Hi #wildlife experts - any idea what animal left those droppings? Spotted beside the pond. Could it be a #hedgehog ?

#identification #scat #droppings #animals #garden

"For a decade, the nonprofit Colibrí Center for Human Rights worked with state agencies and humanitarian organizations to identify migrants whose remains were found in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. As part of this work, the organization managed a database of DNA samples from families across the U.S. and Latin America...But now, Colibrí’s missing- persons database has itself gone missing."

https://undark.org/2026/04/07/missing-migrants-dna-database/

#PublicHealth #immigration #immigrants #migrants #DNA #identification

A DNA Archive Built to Identify Missing Migrants Has Vanished

The Colibrí Center for Human Rights was a vital link between families and their missing loved ones. Now it's gone dark.

Undark Magazine

Illustration by Samuel G. Szabó, from Rogues, A Study of Characters (1857).

Source: The Metropolitan Museum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/554fcf2a-6a8e-420f-852f-0a950281b224

#portraiture #character #portraits #mugshots #criminals #identification #faces #crime #art #publicdomain

Rapid #identification of #COVID #wastewater #surges in the absence of case data

Comment l'IA peut favoriser l'économie circulaire ?

ID, L’info durable
Murder victim found in Quebec decades ago identified as missing Ontario woman
Police say genetic testing has been used to confirm a homicide victim found in Quebec in 1979 was a woman who had been reported missing months earlier from Ontario.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/pamela-harvey-identification-quebec-9.7148379?cmp=rss
Murder victim found in Quebec decades ago identified as missing Ontario woman
Police say genetic testing has been used to confirm a homicide victim found in Quebec in 1979 was a woman who had been reported missing months earlier from Ontario.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/pamela-harvey-identification-quebec-9.7148379?cmp=rss
Murder victim found in Quebec decades ago identified as missing Ontario woman
Police say genetic testing has been used to confirm a homicide victim found in Quebec in 1979 was a woman who had been reported missing months earlier from Ontario.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/pamela-harvey-identification-quebec-9.7148379?cmp=rss

Information Fusion: Privacy-aware detection of fake identity documents: methodology, benchmark, and improved algorithms (FakeIDet2) . “Researchers are now trying to develop methods to detect an ever-growing number of these AI-based fakes that are almost indistinguishable from authentic (bona fide) IDs. In this counterattack effort, researchers are faced with an important challenge: the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/30/privacy-aware-detection-of-fake-identity-documents-methodology-benchmark-and-improved-algorithms-fakeidet2-information-fusion/
Privacy-aware detection of fake identity documents: methodology, benchmark, and improved algorithms (FakeIDet2) (Information Fusion)

Information Fusion: Privacy-aware detection of fake identity documents: methodology, benchmark, and improved algorithms (FakeIDet2) . “Researchers are now trying to develop methods to detect …

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

"Documentation of births, if it existed at all, was written down in a family Bible."

"That absence of a legal record [..] is now part of a bitter political fight over voter eligibility."

"SAVE America Act, would narrow ballot access, especially for Black communities."
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Author: Brandon Tensley
Publication: Capital B
March 24, 2026
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#USA #Voting #Identification
https://capitalbnews.org/black-elders-save-america-act-voting/

Black Elders Without Birth Records Could Lose Vote Under SAVE America Act

Decades after segregation left gaps in citizenship documents, a controversial voting bill could create barriers at the ballot box.

Capital B News