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Thomas Mesaglio @thebeachcomber.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Check out our new paper exploring the incredible uses of @inaturalist.bsky.social data in biodiversity research!

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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

This new paper documents a tenfold increase in research papers using community-collected iNaturalist data over just five years: tr.ee/89Ot3I According to the study, here are four key ways that iNaturalist data directly powers science 🧵⤵️

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Don't know what you are looking for? 🔍 We made something ✨ #Shiny ✨ using biodiversity data from {galah} to create location taxon lists for naturalists 🦉🦋🍄🐌🌳 @thebeachcomber.bsky.social @willcornwell.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social

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Thomas Mesaglio @thebeachcomber.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

A fun short paper we wrote about new plant species discovered and subsequently described thanks to @inaturalist.bsky.social records, with recommendations for optimising this process into the future!

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Thomas Mesaglio @thebeachcomber.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

New field guide incoming: Sydney Harbour Fishes 2,500+ colour photographs >700 species >300 photographers almost all images from Australasian Fishes (www.inaturalist.org/projects/aus...) on @inaturalist.bsky.social May release, now accepting pre-orders at sydneyharbourfishes.company.site

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Sydney Harbour Fishes

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Thomas Mesaglio @thebeachcomber.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Keeping track of new taxonomic changes and species descriptions can be tough, so I've created a living spreadsheet to document recent taxonomic works relating to Australian plants, and provide an easy to access central resource. It will be updated every week or two docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Updates to Australian plant taxonomy

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Thomas Mesaglio @thebeachcomber.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Photographed one of my mega bucket list species on a recent trip to Kakadu NP, the amazing Leichhardt's Grasshopper (Petasida ephippigera). Found only across the Top End of the NT, this species is on the decline. I waited almost 5 years to see this grasshopper after failing to find one in March 2020

Leichhardt's Grasshopper (Petasida ephippigera) on host plant Pityrodia jamesii in Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory.

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Thomas Mesaglio @thebeachcomber.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

New paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ec... We compiled master plant species lists for 2 of the 5 oldest national parks: Royal (Australia) and Yosemite (USA) by combining herbarium vouchers + @inaturalist.bsky.social records + official expert park lists, extensively manually curating all records.

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Thomas Mesaglio @thebeachcomber.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Cracked the 300,000 mark for IDs on iNaturalist

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