iDigBio is coordinating a national effort to digitize biodiversity specimens and make them available online, funded by @NSF grants to @UF, @floridastate, @ASU.
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Block your calendars! #WeDigBio April 10-13 2025 is just over three weeks away! Mobilize 1000's of biodiversity data records! Register Event, Tour, or Campaign wedigbio.org/content/registe… #communityscience, #scistarter, #ScienceForEveryone #OpenScienceForAll #EveryoneCanDoScience
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Digitization of ‘breathtaking’ neuroanatomy slide collection offers untapped research gold mine thetransmitter.org/evolution…
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Did you know some sea anemones can swim? 🌊Meet Boloceroides mcmurrichi, one of the few anemone species that can detach from its substrate & swim away when threatened! 🏊♀️ Check out this stunning shot of its retracted tentacles & watch it glide through the water in the video.
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🤩 Community #scientists brought together by @FieldMuseum processed over 300,000 #scientific #specimens, records & objects to make valuable #data to accessible to #researchers worldwide.👏
👉More about the latest paper in our #journal on @Pensoft's blog: blog.pensoft.net/2024/12/19/…
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Thank you to all who participated in transcribing this set of fringetrees & relatives! 2,827 transcriptions!
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Discover the paleontological record with our brand-new app. Available on Google Play:
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@PaleoSoc @ThePalaeoverse @ThePalAss @PaleontologiaM @TransmitScience @PaleoDB @MorphoSource @opentreeoflife @iDigBio @DiSSCoPrepare @PhyloPic
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Most sea urchin genetic research focuses on globe-shaped species, but thanks to Matthew Stephenson in the Greg Rouse lab @Scripps_Ocean, we have the 1st mitochondrial genome for an “irregular” species, Echinocrepis rostrata, the pyramid-shaped urchin! 🔗doi.org/10.1080/23802359.202…
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Led by @francoandreone, @shelleyajames, @li_shuqiang & @idbdeb, the Natural History Collections and Museomics journal: @NHCMjournal published its inaugural editorial!
The #DiamondOpenAccess launched on our #scholarlypublishing platform earlier this year.
blog.pensoft.net/2024/11/29/…
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🚨 Red alert! 🔴 The recent update to the @IUCN #RedList includes 10k new assessments, of which 1.3k cited GBIF mediated-data. The taxa breakdown for GBIF-cited listings is as follows:
🌱 122 vascular plants
🐦 69 birds
🍄 12 fungi
🐀 2 mammals.
🔗spkl.io/6001fVLmR
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Museomics: Why natural history museum collections are essential for understanding biodiversity - @SandyKnapp NHM and Charles C Davis @HarvardHerbaria nature.com/articles/s41576-0…
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Recently, @sbnature finished cataloging their Bryozoa collection—one of the world's largest! 🌎 They digitized 20K lots, including over 1K type specimens. Many are mounted on glass histology slides for SEM, requiring specialized curation techniques. researchgate.net/publication…
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Thank you to all who participated in transcribing this set of heliotropes & relatives!
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Come and say hi to our @iDigBio booth at #ESA2024. Thanks to Dr. Jennifer Girón (@ColeopSoc) for stopping by! #Collections #Digitization #Symbiota
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The final listening session was held on August 26th with a focus on Biodiversity Informatics. Led by @O_Fish_Man, @DLContreras, Mike Webster, and Cameron Pittman in collaboration with Tim Robertson (@GBIF), Sharif Islam (@DiSSCoEU), and Jose Fortes (@iDigBio). 1/
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#Herbarium specimens reveal links between leaf shape of Capsella bursa-pastoris & climate
New #AJB research by Asia Hightower, Daniel Chitwood & Emily Josephs
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16435 #botany #evolution @wileyplantsci @WileyEcolEvol
ALT An image of 16 Capsella bursa-pastoris leaves. The leaves are arranged in four rows of four leaves. Each leaf shows a different lobing pattern to emphasize the variation in lobing found between Capsella bursa-pastoris leaves. Each leaf is colored blue and stands against a white background. On the top of each leaf, the tip is highlighted in pink. The bottom of the leaf has the base of the leaf highlighted by an orange dot.
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🦋 Instead of your #Collection records collecting dust, 💨 learn how to make your data findable through #GrSciColl!
See our #GBIFDataBlog post to learn how to upload collection descriptors (metadata about a collection).
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Curious how digitisation helps unlock collections data? Check out this recent paper written by museum scientists (and lots of digitisers in particular 😉).
frontiersin.org/journals/eco…
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Natural history #collections are more important than ever. We can't understand #biodiversity without them
natureconservation.pensoft.n…
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Today was the last day of "Introduction of Biodiversity Specimens Digitalization" course organized by @iDigBio. It is very useful and important to learn about digitalization collections - including basis of project management, georeferencing, photography, etc. I recommend