David Shorthouse
@dshorthouse.bsky.social
father, husband, biodiversity informatician. Opinions mine and not those of my employer.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7618-5230
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7618-5230
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🎓 Student job alert! Are you studying in #Copenhagen, have an interest in open data and scientific literature and want to make some extra cash💰
⏰ 10-12 hours per week
💸 Competitive hourly wage
😍 Flexible hours
📍 Deadline: 27 February 2026
🔗 gbif.link/student-job
⏰ 10-12 hours per week
💸 Competitive hourly wage
😍 Flexible hours
📍 Deadline: 27 February 2026
🔗 gbif.link/student-job
February 12, 2026 at 10:00 AM
🎓 Student job alert! Are you studying in #Copenhagen, have an interest in open data and scientific literature and want to make some extra cash💰
⏰ 10-12 hours per week
💸 Competitive hourly wage
😍 Flexible hours
📍 Deadline: 27 February 2026
🔗 gbif.link/student-job
⏰ 10-12 hours per week
💸 Competitive hourly wage
😍 Flexible hours
📍 Deadline: 27 February 2026
🔗 gbif.link/student-job
Not been in a good place the last several weeks. I have to continually remind myself that ruminating rarely works and that there is an unproductive limit to problem solving when solutions always affect family, friends, and colleagues. ❤️
February 1, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Not been in a good place the last several weeks. I have to continually remind myself that ruminating rarely works and that there is an unproductive limit to problem solving when solutions always affect family, friends, and colleagues. ❤️
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📣 Call for sessions for TDWG 2026
You're invited to submit a proposal for an organized session at TDWG 2026 in #Oslo, Norway.
Conference theme: 🤖 Research & robot-ready biodiversity data standards
⭐Deadline 26 Feb 2026, 10:59 GMT +1
Learn more: 🔗 tdwg.link/call-for-ses...
You're invited to submit a proposal for an organized session at TDWG 2026 in #Oslo, Norway.
Conference theme: 🤖 Research & robot-ready biodiversity data standards
⭐Deadline 26 Feb 2026, 10:59 GMT +1
Learn more: 🔗 tdwg.link/call-for-ses...
January 23, 2026 at 7:23 PM
📣 Call for sessions for TDWG 2026
You're invited to submit a proposal for an organized session at TDWG 2026 in #Oslo, Norway.
Conference theme: 🤖 Research & robot-ready biodiversity data standards
⭐Deadline 26 Feb 2026, 10:59 GMT +1
Learn more: 🔗 tdwg.link/call-for-ses...
You're invited to submit a proposal for an organized session at TDWG 2026 in #Oslo, Norway.
Conference theme: 🤖 Research & robot-ready biodiversity data standards
⭐Deadline 26 Feb 2026, 10:59 GMT +1
Learn more: 🔗 tdwg.link/call-for-ses...
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📣 Join us - we’re hiring an engagement officer for the CAN BON 🍁 initiative!
An effort to transform Canada’s capacity to mobilize its knowledge about the changing state of nature.
See the job posting here👇
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
An effort to transform Canada’s capacity to mobilize its knowledge about the changing state of nature.
See the job posting here👇
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
📣 We are hiring! Please share far and wide...
I am seeking an Engagement Officer to support the emergence of a Canadian Biodiversity Observation Network (CAN BON). This position is a unique… | Andrew ...
📣 We are hiring! Please share far and wide...
I am seeking an Engagement Officer to support the emergence of a Canadian Biodiversity Observation Network (CAN BON). This position is a unique opportunit...
www.linkedin.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:19 PM
📣 Join us - we’re hiring an engagement officer for the CAN BON 🍁 initiative!
An effort to transform Canada’s capacity to mobilize its knowledge about the changing state of nature.
See the job posting here👇
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
An effort to transform Canada’s capacity to mobilize its knowledge about the changing state of nature.
See the job posting here👇
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
Have my eye on an ice-out canoe trip somewhere near here mid-May. It’s never too early to plan an adventure, especially when there are deafening spring peepers to hear, perhaps too the gulping of American bitterns, and slippery brook trout to catch.
January 13, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Have my eye on an ice-out canoe trip somewhere near here mid-May. It’s never too early to plan an adventure, especially when there are deafening spring peepers to hear, perhaps too the gulping of American bitterns, and slippery brook trout to catch.
A persistent pinch of life stress was relaxed a bit for me today and I gave myself permission to dream about the summer. I know now how insidiously addictive stress is and so I’m taking it slow.
