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Kelli Trei @treiceratops.bsky.social · 3h

This article captures the critical need for deliberate, coordinated support of scientific databases such as #BHL @biodivlibrary.bsky.social. Scientific information must be recognized as core infrastructure, not a peripheral project. 🧪
Article: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sustainability During Instability: Long-Lived Life Science Databases and Science Funding Outlook in the United States

For decades, life science researchers have had cost-free, unrestricted access to data through online databases. However, the sustainability of even well-established resources was already tenuous, and ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Mara Thacker 🏳️‍🌈🦇 @maralina.bsky.social · 11d

It's Bat Appreciation Month! To celebrate, I'm gonna try to share a bat a day. I'm three days late, but better late than never. Plus, I appreciate bats 24/7, 365. First up, here's a great image of bats from the Biodiversity Heritage Library which is currently directed by @treiceratops.bsky.social!

Drawing of bats from 1870 from the Biodiversity Heritage Library collections. There are three large bats in the foreground, hanging upside down and then several smaller bats in background. Drawings are in black. Bat in the middle has wings cutely closely around his body, the top bat is sort of climging a branch, and bottom most bat looks like he's scratching an itch.

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Kelli Trei @treiceratops.bsky.social · Aug 26

This is an excellent offer for anybody waffling! about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
#ILoveBHL

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · Aug 11

📢 Big news! BHL has a new fiscal sponsor – @clirnews.bsky.social 🎉 This marks a major step forward in BHL’s transition to a more sustainable, community-led future.
🌍 Read all about what this means for BHL: 🔗 blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/08/tran... #ILoveBHL

BHL Transition Update #4: Welcoming CLIR as BHL’s New Fiscal Sponsor

We’re thrilled to share some exciting news: 🎉 The Biodiversity Heritage Library has a new fiscal sponsor – the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)! This is a major step forward in s…

blog.biodiversitylibrary.org

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · Jul 30

New on the #BHLblog: "Seeds for the Future" by @tiagolubiana.bsky.social. Tiago has done incredible work connecting BHL with the #Wikimedia ecosystem – building tools, enriching metadata & dramatically increasing the visibility of BHL’s image collections: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/07/seed...

Seeds for the Future: Closing Thoughts from BHL’s Wikimedian-in-Residence

In November 2024, I embarked on a dream job as the Wikimedian-in-Residence at the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), aiming to enrich Wikimedia’s platforms with BHL’s incredible biodiversity coll…

blog.biodiversitylibrary.org

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deb the jovial ♐♃ @sunoppositemoon.blacksky.app · Jul 31

Clocked! Jinkx knows what time it is! ⏰

🎃 @vamospeat.bsky.social · Jul 31

happy thursday enjoy jinkx monsoon dragging jk rowling to the depths of hell and back

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · Jul 26

After we upload historic journals onto BHL, we gather & upload the data for the articles in each volume. This can be time consuming, but it's critical to article discoverability (& to our retrospective assignment of DOIs). We've surfaced 419,456 articles thus far! Many thx to @rdmpage.bsky.social.

Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social · Jul 25

All articles in "Genera Insectorum" from 1902 to 1970 have now been extracted in BioStor biostor.org/oclc/5316074 and are shown in @biodivlibrary.bsky.social. Some spectacular plates. HT to @bfly52.bsky.social for the metadata that made this task easier. #onearticleatatime

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · Jul 29

In 1758 Carl Linnaeus gave the world's largest cat its 1st scientific name: Felis tigris (he used the genus Felis for all cats). In 1929, Reginald Innes Pocock subordinated the tiger under the genus Panthera. #GlobalTigerDay #InternationalTigerDay www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726936

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · Jul 13

The #BHLTransition is underway! ⛵ We’re charting the course to a strong and sustainable future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Read our latest update and, if you have visionary ideas about how BHL can evolve and grow, get in touch 🚀: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/07/tran...

