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Cyrus Pringle https://bionomia.net/Q3009492 collected the holotype ASTERACEAE: Cacalia obtusiloba Robinson & Greenman in Mexico https://gbif.org/occurrence/1999007668 #TypeSpecimenToday
November 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Cyrus Pringle https://bionomia.net/Q3009492 collected the holotype ASTERACEAE: Cacalia obtusiloba Robinson & Greenman in Mexico https://gbif.org/occurrence/1999007668 #TypeSpecimenToday
Benjamin Balansa https://bionomia.net/Q536946 collected the holotype MELASTOMATACEAE: Tibouchina gracilis (Bonpl.) Cogn. var. australis Cogn. in Paraguay https://gbif.org/occurrence/1019559679 #TypeSpecimenToday
November 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Benjamin Balansa https://bionomia.net/Q536946 collected the holotype MELASTOMATACEAE: Tibouchina gracilis (Bonpl.) Cogn. var. australis Cogn. in Paraguay https://gbif.org/occurrence/1019559679 #TypeSpecimenToday
Henry Fletcher Hance https://bionomia.net/Q2657692 and Theophilus G. Sampson https://bionomia.net/Q76005517 collected the holotype SYMPLOCACEAE: Symplocos racemosa Roxb. in China https://gbif.org/occurrence/1056996350 #TypeSpecimenToday
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Henry Fletcher Hance https://bionomia.net/Q2657692 and Theophilus G. Sampson https://bionomia.net/Q76005517 collected the holotype SYMPLOCACEAE: Symplocos racemosa Roxb. in China https://gbif.org/occurrence/1056996350 #TypeSpecimenToday
John Kunkel Small https://bionomia.net/Q2590065 collected the holotype LAURACEAE: Persea littoralis Small in United States https://gbif.org/occurrence/1928182696 #TypeSpecimenToday
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
John Kunkel Small https://bionomia.net/Q2590065 collected the holotype LAURACEAE: Persea littoralis Small in United States https://gbif.org/occurrence/1928182696 #TypeSpecimenToday
Eugène Langlassé https://bionomia.net/Q109757162 collected the holotype FABACEAE: Inga langlasseana in Colombia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1321716608 #TypeSpecimenToday
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Eugène Langlassé https://bionomia.net/Q109757162 collected the holotype FABACEAE: Inga langlasseana in Colombia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1321716608 #TypeSpecimenToday
Mervyn Grove Palmer https://bionomia.net/Q109763849 collected the holotype DIDELPHIDAE: Philander laniger pictus Thomas, 1913 in Colombia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1919785374 #TypeSpecimenToday
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Mervyn Grove Palmer https://bionomia.net/Q109763849 collected the holotype DIDELPHIDAE: Philander laniger pictus Thomas, 1913 in Colombia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1919785374 #TypeSpecimenToday
John Kunkel Small https://bionomia.net/Q2590065 collected the holotype RUBIACEAE: Ernodea angusta Small in United States https://gbif.org/occurrence/1927802623 #TypeSpecimenToday
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
John Kunkel Small https://bionomia.net/Q2590065 collected the holotype RUBIACEAE: Ernodea angusta Small in United States https://gbif.org/occurrence/1927802623 #TypeSpecimenToday
Georg Wilhelm Schimper https://bionomia.net/Q72899 collected the holotype APOCYNACEAE: Tacazzea venosa Decne. in Ethiopia https://gbif.org/occurrence/439568158 #TypeSpecimenToday
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Georg Wilhelm Schimper https://bionomia.net/Q72899 collected the holotype APOCYNACEAE: Tacazzea venosa Decne. in Ethiopia https://gbif.org/occurrence/439568158 #TypeSpecimenToday
Ludwig Preiss https://bionomia.net/Q6699308 collected the holotype PROTEACEAE: Hakea lehmanniana Meisn. in Australia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1929991732 #TypeSpecimenToday
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Ludwig Preiss https://bionomia.net/Q6699308 collected the holotype PROTEACEAE: Hakea lehmanniana Meisn. in Australia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1929991732 #TypeSpecimenToday
Joseph Clemens https://bionomia.net/Q6282164 collected the holotype ORCHIDACEAE: Malleola transversisaccata Ames & C. Schweinfurth in Malaysia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1999223983 #TypeSpecimenToday
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Joseph Clemens https://bionomia.net/Q6282164 collected the holotype ORCHIDACEAE: Malleola transversisaccata Ames & C. Schweinfurth in Malaysia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1999223983 #TypeSpecimenToday
Looks like Darrin O'Brien may soon be the next Scribe to make 1M links between collector/determiner and their specimen records served to @gbif.org. 👏 bionomia.net/0009-0004-06...
Darrin O'Brien
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November 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Looks like Darrin O'Brien may soon be the next Scribe to make 1M links between collector/determiner and their specimen records served to @gbif.org. 👏 bionomia.net/0009-0004-06...
