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How to take part. Point 1 Extra Tips. Point 3 Extra Tips. Point 4 and 5 Extra Tips. Edge Curve Extra Tips. What is Mark My Bird all about? How fast, as a matter of fact, do animals evolve in Nature? And it is questions related to these ideas that the Mark My Bird project aims to help answer. Standard measurements such as length, depth and width are typically used for studying living birds in the field. But bird bills are incredibly diverse in shape and size, varying in curvature and often with other ...
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Orchid Observers: the results so far… | orchidobservers
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July 14, 2016. Orchid Observers: the results so far…. Project is closing at the end of July (so if you can help us out with the last few classifications. Then you have just two weeks left! We’d like to say a huge thank you to all of the volunteers who photographed orchids, identified photos online or transcribed and classified our museum specimens. Your time, expertise and enthusiasm is really valued, so thanks for being part of the. The project had two main research questions:. Results at a glance.
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Lucy Robinson | orchidobservers
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Archive by Author Lucy Robinson. July 21, 2016. Final task for ALL Orchid Observers volunteers…. We are so grateful for your contributions to the project and have one last, very important task for you. We need all Orchid Observers participants to complete a short survey. We would be enormously grateful if you would take part in the survey. Or a copy of Orchids of Britain and Ireland: A Field and Site Guide by Harrap and Harrap. Last chance to work on Orchid Observers. Then you have just two weeks left!
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Ross Mounce - Author Archives
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Show me the data! Traditional Publishers: please stop blocking research. November 19th, 2015 Posted by rmounce. Was an amazing event. I’ll save a summary of it for the weekend but in the mean time, I urgently need to discuss something that came up at the conference. At OpenCon, it emerged that Elsevier have apparently been blocking Chris Hartgerink’s attempts to access relevant psychological research papers for content mining. Why then are Elsevier interfering with his research? I am trying to map. In th...
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Giant Science Lady : July 2015
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Blog about science and other good stuff. Saturday, 25 July 2015. Fiction Books That Shaped my Views of Science. As well as a science-fiend, I'm a bibliophile. When I move house, almost all of the boxes are packed with those papers bricks I so adore. They are stacked on every shelf, mantelpiece and bedside table. These days I mainly read factual books, but I do still find time for fiction. How do they compare with yours? Oryx and Crake (2003). I pondered over this for many months afterwards. This is one o...
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Digitisation | Blogs from the Natural History Museum
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Blogs from the Natural History Museum. Advancing the science of nature. Visit the Museum website. Fleas: their fans, feeding habits and the disease Digital Collections Programme. Fleas are some of the oddest insects and sit in a strange position when it comes to how the public feel about them. Fleas are hated for their feeding activities and disease transmission whilst their aesthetics have long been admired thanks to mostly the works of Robert Hooke and his diagrams in Micrographia. Automating mass-digi...
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Digital Collections Programme | Blogs from the Natural History Museum
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Blogs from the Natural History Museum. Advancing the science of nature. Visit the Museum website. Tag Archives: Digital Collections Programme. Fleas: their fans, feeding habits and the disease Digital Collections Programme. The illustration of a flea in Robert Hooke’s Micrographia. Continue reading →. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window). Oriental rat flea (X...
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Jennifer P | Blogs from the Natural History Museum
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Blogs from the Natural History Museum. Advancing the science of nature. Visit the Museum website. Author Archives: Jennifer P. I manage the communications for the Digital Collections Programme at the Museum. Automating mass-digitisation with Inselect Digital Collections Programme. Natural history collections provide an enormous evidence base for scientific research on the natural world. We are working to digitise our collection and provide global, open access to this data via our Data Portal. Digitising ...
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Digital image | Blogs from the Natural History Museum
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Blogs from the Natural History Museum. Advancing the science of nature. Visit the Museum website. Tag Archives: Digital image. Automating mass-digitisation with Inselect Digital Collections Programme. Natural history collections provide an enormous evidence base for scientific research on the natural world. We are working to digitise our collection and provide global, open access to this data via our Data Portal. Tray of mayflies (Ephemeroptera) with bounding boxes from the Inselect programme. Looked at ...
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