Siobhan Leachman
@siobhanleachman.bsky.social
Wikimedian, citizen scientist, digital curator, volunteer, nature nerd, wine geek, partner & mum. She/her. Inordinately fond of linked open data, moths & weevils. Other contact links see my ORCID. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5398-7721
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Integrating research expedition data: from BHL into the Wikiverse
YouTube video by Siobhan Leachman
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The #LivingData2025 conference is starting soon. I'm attending virtually and will be presenting on a very simple workflow for extracting #biodiversity data from the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary My presentation has been prerecorded and can be seen here www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySyi... #Wikidata
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A monograph of the birds forming the tanagrine genus Calliste: London: J. Van Voorst, 1857. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40318681) #nature #illustration #art
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 AM
A monograph of the birds forming the tanagrine genus Calliste: London: J. Van Voorst, 1857. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40318681) #nature #illustration #art
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That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
CSIRO to slash hundreds of jobs in cost-saving drive
The staff association at the nation’s leading scientific research organisation says the latest round of cuts marks “a sad day for publicly funded science”.
www.smh.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
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Pink grasshopper alert www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Rare pink grasshopper discovered during annual Mackenzie Basin survey
The unusual colouring makes the species particularly stand out to predators.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Pink grasshopper alert www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Woohoo!! He did it! Now to find and ship a Bionomia mouse pad and stickers...
November 18, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Woohoo!! He did it! Now to find and ship a Bionomia mouse pad and stickers...
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Several years ago, we put a whole bunch of data from a project into Wikidata. Now, as a result, some people who we had no more info for aside from a name or could not disambiguate are actually identifiable. LOD FTW.
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Creating a Featured Article is no small feat — these articles go through strict assessment before being classed in the top 0.1% of Wikipedia content. If you missed the story on Shaun's efforts, catch up here: www.wikimedia.nz/passion-push...
Passion pushes editor to the top 0.1 percent of Wikipedia articles
Aotearoa editor and entomologist, Shaun Thompson, has recently had his first article classified as a featured article.
www.wikimedia.nz
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Creating a Featured Article is no small feat — these articles go through strict assessment before being classed in the top 0.1% of Wikipedia content. If you missed the story on Shaun's efforts, catch up here: www.wikimedia.nz/passion-push...
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Here are just a few of those details.
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Here are just a few of those details.
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Diving through the purple sulfur bacteria layer of Fayetteville Green Lake with our ROV last month. This is the most intense density of PSB that I've seen in many years!
November 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Diving through the purple sulfur bacteria layer of Fayetteville Green Lake with our ROV last month. This is the most intense density of PSB that I've seen in many years!
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Shout out to Aotearoa New Zealand editor Shaun, whose first Featured Article is currently pride of place on Wikipedia's home page 👏
Alicella gigantea is an amphipod found at ocean depths between 4,850 and 7,000 metres, making it hard to find — but information on it isn’t: w.wiki/Ejmj
Alicella gigantea is an amphipod found at ocean depths between 4,850 and 7,000 metres, making it hard to find — but information on it isn’t: w.wiki/Ejmj
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Shout out to Aotearoa New Zealand editor Shaun, whose first Featured Article is currently pride of place on Wikipedia's home page 👏
Alicella gigantea is an amphipod found at ocean depths between 4,850 and 7,000 metres, making it hard to find — but information on it isn’t: w.wiki/Ejmj
Alicella gigantea is an amphipod found at ocean depths between 4,850 and 7,000 metres, making it hard to find — but information on it isn’t: w.wiki/Ejmj
A fabulous rant on trust as well as a message of love for #Wikipedia by @hankgreen.bsky.social Love the quote "The fight is always going to be the loud thing. The actual useful things in the world are quiet and invisible." www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zi0...
Wikipedia and the Destruction of Trust
YouTube video by Hank Green
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November 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
A fabulous rant on trust as well as a message of love for #Wikipedia by @hankgreen.bsky.social Love the quote "The fight is always going to be the loud thing. The actual useful things in the world are quiet and invisible." www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zi0...
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Sneaking up on 500 maps from the SLV georeferenced – in just over 2 weeks. With another 2 weeks to go before my #slvresidency ends, we might actually make it to 1,000! That would be amazing. https://wragge.github.io/slv-allmaps/dashboard.html
allmaps_dashboard
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November 16, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Sneaking up on 500 maps from the SLV georeferenced – in just over 2 weeks. With another 2 weeks to go before my #slvresidency ends, we might actually make it to 1,000! That would be amazing. https://wragge.github.io/slv-allmaps/dashboard.html
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If you're interested in hearing more about what I've been doing during my #slvresidency, I'll be giving a talk at 1pm on 3 December in the Library's Create Quarter.
