Nicole Kearney
@nicolekearney.bsky.social
Communications Director @biodivlibrary.bsky.social. Manager @bhl-au.bsky.social. Chair of Team #RetroPIDs. Member of #HomewardBound #TeamHB9. Striving to make biodiversity knowledge accessible & discoverable online. #OpenAccess #StripedPossums 🌱 📚 🦘👩💻 🔗
Hey, I’ve spent the past 5 years leading BHL’s #RetroPIDs project, which is all about making journal content more discoverable, regardless of how pretty it is. It just makes this critical work more enjoyable (for me) when it contains spectacular #SciArt.
November 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Hey, I’ve spent the past 5 years leading BHL’s #RetroPIDs project, which is all about making journal content more discoverable, regardless of how pretty it is. It just makes this critical work more enjoyable (for me) when it contains spectacular #SciArt.
Day #5 in Tanzania: today I travelled from Zanzibar’s southern tip to its west, where I’ll be departing for Chumbe Island, an IUCN listed nature reserve & #GlobalBiodiversityHotspot known for its ecological innovation & exceptional coral reefs. Meanwhile, here are some dolphin pics from yesterday.
November 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Day #5 in Tanzania: today I travelled from Zanzibar’s southern tip to its west, where I’ll be departing for Chumbe Island, an IUCN listed nature reserve & #GlobalBiodiversityHotspot known for its ecological innovation & exceptional coral reefs. Meanwhile, here are some dolphin pics from yesterday.
Day #3 in Tanzania: Kizimkazi, a secluded beach on the southern coast of Zanzibar. #HomewardBound #iNaturalist
November 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Day #3 in Tanzania: Kizimkazi, a secluded beach on the southern coast of Zanzibar. #HomewardBound #iNaturalist
Day #2 in Tanzania: The beautiful UNESCO & IUCN listed Jozani Forest (the only national park in Zanzibar): monkeys & elephant shrews #HomewardBound @inaturalist.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Day #2 in Tanzania: The beautiful UNESCO & IUCN listed Jozani Forest (the only national park in Zanzibar): monkeys & elephant shrews #HomewardBound @inaturalist.bsky.social
Day #1 in Tanzania in the lead up to the 2025 #HomewardBound Leadership Summit. Zanzibar: ocean, islands, boats, Stone Town, markets, spices, cats & the first observations for our HB #iNaturalist project: www.inaturalist.org/projects/hom...
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Day #1 in Tanzania in the lead up to the 2025 #HomewardBound Leadership Summit. Zanzibar: ocean, islands, boats, Stone Town, markets, spices, cats & the first observations for our HB #iNaturalist project: www.inaturalist.org/projects/hom...
All ready for my 2am meeting with the BHL global consortium on this #Halloween Eve. We were instructed to dress for the holiday, so I’ll be sporting my glow-in-the-dark owl t-shirt & red-back spider earrings. #BHLib
October 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
All ready for my 2am meeting with the BHL global consortium on this #Halloween Eve. We were instructed to dress for the holiday, so I’ll be sporting my glow-in-the-dark owl t-shirt & red-back spider earrings. #BHLib
📣 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
Ben Scott @nhm-london.bsky.social shares how his team has extracted trait data from species descriptions on BHL. Result? 706,842 trait terms & the largest trait database in the world. BHL = the foundation of our understanding of biodiversity. #LivingData2025 @biodivlibrary.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Ben Scott @nhm-london.bsky.social shares how his team has extracted trait data from species descriptions on BHL. Result? 706,842 trait terms & the largest trait database in the world. BHL = the foundation of our understanding of biodiversity. #LivingData2025 @biodivlibrary.bsky.social
Trait data is crucial to our understand of biodiversity & informing how species respond to climate change. So much of this essential data is in BHL, captured in species descriptions in the literature. Says Ben Scott @nhm-london.bsky.social at #LivingData2025 @biodivlibrary.bsky.social #ILoveBHL 🌱🧪🌿
October 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Trait data is crucial to our understand of biodiversity & informing how species respond to climate change. So much of this essential data is in BHL, captured in species descriptions in the literature. Says Ben Scott @nhm-london.bsky.social at #LivingData2025 @biodivlibrary.bsky.social #ILoveBHL 🌱🧪🌿
But, you can use birds as a vehicle to collect/identify “ugly” species. Rudolf Meier shares an example from Singapore, where 1500 lice were collected from 54 roadkill birds, resulting in the discovery of 50 new lice species. #LivingData2025 #EmbraceTheUgly
October 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
But, you can use birds as a vehicle to collect/identify “ugly” species. Rudolf Meier shares an example from Singapore, where 1500 lice were collected from 54 roadkill birds, resulting in the discovery of 50 new lice species. #LivingData2025 #EmbraceTheUgly
Rudolf Meier paraphrases a post from @rdmpage.bsky.social : as ~ 2/3 of the records in GBIF are birds, @gbif.org is primarily a Global Bird Information Facility. To correct this bias, we need to focus on the “ugly” biodiversity. 🪰 🪱 🪳 🦟 @mfnberlin.bsky.social #LivingData2025 x.com/rdmpage/stat...
