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Working on adding research expedition data into #Wikidata & attributing specimens of expedition collectors in @bionomia.net Got discouraged as the dataset I'm linking to is CC BY NC licensed i.e. a closed license. Discourages folk like me from enriching that institutions data via #Bionomia.
January 30, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Nathaniel Lord Britton https://bionomia.net/Q553714 collected the holotype CACTACEAE: Cephalocereus bahamensis Britton in Bahamas https://gbif.org/occurrence/1930321925 #TypeSpecimenToday
January 30, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Great chat with Andriy Novikov orcid.org/0000-0002-01... botanist and visionary behind herbUA, wp.herbua.com. The links to @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social and elsewhere are A+
Welcome to the list of collectors who contributed to Ukrainian herbaria
This website lists the collectors who contributed to the Ukrainian herbaria
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January 29, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Charles Frederick Millspaugh https://bionomia.net/Q2585363 and Nathaniel Lord Britton https://bionomia.net/Q553714 collected the holotype VERBENACEAE: Valerianoides fruticosa Millsp. https://gbif.org/occurrence/1228208091 #TypeSpecimenToday
January 27, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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As part of my Wikimedia in Residence roll at the New Zealand Bioeconomy Science Institute I've created documentation using @bionomia.net frictionless data packages to help add "collection items at" statements to collector items in @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social See doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #Wikidata
Bionomia/OpenRefine/Wikidata "Collection items at" workflow
This workflow uses Bionomia's frictionless data packages and OpenRefine to bulk edit natural history collector items in Wikidata. It shows the steps needed to be taken to add "collection items at" sta...
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January 26, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Per Karl Hjalmar Dusén https://bionomia.net/Q5625930 collected the holotype DIOSCOREACEAE: Dioscorea monadelpha (Kunth) Griseb. in Brazil https://gbif.org/occurrence/1096351355 #TypeSpecimenToday
January 26, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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🟨 An illustrated catalogue revisits bee species collected by Alfred Russel Wallace and described by Frederick Smith, based on historical museum collections.

Published in the @ejtaxonomy.bsky.social europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ej...
January 21, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Cyrus Pringle https://bionomia.net/Q3009492 collected the holotype ASTERACEAE: Tagetes stenophylla B. L. Robinson in Mexico https://gbif.org/occurrence/1999114136 #TypeSpecimenToday
January 25, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Thomas Archibald Sprague https://bionomia.net/Q2422076 collected the holotype CONVOLVULACEAE: Maripa pauciflora in Colombia https://gbif.org/occurrence/912492610 #TypeSpecimenToday
January 24, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Max Julius Dinklage https://bionomia.net/Q21510433 collected the holotype CONNARACEAE: Cnestis corniculata Lam. in Liberia https://gbif.org/occurrence/864888722 #TypeSpecimenToday
January 23, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Townshend Stith Brandegee https://bionomia.net/Q1002345 collected the holotype ASPLENIACEAE: Asplenium blepharodes in Mexico https://gbif.org/occurrence/1038976720 #TypeSpecimenToday
January 22, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Per Karl Hjalmar Dusén https://bionomia.net/Q5625930 collected the holotype SAPINDACEAE: Serjania punctulata Radlk. in Brazil https://gbif.org/occurrence/1848915649 #TypeSpecimenToday
January 21, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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Reward for natural history museum @nhmcrete.bsky.social for following me: A thread.🧵
First, I check out to see if they've published anything in @gbif.org YES they have! www.gbif.org/dataset/195e... AND it is openly licensed. @creativecommons.bsky.social CC BY 4.0 licensing ROCKS.
Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera) from Crete deposited at the Natural History Museum of Crete
An analysis of 2,849 specimens from over 400 localities in Crete, housed at the Natural History Museum of Crete (NHMC), revealed 93 Auchenorrhyncha species across 10 families—representing 64.14% of th...
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January 20, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Thomas Kirk https://bionomia.net/Q930525 collected the holotype ASTERACEAE: Olearia furfuracea var. rubicunda Kirk in New Zealand https://gbif.org/occurrence/4520818462 #TypeSpecimenToday
January 20, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Auguste François Marie Glaziou https://bionomia.net/Q440696 collected the holotype LOGANIACEAE: Strychnos glaziovii Gilg https://gbif.org/occurrence/1228320264 #TypeSpecimenToday
January 19, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Gustaf Oskar Andersson Malme https://bionomia.net/Q429017 collected the holotype PARMELIACEAE: Parmotrema melanochaetum in Brazil https://gbif.org/occurrence/1086204213 #TypeSpecimenToday
January 18, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Albert Spear Hitchcock https://bionomia.net/Q2063155 collected the holotype LAMIACEAE: Aegiphila caymanensis Moldenke in Cayman Islands https://gbif.org/occurrence/1228215277 #TypeSpecimenToday
January 17, 2026 at 8:30 AM
August Weberbauer https://bionomia.net/Q216034 collected the holotype ORCHIDACEAE: Epidendrum nephoglossum Schltr. https://gbif.org/occurrence/1228221218 #TypeSpecimenToday
January 16, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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January 15, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Alois Staudt https://bionomia.net/Q40987895 collected the holotype EUPHORBIACEAE: Plukenetia in Cameroon https://gbif.org/occurrence/912357596 #TypeSpecimenToday
January 15, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Henry Ogg Forbes https://bionomia.net/Q1349901 collected the holotype PENTAPHYLACACEAE: Adinandra forbesii Baker f. in Papua New Guinea https://gbif.org/occurrence/1055986918 #TypeSpecimenToday
January 14, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Cecil Boden Kloss https://bionomia.net/Q2329574 collected the holotype ORCHIDACEAE: Crepidium atrobrachiata (Ridl.) Szlach. in Indonesia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1057291626 #TypeSpecimenToday
January 13, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Otto Kuntze https://bionomia.net/Q62853 collected the holotype RANUNCULACEAE: Clematis vitaloa subsp. javana in Indonesia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1930159871 #TypeSpecimenToday
January 12, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Moysés Kuhlmann https://bionomia.net/Q3327032 collected the holotype ANNONACEAE: Guatteria australis A. St.-Hil. in Brazil https://gbif.org/occurrence/1096352355 #TypeSpecimenToday
January 11, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Johann Franz Drège https://bionomia.net/Q6215799 collected the holotype APOCYNACEAE: Ceropegia fimbriata E.Mey. in South Africa https://gbif.org/occurrence/439298570 #TypeSpecimenToday
January 10, 2026 at 8:30 AM