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The Biodiversity Heritage Library provides free & #OpenAccess to 63+ million pages of #biodiversity literature online. 🔗 biodiversitylibrary.org
@pxpetals.comReposted by @biodivlibrary.bsky.socialHey artists! Just found out about this amazing (free) resource with over 250,000+ nature refs Biodiversity Heritage Library :)
@bdj.pensoft.netReposted by @biodivlibrary.bsky.social📚 When the Biodiversity Heritage Library faced an uncertain future in 2025, the global community stepped up. Now, celebrating 20 years as an independent consortium, BHL is stronger than ever.
🎤 Thank you to Nicole Kearney for sharing this inspiring journey at #TDWG2026!
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@jeybecques.bsky.socialReposted by @biodivlibrary.bsky.socialLet me highly recommend the Biodiversity Heritage Library as another resource, particularly for weird natural history images - here’s a wild person-mantis from around 1715, for example:
@mtbotany.bsky.socialReposted by @biodivlibrary.bsky.socialThe Biodiversity Heritage Library, for illustrations of animals, plants, and funguses in the public domain. This is where I go if I want a fairly high resolution scan from a book or journal.
@tapani-hopkins.bsky.socialReposted by @biodivlibrary.bsky.socialOh come on, I think. How can I dig up details on the morphology of E. tunetanus, a species described in 1900, and whose holotype is in Hungary? This is a short paper not a revision.
Except... should I check... yep, @biodivlibrary.bsky.social has the original description.
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@collin-schwantes.bsky.socialReposted by @biodivlibrary.bsky.socialwhen OpenAlex doesnt have the goods, the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social saves the day
@biodivlibrary.bsky.socialIn our latest #BHLat20 post, discover how Walter Faxon’s handwritten field records are being digitised and transcribed by Ernst Mayr Library (@harvard.edu) with the goal of sharing their biodiversity data with @gbif.org: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/09/coll... 🧪 🐦 📝
@udcmrk.bsky.socialReposted by @biodivlibrary.bsky.socialCatching up with @biodivlibrary.bsky.social 's @nicolekearney.bsky.social & David Iggulden at @gbif.org Governing Board 33 in Oslo
@rossbrooks.co.ukReposted by @biodivlibrary.bsky.socialLovely plate showing two gynandromorph large yeoman butterflies (Cirrochroa aoris). One is shown from above (top) and beneath (centre). From an 1880 article by English entomologist J.O. Westwood in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 🌈🦋🗃️
@rdmpage.bsky.socialReposted by @biodivlibrary.bsky.socialSummary of user feedback on future interfaces for @biodivlibrary.bsky.social as part of workshop run at @tdwg.org #tdwg2026 forum.biodiversitylibrary.org/t/bhl-worksh...
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@biodivlibrary.bsky.socialJoin us at #TDWG2026 2pm today for our BHL Symposium #1. Our amazing speakers include Joe Miller, Sydney Jordan, Amanda Boczar, Qianqian Gu & Nicky Nicolson @phylojoe.bsky.social @nickynicolson.bsky.social @tdwg.org @gbif.org @nhm-london.bsky.social @usflibraries.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social 🧪
@biodivlibrary.bsky.socialJoin our Communications Director at #TDWG2026 as she shares the story of BHL's transition to independence thus far, and what it might still take to get to the other side. 🧪 🌏 🌱
@biodivlibrary.bsky.socialIn our latest #BHLat20 post, Briana Giasullo explores how digitization, metadata and archival collections are helping uncover the life and work of entomologist Carrie B. Aaron: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/09/carr... #Academy ofNaturalSciences
@biodivlibrary.bsky.social🐦🐊 For #PloverAppreciationDay, a tale from BHL.
This “Egyptian Plover & Crocodile” illustrates the ancient story that plovers entered crocodiles’ mouths to eat leeches & insects. The book called the tale “strictly true.” Modern evidence disagrees. 📚 🧪
@biodivlibrary.bsky.socialWe're getting very excited about #TDWG2026 in Oslo next week!
We'll be sharing BHL’s next chapter and exploring new ways to unlock the value of biodiversity literature. Join us!
🌱 Mon 30 Sept: BHL Mini-keynote
🧪 Tues 1 Oct: BHL symposium
🔗 Thurs 3 Oct: BHL workshop
#BiodiversityData @tdwg.org
@biodivlibrary.bsky.socialThose faces. 🥺
BHL made it through its transition to independence, but we only have secure funding only through 2027.
Monthly donations help build the reliable support needed to keep BHL free and open beyond that. 🧪 📚️ 🌱
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@biodivlibrary.bsky.socialThis publication was contributed to BHL by Ernst Mayr Library @mczharvard.bsky.social @Harvard.edu University.
