"Oh Time, Thy Pyramids!" The @biodivlibrary.bsky.social and the Unchaining of the Universal Library(?) / a presentation from 2008 at the Berkman Center at Harvard University for a meeting of the Information Futures Institute www.biodivlibrary.org/2026/04/meet...

24,000th iNaturalist Observation: Atalantycha bilineata (Two-lined Leatherwing) Biodiversity and literature

24,000th @inaturalist.bsky.social Observation: Atalantycha bilineata (Two-lined Leatherwing) / www.biodivlibrary.org/2026/04/2400...

iNaturalist Observations: In and Around Copenhagen (22-31 March 2026) Biodiversity and literature

@inaturalist.bsky.social observations / www.biodivlibrary.org/2026/04/inat...

Dodo

A visit to the Statens Naturhistoriske Museum / www.biodivlibrary.org/2026/04/a-vi... in March 2026

Flying into Copenhagen

Some posts on my recent visit to Copenhagen to attend the @gbif.org Midterm meetings / www.biodivlibrary.org/2026/03/meet...

First Spotted Lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) @inaturalist.bsky.social observation of the year / www.biodivlibrary.org/2026/04/firs...

Drontens død / NH Copenhagen

Boston Public Library

Boston Public Library

Presenting to the Boston Library Consortium

Looking back at a 2008 presentation for the Boston Library Consortium (18 March 2008) at Boston Public Library on the topic of the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social

Presentation

At the Botanic Garden

Natural History Museum

National Library Board

Looking back at the 2017 @biodivlibrary.bsky.social meetings in Singapore / bit.ly/4dlEJNu

And the second, "2014 @biodivlibrary.bsky.social Members' Meeting (10-11 March 2014, New York City) and BHL Program Director's Report" / www.biodivlibrary.org/2026/03/meet...

A couple of lookback posts to @biodivlibrary.bsky.social meetings from the past, first up, "2011 WebWise (10-11 March 2011, Baltimore, MD)" / WebWise was a popular meet up conference for people involved with BHL ... www.biodivlibrary.org/2026/03/meet...

Looking back at the 2011 @biodivlibrary.bsky.social Institutional Council meeting (8-9 March 2011, Washington, DC) / www.biodivlibrary.org/2026/03/meet...

Recent Publication: "Data Born in Literature: The @biodivlibrary.bsky.social – A Global Digital Library Serving the Planet" (2025) / Learn more at bit.ly/4bmezYD

Crossing the Croatian/Slovenian border by train

@inaturalist.bsky.social Observations: In and Around Croatia & Slovenia (14-25 February 2026) / February in urban areas not the best time / bit.ly/4cl6dCG

Swan

Trailing Bellflower

Heron

@inaturalist.bsky.social Observations: In and Around London (23 December 2025 - 2 January 2026) www.biodivlibrary.org/2026/02/inat...

Egyptian Goose

Great Cormorant

Eurasian Magpie

@inaturalist.bsky.social Observations: In and Around London (30 November - 8 December 2025) #iNaturalist www.biodivlibrary.org/2026/02/inat...

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/BHLat10

Natural History Museum, London

Natural History Museum, London

In 2016, @biodivlibrary.bsky.social celebrated 10 years in London with meetings at the Natural History Museum and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew … looking forward to hearing what happens at the 20th anniversary gathering in 2026 (4/4) #BHLib www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/B...

Thomas Orrell (left, Smithsonian) & David Remsen (right, MBL WHOI Library)

Thomas Orrell (left, Smithsonian) & David Remsen (right, MBL WHOI Library); Tom provided bioinformatics guidance for BHL; Dave's innovative & groundbreaking work in taxonomic name finding (uBio) laid the groundwork for much of BHL’s taxonomic infrastructure via the Global Names Architecture … (3/4)

NHM Librarian’s office where Tom Garnett (Smithsonian), Graham Higley (NHM), Bryan Heidorn (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) sketched out governance of what was to become @biodivlibrary.bsky.social (4 Feb 2005) [photo from 2014] … #BHLib

Key values of collaboration, openness, transparency, globalization, & a user/data centric focus were all 1st elaborated at the conference (which brought together key figures in the origin of @biodivlibrary.bsky.social & a working meeting at the NHM Librarian’s office the day before … (2/4) #BHLib

Anna Weitzman (Smithsonian), Chris Lyal (NHM), Tom Garnett (Smithsonian) & Graham Higley (NHM). Anna and Chris were important to the informatics development of BHL and Graham was later the first Chair of the BHL Executive Committee … #BHLib

Doug Holland (Missouri Botanical Garden) was later Secretary of the BHL Executive Committee; in 2004’s “WebWise 2004: Sharing Digital Resources” in Chicago he, along with @chrisfreeland.com, Suzanne Pilsk (Smithsonian), and I did a classic napkin sketch of a digital library for biodiversity … #BHLib

Natural History Museum, London

Today's an important date for the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social marking the start of a key global gathering, “Library and Laboratory: The Marriage of Research, Data, and Taxonomic Literature” (London, 5 Feb 2005) attended by 80+ bioinformaticians, taxonomists, & librarians (1/4) More: bit.ly/4qu3biU

Carolina Mantis (Stagmomantis carolina)

And also a Carolina Mantis (Stagmomantis carolina) late last year www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Which is what I observed in my neighborhood a few years back (observation on @iNaturalist) www.inaturalist.org/observations...

H de Saussure's work "Mélanges Orthoptérologiques" in Memoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève

H de Saussure's work "Mélanges Orthoptérologiques" in Memoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève

H de Saussure's work "Mélanges Orthoptérologiques" in Memoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève (t.21: pt.1-2 1871-72) is the 1st description of Chinese Mantis (T. sinensis) www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14226624
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14226666

iNaturalist Map

Washington, DC sees 5 common species in the Family Mantidae, 4 are introduced: European Mantis (M. religiosa), Narrow-winged Mantis (T. angustipennis), Asian Jumping Mantis (S. maculata), Chinese Mantis (T. sinensis), & the native Carolina Mantis (S. carolina) (via @inaturalist.bsky.social

H de Saussure's work "Mélanges Orthoptérologiques" in Memoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève

Mantids (Preying Mantis) are one of the most spectacular insects and come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, colors, behavior, & distribution; here are some examples from Saussure (1871), pl.4; www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14226526 (@BioDivLibrary via @NYBG)

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