Ben Keen

Naturalist and web developer. Soft spot for moths.

[Ben Keen @vancouverben]

So long, Twitter.

[Ben Keen @vancouverben]

@doviende Truly a testament to the man's management skills.

[Dr. William J. Ripple @WilliamJRipple]

This graphic helps me wrap my head around the magnitude of the problem. Notice the amount of current biomass for wild mammals (in green) versus that for livestock and humans. No wonder we have converging crises of biodiversity, fresh water, and climate. https://t.co/bca7h18Sbp

[PLOS Biology @PLOSBiology]

The number of observations submitted to the #CitizenScience platform @inaturalist is outpacing the rate at which the organisms can be identified. @callaghanct @thomasmesaglio &co call for more experts to identify organisms on iNaturalist #PLOSBiology
https://t.co/Sz9TSORoh0

[Ben Keen @vancouverben]

Source code: https://t.co/3NvPgKME9e

Final resting place for script: https://t.co/LLnKNKb0ny

[Ben Keen @vancouverben]

Wrote an experimental script this weekend to create a curated list of species from iNat observations, as determined by experts and not rely on "research grade". Goal is to create a more accurate species list for a region. Thanks to Greg Pohl for idea.
https://t.co/8U8i0V1TCn

[Ben Keen @vancouverben]

@gilmore_scott Yeah it's a fair workaround. Ideally iNat would support group-managed lists, rather than just personal ones. That would do the same thing: allow a group of experts to create a curated list of agreed upon IDs, rather than rely on the community as a whole. Neat problem!

[Ben Keen @vancouverben]

Not awfully encouraging. Third time seeing this in 10 minutes.

[Ben Keen @vancouverben]

In case Twitter implodes over the next few days (and it may - a lot fewer peeps to keep the lights on!) I've set up an account over on Mastodon. How bad could it be. https://t.co/LNtS5VejEl

[Guardian Environment @guardianeco]

World close to ‘irreversible’ climate breakdown, warn major studies https://t.co/m47tUoT9gy

[Ben Keen @vancouverben]

Merged at last :D https://t.co/r2dhAZNwsz
Not sure about their rollout process (there will have to be translations made), but expect to see this feature on iNat sometime in the near future!

[Ben Keen @vancouverben]

Cool, getting some stirrings of interest from iNat on a little hack I did to expand the functionality of the bounding box searches. With a bit of luck we'll get this in... https://t.co/pwHnrA3YPW

[Ben Keen @vancouverben]

@BeatTheCult Liberal. Very possibly a correlation there, but beware Twitter's algorithms on who sees the post.

[Ben Keen @vancouverben]

@ABA Poor old fella. That is one seriously worried greater white-fronted goose.

[Ben Keen @vancouverben]

Good sodding lord.
https://t.co/JRCC06EbSK

[Ben Keen @vancouverben]

@LucynakWild @nvolpewild That *is* insanely pretty.

[Ben Keen @vancouverben]

@HJBenjamin And finally as a mausoleum.

[Ben Keen @vancouverben]

I may be too old to scroll Twitter now. The world's gone insane. I'm going to go microwave some milk and go to bed early.

[Ben Keen @vancouverben]

@RandallKanna Yup. And broader than that, the best human beings I know think they aren't that great.