#specimens — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #specimens, aggregated by home.social.
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University of Cambridge: Cambridge and Oxford join forces to unlock over a million biological records for climate research. “The University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford will lead a major new partnership to digitise over 1.1 million natural history specimens, creating a step-change in how researchers and conservationists access vital biodiversity data.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/17/university-of-cambridge-cambridge-and-oxford-join-forces-to-unlock-over-a-million-biological-records-for-climate-research/ -
University of Cambridge: Cambridge and Oxford join forces to unlock over a million biological records for climate research. “The University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford will lead a major new partnership to digitise over 1.1 million natural history specimens, creating a step-change in how researchers and conservationists access vital biodiversity data.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/17/university-of-cambridge-cambridge-and-oxford-join-forces-to-unlock-over-a-million-biological-records-for-climate-research/ -
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: AI and digitisation transform fight against global extinction, landmark report reveals. “In a seismic shift since Kew’s inaugural State of the World’s report ten years ago, the sixth State of the World’s Plants and Fungi report, published 16 June 2026, brings together expertise from over 400 scientists across 40 countries to explore how new technology is […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/17/royal-botanic-gardens-ai-and-digitisation-transform-fight-against-global-extinction-landmark-report-reveals/ -
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: AI and digitisation transform fight against global extinction, landmark report reveals. “In a seismic shift since Kew’s inaugural State of the World’s report ten years ago, the sixth State of the World’s Plants and Fungi report, published 16 June 2026, brings together expertise from over 400 scientists across 40 countries to explore how new technology is […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/17/royal-botanic-gardens-ai-and-digitisation-transform-fight-against-global-extinction-landmark-report-reveals/ -
Nature: ‘Every box has been opened’: London botanic gardens digitizes 7 million specimens. “The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in southwest London announced on 16 June that it has completed the digitization of 7.4 million specimens. The project, which used four high-resolution cameras operated by 100 staff and 42 volunteers, cost £15 million (US$20 million) and was funded by the UK government.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/16/every-box-has-been-opened-london-botanic-gardens-digitizes-7-million-specimens-nature/ -
Nature: ‘Every box has been opened’: London botanic gardens digitizes 7 million specimens. “The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in southwest London announced on 16 June that it has completed the digitization of 7.4 million specimens. The project, which used four high-resolution cameras operated by 100 staff and 42 volunteers, cost £15 million (US$20 million) and was funded by the UK government.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/16/every-box-has-been-opened-london-botanic-gardens-digitizes-7-million-specimens-nature/ -
University of Illinois Chicago: Pressed plants reveal living genetic messages, decades later . “In a new study, researchers from the University of Illinois Chicago extracted viable RNA, the essential messenger of genetic information, from plants from museum collections. This research breakthrough will make it possible for scientists to study plant evolution, gene regulation and adaptation using […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/23/university-of-illinois-chicago-pressed-plants-reveal-living-genetic-messages-decades-later/ -
University of Illinois Chicago: Pressed plants reveal living genetic messages, decades later . “In a new study, researchers from the University of Illinois Chicago extracted viable RNA, the essential messenger of genetic information, from plants from museum collections. This research breakthrough will make it possible for scientists to study plant evolution, gene regulation and adaptation using […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/23/university-of-illinois-chicago-pressed-plants-reveal-living-genetic-messages-decades-later/ -
University of North Carolina: UNC-Chapel Hill study shows AI can dramatically speed up digitizing natural history collections. “A new study from UNC-Chapel Hill researchers shows that advanced artificial intelligence tools, specifically large language models (LLMs), can accurately determine the locations where plant specimens were originally collected, a process known as georeferencing. This […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/05/university-of-north-carolina-unc-chapel-hill-study-shows-ai-can-dramatically-speed-up-digitizing-natural-history-collections-2/ -
University of North Carolina: UNC-Chapel Hill study shows AI can dramatically speed up digitizing natural history collections. “A new study from UNC-Chapel Hill researchers shows that advanced artificial intelligence tools, specifically large language models (LLMs), can accurately determine the locations where plant specimens were originally collected, a process known as georeferencing. This […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/05/university-of-north-carolina-unc-chapel-hill-study-shows-ai-can-dramatically-speed-up-digitizing-natural-history-collections-2/ -
Februar 9 @ 16:00 - 17:00 CET
[Webinar] From Drawers to the Open Web: Wikidata for Natural History Museum Collections -
Februar 9 @ 16:00 - 17:00 CET
[Webinar] From Drawers to the Open Web: Wikidata for Natural History Museum Collections -
Detection of #LaCrosse Virus #RNA in Clinical #Specimens Obtained from #Children with La Crosse Infection, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/01/detection-of-lacrosse-virus-rna-in.html
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Detection of #LaCrosse Virus #RNA in Clinical #Specimens Obtained from #Children with La Crosse Infection, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/01/detection-of-lacrosse-virus-rna-in.html
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NOLA: There are 8 million fish in a World War II bunker outside New Orleans. More arrive soon.. “Downriver from New Orleans, behind heavy doors in grass-covered bunkers that stored artillery during World War II, are millions of dead fish. They’re preserved and cataloged in rows of glass jars, each one a time capsule, a specimen pulled from a particular place on a particular day, labeled so […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/06/nola-there-are-8-million-fish-in-a-world-war-ii-bunker-outside-new-orleans-more-arrive-soon/ -
NOLA: There are 8 million fish in a World War II bunker outside New Orleans. More arrive soon.. “Downriver from New Orleans, behind heavy doors in grass-covered bunkers that stored artillery during World War II, are millions of dead fish. They’re preserved and cataloged in rows of glass jars, each one a time capsule, a specimen pulled from a particular place on a particular day, labeled so […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/06/nola-there-are-8-million-fish-in-a-world-war-ii-bunker-outside-new-orleans-more-arrive-soon/ -
Straits Times: Watch the making of S-E Asia’s largest digital plant database at Singapore Botanic Gardens. “At the Singapore Botanic Gardens, visitors can now watch botanists painstakingly build a digital database of some 800,000 specimens from South-east Asia and beyond. From a viewing gallery, they can observe the plants being unpacked, barcoded, placed on a conveyor belt and photographed […]
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Discovered this interesting resource. While reading a gizmodo article on recent ocean discovery's. You can view this site to look up it seems the things we have and have yet to discover about our oceans.
