I’ve released a major update to EvoDevo Papers. The database now has all the papers posted since 2015 and a new search form for swiftly exploring the contents. Full archive In the previous update, I improved the website by creating separate pages for feeds, posts and individual papers to make the database contents accessible to […]
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The other day I stumbled upon this passage in the Wikipedia page of Piseinotecus, a genus of beautiful nudibranch sea slugs: The name Piseinotecus comes from the Portuguese sentence “pisei no Teco” (I stepped onto Teco). Teco was the name of a dog of the zoologists Ernst Marcus and Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus. While they […]
This is a wonderful project mashing images from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) with data from Wikidata and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). BHL Image Explorer: https://bhl-gallery.toolforge.org/ It enables us to explore the figure plates present in BHL’s catalog (also on Flickr and Wikimedia Commons), links with other databases, and keeps track of their […]
The newest version of EvoDevo Papers is online, and it’s the biggest update since the last codebase refactoring. I’ve made several additions and improvements to the website and implemented cross-posting to Bluesky. Why have a website? For many years, EvoDevo Papers’ posts were only on Twitter. Everything was well—until it wasn’t. When I moved it […]
EvoDevo Papers is a bot that shares research articles in the field of evolutionary developmental biology (or evo-devo). Originally, I created it as a Twitter bot, and everything was going well for years… until Twitter’s takeover. The new policies and API restrictions made it unsustainable to continue posting there. In response to that, I decided […]
I never imagined that one day I’d be looking at the embryology of fleas… But here I am.
Back in 2015, I created EvoDevo Papers, an automated account that tweets the latest research papers in the field of evolutionary developmental biology (or evo-devo). I was inspired by the FlyPapers Experiment and the pioneer bots @fly_papers and @phy_papers. I wanted something similar for the evo-devo community to keep up with the literature and discover […]
Last year, the PeerJ journal published an article about the largest marine animals. The neat infographic accompanying their tweet immediately got my attention (if the figure is not showing up, check it in full resolution here): For a couple of milliseconds, I thought the scale bar below the whales was a worm. Why? Because here in Norway, […]
Stumbled upon this fine depiction of an Aurora Borealis while browsing some historical bryozoan literature in the Biodiversity Heritage Library:
Another historical hunt for brachiopods ended successfully at @BioDivLibrary :)