William John Burchell https://bionomia.net/Q1397207 collected the holotype FABACEAE: Lotononis pungens in South Africa https://gbif.org/occurrence/912345494 #TypeSpecimenToday
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
William John Burchell https://bionomia.net/Q1397207 collected the holotype FABACEAE: Lotononis pungens in South Africa https://gbif.org/occurrence/912345494 #TypeSpecimenToday
Per Karl Hjalmar Dusén https://bionomia.net/Q5625930 collected the holotype ORTHOTRICHACEAE: Ulota rufula https://gbif.org/occurrence/1052533698 #TypeSpecimenToday
November 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Per Karl Hjalmar Dusén https://bionomia.net/Q5625930 collected the holotype ORTHOTRICHACEAE: Ulota rufula https://gbif.org/occurrence/1052533698 #TypeSpecimenToday
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I'm going to presenting at #ASBS2025 this afternoon on a #Wikidata outreach project my colleagues and I undertook at the XX International Botanical Congress. If you want to get an early look at my slides you can see them here commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AS... #WikiProject
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November 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I'm going to presenting at #ASBS2025 this afternoon on a #Wikidata outreach project my colleagues and I undertook at the XX International Botanical Congress. If you want to get an early look at my slides you can see them here commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AS... #WikiProject
Orator Fuller Cook https://bionomia.net/Q1548577 collected the holotype ACANTHACEAE: Ruellia metallica in Costa Rica https://gbif.org/occurrence/1318263920 #TypeSpecimenToday
November 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Orator Fuller Cook https://bionomia.net/Q1548577 collected the holotype ACANTHACEAE: Ruellia metallica in Costa Rica https://gbif.org/occurrence/1318263920 #TypeSpecimenToday
John Kunkel Small https://bionomia.net/Q2590065 collected the holotype PTERIDACEAE: Pycnodoria pinetorum Small in United States https://gbif.org/occurrence/1930504382 #TypeSpecimenToday
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 AM
John Kunkel Small https://bionomia.net/Q2590065 collected the holotype PTERIDACEAE: Pycnodoria pinetorum Small in United States https://gbif.org/occurrence/1930504382 #TypeSpecimenToday
Paul Günther Lorentz https://bionomia.net/Q76111 collected the holotype POACEAE: Panicum prionitis Nees in Argentina https://gbif.org/occurrence/1638446865 #TypeSpecimenToday
October 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Paul Günther Lorentz https://bionomia.net/Q76111 collected the holotype POACEAE: Panicum prionitis Nees in Argentina https://gbif.org/occurrence/1638446865 #TypeSpecimenToday
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#Wikidata has been recognized as a digital public good! Wikidata is always the mostly-invisible powerhouse in the background, so this is especially meaningful to me and a great recognition of the work that thousands of people put into structuring the world’s knowledge every single day.
October 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
#Wikidata has been recognized as a digital public good! Wikidata is always the mostly-invisible powerhouse in the background, so this is especially meaningful to me and a great recognition of the work that thousands of people put into structuring the world’s knowledge every single day.
Erik Leonard Ekman https://bionomia.net/Q541549 collected the holotype ASTERACEAE: Eupatorium holquinense B. L. Robinson in Cuba https://gbif.org/occurrence/1999230537 #TypeSpecimenToday
October 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Erik Leonard Ekman https://bionomia.net/Q541549 collected the holotype ASTERACEAE: Eupatorium holquinense B. L. Robinson in Cuba https://gbif.org/occurrence/1999230537 #TypeSpecimenToday
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Our small research entomological collection just surpassed 40,000 databased records! Just beetles, and of course not everything ID yet but fulfilling nevertheless. ecdysis.org/collections/...
Ecdysis University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Insect Collection
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October 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Our small research entomological collection just surpassed 40,000 databased records! Just beetles, and of course not everything ID yet but fulfilling nevertheless. ecdysis.org/collections/...
Henry Ogg Forbes https://bionomia.net/Q1349901 collected the holotype LORANTHACEAE: Tetradyas perfoliata Danser in Papua New Guinea https://gbif.org/occurrence/1055342390 #TypeSpecimenToday
October 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Henry Ogg Forbes https://bionomia.net/Q1349901 collected the holotype LORANTHACEAE: Tetradyas perfoliata Danser in Papua New Guinea https://gbif.org/occurrence/1055342390 #TypeSpecimenToday
Charles John Andersson https://bionomia.net/Q1731824 collected the holotype PSITTACIDAE: Poicephalus rueppellii mariettae in Namibia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1291391648 #TypeSpecimenToday
October 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Charles John Andersson https://bionomia.net/Q1731824 collected the holotype PSITTACIDAE: Poicephalus rueppellii mariettae in Namibia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1291391648 #TypeSpecimenToday
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October has been full of #Symbiota adventures in South America 🌎💚. It started last week in Peru🇵🇪, where we held a digitization workshop in collaboration with UNMSM Natural History Museum and Yale Peabody Museum. Around 80 participants from all over the country attended. We had a blast! 🌿
October 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
October has been full of #Symbiota adventures in South America 🌎💚. It started last week in Peru🇵🇪, where we held a digitization workshop in collaboration with UNMSM Natural History Museum and Yale Peabody Museum. Around 80 participants from all over the country attended. We had a blast! 🌿
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One last stop in Bogota! Of course, I couldn't miss the opportunity to visit Colombian collections!! Thanks to Juan Pablo Botero, Ericka Vergara, and John Cesar Neita for sharing their beautiful anthribids with me!! 💚 It was also great to meet @dimitriforero.bsky.social in person! Hasta la próxima!🤗
October 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
One last stop in Bogota! Of course, I couldn't miss the opportunity to visit Colombian collections!! Thanks to Juan Pablo Botero, Ericka Vergara, and John Cesar Neita for sharing their beautiful anthribids with me!! 💚 It was also great to meet @dimitriforero.bsky.social in person! Hasta la próxima!🤗
Robert Brown https://bionomia.net/Q155764 collected the holotype CAMPEPHAGIDAE: Campephaga leucomela Vigors and Horsfield, 1827 in Australia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1291495121 #TypeSpecimenToday
October 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Robert Brown https://bionomia.net/Q155764 collected the holotype CAMPEPHAGIDAE: Campephaga leucomela Vigors and Horsfield, 1827 in Australia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1291495121 #TypeSpecimenToday