Nice mention of #Wikidata and the paper I & co-authors @svmering.bsky.social @joaquimsantos1978.bsky.social and Heidi Meudt wrote in this blog "Three Tools That Bring Digital Botany Within Reach" www.botany.one/three-tools-...

Three Tools That Bring Digital Botany Within Reach

Millions of herbarium specimens are now only a click away. But how do botanists find the right records, sort the right images and train better AI tools? Three digital botany tools are helping turn onl...

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Just received a lovely email from the journal #AnnalsOfBotany to say our article "Wikidata for botanists: benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data" is amongst the most-read of their recent articles. I'm quite proud of this! doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #Wikidata #Botany

Wikidata for botanists: benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data

AbstractBackground. Wikidata is a multilingual linked open knowledge base to which anyone can contribute that contains multitudes of botany-related informa

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#open #digitalcuration if you're a human immersed in #biodiversity #data across collection, observation, research, outreach, vouchering, to #software and #standards development - please bring your @abtagenda.bsky.social style stories to our #TDWG2026 symposium!

Sabine von Mering@svmering.bsky.social · 4mo ago

💡 Please consider submitting an abstract to our session "Responsible AI, Open Digital Curation, and Round-Tripping for Biodiversity Data" at the Biodiversity Information Standards @tdwg.org conference in Oslo in Sept. Co-organised with @siobhanleachman.bsky.social & @debpaul.bsky.social #TDWG2026

WOMNH seminar! 6 May, 15:00–16:00 (CET) 'Everywhere and Nowhere: Women in the Making of Natural History' Luisa Kapp. Please contact Laurence Talairach for link: laurence.talairach@univ-tlse2.fr womnh.hypotheses.org/events Please circulate. Abstract below.

💡 Please consider submitting an abstract to our session "Responsible AI, Open Digital Curation, and Round-Tripping for Biodiversity Data" at the Biodiversity Information Standards @tdwg.org conference in Oslo in Sept. Co-organised with @siobhanleachman.bsky.social & @debpaul.bsky.social #TDWG2026

Siobhan Leachman@siobhanleachman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I am a co-organiser (with Debbie Paul & Sabine von Mering) of a session www.tdwg.org/conferences/... at the upcoming Biodiversity Information Standards (#TDWG) 2026 conference to be held in Oslo from 21 to 25 September. For information on submitting an abstract see www.tdwg.org/conferences/...

Lovely to be able to talk to @biodivlibrary.bsky.social colleagues this week about our Natural History Humanities research initiative, including all things insect humanities. #EntHist

Learn more about the "The women honoured in flowering plant genera" project by @svmering.bsky.social, @sandyknapp.bsky.social, @siobhanleachman.bsky.social, Heather L. Lindon, Qianqian Gu, Sarah Vincent, and Carmen Ulloa Ulloa: doi.org/10.1002/ppp3... #BHLDay2026 #WomenInScience #HerNaturalHistory

The women honoured in flowering plant genera: From myth to reality

Many flowering plant genera are named for people, but there is a gender gap in this naming, with only 6% of eponyms honouring women. Here we explore this gap by examining in detail women for whom pla...

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@siobhanleachman.bsky.social (@wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social) and @svmering.bsky.social (@mfnberlin.bsky.social) share the vital role BHL played in their groundbreaking project surfacing the work of #WomenInScience who have had been honoured in the genera names of flowering plants. #BHLDay2026 🧪 📖 🌱

Many flowering plant genera names honour women, but who were they? At #BHLDay2026, @siobhanleachman.bsky.social and @svmering.bsky.social explore how BHL and #LinkedOpenData are uncovering and reconnecting women to the scientific record. Register now: about.biodiversitylibrary.org/get-involved...

A case study by Rodrigo Campos & myself on German film expeditions to the #Amazon, part of the special collection #Wikidata across the #Humanities (Journal of Open Humanities Data). #LinkedOpenData related to film history, natural history collections and archives. Data on Wikidata and #Zenodo. 📽️🐊🐬⏬

Bionomia@bionomia.net · 9mo ago

Behind the Picture: German Filmmakers as Agents of Natural History Collections. The Case Study of Adolf Freiherr von Dungern in the Amazon doi.org/10.5334/johd... @svmering.bsky.social

📢 45 extended #conference #abstracts already made publicly & permanently available in the #LivingData2025 conference collection in our #journal! 💡Browse them by session to revisit the 2025 joint event by @tdwg.org, @gbif.org, @obis.org & @geobon.org! biss.pensoft.net/collection/5... 🔓

The result could be used as a blueprint by other cities in Germany and far beyond, says @svmering.bsky.social.

A Victorious Hamburg Climate Resolution Is a Model of Hope-Fueled People Power

​While the current German government is rolling back or even boycotting climate action, Hamburg is showing the world that grassroots climate action is effective.

