@debpaul.bsky.social
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The Trump administration planned to kick thousands of American seniors off of their disability benefits.
We pushed back — and now, they're backing off.
Public pressure works. Keep fighting back.
We pushed back — and now, they're backing off.
Public pressure works. Keep fighting back.
Social Security scraps plan to limit disability benefits after uproar
The policy would have fundamentally altered who qualifies for the two federal disability programs by eliminating or limiting a person’s age as a factor to consider.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The Trump administration planned to kick thousands of American seniors off of their disability benefits.
We pushed back — and now, they're backing off.
Public pressure works. Keep fighting back.
We pushed back — and now, they're backing off.
Public pressure works. Keep fighting back.
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Asking questions during seminars is a great way to practice public speaking.
It helps you learn to be clear and concise and hopefully to think deeply about a subject and to be polite. People around you will notice and take note of your words - good or bad.
It helps you learn to be clear and concise and hopefully to think deeply about a subject and to be polite. People around you will notice and take note of your words - good or bad.
November 20, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Asking questions during seminars is a great way to practice public speaking.
It helps you learn to be clear and concise and hopefully to think deeply about a subject and to be polite. People around you will notice and take note of your words - good or bad.
It helps you learn to be clear and concise and hopefully to think deeply about a subject and to be polite. People around you will notice and take note of your words - good or bad.
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Love to hear your thought on this. @rdmpage.bsky.social @dshorthouse.bsky.social @debpaul.bsky.social 🦉 I wrote a post on treating species identifiers with the same rigour as enterprise entity resolution. Not a new idea but we have to think about the scale. www.linkedin.com/pulse/one-sp...
One Species -> Many IDs: Applying enterprise "Entity Resolution" to Biodiversity Data
Here's a crazy idea. What if we treat species identifiers in the biodiversity data landscape the same way commercial organisations treat customers? Hear me out.
www.linkedin.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Love to hear your thought on this. @rdmpage.bsky.social @dshorthouse.bsky.social @debpaul.bsky.social 🦉 I wrote a post on treating species identifiers with the same rigour as enterprise entity resolution. Not a new idea but we have to think about the scale. www.linkedin.com/pulse/one-sp...
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If you're going to be at #SC25 tomorrow (Sunday) and are interested in research software engineering #RSEng, you might come to the RSE-HPC-2025 workshop - us-rse.org/rse-hpc-2025/ - from 9:00 to 5:30 in room 267
Research Software Engineers in HPC (RSE-HPC-2025)
Research Software Engineers in HPC (RSE-HPC-2025)
us-rse.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM
If you're going to be at #SC25 tomorrow (Sunday) and are interested in research software engineering #RSEng, you might come to the RSE-HPC-2025 workshop - us-rse.org/rse-hpc-2025/ - from 9:00 to 5:30 in room 267
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"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."
—FDR, 1936
—FDR, 1936
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."
—FDR, 1936
—FDR, 1936
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A year ago we started developing a bikini that's actually made for movement. In our inaugural SubSurface blog post see what a crash course in supply chain management courtesy of the Functional Fabric Fair looks like.
#surfaceathletic #MadeForMovement #fashiondesign #swimwear
#surfaceathletic #MadeForMovement #fashiondesign #swimwear
The First Step: A Trip to Portland, Exploring the Heart of Garment Innovation at the Functional Fabric Fair
Our mission at Surface Athletic is to create the ultimate water sport athletic wear using cutting edge fabrics and materials that align with our commitment t...
surfaceathletic.com
May 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A year ago we started developing a bikini that's actually made for movement. In our inaugural SubSurface blog post see what a crash course in supply chain management courtesy of the Functional Fabric Fair looks like.
#surfaceathletic #MadeForMovement #fashiondesign #swimwear
#surfaceathletic #MadeForMovement #fashiondesign #swimwear
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Day #2 in Tanzania: The beautiful UNESCO & IUCN listed Jozani Forest (the only national park in Zanzibar): monkeys & elephant shrews #HomewardBound @inaturalist.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Day #2 in Tanzania: The beautiful UNESCO & IUCN listed Jozani Forest (the only national park in Zanzibar): monkeys & elephant shrews #HomewardBound @inaturalist.bsky.social
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81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
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Mandatory garden break: Crisp autumn morning
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Mandatory garden break: Crisp autumn morning
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“The billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30-an-hour that their enemies are those earning $20-an-hour. They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long, broken system.”
-Zohran Mamdani
-Zohran Mamdani
November 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
“The billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30-an-hour that their enemies are those earning $20-an-hour. They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long, broken system.”
-Zohran Mamdani
-Zohran Mamdani
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I went to see Shirley Valentine with C and a mate of hers. When he throws the dinner at her early in the film I've never forgotten that collective quiet groan that many women in the audience made. It was the groan of recognition and solidarity. That film had levels. RIP Pauline Collins.
