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YSF2025 Registration Form Welcome to the YSF2025 Registration and Abstract Submission form. This year the conference will be held online on Friday, November 14th 2025. We look forward to seeing old and new faces from across t...

The Young Systematists' Forum is nearly upon us!

If you are a student (or postdoc) working on phylogenetics, taxonomy or systematics, join us Nov 14th for this free and friendly online conference!

Abstract submission closes Saturday, October 25th at 11:59PM GMT+1

REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8

This is one of the lesser known (but tragic) consequences of Gen AI. It’s not just about theft of IP, which is usually mentioned, it’s about damage to the information infrastructure of underfunded archives, libraries and museums etc. with long term consequences for them and for researchers.

So much of what I've been able to collect for the Nova Scotia game dev archive has been due to the Wayback Machine. I'm grateful they had the foresight to begin archiving as far back as they did.

Command Interface: How Your Device Choice Shapes Power Relations Laptops create. Phones consume. The split determines who commands and who complies—a power dynamic hiding in plain sight across every interface we touch.

Laptops create systems. Phones feed algorithms. The asymmetry determines power
https://zakelfassi.com/command-interface-device-power

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45480620

🔁Please share - we remind the SMBE community that the Call for Symposia for #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen is open.

We invite you to submit a symposium proposal to help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting.

🗓️Deadline: October 15th

More info: smbe2026.org/symposia
@official-smbe.bsky.social

Asia Nature Challenge 2025 is Go! This weekend is the second installment of the Asia Nature Challenge, so go outside and observe our biodiversity because nature in Asia…

Help Tackle the Asian Biodiversity Data Gap with Asia Nature Challenge medium.com/citizenscien... #AsiaNatureChallenge #ANC2025

(Huber lab)[EMBL] welcomes applications for a PhD in ML for spatial omics [representation learning + integration with biostatistics, cell + anatomy foundation models, collaborate with domain scientists on cancer and dev:bio discovery science] |> Apply though the ELLIS portal ::: Deadline 2025-10-31

the first four #BH25JP preprints have appeared in BioHackRxiv: https://index.biohackrxiv.org/

This includes "Creation and Publication Analytical Workflow of Creators' Interests" https://doi.org/10.37044/osf.io/qd5sz_v1 and "A Lightweight PURL Resolver for Linked Life Science Data" […]

ATLASea : déjà 100 génomes marins séquencés ! En septembre 2025, le programme de recherche ATLASea a franchi la barre des 100 génomes marins séquencés.

En septembre 2025, le programme de recherche @atlasea.bsky.social a franchi la barre des 100 génomes marins séquencés !
@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cea.fr @agencerecherche.bsky.social
#mer #océan #biodiversité #génomique

www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

A job ad with multiple images, including the exterior of the museum, a view of collections (jars on shelves), and pictures of some cool, tropical fish but I don't know enough about fish to describe them other than to say they're pretty colors of yellow and blue/green

🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪

Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674

Walder Foundation

Um, I think the link emoji 🔗 that you’ve inserted breaks @bsky.app ability to make these clickable links, like this: www.walderfoundation.org Links don’t need emojis, just use http and the links will be visible and, most importantly, they will work.

Just when I think I have mastered the art of matching species to citations of their original descriptions, I come across this beauty... "Ann Mag Nat Hist 1912, 9 1912: (149-174 242-269 321-336 433-444 625-633) & 10 (1-20 557-573)" 😣

<i>Dinobdella ferox</i> When it comes to parasitology, sometimes you have to get really up close with your study organism, as one researcher in Taiwan did in trying...

Sometimes, parasitologists have to put their own body on the line in the name of science. In this case, a parasitologist played host to a nose leech for over a month to find out more about its life history 🧪
#Invertebrate
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2019/10/dino...

PhD position on the impact of pollution on freshwater fish at the University of Glasgow. Fully funded, linked with indu… https://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/doctoraltraining/northwestbio/projects/animalbiology/frommoleculestopopulationsthegenomicandphysiologicallegacyofpollutiononfreshwaterfish/ #phd

partnership between the South Australian Museum and #Wikipedia = remarkable increase in interest about polar explorer Sir Douglas Mawson
#GLAMS

Trinity College Dublin Herbarium

Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation.

