Rod Page
@rdmpage.bsky.social
Expat Kiwi, Professor of Taxonomy at Glasgow University, inclined to say that something sucks at every available opportunity. Biodiversity informatics, phylogeny, knowledge graphs. I also run the @evoldir.bsky.social bot.
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University of Glasgow offers a fully funded PhD position on viviparity in evolutionary context. Ideal for UK home students with a biology background.… https://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvls/graduateschool/phd-research-opportunities/futures-programme/projects/fundamentals-of-life/fol22kathrynelmer/ #phd
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November 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
University of Glasgow offers a fully funded PhD position on viviparity in evolutionary context. Ideal for UK home students with a biology background.… https://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvls/graduateschool/phd-research-opportunities/futures-programme/projects/fundamentals-of-life/fol22kathrynelmer/ #phd
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The Society for the Study of Evolution offers International Travel Stipends for the Evolution 2026 meeting in Cleveland, OH. Applications are open until January 30. Details: https://www.evolutionsociety.org/content/society-awards-and-prizes/travel-awards.html#internatltravelsupp
Evolution Meeting Travel Awards
Evolution Meeting Travel Awards
www.evolutionsociety.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The Society for the Study of Evolution offers International Travel Stipends for the Evolution 2026 meeting in Cleveland, OH. Applications are open until January 30. Details: https://www.evolutionsociety.org/content/society-awards-and-prizes/travel-awards.html#internatltravelsupp
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Join us at the 10th International Barcode of Life Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, from Nov 2-6, 2026. Discover advancements in biodiversity genomics! More info: http://dnabarcodingconference.com #conference
Save the Date – International Barcode of Life
Save the Date – International Barcode of Life
dnabarcodingconference.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Join us at the 10th International Barcode of Life Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, from Nov 2-6, 2026. Discover advancements in biodiversity genomics! More info: http://dnabarcodingconference.com #conference
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One of the most exciting projects I have ever been involved in: Project Psyche! Read all about our ambitions and aims. It's ground breaking stuff, just mind blowing and even surreal (27 years ago we did single genes for lep phylogenetics)! @projectpsyche.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Project Psyche: reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe
Project Psyche is a transnational initiative to generate and study chromosome-level
reference genomes of all ~11 000 species of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) found
in Europe. Here, we describe t...
www.cell.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
One of the most exciting projects I have ever been involved in: Project Psyche! Read all about our ambitions and aims. It's ground breaking stuff, just mind blowing and even surreal (27 years ago we did single genes for lep phylogenetics)! @projectpsyche.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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We have improved our links with the Allmaps project, so that any of our maps can be freely, collaboratively georeferenced and then brought back into our Georeferenced Maps viewer 🗺️
Learn more > maps.nls.uk/view/help/
#Georeference #MapMonday #Maps
Learn more > maps.nls.uk/view/help/
#Georeference #MapMonday #Maps
October 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
We have improved our links with the Allmaps project, so that any of our maps can be freely, collaboratively georeferenced and then brought back into our Georeferenced Maps viewer 🗺️
Learn more > maps.nls.uk/view/help/
#Georeference #MapMonday #Maps
Learn more > maps.nls.uk/view/help/
#Georeference #MapMonday #Maps
Ok, definitely the last of these "pretty" experiments... the rather less colourful Icones plantarum biostor.org/issn/0269-3542, just a single volume from @biodivlibrary.bsky.social processed so far.
November 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Ok, definitely the last of these "pretty" experiments... the rather less colourful Icones plantarum biostor.org/issn/0269-3542, just a single volume from @biodivlibrary.bsky.social processed so far.
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psst... there's probably still bugs, but... https://slv.wraggelabs.com/myplace/ #sneakpreview
my place: exploring the State Library of Victoria's collections by location
slv.wraggelabs.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:14 AM
psst... there's probably still bugs, but... https://slv.wraggelabs.com/myplace/ #sneakpreview
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Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Get in touch if you want to chat!
Get in touch if you want to chat!
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Get in touch if you want to chat!
Get in touch if you want to chat!
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Researchers finally solve the big mysteries of Easter Island.
