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New on the Blog: Martin R. Kalfatovic Martin Kalfatovic and colleagues share the amazing contributions and fond memories of working with William Ulate, former BHL Technical Director. ➡️ s.si.edu/3TsmWtz

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Our latest bi-annual newsletter is now available! From flora and fauna in New Zealand to new Affiliates in Belgium and the United States, don’t miss the latest news from #BHLib ! ➡️ conta.cc/3QOdEWo

🗨️'... #scientific #data are not copyrightable and, furthermore, they can be accessed, shared and reused freely.'
- reads a policy brief: doi.org/10.3897/rio.9.… by CETAF, SPNHC & BHL that proposes common & best-practice guidelines for scientific #publications .

New on the blog: 'BHL Adds Dumbarton Oaks and Meise Botanic Garden as New Affiliates' ➡️ s.si.edu/46QxQ0J

New on the blog: 'Illuminating BHL’s Dark Data: Citizen Scientists and AI Unlock Key Biodiversity Data in GBIF' ➡️ s.si.edu/478QFMI

Thanks The Penn Libraries for highlighting BHL during Open Access Week library.upenn.edu/news/biodivers…

🌟Such a wonderful and heartfelt keynote by Terrell L. Strayhorn, PhD at the Diversity and Inclusion Symposium William & Mary #Ibelonghere

Martin R. Kalfatovic BHL MO Botanical Garden TDWG William Ulate Ely Wallis matthew person Dr Adrian Smales We were so deeply saddened to hear this news. @Wulate was such a warm, welcoming and beloved member of the biodiversity community. He will be sorely missed.

Mary Sauer-Games from OCLC gives a shoutout to BHL as part of the open access collections represented in WorldCat at IFLA #WLIC2023

A wonderful tribute to David Remsen from Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) and the amazing work he did for bioinformatics, including BHL & Smithsonian Libraries and Archives 'Index Animalium' project
mbl.edu/news/david-rem…

'Extending Biodiversity Collections: Engaging an inclusive biodiversity science community through research, education and workforce training' by Dr. Anna Monfils / talking about the lep Oarisma poweshiek / BHL has good data biodiversitylibrary.org/name/Oarisma_p… #SPNHC2023

Where and how did butterflies originate? 🦋@ccny_science Prof David Lohman has the answer, thanks to an extraordinary global research collaboration just published in NatureEcoEvo: ccny.cuny.edu/news/butterfly…

Another demonstration of our seeming inability to support basic infrastructure, see also discussion on GBIF @ecoevo.social/@gbif forum “Scratchpads scratched?” discourse.gbif.org/t/scratchpads-… If major museums like Natural History Museum Natural History Museum Science can’t support long term things, who can?

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Martin R. Kalfatovic Kew Science BHL Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Thanks Martin - it was great to be part of your BHL meeting in Paris.
Abstract, slidedeck & design process for talk all on github at: github.com/echinopscis/bh…
Check out the #obsidian toolkit from echinopscis.github.io & remember: #eTaxonomy lives on as #OpenScience !