November 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I went to see Shirley Valentine with C and a mate of hers. When he throws the dinner at her early in the film I've never forgotten that collective quiet groan that many women in the audience made. It was the groan of recognition and solidarity. That film had levels. RIP Pauline Collins.
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Greetings from NFDI4Bioimage Task Area Leader Björn Grüning at the #EOSCSymposium2025, which is taking place from November 3 to 5 at Brussels. At the conference, Björn Grüning presents the #Galaxy use case, which is one of the first #EOSC candidate use cases.
👉 gxy.io/eosc25
Picture: Nicolas Lobet
👉 gxy.io/eosc25
Picture: Nicolas Lobet
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Greetings from NFDI4Bioimage Task Area Leader Björn Grüning at the #EOSCSymposium2025, which is taking place from November 3 to 5 at Brussels. At the conference, Björn Grüning presents the #Galaxy use case, which is one of the first #EOSC candidate use cases.
👉 gxy.io/eosc25
Picture: Nicolas Lobet
👉 gxy.io/eosc25
Picture: Nicolas Lobet
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Our article about #RegRed (an effort to collate data on species' Red List assessments at regional, national, and sub-national levels) is now available on @natureconservation.pensoft.net. Follow our GitHub project for news and updates 📣 github.com/RegRed-project
Researchers introduce the RegRed database, a global open-access compilation of over 3,000 regional Red List records from 219 countries that maps local species threats beyond the global IUCN Red List.
🔗 doi.org/10.3897/natu...
🔗 doi.org/10.3897/natu...
Towards a new global database of regional Red Lists (RegRed): metadata
Conservation biology depends on an assessment of threats to species. This has been done at the global scale through the IUCN Red List and also locally and regionally, for example, through country-spec...
doi.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Our article about #RegRed (an effort to collate data on species' Red List assessments at regional, national, and sub-national levels) is now available on @natureconservation.pensoft.net. Follow our GitHub project for news and updates 📣 github.com/RegRed-project
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Trump says he's sending the National Guard to crime-ridden "hellholes," but homicide rates across major cities have been falling.
In Portland, murders were down 39%.
In Chicago, they were down 22%.
Trump's deployments are about authoritarian control, not "law and order."
In Portland, murders were down 39%.
In Chicago, they were down 22%.
Trump's deployments are about authoritarian control, not "law and order."
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Trump says he's sending the National Guard to crime-ridden "hellholes," but homicide rates across major cities have been falling.
In Portland, murders were down 39%.
In Chicago, they were down 22%.
Trump's deployments are about authoritarian control, not "law and order."
In Portland, murders were down 39%.
In Chicago, they were down 22%.
Trump's deployments are about authoritarian control, not "law and order."
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We are delighted to announce that we have reached 1,000 followers on Bluesky 🎉
Many thanks to our growing @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social community for your interest in the topics that concern us as a consortium and for accompanying us on our journey towards FAIR-compliant research data management.
Many thanks to our growing @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social community for your interest in the topics that concern us as a consortium and for accompanying us on our journey towards FAIR-compliant research data management.
November 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
We are delighted to announce that we have reached 1,000 followers on Bluesky 🎉
Many thanks to our growing @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social community for your interest in the topics that concern us as a consortium and for accompanying us on our journey towards FAIR-compliant research data management.
Many thanks to our growing @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social community for your interest in the topics that concern us as a consortium and for accompanying us on our journey towards FAIR-compliant research data management.
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Rudolf Meier paraphrases a post from @rdmpage.bsky.social : as ~ 2/3 of the records in GBIF are birds, @gbif.org is primarily a Global Bird Information Facility. To correct this bias, we need to focus on the “ugly” biodiversity. 🪰 🪱 🪳 🦟 @mfnberlin.bsky.social #LivingData2025 x.com/rdmpage/stat...
October 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Rudolf Meier paraphrases a post from @rdmpage.bsky.social : as ~ 2/3 of the records in GBIF are birds, @gbif.org is primarily a Global Bird Information Facility. To correct this bias, we need to focus on the “ugly” biodiversity. 🪰 🪱 🪳 🦟 @mfnberlin.bsky.social #LivingData2025 x.com/rdmpage/stat...
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At #LivingData2025 @rdmpage.bsky.social digs through @boldsystems.bsky.social data trying to improve x-refs to sequences and publications. Need to get data out of publications to be able to make these links.
October 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
At #LivingData2025 @rdmpage.bsky.social digs through @boldsystems.bsky.social data trying to improve x-refs to sequences and publications. Need to get data out of publications to be able to make these links.
