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GerardM
@gerardm.bsky.social
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I am mostly a lurker for science that has my interest.. When I find a paper or scholar of interest, I improve their presence on #Wikidata and its result is an improved #Scholia
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There are many Wikipedias in African languages.. Making a list with all fellows of all African Academy of Sciences starts with a list of all those academies en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ge...
Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences inducts new fellows - Ghana Business News
The Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAF) has inducted six new fellows to advance knowledge for national development.
www.ghanabusinessnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Things that are good.. Though they are not extinct yet in Great Britain www.bbc.com/news/article...
Once-extinct European wildcats set to make a comeback in England
Fifty wildcats could be reintroduced to the countryside in south west England, conservationists say.
www.bbc.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 AM
A story about not needing banks and not needing electricity grids.. but still paying and having electricity climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarp...
Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa
Or: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past
climatedrift.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
When I want to know about a subject like the African green wall, I seek publications on the subject using #Scholia .. At this moment 3 articles... :( One of them, the 2025 one, I just added. scholia.toolforge.org/topic/Q387790
Scholia
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November 8, 2025 at 8:17 AM
No USA science is NOT no science.. NB there has always been science outside of those states.
November 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
some thought for a bot that will signal missing entries for awards recipients on Wikipedias and Wikipedia .. ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2025/11/miss...
Missing award recipients in both Wikidata and the Wikipedias
Professor  Fei-Fei Li is one of the recipients of the 2025  Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering . It says so on the English Wikipedia and ...
ultimategerardm.blogspot.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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biodivlibrary.bsky.social
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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jmbecologist.bsky.social
While some like to suggest academic freedom is about allowing people to say unpleasant things about others

this worrying example illustrates the need to protect valid research against interference from vested, financial interests
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
At #Wikidata all 2023 members of the Global Young Academy can be found.. it will update on (private) lists on many #Wikipedia.. 2024 and 2025 are on the "to do" list.
November 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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overlistener.bsky.social
Het is hemeltergend hoe Nederlandse media bereid zijn om als een versterkte megafoon en doorgeefluik te dienen voor alle bommetjes die Wilders opgooit. Bonmetjes waarvan hij nooit de ontstane schade hoeft op te ruimen.
Echt, kap hier gewoon mee.
October 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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patrickjansen.bsky.social
"Als je een uitgesproken persoonlijkheid bent met bijzondere gaven, dan ben je de gebeten hond. Vooral als je (..) ook nog eens weet te genieten van het leven.
Daar valt niks tegen te doen."
Historicus @hanvanderhorst.bsky.social over #Timmermans en andere staatslieden
www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...
Dit is de echte reden waarom Frans Timmermans zo gehaat wordt - Joop - BNNVARA
Het lot van elke sociaaldemocratische leider met een uitgesproken persoonlijkheid.
www.bnnvara.nl
October 30, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Is Mamoun Sinada the same person as Mamoun Mahgoub Sinada one is a Sudanese justice minister the other is a Sudanese minister of foreign affairs?? Who knows ?
October 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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biodivlibrary.bsky.social
If you’re at #LivingData2025, visit us at the Biodiversity Heritage Library booth. Ask us about the 63 million pages of #BiodiversityKnowledge we’ve made accessible & discoverable online, and how we’re transitioning to become an independent, global and sustainable consortium. #ILoveBHL
October 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"Richard C. Homes", an ornithologist .. won the Bernard Tucker medal in 1955, I do not find him at #VIAF or the #BHL but he is now linked to #OpenLibrary, people can reahttps://reasonator.toolforge.org/?&q=55589804d some of his works.
October 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
My #Wikidata user story: Somebody comes on my radar.. like Dr. Ana Davidson .. a youtube on prairie dogs .. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR4H... .. I loop her up at Wikidata, in her Scholia I add missing papers, co-authors.. and it looks better scholia.toolforge.org/author/Q8928...
Connect | Episode 108 Prarie Dog Preservation
YouTube video by New Mexico PBS
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October 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Am adding some authors to #Wikidata, #VIAF is nice to have but #OpenLibrary is a link where our audience can actually READ many of the publications of those authors. www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136505...
Sherry Simpson
author
www.wikidata.org
October 16, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Laura L. Payne received an award. There is one identifier that I can find for her, the wonderful BHL. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/creator/2708...
Payne, Laura L - 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.
www.biodiversitylibrary.org
October 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I watched a Youtube, it mentioned a scientist. Found the scientist in ORCiD, added her to Wikidata, the paper, the co-authors. Am now doing things with citations.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBYm...
She's Healing Wildfire Pollution. With Mushrooms.
YouTube video by PBS Terra
www.youtube.com
October 12, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Adding papers for a reputable scientist in Wikidata.. when you look at the co-author map of her Scholia, her collaboration with others is obvious.
October 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
@biodivlibrary.bsky.social I just added all the people who received the Aldo Leopold award.. Are you aware of other older awards? It is one way of getting interest for the content that you hold.. scholia.toolforge.org/award/Q99312... for instance by connecting papers and identifiers..
Scholia
scholia.toolforge.org
October 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The daughter of a friend is diagnosed with FNS or "functional neurologic disorder". The last paper known to Wikidata on the subject is from 2020. I will add a lot of new data on this subject. Making Wikidata more relevant on the subject.
October 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Now that Douwe Egberts (coffee) is US owned, do we pay tarifs. If so international brands are not good for European customers.
October 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
So for the future we can no longer rely on USAmerican scientists, they are defunded out of business.. We can still celebrate greats for instance through giving attention to awards like the Aldo Leopold award .. It is getting some TLC at Wikidata.. scholia.toolforge.org/award/Q99312...
Scholia
scholia.toolforge.org
October 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Hey, USAmericans, now that Mr Trump had been convicted of persistent fraud after a trial that shows ignorance of the NY laws and where he loses his license to operate.. when will you pull his fraudulous presidential ticket?
October 4, 2025 at 5:57 AM