PhD in CS at Te Herenga Waka, focusing on birds. Open source. Linguist and conlanger. eBird and iNat. SustainOSS and CURIOSS. He/him.
See https://burntfen.com for a list of things I did when I should have been doing other things.
Richard Littauer
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@buttercupfestival.bsky.social I was literally uploading photos of a beetle to iNat when I got today's email.
37 is hitting me a bit hard, too. Glad you made it.
Huh. I just found out I have a Wikipedia page. Well, a Wikispecies page.
species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Richard...
Today I dreamed of burrowing owls, which was my #150th lifer for my dream list.
Today is also the 10 year anniversary of my first list and spark bird, Atlantic Puffin. Preparing for another day of writing for my PhD on birds: I've come a long way since then...
#birding #birds
Jeff (jyoung3131.github.io) and Daniel (www.linkedin.com/in/danielsho...) join Richard (@richlitt.bsky.social) and Eriol (@erioldoesdesign.bsky.social) to discuss academic OSPOs, students learning OSS, and mentorship.
Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/288
We're hosting a forum on AI, FLOSS, and Sustainability.
If you're interested in exploring how AI is impacting FLOSS software and all those who work on it: join us for the next SustainOSS Virtual Forum on Thursday 11 June 2026.
sustainoss.org/events/ai-fl...
Alan Rubin (findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/6680...) joins host Richard (@richlitt.bsky.social) to discuss MaveDB (www.varianteffect.org/mavedb/) and how open source tools advance genetics and cancer research data access.
Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/287
Courtney(courtney-e-miller.github.io) joins host Richard (@richlitt.bsky.social) to explore software abandonment, maintainer burnout, AI tooling, and open source sustainability.
Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/289
I've gotten some really lovely stories about encounters folks have had with other people as a result of displaying merch they got from me, but this immediately jumped to the top of the list of my favorite ones.
Starting to spread the word to @gbif.org and @inaturalist.bsky.social uses that @biodivlibrary.bsky.social BHL has its own fancy looking forum as well: forum.biodiversitylibrary.org
'BHL operates as a worldwide consortium of natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries working together to digitize the natural history literature held in their collections and make it freely available for #openaccess as part of a global " #biodiversity community."'
