🆕Several #FAIR -aligned #scientific name-matching services across #Environmental Research Infrastructures tested using various name variations.

👉Case study: doi.org/10.3897/rio.10… by Sharif Islam et al.➕post-pub review by Deborah Paul.

#ENVRIFAIR #Taxonomy #FAIR data LifeWatch ERIC

Great Barrier Reef discovery overturns belief Aboriginal Australians did not make pottery, archaeologists say theguardian.com/australia-news…

Delighted to announce that Curatrix, Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE) have received £190k of HEMG funding (over 5 years) from Research England. This will be transformational and allow us to bring our collections to ever increasing audiences and researchers outside of Cambridge University

What happens after a project has data enriched by crowdsourcing and/or machine learning/AI? Does the data end up in a collections management system, or sit on a drive somewhere? Share your experiences with successes and failures in ingesting enriched data

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Pakistan WomenLift Health! Alongside Anita Zaidi Maliha Khan at tonight’s reception! Laughs, love and sisterhood as we champion progress for women, youth and at-risk communities around the world. PAI Women Deliver

When my son was four, we were sent a gift subscription to an educational software package called something like Education City. It has questions which children were meant to answer. I opened it up and showed it to him. He enjoyed numbers and patterns so I opened the maths…

Next month Laurence is turning 90, and he’s expecting publication of his 500th paper!

When he started studying insects known as thrips in 1964, there were about 200 species known from Australia. There are now 1060.

He has collected and described most of these extra 800 species.

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
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⌛ Do not miss the deadline for abstract submissions of this years' #conference . We invite on-site and virtual attendees to submit their idea until April 19! mailchi.mp/tdwg.org/spnhc…

' #COP29 will be absolutely vital for the success of #COP30 because of the importance of #ClimateFinance '

Ana Toni explains what pivotal role Brazil will play for #NDCs ahead of #COP30 during a high-level discussion hosted by WRI: bit.ly/3T620so

To learn how to move, groom itself and flap its wings, a fruit fly AI devoured hours of video of real insects trib.al/rHS938w

.Paul Sokoloff's botanizing in open science: collecting, determining, collaborating, reusing, linking, writing, co-authoring. A++ ambassador Museum of Nature

#dataviz for #QualityAssurance from fosstodon.org/@TaxonWorks/11… Get data quality AND do science when you can 'see' your data. More at #digitaldata and TaxonWorks Together 2024 together.taxonworks.org May 7 - 9

Being inclusive also means remembering not everyone has rhino-thick skin. An article in Times Higher Education buff.ly/3OmMSB3 DeneMullenJourno #PhDchat #PhDForum #ECRchat #postdoc #academicchatter

What is soil fertility and how is it important?💭

Healthy soils sustain life. 🌿🌦️

But land degradation leads to, among other things, the loss of #soil fertility constituting a risk to food security.
— @ipbes #LandDegradation Assessment

📷 @fao #GlobalSoilPartnership

Our newest Zooniverse project is ready for citizen scientist volunteers! By transcribing herbarium specimen labels, volunteers add to biodiversity big data for research. Visit our Zooniverse page to get involved! tinyurl.com/4ary9fbp Department of Plant Sciences University of Cambridge Museums Cambridge Collections Connections Communities

New publication coming out of my collaboration with all these lovely people! McGregor Lab Maike Kittelmann Lauren Sumner-Rooney Dr. Alex Buffry Ravi

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Tips for making your #data lake thrive; #bigdata offers tremendous opportunities to outsmart your competition and obtain insights on your #business . By transforming #bigdata into actionable information, yo

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Fascinating and important thread by Barnett R. Rubin. Well worth reading the entire thread.

First Soltis Lab @UF undergrad researchers poster presentation of the season!