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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 1d

BHL has retrospectively assigned DOIs to 50,000+ historic journal articles These articles, which include the first scientific description of the Platypus (1799), are now part of the great linked network of scholarly research: doi.org/10.5962/p.30... #ILoveBHL #RetroPIDs 🧪
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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 2d

Did you know that BHL has #FullTextSearch? You can search for scientific names, places, etc, but you can also find all the things that "Alfred Russell Wallace" found "delicious" in his travels (search for "delicious" and then narrow search results by author). #ILoveBHL www.biodiversitylibrary.org 🧪

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Laocoon @laocooncitheronia.bsky.social · 27d

No, you cant. The Biodiversity Heritage Library is like nothing else in the history of the world.

Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 27d

Can’t overstate how valuable a resource BHL is

Nicole Kearney @nicolekearney.bsky.social · 28d

I've been managing BHL's #Bluesky account for 4 months now. It's an honour to share such beautiful & significant content, particularly at this critical time. BHL's future is uncertain, but hopeful. Follow along @biodivlibrary.bsky.social & on the #BHLblog: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 24d

The BHL online collection just hit 200,000 titles! A title could be a single rare book or an entire 200-year journal run, so 200,000 titles is huge (63+ million pages!). Check out BHL's MAMMOTH collection here: www.biodiversitylibrary.org 📖 🧪 🦣 #OpenAccess #OpenScience #ILoveBHL

A large orange-red shaggy mammoth with big white rusks, walking through the snow. There are trees and a rhino in the background.

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Nicole Kearney @nicolekearney.bsky.social · 28d

I've been managing BHL's #Bluesky account for 4 months now. It's an honour to share such beautiful & significant content, particularly at this critical time. BHL's future is uncertain, but hopeful. Follow along @biodivlibrary.bsky.social & on the #BHLblog: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition

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Nicole Kearney @nicolekearney.bsky.social · Aug 12

Oh that is just the loveliest comment ever. Right back at you sister! X

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Nicole Kearney @nicolekearney.bsky.social · Aug 11

The talk is ready, the slides are loaded, and tomorrow I step onto the #IMAXMelbourne stage! I’ll be sharing stories of platypuses, historic #SciArt, career planks (and rescues) & the extraordinary women who’ve shaped my path: imaxmelbourne.com.au/movie/sereng... #HomewardBound #WomeninSTEMM 🧪 🌍

The opening slide of a presentation, featuring a woman looking up at a bookshelf filled with beautifully bound historic journals. There is also a sailing boat, a QR code and some logos in the slide.

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Nicole Kearney @nicolekearney.bsky.social · Aug 9

3 days until my #IMAX fundraiser to get me to the #HomewardBound Leadership Summit in Tanzania. Join me for SERENGETI 3D, a talk about my leadership journey, drinks, snacks & a raffle!

🗓️Tue 12 Aug 5:30pm
📍IMAX Melb
🎟️ Tix: imaxmelbourne.com.au/movie/sereng...
💚 Can’t come? Donate: gofund.me/0a465d37

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Nicole Kearney @nicolekearney.bsky.social · Aug 6

🦦 Look what I just found on @archive.org! I listened to this on repeat as a child (on cassette). We only had a few #AudioBooks. My other favourite was "Ring of Bright Water" by Gavin Maxwell read by Andrew Sachs (Manuel from Faulty Towers). #InternetArchive #TreasureTrove archive.org/details/tark...

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Nicole Kearney @nicolekearney.bsky.social · Aug 4

Today I posted the 100th post on BHL's relatively new #Bluesky account: a reminder about our Call for Support (closes 31 Aug). It's been a wild year for the BHL. Thanks to everyone who's been following along. If you haven't been following along – please do: @biodivlibrary.bsky.social 🌱 🌏 🧪 📖 🔗🦉

Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · Aug 4

⏳ Just under a month to go! 🌱

BHL’s Call for Support soft closes 31 Aug. That’s when we begin reviewing offers. Hosting, funding, services – every contribution counts. Help shape BHL’s future: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran...

#BHLTransition #OpenScience 🧪

BHL Transition Update #2

Help us shape the future of the Biodiversity Heritage Library The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is at a turning point. After nearly two decades of calling the Smithsonian Institution home, BH…

blog.biodiversitylibrary.org

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Nicole Kearney @nicolekearney.bsky.social · Aug 4

I just stumbled across this hauntingly beautiful Aye Aye (1866) by Joseph Wolf, who is also responsible for my favourite Striped Possum illustration (1858). Yet another thing these two incredible species have in common. #ConvergentEvolution www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30838065 #ILoveBHL

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Nicole Kearney @nicolekearney.bsky.social · Jul 29

2 weeks until my #HomewardBound #WomenInSTEMM fundraiser at #IMAXMelbourne (Tue 12 Aug), featuring SERENGETI 3D, a talk from me, drinks, nibbles & a Biodiversity & Sustainability Raffle (🎟️ = $5)!

🎬 Event tix: imaxmelbourne.com.au/movie/sereng...
💚 Donate/raffle: www.gofundme.com/f/nicoles-le...

A promotional poster for the Serengeti 3D film featuring a close knit group of Africa animals: elephants, lions, giraffes, zebras, vultures, cheetahs, etc, against a blue/pink sky.

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BHL Australia @bhl-au.bsky.social · Jul 23

We’re excited to hear that the largest flock of Swift Parrots has been recorded in Victoria for over a decade! The endangered Swift Parrot breeds in Tasmania during the summer then parrot migrates north for the winter. This image is by Elizabeth Gould.

v.5 (1848) - The birds of Australia - Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

www.biodiversitylibrary.org

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Nicole Kearney @nicolekearney.bsky.social · Jul 18

This is the craziest question I’ve had to answer this week. (I love my job.) #ILoveBHL 🦤🐹

Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · Jul 16

I really am tickled by just including a guinea pig "for scale." How large is this bird? No not in feet or meters, in guinea pigs!

Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · Jul 16

To celebrate #GuineaPigAppreciationDay, here's a guinea pig from 1760 (with a dodo for scale). #SciArt by George Edwards for "Gleanings of #NaturalHistory", contributed to #BHLib by the National Library Board, Singapore. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50289605 #ILoveBHL

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Nicole Kearney @nicolekearney.bsky.social · Jul 18

I'm so grateful to have just graduated from the #HomewardBound global leadership program. 🌏 It's been an amazing & invaluable year. ✈️ Next stop: the Leadership Expedition in Tanzania. Thx to everyone who's helped with my fundraising efforts thus far: www.gofundme.com/f/nicoles-le... 🧪 #WomenInSTEMM

A screenshot of a large zoom meeting of lots of smiling people.

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Nicole Kearney @nicolekearney.bsky.social · Jul 14

Please follow our @bhl-au.bsky.social account! It's being beautifully populated by one of our fabulous #BHLAu volunteers (doing a far better job than I was). She's sharing all the wild content we make freely accessible online on behalf of 62 Australian organisations. #BHLDownUnder

BHL Australia @bhl-au.bsky.social · Jul 14

#MarsupialMonday is starting small today! The Long-tailed planigale—also known as “Ingram’s Planigale”—is the smallest marsupial and weighs just 4.3 grams (that's about the same as a grape!). These secretive little critters are rarely seen but they are common through Australia’s top end.

1906:May-Dec. [pp.463-1052] - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London - Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

www.biodiversitylibrary.org

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Nicole Kearney @nicolekearney.bsky.social · Jul 8

One of our lovely volunteers snapped some pics of me up on #MuseumsVictoria's big stage yesterday. It's always a pleasure speaking about @biodivlibrary.bsky.social & @bhl-au.bsky.social. #ILoveBHL 🌱 📖 🧪

A woman standing behind a podium on a stage in an auditorium.

A woman standing behind a podium on a big stage in an auditorium.

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Nicole Kearney @nicolekearney.bsky.social · Jul 6

Tomorrow I'm speaking at the #MuseumsVictoria all-staff meeting about the 200,000+ pages from their collection now freely accessible online on @biodivlibrary.bsky.social + the challenges & opportunities created by the #BHLTransition.
🌱 #ILoveBHL 🧪 @bhl-au.bsky.social #AtlasLivingAustralia

An opening powerpoint slide showing 5 historic images of Australian animals and plants.

A images, each featuring a librarian standing behind a large rare book, each featuring a beautiful historic illustration.

A map of Australia completely covered in red dots. Each red dot represents a latitude and longitude pair from a journal article on the Biodiversity Heritage Library website.

Screenshots from the Biodiversity Heritage Library website: the first featuring 2 photos of two women (Kelli Trei and Nicole Kearney), the second text about how people can help with the BHL transition.

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Kelli Trei @treiceratops.bsky.social · Jul 3

Thank you @trevorabranch.bsky.social thanks for the shout out!! I and @nicolekearney.bsky.social are ready and able to have these conversations! 🧪

Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · Jul 2

Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research.
about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...

Call for Support: – About BHL

about.biodiversitylibrary.org

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · Jul 1

Happy #InternationalPolychaeteDay! To celebrate, here is some stunning polychaete #SciArt by Roberta McIntosh & Miss A.H. Walker from "A monograph of the British marine annelids" (1873-1923) #WomeninScience #HerNaturalHistory doi.org/10.5962/bhl....

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Nicole Kearney @nicolekearney.bsky.social · Jun 25

I know you're interested in old books (I have proof): x.com/nicolekearne...

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Nicole Kearney @nicolekearney.bsky.social · Jun 23

I'm taking a tiny break from the #BHLTransition to add the remaining article data and DOIs to "The Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society" 1930-1940. I needed to get lost in the old and pretty today (Pic 1: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51188981) 🌱 📖 🧪 #ILoveBHL #RetroPIDs

An historic illustration of 3 butterflies with their wings open and 3 with their wings closed.

An historic illustration of a kingfisher perched on a branch. It has a black back, blue wings and tail, a brown belly, a white chest, neck and head, and a long red beak. There is another in the background perched on a riverbank with next holes in it.

An historic illustration of 6 stages of the lifecycle of a butterfly.

An historic illustration of 10 colourful beetle specimens.

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Nicole Kearney @nicolekearney.bsky.social · Jun 20

My leadership journey with #HomewardBound has just been featured on their blog: homewardboundprojects.com.au/nicole-is-fu...

Nicole is fundraising for Tanzania with leadership, front of mind - Homeward Bound

For over a decade, Nicole Kearney has been at the forefront of one of Australia’s most ambitious efforts to preserve and protect biodiversity – not in the field, but in the archives. As Manager of the...

homewardboundprojects.com.au

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Nicole Kearney @nicolekearney.bsky.social · Jun 16

🎬 Join me at #IMAXMelbourne on 12 Aug for a film & to hear about my work and leadership journey. Ticket & drink sales will help fund my #HomewardBound expedition to Tanzania: imaxmelbourne.com.au/movie/sereng... 🌍
🙏 Can’t make it? Support my journey here: www.gofundme.com/f/nicoles-le... 🦒🦩🐘

A promotional photo for the Serengeti 3D film. Hundreds of wildebeest on a grassland against a blue/purple sky.

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Nicole Kearney @nicolekearney.bsky.social · Jun 6

But once I’d surveyed the wildlife, I did snap some quick pics of the ruins of what is considered to be the oldest city in Europe. #Knossos