Matt Buys
@mattbuys.bsky.social
Herbarium curator, collections manager, database manager, botanist, systematist, cyber-taxonomist. All opinions my own. www.linkedin.com/in/matt-buys-0831b06/ | orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-1701-6370
Yeah! New @bioeconomyscience.bsky.social logo, which compliments our Brahms database for #BioCollections perfectly. 🎉🧪
September 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Yeah! New @bioeconomyscience.bsky.social logo, which compliments our Brahms database for #BioCollections perfectly. 🎉🧪
🌿 Using specimen records from @bioeconomyscience.bsky.social's National Forestry Herbarium & others, Santiago-Rosario et al. mapped mistletoe-host interactions. Showy mistletoes show strong preferences for rosid hosts—hinting at ancient co-evolution. #Botany #Ecology #NZFRI #Mistletoe 🧪
Continental‐scale interactions of Australian showy mistletoes and their hosts
Premise
Showy mistletoes are obligate hemiparasites of woody plants. Host specificity is therefore a fundamental determinant of mistletoe diversity, persistence, geographic distribution, and abundan.....
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
🌿 Using specimen records from @bioeconomyscience.bsky.social's National Forestry Herbarium & others, Santiago-Rosario et al. mapped mistletoe-host interactions. Showy mistletoes show strong preferences for rosid hosts—hinting at ancient co-evolution. #Botany #Ecology #NZFRI #Mistletoe 🧪
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We are pleased to see that the successful uptake of ORCID across Australia is proving to enhance research reporting and measuring. 🇦🇺
Read more here ➡️ https://shorturl.at/z4Ygl
Read more here ➡️ https://shorturl.at/z4Ygl
August 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
We are pleased to see that the successful uptake of ORCID across Australia is proving to enhance research reporting and measuring. 🇦🇺
Read more here ➡️ https://shorturl.at/z4Ygl
Read more here ➡️ https://shorturl.at/z4Ygl
Just updated @bioeconomyscience.bsky.social's National Forestry Herbarium data on GBIF! 🌿
Fresh records for researchers, conservationists & biodiversity enthusiasts. Explore the richness of our collections to unlock new insights and create impact.
#BioCollections #GBIF #Herbarium #BiodiversityData
Fresh records for researchers, conservationists & biodiversity enthusiasts. Explore the richness of our collections to unlock new insights and create impact.
#BioCollections #GBIF #Herbarium #BiodiversityData
August 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Just updated @bioeconomyscience.bsky.social's National Forestry Herbarium data on GBIF! 🌿
Fresh records for researchers, conservationists & biodiversity enthusiasts. Explore the richness of our collections to unlock new insights and create impact.
#BioCollections #GBIF #Herbarium #BiodiversityData
Fresh records for researchers, conservationists & biodiversity enthusiasts. Explore the richness of our collections to unlock new insights and create impact.
#BioCollections #GBIF #Herbarium #BiodiversityData
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Welcome to the Bioeconomy Science Institute - formed by the merging of AgResearch, @manaakiwhenua.bsky.social, Plant & Food Research and Scion.
We’re here to grow a resilient, sustainable bioeconomy — through innovation, collaboration and science that delivers real-world impact. 🌱
We’re here to grow a resilient, sustainable bioeconomy — through innovation, collaboration and science that delivers real-world impact. 🌱
July 31, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Welcome to the Bioeconomy Science Institute - formed by the merging of AgResearch, @manaakiwhenua.bsky.social, Plant & Food Research and Scion.
We’re here to grow a resilient, sustainable bioeconomy — through innovation, collaboration and science that delivers real-world impact. 🌱
We’re here to grow a resilient, sustainable bioeconomy — through innovation, collaboration and science that delivers real-world impact. 🌱
Cheers to Pensoft for incorporating a Bluesky share option. I've just embarked on the Wikidata/ORCID/Bionomia journey as curator and database manager of the #NationalForestryHerbarium @scionresearch.bsky.social. All this to make data #FAIR
The disambiguation of people names in biological collections
Scientific collections have been built by people. For hundreds of years, people have collected, studied, identified, preserved, documented and curated collection specimens. Understanding who those peo...
