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Siobhan Leachman @siobhanleachman.bsky.social · 28d

My amazing #Wiki colleague @tiagolubiana.bsky.social has released this lovely video on the #BHLImageExporer. This tool (bhl-gallery.toolforge.org) explores @biodivlibrary.bsky.social images in #Wikicommons. It facilities image reuse in the #Wikiverse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK9i... #ILoveBHL

The BHL Image Explorer — A search tool for public domain biodiversity images

YouTube video by Tiago Lubiana

www.youtube.com

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Tiago Lubiana @tiagolubiana.bsky.social · Aug 25

Late to share here on bsky, but so happy with this award!

Also: ISB is a beautiful society; if you care about organizing bio data/knowledge, you might benefit from joining it!

International Society for Biocuration @biocurator.bsky.social · Jul 30

Exceptional Contributions to Biocuration - Early Career Award winner: Tiago Lubiano.
Tiago's a passionate and motivated scientist interested in linked open data, ontologies, the semantic web, and their application in modeling cells and cell types. He is active in many curation projects & with ISB.

Congratulations to Tiago Lubiana from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil for winning the Exceptional Contributions to Biocuration, Early Career Award 2025. A photo of Tiago is next to the text.

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Tiago Lubiana @tiagolubiana.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thank you, Jason!

Tiago Lubiana @tiagolubiana.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thank you, Rod!!

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · May 14

It's bedtime but I can't drag myself away from the Biodiversity Heritage Library!

Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · May 14

Agnes Catlow's "Drops of water : their marvellous and beautiful inhabitants displayed by the microscope" (1851) provides an engaging introduction to microscopy for novices. Check it out: doi.org/10.5962/bhl.... via #FisherLibrary @uoft.bsky.social #Microscopy #ScienceHistory 🧪 🔬 📖

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Tiago Lubiana @tiagolubiana.bsky.social · May 14

Outstanding!

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Tiago Lubiana @tiagolubiana.bsky.social · Apr 23

I haven't shared much here lately, but I've been developing this tool over the past few months.

A fun way to navigate the intersection of @biodivlibrary.bsky.social and Wikimedia Commons
bhl-gallery.toolforge.org

BHL Image Explorer

bhl-gallery.toolforge.org

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

📢 Big news from the Biodiversity Heritage Library: The Smithsonian will no longer host BHL’s central operations from Jan 2026. After 20 years, we’re entering a new chapter – seeking new funding and support to sustain our global staff and infrastructure. Please share. 🌱
#ILoveBHL #OpenAccess

Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · Apr 22

Change is in the air for BHL! In 2026, BHL hosting will transition away from the Smithsonian, opening doors to reimagine our future. Rest assured, our 63 million pages of biodiversity knowledge remain secure and accessible.
Learn what's next for BHL ➡️

A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. A global consortium of over 660 contributors, BHL has made more …

blog.biodiversitylibrary.org

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Tiago Lubiana @tiagolubiana.bsky.social · Apr 23

pelo menos no aberto os humanos podem ler também

futurism.com/meta-copyrig...

Meta Says It's Okay to Feed Copyrighted Books Into Its AI Model Because They Have No "Economic Value"

Accused of illegally using copyrighted books to train its AI, Meta argues that those books are individually worthless.

futurism.com

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Nicole Kearney @nicolekearney.bsky.social · Mar 25

Here's an 1838 Echidna if anyone needs cheering up: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16007935 #BHLib

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Elisa Herrmann @ehrmn.bsky.social · Mar 24

On April 9 we invite you for the #BHLDay2025 at @mfnberlin.bsky.social

👥 Join us in person or virtually and register here: s.si.edu/bhlday2025

In the first half of the symposium we will hear talks about innovative approaches to #biodiversitydata.
🧵

BHL Day 2025 – About BHL

s.si.edu

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Siobhan Leachman @siobhanleachman.bsky.social · Mar 21

Like adding images to Wikipedia? 🌿 🦋 🌱🐦🌰🦎🪻
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Wikimedia Working Group is organising three events to help
- Spanish wiki: March 26 at 19:00 UTC w.wiki/DNWL
- French wiki: March 28 at 13:00 UTC w.wiki/DNWV
- Portuguese wiki: April 2 at 17:00 UTC w.wiki/DNWV #1Pic1Bio

Poster advertising the #1Pic1Bio event where images sourced from the Biodiversity Heritage Library will be added to Portuguese, Spanish and French Wikipedias. There are images of flowers, butterflies, and a bird along with the BHL label on the cream coloured background of the poster

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Tiago Lubiana @tiagolubiana.bsky.social · Mar 21

Nice! I have experimented with some Brazilian theses on Wikidata a while ago too:

tiago.bio.br/bioinfo_bras...

