Kelli Trei
@treiceratops.bsky.social
she/her
I’m a scientist turned Biosciences Librarian at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I am also Transition Director of the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social.
I love books and records, and facts. 🧬📚
I’m a scientist turned Biosciences Librarian at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I am also Transition Director of the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social.
I love books and records, and facts. 🧬📚
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Kelli Trei
@treiceratops.bsky.social
· Oct 18
🌱 Help secure the future of the Biodiversity Heritage Library! 🙏
Your donation will keep biodiversity knowledge open, connected, and growing, and fund the dedicated staff who make it all possible. 📖 👩💻 🌱 🌏 🧪
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#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL
Your donation will keep biodiversity knowledge open, connected, and growing, and fund the dedicated staff who make it all possible. 📖 👩💻 🌱 🌏 🧪
🔗 Donate: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDona...
#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL
Please consider making a donation to @biodivlibrary.bsky.social today! If you have the capacity, consider a legacy gift, contact me for more information. #ILoveBHL
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📘 Read the announcement in the latest issue of Inoculum @msafungi.bsky.social: Mycotaxon: Announcing All Issues of Mycotaxon Have Been Digitized and are Available in BHL by Jason Karakehian, Diane Rielinger & Don Pfister. @harvard.edu @harvardlibrary.bsky.social msafungi.org/inoculum/
Inoculum – Mycological Sociey of America – Founded 1932
msafungi.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
📘 Read the announcement in the latest issue of Inoculum @msafungi.bsky.social: Mycotaxon: Announcing All Issues of Mycotaxon Have Been Digitized and are Available in BHL by Jason Karakehian, Diane Rielinger & Don Pfister. @harvard.edu @harvardlibrary.bsky.social msafungi.org/inoculum/
Find joy where you can. Happy Halloween!! 🍪 @illinoisfunk.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Find joy where you can. Happy Halloween!! 🍪 @illinoisfunk.bsky.social
Learn more about how exhibition data makes its way into the Wikiverse in this excellent presentation by @siobhanleachman.bsky.social #LivingData2025 🧪
For those eager to see @siobhanleachman.bsky.social's wonderful #LivingData2025 #Wikidata presentation (there was a technical hiccup at the conference), you can find it here: Video: youtu.be/ySyiwfIi_Wc
Slides: bit.ly/LivingDataEx...
Documentation: bit.ly/BHLWikidataW...
#DatosVivos2025. 📖 👩💻 🔗
Slides: bit.ly/LivingDataEx...
Documentation: bit.ly/BHLWikidataW...
#DatosVivos2025. 📖 👩💻 🔗
October 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Learn more about how exhibition data makes its way into the Wikiverse in this excellent presentation by @siobhanleachman.bsky.social #LivingData2025 🧪
Reposted by Kelli Trei
Fewer grad students means less science, but many STEM PhD programs in the US are cutting back on admissions this year due to federal funding uncertainties. Words by me for @nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@emsque.bsky.social @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social @julieposselt.bsky.social 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@emsque.bsky.social @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social @julieposselt.bsky.social 🧪
US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold
Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding.
www.nature.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Fewer grad students means less science, but many STEM PhD programs in the US are cutting back on admissions this year due to federal funding uncertainties. Words by me for @nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@emsque.bsky.social @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social @julieposselt.bsky.social 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@emsque.bsky.social @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social @julieposselt.bsky.social 🧪
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In recognition of #ReptileAwarenessDay, here's a Frilled-neck Lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii) from Erpétologie Générale, Vol. 3 Atlas (1854). Contributed to BHL by Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31895846 #SciArt #ILoveBHL 🌱 📖 🧪 🦎
October 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
In recognition of #ReptileAwarenessDay, here's a Frilled-neck Lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii) from Erpétologie Générale, Vol. 3 Atlas (1854). Contributed to BHL by Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31895846 #SciArt #ILoveBHL 🌱 📖 🧪 🦎
Reposted by Kelli Trei
Happy #WorldEarthwormDay! 🪱 To celebrate, here is a beautiful plate of an Earthworm (& friends) from "Natural history of the animal kingdom for the use of young people" (1889) digitised for BHL by Smithsonian Libraries & Archives www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28687600. #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🪱
October 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Happy #WorldEarthwormDay! 🪱 To celebrate, here is a beautiful plate of an Earthworm (& friends) from "Natural history of the animal kingdom for the use of young people" (1889) digitised for BHL by Smithsonian Libraries & Archives www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28687600. #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🪱
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It's #WombatDay! The Wombat was first described in 1800 as "the largest of all the Opossums: size of a Badger: colour pale yellow: fur longish and sub-erect: nose strongly divided by a furrow" www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19632636.
(#SciArt 1798: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25448864) 🧪 📖 🌏
(#SciArt 1798: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25448864) 🧪 📖 🌏
October 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It's #WombatDay! The Wombat was first described in 1800 as "the largest of all the Opossums: size of a Badger: colour pale yellow: fur longish and sub-erect: nose strongly divided by a furrow" www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19632636.
