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Climate, Ecology, War & More by Dr. Glen Barry, BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.bsky.social · 1d

The World Flora Online needs your input
->International Society for Horticultural Science | More from Lil' Dr Glen at BigEarthData.ai

The World Flora Online needs your input

The World Flora Online needs your input. WFO is planning plant identification features that could be incorporated into the WFO platform. WFO would really value your input to guide WFO priorities across image recognition, digital keys, and id workflows. We...

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Systematics Association @systassn.bsky.social · 2d

The Young Systematists' Forum is nearly upon us!

If you are a student (or postdoc) working on phylogenetics, taxonomy or systematics, join us Nov 14th for this free and friendly online conference!

Abstract submission closes Saturday, October 25th at 11:59PM GMT+1

REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8

YSF2025 Registration Form

Welcome to the YSF2025 Registration and Abstract Submission form. This year the conference will be held online on Friday, November 14th 2025. We look forward to seeing old and new faces from across t...

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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 6d

This is one of the lesser known (but tragic) consequences of Gen AI. It’s not just about theft of IP, which is usually mentioned, it’s about damage to the information infrastructure of underfunded archives, libraries and museums etc. with long term consequences for them and for researchers.

Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · 7d

by the way, all those benign AI bots crawling the internet for for-profit LLMs, yeah it turns out when 9,000 hit your archive catalogue or image database all at once they break the system. This is an emerging sector issue.

The last weeks have literally seen humans labouring to feed the machines...

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Adam Hartling @xenosns.bsky.social · 2d

So much of what I've been able to collect for the Nova Scotia game dev archive has been due to the Wayback Machine. I'm grateful they had the foresight to begin archiving as far back as they did.

Internet Archive @archive.org · 2d

1 trillion web pages preserved makes the Wayback Machine an indispensable research tool. Share how this effort has impacted you, and encourage your network to support the Internet Archive: donate.archive.org/1T

#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine

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Hacker News 100 @hn100.atproto.rocks · 3d

Laptops create systems. Phones feed algorithms. The asymmetry determines power
https://zakelfassi.com/command-interface-device-power

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45480620

Command Interface: How Your Device Choice Shapes Power Relations

Laptops create. Phones consume. The split determines who commands and who complies—a power dynamic hiding in plain sight across every interface we touch.

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Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics @hologenomics.bsky.social · 5d

🔁Please share - we remind the SMBE community that the Call for Symposia for #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen is open.

We invite you to submit a symposium proposal to help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting.

🗓️Deadline: October 15th

More info: smbe2026.org/symposia
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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 4d

Help Tackle the Asian Biodiversity Data Gap with Asia Nature Challenge medium.com/citizenscien... #AsiaNatureChallenge #ANC2025

Asia Nature Challenge 2025 is Go!

This weekend is the second installment of the Asia Nature Challenge, so go outside and observe our biodiversity because nature in Asia…

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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 4d

(Huber lab)[EMBL] welcomes applications for a PhD in ML for spatial omics [representation learning + integration with biostatistics, cell + anatomy foundation models, collaborate with domain scientists on cancer and dev:bio discovery science] |> Apply though the ELLIS portal ::: Deadline 2025-10-31

ELLIS @ellis.eu · 7d

🎓 The application portal for the #ELLISPhD Program is open today! Info & link: https://bit.ly/45DSe75

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

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Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥 @egonw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

the first four #bh25jp preprints have appeared in BioHackRxiv: https://index.biohackrxiv.org/

This includes "Creation and Publication Analytical Workflow of Creators' Interests" https://doi.org/10.37044/osf.io/qd5sz_v1 and "A Lightweight PURL Resolver for Linked Life Science Data" […]

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Bertrand Bed'Hom @bedhom.bsky.social · 5d

En septembre 2025, le programme de recherche @atlasea.bsky.social a franchi la barre des 100 génomes marins séquencés !
@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cea.fr @agencerecherche.bsky.social
#mer #océan #biodiversité #génomique

www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

ATLASea : déjà 100 génomes marins séquencés !

En septembre 2025, le programme de recherche ATLASea a franchi la barre des 100 génomes marins séquencés.

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 6d

🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪

Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674

A job ad with multiple images, including the exterior of the museum, a view of collections (jars on shelves), and pictures of some cool, tropical fish but I don't know enough about fish to describe them other than to say they're pretty colors of yellow and blue/green

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Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social · 5d

Um, I think the link emoji 🔗 that you’ve inserted breaks @bsky.app ability to make these clickable links, like this: www.walderfoundation.org Links don’t need emojis, just use http and the links will be visible and, most importantly, they will work.