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UC San Diego: Ellen Browning Scripps Herbarium Collection Highlights the Intersection Between Art and Science . “The Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography is showcasing the scientific diversity and natural beauty of seaweeds through the new Ellen Browning Scripps Herbarium Collection. This resource — a digitized and physical collection of thousands […]
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Ten years ago, the carcass of a whale was found. And now...
"The Lee Kong Chian National History Museum (LKCNHM) of the Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore (NUS), is conducting studies on a baleen whale carcass that was discovered in Singapore’s waters on 6 September 2025. LKCNHM was alerted by the National Parks Board to the discovery of the whale carcass in the waters off Tanjong Pagar."
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Ten years ago, the carcass of a whale was found. And now...
"The Lee Kong Chian National History Museum (LKCNHM) of the Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore (NUS), is conducting studies on a baleen whale carcass that was discovered in Singapore’s waters on 6 September 2025. LKCNHM was alerted by the National Parks Board to the discovery of the whale carcass in the waters off Tanjong Pagar."
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University of Michigan: World’s natural history collections ready to aid in pandemic preparedness. “In 2024, the scientists gathered to analyze how to tap natural history collections and bring together research from across disciplines to help the world prepare for a potential future pandemic—something researchers say is likely because of climate change and human encroachment on wildlife […]
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University of Michigan: World’s natural history collections ready to aid in pandemic preparedness. “In 2024, the scientists gathered to analyze how to tap natural history collections and bring together research from across disciplines to help the world prepare for a potential future pandemic—something researchers say is likely because of climate change and human encroachment on wildlife […]
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Towards #diagnostic #preparedness: detection of #HPAI A(#H5N1) in contrived nasal #swab #specimens using rapid #antigen and point-of-care molecular tests, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/04/towards-diagnostic-preparedness.html
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Towards #diagnostic #preparedness: detection of #HPAI A(#H5N1) in contrived nasal #swab #specimens using rapid #antigen and point-of-care molecular tests, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/04/towards-diagnostic-preparedness.html
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OpenVertebrate Presents a Database of 13,000 3D Scans of Specimens
#HackerNews #OpenVertebrate #3DScans #Database #Specimens #Science #Technology #Innovation
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OpenVertebrate Presents a Database of 13,000 3D Scans of Specimens
#HackerNews #OpenVertebrate #3DScans #Database #Specimens #Science #Technology #Innovation
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CBS News: Project aims to digitize 2.3 million plants at California Academy of Sciences. “There is quite the photo shoot happening right now in Golden Gate Park, but instead of models, the muse of choice is a collection of leaves, branches, and dried flowers. This year, the California Academy of Sciences hopes to digitize its entire global botany collection that stretches back to the 17th […]
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Five previously undescribed thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) specimens held in the museums of the University of Melbourne.
https://meridian.allenpress.com/australian-zoologist/article/43/3/455/499861/Five-previously-undescribed-thylacine-Thylacinus
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Five previously undescribed thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) specimens held in the museums of the University of Melbourne.
https://meridian.allenpress.com/australian-zoologist/article/43/3/455/499861/Five-previously-undescribed-thylacine-Thylacinus
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A #OneHealth #Investigation into #H5N1 Avian #Influenza Virus #Epizootics on 2 Dairy #Farms, MedRxIV: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.27.24310982v1
We detected H5N1 HPAIV in 64% (9/14) of #milk specimens, 2.6% (1/39) of cattle #nasal swab #specimens, and none of 17 cattle #worker nasopharyngeal swab specimens... we detected #SARS-CoV-2 in a nasal swab from a sick #cow... 14.3% (2/14) of farm workers who donated #sera were recently symptomatic & had elevated neutralizing #antibodies against a related H5N1 strain.