Drones, physics and rats: Studies show how the people of Rapa Nui made and moved the giant statues – and what caused the island’s deforestation
The mysteries of Easter Island, subjects of speculation for centuries, yield to scientific inquiry.
theconversation.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Researchers finally solve the big mysteries of Easter Island.
OK, probably the last of the "pretty" for a while (this is all a massive displacement activity). I'm starting to add plates from Curtis's botanical magazine to BioStor starting with Volume 145 biostor.org/issn/0011-4073. Trying to automate this as much as possible, so expect some ugly errors.
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
OK, probably the last of the "pretty" for a while (this is all a massive displacement activity). I'm starting to add plates from Curtis's botanical magazine to BioStor starting with Volume 145 biostor.org/issn/0011-4073. Trying to automate this as much as possible, so expect some ugly errors.
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How do we do more with biodiversity data we've already collected?
I gave a TED Talk on scientific discovery in ecological databases at a joint TED Countdown and Bezos Earth Fund event for #NYClimateWeek this year, and it's now live!
@inaturalist.bsky.social #AIforConservation
I gave a TED Talk on scientific discovery in ecological databases at a joint TED Countdown and Bezos Earth Fund event for #NYClimateWeek this year, and it's now live!
@inaturalist.bsky.social #AIforConservation
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
How do we do more with biodiversity data we've already collected?
I gave a TED Talk on scientific discovery in ecological databases at a joint TED Countdown and Bezos Earth Fund event for #NYClimateWeek this year, and it's now live!
@inaturalist.bsky.social #AIforConservation
I gave a TED Talk on scientific discovery in ecological databases at a joint TED Countdown and Bezos Earth Fund event for #NYClimateWeek this year, and it's now live!
@inaturalist.bsky.social #AIforConservation
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Can confirm
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Can confirm
“Overall, these findings suggest that the value of natural history collections as global research infrastructure is eroding due to decreased collecting of specimen data across species, locations, and time.“ doi.org/10.1038/s414... Interesting analysis based on @gbif.org data.
Global sampling decline erodes science potential of natural history collections - Nature Communications
Natural history collections hold over two billion specimens representing Earth’s biodiversity, but their scientific value depends on continued specimen collection and digitisation. This study demonstr...
doi.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
“Overall, these findings suggest that the value of natural history collections as global research infrastructure is eroding due to decreased collecting of specimen data across species, locations, and time.“ doi.org/10.1038/s414... Interesting analysis based on @gbif.org data.
More articles extracted from @biodivlibrary.bsky.social , this time "Flowering Plants of South Africa" biostor.org/issn/0015-4504 Tricky to work with these articles as no page numbers and page and plate ordering needs to be flipped. Nightmare, but at least we get to see the "pretty".
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
More articles extracted from @biodivlibrary.bsky.social , this time "Flowering Plants of South Africa" biostor.org/issn/0015-4504 Tricky to work with these articles as no page numbers and page and plate ordering needs to be flipped. Nightmare, but at least we get to see the "pretty".
It looks like DBpedia has gotten a lot less useful for my purposes 🙁It used to include a short summary of a topic (often in multiple languages) but now that has gone(?) (compare dbpedia.org/page/Blattidae with web.archive.org/web/20221226... from @waybackmachine.bsky.social )
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It looks like DBpedia has gotten a lot less useful for my purposes 🙁It used to include a short summary of a topic (often in multiple languages) but now that has gone(?) (compare dbpedia.org/page/Blattidae with web.archive.org/web/20221226... from @waybackmachine.bsky.social )
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hot take (?): the role of LLMs / genAI in peer reviewing definitely depends on what we think the role of peer review actually is.
current peer review (in eco/evo?) is often focused on smoothness, broadness, etc. for readers unfamiliar with topic. This seems like a great use for LLMs...
current peer review (in eco/evo?) is often focused on smoothness, broadness, etc. for readers unfamiliar with topic. This seems like a great use for LLMs...
