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The Biodiversity Heritage Library provides free & #OpenAccess to 63+ million pages of #biodiversity literature online. 🔗 biodiversitylibrary.org
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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · Oct 18
🌱 Help secure the future of the Biodiversity Heritage Library! 🙏
Your donation will keep biodiversity knowledge open, connected, and growing, and fund the dedicated staff who make it all possible. 📖 👩‍💻 🌱 🌏 🧪
🔗 Donate: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDona...
#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL
An historic illustration of of two brown stripy butterflies and a caterpillar on a plant with white flowers.
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Happy #WorldAnteaterDay! This Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) #SciArt is by Édouard Traviès for Charles Dessalines d'Orbigny, Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle (1849). Contributed to BHL by @ncsulibraries.bsky.social: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19538021 🧪 📖 🌎 🐜 #ILoveBHL
An historic illustration of a giant anteater, a brown and black mammal with a long snout and a huge fluffy tail held high.
November 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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🌿 #GivingTuesday is coming! 💚
On 2 Dec, help us #GiveBHLWings and support the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s transition to independence by 1 January 2026. Your gift keeps biodiversity knowledge accessible for all. 🧪 📖 🌏 💸 #OpenScience #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL
Help the Biodiversity Heritage Library Take Flight
After nearly two decades under the Smithsonian Institution, the Biodiversity Heritage Library needs to become fully independent by 1 January 2026. Help #GiveBHLWings this Giving Tuesday and support…
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November 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Glorious Magnolia campbellii. Image via @biodivlibrary.bsky.social and @wikicommons.bsky.social Created by Joseph Hooker and William H. Fitch. Public Domain commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Il...
Scientific illustration of a magnolia flower at various stages of bloom. Shades of pink.
November 15, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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This beautiful Fairy Shrimp #SciArt is by Christine Etiennette Pernette Jurine for "Histoire des monocles qui se trouvent aux environs de Genève" (1820), authored by her father Louis Jurine. Contributed to BHL by Ernst Mayr Library Harvard www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10664230 #HerNaturalHistory
An historic illustration of a green and brown fairy shrimp (an aquatic invertebrate) surrounded by detailed drawings of parts of the animal.
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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BHL is experiencing intermittent technical issues that are affecting PDF generation. Thank you for your patience!
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Image: biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14994771
Image of submissive terrier with red and brown fur.
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Mary Cynthia Dickerson was the 1st curator of herpetology at @amnh.org. She authored "The Frog Book" (1906), describing North American toads & frogs. Explore it in #BHLib thanks to the @uoftlibraries.bsky.social Robarts Library: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31830673 #HerNaturalHistory #HERpers 🐸
A page full of illustrations of many different frog species.
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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November is #ManateeAwarenessMonth! This beautiful Manatee #SciArt is from Biologia Centrali-Americana (1879-1882), illustrated by Josef Wolf. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/570882 #ILoveBHL #OpenAccess #SaveTheManatee #SeaCow 🧪 🌎 📖 🌱
Two manatee (large grey sea cows) feeing on seagrass in shallow water.
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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And this is why the global BHL community does what we do: so others can build on, use, and share 500+ years (63 million pages) of biodiversity knowledge & spectacular #SciArt. Over to you… 📖 🌏 🦆 🌱
strasser.bsky.social Klemens 🦆 The Art of Fauna 🦆 @strasser.bsky.social · 13d
In case you've ever wondered how I make those animal drawings for Art of Fauna - I don't! They are actually from the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social!

#indiedev #design
November 8, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Great Barrier Reef Anemones (1893) by William Saville-Kent, from The Great Barrier Reef of Australia.

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#biodiversity #fish #invertebrates #australia #art #publicdomain
October 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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All issues of Mycotaxon (1974–2024) are now digitised, #OpenAccess & discoverable in BHL! Thx to the work of Diane Rielinger & BHL’s Team #RetroPIDs, every article now has a DOI, connecting 50 years of #Mycology to today’s scholarly network. #Fungi 🍄 🧪
🔗 www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography...
The title page of a journal: orange background; black text.
November 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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BHL had a strong presence at #LivingData2025 + the #GBIF #GB32 Governing Board Meeting in Bogotá 🇨🇴. We shared our transition progress, rallied support & strengthened collaborations for linked open biodiversity data. 🧪 🌎 📚 🌱🔗 Read more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/11/livi... #OpenScience
BHL at Living Data 2025 & GBIF Governing Board Meeting
This month, members of the biodiversity community from across the globe gathered in Bogotá, Colombia, for two major meetings: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Governing Board Mee…
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November 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Alfred Mayor's "Medusae of the world" (1910) attempted to describe all known forms from all parts of the world. The #SciArt is based on drawings, from life, by William K. Brooks and Louis Murbach. View it in #BHLib: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... #WorldJellyfishDay #ILoveBHL
Historic illustrations of jellyfish Historic illustrations of jellyfish
November 3, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Does anyone have an unlocked copy of Bateson (1907) “Facts limiting the theory of heredity” in Science? Apparently our subscription does not cover fresh papers from 118 years ago. Surely this is public domain by now?
