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🎉 Huge news for BHL: The @FieldMuseum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/transi… #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

This is the news the BHL community had been waiting for: the answer to BUT WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE BHL WEBSITE? We've been overwhelmed by outpourings of excitement and relief from BHL users across the globe – thank you @FieldMuseum! #ILoveBHL #BHLTransition 🧪

DYK you can scroll through BHL's most recent additions? The latest 100 items span 200+ years (1823–2026) and include publications in English, French, German, and Russian. From Victorian poultry manuals to modern biodiversity research. Explore: biodiversitylibrary.org/RecentRss/100 🧪 🌏 📖

🎉 All BHL staff have been secured! 🥳 As we enter our next chapter, the team who steward BHL’s collections and infrastructure remain in place, led by Colleen Funkhouser in her new role of Managing Director. Meet the team guiding BHL forward: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/celebr… 🧪📚🔗🌱

Illustration: Schwarm Heuschrecke (a swarm of grasshoppers) from Die Insekten, Tausendfüssler und Spinnen (The insects, millipedes and spiders), Leipzig, Bibliographische Institut, 1877. Added to BHL by @cornelluniversity biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42199217

Dear BHL Users, significant bot traffic surges are causing intermittent disruptions to the BHL website. Our firewalls are blocking much of this activity, but legitimate users may be affected. Our team is actively working to reduce the impact. Thank you for your patience. 🧪🌱📖🦗

February 14 is #LibraryLoversDay 💚 If you love libraries, biodiversity, and open knowledge, please consider making a donation to the Biodiversity Heritage Library to keep BHL free and open, for everyone: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDonati… #LoveLibraries #OpenAccess #ILoveBHL

Happy bday Charles Darwin (born #OTD 1809)! 🎉 Check out Charles Darwin’s Library on #BHLib, a virtual reconstruction of the surviving books owned by Darwin, drawing on original copies & surrogates, providing full transcriptions of his annotations & marks: biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/dar…

One of the many wonderful illustrations to be found in an 1837 “caterpillar calendar”, an entomological volume by the aptly named Christian Friedrich Vogel outlining which caterpillars appear each month. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/ima… (from @BioDivLibrary & @SILibraries) publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/807451109…

New to BHL this week: "West Australian Orchids" by Emily H. Pelloe (1930), with spectacular illustrations by the author. This presentation copy from @RBG_Victoria's collection includes a manuscript inscription and the author's signature. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/65321275 #ILoveBHL 📖 🧪 🌏

BHL holds 63 million pages of biodiversity knowledge. Among them are all kinds of marvels, including "Marvels of the Universe", a lavishly illustrated early 20th-century celebration of astronomy, plants, animals, and the oceans. Explore it on BHL: #SciArt" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/6… 🧪

💚 Thanks to our global BHL community, the #GiveBHLWings campaign reached its USD 50,000 goal by 1 Jan 2026! Your incredible support helps fund BHL’s transition, staff & infrastructure, keeping biodiversity knowledge open worldwide. More updates soon. 🌍 📖 🧪 #BHLTransition

🌍 The #GiveBHLWings campaign is on the brink of reaching its USD 50,000 goal, just hours before the BHL transitions to independence on 1 Jan 2026. 🧪 If BHL matters to you, please help us soar over the line. 💚 ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/GiveBHLwi… #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL

⏳ Only days left in 2025! 🌿 BHL becomes independent on 1 Jan 2026. Help #GiveBHLWings and keep biodiversity knowledge open for future generations. 🧪 📖 🌏 💸 🌍 Donate to make a difference: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/GiveBHLWi… #ILoveBHL

This is the most festive fish we could find to wish you a very merry #Fishmas from all of us at @biodivlibrary. This parrotfish was described in 1834 as “the most splendid” of its kind. Here’s to a 2026 filled with biodiversity knowledge and #SciArt 🧪 🐟 biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38892308

🎨 Bluefin gurnard (Chelidonichthys kumu), illustrated in 1910 in "Die japanische Knochenfische der Sammlungen Haberer und Doflein" 📖 biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16272675

Need a last-minute festive gift? 🎁 A donation to @biodivlibrary in someone’s name supports open access to biodiversity knowledge worldwide — meaningful, lasting, and global. Give with impact: 👉 ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/GiveBHLWi… #GiveBHLWings #Fishmas #FestiveSeason 🧪

🌍 USD 40,000 raised | 400+ donations | 35 countries 💚 With 10 days to BHL's transition to independence on 1 Jan 2026, our #GiveBHLWings goal is USD 50,000. Help us get there. Donate to keep biodiversity knowledge accessible worldwide. 🧪 📖 #BHLTransition" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/GiveBHLwi…

BHL is growing! We’re thrilled to welcome University of South Florida Libraries @usflibraries as the 1st of the new BHL Members joining BHL during our transition to an independent future: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/12/announ… #BHLTransition #GiveBHLWings More member & support news coming soon!

A festive-season feast of crabs 🦀 This spectacular spread comes from Albertus Seba’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri (1734–1765). Consider this our contribution to #Crustmas ✨ #SciArt #NaturalHistory #ILoveBHL biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41072182 🧪