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📘 Read the announcement in the latest issue of Inoculum @msafungi.bsky.social: Mycotaxon: Announcing All Issues of Mycotaxon Have Been Digitized and are Available in BHL by Jason Karakehian, Diane Rielinger & Don Pfister. @harvard.edu @harvardlibrary.bsky.social msafungi.org/inoculum/

Woman in Cookie Monster onesie pretends to eat cookie next to “no food” sign in library.

Find joy where you can. Happy Halloween!! 🍪 @illinoisfunk.bsky.social

Learn more about how exhibition data makes its way into the Wikiverse in this excellent presentation by @siobhanleachman.bsky.social #LivingData2025 🧪

US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding.

Fewer grad students means less science, but many STEM PhD programs in the US are cutting back on admissions this year due to federal funding uncertainties. Words by me for @nature.com:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@emsque.bsky.social @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social @julieposselt.bsky.social 🧪

An historic image of a Frilled-neck Lizard (a brown and green lizard with a long tail and a big flap of skin (the frill) around its neck.

In recognition of #ReptileAwarenessDay, here's a Frilled-neck Lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii) from Erpétologie Générale, Vol. 3 Atlas (1854). Contributed to BHL by Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31895846 #SciArt #ILoveBHL 🌱 📖 🧪 🦎

Happy #WorldEarthwormDay! 🪱 To celebrate, here is a beautiful plate of an Earthworm (& friends) from "Natural history of the animal kingdom for the use of young people" (1889) digitised for BHL by Smithsonian Libraries & Archives www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28687600. #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🪱

An historic illustration of a (very elongated) wombat.

It's #WombatDay! The Wombat was first described in 1800 as "the largest of all the Opossums: size of a Badger: colour pale yellow: fur longish and sub-erect: nose strongly divided by a furrow" www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19632636.
(#SciArt 1798: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25448864) 🧪 📖 🌏

It’s International #OpenAccess week! @biodivlibrary.bsky.social provides open access to biodiversity literature, democratizing access to scientific information! BHL does *not* require a login and you can freely read or download content. #ILoveBHL www.biodiversity.org.

📢 Check out all the BHL presentations at #LivingData2025! Day #2 has an entire session dedicated to Wikimedia and Biodiversity Data, chaired by BHL's fabulous #WikimedianInResidence @tiagolubiana.bsky.social. Details: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:L... #DatosVivos2025 @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social

2/3 of biodiversity data is from birds!!

No love for soils— but let’s change that 🤩
#LivingData2025

BHL Superuser & Wikimedian extraordinaire
@siobhanleachman.bsky.social will share how to extract, add, and enrich biodiversity data from BHL in #Wikidata to empower enrichment and reuse. 📖 👩‍💻 🔗 🦋 #LivingData #DatosVivos2025 #ILoveBHL

“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” Thomas Paine #nokings

Please consider making a donation to @biodivlibrary.bsky.social today! If you have the capacity, consider a legacy gift, contact me for more information. #ILoveBHL

Sustainability During Instability: Long-Lived Life Science Databases and Science Funding Outlook in the United States For decades, life science researchers have had cost-free, unrestricted access to data through online databases. However, the sustainability of even well-established resources was already tenuous, and ...

This article captures the critical need for deliberate, coordinated support of scientific databases such as #BHL @biodivlibrary.bsky.social. Scientific information must be recognized as core infrastructure, not a peripheral project. 🧪
Article: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Drawing of bats from 1870 from the Biodiversity Heritage Library collections. There are three large bats in the foreground, hanging upside down and then several smaller bats in background. Drawings are in black. Bat in the middle has wings cutely closely around his body, the top bat is sort of climging a branch, and bottom most bat looks like he's scratching an itch.

It's Bat Appreciation Month! To celebrate, I'm gonna try to share a bat a day. I'm three days late, but better late than never. Plus, I appreciate bats 24/7, 365. First up, here's a great image of bats from the Biodiversity Heritage Library which is currently directed by @treiceratops.bsky.social!

This is an excellent offer for anybody waffling! about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
#ILoveBHL

BHL Transition Update #4: Welcoming CLIR as BHL’s New Fiscal Sponsor We’re thrilled to share some exciting news: 🎉 The Biodiversity Heritage Library has a new fiscal sponsor – the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)! This is a major step forward in s…

📢 Big news! BHL has a new fiscal sponsor – @clirnews.bsky.social 🎉 This marks a major step forward in BHL’s transition to a more sustainable, community-led future.
🌍 Read all about what this means for BHL: 🔗 blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/08/tran... #ILoveBHL

Seeds for the Future: Closing Thoughts from BHL’s Wikimedian-in-Residence In November 2024, I embarked on a dream job as the Wikimedian-in-Residence at the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), aiming to enrich Wikimedia’s platforms with BHL’s incredible biodiversity coll…

New on the #BHLblog: "Seeds for the Future" by @tiagolubiana.bsky.social. Tiago has done incredible work connecting BHL with the #Wikimedia ecosystem – building tools, enriching metadata & dramatically increasing the visibility of BHL’s image collections: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/07/seed...

Clocked! Jinkx knows what time it is! ⏰

After we upload historic journals onto BHL, we gather & upload the data for the articles in each volume. This can be time consuming, but it's critical to article discoverability (& to our retrospective assignment of DOIs). We've surfaced 419,456 articles thus far! Many thx to @rdmpage.bsky.social.

In 1758 Carl Linnaeus gave the world's largest cat its 1st scientific name: Felis tigris (he used the genus Felis for all cats). In 1929, Reginald Innes Pocock subordinated the tiger under the genus Panthera. #GlobalTigerDay #InternationalTigerDay www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726936

The #BHLTransition is underway! ⛵ We’re charting the course to a strong and sustainable future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Read our latest update and, if you have visionary ideas about how BHL can evolve and grow, get in touch 🚀: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/07/tran...

BHL Traffic Challenges In the past several weeks, we’ve seen a large, disruptive increase in traffic to the BHL main website. This blog post is meant to summarize the event, the effect on BHL and its servers, our r…

In the latest BHL blog post, Technical Coordinator Joel Richard provides insight into recent challenges related to bot traffic and the steps being taken to address them, highlighting a growing challenge for cultural heritage sites. 🧪

If something feels off about someone - in your gut, your body or your intuition, step back, no matter how much you care about them, no matter what they say, no matter what you want or hope for. Press the pause button. Step back. Listen inside.

Thank you @trevorabranch.bsky.social thanks for the shout out!! I and @nicolekearney.bsky.social are ready and able to have these conversations! 🧪

Happy #WorldMeerkatDay! This special day was founded by Australia's Taronga Western Plains Zoo on July 3, 2018. It is now celebrated across the globe! www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31064692

This single effort has made it easier to find and download biology articles and books from the 1700s and 1800s than from the 1900s... (many of the latter are still under copyright)

The animal kingdom, arranged according to its organization, serving as a foundation for the natural history of animals: London: G. Henderson, 1834-1837. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28028027

The animal kingdom, arranged according to its organization, serving as a foundation for the natural history of animals: London: G. Henderson, 1834-1837. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28028027) #nature #illustration #art