October 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Meet the Numbat, Australia's only truly diurnal marsupial. This beautiful #SciArt is from John Gould's "Mammals of Australia" (1863): "with its beautiful tail spread out to the full extent, it offers a great resemblance to the Squirrels". doi.org/10.5962/p.31... #InternationalNumbatDay #ILoveBHL 🧪
An historic illustration of a group of 5 numbats (black, orange and white striped marsupials with long bushy tails).
November 1, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has donated to BHL’s Fundraising Campaign so far! 💚 Your generosity will help us build an independent, sustainable future for open biodiversity knowledge. 🌿 📖 🌏 🧪
Every gift helps:
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#ILoveBHL #OpenAccess
Donate to the Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open-access digital library of biodiversity literature and archives. BHL's future depends on the generosity of its global community. Your...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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I was journal manager of Canadian Field-Naturalist when we partnered with Biodiversity Heritage Library. BHL was great to work with. Make older issues freely available so they can be used. Win for authors, readers, the journal, and biodiversity knowledge. Great team at BHL!
October 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library doesn't just provide access to historic literature. There are publications on BHL from 1469 to 2025. The Canadian Field-Naturalist is one of many in-copyright publications we've made freely accessible online (with permission from the rights holders of course). 🧪 ©️ 📖
gehaines.bsky.social Grant Haines @gehaines.bsky.social · 26d
We can only show this change because of a short (basically 1 page of text) 1983 paper in the Canadian Field-Naturalist. As far as I can tell, this paper is only available online via @biodivlibrary.bsky.social www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2800903...
screenshot of header and abstract to "Reduction of the pelvic skeleton in the Threespine Stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, in two lakes of Quebec" Diagram from Edge & Coad 1983 showing different types of pelvic spine reduction in these populations. The diagrams show substantial asymmetry.
October 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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#InternationalGibbonDay is dedicated to raising awareness of our overlooked, under-protected "lesser" apes. This Hainan gibbon #SciArt is from the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1905). This species is now critically endangered. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31887889 🧪 📖 🌱
Two gibbons (a ape) one black, one while, sitting in a tree.
October 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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In celebration of #WorldKangarooDay 🦘, we present the first scientific description of "The Great Kanguroo, Macropus giganteus", from Shaw's The Naturalist's Miscellany (1790), which begins "the Kanguroo is a very anomalous and extraordinary quadruped". doi.org/10.5962/p.31... 🧪 📖 🌏 #ILoveBHL
An historic illustration of a kangaroo, standing on a patch of grass.
October 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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📣 Calling all biodiversity institutions! Meise Botanic Garden is supporting the continuation of BHL by auditing/cancelling non-Open Access journal subscriptions & diverting all saved funds to BHL. Patricia Mergen encourages other institutions to do the same 🧪 🌱🌎 #LivingData2025 #OpenAccess #ILoveBHL
A person presenting on a stage in front of a slide featuring text and two pages of an historic publication. A person presenting on a stage in front of a slide featuring text and a logo.
October 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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During lunch #LivingData2025 I watch presentations I've missed by attending other sessions. I don't know if others have noticed this theme, but this is at least the THIRD presentation where the challenge of access to literature has been raised. @biodivlibrary.bsky.social can help solve this.
Screenshot of presentation with a slide giving "food for thought"
October 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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So many of the projects shared at #LivingData2025 rely on the knowledge and data in BHL. BHL is truly the foundation of our understanding of biodiversity. Securing its future is essential. Donate now: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDona... #ILoveBHL 🧪🌎🌱
October 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Materials from my presentation at #LivingData2025 are available at github.com/mlichtenberg.... Slides, helpful links, code and SPARQL samples. #ILoveBHL
GitHub - mlichtenberg/LivingData2025: Presentation materials for Living Data 2025 conference. Persistent Identifier Exchange Between BHL and Wikidata.
Presentation materials for Living Data 2025 conference. Persistent Identifier Exchange Between BHL and Wikidata. - mlichtenberg/LivingData2025
github.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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mylee.bsky.social
More than 50,000 journal articles on BHL now have DOIs, including the very first scientific description of the Duck-billed Platypus, published in 1799: lnkd.in/g5WMsRb5 www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/304567
Details - The Duck-Billed Platypus, Platypus anatinus [Pl. 385-386] - Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
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October 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM