The wonderful folks @gbif@biodiversity.social have a new @Mastodon@mastodon.social server ! I intend to move my account to that server if my request is accepted. Those interested in #biodiversity #ecology #citizenscience should consider joining the new server or moving their accounts there.
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Now at: @mizoraman@biodiversity.social
Naturalist and wildlife scientist @ Nature Conservation Foundation, India. Author of 'The Wild Heart of India', co-author 'Pillars of Life: Magnificent Trees of the Western Ghats', co-editor, 'At the Feet of Living Things'. Toots in my personal capacity. Blog: View from Elephant Hills http://shankarraman.in
#nature #naturewriting #ecology #wildlife #conservation #science #books #birds #fedi22
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View from Elephant Hills:
iNaturalist:
A request on #OpenScience and #OpenData: I'm developing an institutional policy on Open Science and Data here in #India and am looking for good examples/models used by other institutions anywhere in the world. Would be grateful for any pointers/links. Thank you
@jeroenbosman@akademienl.social @brembs@mastodon.social @HeidiSeibold@fosstodon.org @carlmalamud@official.resource.org @openscience@mastodon.social @vijaybarve@fosstodon.org @vijaybarve@mastodon.social @omshivaprakash@mastodon.social @shrini@social.kaniyam.cloudns.nz @sortee@ecoevo.social
An important point pithily made... But why do I feel the CoP ain't gonna bother?
Open letter: There are more than just trees and forests to be conserved and restored
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ppp3.10635
#COP16Colombia #biodiversity #savannas #grasslands #forests #conservation #climatechange
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@petersuber @hannaSH @jeroenbosman @brembs @HeidiSeibold @carlmalamud @openscience @vijaybarve@fosstodon.org @vijaybarve @omshivaprakash @shrini @sortee Many thanks... Very useful. Will update back here when I've something to share from my side!
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@hannaSH@mastodon.social @jeroenbosman@akademienl.social @brembs@mastodon.social @HeidiSeibold@fosstodon.org @carlmalamud@official.resource.org @openscience@mastodon.social @vijaybarve@fosstodon.org @vijaybarve@mastodon.social @omshivaprakash@mastodon.social @shrini@social.kaniyam.cloudns.nz @sortee@ecoevo.social Thank you for all these leads. Since this is our first policy on this, we want to cover multiple aspects under one umbrella: open data, open educational materials, open research/science, open software/code/hardware, and open access to publications. An outline of a plan and approach we may take is here:
Towards open science practices at NCF
https://zenodo.org/records/13382590
The most important #news of last year, this year, any year...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/10/world-temperature-in-2024-exceeded-15c-for-first-time
#climatecrisis #climateemergency
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"...The penalty of age is this rather ugly knowingness. Which would seem to explain why one never finds among the old a single decent person. They know too much to see things straight, to feel things cleanly, to act without compromise."
-- Sōseki Natsume, 'I Am a Cat'
2/2 #books #japaneseauthors #age
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@shrini@social.kaniyam.cloudns.nz @jeroenbosman@akademienl.social @brembs@mastodon.social @HeidiSeibold@fosstodon.org @carlmalamud@official.resource.org @openscience@mastodon.social @vijaybarve@fosstodon.org @vijaybarve@mastodon.social @omshivaprakash@mastodon.social @sortee@ecoevo.social @creativecommons@mastodon.social Will keep it as simple as possible! Thanks
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@hannaSH@mastodon.social Thank you for this. Looks useful!
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"One finds in this sad world that among mean-spirited persons, the greater their incompetence and inefficiency, the sharper their sense of self-importance and the more virulent their ambition to occupy unsuitable high official posts."
- Sōseki Natsume, 'I Am a Cat' #musk #TrumpInauguration2025 #maga #uspolitics
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@nilanjanaroy@mastodon.social if still around here, might like both of these 
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☝🏽"Humans on the #moon" was an inspirational and indisputable achievement decades ago but the same, clearly, can't be said of the #future as commercial space travel is set to desecrate the moon and #outerspace.
#spacetravel #tourism #trash #vandalism
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jan/16/moon-list-threatened-cultural-sites
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@hannaSH @petersuber Thank you
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@gbif@biodiversity.social many thanks... Moving soon!
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@deevybee@mastodon.social thank you
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@yvgrossmann@openbiblio.social Thank you. Will certainly refer to this.