomia refreshes records from @gbif.org every few weeks, the latest from an enormous download made January 23rd, doi.org/10.15468/dl..... It's remarkable how quickly the Scribes swoop in to make new attributions for the world's collectors and determiners. 🔗 😍
January 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Bionomia refreshes records from @gbif.org every few weeks, the latest from an enormous download made January 23rd, doi.org/10.15468/dl..... It's remarkable how quickly the Scribes swoop in to make new attributions for the world's collectors and determiners. 🔗 😍
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If you are interested in #linkrot and scientific publishing this may be of interest doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... This is a snapshot of PDF links in my taxonomic database BioNames. I continually update broken links, but this overwrites those links. Hence this snapshot.
Snapshot of PDF links for taxonomic papers in BioNames
This dataset is a list of all URLs for PDFs in the database BioNames, which links publications of new taxonomic names for animals to persistent identifiers and PDFs for those publications. The databas...
doi.org
December 31, 2024 at 2:56 PM
If you are interested in #linkrot and scientific publishing this may be of interest doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... This is a snapshot of PDF links in my taxonomic database BioNames. I continually update broken links, but this overwrites those links. Hence this snapshot.
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BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers:
Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users.
That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...
Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users.
That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...
December 10, 2024 at 5:23 AM
BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers:
Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users.
That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...
Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users.
That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...
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Parts per million or even parts per billion is incredibly difficult to comprehend. That's why I made ppm.visuals.earth.
It represents a PPM or PPB concentration by plotting particles in a 3D volume. Simply scroll up or down to change the concentration. 🧪
It represents a PPM or PPB concentration by plotting particles in a 3D volume. Simply scroll up or down to change the concentration. 🧪
This is what 400ppm looks like.
ppm.visuals.earth is a site that allows you to visualise different concentrations.
ppm.visuals.earth
December 3, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Parts per million or even parts per billion is incredibly difficult to comprehend. That's why I made ppm.visuals.earth.
It represents a PPM or PPB concentration by plotting particles in a 3D volume. Simply scroll up or down to change the concentration. 🧪
It represents a PPM or PPB concentration by plotting particles in a 3D volume. Simply scroll up or down to change the concentration. 🧪