🆕In a new guest blog post, @cabbageleek takes a look at the potential of AI & #machinelearning "to democratise" #biological collections. 🖊️The guest post is a follow-up of a forum paper recently published in BDJournal. #Biodiversity #BiCIKL_H2020 blog.pensoft.net/2023/12/01/a-n…

Interested in how the AI team Science at the Natural History Museum is organising data into a planetary knowledge base - check out the #reinvent2023 talk I gave with Sam Bydlon of AWS last week, building on GBIF @biodiversity.social/@gbif and Digitising the NHM - youtu.be/UFtgaDwEefo?si…

Contribute to this important step oft #standard development! #collecton #description #biodiversity

iBOL's Scientific Director, Paul Hebert & the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG) #Innovation unit team have demonstrated that 100,000 #DNAbarcodes can be sequenced in a single Oxford Nanopore run at high accuracy and low cost. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congrats to our Curator of Diptera & Aquatic Insects Torsten Dikow on this new role! 🎉

Absolutely *loved* taking part in NHM Explorers Programme's "Build A Museum" today, talking maths + natural sciences. Thank you to the brilliant Nuz. | নুজহাত (She/Her) for everything, the awesome folks who voted #TeamMaths, and the wonderful @sarumahdi for this woosh selfie w. lego kakapo.😍

Fantastic opportunity for a new project manager at Science at the Natural History Museum, joining the DiSSCo UK team - careers.nhm.ac.uk/templates/CIPH…

Since January 2023, scientist have contributed a fantastic 722 new research papers to science on topics from human health to extinction. Find out more about how we are creating solutions from and for nature with our scientific work in our latest article nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…

Open access research outputs receive more diverse citations. Huang, CK. et al. Scientometrics (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s11192…

This looks like a really interesting thesis. Given the difficulties in modelling the nomenclatural rules and dealing with imperfect data, I wonder if there is an appetite to make nomenclature more computable. theses.hal.science/THESES-SU/tel-…

OPPORTUNITY: We're seeking proposals for a systematic review of scientific literature published between 2020 and 2024 that relies on data from the GBIF network—a fixed-term assignment analysing patterns and trends in use of GBIF-enabled research. Details: gbif.org/news/4NBqq6Ifj…

The digitisation of butterflies and other historic specimens Natural History Museum could help scientists prevent future pandemics and support biodiversity 🦋 Our £473 million investment into research will allow our brightest minds to thrive & build a more prosperous UK 🇬🇧

None other than Science Magazine tells of the great achievement of DiSSCo UK and highlights the truly global relevance of our efforts at DiSSCo to drive mass-scale digitisation of our natural collections and make them available for all. #biodiversity 👉 science.org/content/articl…

A very useful paper by @MegBalk with Hilmar Lapp and colleagues we start to work up the image infrastructure needs for dissco-uk.org - see besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Sir Patrick Vallance KCB has been appointed Minister of State (Minister for Science) in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

Two amazing job opportunities Science at the Natural History Museum to help deliver our research and collections strategy: nature.com/naturecareers/… and nature.com/naturecareers/…

Very sad indeed. Stephen also did a lot of work on Wikispecies which in turn has feed into Wikidata. He had strong opinions on many things, which he shared in numerous interesting - often lengthy - debates on TAXACOM. He will indeed be missed.

Just 112 records to go before DiSSCo UK reaches the 14 million records mark! dissco-uk.org

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Last chance to snag an amazing job working in @NHM_science and the wider natural science collections community, as DiSSCo UK Technical Project Lead. Applications close Mon 20th Jan: jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…