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A #OneHealth #Investigation into #H5N1 Avian #Influenza Virus #Epizootics on 2 Dairy #Farms, MedRxIV: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.27.24310982v1
We detected H5N1 HPAIV in 64% (9/14) of #milk specimens, 2.6% (1/39) of cattle #nasal swab #specimens, and none of 17 cattle #worker nasopharyngeal swab specimens... we detected #SARS-CoV-2 in a nasal swab from a sick #cow... 14.3% (2/14) of farm workers who donated #sera were recently symptomatic & had elevated neutralizing #antibodies against a related H5N1 strain.
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#HK, #Scientific #Committees under #CHP discuss use of #COVID19 and #measles #vaccines https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202407/17/P2024071700598.htm
The JSC reviewed COVID-19 situation in Hong Kong & noted that relevant #surveillance #indicators, including positive #detection rate of respiratory #specimens & viral #load from #sewage surveillance, showed an increase in overall local #activity of COVID-19 in past few weeks, while number of #severe and #fatal cases remained stable.
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#HK, #Scientific #Committees under #CHP discuss use of #COVID19 and #measles #vaccines https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202407/17/P2024071700598.htm
The JSC reviewed COVID-19 situation in Hong Kong & noted that relevant #surveillance #indicators, including positive #detection rate of respiratory #specimens & viral #load from #sewage surveillance, showed an increase in overall local #activity of COVID-19 in past few weeks, while number of #severe and #fatal cases remained stable.
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Eliza Amy Hodgson was a #bryologist who collected specimens throughout the early 20th century in New Zealand. Hodgeson specialized in hepatics and published over 30 scientific papers on varying #liverworts. Although she didn’t have any formal training in botany, she was recognized as a liverworts expert and a part of the British Bryological Society. She collected over 700 #specimens and eventually donated them. In her honor, the species 𝘓𝘦𝘫𝘦𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘥𝘨𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢 was named after her. 1/2
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Throughout his career, he specialized in #liverworts and made many contributions to the Hepaticae genus Frullania. Here in the UTK #Herbarium, we have over 300 #specimens that Sinske Hattori collected himself and plenty more that have come from the Hattori Botanical Laboratory.
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Our #GlobalTCN project manager, Miranda Z., researched & put together amazing presentations on many #bryophyte collectors whose #specimens we've digitized. We're going to start sharing these #CollectorProfiles with you as well as links to Miranda's presentations. Stay tuned! #MossMonday
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... lady of the lights ...
#jar #jars #lights #red #specimens #portrait #girl #eerie #horrorart #midjourney -
... lady of the lights ...
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... i love them all ...
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... i love them all ...
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... the collector ...
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Important new paper on specimen collecting.
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002318
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#Freshwater #mussels, many of which are of #conservation #concern, are a great target for #environmental #DNA (#eDNA) detection to guide #management #tactics and #strategies.
But as the authors of this new paper point out: "Confidence in our ability to identify eDNA #metabarcoding reads relies on a #curated, #accurate #database."
Use of eDNA methods various purposes is going to mean a lot of work with #specimens and databases in coming years.
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#Namibia 🇳🇦 has yielded many #fossils of #Ediacarans, ~600 million year old #organisms that shed light on the early #evolution of #animals. One iconic #Ediacaran, #Rangea, was first described from Namibia, where a few #specimens are preserved in #3D, giving an idea of what this #ancient #enigma might have looked like when alive.
Photo from Vickers-Rich et al., 2013 (co-authored by members of the #Namibian #Geological Survey)
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#December 11, 1843
#OTD Jacob #Schneck, Indiana #Physician, #Naturalist, & #Botanist, is born.Jacob's passion was #Plants & he spent his #SpareTime #Botanizing. He labeled all his #Specimens with his #Impeccable #Handwriting.
He #Spied a unique #Species of #RedOak & told the Botanist Nathaniel Lord #Britton. Britton named the oak in Jacob's honor - Quercus Schneckii, also known as the Schneck #Oak.
Jacob died at 63, tending his patients to the end - despite his own #Pneumonia.
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#December 10, 1903
#OTD Howard Scott Gentry, American #Botanist, is born.The world's leading authority on #Agaves, Howard went to #Mexico every year to collect #specimens & traveled via #Mule.
The #USDA pursued #Agave & #Wild #Yam #Family to make #Arthritis #Medicine.
Howard once said:
I refused several times to become a desk man for USDA. It was a chance to cut out all the #Travel, but I told them,
"No, not me. I want to work with #Plants, not people. People are problems." -
CW: dead animals from museum collections
My day job mostly revolves around managing the UChicago PaleoCT Lab. This #microCT scanner can achieve resolutions of up to 1 micron and can scan through dense #fossil (though dense fossil at 1 micron would be tricky). I’ve scanned all sorts of things: #fossils (even parts of Sue the t-rex!), bones, alcohol preserved #specimens, meteorites and more!