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
If you're interested in hearing more about what I've been doing during my #slvresidency, I'll be giving a talk at 1pm on 3 December in the Library's Create Quarter.
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Mary Cynthia Dickerson was the 1st curator of herpetology at @amnh.org. She authored "The Frog Book" (1906), describing North American toads & frogs. Explore it in #BHLib thanks to the @uoftlibraries.bsky.social Robarts Library: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31830673 #HerNaturalHistory #HERpers 🐸
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Mary Cynthia Dickerson was the 1st curator of herpetology at @amnh.org. She authored "The Frog Book" (1906), describing North American toads & frogs. Explore it in #BHLib thanks to the @uoftlibraries.bsky.social Robarts Library: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31830673 #HerNaturalHistory #HERpers 🐸
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Up at sunrise and photographing McLeans Grassland Reserve for Wikipedia. One of the last surviving fragments of the original Canterbury Plains dryland ecosystem, it became a reserve in 2021 and is being restored with native plants, but the mayor thinks it should be covered in solar panels instead.
November 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Up at sunrise and photographing McLeans Grassland Reserve for Wikipedia. One of the last surviving fragments of the original Canterbury Plains dryland ecosystem, it became a reserve in 2021 and is being restored with native plants, but the mayor thinks it should be covered in solar panels instead.
Just heard my first shining cuckoo (Pīpīwharauroa) this spring. Relatively late in the season for me but still a lovely addition to the Wellington soundscape. Joining the extremely loud local grey warbler (riroriro), blackbirds, and tūī song as well as kākā screeches in my area.
November 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Just heard my first shining cuckoo (Pīpīwharauroa) this spring. Relatively late in the season for me but still a lovely addition to the Wellington soundscape. Joining the extremely loud local grey warbler (riroriro), blackbirds, and tūī song as well as kākā screeches in my area.
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Thousands of academics and students in New Zealand and Australia are poised to lose access to Elsevier journals next year
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Universities in 'battle of the century' with journal publisher Elsevier
One New Zealand university told its staff all universities in New Zealand and Australia would "lose some degree of access" to the publisher's 1600 titles from the start of next year.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Thousands of academics and students in New Zealand and Australia are poised to lose access to Elsevier journals next year
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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The stalk-eyed Crustacea Cambridge, Printed for the Museum, 1895. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13885333) #nature #illustration #art
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 AM
The stalk-eyed Crustacea Cambridge, Printed for the Museum, 1895. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13885333) #nature #illustration #art
Very much enjoying Ernestine Anderson this afternoon. open.spotify.com/track/1RkXIw...
Never Make Your Move Too Soon - Live At The Alley Cat Bistro, Culver City, California / June, 1987
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November 15, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Very much enjoying Ernestine Anderson this afternoon. open.spotify.com/track/1RkXIw...
Glorious Magnolia campbellii. Image via @biodivlibrary.bsky.social and @wikicommons.bsky.social Created by Joseph Hooker and William H. Fitch. Public Domain commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Il...
November 15, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Glorious Magnolia campbellii. Image via @biodivlibrary.bsky.social and @wikicommons.bsky.social Created by Joseph Hooker and William H. Fitch. Public Domain commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Il...
Blink and you will literally miss it, an image of me is in this video. 😂 Proud to say I'm a Wikipedian, doing my small part in improving everyone's access to knowledge.
November 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Blink and you will literally miss it, an image of me is in this video. 😂 Proud to say I'm a Wikipedian, doing my small part in improving everyone's access to knowledge.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Really disappointing that the mayor wants to turn one of the last remaining remnants of the pre-human Canterbury Plains into a solar farm, rather than see it restored it as a scientific reserve.
The city owns more than 3000 properties - enough to fill Hagley Park 66 times over - including a little-known grasslands reserve the mayor has a surprising plan for. “It’s going to cause a bit of a furore,” he admits.
How much is too much? Inside the Christchurch City Council’s vast $3b property portfolio
The city owns more than 3000 properties - enough to fill Hagley Park 66 times over - including a little-known grasslands reserve the mayor has a surprising plan for. “It’s going to cause a bit of a furore,” he admits.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Really disappointing that the mayor wants to turn one of the last remaining remnants of the pre-human Canterbury Plains into a solar farm, rather than see it restored it as a scientific reserve.
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This is the land that Colin Meurk has been championing for decades, and it finally got scenic reserve status a few years ago. Perhaps the Mayor doesn’t realise that. www.stuff.co.nz/environment/...
Stuff
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November 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This is the land that Colin Meurk has been championing for decades, and it finally got scenic reserve status a few years ago. Perhaps the Mayor doesn’t realise that. www.stuff.co.nz/environment/...