November 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
hot take (?): the role of LLMs / genAI in peer reviewing definitely depends on what we think the role of peer review actually is.
current peer review (in eco/evo?) is often focused on smoothness, broadness, etc. for readers unfamiliar with topic. This seems like a great use for LLMs...
current peer review (in eco/evo?) is often focused on smoothness, broadness, etc. for readers unfamiliar with topic. This seems like a great use for LLMs...
Added over 400 articles to Journal of @entsocbc.bsky.social in @biodivlibrary.bsky.social. Articles are in BioStor biostor.org/issn/0071-0733 and should appear in BHL tomorrow #bhlsunday
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Added over 400 articles to Journal of @entsocbc.bsky.social in @biodivlibrary.bsky.social. Articles are in BioStor biostor.org/issn/0071-0733 and should appear in BHL tomorrow #bhlsunday
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If you'd like to celebrate the biology of viruses - or the fight against viral diseases - this winter, try out our free and updated #VirusSnowflake designs.
Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them!
cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...
Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them!
cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you'd like to celebrate the biology of viruses - or the fight against viral diseases - this winter, try out our free and updated #VirusSnowflake designs.
Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them!
cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...
Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them!
cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...
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Thinking about the business case for using specialised academic deep research eg elicit, Undermind, Consensus, Scispace, Scopus DR etc Vs general deep research (openai, Gemini, Claude research etc). (1)
November 23, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Thinking about the business case for using specialised academic deep research eg elicit, Undermind, Consensus, Scispace, Scopus DR etc Vs general deep research (openai, Gemini, Claude research etc). (1)
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Or course the big bomb would be Google scholar coming in. They did just launch Scholar labs but that's deep search not deep research... But if they change their mind...
aarontay.substack.com/p/scholar-la... (7)
aarontay.substack.com/p/scholar-la... (7)
Scholar Labs Early Review: Google Scholar Finally Enters the AI Era
Generated by Nano-Banana Pro from text of this blog post
aarontay.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Or course the big bomb would be Google scholar coming in. They did just launch Scholar labs but that's deep search not deep research... But if they change their mind...
aarontay.substack.com/p/scholar-la... (7)
aarontay.substack.com/p/scholar-la... (7)
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A new #PhD opportunity supervised by @drmambobob.bsky.social and me at the @uniofreading.bsky.social on dragonfly and damselfly evolution!
It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A new #PhD opportunity supervised by @drmambobob.bsky.social and me at the @uniofreading.bsky.social on dragonfly and damselfly evolution!
It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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!!! Three more organisations have joined the global #OurFutureMemory movement!
* @iua-official.bsky.social Librarians’ Group (IUALG)
* Boston Library Consortium
* @libraryfutures.bsky.social
🔗 Full announcement: www.internetarchive.eu/2025/11/21/t...
🔗 Promote the campaign: ourfuturememory.org
* @iua-official.bsky.social Librarians’ Group (IUALG)
* Boston Library Consortium
* @libraryfutures.bsky.social
🔗 Full announcement: www.internetarchive.eu/2025/11/21/t...
🔗 Promote the campaign: ourfuturememory.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
!!! Three more organisations have joined the global #OurFutureMemory movement!
* @iua-official.bsky.social Librarians’ Group (IUALG)
* Boston Library Consortium
* @libraryfutures.bsky.social
🔗 Full announcement: www.internetarchive.eu/2025/11/21/t...
🔗 Promote the campaign: ourfuturememory.org
* @iua-official.bsky.social Librarians’ Group (IUALG)
* Boston Library Consortium
* @libraryfutures.bsky.social
🔗 Full announcement: www.internetarchive.eu/2025/11/21/t...
🔗 Promote the campaign: ourfuturememory.org
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In the Sumatran rainforest's deepest reaches, strange plants - that scarcely resemble plants at all - blossom unseen. This rarity is Balanophora papuana. We found mounds of it rising from the forest floor like little reefs of coral.
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 AM
In the Sumatran rainforest's deepest reaches, strange plants - that scarcely resemble plants at all - blossom unseen. This rarity is Balanophora papuana. We found mounds of it rising from the forest floor like little reefs of coral.
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lol is somebody cataloguing these
November 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
lol is somebody cataloguing these
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Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …