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Describe life.

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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!
December 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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
International Society of Hymenopterists
www.hymenopterists.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
We're at #EntSoc25 and ECN too. We'll have lots of time to chat, so find Matt, Debbie, Dmitry and friends.
November 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Has anyone taken up the challenge of finding the adventure game in Mesquite? 🔍
Mesquite now has a built-in adventure game, which you may be able to find if you say the correct magic word. You can also build your own versions of the game.
🤔
October 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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.
October 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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.
October 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM
#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
September 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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.
September 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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.
September 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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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...
September 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
#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
September 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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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
September 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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.
September 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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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 🧵
There are too many reasons to have every meeting/session online for free: some can’t attend for health reasons, can’t afford it, don’t have childcare, etc., and everybody in the public should be invited to attend; open access doesn’t mean just publications; meetings can’t afford it? Figure it out.
August 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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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.
August 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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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
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Biodiversity Genomics
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Biodiversity Genomics
careers.uoguelph.ca
August 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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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?
Make-Data-Count-Community/data-citation-corpus-feedback
Data Citation Corpus user feedback. Contribute to Make-Data-Count-Community/data-citation-corpus-feedback development by creating an account on GitHub.
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August 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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.
TaxonWorks Together
Annual event about the collective work in the creation of data to Describe life
together.taxonworks.org
August 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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.
Release Version 0.53.0 release · SpeciesFileGroup/taxonworks
Added Monograph facilitator task - distribution map with taxon determination overlays/editing #4113 Browse OTU: collection objects and field occurrences sounds Filter TNR: Include subclasses optio...
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August 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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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...
Arthropod Taxonomic Specialists (10 positions) | Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies
graduatestudies.uoguelph.ca
August 2, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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
August 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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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
June 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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.
Release Version 0.52.1 release · SpeciesFileGroup/taxonworks
Added Filter asserted distributions: OTU Radial to table results New OTU task: Recent list #4413 Sound size summary to Admin user activity task Multi-update DA task: Allow empty cell pasting #4436...
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June 18, 2025 at 3:36 AM
What's up?

Dark mode.
June 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM