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Internet Archive @archive.org · 10h

We’re celebrating 1 trillion pages saved on the #WaybackMachine! 🌐💙
Our month of festivities kicked off with the Del Sol Quartet's THE VAST BLUE WE 🎶, music inspired by our shared digital memory.

📺 Watch it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OAS...

#Wayback1T #InternetArchive

The Vast Blue We: Del Sol Quartet at the Internet Archive

Celebrate 1 trillion web pages archived with Del Sol Quartet via LIVE STREAM! Live music & new works honoring our shared digital memory. An evening to celebrate human collaboration—how billions of…

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 6d

Apply for RGGS Postdoctoral Fellowships at the American Museum of Natural History. Open to Ph.D. graduates in various research areas. Deadline: 11/15/2025. More info: https://www.amnh.org/research/richard-gilder-graduate-school/fellowships #postdoc

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 4d

World Flora Online seeks your input for plant ID tools via a 10-minute survey by Nov 15, 2025. Share with peers! Participate here: [WFO Survey](https://www.worldfloraonline.org/survey).

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 1d

The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology seeks a Research Collections Manager for reptiles and amphibians. Required: advanced degree, 3+ years experience. Apply by Nov 5, 2025: https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/269553/res-museum-collection-manager #job

Res Museum Collection Manager | U-M Careers

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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 1d

Finally posted blog posts on our latest phylogenetics readings in our modern phylo class:

Phylogeography

Simulation

Behavior & Genomics

Reticulate evolution

All in series: brianomeara.info/blog.html#ca...

#Evolution 🧪

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Siobhan Leachman @siobhanleachman.bsky.social · 1d

Last call for registering for our free 1hr introductory Wiki webinar on #Wikipedia, #WikiCommons and #Wikidata which is happening at 3pm NZST today. You can find out more information on the event and the registration link here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Wikipedia:Meetup/Online/Introductory Wiki webinar 14 October 2025 - Wikipedia

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 6d

⚡Shocking truth⚡ about fish lice:
I've written a post about Dolops discoidalis, a species of fish louse which also happens to be the first ectoparasite to be documented from the electric eel 🧪
#Invertebrate
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/10/dolo...

<i>Dolops discoidalis</i>

The electric eel , also known as poraquê , is a formidable animal. Not only is it capable of stunning its prey with an electrifying shock, ...

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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · 3d

Michigan's #UMMZ Reptiles and Amphibians Collections Manager position is now open. Join a great museums group and help manage the world's second largest herpetology research collection. Please share! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Res Museum Collection Manager | U-M Careers

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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 3d

I'm the incoming SSE president and am behind this idea -- if you're interested in putting together an app and have questions, pls reach out!

Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 5d

Now accepting proposals for new Research Synthesis Working Groups! Each funded group will present a symposium at the Evolution meeting, collaborate on a publication, and establish a lasting research network. Submit your proposal by January 6: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Call for Proposals: Research Synthesis Working Groups. Deadline: January 6.

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Magnus Manske @magnusmanske.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Two contemporary people with biographies in over 60 Wikipedias, but no free images:

Patrick Süskind
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105994

Dian Fossey
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234224

Patrick Süskind

German writer and screenwriter

www.wikidata.org

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⚡️🔩Felsenstein's Monster🔩⚡️ @josephwb.bsky.social · 4d

"Figure 3"
- @bembidion.bsky.social (1991)

#art #phylogenetics

FIGURE 3. Trees in different islands are connected through a sequence of trees of greater length. Higher plateaus represent shorter trees. The two highest plateaus correspond to the most-parsimonious trees of island-8 (left) and island-12 (right). Trees in these two islands differ by several branch rearrangements. They differ by five rearrangements through relatively long trees (lower path) or by more rearrangements through trees only one step longer than the most parsimonious (upper path).

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Climate, Ecology, War & More by Dr. Glen Barry, BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.bsky.social · 7d

The World Flora Online needs your input
->International Society for Horticultural Science | More from Lil' Dr Glen at BigEarthData.ai

The World Flora Online needs your input

The World Flora Online needs your input. WFO is planning plant identification features that could be incorporated into the WFO platform. WFO would really value your input to guide WFO priorities across image recognition, digital keys, and id workflows. We...

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Systematics Association @systassn.bsky.social · 8d

The Young Systematists' Forum is nearly upon us!

If you are a student (or postdoc) working on phylogenetics, taxonomy or systematics, join us Nov 14th for this free and friendly online conference!

Abstract submission closes Saturday, October 25th at 11:59PM GMT+1

REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8

YSF2025 Registration Form

Welcome to the YSF2025 Registration and Abstract Submission form. This year the conference will be held online on Friday, November 14th 2025. We look forward to seeing old and new faces from across t...

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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 13d

This is one of the lesser known (but tragic) consequences of Gen AI. It’s not just about theft of IP, which is usually mentioned, it’s about damage to the information infrastructure of underfunded archives, libraries and museums etc. with long term consequences for them and for researchers.

Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · 13d

by the way, all those benign AI bots crawling the internet for for-profit LLMs, yeah it turns out when 9,000 hit your archive catalogue or image database all at once they break the system. This is an emerging sector issue.

The last weeks have literally seen humans labouring to feed the machines...

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Adam Hartling @xenosns.bsky.social · 8d

So much of what I've been able to collect for the Nova Scotia game dev archive has been due to the Wayback Machine. I'm grateful they had the foresight to begin archiving as far back as they did.

Internet Archive @archive.org · 8d

1 trillion web pages preserved makes the Wayback Machine an indispensable research tool. Share how this effort has impacted you, and encourage your network to support the Internet Archive: donate.archive.org/1T

#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine

Graphic with pixelated, 3D-styled webpage icons radiating outward from a bright point. Center text reads: "Fundraise with us! Celebrating 1 Trillion Webpages Archived."

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Hacker News 100 @hn100.atproto.rocks · 9d

Laptops create systems. Phones feed algorithms. The asymmetry determines power
https://zakelfassi.com/command-interface-device-power

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45480620

Command Interface: How Your Device Choice Shapes Power Relations

Laptops create. Phones consume. The split determines who commands and who complies—a power dynamic hiding in plain sight across every interface we touch.

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Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics @hologenomics.bsky.social · 11d

🔁Please share - we remind the SMBE community that the Call for Symposia for #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen is open.

We invite you to submit a symposium proposal to help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting.

🗓️Deadline: October 15th

More info: smbe2026.org/symposia
@official-smbe.bsky.social

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Scott C Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social · 10d

Help Tackle the Asian Biodiversity Data Gap with Asia Nature Challenge medium.com/citizenscien... #AsiaNatureChallenge #ANC2025

Asia Nature Challenge 2025 is Go!

This weekend is the second installment of the Asia Nature Challenge, so go outside and observe our biodiversity because nature in Asia…

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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 10d

(Huber lab)[EMBL] welcomes applications for a PhD in ML for spatial omics [representation learning + integration with biostatistics, cell + anatomy foundation models, collaborate with domain scientists on cancer and dev:bio discovery science] |> Apply though the ELLIS portal ::: Deadline 2025-10-31

ELLIS @ellis.eu · 13d

🎓 The application portal for the #ELLISPhD Program is open today! Info & link: https://bit.ly/45DSe75

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

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Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥 @egonw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d

the first four #bh25jp preprints have appeared in BioHackRxiv: https://index.biohackrxiv.org/

This includes "Creation and Publication Analytical Workflow of Creators' Interests" https://doi.org/10.37044/osf.io/qd5sz_v1 and "A Lightweight PURL Resolver for Linked Life Science Data" […]

Original post on mastodon.social

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Bertrand Bed'Hom @bedhom.bsky.social · 11d

En septembre 2025, le programme de recherche @atlasea.bsky.social a franchi la barre des 100 génomes marins séquencés !
@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cea.fr @agencerecherche.bsky.social
#mer #océan #biodiversité #génomique

www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

ATLASea : déjà 100 génomes marins séquencés !

En septembre 2025, le programme de recherche ATLASea a franchi la barre des 100 génomes marins séquencés.

www.insb.cnrs.fr

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 12d

🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪

Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674

A job ad with multiple images, including the exterior of the museum, a view of collections (jars on shelves), and pictures of some cool, tropical fish but I don't know enough about fish to describe them other than to say they're pretty colors of yellow and blue/green

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Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social · 11d

Um, I think the link emoji 🔗 that you’ve inserted breaks @bsky.app ability to make these clickable links, like this: www.walderfoundation.org Links don’t need emojis, just use http and the links will be visible and, most importantly, they will work.

Walder Foundation

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Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social · 11d

Just when I think I have mastered the art of matching species to citations of their original descriptions, I come across this beauty... "Ann Mag Nat Hist 1912, 9 1912: (149-174 242-269 321-336 433-444 625-633) & 10 (1-20 557-573)" 😣

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 14d

Sometimes, parasitologists have to put their own body on the line in the name of science. In this case, a parasitologist played host to a nose leech for over a month to find out more about its life history 🧪
#Invertebrate
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2019/10/dino...

<i>Dinobdella ferox</i>

When it comes to parasitology, sometimes you have to get really up close with your study organism, as one researcher in Taiwan did in trying...

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