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Good question. Depends what you mean by “submission”. The list of names is currently based on organismnames.com, so no easy way to change that. But if you have links to references, then the “feedback” link takes you to GitHub to open an issue.

DOIs unambiguously and persistently identify published, trustworthy, citable online scholarly literature. Right? - Crossref The South Park movie , “Bigger, Longer & Uncut” has a DOI: a) http://dx.doi.org/10.5240/B1FA-0EEC-C316-3316-3A73-L So does the pornographic movie, “Young Sex Crazed Nurses”: b) http://dx.doi.org/10.52...

There is a lot of Zenodo-hosted content in BioNames, with more to come. Discoverability is a challenge, not all DOIs are equal www.crossref.org/blog/dois-un...

Webspace Invaders · Matthias Ott There’s something happening on the Web at the moment that almost feels like watching that old arcade game Space Invaders play out across our servers. Bots and scrapers marching in formation, attacking...

This is the same bot attack that nearly took down the A11y Project site last year. @matthiasott.com describes the problem in detail.

matthiasott.com/articles/web...

One big change from the old BioNames is I'm now incorporating @biodivlibrary.bsky.social PDFs such as this one bionames.org/references/5... (with DOI bionames.org/doi/10.5962/... ). There's an argument that all the freely accessible PDFs of taxonomic papers should be in BHL.

Yes it does, e.g. doi.org/10.5962/bhl..... ironically the original source of names that I use is a digitisation of Zoological Record, and that postdates Linnaeus, so many earlier names aren't in BioNames.

Screenshot of Description of a new genus of Oemini from Vietnam (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). (New or interesting Cerambycidae from Vietnam. Pars X)

If nothing else, a collection of PDFs on taxonomy provides some striking images, such as bionames.org/references/d... (published as bionames.org/doi/10.57800... ).

Ten years and a million links: building a global taxonomic library connecting persistent identifiers for names, publications and people A major gap in the biodiversity knowledge graph is a connection between taxonomic names and the taxonomic literature. While both names and publications often have persistent identifiers (PIDs), such a...

I published a more recent update on this work doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... in @bdj.pensoft.net. There are still huge gaps, some will be filled as I backfill the new version of BioNames with data I've been collecting over the years, a lot of which has also ended up in @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social

BioNames: linking taxonomy, texts, and trees BioNames is a web database of taxonomic names for animals, linked to the primary literature and, wherever possible, to phylogenetic trees. It aims to provide a taxonomic “dashboard” where at a glance ...

The original site was launched in 2013, and was described in doi.org/10.7717/peer.... Over the years I have been adding both names and publications, building a library of PDFs, and also adding articles to @biodivlibrary.bsky.social. A lot of time has been spent chasing down DOIs.

After a few years of benign neglect I am rebuilding bionames.org, which is a database of 5.4 million taxonomomic names for animals, linked to half a million DOIs and 278K PDFs. Dream is for every species name to be linked to its original publication using a persistent identifier #PID

Join the ITALIAN SOCIETY FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY Congress in Firenze, Italy, from 6-10 Sept 2026, with key symposia on various evolutionary topics. Registration opens March 9. More at www.sibe-iseb.it/firenze2026. #conference

During the COVID-19 pandemic, genomic studies generated huge amounts of data that were difficult to analyse.
Our researchers developed new methods to accurately reconstruct the phylogenetic tree of more than 2 million SARS-CoV-2 genomes 🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@nicolademaio.bsky.social

The Anthropic Hive Mind As you’ve probably noticed, something is happening over at Anthropic. They are a spaceship that is beginning to take off.

Steve Yegge writes about Anthropic’s culture. Nothing concrete, mostly vibes.

He says it has that early Google/Amazon lightning in a bottle energy.

He notes Google lost that energy when Larry Page pivoted to focus on profits, killed 20% time and suddenly had too many people with not enough work.