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‘Indecency has become a new hallmark’: writer and historian Jelani Cobb on race in Donald Trump’s America
‘Indecency has become a new hallmark’: writer and historian Jelani Cobb on race in Donald Trump’s America
In a new essay collection, the dean of Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism makes a compelling argument that everything is connected and nothing is inevitable about racial justice or democracy
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
‘Indecency has become a new hallmark’: writer and historian Jelani Cobb on race in Donald Trump’s America
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No one needs to "prove" MAGA attacks on protests wrong; they are wrong. Nonviolence should be the chosen path in principle, not as an attempt to appease MAGA critics who will surely find another excuse to smear the protesters, regardless of what they do.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Maga is painting Saturday’s protests as violent treason. Prove them wrong | Judith Levine
Trump allies would love an excuse to step up their crackdown. Nonviolence, both disciplined and open-hearted, must define the day
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
No one needs to "prove" MAGA attacks on protests wrong; they are wrong. Nonviolence should be the chosen path in principle, not as an attempt to appease MAGA critics who will surely find another excuse to smear the protesters, regardless of what they do.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Can you get your #biodiversitydata to @gbif.org sans #IPT direct from @taxonworks.bsky.social? Yes! with open extended specimen data too (resource relationships, biological associations, media)
Released 0.54.0. Changelog: github.com/SpeciesFileG....
One stop configuration for serving DwCArchives via a single fixed endpoint (get your data to #GBIF without an IPT, fileserver, etc.). Colors (see screenshot)! Interactive key guided "traditional" key creation. TaxonPage endpoints & much more.
One stop configuration for serving DwCArchives via a single fixed endpoint (get your data to #GBIF without an IPT, fileserver, etc.). Colors (see screenshot)! Interactive key guided "traditional" key creation. TaxonPage endpoints & much more.
October 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Can you get your #biodiversitydata to @gbif.org sans #IPT direct from @taxonworks.bsky.social? Yes! with open extended specimen data too (resource relationships, biological associations, media)
#People #Networks. @vmshirey.bsky.social does this bring back memories? #TaxonName #Authors #dataviz #WoRMS #CatalogueOfLife look!
#Taxonomy is *very* collaborative, this is authorship of the stonefly family Perlidae. The Sankey viz illustrates the connection between authors as defined by both being involved in the authorship of a TaxonName. Dynamic report coming to TW soon.
#biodiversity #species #taxonomy #viz
#biodiversity #species #taxonomy #viz
October 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM
#People #Networks. @vmshirey.bsky.social does this bring back memories? #TaxonName #Authors #dataviz #WoRMS #CatalogueOfLife look!
Imagine what you might see if you could visualize relationships across data object-entity relationships in your database. See #TaxonWorks #biologicalassociations #magic #Miridae. @entcollnet.bsky.social @gbif.org @dissco.bsky.social have a look-see
Welcome Miridae (and Reduviidae) to TaxonWorks! Comprehensive plant (and assassin) bug nomenclature with >44k names, distribution and host records are now imported. Christiane Weirauch, R. Toby Schuh and
Michael Schwartz lead the evolution of this decades long effort on these important #insects.
Michael Schwartz lead the evolution of this decades long effort on these important #insects.
October 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Imagine what you might see if you could visualize relationships across data object-entity relationships in your database. See #TaxonWorks #biologicalassociations #magic #Miridae. @entcollnet.bsky.social @gbif.org @dissco.bsky.social have a look-see
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A fish survey was conducted at a total of 26 sites across four river channels on alluvial fans in the Kofu Basin, central Japan.
#ichthyofauna #watershed #rivers
doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
#ichthyofauna #watershed #rivers
doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
Database of fish fauna collected from river channels on alluvial fans in the Kofu Basin, central Japan
Alluvial fans, located near mountainous regions, are characterised by substantial sediment supply, large variations in flow and significant disturbances. The river channels on alluvial fans support a ...
doi.org
October 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A fish survey was conducted at a total of 26 sites across four river channels on alluvial fans in the Kofu Basin, central Japan.
#ichthyofauna #watershed #rivers
doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
#ichthyofauna #watershed #rivers
doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
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@nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social Task Area Leaders Josh Moore and Christian Tischer will introduce participants to the history and basics of OME-Zarr at the international 2025 OME-NGFF Symposium from November 10–11 in Zurich, SW.
Register here:
👉 www.ema.uzh.ch/de/register/...
Picture by BioVisionCenter
Register here:
👉 www.ema.uzh.ch/de/register/...
Picture by BioVisionCenter
October 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
@nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social Task Area Leaders Josh Moore and Christian Tischer will introduce participants to the history and basics of OME-Zarr at the international 2025 OME-NGFF Symposium from November 10–11 in Zurich, SW.
Register here:
👉 www.ema.uzh.ch/de/register/...
Picture by BioVisionCenter
Register here:
👉 www.ema.uzh.ch/de/register/...
Picture by BioVisionCenter