Walder Foundation

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Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social · 5d

Just when I think I have mastered the art of matching species to citations of their original descriptions, I come across this beauty... "Ann Mag Nat Hist 1912, 9 1912: (149-174 242-269 321-336 433-444 625-633) & 10 (1-20 557-573)" 😣

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 7d

Sometimes, parasitologists have to put their own body on the line in the name of science. In this case, a parasitologist played host to a nose leech for over a month to find out more about its life history 🧪
#Invertebrate
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2019/10/dino...

<i>Dinobdella ferox</i>

When it comes to parasitology, sometimes you have to get really up close with your study organism, as one researcher in Taiwan did in trying...

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 5d

PhD position on the impact of pollution on freshwater fish at the University of Glasgow. Fully funded, linked with indu… https://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/doctoraltraining/northwestbio/projects/animalbiology/frommoleculestopopulationsthegenomicandphysiologicallegacyofpollutiononfreshwaterfish/ #phd

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Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social · 5d

partnership between the South Australian Museum and #Wikipedia = remarkable increase in interest about polar explorer Sir Douglas Mawson
#GLAMS

An incredible 1 million new reads about Mawson | SA Museum - News

A partnership between the South Australian Museum and Wikipedia has led to a remarkable increase in interest about polar explorer Sir Douglas Mawson.

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 7d

Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation.

I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!

my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

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Common Crawl Foundation @commoncrawl.bsky.social · 6d

Common Crawl’s Web Languages initiative has had many contributions since its introduction. We’re calling for native speakers of certain languages to review language contributions, to ensure that links we’re adding to our seed crawl are of good quality.

commoncrawl.org/blog/web-lan...

Common Crawl - Blog - Web Languages Needing Review by Native Speakers

Common Crawl’s Web Languages initiative has had many contributions since its introduction. We’re calling for native speakers of certain languages to review language contributions, to ensure that links...

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Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social · 6d

I confess ignorance… I took a quick look at henrietteharmse.com/2022/01/25/t... and its links. I’ve never done reasoning with RDF, I just want to be able to traverse a graph of interconnected things, and building that across multiple data sources seems a hard enough task.

The difference between Schema.org and OWL

In this blog post I describe some of the main differences between Schema.org vocabularies and OWL ontologies, the implications of these differences and the kind of steps you will need to take to tr…

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Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social · 6d

I actually like having one ontology to rule them all, and it’s getting traction in biology, e.g., bioschemas.org. I keep a list of JSON-LD sources here github.com/rdmpage/wild... and schema.org is common. Having a “standard” does rather free us to focus on the actual building of stuff…

Bioschemas - Bioschemas

Bioschemas relies and extends from schema.org and aims to reuse existing standards and reach consensus among a wide number of life sciences organizations and communities.

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OpenCitations @opencitations.bsky.social · 6d

The Proceedings of WOOC 2025 are online! 🎉
📖 Index volume: zenodo.org/records/1719...
📚 All papers: zenodo.org/communities/...

@barcelonadori.bsky.social @opencitations.bsky.social @unibo.it #WOOC2025

Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata (WOOC 2025) – Index Volume

This is the index volume of the Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata (WOOC 2025), held in Bologna on 28–29 May 2025. Each workshop contribution is published in Zen...

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Wellcome Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute.bsky.social · 6d

This role, based at Sanger, will lead on the communications for the Atlas of Variant Effects Alliance - an initiative that is mapping the effects of all the possible variants of human genes 🧬

This is a part-time role, closing on 14th Oct.
More info ⤵️
sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/WellcomeSang...

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Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social · 6d

Brutal and somewhat Google-centric (e,g., schema.org for the win), but neatly encapuslates why RDF hasn't really delivered the promised land of data integration.

Schema.org - Schema.org

Schema.org is a set of extensible schemas that enables webmasters to embed structured data on their web pages for use by search engines and other applications.

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Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social · 6d

The paper arxiv.org/abs/2309.13054 on Google's Data Commons datacommons.org summarises the problems of #linkeddata:

1. Multiple vocabularies for the same things makes it hard to join datasets

2. Need for shared identifiers imposes a burden on data providers

3. Lack of provenacne information

Data Commons

Publicly available data from open sources (e.g., United States Census Bureau (Census), World Health Organization (WHO), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)) are vital resources for policy...

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GBIF @gbif.org · 6d

There's still time to register for the question and answers session for the Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme for Africa!

📍7 October 2025 13:00 - 14:00 CEST

Register: gbif.link/BID_Africa_QA

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