Roderic Page

Expat Kiwi, Professor of Taxonomy at Glasgow University, inclined to say that something sucks at every available opportunity. Also run @EvolDir and @Taxacom

[Roderic Page @rdmpage]

@KlausRiede @idbdeb Just saw this now, yes, lots of people have moved there. It’s certainly where I hang out now.

[Roderic Page @rdmpage]

OMG it actually worked!!!!

[EvolDir @evoldir]

If you are following this account it is no longer active here (and hasn’t been for a while). An improved version is available on Bluesky.

[Roderic Page @rdmpage]

@myrmoteras @BiodiversityDT I guess you can "download" them to Spotify for offline listening, but that might not be what you meant. I'm not familiar with the platform @BiodiversityDT use to create the podcasts but I don't think they've enabled RSS which would the podcast available elsewhere.

[Prosanta Chakrabarty @PREAUX_FISH]

Measuring What We Don't Know: Biodiversity Catalogs Reveal Bias in Taxonomic Effort

Before you say a group is 'understudied' you might want to check out the metric introduced here ...

[Thanks to Lauren Esposito for introducing me to this paper]

https://t.co/DCzX8gK5RT

[Donat Agosti @myrmoteras]

How can you talk about the importance of natural history museums without once mentioning its libraries, the place where hundreds of years of research is accumulated? Only a specimen in context makes sense.
@NHCMjournal @rkellerp

https://t.co/jD7jpfHV86

[Biodiversity Heritage Library @BioDivLibrary]

New on the blog: "BHL Datasets Now Openly Accessible on the Amazon Web Services Cloud." 62 million pages of scientific text, images, and metadata, representing 500 years of biodiversity data will be openly accessible via the Registry of Open Data on AWS. https://t.co/IEovMuiKtK

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

What’s the easiest way to make a chatbot that I can feed 50 to 60 gigs of PDFs into and then have a grounded conversation about roughly 6000 medical papers? Where is the relatively inexpensive “throw gigs into a folder and get RAG” solution? #AI

[Biodiversity Heritage Library @BioDivLibrary]

Status Update: BHL services have been fully restored, including page viewing and custom PDF generation. All @internetarchive servers hosting BHL content are back online. Thank you to the #BHLib community for your support! For the latest information, visit https://t.co/JAJX2hB1Hp

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

New update from @brewster_kahle on how the Internet Archive is learning from recent cyberattacks.

🔗 https://t.co/tPg4EhUaDG

[Donat Agosti @myrmoteras]

After two weeks in @RudolfMeier15 lab to learn to #barcode, never ever tell me that liberating data from the #pdfprison is complex!

[Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh @TheBotanics]

We're pleased to announce we're recruiting for a driven and visionary leader to become our Director of Development and Communications.

🌿 This is a crucial role at one of the world’s most prestigious botanical institutions. Find details and apply: https://t.co/YRpdWIknDh

[protectedplanet @protectedplanet]

#ProtectedPlanet November 2024 Update: 🌍

WDPA: is 305,192 (303,309 #ProtectedAreas), covering 244 countries & territories.

WD-OECM: is 6,484 (6,463 #OECMs), covering 15 countries & territories.

GD-PAME: 5 assessment records were added and 1 updated.

https://t.co/OcTSHTR44c

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

Save Page Now is back online via the Wayback Machine: https://t.co/0x24WHlhAc

Web pages archived since October 9 will start being added to @waybackmachine.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

The Vanishing Culture report arrives today at a critical moment: While @internetarchive recovers from a cyberattack, it’s a reminder of how fragile our access to knowledge can be. Preserving culture & history requires resilience—and collective action.

🔗 https://t.co/IcGMa396TJ

[Dan Brickley @danbri]

https://t.co/pcj2eodPGs

[Roderic Page @rdmpage]

Does anybody here use the BOLD website https://t.co/sFFk6XS82w ? If so, what do you think of the new version? #dnabarcoding

[Donat Agosti @myrmoteras]

The scientific community must move beyond its comfort zone of writing papers and preaching to its own choirs. It must engage with the public and policymakers to turn knowledge into action. Will we have yet another opportunity? Let’s not wait to find out. https://t.co/88xAF0GxIX

[Roderic Page @rdmpage]

@jcusick5 @andriy_mulyar @BioDivLibrary @nomic_ai What I really want to do is explore the embeddings themselves and see what we can do with those. Also this is just article titles, so we lose a lot of information.

[Roderic Page @rdmpage]

Visualising 250K articles extracted from @BioDivLibrary via BioStor, intercative map made using @nomic_ai https://t.co/5kJLLrwg7Q

[Roderic Page @rdmpage]

@jcusick5 @andriy_mulyar @BioDivLibrary @nomic_ai At this stage it’s “wow that’s a lot of topics” for what I intended to be a database of taxonomic papers.

[Roderic Page @rdmpage]

@PeterMoonlight @GBIF Wow, always nice to hear that people read it, woefully out of date now 🙈

[Roderic Page @rdmpage]

So what the hell is happening in Brazil @GBIF? What are all these diagonal grid lines. Has Brazil really been sampled in a series of parallel 45° lines!? Map on left is from @GBIF home page, map on right is https://t.co/KciujWi0it