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Gail Kampmeier

@gkamp.bsky.social
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entomology, biodiversity informatics, aphids, plant virus epidemiology, photography, language, podcasts, reading, DEI, she/her

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Gail Kampmeier @gkamp.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🧪 www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/06/not-... #climate #AI "“Ask for short answers (‘one word only,’ ‘bullet list,’ or ‘keep it under two sentences’) to reduce unnecessary response tokens, especially in reasoning mode,” Dauner suggests.
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Not all AI prompts are equal. Some emit 50x more carbon than others. Here's why.
When researchers delved into the tradeoff between AI sustainability and accuracy, they uncovered strategies for greener chatbots.
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Gail Kampmeier @gkamp.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
#Biodiversity #informatics has long ignored #agricultural biodiversity but this new paper doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... makes use of metabarcoding tools to crack this door open 🧪. #agroecosystems are #ecosystems! @bdj.pensoft.net @tdwg.org
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Metabarcoding arthropods in agroecosystems in Southern Ontario, Canada
Metabarcoding can generate large numbers of georeferenced occurrence data from bulk samples at low cost. Its integration into the practice of agricultural invertebrate biomonitoring currently lacks bo...
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Gail Kampmeier @gkamp.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
TDWG standards www.tdwg.org/standards/, such as Darwin Core, underpin the bulk of biodiversity data shared globally today via e.g., @gbif.org (Global Biodiversity Information Facility), iDigBio. The organization has come a long way from its taxonomic databases history, but TDWG still sticks.
tdwg.org
Standards
From Darwin Core to WGSRPD TDWG standards aid the exchange of biodiversity information.
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Gail Kampmeier @gkamp.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
@bugeric.bsky.social not a big fan of acronyms either. TDWG (pronounced TAD-wig) is a legacy for Taxonomic Databases Working Group—still its official name for tax purposes. Today it is the more descriptive Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) tdwg.org. 300-character limit encourages shortcuts.
tdwg.org
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
We are a non-profit organization and a community dedicated to developing biodiversity information standards.
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Gail Kampmeier @gkamp.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Did you know that @tdwg.org is on BlueSky? Calling all creators, managers, and users of bio- and geodiversity information to join us as we work to create and promote #standards for sharing and using knowledge about the world's #biodiversity and #geodiversity. Find out about #LivingData2025
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Gail Kampmeier @gkamp.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This is a challenge for creation and use of @tdwg.org biodiversity data standards as well as the entire community, not only for primary biodiversity data uses shown below, but decision-making in #conservationpolicy. Sounds like a possible #livingdata2025 session topic 👀
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Gail Kampmeier @gkamp.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I see insect wings in the news and immediately think of the bioinspired research on cicadas of the @cotesia.bsky.social lab. Sure enough www.science.org/content/arti... Exciting possibilities and congrats to Yutao Chen on reporting the research. #Science #bioinspiration #cicadas
science.org
Microscopic pillars on insect wings give bugs an antibacterial superpower
New insights into how these “nanopillars” work could inspire better ways to protect humans from infection
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Gail Kampmeier @gkamp.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Call for sessions #DatosVivos2025 www.livingdata2025.com/calls.html @taxonworks.bsky.social @gbif.org @gbifes.bsky.social @ipbes.bsky.social @entcollnet.bsky.social @dissco.bsky.social @inaturalist.bsky.social @pensoft.net @bmdproject.bsky.social @cabes.bsky.social
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Gail Kampmeier @gkamp.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
#DatosVivos2025 Submit your session proposal by 12 February and align it with one or more of the conference's four themes: 📊 Open Data 👩‍💻 Data Integration 🦋 Biodiversity Data Application 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Community Engagement and Capacity Building Learn more: 🔗https://www.livingdata2025.com/calls.html
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Gail Kampmeier @gkamp.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
📣Call for session proposals - #LivingData2025 🐦 Living Data 2025 is a one-of-a-kind conference jointly organized by GBIF, @TDWG, @OBIS and @GEOBON and hosted by the Instituto Humboldt from 21 to -24 October in Bogotá, #Colombia. 🔗https://www.livingdata2025.com/calls.html
Call for Organized Sessions [banner; invitation to] Submit a proposal! Visit our website for more information.
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Gail Kampmeier @gkamp.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
😍 the colors, the armor, the spikes!
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Gail Kampmeier @gkamp.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Are the biases we see in observations the same as those found in natural history collections or #museum displays (see doi.org/10.3897/biss...)?
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Exploring Size Bias of Natural History Museum Specimens: Comparing Historic Taxidermy Mammals to Contemporary Populations
Specimen sex biases in museum collections of vertebrates have been well-documented (Cooper et al. 2019). This known sex bias equates to body size bias for mammal groups that exhibit high rates of sexu...
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Gail Kampmeier @gkamp.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Public review of the Latimer Core has begun & will run through 12 January 2024. www.tdwg.org/news/2023/la... Named for Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, it supports the representation & discovery of natural science collections & groups of objects contained in them. Please join us in this review. #Museums
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