Gail Kampmeier

Not all AI prompts are equal. Some emit 50x more carbon than others. Here's why. When researchers delved into the tradeoff between AI sustainability and accuracy, they uncovered strategies for greener chatbots.

🧪 www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/06/not-... #climate #AI "“Ask for short answers (‘one word only,’ ‘bullet list,’ or ‘keep it under two sentences’) to reduce unnecessary response tokens, especially in reasoning mode,” Dauner suggests.

Metabarcoding arthropods in agroecosystems in Southern Ontario, Canada Metabarcoding can generate large numbers of georeferenced occurrence data from bulk samples at low cost. Its integration into the practice of agricultural invertebrate biomonitoring currently lacks bo...

#Biodiversity #informatics has long ignored #agricultural biodiversity but this new paper doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... makes use of metabarcoding tools to crack this door open 🧪. #agroecosystems are #ecosystems! @bdj.pensoft.net @tdwg.org

Standards From Darwin Core to WGSRPD TDWG standards aid the exchange of biodiversity information.

TDWG standards www.tdwg.org/standards/, such as Darwin Core, underpin the bulk of biodiversity data shared globally today via e.g., @gbif.org (Global Biodiversity Information Facility), iDigBio. The organization has come a long way from its taxonomic databases history, but TDWG still sticks.

Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) We are a non-profit organization and a community dedicated to developing biodiversity information standards.

@bugeric.bsky.social not a big fan of acronyms either. TDWG (pronounced TAD-wig) is a legacy for Taxonomic Databases Working Group—still its official name for tax purposes. Today it is the more descriptive Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) tdwg.org. 300-character limit encourages shortcuts.

Did you know that @tdwg.org is on BlueSky? Calling all creators, managers, and users of bio- and geodiversity information to join us as we work to create and promote #standards for sharing and using knowledge about the world's #biodiversity and #geodiversity. Find out about #LivingData2025

This is a challenge for creation and use of @tdwg.org biodiversity data standards as well as the entire community, not only for primary biodiversity data uses shown below, but decision-making in #conservationpolicy. Sounds like a possible #livingdata2025 session topic 👀

Microscopic pillars on insect wings give bugs an antibacterial superpower New insights into how these “nanopillars” work could inspire better ways to protect humans from infection

I see insect wings in the news and immediately think of the bioinspired research on cicadas of the @cotesia.bsky.social lab. Sure enough www.science.org/content/arti... Exciting possibilities and congrats to Yutao Chen on reporting the research. #Science #bioinspiration #cicadas

Call for sessions #DatosVivos2025 www.livingdata2025.com/calls.html

@taxonworks.bsky.social @gbif.org @gbifes.bsky.social @ipbes.bsky.social @entcollnet.bsky.social @dissco.bsky.social @inaturalist.bsky.social @pensoft.net @bmdproject.bsky.social @cabes.bsky.social

#DatosVivos2025

Submit your session proposal by 12 February and align it with one or more of the conference's four themes:
📊 Open Data
👩‍💻 Data Integration
🦋 Biodiversity Data Application
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Community Engagement and Capacity Building

Learn more: 🔗https://www.livingdata2025.com/calls.html

Call for Organized Sessions [banner; invitation to] Submit a proposal! Visit our website for more information.

📣Call for session proposals - #LivingData2025 🐦

Living Data 2025 is a one-of-a-kind conference jointly organized by GBIF, @TDWG, @OBIS and @GEOBON and hosted by the Instituto Humboldt from 21 to -24 October in Bogotá, #Colombia.

🔗https://www.livingdata2025.com/calls.html

😍 the colors, the armor, the spikes!

Are the biases we see in observations the same as those found in natural history collections or #museum displays (see doi.org/10.3897/biss...)?

Public review of the Latimer Core has begun & will run through 12 January 2024. www.tdwg.org/news/2023/la... Named for Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, it supports the representation & discovery of natural science collections & groups of objects contained in them. Please join us in this review. #Museums