January 8, 2026 at 12:52 AM
A persistent pinch of life stress was relaxed a bit for me today and I gave myself permission to dream about the summer. I know now how insidiously addictive stress is and so I’m taking it slow.
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Have you herd? 🦓 We've just published the GBIF quarterly global and country analytics reports!
Explore dazzling data ✨such as occurrence records by taxa, time and seasonality trends, completeness and precision metrics, data sharing trends by country and more!
🔗 www.gbif.org/analyti...
Explore dazzling data ✨such as occurrence records by taxa, time and seasonality trends, completeness and precision metrics, data sharing trends by country and more!
🔗 www.gbif.org/analyti...
January 7, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Have you herd? 🦓 We've just published the GBIF quarterly global and country analytics reports!
Explore dazzling data ✨such as occurrence records by taxa, time and seasonality trends, completeness and precision metrics, data sharing trends by country and more!
🔗 www.gbif.org/analyti...
Explore dazzling data ✨such as occurrence records by taxa, time and seasonality trends, completeness and precision metrics, data sharing trends by country and more!
🔗 www.gbif.org/analyti...
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And if you want more detail on why I left iNat, I wrote about that too: kueda.net/blog/2026/01...
Why I Left iNaturalist
After almost 18 years, I left iNaturalist, the product and organization I helped create. I left because I don’t believe the current Leadership team is pointing the product in the right direction, and ...
kueda.net
January 6, 2026 at 7:34 PM
And if you want more detail on why I left iNat, I wrote about that too: kueda.net/blog/2026/01...
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I quit my job at #iNaturalist, the product I co-founded. If you'd like me to keep working on natural history software, support me on Patreon: patreon.com/kueda. FWIW, I'm building an iNat backup tool and an app for viewing geologic maps.
Or, if you think you'd like to hire me, get in touch!
Or, if you think you'd like to hire me, get in touch!
Ken-ichi Ueda | Patreon
Natural history software
patreon.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:33 PM
I quit my job at #iNaturalist, the product I co-founded. If you'd like me to keep working on natural history software, support me on Patreon: patreon.com/kueda. FWIW, I'm building an iNat backup tool and an app for viewing geologic maps.
Or, if you think you'd like to hire me, get in touch!
Or, if you think you'd like to hire me, get in touch!
Half of my YouTube subscriptions list says something about my year. The other half says the same thing for next year. 🛶
December 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Half of my YouTube subscriptions list says something about my year. The other half says the same thing for next year. 🛶
In The Great White North, we have yellow snow warnings.
December 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
In The Great White North, we have yellow snow warnings.
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Colleague, cleaning out her lab
Damn
Damn
December 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Colleague, cleaning out her lab
Damn
Damn
Got my eye on another 9 canoe trips next paddling season, some with challenging portages, some with no known maps, and a good 3 day trip on the Western reaches of Killarney Prov. Park for the whole family.
December 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Got my eye on another 9 canoe trips next paddling season, some with challenging portages, some with no known maps, and a good 3 day trip on the Western reaches of Killarney Prov. Park for the whole family.
TAXACOM - The long goodbye lists.ku.edu/pipermail/ta... 😢
Taxacom: TAXACOM -- the long goodbye
lists.ku.edu
December 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
TAXACOM - The long goodbye lists.ku.edu/pipermail/ta... 😢
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“Overall, these findings suggest that the value of natural history collections as global research infrastructure is eroding due to decreased collecting of specimen data across species, locations, and time.“ doi.org/10.1038/s414... Interesting analysis based on @gbif.org data.
Global sampling decline erodes science potential of natural history collections - Nature Communications
Natural history collections hold over two billion specimens representing Earth’s biodiversity, but their scientific value depends on continued specimen collection and digitisation. This study demonstr...
doi.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
“Overall, these findings suggest that the value of natural history collections as global research infrastructure is eroding due to decreased collecting of specimen data across species, locations, and time.“ doi.org/10.1038/s414... Interesting analysis based on @gbif.org data.
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Announcing the Gem Fellowship, a grant program for improvements to Ruby-related open source projects. https://gem.coop/fellowship/ Want to improve your favorite gem? Submit a proposal, starting next month.
gem.coop
gem.coop
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Announcing the Gem Fellowship, a grant program for improvements to Ruby-related open source projects. https://gem.coop/fellowship/ Want to improve your favorite gem? Submit a proposal, starting next month.
