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December 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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do you think it's a coincidence that I posted something to the effect of "iDigBio is making chatbots now, be careful trusting them in the near future" in a listserve last night and all of a sudden there's a post in there from the iDigBio director like COME JOIN OUR FREE WEBINAR SERIES
October 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
do you think it's a coincidence that I posted something to the effect of "iDigBio is making chatbots now, be careful trusting them in the near future" in a listserve last night and all of a sudden there's a post in there from the iDigBio director like COME JOIN OUR FREE WEBINAR SERIES
just another helpful little aside about iDigBio. they've finally put up who exactly is funding their chatbot, and it's our good friends NSF and AT&T. you know, AT&T, the famous stalwart protectors of biodiversity
October 27, 2025 at 3:18 AM
just another helpful little aside about iDigBio. they've finally put up who exactly is funding their chatbot, and it's our good friends NSF and AT&T. you know, AT&T, the famous stalwart protectors of biodiversity
I asked the amazing incredible Agentic LLM AI iChatBio the exact same question on August 18th and today. On August 18 is said the answer is 47, today it says the answer is zero. Can anyone explain why this is happening
October 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I asked the amazing incredible Agentic LLM AI iChatBio the exact same question on August 18th and today. On August 18 is said the answer is 47, today it says the answer is zero. Can anyone explain why this is happening
Someone on tumblr asked if any of the iDigBio AI people are going to be at next month's entomology conference in USA, yeah I'm pretty sure they're tabling with the other companies selling stuff? Unless plans have changed in the past few weeks since I checked.
October 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Someone on tumblr asked if any of the iDigBio AI people are going to be at next month's entomology conference in USA, yeah I'm pretty sure they're tabling with the other companies selling stuff? Unless plans have changed in the past few weeks since I checked.
Help @iDigBio making 2 surveys international and identify challenges and opportunities of: 1) Integrating Data Quality Feedback from Aggregators into Collection Databases2) Integrating Crowdsourced Data into Collection Databases
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February 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Help @iDigBio making 2 surveys international and identify challenges and opportunities of: 1) Integrating Data Quality Feedback from Aggregators into Collection Databases2) Integrating Crowdsourced Data into Collection Databases
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I did not work for iDigBio specifically, but I'm involved in databasing in general and their site (by definition) draws from my work among millions of others'
August 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I did not work for iDigBio specifically, but I'm involved in databasing in general and their site (by definition) draws from my work among millions of others'
I asked it one of the questions in its example section: "How many species occurrences does iDigBio have for Canada?"
Should I be searching some other way to turn up the chat's result of about 3.2 million? Because I'm getting 4.6m in Canada, but the chance of this being a user error is high.
Should I be searching some other way to turn up the chat's result of about 3.2 million? Because I'm getting 4.6m in Canada, but the chance of this being a user error is high.
August 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I asked it one of the questions in its example section: "How many species occurrences does iDigBio have for Canada?"
Should I be searching some other way to turn up the chat's result of about 3.2 million? Because I'm getting 4.6m in Canada, but the chance of this being a user error is high.
Should I be searching some other way to turn up the chat's result of about 3.2 million? Because I'm getting 4.6m in Canada, but the chance of this being a user error is high.
Honestly, I was expecting iChatBio to act like it has just learned about a new clam shrimp, because my data just showed up on GBIF about it. But, never mind, it can't even do a proper search of iDigBio now for some reason? Continue to pour money into this hole, everyone. Clearly, this is the future.
September 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Honestly, I was expecting iChatBio to act like it has just learned about a new clam shrimp, because my data just showed up on GBIF about it. But, never mind, it can't even do a proper search of iDigBio now for some reason? Continue to pour money into this hole, everyone. Clearly, this is the future.
word on the street is the big ones, GBIF, iNat, iDigBio, are all going down the AI drain. A license for database software like Specify is something like 30k per year. it's bleak. iNaturalist would have been the site for me in any other universe, but I just never got into it and I don't think I will
August 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
word on the street is the big ones, GBIF, iNat, iDigBio, are all going down the AI drain. A license for database software like Specify is something like 30k per year. it's bleak. iNaturalist would have been the site for me in any other universe, but I just never got into it and I don't think I will
Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference hosted by @iDigBio, #MICH, #UMMP, and #UMMZ
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Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference hosted by U-M museums | U-M LSA Museum of Zoology
Participants demonstrated how biodiversity resources, such as museum specimens, archived tissues and related digitized data, are accessed and incorporated in research programs encompassing the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology.
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December 1, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference hosted by @iDigBio, #MICH, #UMMP, and #UMMZ
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🍃Created as part of NSF’s Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections program, #iDigBio is hosting a webinar series to highlight strategies aimed at long-term sustainability of #digitization and data mobilization efforts: www.idigbio.org/content/webi...
Webinar Series: The Importance of Sustaining Biodiversity Specimen Collections Digitization in the Absence of NSF Funding | iDigBio
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August 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
🍃Created as part of NSF’s Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections program, #iDigBio is hosting a webinar series to highlight strategies aimed at long-term sustainability of #digitization and data mobilization efforts: www.idigbio.org/content/webi...
I *suspect* iDigBio higher-ups already know how people feel about iNaturalist's recent announcement, as many people use both websites, and so they are keeping quiet about this to avoid extra scrutiny. If the new iChatBio is so wonderful, then I think as many people as possible should know about it.
August 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I *suspect* iDigBio higher-ups already know how people feel about iNaturalist's recent announcement, as many people use both websites, and so they are keeping quiet about this to avoid extra scrutiny. If the new iChatBio is so wonderful, then I think as many people as possible should know about it.
