Roderic Page@rdmpage

Expat Kiwi, Professor of Taxonomy at Glasgow University, inclined to say that something sucks at every available opportunity. Also run @EvolDir and @Taxacom

 Glasgow, Scotland
iphylo.blogspot.com
Joined April 2008
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EvolDir@evoldir
4 Jan 2025
If you are following this account it is no longer active here (and hasn’t been for a while). An improved version is available on Bluesky.
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Measuring What We Don't Know: Biodiversity Catalogs Reveal Bias in Taxonomic Effort Before you say a group is 'understudied' you might want to check out the metric introduced here ... [Thanks to Lauren Esposito for introducing me to this paper] academic.oup.com/bioscience/…

Measuring What We Don't Know: Biodiversity Catalogs Reveal Bias in Taxonomic Effort

Abstract. Biodiversity catalogs are an invaluable resource for biological research. Efforts to scientifically document biodiversity have not been evenly ap

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Roderic Page retweeted
Donat Agosti@myrmoteras
30 Nov 2024
How can you talk about the importance of natural history museums without once mentioning its libraries, the place where hundreds of years of research is accumulated? Only a specimen in context makes sense. @NHCMjournal @rkellerp nhcm.pensoft.net/article/142…
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New on the blog: "BHL Datasets Now Openly Accessible on the Amazon Web Services Cloud." 62 million pages of scientific text, images, and metadata, representing 500 years of biodiversity data will be openly accessible via the Registry of Open Data on AWS. s.si.edu/3BdlR2u

Biodiversity Heritage Library Datasets Now Openly Accessible on the Amazon Web Services Cloud

Sixty-two million pages of scientific text, images, and metadata, representing 500 years of biodiversity data will be openly accessible via the Registry of Open Data on AWS The BHL Technical Team i…

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What’s the easiest way to make a chatbot that I can feed 50 to 60 gigs of PDFs into and then have a grounded conversation about roughly 6000 medical papers? Where is the relatively inexpensive “throw gigs into a folder and get RAG” solution? #AI
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Status Update: BHL services have been fully restored, including page viewing and custom PDF generation. All @internetarchive servers hosting BHL content are back online. Thank you to the #BHLib community for your support! For the latest information, visit about.biodiversitylibrary.or…
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New update from @brewster_kahle on how the Internet Archive is learning from recent cyberattacks. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/11/14/…
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Roderic Page retweeted
Donat Agosti@myrmoteras
14 Nov 2024
After two weeks in @RudolfMeier15 lab to learn to #barcode, never ever tell me that liberating data from the #pdfprison is complex!
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We're pleased to announce we're recruiting for a driven and visionary leader to become our Director of Development and Communications. 🌿 This is a crucial role at one of the world’s most prestigious botanical institutions. Find details and apply: rbge.cc/Jobs
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ALT Photograph with Edinburgh castle and the city skyline in the background, and the rock garden of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in the foreground, with multiple trees in shades of green. Around the photograph is a dark green frame, and text in white at the bottom which reads: 'Join our team. Director of Development and Communications'.
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#ProtectedPlanet November 2024 Update: 🌍 WDPA: is 305,192 (303,309 #ProtectedAreas), covering 244 countries & territories. WD-OECM: is 6,484 (6,463 #OECMs), covering 15 countries & territories. GD-PAME: 5 assessment records were added and 1 updated. eu1.hubs.ly/H0dws2k0
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Save Page Now is back online via the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/save Web pages archived since October 9 will start being added to @waybackmachine.
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The Vanishing Culture report arrives today at a critical moment: While @internetarchive recovers from a cyberattack, it’s a reminder of how fragile our access to knowledge can be. Preserving culture & history requires resilience—and collective action. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/10/30/…
The image shows the cover of the Internet Archive's Vanishing Culture report. On the left, the words "Vanishing Culture" are prominently displayed in bold, dark font against a neutral background. To the right, a set of cultural artifacts including a VHS tape, an open book, a film reel, a vinyl record, and a web link icon appear to disintegrate into pixels, symbolizing the disappearance of analog and digital media. Below these icons is a pixelated computer hand cursor pointing to the word "SAVE," emphasizing the need for preservation. The Internet Archive's logo is placed in the bottom-right corner.

ALT The image shows the cover of the Internet Archive's Vanishing Culture report. On the left, the words "Vanishing Culture" are prominently displayed in bold, dark font against a neutral background. To the right, a set of cultural artifacts including a VHS tape, an open book, a film reel, a vinyl record, and a web link icon appear to disintegrate into pixels, symbolizing the disappearance of analog and digital media. Below these icons is a pixelated computer hand cursor pointing to the word "SAVE," emphasizing the need for preservation. The Internet Archive's logo is placed in the bottom-right corner.

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Roderic Page retweeted
Dan Brickley@danbri
31 Oct 2024
Michael Hartl
@mhartl
29 Oct 2024
I feel like this may prove to be the most prescient cartoon of the 21st century.
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Does anybody here use the BOLD website boldsystems.org ? If so, what do you think of the new version? #dnabarcoding
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Roderic Page retweeted
Donat Agosti@myrmoteras
27 Oct 2024
The scientific community must move beyond its comfort zone of writing papers and preaching to its own choirs. It must engage with the public and policymakers to turn knowledge into action. Will we have yet another opportunity? Let’s not wait to find out. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

Move past promises for biodiversity

As nations convene this week in Cali, Colombia, at the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the alarming rate at which the world is losing...

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Visualising 250K articles extracted from @BioDivLibrary via BioStor, intercative map made using @nomic_ai atlas.nomic.ai/data/rdmpage/…
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Update: archive.org is back online in a provisional, read-only manner. Learn more in our latest post: blog.archive.org/2024/10/21/…
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Love this phrase “machine read” as opposed to “machine readable” from doi.org/10.22148/16.025 by @benmschmidt
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I've been playing with the BOLD #DNAbarcoding #frictionlessdata data packages and have some thoughts iphylo.blogspot.com/2024/10/… @iBOLConsortium #dataquality
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Roderic Page retweeted
Kenneth Cassel
@KennethCassel
17 Oct 2024
how come a company founded over 100 years ago has the fastest site on the internet?
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