Alison Vaughan

Herbarium collections, biodiversity informatics, and people.

[FungusPirate @curataceae]

The beginning was an absurd joke that i couldnt pull off...turns out it works as an opener:)

[Haylee Weaver @hayleejw]

🚨Job alert! Australian #taxonomy friends, ABRS needs some short-term staff asap. 1 project officer (assisting w/ data analysis & report writing), 1 data officer (for AFD, cleanup & mgmt of database using SQL & R). Get in touch!

[Siobhan @SiobhanLeachman]

So pleased and proud to see our disambiguation paper gets a shout out by @wragge at the @wm_au #WOW2022 conference! cc @cabbageleek @emhaston See his slides https://t.co/gIGWYDhgq3

[Alison Vaughan @alison_cv]

I love this! Great scope for articles exploring the histories behind individual specimens, too, to resolve tricky questions of provenance. @dpsSpiders @ColinFavret

[Alison Vaughan @alison_cv]

Remind me not to eat this lichen.

[Alison Vaughan @alison_cv]

@SiobhanLeachman Except I suspect all paths in your flowchart lead to a 'Do it anyway' box ...

[Héritier Lumumba @iamlumumba]

Inspired by the trail @SenatorThorpe has blazed and how she consistently challenges colonialism knowing very well that doing so places an enormous target on her back. That’s why I ride with her ✨ #AssociatingWithLidia

[Alison Vaughan @alison_cv]

@LettuceGnome 🤍

[𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 💀 @DeadsoundApp]

Pretty wild & wonderful that this exists: Wilco in-store at Repeat the Beat in Royal Oak, MI, in June 1995. Just another example of music history that simply wouldn't exist if a taper hadn't been in attendance.

[Nicole Kearney: find me @nicolekearney.bsky.social @nicolekearney]

cc @MathiasDillen (sorry, I ran out of space for all authors in the tweet above). Also: Christian Bräuchler & Robert Cubey.

[Nicole Kearney: find me @nicolekearney.bsky.social @nicolekearney]

Read our magnum opus on "The disambiguation of people names in biological collections" https://t.co/JlRHF0olLI, which @cabbageleek is now speaking about at #TDWG2022. @emhaston @idbdeb @SiobhanLeachman @dpsSpiders @SvMering @alison_cv @joaquimsantos78 @Heatherette13 @HuyPieter

[Alison Vaughan @alison_cv]

@AxelWilkeNZ @SiobhanLeachman @BionomiaTrack I hope he wasn't too disturbed by his antipodean stalkers.

[Alison Vaughan @alison_cv]

@SiobhanLeachman @AxelWilkeNZ @BionomiaTrack That doesn't sound particularly alive. But maybe he was just habitually tardy from being distracted by wasps?

[Alison Vaughan @alison_cv]

@SiobhanLeachman @heroicendeavour @MeMerricks And those death dates help us disambiguate the people who contribute to biodiversity collections, which in turn helps make those collections more scientifically valuable, providing better data to feed into directories like AFD. So it's a very relevant misreading!

[Alison Vaughan @alison_cv]

@SiobhanLeachman A Churchill Fellowship, perhaps??

[Alison Vaughan @alison_cv]

@SiobhanLeachman @RBG_Victoria @wikidata @rebecca_le_get Thank you @SiobhanLeachman! You've been a great inspiration and a huge help already, and I'm sure we'll have more questions for you soon. Those guidelines look great, thank you.

[Alison Vaughan @alison_cv]

Happy timing for @RBG_Victoria's upcoming project getting women botanical collectors into @wikidata.
@rebecca_le_get

[Wikidata @wikidata]

#wikidatabirthday is coming soon
Over 40 events are already scheduled! Check out the full list of events that are set to take place: https://t.co/TTrMko2Kju

[Alison Vaughan @alison_cv]

@SiobhanLeachman Oh, I love this! Such a neat way to capture info. that we currently spend time adding to Wikipedia articles, when they exist for a collector.