Matt H. Buys

Plant systematist, cyber taxonomist, and curator of the National Forestry Herbarium @scion_research. Views are my own.

[Matt H. Buys @MattBuys]

🌲🌲🌲 @scion_research #BioCollections assisting New Zealand scientists to discover a new needle disease on stone pine caused by #Phytophthora pluvialis. First report of its kind in the world! 🌎 Read more here: https://t.co/Dsjkb8VR3y

[Matt H. Buys @MattBuys]

Awesome to see @scion_research #BioCollections fungal cultures helping the successful completion of a Masters & Ph.D. on Phytophthora cinnamomi. Well done Alexandra Cox (https://t.co/pCM05S2sTH) and Christina Andronis (https://t.co/w0Pjo8NoBe)

[Matt H. Buys @MattBuys]

https://t.co/k20FmweNWu Tap image to zoom in. Cool, yes? @scion_research #BioCollections #NationalForestryHerbarium

[Matt H. Buys @MattBuys]

https://t.co/5ontVriih6
A global metaherbarium would be fantastic, but how achievable if you want to address indigenous data sovereignty rights? #BioCollections #Fairdata #Caredata

[Matt H. Buys @MattBuys]

Just curated a remarkable find in Pureora! 🌲 Tānekaha/Celery Pine subfossil in our care @scion_research #BioCollections, buried under pumice after the Taupo crater eruption c. AD 186.🌋A glimpse into our past, shedding light on the forces of nature and the resilience of life.

[Matt H. Buys @MattBuys]

Rediscovered amazing #TNRS (https://t.co/QvbBeMRUsF) for unscrambling species names from OCR'd dot-matrix printouts! From @scion_research #xylarium and #BioCollections data: Simarousa glauoa is now corrected to Simarouda glauca. #biodiversity #taxonomy

[Matt H. Buys @MattBuys]

The National Forestry Herbarium @ScionResearch is a treasure trove of woody plants in New Zealand 🌲🌳🌴 It helps us identify, study and protect our native and exotic forests 🌱🌿🍃 Let's appreciate and support this amazing institution! #BioCollections

[Smithsonian NMNH @NMNH]

Today marks a milestone in the history of natural history museums. Museum directors, including our own Kirk Johnson, co-authored an article in the journal Science outlining a new, global approach to museum research collections. https://t.co/cn4twR31Wh

[Matt H. Buys @MattBuys]

🔎 the fungal specimens from @scion_research #BioCollections in the phylo-tree used to 🔬 for new strains of edible mushrooms in the Brazilian Amazon Forest.
J-STAGE Articles - Lentinula ixodes comb. nov. including new records in Brazil https://t.co/ZhSC3WfZYX

[Matt H. Buys @MattBuys]

Nice to see @scion_research #BioCollections housing isolates used to illustrate evidence of Phosphite Tolerance in Phytophthora cinnamomi from New Zealand Avocado Orchards | Plant Disease https://t.co/Jlkh1vcATi

[Matt H. Buys @MattBuys]

Guess what I'll be reading for the next year🙂. More pages than the family Bible! Will improve #biocollections @scion_research. Thanx @SPNHC, @conservators, @smithsonian, @GWtweets

[Manpreet K Dhami @manpreetkdhami.bsky.social @manpreetkdhami]

Our new #taxonomy-informed pipeline for rapid generation of full COI #barcodes to aid #biomonitoring and #eDNA surveillance now out @molecology res! #museum #conservation @mwlr_nz @NZMolEcol @t_buckley_nz @nzhymenoptera @AndrewDopheide https://t.co/L5XYvGFUpp

[Matt H. Buys @MattBuys]

Transcription via humans (and not OCR or AI), I take it?

[Dr Erica McAlister @flygirlNHM]

Our @NHM_Diptera specimen labels from a certain era have all be beautifully transcribed from the original scribbles.

Makes a change from some of the illegible text we have to decipher… #labels #digitisation @NHM_Digitise

[Matt H. Buys @MattBuys]

Is there a @bhl-nz?

[Matt H. Buys @MattBuys]

I've just weaned myself from Facebook, but can't deny that it's cool it contributed to discovery of new species.

[Australian Tropical Herbarium @aust_trop_herb]

Four new species of sticky, carnivorous sundew discovered in WA thanks to social media. @ABCscience

https://t.co/oxPp09TnXg

[Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society @BotJLinnSoc]

#MolecularPhylogenetics shed light on polyploid #speciation in gorses (#Ulex, #Fabaceae: #Genisteae) and on the origin of the invasive #Ulex europaeus
Bellot, Dias, Affagard, Aïnouche, Misset & Aïnouche
#polyploidy #allopolyploidy #autopolyploidy #gorse
https://t.co/iaOIKXvUc3

[Jiajia Liu @EcologyJiajia]

Who will name new plant species? Here we show that most recently described species are endemic species, and they are often described by resident taxonomists. We need to support local taxonomists in biodiverse developing countries. https://t.co/gUMpVqwj2i

[Matt H. Buys @MattBuys]

@IAWA_Wood where do I update Index Xylarium details. Seems last updated 2016! No response from [email protected]

[Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG) @CBG_UofG]

If you're working with museum specimens and hoping to #DNAbarcode them, check out this new #howto video produced by our amazing @CBG_UofG collections, analytics, and taxonomy experts!

https://t.co/44vyQ9usF2

Via @YouTube

#biodiversity #naturalhistory #science #education

[SING_Australia @SING_Australia]

Day 4 #SINGAotearo - Dr Manpreet Dhami spoke on the National 🧬 Library, Katie Lee Riddell on Māori IP, bio cultural labels & DSI #Indigenous #Genomics