"a paper today is a Frankensteined-together patchwork of supplementary files that run longer than the manuscript, datasets in repositories...code posted to GitHub without documentation. The paper has been replaced....by a mess" www.thetransmitter.org/from-bench-t...
AI is pushing scientific publishing to the brink. For neuroscience, the crisis may be an opportunity to finally connect findings across subfields.
www.thetransmitter.org
Richard Sever
š The BMD training portal has been officially launched, and in the last session of the day, we are planning its further development: training.lifewatch.eu/en/categorie...
We hit 200 registrants and had a marvelous first day at TaxonWorks Together. Day 2 starting now!
together.taxonworks.org
TaxonWorks Together 2026 was lovely!
A participant: "...the event was such a positive experience that I missed the group the next day. It was a very welcoming and inspiring space to learn."
This years Award Winners get a "Don't Panic" towel. Help congratulate them!
together.taxonworks.org#Awards
If you love Ruby (we do), and you want to play in the biodiversity informatics sphere, we have something tasty for you! github.com/SpeciesFileG... is a meta wrapper, in part from our new Labs effort. API wrappers for everything in the kitchen sink.
@rubylang.bsky.social #biodiversity #informatics
You're building new #species concepts. You took time to photograph specimens, developed your film, carefully cut the negatives into individual frames, put them in little cardboard frames, laid everything out on a big light table and now you start to move slides around.
That, but digital. And more.
NSCA expresses profound concern about the future of the Academy of Natural Sciences of #Drexel University. The Academy is a globally important natural history #collection & center for #biodiversity #research. #naturalhistory #NSCA nscalliance.org/statement-on...
Biodiversity Meets Data
Fincredible resource, for those interested!
š www.phylopic.org/images
Got a digitised collection that needs OCR? uv-scripts is a set of single-file Python scripts that OCR a whole image dataset to markdown in one command ā 20+ open VLMs to pick from, nothing to install but uv.
github.com/davanstrien/...
