We are a collective with a passion for nature, promoting the reuse of open media + open data on biodiversity. CC BY SA 📷 by Nick Helme • CC BY 📍 by parkjisun
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THIS THURSDAY: Don't forget our #PublicDomain VIRTUAL party! Join Internet Archive, @creativecommons and many others to celebrate the works of art & culture from 1927 that have entered the public domain. eventbrite.com/e/public-doma…
ALT The Best Things in Life are Free Public Domain Day January 19, 2023 1pm PT / 4pm ET VIRTUAL
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My 1000th #wikipedia page/stub. Written because of the Kevin Thiele photograph to the right. Stub or not, as always it involved #wikidata work and #wikicommons work. In wikidata adding to articles, authors, and taxa. @annreynolds988 @SiobhanLeachman @wm_au
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The Laurel Pigeon, an endangered species endemic to the laurel forests of the Canary Islands, Spain, finally has a high-quality, free-licensed photo for its Wikipedia entry, courtesy of iNat contributor Thibaud Aronson. 🙌🏻
ALT Screenshot of the Laurel Pigeon article on English Wikipedia
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Our Observation of the Day is this Spiranthes infernalis #orchid, seen in the #UnitedStates by graeserr!
This #plant is listed as Imperiled by NatureServe.
More details at: inaturalist.org/observations… #botany #flowers #nature #biodiversity
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BOLD—the DNA barcode repository for the biodiversity research community—announced that over 2.5M specimen images from its database are now CC licensed. A big shoutout to @SiobhanLeachman for her advocacy of licenses that enable reuse. biodiversitygenomics.net/new… cc @creativecommons
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There is so much happening beneath our feet.
Nature is amazing. Protect it. #ActOnClimate
#ClimateEmergency #Climate #Nature #Rewilding #GreenNewDeal
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Like to learn more about #data #standards for reporting on #InvasiveAlienSpecies and wildlife management? Join our organized session at the upcoming #TDWG2022 conference in Sofia, Bulgaria! Submit your abstract before the 1st of July here: tdwg.org/conferences/2022/ca…
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Find all the details about the competition here: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/C…
It covers the whole island of Ireland! @wikimediauk
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I've been using @inaturalist / UK for years and only just discovered all my records and photos had no license applied 🙀 This meant no one else could use them for anything! I've now fixed this for all past and future records. If you are a @inaturalist user, check your settings!
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Today we are excited to announce that the entire collection—more than 3.8 million herbarium sheets—is now online and ready for you to use.
ALT A photo of herbarium sheets on a conveyor belt
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We invite you to search the collections, by species, date, or location. Let us know what you find!
Our museum’s Department of Botany and the @SmithsonianDPO made this incredible work possible.
collections.nmnh.si.edu/sear…
ALT A photo of herbarium sheets on a conveyor belt with one person on either side of the belt.
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It truly warms my heart when I find sites using my CC BY bird pictures that I have posted to @inaturalist
Here is one using many of my pics pondinformer.com/water-birds…
Including a wood duck, pied billed grebe, great egret, canvasback group, snow geese, and baby coots
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An observation of the day with a CC-BY license means it can feature as an image on the Wikipedia article on the species. Together with the also CC-BY licensed images of @NHM_Denmark. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheri…
A Tanzanian researcher found this beautiful Usambara Eyelash #Viper (Atheris ceratophora) - it's our Observation of the Day!
Read our blog post at: inaturalist.org/blog/64710-a… #tanzania #nature #reptiles #herpetology #biodiversity
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And the paper and its awesome photos are all shared with a license allowing optimal reuse (CC-BY), which allows the almost instant creation of its Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivela_… It is a stub, additions are more than welcome.
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photographed this cute fluffy moth that was hanging out on the wall outside our hotel room in arenal last week and thanks to iNaturalist's community, i've submitted the site's only record of Euclea gajeentani!
inaturalist.org/observations…
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Check out this fabulous opportunity to join the @bhl_au team!
We're hiring! We're looking for a Data Support Officer who cares about making Australia's biodiversity knowledge accessible & discoverable. Join our awesome @bhl_au team @melbournemuseum: seek.com.au/job/56596541
cc @biodivlibrary @atlaslivingaust @openaccess_anz Please share!
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When you blindly follow others, there are consequences
Army ants are blind, relying on pheromones to track the ones in front, if one ant intersects with its old trail, it results in a circular death trap where they spiral until they die from exhaustion
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🥕 The family flora and materia medica botanica:
New York: Published by the author, 1845-
biodiversitylibrary.org/page…
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I just stumbled upon a fish species that was not in Wikipedia nor Wikidata and no image in #gbif nor #iNaturalist. Luckily the authors published their work with a CC-BY license which allowed direct reuse of figures in #Wikipedia. @friel is this your work? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplom…
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We are delighted to announce that UWIZM has published a new dataset on @GBIF! 🥳
Photos courtesy:
Mike G. Rutherford @Zoology_Museum
#biodiversity #openaccess #zoology #species #snails #molluscs #endemic #local #naturalhistorymuseum #trinidadandtobago #nature #wildlife
