Rod Page
@rdmpage.bsky.social
Expat Kiwi, Professor of Taxonomy at Glasgow University, inclined to say that something sucks at every available opportunity. Biodiversity informatics, phylogeny, knowledge graphs. I also run the @evoldir.bsky.social bot.
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Come do science with us! 👩🔬🧑🔬
Interested in researching the diversity of the animal world? If your work involves taxonomy, systematics, phylogenetics, paleontology, zooarcheology, or zoogeography, do not miss the Top200 NAWA programme by @nawapoland.bsky.social!
Come do science with us! 👩🔬🧑🔬
Interested in researching the diversity of the animal world? If your work involves taxonomy, systematics, phylogenetics, paleontology, zooarcheology, or zoogeography, do not miss the Top200 NAWA programme by @nawapoland.bsky.social!
January 14, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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Come do science with us! 👩🔬🧑🔬
Interested in researching the diversity of the animal world? If your work involves taxonomy, systematics, phylogenetics, paleontology, zooarcheology, or zoogeography, do not miss the Top200 NAWA programme by @nawapoland.bsky.social!
Come do science with us! 👩🔬🧑🔬
Interested in researching the diversity of the animal world? If your work involves taxonomy, systematics, phylogenetics, paleontology, zooarcheology, or zoogeography, do not miss the Top200 NAWA programme by @nawapoland.bsky.social!
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Join MBL's prestigious Workshop on Molecular Evolution, the longest-running in the field. Apply by Jan 26, 2026. More info: https://www.mbl.edu/education/advanced-research-training-courses/course-offerings/workshop-molecular-evolution #workshop
Workshop on Molecular Evolution | Marine Biological Laboratory
The workshop serves graduate students, postdocs, and established faculty from around the world seeking to apply the principles of molecular evolution to questions of anthropology, conservation genetics, development, behavior, physiology, and ecology.
www.mbl.edu
January 14, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Join MBL's prestigious Workshop on Molecular Evolution, the longest-running in the field. Apply by Jan 26, 2026. More info: https://www.mbl.edu/education/advanced-research-training-courses/course-offerings/workshop-molecular-evolution #workshop
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Call now open for Visiting Fellowships in our Natural History Humanities programme! Building long-term collaborations with early career researchers on Cambridge GLAM collections.
@camunivmuseums.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
@camunivmuseums.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
Natural History Humanities - Collections Connections Communities
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk
January 9, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Call now open for Visiting Fellowships in our Natural History Humanities programme! Building long-term collaborations with early career researchers on Cambridge GLAM collections.
@camunivmuseums.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
@camunivmuseums.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
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Turning IUCN's Synthetic Biology Policy Into Action conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #consgen 🧵 1/
January 12, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Turning IUCN's Synthetic Biology Policy Into Action conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #consgen 🧵 1/
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Despite changes in bird taxonomy it is often necessary to consult the classic J L Peters Check-list of Birds of the World (16 vols, 1931-1987), for bibliographic & nomenclatural purposes. Thanks to @biodivlibrary.bsky.social we have access to all 16 vols.
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography...
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography...
January 11, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Despite changes in bird taxonomy it is often necessary to consult the classic J L Peters Check-list of Birds of the World (16 vols, 1931-1987), for bibliographic & nomenclatural purposes. Thanks to @biodivlibrary.bsky.social we have access to all 16 vols.
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography...
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography...
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Been working on this one for a while — it's a little bit of history of a key foundation of internet technology, and a little bit of an explainer about how people _actually_ invent things. This is the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world. www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/h...
How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Been working on this one for a while — it's a little bit of history of a key foundation of internet technology, and a little bit of an explainer about how people _actually_ invent things. This is the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world. www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/h...
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Micropublication @micropub7n.bsky.social is peer reviewed and PubMed indexed. A great way to get the data out in uncertain times
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"Due to a variety of circumstances...many science projects will never be finished, despite years of invested resources and effort. By carefully and strategically documenting scientific work achieved, components of unfinished projects can be salvaged and preserved to benefit future researchers." 🧪
When goodbye comes too soon: How to wrap up science projects quickly
Science projects are designed and funded on the scale of years, so what happens when researchers need to finish prematurely? This Community Page discusses solutions for quickly documenting partially f...
journals.plos.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Micropublication @micropub7n.bsky.social is peer reviewed and PubMed indexed. A great way to get the data out in uncertain times
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A riddle wrapped in an enigma: parasitic lice as clues to the evolutionary puzzle of Sapayoa (Aves) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... | #BiologyLetters #Evolution #MolecularBiology #Taxonomy
January 11, 2026 at 11:00 AM
A riddle wrapped in an enigma: parasitic lice as clues to the evolutionary puzzle of Sapayoa (Aves) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... | #BiologyLetters #Evolution #MolecularBiology #Taxonomy
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Just out. Lots of muscid info packed into 1,341 pp.
archive.org/details/be18...
archive.org/details/be18...
January 11, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Just out. Lots of muscid info packed into 1,341 pp.
archive.org/details/be18...
archive.org/details/be18...
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January 11, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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Wikimedia Australia recently made a submission to the Senate inquiry into the Copyright Amendment Bill 2025, strongly supporting the introduction of an orphan works scheme and modernised remote learning provisions.
👉 Read our statement: wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikimed...
👉 Read our statement: wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikimed...
Wikimedia Australia supports proposed reforms in the Copyright Amendment Bill 2025
Wikimedia Australia recently made a submission to the Senate inquiry into the Copyright Amendment Bill 2025.
wikimedia.org.au
December 9, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Wikimedia Australia recently made a submission to the Senate inquiry into the Copyright Amendment Bill 2025, strongly supporting the introduction of an orphan works scheme and modernised remote learning provisions.
👉 Read our statement: wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikimed...
👉 Read our statement: wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikimed...
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Sampling & Sample Processing (#SSP) Committee
The SSP Committee leads ERGA’s efforts on best practices for #sampling. In 2025, they organized a very successful Taxon Sampling “Hackathon”, bringing together experts across the tree of life.
www.erga-biodiversity.eu/team-1/ssp--...
The SSP Committee leads ERGA’s efforts on best practices for #sampling. In 2025, they organized a very successful Taxon Sampling “Hackathon”, bringing together experts across the tree of life.
www.erga-biodiversity.eu/team-1/ssp--...
SSP - Sampling & Sample Processing
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www.erga-biodiversity.eu
January 9, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Sampling & Sample Processing (#SSP) Committee
The SSP Committee leads ERGA’s efforts on best practices for #sampling. In 2025, they organized a very successful Taxon Sampling “Hackathon”, bringing together experts across the tree of life.
www.erga-biodiversity.eu/team-1/ssp--...
The SSP Committee leads ERGA’s efforts on best practices for #sampling. In 2025, they organized a very successful Taxon Sampling “Hackathon”, bringing together experts across the tree of life.
www.erga-biodiversity.eu/team-1/ssp--...
One great use case for AI such as @anthropic.com Claude Code is upgrading old C/C++ code to deal with the inevitable flood of compiler warnings and/or errors when I compile it. I used to be fluent in C++, but that was two decades ago... so I can delegate this task to AI and focus on my actual task.
January 9, 2026 at 11:21 AM
One great use case for AI such as @anthropic.com Claude Code is upgrading old C/C++ code to deal with the inevitable flood of compiler warnings and/or errors when I compile it. I used to be fluent in C++, but that was two decades ago... so I can delegate this task to AI and focus on my actual task.
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🍄➡️🕷️ The #predator becomes the #prey: New #parasite #fungus 𝘗𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘢𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘮 feasts on trapdoor spiders in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Described as #newspecies in our open-access journal (Dec 2025).
📰Story on @theguardian.com by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
📰Story on @theguardian.com by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fly-arousing orchid and zombie fungus among 2025 botanical and fungal finds
Botanists also name an overlooked snowdrop growing in the UK and a fruit that tastes like banana and guava
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:12 AM
🍄➡️🕷️ The #predator becomes the #prey: New #parasite #fungus 𝘗𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘢𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘮 feasts on trapdoor spiders in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Described as #newspecies in our open-access journal (Dec 2025).
📰Story on @theguardian.com by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
📰Story on @theguardian.com by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Sadly, ORCID is not really oriented towards author disambiguation, of concern to Wikidata. Profiles without public information are a negative, and the system is not de-duplicated. Sadly, too, OpenAlex is poor on the issue, apparently relying on dud AI.
This just published paper spells out just one of the benefits of @orcid.org. I am also a supporter of people using ORCID, as it helps the author disambiguation problem, as I mentioned in my 2017 paper.
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January 9, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Sadly, ORCID is not really oriented towards author disambiguation, of concern to Wikidata. Profiles without public information are a negative, and the system is not de-duplicated. Sadly, too, OpenAlex is poor on the issue, apparently relying on dud AI.
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Since Jan 1 2025, which feels like four trillion years ago, research has been shared on here 5 million whole-ass times. Bluesky recently passed 2 billion posts IN TOTAL.
So 0.25% of the entire site's traffic was citations to research.
That is actually massively high. Is it? Yes. Here's why.
