Expat Kiwi, Professor of Taxonomy at Glasgow University, inclined to say that something sucks at every available opportunity. Biodiversity informatics, phylogeny, knowledge graphs. I also run the @evoldir.bsky.social bot.
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Hotel room - 1931
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Ever wondered what a hackathon is? I wrote this to accompany our paper on data- and code- sharing where all the data came from a hackathon... methodsblog.com/2026/04/09/t...
Paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
God save me from library metadata shirky.com/essays/ontol...
My favourite quote: "My mother, who was a reference librarian, said she wanted to reshelve the entire University library by color, because students would come in and say “I’m looking for a sociology book. It’s green…"
In our new guest post, Damian Mandzunowski describes how COVID-19 restrictions shifted his historical research to visual sources and lead to the creation of "Reading in China Photographed," a WordPress repository of 385 tagged historical photographs.
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Want to do a Masters by Research at the University of Bristol? If you're interested in phylogenetics, morphology, macroevolution or vertebrate palaeobiology, please get in touch!
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• International: 30th June
• Home: 31st July
Excited to announce a 4-year PhD position at @niooknaw.bsky.social investigating the island biogeography of plant-associated fungi in the giant daisy radiation on the Galapagos. Please apply, share, and reach out with any questions! vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Wagening...
Was thinking about posts made by @rude1.blacksky.team & @zeu.dev this weekend and been thinking about the Atmosphere needing a logo.
While I don't pretend to speak for the entire community, wanted to throw my 2 cents that we should seriously consider adopting a "spherical" logo for the AtmoSPHERE.
My new favourite interactive map: The Midge Map
www.smidgeup.com/midge-foreca...
It was great working on this with AWS aws.amazon.com/blogs/public.... I’ll be speaking a bit about it at FORCE 2026 this week. #force2026.
Post provided by Natalie Cooper, MEE Senior Editor In September 2025 we ran a hackathon to collect data for a paper on data- and code-sharing across the BES journals. After the event, we thought it…
The Scottish Midge Forecast uses data from biting midge traps and mini-weather stations across Scotland to give you a view of midge levels in Scotland.
Based on two talks I gave in the spring of 2005—one entitled "Ontology Is Overrated", and one entitled "Folksonomies & Tags: The rise of user-developed classification."
Learn how BMJ Group has developed an AI-powered editorial assistant designed to help journal editors screen submitted research manuscripts to make better decisions about which papers to send for furth...
