#birds #wildlife #ecology #ornithology #datasets

'Described this week in a study published in the journal Scientific Data, the dataset covers 78 ecological traits, including conservation status, for 11,589 species of birds in 254 families.'

https://attheu.utah.edu/research/newly-released-dataset-tracks-ecological-traits-for-11000-birds/

#AsianAmericans #literature #DigitalHumanities #datasets

'Long Le-Khac...just published a 1,900-entry dataset that he hopes will be used to investigate which works are discussed as “Asian American” in scholarly circles — and who that leaves out.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/09/16/what-counts-as-asian-american-literature-anyway/

QGIS 101 and 102 [tutorial] for Biologists [and others]
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https://iris.fws.gov/APPS/ServCat/Reference/Profile/167849 <-- shared tutorial, with datasets
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“A two part introductory tutorial for biologists for using QGIS 3.34.x. Each tutorial is designed to last 2 hours…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #QGIS #opensource #tutorial #onlinelearning #continuingeducation #HowTo #Learning #Education #SkillDevelopment #ProfessionalDevelopment #datasets #opendata #biology #usecase #introductory #beginner

#DNA #genomics #BigData #datasets

'The National Institutes of Health’s Sequence Read Archive... contained more than 36 petabytes of raw sequencing data in 2020. That’s 36 million gigabytes, or nearly 480 years of continuous HD video playback.'

https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/09/17/dna-database-search-engine-research/

Another date for your diaries - CPC-CG's Athina Vlachantoni is also a speaker at 2025's final National Centre for Research Methods #NCRM Data Resources Training Network webinar on 19 November:

'Exploring #digital life, #technology change & attitudes to #AI through national #datasets'

Register: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e7fdcac7-be93-4c40-b4d1-0e634c5b2e52@c152cb07-614e-4abb-818a-f035cfa91a77

With my #Mozilla Foundation #CommonVoice hat on, I'm delighted to be speaking in just under a fortnight at @pyconau about the #MozillaDataCollective, a new platform initiative that puts you in control of your #datasets.

Better #AI requires better #data - and better data requires collective, collaborative, co-created approaches: the Mozilla Data Collective.

https://2025.pycon.org.au/program/ZFWMZ7/

NSF: NSF expanding national AI infrastructure with new data systems and resources. “The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced two major advancements in America’s AI infrastructure: the launch of the Integrated Data Systems and Services (NSF IDSS) program to build out national-scale data systems and the selection of 10 datasets for integration into the National Artificial Intelligence […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/31/nsf-nsf-expanding-national-ai-infrastructure-with-new-data-systems-and-resources/

National Library of Medicine (#NLM) Announces the Relaunch of the NLM Dataset Catalog https://www.infodocket.com/2025/08/01/national-library-of-medicine-nlm-announces-the-relaunch-of-the-nlm-dataset-catalog/ #datasets #data #libraries

Data Rescue Project: Data Rescue Project Launches New Portal. “The Data Rescue Project (DRP) is excited to announce the launch of the DRP Portal—a milestone in our collective effort to protect and preserve at-risk public information. … The Portal makes it easy to discover rescued datasets by government offices sharing the data, topic, and more.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/25/data-rescue-project-data-rescue-project-launches-new-portal/

My prediction is that we won’t ever get public release of early OpenAI, Google, or even Anthropic #training #datasets.

Why? There are too many rich hard-right conservative backers who need all the misogyny, racism & hate speech to stay there.

We could have just & equal #AI, but we won’t. There’s too much money & power to be made of injustice.

Bidirectional Translations Between Observational And Topography-Based Hydrographic Data Sets - MERIT-Basins And The SWOT River Database (SWORD)
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR038633 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #water #hydrology #model #modeling #SurfaceWater #Ocean #Topography #SWOT #SWORD #hydrography #stream #river #datasets #MERIT #basin #watershed #inventory #routing #network #discharge #flow #peakflow #remotesensing #satellite #earthobservation

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝘂𝗯 𝟱 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲: 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗪𝗲𝗯 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻
Is much of the information you need for your #research available on websites, but not as downloadable #datasets or #files? This workshop will introduce you to the basics of #webscraping in a clear, practical way!

Also drop by at the 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗳é where experts will be present for your quick (or big;-) questions about #R, #Python, #Statistics, #MachineLearning, #HPC and #Geo!