So 0.25% of the entire site's traffic was citations to research.
That is actually massively high. Is it? Yes. Here's why.
January 8, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Since Jan 1 2025, which feels like four trillion years ago, research has been shared on here 5 million whole-ass times. Bluesky recently passed 2 billion posts IN TOTAL.
So 0.25% of the entire site's traffic was citations to research.
That is actually massively high. Is it? Yes. Here's why.
So 0.25% of the entire site's traffic was citations to research.
That is actually massively high. Is it? Yes. Here's why.
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PhD on Begonia speciation at RBGE/Glasgow! Looking at the genomics of reproductive isolation and how fast it evolves - is it the reason this is one of the largest genera of flowering plants?
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
January 8, 2026 at 7:16 AM
PhD on Begonia speciation at RBGE/Glasgow! Looking at the genomics of reproductive isolation and how fast it evolves - is it the reason this is one of the largest genera of flowering plants?
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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We've a computational PhD project available AI-DRIVEN DISCOVERY OF VIRUS–HOST MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl... as part of the University of Glasgow's MVLS Futures Themes PhD Programme. Deadline for applications is this Monday, 12th Jan 2026. Please apply!
University of Glasgow - Colleges - College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences - MVLS Graduate School - PhD Research Opportunities - College Futures Themes PhD Programme - Projects - Fundamentals o...
www.gla.ac.uk
January 7, 2026 at 11:08 PM
We've a computational PhD project available AI-DRIVEN DISCOVERY OF VIRUS–HOST MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl... as part of the University of Glasgow's MVLS Futures Themes PhD Programme. Deadline for applications is this Monday, 12th Jan 2026. Please apply!
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Looking for a postdoc? Work on vertebrates and have lab experience? Come be the lab manager/museum postdoc for the LSU Museum of Natural Science!
(It's a great stepping stone to being a curator!)
(It's a great stepping stone to being a curator!)
LSU Museum of Natural Sciences is hiring a postdoc! Come join our very active and supportive museum community. Applicants can work with any of the major divisions: 🐀🦜🦎🐸🐠
Review begins February 15th, please share!
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0119...
Review begins February 15th, please share!
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0119...
Postdoctoral Researcher
All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Looking for a postdoc? Work on vertebrates and have lab experience? Come be the lab manager/museum postdoc for the LSU Museum of Natural Science!
(It's a great stepping stone to being a curator!)
(It's a great stepping stone to being a curator!)
The web is still wonderful. Searching for an obscure entomological journal online, I stumbled across Zentral Gut, which has on its landing page this striking image: "Bürgenstock. Der Lift mit Ballon" n2t.net/ark:/63274/z...
January 7, 2026 at 2:54 PM
The web is still wonderful. Searching for an obscure entomological journal online, I stumbled across Zentral Gut, which has on its landing page this striking image: "Bürgenstock. Der Lift mit Ballon" n2t.net/ark:/63274/z...
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Registration now open for @embo.org workshop on the evolution of biological interactions on April 24 - 27, 2026! Come join us in Taipei, Taiwan to see how interactions shaped the genomes of various organisms and meeting people from across the globe. Info: meetings.embo.org/event/26-bio...
January 7, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Registration now open for @embo.org workshop on the evolution of biological interactions on April 24 - 27, 2026! Come join us in Taipei, Taiwan to see how interactions shaped the genomes of various organisms and meeting people from across the globe. Info: meetings.embo.org/event/26-bio...
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And if you want more detail on why I left iNat, I wrote about that too: kueda.net/blog/2026/01...
Why I Left iNaturalist
After almost 18 years, I left iNaturalist, the product and organization I helped create. I left because I don’t believe the current Leadership team is pointing the product in the right direction, and ...
kueda.net
January 6, 2026 at 7:34 PM
And if you want more detail on why I left iNat, I wrote about that too: kueda.net/blog/2026/01...
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I quit my job at #iNaturalist, the product I co-founded. If you'd like me to keep working on natural history software, support me on Patreon: patreon.com/kueda. FWIW, I'm building an iNat backup tool and an app for viewing geologic maps.
Or, if you think you'd like to hire me, get in touch!
Or, if you think you'd like to hire me, get in touch!
Ken-ichi Ueda | Patreon
Natural history software
patreon.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:33 PM
I quit my job at #iNaturalist, the product I co-founded. If you'd like me to keep working on natural history software, support me on Patreon: patreon.com/kueda. FWIW, I'm building an iNat backup tool and an app for viewing geologic maps.
Or, if you think you'd like to hire me, get in touch!
Or, if you think you'd like to hire me, get in touch!