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Biodiversity Heritage Library@biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 4w ago

Last year, the BHL community helped us take flight into a new independent future. Now we need reliable monthly support to sustain the people, systems & infrastructure that keep BHL’s 64+ million pages freely available to everyone. 🧪 Become a #BHLSustainer 🔗 ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLSust...

If we'd had the #TARDIS 🔑, @treiceratops.bsky.social & I would have gone back in time to secure/invest $$$ for BHL's future. Sadly we didn't, so we're still reliant on donations/grants to keep BHL going. 🧪 Donate now: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLat20 @biodivlibrary.bsky.social #DrWho #London

This #BiodiversityDay, BHL needs your help. Since transitioning from the Smithsonian, we are reliant on public donations to keep BHL's 64 million pages freely accessible and discoverable online. 🧪 🌱 🌏 Please consider a one-time or recurring donation: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLat20

Support Biodiversity Knowledge Worldwide

This International Day for Biological Diversity, support open biodiversity knowledge for global impact. BHL connects the world with the literature that supports research, conservation, and discovery. ...

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Biodiversity Heritage Library@biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This #BiodiversityDay, support open biodiversity knowledge for global impact 🌱 🔗 🌏 🧪 Please consider supporting the people, infrastructure & partnerships that connect locally digitized biodiversity literature with a global audience. Donate: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLat20 #BHLat20 #ILoveBHL

Exploring 218,567 pages of @bhl-au.bsky.social content using a "gilbert" curve. Just some of the content added by @nicolekearney.bsky.social and her team, HT to @cajunjoel.bsky.social for putting @biodivlibrary.bsky.social images on AWS which made this visualisation possible.

Day #2 in London: morning at the V&A, afternoon at the #ChelseaPhysicsGarden (London’s oldest botanic garden – 350 years this year!). Gradually gathered BHL folks (and #iNaturalist observations) throughout the day. Dinner at a gastro pub bursting with #LondonMarathon runners.

Day #1 in London: making the most of the glorious spring weather to contribute to both the #CityNatureChallenge and our #BHLAnnualMeeting / #BHLDay2026 #iNaturalist project: www.inaturalist.org/projects/202... #RichmondPark 🦌🐿️🐞🦆🐝🦟🕸️🐌🪿

New on the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social forum "Bizarre Beasts": forum.biodiversitylibrary.org/t/project-sp... post by @nicolekearney.bsky.social

Project Spotlight: Bizarre Beasts video series

We love seeing how BHL content is being used, and this is a particularly delightful example (brought to my attention by our BHL colleagues at Harvard University Botany Libraries). Bizarre Beasts is a...

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My favourite question to ask librarians and archivists is: "What is your favourite item in your collection?" This week I turned that question into an entire blog series. 🎈 What better way to celebrate BHL's 20th birthday? 🎊 Check it out: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/bhlat20

Biodiversity Heritage Library@biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is turning 20! 🎉 We’re starting celebrations with a special anniversary blog series #BHLat20: Treasures from BHL, featuring remarkable works chosen by the people who know them best: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/03/cele... #ILoveBHL

BEST NEWS EVER: This spectacularly beautiful creature has not been extinct for 6,000 years; it’s been clinging on in the rainforest of remote West Papua. The world has more Striped Possums than we thought! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is what has kept me up at night (and completely abuzz) over the past 10 months. And now I can sleep. 🐝

Biodiversity Heritage Library@biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 6mo ago

All BHL staff have been secured! 🧪 As we enter our next chapter, the team who steward BHL’s collections & infrastructure remain in place, led by Colleen Funkhouser in her new role of Managing Director. Meet the team guiding BHL forward: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/celebrating-bhl-team.html

Hi - at UNEP-WCMC. Our own historical work was digitised onto the Biodiversity Heritage Library. We don't have a physical library any more.

We're counting down the hours. Please help if you can. 🧪

BHL Australia@bhl-au.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🌿 On 1 Jan, @biodivlibrary.bsky.social becomes fully independent & global after 19 years hosted by the Smithsonian. BHL Australia is proud to be part of this effort. Donate to our #GiveBHLWings campaign to help BHL soar into the future: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/GiveBHL... #BHLTransition 🧪🌱

Day #5 in Tanzania: today I travelled from Zanzibar’s southern tip to its west, where I’ll be departing for Chumbe Island, an IUCN listed nature reserve & #GlobalBiodiversityHotspot known for its ecological innovation & exceptional coral reefs. Meanwhile, here are some dolphin pics from yesterday.

Day #3 in Tanzania: Kizimkazi, a secluded beach on the southern coast of Zanzibar. #HomewardBound #iNaturalist

Day #2 in Tanzania: The beautiful UNESCO & IUCN listed Jozani Forest (the only national park in Zanzibar): monkeys & elephant shrews #HomewardBound @inaturalist.bsky.social

Day #1 in Tanzania in the lead up to the 2025 #HomewardBound Leadership Summit. Zanzibar: ocean, islands, boats, Stone Town, markets, spices, cats & the first observations for our HB #iNaturalist project: www.inaturalist.org/projects/hom...

