szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

Today, the number of peer-reviewed articles that use data mediated by GBIF reached 8,000(!) 🤩

A huge thanks to all the more than 1,900 institutions sharing data—and to researchers using data in their work! 👏

#opendata #biodiversity #FAIR

Hoping to encourage some #ThickTrunkTuesday delights so I share this fine lady who has lost their cloak and now stands cold in her thin green slip.
#Trees #Nature

Timeline of a new Mastodon user:

Day 1: this sucks servers are confusing and why is my feed empty

Day 2: why is there no quote tweet this is dumb

Day 3: mastodon better make some changes if it wants to compete with tw_tter

Day 7: hm, people are really nice here

Day 10: loving the no ads and real conversations

Day 15: THE WORKERS MUST SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION AND EXECUTE CAPITALISTS

#TwitterMigration

22 November 1934 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Judic Vischjager, was born in #Amsterdam.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 12 November 1942 in a transport of 758 #Jews deported from #Westerbork in German-occupied #Netherlands.

Together with her brother Jacob she was among 707 of them murdered in gas chambers right after selection made by SS doctors.

#history #Holocaust #Nazi #Germany #ww2 #WorldWar2

Of course swamps are also important for biodiversity and I would welcome people to share their photos and stories of why they love swamps too!

For more information around swamps in folklore and a historical perspective, I recommend SWAMP: Nature and Culture by Anthony Wilson.

If you want to know more about their functioning and importance as carbon stores, I recommend checking out our paper from earlier this year (shameless self promotion: (Davidson et al. 2022 ERL)

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac63d5

It’s that time of year again, when some companies think about giving their staff holiday gifts. If you’re thinking about it, here’s a list of good gifts to consider:

1. Cash

That’s it. That’s the list.

This is for all you #MedievalCats lovers. And also any #ButtLickingCats lovers also. Wasn't hard to find #Manuscripts with these cats.
#Medievalists #Histodons

Caught Radar at the end of a yawn!
#BlindCat #BlindCatsOfMastodon #catsofmastodon #dailycat

We biology geeks may sound elitist when we use scientific names instead of common names, but we're really just trying to avoid this:

For #thicktrunktuesday here is a kauri from the northern regions of New Zealand's North Island. Imagine all the carbon stored in its above ground biomass.

Back in the 1960s, Robert Noyce recommended incentive pay for one of his top performers at Fairchild Semiconductor. A Fairchild director replied “isn’t the fact that we’re not going to fire them in the morning incentive enough?”

Noyce left soon after to start Intel

" Management of the SVD outbreak in Uganda in 2000 was complicated by the fact that the outbreak-response team did not understand the local health beliefs and missed an opportunity to align their risk communication with the population’s understanding of disease transmission.5 This hard-won lesson has led to the regular inclusion of anthropologists in response teams to aid in designing and implementing control measures."

#Virology #Epidemiology #Filovirus #NEJM

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2213975?query=featured_home

This feels appropriate for the second thing I've ever posted to mastodon.

If Epson would paint your house.