bdj.pensoft.net
April 20, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Cheers to Pensoft for incorporating a Bluesky share option. I've just embarked on the Wikidata/ORCID/Bionomia journey as curator and database manager of the #NationalForestryHerbarium @scionresearch.bsky.social. All this to make data #FAIR
Leveraging the BRAHMS database at the National Forestry Herbarium @scionresearch.bsky.social boosts efficiency in managing #BioCollections. Linking duplicates to a single event streamlines data and reduces redundancy. This integration leads to more reliable data and improved research outcomes. 🌿📊🧪
Index - BRAHMS Online
NZFRI specimens
nzfri.scionresearch.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Leveraging the BRAHMS database at the National Forestry Herbarium @scionresearch.bsky.social boosts efficiency in managing #BioCollections. Linking duplicates to a single event streamlines data and reduces redundancy. This integration leads to more reliable data and improved research outcomes. 🌿📊🧪
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1. Infuriatingly, here in the UK, the government still seems to believe that the only way of introducing trees is to plant them (see, for example, the current Land Use Framework consultation).
News just in: trees can self-seed, which could be why they've survived for 360m years. 🧵
News just in: trees can self-seed, which could be why they've survived for 360m years. 🧵
I took this photo less than 10 years after the deer fence behind was erected. Before it went up, the land behind was just grass, exactly like the foreground where he sheep are.
*Nothing* was planted here.
"It's not rocket science" is an understatement.
🌍
*Nothing* was planted here.
"It's not rocket science" is an understatement.
🌍
March 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
1. Infuriatingly, here in the UK, the government still seems to believe that the only way of introducing trees is to plant them (see, for example, the current Land Use Framework consultation).
News just in: trees can self-seed, which could be why they've survived for 360m years. 🧵
News just in: trees can self-seed, which could be why they've survived for 360m years. 🧵
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Watch Firefly land on the Moon! After identifying surface hazards and selecting a safe landing site, #BlueGhost landed directly over the target in Mare Crisium. A historic moment on March 2 we'll never forget. We have Moon dust on our boots! #BGM1
youtu.be/NpHhEybJdxg
youtu.be/NpHhEybJdxg
Moon Landing - Firefly Blue Ghost Makes History
YouTube video by Firefly Aerospace
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March 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Watch Firefly land on the Moon! After identifying surface hazards and selecting a safe landing site, #BlueGhost landed directly over the target in Mare Crisium. A historic moment on March 2 we'll never forget. We have Moon dust on our boots! #BGM1
youtu.be/NpHhEybJdxg
youtu.be/NpHhEybJdxg
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*New paper* Denialism campaigns are growing in attempts to discredit science, scientists, and the scientific process generally. Biodiversity loss denial is a new phenomenon that needs our attention.
-With @alexanderlees.bsky.social + Eliza Grames!
#CommSky 🧪🌏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
-With @alexanderlees.bsky.social + Eliza Grames!
#CommSky 🧪🌏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
*New paper* Denialism campaigns are growing in attempts to discredit science, scientists, and the scientific process generally. Biodiversity loss denial is a new phenomenon that needs our attention.
-With @alexanderlees.bsky.social + Eliza Grames!
#CommSky 🧪🌏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
-With @alexanderlees.bsky.social + Eliza Grames!
#CommSky 🧪🌏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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On the migration of the scientific community to Bluesky:
www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
www.nature.com
January 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
On the migration of the scientific community to Bluesky:
www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
I wonder how Polylepis (Rosaceae) fairs at lower altitudes? It seems like a must for keen gardeners. I did a quick search of Scion's #BioCollections, we have a wood sample of Polylepis incana Kunth in the National Forestry Xylarium.
Millions of ‘cloud trees’ are being planted in the Andes | CNN
Constantino Aucca Chutas is leading a group of conservationists on mission to restore forests of the world’s highest-altitude trees.
edition.cnn.com
December 11, 2024 at 10:46 PM
I wonder how Polylepis (Rosaceae) fairs at lower altitudes? It seems like a must for keen gardeners. I did a quick search of Scion's #BioCollections, we have a wood sample of Polylepis incana Kunth in the National Forestry Xylarium.
