I see how LLMS/AI can help with sorting data, transcribing some information, but we are working with 3D organisms that have been dried and flattened/pickled/stuffed in various positions and situations, and the interpretation of them is always tricky. #museum #SPNHC #herbaria

This is exactly what happens when you work in natural history collections. That one weird specimen you find after hours of sorting specimens stands out because you have amassed info from previous specimens, compare it, and you put it aside. cont'd
#biodiversity #SPNHC #archives #museum

Webinar – Natural History Collections and Repatriation: Beyond NAGPRA – Natural Science Collections Alliance Natural Science Collections Alliance

Register today for an information session on Dec 8 at 2pm ET about repatriation and how it relates to natural history collections held at museums, herbaria, and other institutions. #NSCA #AIBS #SPNHC #NAGPRA nscalliance.org/webinar-nhc-...

Back to work in the herbarium after attending the 40th annual meeting for #SPNHC last week. What a phenomenal meeting!

This #FromtheFieldFriday is brought to you from Lawerence, KS

Four of our staff members attended the #SPNHC conference

While we were here, got to check out #kunaturalhistory and of course we had to find the #wareagle AND we couldn’t resist some fieldwork 🌿🐟🦞🐸

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screenshot describing the eDNA session at TaxonWorks Together 2025 (May 6 - 8) to talk about connecting eDNA data for more use and discoverability. https://together.taxonworks.org/

📢 #eDNA? @tdwg.org @gbif.org #SPNHC #idigbio @dissco.bsky.social @prairieresearch.bsky.social join #TWT2025 TaxonWorks Together: connecting eDNA to vouchers, inventories, provenance, scaling, identifiers, fieldwork, standards, AI & collections. Need new connections? 🪡https://together.taxonworks.org/

🤔 Exploring #fieldstations + #collections What's possible? What's needed? Join @taxonworks.bsky.social #twt2025 on May 6th with guests @rallidaerule.bsky.social, Jim L, Arianna K, Enrique S-B, Jamie M-G together.taxonworks.org Reg open! @gbif.org @dissco.bsky.social #idigbio #spnhc @tdwg.org 👀

SPNHC-TDWG 2024 - YouTube Joint conference of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections and Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG), held in Okinawa, Japan, 2-...

Greetings Suzuki Mahoro, thanks for sharing this. I'm guessing many of us spoke way too fast. (I have to remind myself to speak slower). Hopefully at #TDWG and #SPNHC meetings in the future we can do better. Maybe the YouTube recordings help (since they have subtitles). youtube.com/playlist?lis...

sessions

BTW, don't forget to check the list of wonderful sessions for the next #SPNHC Meeting! Send your abstracts and come to visit us at KU! Deadline 10 March 2025.
spnhc2025.ku.edu/sessions

Interested in natural history collections & want to visit a fun town? If so, check out the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections meeting being held May 27-31, 2025 at the Univ of Kansas in Lawrence

More info: docs.google.com/forms/d/1vy1...

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#KUNHM
#RockChalk
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The clouds and rainstorms over the ocean in Okinawa were amazing. September 2024, during #SPNHC & #TDWG conference.

Delving Into Te Papa Research Expedition Data The Te Papa research expeditions project was a 12-week pilot project, funded by Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand and supported by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. As Wikimedian in Residence ...

Our #SPNHC #TDWG extended abstract on the #Wikidata #TePapa research expeditions project has just been published! I'll be presenting on this at the #TDWG2024 conference next week in Okinawa, Japan. Read it here doi.org/10.3897/biss...

If #SPNHC people are coming all the way to NZ next year, it seems only fair that we organise some amazing South Island field trips for them.

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#museumjobs RT @nature_jcp Museum job opportunity: Collections Manager, Fishes, Field Museum http://ow.ly/sxKIl #SPNHC