Where do bumblebees go in winter? And how do they know when to return in time for spring? 🐝🔮

Note that I'm not (yet) asking the AI to read the paper, nor write my review. But I am using it to augment my ability to understand the data being reported #peerreview

Reviewing a mansucript and using @anthropic.com Claude to help. It fetches the (many) datasets and does some simple analyses, ones the authors haven't done (or didn't include in the manuscript). Claude is clever enough to recognise some common data quality issues, and suggest fixes. #peerreview

Abstract submission and registration for the *10th Euro Evo Devo Meeting 2026* at University of Glasgow (June 8-12, 2026) is open. Early bird deadline: March 5, 2026. More info: https://www.evodevoconference26.com/ #conference

Unifying phylogenetic traversal and deep learning to guide tree exploration https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41648436/

We are looking for new colleagues for TIB’s Open Science Lab – Help us secure endangered research data from the US

My blog posting, some more background info from @tibhannover and the job vacancies are all available in English as well, see below
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[Original post on openbiblio.social]

I used to joke that library databases were what people promised to use in class but they would then go home and "cheat on them" with google or Google scholar. Its probably the same now. No matter how legacy databases add "ai features" likely students will go home and use chatgpt/Claude/gemini

Om Malik blogs about the greatest invention of his lifetime, the internet:

"Like all great inventions of the past—the wheel, the steam engine, and the internal combustion engine—it has compressed time and distance. It is like a time machine. It has essentially made us question every premise."

Sometimes it takes a single piece in a jigsaw puzzle for the whole picture to come into shape. And that happened earlier this weekend. And it happened because of a 40-year-old piece of software @claudeai. A new essay, How AI goes to work. (warning: it's very long.) om.co/2026/02/06/h...

Absolute UNIT of a hornet beside an array of puny common wasps.

A guide for Aucklanders keeping watch for yellow-legged hornets:

1. “Hmm, is this stripy waspy thing a hornet?” = not a hornet

2. “JESUS EFFING C what the F is that MONSTER, that’s he biggest wasp I’ve ever SEEN, NO Jaden KEEP AWAY, shit I think it has yellow legs” = hornet

Pensoft joins the International Love Data Week, 9-13 February The International Love Data Week is a global celebration of all things data, held annually during the week of Valentine’s Day. Hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social ...

❤️📊 International #LoveDataWeek is approaching! This year’s theme is "Where’s the Data?"

Join @pensoft.net CEO Prof. Lyubomir Penev online on Feb 13 for a deep dive into Data Papers: How and Why?

@icpsr.bsky.social @lovedataweek.bsky.social

#LoveData26 #OpenScience #datapapers

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/BHLat10

Natural History Museum, London

Natural History Museum, London

In 2016, @biodivlibrary.bsky.social celebrated 10 years in London with meetings at the Natural History Museum and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew … looking forward to hearing what happens at the 20th anniversary gathering in 2026 (4/4) #BHLib www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/B...

Thomas Orrell (left, Smithsonian) & David Remsen (right, MBL WHOI Library)

Thomas Orrell (left, Smithsonian) & David Remsen (right, MBL WHOI Library); Tom provided bioinformatics guidance for BHL; Dave's innovative & groundbreaking work in taxonomic name finding (uBio) laid the groundwork for much of BHL’s taxonomic infrastructure via the Global Names Architecture … (3/4)

Anna Weitzman (Smithsonian), Chris Lyal (NHM), Tom Garnett (Smithsonian) & Graham Higley (NHM). Anna and Chris were important to the informatics development of BHL and Graham was later the first Chair of the BHL Executive Committee … #BHLib

Doug Holland (Missouri Botanical Garden) was later Secretary of the BHL Executive Committee; in 2004’s “WebWise 2004: Sharing Digital Resources” in Chicago he, along with @chrisfreeland.com, Suzanne Pilsk (Smithsonian), and I did a classic napkin sketch of a digital library for biodiversity … #BHLib

Natural History Museum, London

Today's an important date for the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social marking the start of a key global gathering, “Library and Laboratory: The Marriage of Research, Data, and Taxonomic Literature” (London, 5 Feb 2005) attended by 80+ bioinformaticians, taxonomists, & librarians (1/4) More: bit.ly/4qu3biU

PhD Position in Evolutionary Ecology PhD Position in Evolutionary Ecology

UCLouvain, Belgium offers a fully funded PhD in Lizard Evolutionary Ecology, focusing on adaptive responses to environmental changes. Apply by 9 March 2026. More info: https://jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelscientifique/job/PhD-Position-in-Evolutionary-Ecology/1289884901/ #phd

Can't wait to start this cross disciplinary project with a fantastic team, including @kochhanndaiani.bsky.social, @katjaenberg.bsky.social, Nick Hanley, Kath Sloman, and many others. Linking fish welfare, rural livelihoods, and rainforest conservation. Postdoc (x2) and tech positions forthcoming. 🙂

It doesn’t feel as much fun here as the early days of Twitter.