iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

🚨 #MUSEUMJOBS KLAXON🚨 We're looking for a Senior Digitiser and two Digitisers to work across @zoologymuseum.bsky.social & @camplantsci.bsky.social to help create biodiversity data for the researchers who need it, through #DiSSCoUK. 1. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/senior-... 2. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/digitis...

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A museum drawer containing tens of pinned tiger and emerald moths lined up in rows

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

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GBIF @gbif.org · 02/07/2026

🌱 Joe Miller was at the @kewgardens.bsky.social this week, presenting at the State of the World's Plants & Fungi Symposium. Joe joined Maui Hudson whose presentation focused on the role of recognizing Indigenous provenance in herbarium collections through culturally appropriate metadata.💚 #SOTWPF

Photo of Maui presenting at the symposium accompanied with slides showing the GBIF Indigenous Data Governance Task Group

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Hidden REF @hiddenref.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Behind almost every research study there's a collections specialist, a data manager, a technician or a bit of code that never makes the paper and never gets credited. The Hidden REF 2026 is open, and it recognises exactly those outputs and roles, the ones traditional assessment leaves out.

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Hidden REF Competition 2026 - The Hidden REF

Hidden REF Competition 2026 The Hidden REF Competition celebrates all research outputs and everyone involved in their creation. The competition recognises a range of outputs that […]

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 29/06/2026

What is the charge? Training a chatbot? A succulent Chinese chatbot?

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Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Got a digitised collection that needs OCR? uv-scripts is a set of single-file Python scripts that OCR a whole image dataset to markdown in one command — 20+ open VLMs to pick from, nothing to install but uv. github.com/davanstrien/...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

BBC Question Time now doing exact same with AI they did with Farage? This ‘expert’ panel on AI is a disgrace: not one critical voice. Gilbert works for Tony Blair to promote AI. Jones is govt chief AI booster (& Blair flunky). Riparbelli is industry. Gawdat is ex industry. And a Tory MP

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The "stop illustrating heatwaves (like yesterday's 34C when it should be about 17C) with pretty beach pics and people outside" challenge. Maybe if we showed the consequences (increased mortality risk, higher cost of cooling, discomfort) that might get the point across?

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 10/05/2026

I sketched this out a few years ago. The HTML vs Markdown debate is conflating substrate with information density. The real question is what kind of feedback an artifact actually invites. Hi-fi invites parameter critique. Lo-fi invites paradigm critique.

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Fiona Ainsworth @fionaainsworth.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

🚨VACANCY: The Archives team is hiring a new Graduate Trainee for a 2-year role. They will be working in the Archives and Records Management team, gaining valuable experience pre-qualification. Deadline: 17 May 2026 Start date: 1 Sep 2026 Salary: £29,692 pa careers.kew.org/vacancy/arch... #KewLA

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Archives Graduate Trainee - Careers | Kew Gardens

The Archives and Records Management team forms part of the Library and Archives department. Archive staff manage Kew’s historic record of activities, as well as collections and other documents relatin...

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GBIF @gbif.org · 19/02/2026

🔎 Spotted a suspicious record... maybe an erroneous entry? 🥁 Introducing.... rule-based annotations in GBIF! This new experimental tool allows users to mark certain occurrence data as suspicious to improve data cleaning and user feedback to publishers. 🔗gbif.link/rule-based...

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 23/10/2025

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

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Python Software Foundation @python.org · 27/10/2025

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

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The official home of the Python Programming Language

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Loren @lorencrary.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I'd also like to shout out @carpentries.carpentries.org for leading the way on this, having made a similar decision earlier this year.

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 27/10/2025

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation. I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat! my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

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nicky nicolson @nickynicolson.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Here's your reach @turingway.bsky.social 😎supporting botanical research into the plant families that give us potatoes and coffee

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Society of RSE @society-rse.org · 10/09/2025

Great closing quote from Graham Lee in this mornings Track A talk on Where do people come from? "RSE is more than a technical discipline, its a social movement aiming to revolutionise how research engages with software." - Graham Lee #RSECon25

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nicky nicolson @nickynicolson.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Sorry to miss #RSECon25 - are the talks (or at least the keynotes) being recorded for later viewing?

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

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Niko Sirmpilatze @nikosirmpilatze.com · 19/05/2025

Still a few weeks to register for some hands-on training and hacking on open-source tools for analysing animal motion, whole-brain microscopy with @brainglobe.info, and big imaging data. 🧠📈 Aug 11-15 at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social in London. "Free as in beer" and travel stipends available.

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Hidden REF @hiddenref.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

📢 Registration is now open 📢 Join us on 7-8 October 2025 at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum for the second Festival of Hidden REF! Explore the indicative schedule, learn more on our website or head straight to the registration page to secure your place! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-festiv...

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Mike Simpson @mdsimpson.co.uk · 19/03/2025

We're not "over-diagnosing", we're getting BETTER at diagnosing. That was the point of all those years of research. And yes, more people are self-diagnosing, but that's because they are better informed. That was the whole point of raising awareness! #MentalHealth

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Bruce Stagg Martin @bstaggmartin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Okay, I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but BHL is an absolutely VITAL resource for ecologists and evolutionary biologists. There's no other database I'm aware of that provides digital access to species descriptions dating all the way back to the 1800s and beyond.

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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Oh no - I use BHL collections multiple times a week for my work 😭 it’s open access & the only place the old American Mosquito Control Association journal (Mosquito News) are kept, with a ton of work on disease vector surveillance, ecology, their pathogens, you name it. God.

