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The #Python Software Foundation recently had to pass on a US$1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation for PyPI maintenance. One condition of the funding was that the they drop any DEI efforts. My thoughts on this.

#Biodiversity data should not disappear when projects end but too often, it does. #LivingData2025 session talking about how we can properly ensure knowledge transfer and maintain continuity across research projects. 🧪🌏📚🧬

ontributions to biodiversity data in the Global South by Cristiana Serejo. #LivingData2025 "Nearly three thousand entomological type material images captured in the SiBBr Project were crucial for the digital preservation[...] since almost all physical specimens were destroyed in the 2018 fire."

Mathias Dillen from Meise Botanic Garden, Belgium talking about "MIDS in practice": Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen www.tdwg.org/community/cd... @dissco.bsky.social @tdwg.org #LivingData2025. 🧪🌏

Elspeth Haston talking about MIDS: Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen
"What is the status of global digitisation? MIDS as an institutional & global digitisation standard" #LivingData2025 🧪🌏
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#LivingData2025 I am talking about (virtually) "Building and Serving FAIR Terms and Vocabularies for open Digital Specimen" part of "Data model for global implementation of open Digital Specimen & the status of specimen digitization" #FAIRdata 🧪🌏 @dissco.bsky.social

importance of open documentation and #opensource practice. Towards a Common Language for Digital Specimens: Exploring the openDS Data Model #FAIRdata #biodiversity 🧪🌏 #LivingData2025

"Towards a Common Language for Digital Specimens: Exploring the openDS Data Model". importance of links and relationships. #openDS #DigitalSpecimen @dissco.bsky.social 🧪🌏

#LivingData2025 Sam Leeflang begins the session on openDS: Data model for global implementation of open #DigitalSpecimen & the status of specimen digitization @dissco.bsky.social 🧪🌏 #biodiversity #FAIRdata

Finished reading "Botany of Empire". Yes, order and classification matter. But who decides this? Why is your list scientific and mine folk? Highly recommended. uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295... #biodiversity #science 🧪🌎🦑🍄🍄

I’ll be performing at the ‘Tell Me More’ #storytelling event this coming Friday (April 11, 2025). The theme of the evening is ‘Metamorphosis.’ More information and tickets available here: www.instagram.com/p/DIOLFfXM8G...