Have a look-see ucd.chalcid.org
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I have been looking a lot at Chalcid wasps recently- an amazingly diverse group of insects that may contain as many as 500,000 species. 🔬
They’re everywhere, but you may live your whole life without ever noticing them because they are so tiny. I think you would be missing out!
TDWG 2026, Stay tuned. Conference mascot using a headset and listening to music. Image: Lofoten Islands, Svolvær, Norway by Valdemaras D. Unsplash.com
Review of session proposals for #TDWG2026 is underway. Call for abstracts, coming soon. Stay tuned! 🎶
#Research #Robot-ready #Biodiversity #Data #Standards
TDWG 2026, Oslo, Call for volunteers Image: Trolltunga by Dong Zhang Unsplash.com
🙋♀️ We need you!🙋♂️ Join the TDWG 2026 Program Committee and help shape the conference in Oslo. We welcome volunteers from all regions, cultural backgrounds, gender identities, ages, and career stages.
👉 Apply now: tdwg.link/eoi-conferen...
#TDWG2026 #Biodiversity #WeNeedYou
7 Days To Go! The TDWG 2026 Call for Sessions deadline is 25 February 2026, 23:59 UTC-10. Image: Nasjonal turistveg Aurlandsfjellet by Håvard Nesbø. Visitnorway.com
📣 7 Days to go to submit a session!
Deadline for session proposals: 🗓️ 25 Feb, 23:59 UTC‑10!
Submit an organized session for #TDWG2026 in #Oslo.
New this year: 🌟Discussion sessions🌟.
Theme: 🔬🤖 Research & robot‑ready biodiversity data standards.
More info: 🔗 tdwg.link/call-for-ses...
Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."
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I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
The Trump administration planned to kick thousands of American seniors off of their disability benefits.
We pushed back — and now, they're backing off.
Public pressure works. Keep fighting back.
Asking questions during seminars is a great way to practice public speaking.
It helps you learn to be clear and concise and hopefully to think deeply about a subject and to be polite. People around you will notice and take note of your words - good or bad.
Love to hear your thought on this. @rdmpage.bsky.social @dshorthouse.bsky.social @debpaul.bsky.social 🦉 I wrote a post on treating species identifiers with the same rigour as enterprise entity resolution. Not a new idea but we have to think about the scale. www.linkedin.com/pulse/one-sp...
If you're going to be at #SC25 tomorrow (Sunday) and are interested in research software engineering #RSEng, you might come to the RSE-HPC-2025 workshop - us-rse.org/rse-hpc-2025/ - from 9:00 to 5:30 in room 267
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."
—FDR, 1936
A year ago we started developing a bikini that's actually made for movement. In our inaugural SubSurface blog post see what a crash course in supply chain management courtesy of the Functional Fabric Fair looks like.
#surfaceathletic #MadeForMovement #fashiondesign #swimwear
A leafy path through green forest
The white, black and pink face of a baby Zanzibar Red Colobus monkey peeking through leaves.
A brown and rufous elephant shrew in vegetation
A brown elephant shrew in vegetation
Day #2 in Tanzania: The beautiful UNESCO & IUCN listed Jozani Forest (the only national park in Zanzibar): monkeys & elephant shrews #HomewardBound @inaturalist.bsky.social
81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
Mandatory garden break: Crisp autumn morning
“The billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30-an-hour that their enemies are those earning $20-an-hour. They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long, broken system.”
-Zohran Mamdani
I went to see Shirley Valentine with C and a mate of hers. When he throws the dinner at her early in the film I've never forgotten that collective quiet groan that many women in the audience made. It was the groan of recognition and solidarity. That film had levels. RIP Pauline Collins.
Greetings from NFDI4Bioimage Task Area Leader Björn Grüning at the #EOSCSymposium2025, which is taking place from November 3 to 5 at Brussels. At the conference, Björn Grüning presents the #Galaxy use case, which is one of the first #EOSC candidate use cases.
👉 gxy.io/eosc25
Picture: Nicolas Lobet
Our article about #RegRed (an effort to collate data on species' Red List assessments at regional, national, and sub-national levels) is now available on @natureconservation.pensoft.net. Follow our GitHub project for news and updates 📣 github.com/RegRed-project
Trump says he's sending the National Guard to crime-ridden "hellholes," but homicide rates across major cities have been falling.
In Portland, murders were down 39%.
In Chicago, they were down 22%.
Trump's deployments are about authoritarian control, not "law and order."
We are delighted to announce that we have reached 1,000 followers on Bluesky 🎉
Many thanks to our growing @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social community for your interest in the topics that concern us as a consortium and for accompanying us on our journey towards FAIR-compliant research data management.
What cheese did you choose? (And yes, I wouldn’t use “American cheese” either). I’d use a tangy aged cheddar (Kerry Gold, for example). For a fancy version— you could use Gruyère 😋
Rudolf Meier paraphrases a post from @rdmpage.bsky.social : as ~ 2/3 of the records in GBIF are birds, @gbif.org is primarily a Global Bird Information Facility. To correct this bias, we need to focus on the “ugly” biodiversity. 🪰 🪱 🪳 🦟 @mfnberlin.bsky.social #LivingData2025 x.com/rdmpage/stat...
At #LivingData2025 @rdmpage.bsky.social digs through @boldsystems.bsky.social data trying to improve x-refs to sequences and publications. Need to get data out of publications to be able to make these links.
‘Indecency has become a new hallmark’: writer and historian Jelani Cobb on race in Donald Trump’s America
No one needs to "prove" MAGA attacks on protests wrong; they are wrong. Nonviolence should be the chosen path in principle, not as an attempt to appease MAGA critics who will surely find another excuse to smear the protesters, regardless of what they do.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A collage of images from the GBIF global nodes training
💪Train today, mobilize data tomorrow ⚡
Delegates from around the world at the Global Nodes Training are participating in modules organized by the GBIF Community and Capacity team and led by subject-matter expert trainers.
#Bogotá #Colombia
Can you get your #biodiversitydata to @gbif.org sans #IPT direct from @taxonworks.bsky.social? Yes! with open extended specimen data too (resource relationships, biological associations, media)