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Kelli Trei @treiceratops.bsky.social · Jul 4

In the latest BHL blog post, Technical Coordinator Joel Richard provides insight into recent challenges related to bot traffic and the steps being taken to address them, highlighting a growing challenge for cultural heritage sites. 🧪

BHL Traffic Challenges

In the past several weeks, we’ve seen a large, disruptive increase in traffic to the BHL main website. This blog post is meant to summarize the event, the effect on BHL and its servers, our r…

blog.biodiversitylibrary.org

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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · Jul 3

If something feels off about someone - in your gut, your body or your intuition, step back, no matter how much you care about them, no matter what they say, no matter what you want or hope for. Press the pause button. Step back. Listen inside.

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Kelli Trei @treiceratops.bsky.social · Jul 3

a man with his arms crossed is smiling and saying noice !

Alt: Jake Peralta from the TV show Brooklyn 99 with his arms crossed is smiling and saying noice !

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Kelli Trei @treiceratops.bsky.social · Jul 3

Thank you @trevorabranch.bsky.social thanks for the shout out!! I and @nicolekearney.bsky.social are ready and able to have these conversations! 🧪

Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · Jul 2

Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research.
about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...

Call for Support: – About BHL

about.biodiversitylibrary.org

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · Jul 3

Happy #WorldMeerkatDay! This special day was founded by Australia's Taronga Western Plains Zoo on July 3, 2018. It is now celebrated across the globe! www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31064692

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · Jul 2

This single effort has made it easier to find and download biology articles and books from the 1700s and 1800s than from the 1900s... (many of the latter are still under copyright)

Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · Jul 2

Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research.
about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...

Call for Support: – About BHL

about.biodiversitylibrary.org

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old wildlife illustrations @wildlife.nathan.fun · Jun 26

The animal kingdom, arranged according to its organization, serving as a foundation for the natural history of animals: London: G. Henderson, 1834-1837. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28028027) #nature #illustration #art

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · Jun 29

🐯 It's #InternationalTigerDay 🐅, a day to celebrate tigers & raise awareness for tiger conservation. Carl Linnaeus gave the tiger its first scientific name in 1758: Felis tigris (now called Panthera tigris). Systema Naturae, v.1: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726936 #ILoveBHL

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · Jun 17

BHL has been experiencing a significant increase in traffic. Users may be experiencing intermittent service disruptions. If you're downloading data & don't want to put additional pressure on BHL systems, here's how to do that: about.biodiversitylibrary.org/ufaqs/how-do... Thank you!

How do I get ALL THE DATA about BHL books and scientific names? – About BHL

about.biodiversitylibrary.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 19

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · Jun 19

For Black folks music has always been part of our fight for liberation. From communication to channeling joy, strength and comfort.

For Day 19 of the #BlackMusicMonthChallenge, in honor of Lift Every Voice being our anthem *before* the US had an official anthem, share YOUR Black National Anthem.

Day 19: This is your Black national anthem

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Kelli Trei @treiceratops.bsky.social · Jun 11

Please feel free to contact me via the email in the call [email protected] OR on Bluesky, I am happy to set up a conversation! 🧪
-Kelli

Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · Jun 11

📢 The #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary is entering a bold new chapter – and we need your help! Today we release our official Call for Support. We’re seeking new hosts for BHL’s staff, infrastructure, and services. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL

A red flower on a green stem withe the words: BHL Call for support now open overlayed.

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Kelli Trei @treiceratops.bsky.social · Jun 5

Today at the Funk Library we are hosting #graphicscience book club with 5th-8th graders participating in #PollenPower at the Institute for Genomic Biology at #UIUC! Reading: Cicadapocalypse by Roger McMullan 🧪 📖 @illinoisfunk.bsky.social

Cover of a comic entitled Cicadapocalypse by Roger McMullan

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Kelli Trei @treiceratops.bsky.social · May 29

It’s ok, you’ll get two voices back, that’s how us hydras work, right? 😉 feel better soon!

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Kelli Trei @treiceratops.bsky.social · May 29

Shoutout to @nicolekearney.bsky.social as our incredible Communications Director & helping us navigate the unknown with patience, smarts, and heart. Couldn’t do it without you!

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