Rod Page
@rdmpage.bsky.social
Expat Kiwi, emeritus Professor of Taxonomy at Glasgow University, inclined to say that something sucks at every available opportunity. Biodiversity informatics, phylogeny, knowledge graphs.
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Thinking about Sayre's law I was reminded of the time @rdmpage.bsky.social gave a seminar here in Sheffield and talked about the furious wikipedia argument over the correct scientific name for sperm whales. It remains the only time I've seen the C word on a slide in a scientific presentation.
October 5, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Thinking about Sayre's law I was reminded of the time @rdmpage.bsky.social gave a seminar here in Sheffield and talked about the furious wikipedia argument over the correct scientific name for sperm whales. It remains the only time I've seen the C word on a slide in a scientific presentation.
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You might be aware that Crossref records can contain funding metadata. But how complete is their coverage? According to this new paper, an approximate 30% of funding acknowledgments do not get deposited in Crossref.
👇 Read the evaluation now on MetaROR: metaror.org/article/lost...
👇 Read the evaluation now on MetaROR: metaror.org/article/lost...
Lost in transition. Quantifying the funding metadata gap in Crossref - MetaROR
metaror.org
October 5, 2026 at 10:39 AM
You might be aware that Crossref records can contain funding metadata. But how complete is their coverage? According to this new paper, an approximate 30% of funding acknowledgments do not get deposited in Crossref.
👇 Read the evaluation now on MetaROR: metaror.org/article/lost...
👇 Read the evaluation now on MetaROR: metaror.org/article/lost...
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This is really great!
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures
A selection of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 finalists – from a shortlist featuring a caiman wearing a wig, a leopard doing a handstand, a strutting white-tailed eagle and a polar bear appeari...
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2026 at 8:17 PM
This is really great!
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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October 4, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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Just listened to this great piece on @scifri.bsky.social about the importance of collections.
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/are...
Consider making a donation at any level to support your local natural history collection. Support @utkherbarium.bsky.social here herbarium.utk.edu/give/
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/are...
Consider making a donation at any level to support your local natural history collection. Support @utkherbarium.bsky.social here herbarium.utk.edu/give/
Are natural history museums in trouble?
The country’s oldest natural history museum, in Philadelphia, has closed its doors to visitors. Will other museums follow?
www.sciencefriday.com
October 4, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Just listened to this great piece on @scifri.bsky.social about the importance of collections.
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/are...
Consider making a donation at any level to support your local natural history collection. Support @utkherbarium.bsky.social here herbarium.utk.edu/give/
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/are...
Consider making a donation at any level to support your local natural history collection. Support @utkherbarium.bsky.social here herbarium.utk.edu/give/
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🐐 How do we decide what to sequence next?
Genome on a Tree (GoaT) brings together taxonomy, phylogeny, sequencing progress, and sample availability to help identify the species that will have the greatest scientific impact.
Has your favorite species been sequenced?
🔍 goat.genomehubs.org
#OpenScience
Genome on a Tree (GoaT) brings together taxonomy, phylogeny, sequencing progress, and sample availability to help identify the species that will have the greatest scientific impact.
Has your favorite species been sequenced?
🔍 goat.genomehubs.org
#OpenScience
July 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
🐐 How do we decide what to sequence next?
Genome on a Tree (GoaT) brings together taxonomy, phylogeny, sequencing progress, and sample availability to help identify the species that will have the greatest scientific impact.
Has your favorite species been sequenced?
🔍 goat.genomehubs.org
#OpenScience
Genome on a Tree (GoaT) brings together taxonomy, phylogeny, sequencing progress, and sample availability to help identify the species that will have the greatest scientific impact.
Has your favorite species been sequenced?
🔍 goat.genomehubs.org
#OpenScience
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Complacency that leads one to go around calling themselves "superstars" or "rock stars" or cringe lines like "librarians have a super power" or "you can believe me, I am a librarian"
October 4, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Complacency that leads one to go around calling themselves "superstars" or "rock stars" or cringe lines like "librarians have a super power" or "you can believe me, I am a librarian"
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What i can say is complacency is what will kill us. Complacency that we and we alone have or worse already have the answers to a novel, emerging, hard multi faceted problem. Complacency that goes because this was the way we did things for decades means this is how it should be.
October 4, 2026 at 12:27 PM
What i can say is complacency is what will kill us. Complacency that we and we alone have or worse already have the answers to a novel, emerging, hard multi faceted problem. Complacency that goes because this was the way we did things for decades means this is how it should be.
This #bhlsunday @biodivlibrary.bsky.social I’ve added articles from @mnhn.fr Journal de conchyliologie 1939-1951 featuring taxonomy, obituaries, and an accident in Vietnam biostor.org/reference/32...
Nouvelles. - L'accident de M. E Fischer-Piette
Published in Journal de conchyliologie, in 1950, in volume 90, issue 2, pages 148
biostor.org
October 4, 2026 at 9:42 AM
This #bhlsunday @biodivlibrary.bsky.social I’ve added articles from @mnhn.fr Journal de conchyliologie 1939-1951 featuring taxonomy, obituaries, and an accident in Vietnam biostor.org/reference/32...
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Now we have so many techniques, from strong rerankers using cross-encoders, LLM screening, hybrid search by merging lexical with dense retrieval methods, agentic search etc. But librarians just want to beat LLMs into shape so they can return standard boolean, any decent searcher can do! what a waste
October 2, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Now we have so many techniques, from strong rerankers using cross-encoders, LLM screening, hybrid search by merging lexical with dense retrieval methods, agentic search etc. But librarians just want to beat LLMs into shape so they can return standard boolean, any decent searcher can do! what a waste
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Anyway that whole passage betrays a very narrow librarianish view of search (boolean is not "fundamental" to "all search" and the idea it gives maximum retrieval is funny) and fails to answer the question, can we do better?
October 2, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Anyway that whole passage betrays a very narrow librarianish view of search (boolean is not "fundamental" to "all search" and the idea it gives maximum retrieval is funny) and fails to answer the question, can we do better?
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Three new evolutionary ecology PhD positions are open in Switzerland (Eawag, and Uni. Bern) to work on Greenland lake ecosystems. We are interested in how stickleback and copepods evolve, and how their evolution affects the trajectories of lake ecosystem development. apply.refline.ch/673277/1403/...
3 PhD positions in the fields of Evolutionary Ecology, Evolutionary Genomics, and Ecosystem Science
The Department of Fish Ecology & Evolution (FishEc) has vacancies for
apply.refline.ch
October 2, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Three new evolutionary ecology PhD positions are open in Switzerland (Eawag, and Uni. Bern) to work on Greenland lake ecosystems. We are interested in how stickleback and copepods evolve, and how their evolution affects the trajectories of lake ecosystem development. apply.refline.ch/673277/1403/...
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Registration is open for CRASH, the Cultural Heritage Advanced Search Hackathon.
📍 Graz, 30 Nov & 1 Dec 2026
🔎 Register until 1 Nov: crash-this.github.io
Two days to build and test search tools on cultural heritage data. Motto: Vibes and Checks.
#DigitalHumanities #GLAM
📍 Graz, 30 Nov & 1 Dec 2026
🔎 Register until 1 Nov: crash-this.github.io
Two days to build and test search tools on cultural heritage data. Motto: Vibes and Checks.
#DigitalHumanities #GLAM
CRASH: Cultural Heritage Advanced Search Hackathon
Two days of hacking on search in cultural heritage data. Graz, 30 November and 1 December 2026. Vibes and Checks.
crash-this.github.io
October 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Registration is open for CRASH, the Cultural Heritage Advanced Search Hackathon.
📍 Graz, 30 Nov & 1 Dec 2026
🔎 Register until 1 Nov: crash-this.github.io
Two days to build and test search tools on cultural heritage data. Motto: Vibes and Checks.
#DigitalHumanities #GLAM
📍 Graz, 30 Nov & 1 Dec 2026
🔎 Register until 1 Nov: crash-this.github.io
Two days to build and test search tools on cultural heritage data. Motto: Vibes and Checks.
#DigitalHumanities #GLAM
Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor, Vertebrate Zoology (Department of Ichthyology or Mammalogy) at the @amnh.org careers.amnh.org/postings/4925 (HT TAXACOM)
Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor, Vertebrate Zoology
The Division of Vertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) seeks an outstanding tenure-track Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor in either the Department of Ichthyology or M...
careers.amnh.org
October 2, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor, Vertebrate Zoology (Department of Ichthyology or Mammalogy) at the @amnh.org careers.amnh.org/postings/4925 (HT TAXACOM)
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Meanwhile on New Zealand:
I need someone to give me the summary of kiwibank sheep controversy in 1 post. What is happening WTF.
October 2, 2026 at 5:21 AM
Meanwhile on New Zealand:
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I really enjoyed discussions with participants after the session, lots of interest not only in trait extraction but also in data integration for #biodiversiy research - from #literature to #observations & #genomics with @plazi-species.bsky.social @bmd-project.eu @biogeneurope.bsky.social #TDWG2026
September 25, 2026 at 12:53 PM
I really enjoyed discussions with participants after the session, lots of interest not only in trait extraction but also in data integration for #biodiversiy research - from #literature to #observations & #genomics with @plazi-species.bsky.social @bmd-project.eu @biogeneurope.bsky.social #TDWG2026
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www.ruthtillman.com/post/whats-u... What's Up With WorldCat? by Ruth Kitchin Tillman #cataloging
What's Up With WorldCat? | Ruth Kitchin Tillman
At the end of August 2022, OCLC released a completely new WorldCat.org website. It looks better on mobile, but library information is now tiered on a pay-to-play basis and links intended to keep peopl...
www.ruthtillman.com
August 7, 2024 at 2:32 PM
www.ruthtillman.com/post/whats-u... What's Up With WorldCat? by Ruth Kitchin Tillman #cataloging
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PhyloPic is having an October fundraiser. The goal is to raise enough money to cover web hosting for the past six months. Please share the link, and chip in a bit if you can! www.phylopic.org
PhyloPic
PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi...
www.phylopic.org
October 1, 2026 at 3:29 PM
PhyloPic is having an October fundraiser. The goal is to raise enough money to cover web hosting for the past six months. Please share the link, and chip in a bit if you can! www.phylopic.org
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Sometimes I worry about the mental health of the UT insect collection volunteers
September 30, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Sometimes I worry about the mental health of the UT insect collection volunteers
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📣 Remote contractor wanted! We're on the hunt for an expert on molecular OTU clustering and target-gene classification services as part of the GBIF SPLICE project🧬
📍 Application deadline: 30 October 2026
⌚ 12 month contract
🔗 gbif.link/SPLICE-con...
📍 Application deadline: 30 October 2026
⌚ 12 month contract
🔗 gbif.link/SPLICE-con...
October 1, 2026 at 11:30 AM
📣 Remote contractor wanted! We're on the hunt for an expert on molecular OTU clustering and target-gene classification services as part of the GBIF SPLICE project🧬
📍 Application deadline: 30 October 2026
⌚ 12 month contract
🔗 gbif.link/SPLICE-con...
📍 Application deadline: 30 October 2026
⌚ 12 month contract
🔗 gbif.link/SPLICE-con...
So this is a little crazy, I vibe coded a "Miller browser" to explore RDF graphs, based on an idea in iphylo.blogspot.com/2023/04/libr..., and it kinda works. Nodes as "cards", edges as "lists" (or maps in some cases), just wander through the graph.
September 30, 2026 at 8:37 PM
So this is a little crazy, I vibe coded a "Miller browser" to explore RDF graphs, based on an idea in iphylo.blogspot.com/2023/04/libr..., and it kinda works. Nodes as "cards", edges as "lists" (or maps in some cases), just wander through the graph.
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And FYI: Review of applications will begin 11/16/26 ...
And FYI: Review of applications will begin 11/16/26 ...
Exciting news! We here at the LSU Museum of Natural Science @lsumns.bsky.social and Dept. of Biological Sciences are looking for Curator and Assistant Professor of Vertebrate Paleobiology!
Come work with us! We are fun, supportive and active!
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...
Come work with us! We are fun, supportive and active!
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...
Assistant Professor
All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...
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September 30, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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And FYI: Review of applications will begin 11/16/26 ...
And FYI: Review of applications will begin 11/16/26 ...
Winners of the @gbif.org Ebbe Nielsen Challenge announced www.gbif.org/news/4eaECI5...
Four winners share the 2026 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge award
Winning projects came from Argentina, Belgium, Canada and Portugal... The 2026 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge (ENC) jury is awarding prizes to four projects from Argentina, Belgium, Canada and Portugal. This…
www.gbif.org
September 30, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Winners of the @gbif.org Ebbe Nielsen Challenge announced www.gbif.org/news/4eaECI5...
It still bothers me that @biodivlibrary.bsky.social is invisible in Google Scholar. It is as if BHL didn't exist, and yet so many articles that are dead ends ["citation"] in Scholar are available in BHL. The magic "citation_" meta tags are there, but there is nobody to ask "why isn't BHL indexed?"
September 30, 2026 at 1:03 PM
It still bothers me that @biodivlibrary.bsky.social is invisible in Google Scholar. It is as if BHL didn't exist, and yet so many articles that are dead ends ["citation"] in Scholar are available in BHL. The magic "citation_" meta tags are there, but there is nobody to ask "why isn't BHL indexed?"