I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!

my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

Common Crawl - Blog - Web Languages Needing Review by Native Speakers Common Crawl’s Web Languages initiative has had many contributions since its introduction. We’re calling for native speakers of certain languages to review language contributions, to ensure that links...

Common Crawl’s Web Languages initiative has had many contributions since its introduction. We’re calling for native speakers of certain languages to review language contributions, to ensure that links we’re adding to our seed crawl are of good quality.

commoncrawl.org/blog/web-lan...

The difference between Schema.org and OWL In this blog post I describe some of the main differences between Schema.org vocabularies and OWL ontologies, the implications of these differences and the kind of steps you will need to take to tr…

I confess ignorance… I took a quick look at henrietteharmse.com/2022/01/25/t... and its links. I’ve never done reasoning with RDF, I just want to be able to traverse a graph of interconnected things, and building that across multiple data sources seems a hard enough task.

Bioschemas - Bioschemas Bioschemas relies and extends from schema.org and aims to reuse existing standards and reach consensus among a wide number of life sciences organizations and communities.

I actually like having one ontology to rule them all, and it’s getting traction in biology, e.g., bioschemas.org. I keep a list of JSON-LD sources here github.com/rdmpage/wild... and schema.org is common. Having a “standard” does rather free us to focus on the actual building of stuff…

The Proceedings of WOOC 2025 are online! 🎉
📖 Index volume: zenodo.org/records/1719...
📚 All papers: zenodo.org/communities/...

@barcelonadori.bsky.social @opencitations.bsky.social @unibo.it #WOOC2025

This role, based at Sanger, will lead on the communications for the Atlas of Variant Effects Alliance - an initiative that is mapping the effects of all the possible variants of human genes 🧬

This is a part-time role, closing on 14th Oct.
More info ⤵️
sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/WellcomeSang...

Brutal and somewhat Google-centric (e,g., schema.org for the win), but neatly encapuslates why RDF hasn't really delivered the promised land of data integration.

Data Commons Publicly available data from open sources (e.g., United States Census Bureau (Census), World Health Organization (WHO), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)) are vital resources for policy...

The paper arxiv.org/abs/2309.13054 on Google's Data Commons datacommons.org summarises the problems of #linkeddata:

1. Multiple vocabularies for the same things makes it hard to join datasets

2. Need for shared identifiers imposes a burden on data providers

3. Lack of provenacne information

pink graphic with various biological drawings and the word AFRICA overlaid in white text

There's still time to register for the question and answers session for the Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme for Africa!

📍7 October 2025 13:00 - 14:00 CEST

Register: gbif.link/BID_Africa_QA

Join the free "Wiki for Botanists" online session on Oct 14, 3pm NZST, to learn about Wikipedia, Wikidata,… https://tepapa.zoom.us/meeting/register/_g4sKy2KTYGMIhtNIAxGeA#/ More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online/Introductory_Wiki_webinar_14_October_2025 #course #workshop

Kicking the tires of Sciencedirect AI. (1)

RIP Jane Goodall. There's of course no better way to understand Goodall than in her own words, of which there are volumes to explore. But I also love Stephen Jay Gould's introduction to her "In the Shadow of Man": archive.org/details/insh.... As Gould notes, and Goodall embodied, "Nature IS context"

iNaturalist accelerates biodiversity research Abstract. Participatory citizen science is expanding, with iNaturalist emerging as one of the most widely used platforms globally. However, its application

Have just read this impressive paper on the impact of #iNaturalist on biodiversity research. It makes fascinating reading. H/t to @rdmpage.bsky.social for sharing. academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf104/8185761 #HighlyRecommended

This evening in Europe, over on the other site, Logos Network joins Arkadiy from @archive.org in conversation to explore the importance of building the safeguards for our most cherished collective history. We will learn about their activism, vision, struggles, and triumphs.