More information https://edu.nl/rw7vd

Call For Manuscript Submissions - Real-Time GIS For Disaster Management
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https://www.nature.com/collections/bjdhbfiadi/guest-editors <-- shared link to submission details
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[note that I have NO affiliation with this journal, the guest editors, etc]
[I wonder if anybody from FEMA has compiled use case / effectiveness / robustness on/of the #WaffleHouseIndex in the southern USA, especially related to hurricanes?]
#GIS #paper #mapping #spatial #manuscripts #callforpapers #callformanuscripts #submissions #callforsubmissions #realtime #disaster #management #mitigation #prevention #preparedness #response #recovery #risk #hazard #naturalhazard #naturalhazard #emergency #remotesensing #earthobservation #satellite #drone #sensor #socialmedia #WaffleHouseIndex #datasets #AI #InternetOfThings #research #monitoring #evacuation #planning #resourceallocation #hazardmapping #realworld #global

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (#NOAA) has laid down its "snow and ice data products [#datasets, #databases] from the Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics Science Division (#COGS)."
https://nsidc.org/data/user-resources/data-announcements/user-notice-level-service-update-data-products

Ready to supercharge your #OpenScience profile?

With #OpenAIREEXPLORE + @ORCID_Org you can seamlessly complete your #ORCID record with all your research outputs, from papers & #datasets to #software tools.

Backed by the @OpenAIREGraph EXPLORE identifies and matches your work, including:

Journal articles
Research data
Software & more

Read the article to learn more https://www.openaire.eu/openaire-explore-and-orcid-integration-complete-your-open-science-orcid-profile

Visit https://explore.openaire.eu to make your contributions count publicly and properly.

Ready to supercharge your #OpenScience profile?

With #OpenAIREEXPLORE + @ORCID_Org , you can seamlessly complete your #ORCID record with all your research outputs, from papers & #datasets to #software tools.

Backed by the @OpenAIREGraph, EXPLORE identifies and matches your work, including:

-Journal articles
-Research data
-Software & more

Log in with your ORCID → check what’s missing → sync it to your profile in just a few clicks.

Read the article: https://explore.openaire.eu

"Almost two dozen repositories of research and public health data supported by the National Institutes of Health are marked for “review” under the Trump administration’s direction, and researchers and archivists say the data is at risk of being lost forever if the repositories go down.

“The problem with archiving this data is that we can’t,” Lisa Chinn, Head of Research Data Services at the University of Chicago, told 404 Media. Unlike other government datasets or web pages, downloading or otherwise archiving NIH data often requires a Data Use Agreement between a researcher institution and the agency, and those agreements are carefully administered through a disclosure risk review process.

A message appeared at the top of multiple NIH websites last week that says: “This repository is under review for potential modification in compliance with Administration directives.”
Repositories with the message include archives of cancer imagery, Alzheimer’s disease research, sleep studies, HIV databases, and COVID-19 vaccination and mortality data."

https://www.404media.co/nih-archives-repositories-marked-for-review-for-potential-modification/

#ListenBrainz / #MetaBrainz I'm confused. Aren't sponsors the true customer? Why use this?

On one hand #Music: "Listen together", "Ethical forever"

On the other: #DATASETS

"Some of the world’s biggest platforms such as Google and Amazon, use our data"

"We ask commercial supporters to support us in order to help fund the creation and maintenance of these datasets."

"The following organizations make use of the data-sets published by MetaBrainz"

"Unicorn tier: #Google, #Amazon, #Spotify"

New Map Of Landscape Beneath Antarctica Unveiled
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https://phys.org/news/2025-03-landscape-beneath-antarctica-unveiled.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04672-y <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #Bedmap3 #icebed #surface #thickness #gridded #datasets #Antarctica #raster #model #modeling #landscape #elevation #icesheet #survey #remotesensing #earthobservation #climatechange #warming #climate #melt #melting #seafloor #subglacial #geophysical #survey #topography #geology #bathymetry #topobathy #BritishAntarcticSurvey
@BritishAntarcticSurvey

The Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) aims to simplify data management for researchers by integrating and enhancing existing #infrastructures.

It will enable seamless access to high-quality #data from both commercial and open sources, allowing researchers to combine #datasets, share software, models, and experimental or simulation data.