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Matt Buys

@mattbuys.bsky.social

Herbarium curator, collections manager, database manager, botanist, systematist, cyber-taxonomist. All opinions my own. www.linkedin.com/in/matt-buys-0831b06/ | orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-1701-6370

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Matt Buys@mattbuys.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Ellwood et al. (2026) call for national centres to coordinate biocollections in the U.S. In NZ, we may already be there. With the @bioeconomyscience.bsky.social, the question shifts not whether to coordinate, but whether to serve as the backbone of a national collections system. #BioCollections

From Knowledge to Action: Next Steps for the Natural Science Collections Community

Abstract. Following decades of increasing collaboration and organization, the United States natural science collections community is uniting around the cre

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R Afubera Fox @rafuberafox.bsky.social · 6mo ago

#Repost @smithsonian —— The seed of coco de mer was nicknamed “butt nut” because...well...we’ll let you guess why. Today, conservation biologist Gary Krupnick goes behind the scenes at the U.S. National Herbarium in our @SmithsonianNMNH to highlight this endangered species. ⤵️...⤵️

Matt Buys@mattbuys.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Europe’s new EOSC paper shows how open, Linux‑based research infrastructure enables data sovereignty. As NZ launches the @bioeconomyscience.bsky.social, let’s commit now to open-source, sovereign research infrastructure built here, for here. 🌱🧬🧪 #OpenScience #DataSovereignty #Bioeconomy #NZScience

Enhancing data sovereignty for research: Commission publishes new paper

EOSC Steering Board opinion paper on data sovereignty contributes to European efforts to enhance resilience, interoperability, and shared values for global scientific collaboration.

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WA Orchids@wa-orchids.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Research using Australian herbarium specimens shows orchid pollination has fallen 60% since the 1970s. The “declines in pollination are most pronounced in orchids that rely on specialised pollinator interactions” #orchids #nativeplants #pollinator #conservation theconversation.com/preserved-or...

Preserved orchids show pollination has fallen 60% since the 1970s

Orchids aren’t just beautiful or rare – they’re ecological time capsules that offer clues to the long-term health of ecosystems.

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Matt Buys@mattbuys.bsky.social · last yr.

🌿 Using specimen records from @bioeconomyscience.bsky.social's National Forestry Herbarium & others, Santiago-Rosario et al. mapped mistletoe-host interactions. Showy mistletoes show strong preferences for rosid hosts—hinting at ancient co-evolution. #Botany #Ecology #NZFRI #Mistletoe 🧪

Continental‐scale interactions of Australian showy mistletoes and their hosts

Premise Showy mistletoes are obligate hemiparasites of woody plants. Host specificity is therefore a fundamental determinant of mistletoe diversity, persistence, geographic distribution, and abundan.....

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Matt Buys@mattbuys.bsky.social · last yr.

Cheers to Pensoft for incorporating a Bluesky share option. I've just embarked on the Wikidata/ORCID/Bionomia journey as curator and database manager of the #NationalForestryHerbarium @scionresearch.bsky.social. All this to make data #FAIR

The disambiguation of people names in biological collections

Scientific collections have been built by people. For hundreds of years, people have collected, studied, identified, preserved, documented and curated collection specimens. Understanding who those peo...

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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2y ago

1. Infuriatingly, here in the UK, the government still seems to believe that the only way of introducing trees is to plant them (see, for example, the current Land Use Framework consultation). News just in: trees can self-seed, which could be why they've survived for 360m years. 🧵

Eoghan Daltun 🌍@irishrainforest.bsky.social · 2y ago

I took this photo less than 10 years after the deer fence behind was erected. Before it went up, the land behind was just grass, exactly like the foreground where he sheep are. *Nothing* was planted here. "It's not rocket science" is an understatement. 🌍

Nicola Gaston@nicgaston.bsky.social · 2y ago

My science system reforms analysis is here: I wanted to first focus on the difference between the SSAG recommendations and the govt announcement. There’s a lot 😳 but the headline is the lack of govt investment. theconversation.com/if-the-gover...

If the government wants science to have an economic impact it has to put its money where its mouth is

Science sector reforms are long overdue. But questions remain about implementation and whether there will be enough funding to be effective.

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