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has donated to BHL’s Fundraising Campaign so far! 💚 Your generosity will help us build an independent, sustainable future for open biodiversity knowledge. 🌿 📖 🌏 🧪 Every gift helps: 🔗 ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDona... #ILoveBHL #OpenAccess

Donate to the Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open-access digital library of biodiversity literature and archives. BHL's future depends on the generosity of its global community. Your...

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All ready for my 2am meeting with the BHL global consortium on this #Halloween Eve. We were instructed to dress for the holiday, so I’ll be sporting my glow-in-the-dark owl t-shirt & red-back spider earrings. #BHLib

📣 Calling all biodiversity institutions! Meise Botanic Garden is supporting the continuation of BHL by auditing/cancelling non-Open Access journal subscriptions & diverting all saved funds to BHL. Patricia Mergen encourages other institutions to do the same 🧪 🌱🌎 #LivingData2025 #OpenAccess #ILoveBHL

Ben Scott @nhm-london.bsky.social shares how his team has extracted trait data from species descriptions on BHL. Result? 706,842 trait terms & the largest trait database in the world. BHL = the foundation of our understanding of biodiversity. #LivingData2025 @biodivlibrary.bsky.social

Trait data is crucial to our understand of biodiversity & informing how species respond to climate change. So much of this essential data is in BHL, captured in species descriptions in the literature. Says Ben Scott @nhm-london.bsky.social at #LivingData2025 @biodivlibrary.bsky.social #ILoveBHL 🌱🧪🌿

But, you can use birds as a vehicle to collect/identify “ugly” species. Rudolf Meier shares an example from Singapore, where 1500 lice were collected from 54 roadkill birds, resulting in the discovery of 50 new lice species. #LivingData2025 #EmbraceTheUgly

Nicole Kearney@nicolekearney.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Rudolf Meier paraphrases a post from @rdmpage.bsky.social : as ~ 2/3 of the records in GBIF are birds, @gbif.org is primarily a Global Bird Information Facility. To correct this bias, we need to focus on the “ugly” biodiversity. 🪰 🪱 🪳 🦟 @mfnberlin.bsky.social #LivingData2025 x.com/rdmpage/stat...

The solution to our biodiversity knowledge bias? Rudolf Meier shares @mfnberlin.bsky.social’s Biodiversity Knowledge Factory, which uses robotic specimen handling and imaging, and artificial intelligence for data extraction to describe “ugly” species at scale. 🪰 🪱 🪳 🦟 #LivingData2025

Nicole Kearney@nicolekearney.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Rudolf Meier paraphrases a post from @rdmpage.bsky.social : as ~ 2/3 of the records in GBIF are birds, @gbif.org is primarily a Global Bird Information Facility. To correct this bias, we need to focus on the “ugly” biodiversity. 🪰 🪱 🪳 🦟 @mfnberlin.bsky.social #LivingData2025 x.com/rdmpage/stat...

Rudolf Meier paraphrases a post from @rdmpage.bsky.social : as ~ 2/3 of the records in GBIF are birds, @gbif.org is primarily a Global Bird Information Facility. To correct this bias, we need to focus on the “ugly” biodiversity. 🪰 🪱 🪳 🦟 @mfnberlin.bsky.social #LivingData2025 x.com/rdmpage/stat...

The wonderful speakers from @tiagolubiana.bsky.social’s #Wikimedia & #BiodiversityData session at #LivingData2025 (we also had the fabulous @siobhanleachman.bsky.social online). 🧪🔗🌎👩🏼‍💻 @rdmpage.bsky.social @svmering.bsky.social @biodivlibrary.bsky.social @wikimediafoundation.org

Most scientists are not great at communicating their science, says Dean Pentcheff #LivingData2025. #ScienceCommunication is effective when we use narratives. Tell your story. Then you’ll get into people’s hearts. #JaneGoodall

Lauren Oakes shares how Adventure Scientists gathers data to address critical environmental challenges, such as amassing the largest and most diverse global microplastic pollution datasets & using #TreeTracking to prevent illegal logging. Find out more: www.adventurescientists.org #LivingData2025 🧪

Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social shouts out the crucial work of BHL’s Persistent Identifier Working Group (Team #RetroPIDs), who’ve retrospectively assigned 50,000+ DOIs to historic journal articles, which have been cited 74,446 times, giving BHL an H-index of 79. #LivingData2025 @crossref.bsky.social

Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social spoke today at #LivingData2025 about journals that disappear from the web. To learn more about his example: the hijacking and fraudulent DOI Assignment of The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, see our BHL blogpost: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2022/10/jour...

The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera: A Story of Pirate Publishers, ISSN Hijacking and Fraudulent DOI Assignment

In 2017, The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera published its final issue. The journal’s website was turned off and, to ensure ongoing access to the biodiversity knowledge contained within its …

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Britt Andermann talks about the importance of archival materials (field notes, journals, registers, and excursion reports) as critical sources of biodiversity data, and shares a process for extracting this data and making it accessible & discoverable @gbif.org. #LivingData2025 🧪📚