(#SciArt 1798: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25448864) 🧪 📖 🌏
(#SciArt 1798: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25448864) 🧪 📖 🌏
It’s International #OpenAccess week! @biodivlibrary.bsky.social provides open access to biodiversity literature, democratizing access to scientific information! BHL does *not* require a login and you can freely read or download content. #ILoveBHL www.biodiversity.org.
www.biodiversity.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
It’s International #OpenAccess week! @biodivlibrary.bsky.social provides open access to biodiversity literature, democratizing access to scientific information! BHL does *not* require a login and you can freely read or download content. #ILoveBHL www.biodiversity.org.
Reposted by Kelli Trei
📢 Check out all the BHL presentations at #LivingData2025! Day #2 has an entire session dedicated to Wikimedia and Biodiversity Data, chaired by BHL's fabulous #WikimedianInResidence @tiagolubiana.bsky.social. Details: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:L... #DatosVivos2025 @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
📢 Check out all the BHL presentations at #LivingData2025! Day #2 has an entire session dedicated to Wikimedia and Biodiversity Data, chaired by BHL's fabulous #WikimedianInResidence @tiagolubiana.bsky.social. Details: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:L... #DatosVivos2025 @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social
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October 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Reposted by Kelli Trei
BHL Superuser & Wikimedian extraordinaire
@siobhanleachman.bsky.social will share how to extract, add, and enrich biodiversity data from BHL in #Wikidata to empower enrichment and reuse. 📖 👩💻 🔗 🦋 #LivingData #DatosVivos2025 #ILoveBHL
@siobhanleachman.bsky.social will share how to extract, add, and enrich biodiversity data from BHL in #Wikidata to empower enrichment and reuse. 📖 👩💻 🔗 🦋 #LivingData #DatosVivos2025 #ILoveBHL
October 20, 2025 at 3:39 AM
BHL Superuser & Wikimedian extraordinaire
@siobhanleachman.bsky.social will share how to extract, add, and enrich biodiversity data from BHL in #Wikidata to empower enrichment and reuse. 📖 👩💻 🔗 🦋 #LivingData #DatosVivos2025 #ILoveBHL
@siobhanleachman.bsky.social will share how to extract, add, and enrich biodiversity data from BHL in #Wikidata to empower enrichment and reuse. 📖 👩💻 🔗 🦋 #LivingData #DatosVivos2025 #ILoveBHL
“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” Thomas Paine #nokings
October 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” Thomas Paine #nokings
Please consider making a donation to @biodivlibrary.bsky.social today! If you have the capacity, consider a legacy gift, contact me for more information. #ILoveBHL
🌱 Help secure the future of the Biodiversity Heritage Library! 🙏
Your donation will keep biodiversity knowledge open, connected, and growing, and fund the dedicated staff who make it all possible. 📖 👩💻 🌱 🌏 🧪
🔗 Donate: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDona...
#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL
Your donation will keep biodiversity knowledge open, connected, and growing, and fund the dedicated staff who make it all possible. 📖 👩💻 🌱 🌏 🧪
🔗 Donate: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDona...
#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL
October 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Please consider making a donation to @biodivlibrary.bsky.social today! If you have the capacity, consider a legacy gift, contact me for more information. #ILoveBHL
This article captures the critical need for deliberate, coordinated support of scientific databases such as #BHL @biodivlibrary.bsky.social. Scientific information must be recognized as core infrastructure, not a peripheral project. 🧪
Article: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Article: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Sustainability During Instability: Long-Lived Life Science Databases and Science Funding Outlook in the United States
For decades, life science researchers have had cost-free, unrestricted access to data through online databases. However, the sustainability of even well-established resources was already tenuous, and ...
www.biorxiv.org
October 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This article captures the critical need for deliberate, coordinated support of scientific databases such as #BHL @biodivlibrary.bsky.social. Scientific information must be recognized as core infrastructure, not a peripheral project. 🧪
Article: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Article: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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It's Bat Appreciation Month! To celebrate, I'm gonna try to share a bat a day. I'm three days late, but better late than never. Plus, I appreciate bats 24/7, 365. First up, here's a great image of bats from the Biodiversity Heritage Library which is currently directed by @treiceratops.bsky.social!
October 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It's Bat Appreciation Month! To celebrate, I'm gonna try to share a bat a day. I'm three days late, but better late than never. Plus, I appreciate bats 24/7, 365. First up, here's a great image of bats from the Biodiversity Heritage Library which is currently directed by @treiceratops.bsky.social!
This is an excellent offer for anybody waffling! about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
#ILoveBHL
#ILoveBHL
August 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This is an excellent offer for anybody waffling! about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
#ILoveBHL
#ILoveBHL
Reposted by Kelli Trei
📢 Big news! BHL has a new fiscal sponsor – @clirnews.bsky.social 🎉 This marks a major step forward in BHL’s transition to a more sustainable, community-led future.