When it comes to a reference manager, let it be known I really want to use Zotero, but the one thing that prevents me from using it is that, as far as I call tell, it cannot auto format intext citations as "Author (Year)" as opposed to "(Author, Year)" or "(Year)" #Zotero #ReferenceManager
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
www.zotero.org
December 1, 2024 at 6:40 PM
When it comes to a reference manager, let it be known I really want to use Zotero, but the one thing that prevents me from using it is that, as far as I call tell, it cannot auto format intext citations as "Author (Year)" as opposed to "(Author, Year)" or "(Year)" #Zotero #ReferenceManager
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Unlocking a new dimension of #herbarium specimens: Master student Khalil Boughalmi U. Grenoble studying #NIRs spectra of herbarium specimens in #Annonaceae. Can we identify species from spectra of herbarium sheets?? More very soon!
November 26, 2024 at 10:35 AM
Unlocking a new dimension of #herbarium specimens: Master student Khalil Boughalmi U. Grenoble studying #NIRs spectra of herbarium specimens in #Annonaceae. Can we identify species from spectra of herbarium sheets?? More very soon!
Putting Brahms to good use. One #BioCollections database for plants, fungi and insects at New Zealand Forest Research Institute.
BRAHMS: Software for Natural History Management
BRAHMS is database software for managing taxonomy, botanic gardens, seed banks and museum collections including herbaria, entomology collections and fossils.
herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk
November 28, 2024 at 8:41 AM
Putting Brahms to good use. One #BioCollections database for plants, fungi and insects at New Zealand Forest Research Institute.
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During my PhD at the #ASUBiocollections, I digitized over 3,000 #Anthribidae specimens 🥰. This was possible with the wonderful #Symbiota portal ecdysis.org, now updated with new tools! Let us know if you want to join to #digitize your collections 🥰.
November 26, 2024 at 6:12 PM
During my PhD at the #ASUBiocollections, I digitized over 3,000 #Anthribidae specimens 🥰. This was possible with the wonderful #Symbiota portal ecdysis.org, now updated with new tools! Let us know if you want to join to #digitize your collections 🥰.
My new favourite from #NationalForestryHerbarium. Echium plantagineum, commonly known as Paterson's curse, indigenous to Eurasia and northern Africa. Earliest collection in NZ from 1893. Farmers hate them, bee keepers love them. #BioCollections
November 27, 2024 at 12:00 AM
My new favourite from #NationalForestryHerbarium. Echium plantagineum, commonly known as Paterson's curse, indigenous to Eurasia and northern Africa. Earliest collection in NZ from 1893. Farmers hate them, bee keepers love them. #BioCollections
Wahoo! #BioCollections data refresh from National Forestry Herbarium @ Scion Research supplied to Australasian Virtual Herbarium. See biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/...
October 22, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Wahoo! #BioCollections data refresh from National Forestry Herbarium @ Scion Research supplied to Australasian Virtual Herbarium. See biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/...
New Zealand's Science System Advisory Group online news page last updated in April 2024. I worry about the future of #BioCollections in this country.
October 14, 2024 at 12:42 AM
New Zealand's Science System Advisory Group online news page last updated in April 2024. I worry about the future of #BioCollections in this country.
From #NationalForestryHerbarium @ScionResearch. 55% of specimens now imaged. Here's a sample. Melianthus major, an evergreen suckering shrub, endemic to South Africa and naturalised in New Zealand where it's on the Weedbuster list.
October 13, 2024 at 10:30 PM
From #NationalForestryHerbarium @ScionResearch. 55% of specimens now imaged. Here's a sample. Melianthus major, an evergreen suckering shrub, endemic to South Africa and naturalised in New Zealand where it's on the Weedbuster list.
As herbaria are starved of funding to maintain collections, an inevitable knock-on effect is that the enhancement of the collection, through new specimen collections, grinds to a halt. #SaveHerbaria
Specimen collection is essential for modern science
Natural history museums are vital repositories of specimens, samples and data that inform about the natural world; this Formal Comment revisits a Perspective that advocated for the adoption of compass...
dx.plos.org
February 29, 2024 at 1:43 AM
As herbaria are starved of funding to maintain collections, an inevitable knock-on effect is that the enhancement of the collection, through new specimen collections, grinds to a halt. #SaveHerbaria
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What unexplored means: Mapping undersampled regions in natural history collections https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.09.579602v1
What unexplored means: Mapping undersampled regions in natural history collections https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.09.579602v1
We examined global records of accessible natural history voucher collections (with publicly availabl
www.biorxiv.org
February 12, 2024 at 5:35 PM
What unexplored means: Mapping undersampled regions in natural history collections https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.09.579602v1