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@KlausRiede @idbdeb Just saw this now, yes, lots of people have moved there. It’s certainly where I hang out now.

@idbdeb @rdmpage just searching for the #Taxonworks X handle - or has everybody moved to #bluecry?

OMG it actually worked!!!!

If you are following this account it is no longer active here (and hasn’t been for a while). An improved version is available on Bluesky.

@myrmoteras @BiodiversityDT I guess you can "download" them to Spotify for offline listening, but that might not be what you meant. I'm not familiar with the platform @BiodiversityDT use to create the podcasts but I don't think they've enabled RSS which would the podcast available elsewhere.

Is there a chance to download these podcasts? @BiodiversityDT Listen to "Genetically Detected Biodiversity" by BioDT - The Biodiversity Digital Twin creators.spotify.com/pod/show/bio-d…

Measuring What We Don't Know: Biodiversity Catalogs Reveal Bias in Taxonomic Effort Before you say a group is 'understudied' you might want to check out the metric introduced here ... [Thanks to Lauren Esposito for introducing me to this paper] academic.oup.com/bioscience/art…

How can you talk about the importance of natural history museums without once mentioning its libraries, the place where hundreds of years of research is accumulated? Only a specimen in context makes sense. @NHCMjournal @rkellerp nhcm.pensoft.net/article/142018/

New on the blog: "BHL Datasets Now Openly Accessible on the Amazon Web Services Cloud." 62 million pages of scientific text, images, and metadata, representing 500 years of biodiversity data will be openly accessible via the Registry of Open Data on AWS. s.si.edu/3BdlR2u

What’s the easiest way to make a chatbot that I can feed 50 to 60 gigs of PDFs into and then have a grounded conversation about roughly 6000 medical papers? Where is the relatively inexpensive “throw gigs into a folder and get RAG” solution? #AI

Status Update: BHL services have been fully restored, including page viewing and custom PDF generation. All @internetarchive servers hosting BHL content are back online. Thank you to the #BHLib community for your support! For the latest information, visit about.biodiversitylibrary.org/ufaqs/what-is-…

New update from @brewster_kahle on how the Internet Archive is learning from recent cyberattacks. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/11/14/lea…

After two weeks in @RudolfMeier15 lab to learn to #barcode, never ever tell me that liberating data from the #pdfprison is complex!

We're pleased to announce we're recruiting for a driven and visionary leader to become our Director of Development and Communications. 🌿 This is a crucial role at one of the world’s most prestigious botanical institutions. Find details and apply: rbge.cc/Jobs

#ProtectedPlanet November 2024 Update: 🌍 WDPA: is 305,192 (303,309 #ProtectedAreas), covering 244 countries & territories. WD-OECM: is 6,484 (6,463 #OECMs), covering 15 countries & territories. GD-PAME: 5 assessment records were added and 1 updated. eu1.hubs.ly/H0dws2k0

Save Page Now is back online via the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/save Web pages archived since October 9 will start being added to @waybackmachine.

The Vanishing Culture report arrives today at a critical moment: While @internetarchive recovers from a cyberattack, it’s a reminder of how fragile our access to knowledge can be. Preserving culture & history requires resilience—and collective action. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/10/30/van…

Does anybody here use the BOLD website boldsystems.org ? If so, what do you think of the new version? #dnabarcoding

The scientific community must move beyond its comfort zone of writing papers and preaching to its own choirs. It must engage with the public and policymakers to turn knowledge into action. Will we have yet another opportunity? Let’s not wait to find out. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@jcusick5 @andriy_mulyar @BioDivLibrary @nomic_ai What I really want to do is explore the embeddings themselves and see what we can do with those. Also this is just article titles, so we lose a lot of information.

@jcusick5 @andriy_mulyar @BioDivLibrary @nomic_ai At this stage it’s “wow that’s a lot of topics” for what I intended to be a database of taxonomic papers.

Visualising 250K articles extracted from @BioDivLibrary via BioStor, intercative map made using @nomic_ai atlas.nomic.ai/data/rdmpage/b…

@PeterMoonlight @GBIF Wow, always nice to hear that people read it, woefully out of date now 🙈

So what the hell is happening in Brazil @GBIF? What are all these diagonal grid lines. Has Brazil really been sampled in a series of parallel 45° lines!? Map on left is from @GBIF home page, map on right is gbif.org/dataset/2e684f…