Yesterday @bhl_nicole and I ran a workshop on “future interfaces for BHL” at the TDWG 2026 in Oslo. The workshop was “hands on” with live demos of various tools that I’ve posted here, such as the BHL ...

Miscellaneous Insecta Species File is a comprehensive source of knowledge for the following extant insect groups: Archaeognatha (Microcoryphia), Coleorrhyncha, Embioptera, Notoptera (Grylloblattodea a...

Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 02 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41576-026-01011-8Large-scale genome initiatives are transforming biodiversity genomics, but genomes remain taxonomically sparse and difficult to compare across species. Kapli and colleagues argue that natural history collections should play a central role in building species-dense genomic resources, creating the foundation needed for comparative and predictive biodiversity genomics.

In 2025, the US government launched an unprecedented series of attacks on its own scientific research groups. A year later GitHub dropped below 90% availability for the first time, while wildfires in ...

We released a new version of our R package camtraptor.

Scientific Data - How can biological databases support the new UN mechanism for benefit-sharing from digital sequence information?

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Added Assigning OTU to taxon name task #130 ProjectOrganization model, link projects to org/depiction metadata #5027 Radial annotator: Add pagination to citations slice #4964 In the TaxonName verb...

As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...

The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...

I grew up largely unwatched. As children, David and I would go out and play unsupervised, free-range. We would go down to the ravine to explore nature. It was fun, but more than that, I think it wa…

In the life sciences, FAIR principles have reshaped research policy, but their implementation still relies largely on individual researchers – many of whom lack the expertise or support needed to make...

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The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canada's federal funding agency for university-based research and student training in natural sciences and engineering. It's…