October 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Rudolf Meier paraphrases a post from @rdmpage.bsky.social : as ~ 2/3 of the records in GBIF are birds, @gbif.org is primarily a Global Bird Information Facility. To correct this bias, we need to focus on the “ugly” biodiversity. 🪰 🪱 🪳 🦟 @mfnberlin.bsky.social #LivingData2025 x.com/rdmpage/stat...
The wonderful speakers from @tiagolubiana.bsky.social’s #Wikimedia & #BiodiversityData session at #LivingData2025 (we also had the fabulous @siobhanleachman.bsky.social online). 🧪🔗🌎👩🏼💻 @rdmpage.bsky.social @svmering.bsky.social @biodivlibrary.bsky.social @wikimediafoundation.org
October 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
The wonderful speakers from @tiagolubiana.bsky.social’s #Wikimedia & #BiodiversityData session at #LivingData2025 (we also had the fabulous @siobhanleachman.bsky.social online). 🧪🔗🌎👩🏼💻 @rdmpage.bsky.social @svmering.bsky.social @biodivlibrary.bsky.social @wikimediafoundation.org
Most scientists are not great at communicating their science, says Dean Pentcheff #LivingData2025. #ScienceCommunication is effective when we use narratives. Tell your story. Then you’ll get into people’s hearts. #JaneGoodall
October 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Most scientists are not great at communicating their science, says Dean Pentcheff #LivingData2025. #ScienceCommunication is effective when we use narratives. Tell your story. Then you’ll get into people’s hearts. #JaneGoodall
Lauren Oakes shares how Adventure Scientists gathers data to address critical environmental challenges, such as amassing the largest and most diverse global microplastic pollution datasets & using #TreeTracking to prevent illegal logging. Find out more: www.adventurescientists.org #LivingData2025 🧪
October 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Lauren Oakes shares how Adventure Scientists gathers data to address critical environmental challenges, such as amassing the largest and most diverse global microplastic pollution datasets & using #TreeTracking to prevent illegal logging. Find out more: www.adventurescientists.org #LivingData2025 🧪
Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social shouts out the crucial work of BHL’s Persistent Identifier Working Group (Team #RetroPIDs), who’ve retrospectively assigned 50,000+ DOIs to historic journal articles, which have been cited 74,446 times, giving BHL an H-index of 79. #LivingData2025 @crossref.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social shouts out the crucial work of BHL’s Persistent Identifier Working Group (Team #RetroPIDs), who’ve retrospectively assigned 50,000+ DOIs to historic journal articles, which have been cited 74,446 times, giving BHL an H-index of 79. #LivingData2025 @crossref.bsky.social
Britt Andermann talks about the importance of archival materials (field notes, journals, registers, and excursion reports) as critical sources of biodiversity data, and shares a process for extracting this data and making it accessible & discoverable @gbif.org. #LivingData2025 🧪📚
October 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Britt Andermann talks about the importance of archival materials (field notes, journals, registers, and excursion reports) as critical sources of biodiversity data, and shares a process for extracting this data and making it accessible & discoverable @gbif.org. #LivingData2025 🧪📚
It’s #WombatDay! And I just happen to be wearing my favourite wombat earrings. #DenzandCo denzandco.com #LivingData2025
October 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
It’s #WombatDay! And I just happen to be wearing my favourite wombat earrings. #DenzandCo denzandco.com #LivingData2025
Wikipedia has 76,413 links to BHL pages. Wikispecies has 71,876. Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social shares which of those pages are the most viewed on each platform. #LivingData2025
October 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Wikipedia has 76,413 links to BHL pages. Wikispecies has 71,876. Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social shares which of those pages are the most viewed on each platform. #LivingData2025
Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social asks which of BHL’s 63 million pages are the most important. Clearly the most important page on BHL is the first scientific description of the platypus 😉: doi.org/10.5962/p.30... #LivingData2025 #ILoveBHL #RetroPIDs
October 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social asks which of BHL’s 63 million pages are the most important. Clearly the most important page on BHL is the first scientific description of the platypus 😉: doi.org/10.5962/p.30... #LivingData2025 #ILoveBHL #RetroPIDs