🌍 Read all about what this means for BHL: 🔗 blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/08/tran... #ILoveBHL
🌍 Read all about what this means for BHL: 🔗 blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/08/tran... #ILoveBHL
BHL Transition Update #4: Welcoming CLIR as BHL’s New Fiscal Sponsor
We’re thrilled to share some exciting news: 🎉 The Biodiversity Heritage Library has a new fiscal sponsor – the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)! This is a major step forward in s…
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org
August 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
📢 Big news! BHL has a new fiscal sponsor – @clirnews.bsky.social 🎉 This marks a major step forward in BHL’s transition to a more sustainable, community-led future.
🌍 Read all about what this means for BHL: 🔗 blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/08/tran... #ILoveBHL
🌍 Read all about what this means for BHL: 🔗 blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/08/tran... #ILoveBHL
Reposted by Kelli Trei
New on the #BHLblog: "Seeds for the Future" by @tiagolubiana.bsky.social. Tiago has done incredible work connecting BHL with the #Wikimedia ecosystem – building tools, enriching metadata & dramatically increasing the visibility of BHL’s image collections: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/07/seed...
Seeds for the Future: Closing Thoughts from BHL’s Wikimedian-in-Residence
In November 2024, I embarked on a dream job as the Wikimedian-in-Residence at the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), aiming to enrich Wikimedia’s platforms with BHL’s incredible biodiversity coll…
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org
July 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
New on the #BHLblog: "Seeds for the Future" by @tiagolubiana.bsky.social. Tiago has done incredible work connecting BHL with the #Wikimedia ecosystem – building tools, enriching metadata & dramatically increasing the visibility of BHL’s image collections: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/07/seed...
Reposted by Kelli Trei
Clocked! Jinkx knows what time it is! ⏰
happy thursday enjoy jinkx monsoon dragging jk rowling to the depths of hell and back
July 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Clocked! Jinkx knows what time it is! ⏰
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After we upload historic journals onto BHL, we gather & upload the data for the articles in each volume. This can be time consuming, but it's critical to article discoverability (& to our retrospective assignment of DOIs). We've surfaced 419,456 articles thus far! Many thx to @rdmpage.bsky.social.
All articles in "Genera Insectorum" from 1902 to 1970 have now been extracted in BioStor biostor.org/oclc/5316074 and are shown in @biodivlibrary.bsky.social. Some spectacular plates. HT to @bfly52.bsky.social for the metadata that made this task easier. #onearticleatatime
July 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
After we upload historic journals onto BHL, we gather & upload the data for the articles in each volume. This can be time consuming, but it's critical to article discoverability (& to our retrospective assignment of DOIs). We've surfaced 419,456 articles thus far! Many thx to @rdmpage.bsky.social.
Reposted by Kelli Trei
In 1758 Carl Linnaeus gave the world's largest cat its 1st scientific name: Felis tigris (he used the genus Felis for all cats). In 1929, Reginald Innes Pocock subordinated the tiger under the genus Panthera. #GlobalTigerDay #InternationalTigerDay www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726936
July 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
In 1758 Carl Linnaeus gave the world's largest cat its 1st scientific name: Felis tigris (he used the genus Felis for all cats). In 1929, Reginald Innes Pocock subordinated the tiger under the genus Panthera. #GlobalTigerDay #InternationalTigerDay www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726936
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The #BHLTransition is underway! ⛵ We’re charting the course to a strong and sustainable future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Read our latest update and, if you have visionary ideas about how BHL can evolve and grow, get in touch 🚀: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/07/tran...
July 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The #BHLTransition is underway! ⛵ We’re charting the course to a strong and sustainable future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Read our latest update and, if you have visionary ideas about how BHL can evolve and grow, get in touch 🚀: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/07/tran...
In the latest BHL blog post, Technical Coordinator Joel Richard provides insight into recent challenges related to bot traffic and the steps being taken to address them, highlighting a growing challenge for cultural heritage sites. 🧪
BHL Traffic Challenges
In the past several weeks, we’ve seen a large, disruptive increase in traffic to the BHL main website. This blog post is meant to summarize the event, the effect on BHL and its servers, our r…
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org
July 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
In the latest BHL blog post, Technical Coordinator Joel Richard provides insight into recent challenges related to bot traffic and the steps being taken to address them, highlighting a growing challenge for cultural heritage sites. 🧪
Reposted by Kelli Trei
If something feels off about someone - in your gut, your body or your intuition, step back, no matter how much you care about them, no matter what they say, no matter what you want or hope for. Press the pause button. Step back. Listen inside.
July 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
If something feels off about someone - in your gut, your body or your intuition, step back, no matter how much you care about them, no matter what they say, no matter what you want or hope for. Press the pause button. Step back. Listen inside.