David Shorthouse
@dshorthouse.bsky.social
In order: father, husband, canoeist, biodiversity informatician. Opinions mine and not those of my employer. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7618-5230
WABAKIMI PHOTO DUMP 🧵 Float plane drop off is always exciting, we landed on Wabakimi Lake to begin our trip!
Doc Hammertime@dochammertime.bsky.social · 4w agoHeading to Wabakimi Provincial Park tomorrow! Fly in/out into Wabakimi Lake for a pretty leisurely loop. Counter clockwise loop starting Up the flindt river, east across Brennan Lake, north down the Allan Water River back to Wabakimi Lake
Just published a fun Open Access paper with several great co-authors from across the continent. Swimming caterpillars! 🐛 🏊♀️ 🪳🪲🧪 academic.oup.com/jinsectscien...
Diversity of swimming behavior in larval Lepidoptera
Abstract. Lepidoptera are a highly diverse lineage of predominantly terrestrial insects, yet their larvae occupy diverse habitats where they may experience
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⭐ Celebrating 25 years of GBIF! ⭐ To mark GBIF’s 25th anniversary, a new open access article in the Biodiversity Data Journal provides a comprehensive overview of GBIF’s history, network and infrastructure. 📖 Read the article:🔗https://gbif.link/gbif25paper-news @bdj.pensoft.net @pensoft.net
Tidying up one of two papers to be delivered at @tdwg.org in two symposia sessions. I have some zingers like, "Arguments that the data held in walled garden Collections Management Systems are authoritative is rendered 'quaint' at their best, but shallow and breathless at their worst."
So sorry to hear today that Cedric Gillott (U.Saskatchewan) passed away Saturday. Many will know him from his textbook 'Entomology', but I knew him as my long-time partner in organizing & assembling the Bull. of the Ent. Soc. of Canada, & a fellow craft beer/cider lover. Rest in peace, my friend.
Should @biodivlibrary.bsky.social charge for access? That's the question I ask in forum.biodiversitylibrary.org/t/should-bhl...
Should BHL charge for access?
Given that most people’s reaction to the question “should BHL charge for access?” is likely to be an emphatic NO! let me explain my goal here. I have no formal role in BHL, this post is purely me shoo...
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Heading to Wabakimi Provincial Park tomorrow! Fly in/out into Wabakimi Lake for a pretty leisurely loop. Counter clockwise loop starting Up the flindt river, east across Brennan Lake, north down the Allan Water River back to Wabakimi Lake
🌺 You won't want to miss this one! You're invited to join the GBIF Science Symposium! The theme of the event, “From Open Data to Living Knowledge."🧬 This event is free to join in person at Universitetet i Oslo or through virtual livestream. 🔗 www.gbif.no/events/2... @gbifnorway.bsky.social
I've been revisiting a mapping I created between plant type specimens in @jstor.bsky.social Global Plants website and records in @gbif.org (see my blog post doi.org/10.59350/m59... for details). I've now released a crude website to explore the mappings iphylo.org/jstor-plant-...
Where are the plant type specimens? Mapping JSTOR Global Plants to GBIF
Blog by Rod Page on biodiversity informatics, taxonomy, systematics, phylogeny, knowledge graphs, and other topics.
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Northern Algonquin paddle this Labour Day long weekend.
Off to paddle a remote part of Algonquin Provincial Park this Labour Day weekend to see 250+ year-old black ash, hemlock, and yellow birch. And, to drink from Brain Creek of course.
"Round-tripping of natural history data might help preserve institutional memory... so knowledge endures beyond individual careers." - David Shorthouse, guest editor of the collection. 🗓𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟏 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 Read more about this new BDJ collection on curation, #AI & collections data 👇
New collection: Open Digital Curation of Collections-based Biodiversity Data
Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ) launches a new topical collection, titled "Beyond Digitization: Open Digital Curation of Collections-based Biodiversity Data”, aimed at exploring the Open Di...
