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TaxonWorks @taxonworks.bsky.social · 9d

#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

A zoomed out view of a Sankey plot illustrating how taxon name authors of the stonefly family Perlidae collaborate together.

TaxonWorks @taxonworks.bsky.social · 9d

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.

Sankey diagram connecting taxon name authors, a viz experiment using Claude Code vs TaxonWorks.

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TaxonWorks @taxonworks.bsky.social · 15d

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.

Screenshot of a nomenclature hierarchy levels dynamically colored.

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Jan Mees @janmees.bsky.social · 15d

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...

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TaxonWorks @taxonworks.bsky.social · 15d

#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

Screenshot of an interface intersecting interactive keys and "traditional" keys. The user is dynamically breaking down a large list of taxa into a path that leads to individual identification.

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iaptglobal @iaptglobal.bsky.social · 19d

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

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TaxonWorks @taxonworks.bsky.social · 22d

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.

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April Wright @wrightam.bsky.social · Aug 23

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 🧵

Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · Aug 23

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.

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · Aug 22

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.

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TaxonWorks @taxonworks.bsky.social · Aug 22

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Time to change how we describe biodiversity

Taxonomists are arguably the most active annotators of the natural world, collecting and publishing millions of phenotype data annually through descri…

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Joey Bernhardt @joeybernhardt.bsky.social · Aug 14

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

careers.uoguelph.ca

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Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social · Aug 8

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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TaxonWorks @taxonworks.bsky.social · Aug 9

Ping (and thanks) to @markdavis79.bsky.social and @danielskatz.org

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TaxonWorks @taxonworks.bsky.social · Aug 8

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

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TaxonWorks @taxonworks.bsky.social · Aug 8

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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Miles Zhang | 张远濛 @ymilesz.bsky.social · Aug 2

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

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TaxonWorks @taxonworks.bsky.social · Aug 5

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

Screenshot of a faceted selection panel on the left, and map with glowing points reprsenting georeferenced specimens on the right.

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Wayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social · Jun 27

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

The two Mesquite logos. At left, a mesquite tree leaf is against a black background. At right, a leaf is against a blue sky and sun.

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TaxonWorks @taxonworks.bsky.social · Jun 18

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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TaxonWorks @taxonworks.bsky.social · Jun 13

What's up?

Dark mode.

Screenshot of a filter collecting interface showing Dark mode.

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TaxonWorks @taxonworks.bsky.social · Jun 11

The Biodiversity Heritage LIbrary is the foundation in many ways for #biodiversityinformatics. They have an important new blog post at blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran....

Please engage and share!

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…

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TaxonWorks @taxonworks.bsky.social · Jun 9

Released 0.52.0. Changelog: github.com/SpeciesFileG...

A big update "under the hood". Lots of code DRYing. Performance improvements, particularly for #CatalogueofLife data packages. Many filter/facet additions with more options for batch updating. Lots of UI QoL improvements. Bugs squashed.

Release Version 0.52.0 release · SpeciesFileGroup/taxonworks

Added cached_gender and cached_is_available to TaxonName (eliminate many n+1 queries) Filter TaxonNameRelationship Tab options on Field Occurrence smart selectors (select_options) Radial Collectin...

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Cody Thompson @codythompson51.bsky.social · Jun 2

Check out our new paper in #BioScience!!! If COVID taught us anything, we very much need to be doubling down on our scientific structure and not regressing, and we need to improve collaborative networks that transcend geopolitical boundaries.

#naturalhistory #collectionsareessential

Harnessing natural history collections for collaborative pandemic preparedness

Five years after the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, we have the opportunity to gather lessons learned about needed infrastructure for predicting, und

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TaxonWorks @taxonworks.bsky.social · May 23

TaxonWorks will be nicely represented at #SPNHC2025.

Come find Debbie, Matt, or Lily if you'd like a high-bandwidth discussion on TaxonWorks and it's use a collections management tool. We've all got talks that touch on the topic as well!

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TaxonWorks @taxonworks.bsky.social · May 17

Released 0.51.0. Changelog: github.com/SpeciesFileG...

A major #GIS focused release adds a new user-defined spatial Gazetteer, unified shape storage, new spatial facets and cross-model queries, spatial query performance improvements, and batch georeferencing. Many bugs (the only bad kind) squashed.

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