rdmpage.bsky.social
Expat Kiwi, Professor of Taxonomy at Glasgow University, inclined to say that something sucks at every available opportunity. Biodiversity informatics, phylogeny, knowledge graphs. I also run the @evoldir.bsky.social bot.
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There is even a paper on removing tissue covering the plates in Colorado State University's copy doi.org/10.1093/BESA... (and @nicolekearney.bsky.social thinks I'm not interested in old books!). These articles on Genera Insectorum are also going into Wikidata. Gotta link all the things.
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@debpaul.bsky.social If you have a dataset that you want someone to look at I’d be happy to take a oeekt
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Alternatively we can query by license for individual articles for a journal. Sometimes can also use publisher as a proxy for determining access.
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Deb, you can match on ISSN if you have them, or either do a search via API or use OpenRefine (which I haven’t used in a while). “Is it open access” is often not a binary question, the journal may be mixed, or changed hands over time. I think there is a journal property for open access.
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(3/3) We're a small team, and we’ll continue to listen and learn from the incredible iNat community — which has always been a partner in developing this platform. Thank you again for sharing your opinions and thoughts.
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(2/3) In the meantime, we don't want to lose track of any of the really valuable feedback coming in. If you have significant or longer feedback, suggestions, or ideas you’re willing to give us to inform the development of the project, please use this form: inaturalist.typeform.com/to/hCrKAbW0
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If they want to be a field guide and have this information, there needs to be an infrastructure change that allows for keys, feature lists, trait-based ID, and taxon comparison. None of this really exists right now.
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The computer vision model on iNat is incredibly good. I mean, really amazing. And I can see the desire to have in words what the computer vision model is finding so that users can learn to ID too. But I think @inaturalist.bsky.social needs to figure out what it wants to be.
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I appreciate this. There’s a real need for nuance, and it is not common. I think the reaction we are seeing is a result of months of disappointment by the scientific community in the rampant adoption of genAI without a clear need, transparency, etc. from students, services, publishers, etc.
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I don’t wish to imply that only one “bubble” is emotional, rather there are strong opinions on both sides of the AI divide, and lots of scope for hyperbole (again, on both sides). There have been some nuanced comments www.inaturalist.org/blog/113184-...
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Direct link www.inaturalist.org/blog/113184-...
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There are a couple of positive responses, and a few thoughtful ones, see below. There’s a lot of anti AI rage, which I think is misplaced.
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I think it's more a case of two different "bubbles" colliding: "AI v. bad, killing the planet, stealing my stuff, eating the web" versus "AI v. cool, look at we can do with it". To iNat I think this looked like a logical extension of their AI work (which it is).
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AI is an emotive issue, and @inaturalist.bsky.social is essentially a community of individuals creating things. At the moment this seems orthoganal to the goals of big tech, hence community alarm. Will be interetsing to see how this discussion unfolds, especially once emotions cool.
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It would be fascinating to do a sentiment analysis on the comments on these three different @inaturalist.bsky.social posts on AI: www.inaturalist.org/blog/91824-n..., www.inaturalist.org/blog/95911 and www.inaturalist.org/blog/113184-.... I suspect it's "AI is so cool" to "over my dead body".
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Not to be pedantic (!) @cbg-uofg.bsky.social but why not link to the actual specimen portal.boldsystems.org/record/CNJAI... rather than the BIN? Linking to the BIN means I have to click through a carousel of images to find the one you are actually talking about. And how about a link to the funders?