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We currently have TWO collections-based vacancies at National Museums Scotland! As part of the upcoming DiSSCo UK program, we’re seeking a Digitiser and Senior digitiser to work with our insect collection: careers.nms.ac.uk/vacancies (Apply by 31st August) #Digitisation #Insects #MuseumJobs
Working on this today but am too easily distracted by maps and canoe routes. Assuming I can focus my energies, come join me and the iDigBio community next week as I take a look at what's happened in 6 years of running Bionomia off the side of my desk.
Bionomia@bionomia.net · last mo.From the shore of a remote lake in Algonquin this morning as the sun was burning off the fog, I witnessed a raft of loons in a large circle, each member doing a crazy cartwheel in sequence like teenagers at a skate park, followed by whooping and trilling. It was the most beautiful thing and I wept.
He came to explore Canada's beautiful landscapes and discovered why Canadians are known for being some of the kindest people in the world. ✌️🇨🇦 www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/ar...
A New Zealander boarded a canoe to cross Canada. Then he discovered the nature of its citizens
A New Zealand man said his solo paddling adventure through Canada’s wilderness taught him about the Great White North’s majestic landscapes and the beauty of human nature.
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Completed a 4-day canoe trip with my youngest son, James Macklin and his son to the Biscotasi Provincial Park area in northern Ontario, Canada. We took the last operating Budd train in the world from Sudbury & dropped off alone in the middle of nowhere.
Join the @dissco.bsky.social x #WiNoDa hackathon on machine annotation services (MAS) next October 14-15th and learn how to develop and connect these services directly to DiSSCo. 📖 Info: lnkd.in/dzR3VWAF 📌 Registration (deadline is 31 August 2026): lnkd.in/dih-tGmg @disscoflanders.bsky.social
Are you passionate about #naturalhistory #collections? Apply for our open position for the Herbarium Collections Manager @utkherbarium.bsky.social. We will start evaluating applications on Aug 17, so get your application in now. #Botany2026 #herbarium #jobs
Last month of operations for ww.simplemappr.net. There are now a few solutions to replace most of the functionality. See the bottom of docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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David Shorthouse@dshorthouse.bsky.social · 7mo agoRegrettably, I have decided to decommission SimpleMappr, www.simplemappr.net on September 1, 2026. You may read about its origins, what others have accomplished in its 18 year run, and the reasons why I must turn it off in a document I wrote last night bit.ly/simplemappr.
Two jobs at @thebotanics.bsky.social (RBGE) - National Project Manager Scotland & National Data Manager Scotland - join us in delivering @dissco.bsky.social in the UK www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/job...
Vacancies | Working Here | What We Do
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A old-timer's concern about science as a chronic social medium, leading to the advice to spend time alone with nature and ideas. waynemaddison.wordpress.com/2026/07/25/s...
Science like no one is watching
I grew up largely unwatched. As children, David and I would go out and play unsupervised, free-range. We would go down to the ravine to explore nature. It was fun, but more than that, I think it wa…
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PyMapper github.com/CalebHendren... by Caleb Hendren is desktop-capable & "...essentially a remake of SimpleMappr in Python." 😍
GitHub - CalebHendren/PyMappr
Contribute to CalebHendren/PyMappr development by creating an account on GitHub.
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I’m back home in Detroit after a surreal couple weeks in Northern Ontario. The wildfires in and around Armstrong, Wabakimi Provincial Park devastated First Nations communities and outfitters. For the time being Armstrong itself seems to be spared.
Getting giggly about my next paddling adventure with my son. The Budd train to the headwaters of the Spanish River! There's something romantic about stopping the train on a remote lake, unloading, then watching it recede while you contemplate your life choices 🛶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzti...
Immersive railway POV through Canadian Shield in 4K | TRIPPING Train 185 (2023) | TVO Original
YouTube video by TVO Docs
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Are you our next GBIF Executive Secretary? One week left to apply for this incredible position! ⭐ We're seeking a visionary leader with demonstrated experience in biodiversity science, international collaboration and organizational management. 🌱 🔗gbif.link/Executive-... Deadline: 24 July
Join the #TaxonWorks conversation & explore their software & community. Loosely focused on three themes, #research, #collections, and getting started, there will be lots of opportunities for conversation. #iDigBio events.zoom.us/ev/AjGnrAbjA...
Talking with TaxonWorks: Connecting Collections and Research
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