The transition of BHL from the Smithsonian is an opportunity to rethink the BHL and to explore its relationships with other projects (e.g. Wikis). @rdmpage.bsky.social shares his test bed for exploring new interfaces at #LivingData2025
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October 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The transition of BHL from the Smithsonian is an opportunity to rethink the BHL and to explore its relationships with other projects (e.g. Wikis). @rdmpage.bsky.social shares his test bed for exploring new interfaces at #LivingData2025
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BHL Lead Programmer, Mike Lichtenberg, shares BHL’s process for exchanging persistent identifiers between BHL and Wikidata, and how this enhances discoverability of biodiversity literature, and builds stronger links between BHL and other biodiversity platforms. #LivingData2025 #IloveBHL 🌱 🔗 📖
October 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
BHL Lead Programmer, Mike Lichtenberg, shares BHL’s process for exchanging persistent identifiers between BHL and Wikidata, and how this enhances discoverability of biodiversity literature, and builds stronger links between BHL and other biodiversity platforms. #LivingData2025 #IloveBHL 🌱 🔗 📖
@svmering.bsky.social shares how @mfnberlin.bsky.social is digitally cataloguing and digitizing its vast natural history collection of approximately 30 million objects and building a #Wikidata knowledge graph connecting taxa, specimens, people, places, publications, and events. #LivingData2025 🧪 🔗
October 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
@svmering.bsky.social shares how @mfnberlin.bsky.social is digitally cataloguing and digitizing its vast natural history collection of approximately 30 million objects and building a #Wikidata knowledge graph connecting taxa, specimens, people, places, publications, and events. #LivingData2025 🧪 🔗
You should only publish in journals that will make the biodiversity data discoverable AND export taxonomic treatments to GBIF (with DOIs) e.g European Journal of Taxonomy & Pensoft. Say Donat Agosti and Laurence Bénichou at #LivingData2025. @ejtaxonomy.bsky.social @pensoft.net
#DatosVivos2025 🌱 🧪 📄
#DatosVivos2025 🌱 🧪 📄
October 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
You should only publish in journals that will make the biodiversity data discoverable AND export taxonomic treatments to GBIF (with DOIs) e.g European Journal of Taxonomy & Pensoft. Say Donat Agosti and Laurence Bénichou at #LivingData2025. @ejtaxonomy.bsky.social @pensoft.net
#DatosVivos2025 🌱 🧪 📄
#DatosVivos2025 🌱 🧪 📄
Tens of millions of treatments exist as part of ~500
million pages of published biodiversity literature. At #LivingData2025, Donat Agosti @plazi-species.bsky.social and Laurence Bénichou @mnhn.fr are sharing workflows to liberate the data imprisoned in legacy publications. #FAIRData #OpenAccess 📚 🧪
million pages of published biodiversity literature. At #LivingData2025, Donat Agosti @plazi-species.bsky.social and Laurence Bénichou @mnhn.fr are sharing workflows to liberate the data imprisoned in legacy publications. #FAIRData #OpenAccess 📚 🧪
October 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Tens of millions of treatments exist as part of ~500
million pages of published biodiversity literature. At #LivingData2025, Donat Agosti @plazi-species.bsky.social and Laurence Bénichou @mnhn.fr are sharing workflows to liberate the data imprisoned in legacy publications. #FAIRData #OpenAccess 📚 🧪
million pages of published biodiversity literature. At #LivingData2025, Donat Agosti @plazi-species.bsky.social and Laurence Bénichou @mnhn.fr are sharing workflows to liberate the data imprisoned in legacy publications. #FAIRData #OpenAccess 📚 🧪
People want to learn & engage with #IndigenousDataSovereignty & #RightsBasedGovernance, but they're afraid to make mistakes & need guidance. GBIF’s #IndigenousData Task Force is addressing this. Learn more www.gbif.org/news/1Ke3Gk2... @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social #LivingData2025 @GBIF.org
October 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
People want to learn & engage with #IndigenousDataSovereignty & #RightsBasedGovernance, but they're afraid to make mistakes & need guidance. GBIF’s #IndigenousData Task Force is addressing this. Learn more www.gbif.org/news/1Ke3Gk2... @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social #LivingData2025 @GBIF.org