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@svmering.bsky.social shares how @mfnberlin.bsky.social is digitally cataloguing and digitizing its vast natural history collection of approximately 30 million objects and building a #Wikidata knowledge graph connecting taxa, specimens, people, places, publications, and events. #LivingData2025 🧪 🔗

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

Sabine von Mering @svmering.bsky.social will be talking about the creation of a Museum Knowledge Graph to open up and link the collection using #Wikidata (and the Wikiverse) and connecting this to content in BHL and data from GBIF. #LivingData2025 #DatosVivos2025 #ILoveBHL

20 Jahre Darßer Naturfilmfestival-im Oktober sind Naturschützer und Kreative an der Ostsee,um Natur zu bewundern und hieran zu erinnern: „1990 war eine Sternstunde des deutschen Naturschutzes. 5 Nationalparks, 6 Biosphärenreservate und 3 Naturparks entstanden auf 4,5% der Landesfläche der DDR.“

Our article "Wikidata for botanists: benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data" is part of this new issue of @annbot.bsky.social See: doi.org/10.1093/aob/... Result of a great #collaboration @siobhanleachman.bsky.social @joaquimsantos1978.bsky.social Heidi Meudt! #Wikidata #LOD

Annals of Botany@annbot.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🆕 The new issue of Annals of Botany is now online! 🧬 Symbiosis, physiology & molecular responses 🌸 Pollination & plant–insect interactions 🌾 Nutrients & root processes 📊 Open data & measurements 🌱 Seeds, seedlings & climate change New issue👉 botany.fyi/91590f #PlantScience #Botany

An article I collaborated on - "Wikidata for botanists: benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data" - is in this issue! See academic.oup.com/aob/article/... #Wikidata #Botanists #LinkedOpenData

Annals of Botany@annbot.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🆕 The new issue of Annals of Botany is now online! 🧬 Symbiosis, physiology & molecular responses 🌸 Pollination & plant–insect interactions 🌾 Nutrients & root processes 📊 Open data & measurements 🌱 Seeds, seedlings & climate change New issue👉 botany.fyi/91590f #PlantScience #Botany

Very excited to have this opportunity!

Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand@wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Manaaki Whenua have appointed Siobhan Leachman as their Wikimedian in Residence! Supporting staff to share their expertise, @siobhanleachman.bsky.social will be assisting the group with contributing content from their nationally significant collections to openly accessible Wikimedia platforms.

📸 Aus der Vogelperspektive ausgezeichnet: @tannebergerf.bsky.social ( @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social / @unigreifswald.bsky.social ) wird Ehrenmitglied der @dornitholges.bsky.social für ihr Engagement für den Seggenrohrsänger & den Moorschutz! 🥳👏 #ornithologie #moorschutz #artenvielfalt

Last night we were invited to the old town hall of Erfurt, which was mainly built between 1870 and 1875. It is an impressive building and we are thankful to the town of Erfurt for welcoming us.

During this year's conference we are celebrating the 175th anniversary of the German Ornithological Society! Today, we honored this event with a special session.

Carnivorous #bats that hug? 🦇 New study on the spectral bat reveals prey provision, grooming and even wing-wrapped greetings – complex social behaviour with big implications for #conservation! 🌎 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 📸 Marisa Tietge #science #sciencenews

🎉Meet Dmitry Sokoloff, session chair & speaker at the @annbot.bsky.social sponsored symposium “Evolutionary history of the Gnetales” during Botany 2025, and researcher at Tel Aviv University. Get to know his passion for evo-devo biology 🧵 Se alt text for the full answers 1/10

Have a look at the @botany.one blog post 🌿 about our #Wikidata article "Wikidata for botanists: benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data"! With @siobhanleachman.bsky.social, @joaquimsantos1978.bsky.social & Heidi Meudt

Annals of Botany@annbot.bsky.social · last yr.

Wikidata for Botanists: Connecting People, Plants, and Data 📚 Now in @botany.one 🌿 botany.fyi/7dtcvb Full paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

Have a look at this blog post about our new article "Wikidata for botanists: Benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data" with @siobhanleachman.bsky.social, @joaquimsantos1978.bsky.social and Heidi Meudt: blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2025/07/14/t... #Wikidata #LOD #botany

The power and potential of Wikidata for botany | Te Papa’s Blog

A new paper entitled Wikidata for Botanists: Benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data has been published in the Annals of Botany. This publication is the result of a collaboration of …

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Can't wait for Grace Exley and her research as Munby Fellow @theul.bsky.social and the Natural History Humanities initiative with us! #GLAM

Dr Jill Whitelock@jillwhitelock.bsky.social · last yr.

Great talk in the #BSHS2025 Women in Natural History session today by Grace Exley on ‘How Women Shaped Geological Collections: The Case of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, 1813-1914’ - incoming Munby Fellow @theul.bsky.social / @camglamresearch.bsky.social Natural History Humanities.

This paper came about as a result of a wonderful collaboration with my colleagues including the marvellous @svmering.bsky.social as well as Carmen Ulloa, Sandy Knapp, Heather Lindon, Qianqian Gu and Sarah Vincent! It was a privilege to work with them all!

Siobhan Leachman@siobhanleachman.bsky.social · last yr.

Whoohoo my new paper has just been published! The women honoured in flowering plant genera: From myth to reality. See doi.org/10.1002/ppp3... #Women #Botanists #Wikidata

Whoohoo my new paper has just been published! The women honoured in flowering plant genera: From myth to reality. See doi.org/10.1002/ppp3... #Women #Botanists #Wikidata

Our book Race & the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820 can now be pre-ordered (publication date is in August). @brucealexb.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... #skystorians #colonialhistory #enlightenment #histsci

Race and the Scottish Enlightenment

How colonialism shaped the Scottish Enlightenment’s conception of race and humanity   In the decades after 1750, an increasing number of former medical st...

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