This week I got to attend a great event in Switzerland, as a finalist for the Frontiers Planet prize. This prize recognizes research in planetary boundaries, awarding three prizes of ~1million €. It's been a great experience, but stained by gender inequality:

Today at #Wikimania at 3.30pm in Dilijan Room 3 I & Sabine von Mering will be presenting on the Women Genera project! wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/talk/VBSB…

A ton of amazing people make Wikidata happen every single day. Some of us met at #Wikimania last week. #wikilove

Do you want to build applications with #Wikidata's data? We have a shiny new developer portal for you to get you started with information, inspiration and more: wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:…

This was SUCH an amazing project. Congratulations to Anton Savchenko for both the project and the poster.

#Wikidata folk may also be interested in this piece of work.

My colleague Joaquim Santos ❁ created a #Zenodo community for our #IBC2024 work - posters, workshop slides, scripts, "how to's" and our subsequent presentations on the our #Wikidata IBC project efforts. See zenodo.org/communities/ib…

Last week, I spent 5 days at the NHM, London, IDing deep sea fish and generally gawping at ichthyological oddities. I must confess, though, that I had an ulterior motive. In this thread I'm going tell you the whole story and show you the single coolest fish I've ever found! 1/

Last week BHL Australia traveled to Moe to speak to the Latrobe Valley Naturalists about our PRO Victoria funded project to make their publications freely available on BHL. They were amazed to see their contribution to biodiversity knowledge so discoverable & interlinked online.

As a follow up on this, Meredith Wadman just wrote a great piece in Science Magazine about gender inequity in the Frontiers Planet Prize science.org/content/articl…

It me! Please come. I have at least three good facts about Elizabeth Blackwell and a lovely book to show off. Put me on in the background while you’re doing something else.

👋Und schon wieder ist Alexander-von-Humboldt-Tag! Thema: "Europäische Reisen – Karibische Konvivenz", 12.09.2024, um 17 Uhr im Einstein-Saal des Akademiengebäudes der BBAW 📝Anmelden und kommen, es wird ein toller Abend! avhumboldt.de/?p=21513

Lovely to hear from Alison Vaughan about the work, contribution & legacy of Eileen Ramsey, who collected over 1000 species in Australia’s mallee, creating the most complete mallee collection in existence at the time (1950s). RBG Victoria #TDWG2024 #SPNHC2024

I love that Dad (invisible inside the ship) and the RV Tangaroa appears in a presentation I helped co-author. #tdwg2024

Look forward to checking out this tool! Bionomia

It's been a great #IBC2024 conference and Nomenclature Section. I enjoyed #Madrid and of course all exchange with amazing colleagues from around the world. Report out now in #TAXON ⤵️

So happy with the announcement that Dr. Lúcia G. Lohmann has been appointed as the ⁦Missouri⁩ Botanical Garden president! ¡Muy feliz con esta noticia, felicitaciones ⁦⁦Lucia Lohmann⁩! audacy.com/kmox/news/loca…

Deployed! Also added some enhancements to this new feature to make it more useful. Look for this under "Bulk Attributions" / "Semi-automated" Siobhan Sabine von Mering

Alistando materiales para nuestro curso tercer curso de ‘Flora altoandina’ con nora oleas en la Universidad Indoamérica, Quito. 🏔️ 🌺🇪🇨🤝

A refresh to data from Observation.org has pushed the #GBIF index past #3billion records! With <100 million records, this 🇳🇱-based NGO is also a formal #GBIF Participant, whose massive #CitizenScience contribution often goes overlooked—hartelijk gefeliciteerd! gbif.org