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Love to hear your thought on this. @rdmpage.bsky.social @dshorthouse.bsky.social @debpaul.bsky.social 🦉 I wrote a post on treating species identifiers with the same rigour as enterprise entity resolution. Not a new idea but we have to think about the scale. www.linkedin.com/pulse/one-sp...
One Species -> Many IDs: Applying enterprise "Entity Resolution" to Biodiversity Data
Here's a crazy idea. What if we treat species identifiers in the biodiversity data landscape the same way commercial organisations treat customers? Hear me out.
www.linkedin.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Love to hear your thought on this. @rdmpage.bsky.social @dshorthouse.bsky.social @debpaul.bsky.social 🦉 I wrote a post on treating species identifiers with the same rigour as enterprise entity resolution. Not a new idea but we have to think about the scale. www.linkedin.com/pulse/one-sp...
Received a notice that Akamai's long-in-the-tooth "Social Login" used by www.simplemappr.net will be retired Dec. 31, 2026. That means I have one year to either rewrite the integration (with considerable pain, tbh), hand it off to someone else to have a go, or shutdown SimpleMappr entirely. 🤔
SimpleMappr
Create free point maps for publications and presentations
www.simplemappr.net
November 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Received a notice that Akamai's long-in-the-tooth "Social Login" used by www.simplemappr.net will be retired Dec. 31, 2026. That means I have one year to either rewrite the integration (with considerable pain, tbh), hand it off to someone else to have a go, or shutdown SimpleMappr entirely. 🤔
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The end of an era: the Tree of Life Web Project is going dark after 3 decades. Anyone interested in communicating phylogeny online should read David's account of goals, history, and future. @bembidion.bsky.social
subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...
subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...
The Passing of the Tree of Life Web Project
The Tree of Life Web Project began its journey almost 40 years ago, and was formally announced in early 1996. It has served thousands of pages of information about the evolutionary tree of life and…
subulatepalpomere.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The end of an era: the Tree of Life Web Project is going dark after 3 decades. Anyone interested in communicating phylogeny online should read David's account of goals, history, and future. @bembidion.bsky.social
subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...
subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...
(Re-)stumbled onto @rdmpage.bsky.social 13 YEAR OLD (!!) iPhylo post about the stability of @gbif.org occurrenceIDs, iphylo.blogspot.com/2012/07/dear.... Great improvements to stability have been made since then & there is new awareness. But, the source of the instability remains exactly the same.
Dear GBIF, please stop changing occurrenceIDs!
Blog by Rod Page on biodiversity informatics, taxonomy, systematics, phylogeny, knowledge graphs, and other topics.
iphylo.blogspot.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
(Re-)stumbled onto @rdmpage.bsky.social 13 YEAR OLD (!!) iPhylo post about the stability of @gbif.org occurrenceIDs, iphylo.blogspot.com/2012/07/dear.... Great improvements to stability have been made since then & there is new awareness. But, the source of the instability remains exactly the same.
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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…
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org
November 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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
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New paper in Ecology Letters using @gbif.org mediated data:
Natural History Collections at the Crossroads: Shifting Priorities and Data‐Driven Opportunities 🇦🇺
#CiteTheDOI: ❌
https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70188
Natural History Collections at the Crossroads: Shifting Priorities and Data‐Driven Opportunities 🇦🇺
#CiteTheDOI: ❌
https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70188
Natural History Collections at the Crossroads: Shifting Priorities and Data‐Driven Opportunities
As environmental change and biodiversity crises accelerate, natural history collections face a critical juncture with collecting strategies remaining primarily taxonomically motivated, despite collec...
doi.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
New paper in Ecology Letters using @gbif.org mediated data:
Natural History Collections at the Crossroads: Shifting Priorities and Data‐Driven Opportunities 🇦🇺
#CiteTheDOI: ❌
https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70188
Natural History Collections at the Crossroads: Shifting Priorities and Data‐Driven Opportunities 🇦🇺
#CiteTheDOI: ❌
https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70188
Solo paddling adventure last weekend in Algonquin Provincial Park in -4C weather was...adventurous. I flipped butt-over-teakettle, ironically fetching water for a late night tea. Many colourful words zinged Clamshell Lake. I later read this spot is 210ft deep, being the base of an old waterfall. 😬
October 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Solo paddling adventure last weekend in Algonquin Provincial Park in -4C weather was...adventurous. I flipped butt-over-teakettle, ironically fetching water for a late night tea. Many colourful words zinged Clamshell Lake. I later read this spot is 210ft deep, being the base of an old waterfall. 😬
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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
October 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
📣 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