Tag Archives: biodiversity

Citizen Scientists can see the wood for the trees

- March 6, 2024

Few countries have a biodiversity that’s comparable to Brazil’s, including plant-based food sources that are little known elsewhere.  Even in big cities you may pick all kinds of fruit directly from the tree, which can be both tasty and also interesting for the botanist. The Citizen Science project “Pomar Urbano” collects data on urban fruit-bearing […]

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Evolutionary Biology goes Asia: the 3rd AsiaEvo Conference

- January 10, 2024

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In the beginning GigaScience was at the first AsiaEvo conference, which took place in Shenzhen, China in 2019. Back then, the chair of the first AsiaEvo Conference, Guojie Zhang (longtime friend and board member of GigaScience) said of the history of the AsiaEvo meeting series: “In 2016, at the European Evo-Devo conference in Uppsala, some […]

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BioBanking at GGBN 2023: Highlights from GigaScience Press

- November 8, 2023

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Chris Armit attended the Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) Conference 2023 in Mexico and reports on the Biobanking heavy agenda.

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Converting the Field Records of Early-20th Century Public Health Pioneer to Data

- July 18, 2023

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Field notes of the early-20th century entomologist Johanna Bonne-Wepster have been digitized as part of the GigaByte vectors of human disease series

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Not all species are equal: Using the h-index to quantify taxonomic bias (author Q&A)

- August 16, 2022

The h-index is a metric that was invented to summarise the publication output and impact of researchers. In a new GigaScience article, authors from the University of New South Wales (Australia) adopt the controversial metric to explore systematic differences in research interest (taxonomic bias), using mammals as an example.

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GigaScience at SPNHC 2022

- June 27, 2022

Write up of the meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC 2022) by Chris Armit.

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GigaByte helping the fight against Vector-Borne diseases with data

- June 14, 2022

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New GigaByte series of vector-borne diseases data papers just out, including mosquitoes, sandflies, ticks, and kissing bugs, supported by GBIF and the WHO

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Publishing Citizen Science data to fight against mosquito borne diseases

- May 31, 2022

Citizen Scientists share and publish Mosquito Alert data as part of our GigaByte (& GBIF & TDR supported) series on vector-borne diseases.

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GigaByte and GBIF Webinar: Data papers describing datasets on vectors of human diseases

- January 18, 2022

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Tune in to the GigaByte and GBIF webinar that uncovers the details of the TDR sponsored call for data papers describing datasets on vectors of human diseases.

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GigaByte call for data papers describing datasets on vectors of human diseases

- November 17, 2021

GigaScience Press partnering with GBIF are supported by TDR (hosted at the wHO), to release a special issue for publication of new datasets presenting biodiversity data for research on vectors of human diseases.

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