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mlichtenberg.bsky.social @mlichtenberg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The most meaningful work of my career has been the 17.5 years I have spent with the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Now BHL faces new challenges, and seeks funding and support. Please share this message, and reach out if you can help. #ILoveBHL

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Today we celebrate the incredible biodiversity of our planet – and the power of #OpenAccess to protect it. The Biodiversity Heritage Library makes over 62 million pages of biodiversity knowledge freely available to all. 🔗 biodiversitylibrary.org #EarthDay #EarthDay2025 #Biodiversity #BHLib

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Andrew Porter @retropz.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Last few days to apply #Metascience post @uniofmanchester.bsky.social working with James Bird, @naubertbonn.bsky.social, Prof Andrew Stewart & me to investigate opportunities and barriers in deploying Electronic Research Notebooks (ERNs) www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #ELN #OpenResearch

Text reads: We are recruiting a Research Associate for an exciting UKRI Metascience project

Support researchers in moving from traditional methods of recording research......to digital-first Electronic Research Notebooks......enhancing data sharing, FAIR principles, re-use and collaboration

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Apply by 24th March, Job reference: SAE-028173

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Institute for Research Software @softwaresaved.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

👥 If you have written software, code or scripts for research purposes and are from an underrepresented group in research software, we would like to hear from you! Find out how to get involved in our inclusive RSE study at www.software.ac.uk/news/partici...

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nicky nicolson @nickynicolson.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

💪 An anti-acknowledgement: "No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent"

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GBIF @gbif.org · 13/02/2025

Session and workshop submission deadline extended for #LivingData2025! ⏰ 📌New deadline: Friday 14 February 23:59 GMT-5 🔗www.livingdata2025.c... #DatosVivos2025 @tdwg.org @gbif.org #OBIS @geobon.org BON #InstitutoHumboldt

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David Beavan @davidbeavan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Want cutting-edge digital research? Then you want Research Software Engineering. Only a couple of days left to contribute to the evidence base for Research Software Engineering and the impact it brings

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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Do you work collaboratively (in any discipline) with Research Software Engineers? Please contribute your experience (or knowledge of colleagues' experiences) to this evidence bank that @davidbeavan.bsky.social is building to ensure there is support for more of this kind of collab!!

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tdwg.org @tdwg.org · 10/02/2025

⏰Time is running out to submit session and workshop proposals for #LivingData2025! Join @‌tdwg.org @gbif.org, @‌obisnetwork.bsky.social & @‌geobon.org at #Inst_Humboldt in Bogotá #Colombia to connect with global biodiversity networks. Deadline: 📌12 Feb 2025

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Including many museums...

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GBIF @gbif.org · 05/02/2025

📣 The 2025 Graduate Researchers Award has opened for nominations! Recognizing the work of two early-career researchers, the programme highlights research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by grad students whose studies rely on GBIF-mediated data. 🧬 🔗 gbif.link/gra-2025

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/02/2025

So it turns out that compared to centralized distribution of digital information on the web, printed material in libraries provided a kind of distributed defense against the casual whims of an authoritarian government aiming to rewrite history.

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Hidden REF @hiddenref.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

We are pleased to officially announce our £3.5 million funding from Research England for our five-year project, Embedding Trust in Evaluation (E-TIE), we will be working with Research England, the REF 2029 team and the Research Diversity Advisory Panel. hidden-ref.org/campaign-to-...

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Campaign to recognise ‘hidden’ research outputs and roles given formal go-ahead

Today we released a press release about the next, funded phase of the Hidden REF! Read the press release below. A campaign to recognise the ‘hidden’ […]

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CultInformatics @cultinformatics.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Applications are open for the DISKAH UK Fellowship Scheme culturedigitalskills.org/diskah-call-... to broaden skills for engagement with #DRI for #ArtsandHumanities research. @uniofbrighton.bsky.social @universityofexeter.bsky.social @durhamuniversity.bsky.social @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Also: museums, academia, conservation, ...

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GBIF @gbif.org · 21/01/2025

✅ Tired of social media being full of ads and irrelevant or content? ✅ Want to take back control of your socials feed? ✅ Curious about open social media, the fediverse, Mastodon, etc. but unsure of where to start? Consider joining biodiversity.social!

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nicky nicolson @nickynicolson.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

🌳 Plants can't run away - but we still haven't described them all. Apply to this #PhD exploring how to use AI to extract species descriptions from literature so we can build ID tools: supporting conservation efforts & populating the World Flora Online. 📅 2025-01-27 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Turn the Page: New Methods to Mobilise Data for Monographers at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Turn the Page: New Methods to Mobilise Data for Monographers at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Rachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝 @sciwithrach.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

It's time for the Royal Society to revoke Elon's fellowship. Surely Nazi salutes are against the Code of Conduct? @deevybee.bsky.social's blogpost from Nov last year is evergreen ⬇️ deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

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Why I have resigned from the Royal Society

The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...

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GBIF @gbif.org · 01/01/2025

New year, new biodiversity data #goals? In 2024 we cracked 3 billion occurrence records accessible through GBIF.org, so we're excited to see what's in store for 2025!⭐ Interested in contributing to the GBIF biodiversity community? 🔗bit.ly/gbif-voluntee... 🍄www.gbif.org/occurre...

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Sarah Pickman @sarahmpicks.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Any historians of science working on the history of open source technologies? Asking for a friend

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

I’m very excited about this fully FUNDED PhD, which I’ll be supervising along with UCL colleagues. Archives, critical history, Kew, environmentalism, communities – I’d be tempted! tinyurl.com/5n8x38k5

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