For me, the good viz via Query Service + disambiguation of authors + topics modelled with persistent identifiers were key pluses

The Landscape of Brazilian Bioinformatics

Mapeando bioinformatas brasileiros na Wikidata

tiago.bio.br

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Tiago Lubiana @tiagolubiana.bsky.social · Mar 20

Today is the World Frog Day!

You may browse some frogs in @biodivlibrary.bsky.social in our fresh (in testing) BHL-Wiki-GBIF Image Gallery!

bhl-gallery.toolforge.org?taxonKey=952

A gallery of drawings of frogs from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥 @egonw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Mar 20

very exciting Google Summer of Code project idea around @wikipathways for a great student with a lot of enthusiasm and drive to learn a lot of new things and get things done! https://github.com/nrnb/GoogleSummerOfCode/issues/264

#bioinformatics #openscience

Direct GitHub Integration from PathVisio to WikiPathways · Issue #264 · nrnb/GoogleSummerOfCode

Background WikiPathways (https://www.wikipathways.org/) is a collaborative platform for pathway curation in biology, supporting community-contributed models of biological processes. Recently, WikiP...

github.com

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Tiago Lubiana @tiagolubiana.bsky.social · Mar 3

I think the reason behing Quickstatements being a super star of Wikidata is that it feels _so good_ to run a batch!

Leveraging the new version Quickstatements V3, I am now adding BHL Title IDs for Wikidata items with BHL DOIs:
qs-dev.toolforge.org/batch/256/

It is so satisfying to see it running!

QuickStatements 3.0 - Batch #256

qs-dev.toolforge.org

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Tiago Lubiana @tiagolubiana.bsky.social · Feb 25

This is a favourite!

As a small trivia, Descourtilz died and was burried in the very small city of "Riacho", in Espírito Santo, Brazil. The location of the grave is unknown, but I have this little impulse in me to go try and rediscover it. Who knows?

morrodomoreno.com.br/materias/via...

Tiago Lubiana @tiagolubiana.bsky.social · Feb 25

J'exécute actuellement de gros lots pour les données structurées, donc la catégorisation manuelle est un peu hors de mon champ d'action. Mais ils sont super bienvenus ! :)

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Tiago Lubiana @tiagolubiana.bsky.social · Feb 25

Today I am adding Structured Data for Broinowski's The Birds of Australia!

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...

While our current focus is on South America and Africa, there is a decent amount of southern birds that are common to SA, AF and Australia, like the black-browed albatross.

The black-browed albatross, one of of Broinowski's drawings. Available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_birds_of_Australia_(16087537693).jpg.

Distribution of the black-browed albatross, available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black-browed_Albatross-map-localisation-fr.svg (cc-by-sa, by https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pinpin)

Tiago Lubiana @tiagolubiana.bsky.social · Feb 24

Another 100 plates in this absolute jewel: Flora columbiae

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...

The work combines completenes (seeds, leafs, diagrams) with rich colors and visual impact.

Below, Sabal (Thritinax) mauritiiformis, look at these details!

commons.wikimedia.org/entity/M4298...

Sabal (Thritinax) mauritiiformis from Flora Columbiae

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · Feb 24

Well, some may call my actions in regard to @inaturalist.bsky.social here a bit obsessive.

I call it persistent.
And dedicated.
And fun.
Oh, AND obsessive.

Find your longest iNaturalist observation streaks

Go
Your streaks

Start date End date Streak duration
2020-01-01 2025-02-23 1881

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Tiago Lubiana @tiagolubiana.bsky.social · Feb 24

Great news! I was lucky to work with Amos with the @cellosaurus.bsky.social bot, connecting cell line metadata to Wikidata.

ISCB News @iscb.bsky.social · Feb 20

In case you missed the feature in our February newsletter: ISCB is happy to share this year’s ISCB 2025 award recipients!

Please join us in congratulating each of our 2025 awardees!

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ISCB News @iscb.bsky.social · Feb 20

In case you missed the feature in our February newsletter: ISCB is happy to share this year’s ISCB 2025 award recipients!

Please join us in congratulating each of our 2025 awardees!

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Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social · Feb 24

One thing @biodivlibrary.bsky.social is increasingly doing is becoming a home for "orphaned" journals (and their @crossref.bsky.social DOIs). Even major publications such as Mycotaxon can come to an end, which raises the question who looks after them one they stop publishing?

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Crossref @crossref.bsky.social · Feb 23

Just welcomed Hal+ @hal-science.bsky.social (the national open infrastructure for France) to the Bluesky POSI Starter Pack! Hal is one of the newest open infrastructures to adopt the #posi principles. Also added to the list at bsky.app/profile/cros.... Bienvenue, Hal! go.bsky.app/84rVoj1

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