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nickynicolson 🌱Dec 1, 2023

Thanks to @wikidata for giving me a lightning talk slot on an #ObsidianMD plugin for wikidata at their "data modelling" event this week.
Background info & ideas for what's next as we integrate this into echinopscis (tools for taxonomists) here: https://echinopscis.github.io/blog/2023/wikidata-plugin/
Please do try it out (install from https://github.com/echinopscis/obsidian-wikidata-plugin) & add your ideas too

Wikidata obsidian plugin - echinopscis

An extensible notebook for open science on specimens

nickynicolson 🌱Nov 16, 2023

Helmholtz Open Science Office Nov 16, 2023

During the Helmholtz reproducibility workshop Oliver Bertuch @fzj highlighted the interplay between openness and #reproducibility and emphasized the importance of #OpenScience in software development. The slides will be shared afterwards.

nickynicolson 🌱Nov 6, 2023

I was happy to join @TaxonWorks for their annual TaxonWorks Together event recently, discussing how we can use #Obsidian for taxonomic research. My talk writeup is now on the echinopscis blog at https://echinopscis.github.io/blog/2023/taxonworks-together/
I included 2 x proposals: (1) to standardise on the Open Refine reconciliation API when we're linking "strings to things" & (2) to have something like Entity Explosion (see pic) in Obsidian. Latter drafted as a plugin idea post on the Obsidian forum at: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/wikidata-sidebar-plugin-similar-to-entity-explosion/70805/1

TaxonWorks Together 2023 - echinopscis overview and design decisions - echinopscis

An extensible notebook for open science on specimens

nickynicolson 🌱May 25, 2023

SPARC May 24, 2023

Attention early career researchers: The @WhiteHouse is hosting virtual listening sessions to hear about challenges & opportunities for advancing #openscience in the US. Details below to register for sessions May 31, June 5, 6 &12. #YearofOpenScience
https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/events-webinars/

Events & Webinars | OSTP | The White House

Upcoming Events THE POSSIBILITIES OF OPEN SCIENCE: WHITE HOUSE LISTENING SESSIONS WITH EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER COMMUNITIES Open science has the potential to unlock a world of possibilities: spurring discovery and equitable innovation, bolstering public trust, democratizing access to research, and strengthening evidence-based decision making. These possibilities place open science at the heart of Biden-Harris Administration…

The White House

nickynicolson 🌱May 18, 2023

Dr Alex Bond May 17, 2023

This is my 18th #IDAHOBIT since I came out. Right now it's grim - in general, in the UK, in the province I grew up.

Straight friends - I know you think it's all gotten better, but please understand that progress is not unidirectional. We're faltering. Badly.

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nickynicolson 🌱May 9, 2023

Interested in joining us but currently only have an 🌱outline of an idea? Get in touch: we'll help you develop a research proposal & I'll do my best to answer any questions. Apply online at: https://careers.kew.org/vacancy/kew-research-fellow-digital-revolution-522585.html

Kew Research Fellow - Digital Revolution - Careers | Kew Gardens

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nickynicolson 🌱May 9, 2023

Kew has over 470 researchers working across two research campuses (Kew itself & Wakehurst Place in Sussex which houses the seedbank & landscape ecology programme), & working in over 100 countries.
We make the most of our location in London with collaborative working with co-located organisations like the London Natural History Museum and Alan Turing Institute & we offer hybrid working patterns.

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nickynicolson 🌱May 9, 2023

Our team (https://www.kew.org/science/our-science/departments/digital-revolution) help digitise, integrate & share Kew's data & expertise. Check out our data in @gbif https://www.gbif.org/dataset/cd6e21c8-9e8a-493a-8a76-fbf7862069e5
I work on #OpenScience & building tools & working practices to enable more people to participate & interact in our network of data

Digital Revolution | Kew

Unlocking the vast resource of information held within our collections.

nickynicolson 🌱May 9, 2023

📢 #PostDoc #job 4 year research fellowship with #KewGardens science.
🧵 We're digitising our herbarium (= millions of images 🤯) & want to see proposals using #ComputerVision to combine these with data from literature & our network of taxonomic experts to support our #SpeciesDescription & #Conservation work.
In botany we still describe c2000 new species of plants each year & our 🌍 network of collections are #WhatWhere#When evidence for phenological change eg climate impacts on flowering times

nickynicolson 🌱Apr 1, 2023

Kate Ozment Mar 28, 2023

Hi everyone! Decided to finally take the Mastodon leap and am shutting down my Twitter. For those who do not know me: I'm in eighteenth-century studies with approaches from book history, women's lit, and digital humanities and I dabble quite a bit in studies in sexuality, empire, and colonialism.

Github	https://nickynicolson.github.io/
ORCID	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3700-4884