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Anton Savchenko

@notgaudi.bsky.social
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fungal taxonomist • PhD • Ukrainian expat • melancholic for all the good reasons • he/him

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Science will always appear to be in a crisis if we insist on comparing it to an ideal that has never existed and can never exist. It is delusional to claim that science cannot produce useful knowledge unless it matches a confabulation made up by those who refuse to understand it as a social process.
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Anton Savchenko @notgaudi.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
exactly
Bookstore interior; Ferrari car manual on top of "feminism" sign.
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Marta Tischer @marta-tischer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
We're back with @fundive-fungi.bsky.social webinars after summer break! Tomorrow, 25.08.2026 at 20:00 CET Topic: Sequencing of fungal type specimens in FunDive project by Anton Savchenko @notgaudi.bsky.social Register here to join: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/071fb8...
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Anton Savchenko @notgaudi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
there are no people in Uppsala
Uppsala street at night, brightly lit but empty restaurantUppsala street at night, brightly lit from inside but empty 3-floor buildingUppsala park at night, trees dimly lit with green lightsUppsala, empty interior of a shop as seen from a street
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Anton Savchenko @notgaudi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Short comeback to H, the coziest herbarium ever
Herbarium building of Helsinki Natural History museum, garden around it, late evening sunInterior of Herbarium building of Helsinki Natural History Museum, dimly lit with sunsetInterior of Herbarium building of Helsinki Natural History Museum, wooden cabinetsInterior of Herbarium building of Helsinki Natural History Museum, staircase
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Anton Savchenko @notgaudi.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
wrapped Germany
A chirch under renovation in wrapped scaffoldingA building under renovation in wrapped scaffolding, among trees
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of markdown
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Anton Savchenko @notgaudi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I need these for uhh professional reasons. Yes, required for specimen sampling, yes yes
photo of 3 gold-plated forceps from a catalogue
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Anton Savchenko @notgaudi.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
There is Backrooms, there is Obsession, and there is Epps That Crack Under High RPM
Two eppendorf tubes cracked and leaking after centrifugationPipeting contents of the said tubes directly out of centrifuge wells
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Anton Savchenko @notgaudi.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
QUERY_
phylogenetic tree with way too large font
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Anton Savchenko @notgaudi.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Machine vision for poor people, or yet another way to misuse Quantum GIS! I wanted to know if color of DNA extract correlates with sequencing success, and to get the colors I imported a photo of extracts into QGIS as if it was a map, placed sample points, and measured their underlying RGB values.
Screenshot of QGIS program with a photo of PCR plate from underneath
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
There is no "science-wide replication crisis" because every word in that phrase carries unfounded assumptions. 🧵 1. There is no evidence that progress has generally stalled in the sciences. Also, no one has actually tried to estimate replicability across fields.
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ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
the beauty of humans is that even if we explicitly attempt to copy something, the noise of our lives and our brains seeps into the work. you still end up with a New messy synthesis of things AI doesn't live a life, it may have system noise, but it doesn't have a story to tell; because its software
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Siobhan Leachman @siobhanleachman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
A press release is out about the Biodiversity Heritage Library. From 1 January 2026 the Smithsonian will no longer host the administrative functions of BHL. BHL is looking for a new home. For further information see blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-... #ILoveBHL #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary
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A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. A global consortium of over 660 contributors, BHL has made more …
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Anton Savchenko @notgaudi.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
metsamaja on liminaalnemaja
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Anton Savchenko @notgaudi.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Spent the last 2 weeks sampling dozens of type specimens in a well maintained, almost fully digitized, and just lovely TAAM fungarium (Tartu).
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Six years ago, we published a (thus far underappreciated) study where we showed how scientific communities may generate a literature populated by irreproducible results or may converge on many perfectly reproducible yet false findings *in the absence of QRPs*, challenging popular narratives.
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Scientific discovery in a model-centric framework: Reproducibility, innovation, and epistemic diversity
Consistent confirmations obtained independently of each other lend credibility to a scientific result. We refer to results satisfying this consistency as reproducible and assume that reproducibility i...
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Anton Savchenko @notgaudi.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Typology of matchboxes from Leiden's fungal type collection
matchbox with a picture of green mushroom and actual dried mushrooms inside
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Anton Savchenko @notgaudi.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Evergreen reminder that clades and taxa cannot really be "basal" or "early diverging". doi.org/10.1080/0027... Also see these nice blogposts (and other works!) by @iochromaland.bsky.social - for-the-love-of-trees.blogspot.com/2018/04/tree... - for-the-love-of-trees.blogspot.com/2018/04/tree...
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Tree responsibly: Part 1
A few years ago I was at a talk that opened with an evolutionary context for the study and had a tree that looked about like this: I th...
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Anton Savchenko @notgaudi.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
two-dimensional specimen 💌
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Anton Savchenko @notgaudi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
‪When did herbarium in Leiden become this big? Trends in collection of regular specimens vs. types; fungi and lichens; notable collectors and expeditions. (Mind that only ca. 20% of fungarium is digitized.)
Histogram with a somewhat bell-shaped peak around 1980. X axis - years, Y axis - number of specimens collected.
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