I participate in iDigBio…you hate to see it
iDigBio is hosting a zoom webinar on Monday, August 18, 1pm - 2pm (it says ET in one place and CT in another place, I'm assuming it's ET??) to discuss how their new agentic LLM chatbot iChatBio is "transforming" biodiversity research. I'm sure it is.
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: iChatBio: A Modular Agent System for Biodiversity Data Exploration. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Curious how AI is transforming biodiversity research? Join us for a look at iChatBio, a cutting-edge agentic system designed to help scientists discover, process, and analyze biodiversity data with ea...
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August 17, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I participate in iDigBio…you hate to see it
Don't miss this important webinar today, during the webinar series by #iDigBio "Sustaining collections digitization beyond NSF funding", featuring @gbif.org: ➡️ ufl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Don't miss this important webinar today, during the webinar series by #iDigBio "Sustaining collections digitization beyond NSF funding", featuring @gbif.org: ➡️ ufl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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December 4, 2024 at 3:21 PM
#eurotaxonomy @iDigBio @DiSSCoEU @DiSSCoPrepare @uhasselt @CMK_Uhasselt @inSCIghtUH @africamuseumbe @helsinkiuni @luomus @luomus_zoology @VLIRUOS @enabel @muni_cz @KU_Leuven @RBINSmuseum @Invasivesnet @uniluofficiel @cichlid_papers @FWOVlaanderen
February 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
#eurotaxonomy @iDigBio @DiSSCoEU @DiSSCoPrepare @uhasselt @CMK_Uhasselt @inSCIghtUH @africamuseumbe @helsinkiuni @luomus @luomus_zoology @VLIRUOS @enabel @muni_cz @KU_Leuven @RBINSmuseum @Invasivesnet @uniluofficiel @cichlid_papers @FWOVlaanderen
See, I can put in "Myrmeleon" which are antlions, and it shows me where there is data on antlions. It is a one step process.
August 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
See, I can put in "Myrmeleon" which are antlions, and it shows me where there is data on antlions. It is a one step process.
🤔 Exploring #fieldstations + #collections What's possible? What's needed? Join @taxonworks.bsky.social #twt2025 on May 6th with guests @rallidaerule.bsky.social, Jim L, Arianna K, Enrique S-B, Jamie M-G together.taxonworks.org Reg open! @gbif.org @dissco.bsky.social #idigbio #spnhc @tdwg.org 👀
March 31, 2025 at 11:18 PM
🤔 Exploring #fieldstations + #collections What's possible? What's needed? Join @taxonworks.bsky.social #twt2025 on May 6th with guests @rallidaerule.bsky.social, Jim L, Arianna K, Enrique S-B, Jamie M-G together.taxonworks.org Reg open! @gbif.org @dissco.bsky.social #idigbio #spnhc @tdwg.org 👀
It was a pleasure participating in the @BioCollNetwork workshop on collection attribution! It was a great discussion w/reps from @NSF @NIH @iDigBio @GBIF @VertNetOrg @BioDivLibrary @Pensoft @SpecifySoftware @ElsevierConnect @SPNHC & others #NaturalHistory #collectionsareessential
December 1, 2024 at 11:48 PM
It was a pleasure participating in the @BioCollNetwork workshop on collection attribution! It was a great discussion w/reps from @NSF @NIH @iDigBio @GBIF @VertNetOrg @BioDivLibrary @Pensoft @SpecifySoftware @ElsevierConnect @SPNHC & others #NaturalHistory #collectionsareessential
The iDigBio people started off staying they're aware of the environmental impacts but blah blah they still want the chatbot
August 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The iDigBio people started off staying they're aware of the environmental impacts but blah blah they still want the chatbot
Due to Firebase's free-tier limits, I added ads to cover potential future costs (Where is my Fossil? stores user/event/paleontologist data). I dislike ads too, so I'm exploring an ad-free version that drops private DB access but keeps PBDB, Macrostrat, iDigBio, etc. Would you pay for that?
June 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Due to Firebase's free-tier limits, I added ads to cover potential future costs (Where is my Fossil? stores user/event/paleontologist data). I dislike ads too, so I'm exploring an ad-free version that drops private DB access but keeps PBDB, Macrostrat, iDigBio, etc. Would you pay for that?
Excited to share my first undergrad-mentee-led manuscript! Here we introduce gatoRs, an R package designed to streamline the downloading and processing of biodiversity data. Check out our paper here: doi.org/10.1002/aps3...
March 22, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Excited to share my first undergrad-mentee-led manuscript! Here we introduce gatoRs, an R package designed to streamline the downloading and processing of biodiversity data. Check out our paper here: doi.org/10.1002/aps3...
📢𝟐𝟐 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓🗓️: join the @𝐭𝐝𝐰𝐠 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎 Birds of Feather session “BoF01: Converging Digital Specimens and Extended Specimens - Towards a global specification”
Register here:#biodiversitydata @DiSSCoEU @DiSSCoPrepare @iDigBio @MobiliseAction
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February 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
📢𝟐𝟐 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓🗓️: join the @𝐭𝐝𝐰𝐠 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎 Birds of Feather session “BoF01: Converging Digital Specimens and Extended Specimens - Towards a global specification”
Register here:#biodiversitydata @DiSSCoEU @DiSSCoPrepare @iDigBio @MobiliseAction
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1/2 @Mammalogists #ASMgopher starts in <2 weeks! A special thanks to our sponsors @oxfordpress @RTLlubbock @iDigBio @JHUPress @LiveTraps
December 1, 2024 at 11:41 PM
1/2 @Mammalogists #ASMgopher starts in <2 weeks! A special thanks to our sponsors @oxfordpress @RTLlubbock @iDigBio @JHUPress @LiveTraps