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We are a collective with a passion for nature, promoting the reuse of open media + open data on biodiversity. CC BY SA 📷 by Nick Helme • CC BY 📍 by parkjisun

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Hello twitter, please allow us to introduce ourselves! We are a group with a passion for nature. We’re aiming to encourage people and institutions to share open reusable content to document the beauty of nature and to help fill knowledge gaps in #biodiversity. #VisibleNature 1/
Picasso Bug / Alan Manson, CC BY

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Some extraordinary open macro photography of fungi and slime molds of the forest floor by @inaturalist contributor alexis_orion, a young naturalist and nature photographer from Germany. All images freely reusable with attribution (CC BY): instagram.com/naturefold/
Comatricha nigra

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Golden Apple Slime Mold (Arcyria pomiformis)

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Badhamia utricularis

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Now on Wikipedia ✨
Wikipedia article about Comatricha migration, a species of slime molds.

ALT Wikipedia article about Comatricha migration, a species of slime molds.

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Celebrating the very first images on Wikipedia of many butterfly species from Sumatra. Thanks to @FishGuyKai for sharing them on @inaturalist under a CC-BY-SA license 🦋 1. Abisara aita en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abisar…
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…and more are underway. Do you have good-quality photos of poorly documented endemic species from your country? Make them available under an open license and we’ll reuse them (with full credits) as the official illustration of the species on wiki. ✨
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One more ☝️ Delias sambawana from Bali. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delias…
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THIS THURSDAY: Don't forget our #PublicDomain VIRTUAL party! Join Internet Archive, @creativecommons and many others to celebrate the works of art & culture from 1927 that have entered the public domain. eventbrite.com/e/public-doma…
The Best Things in Life are Free Public Domain Day January 19, 2023 1pm PT / 4pm ET VIRTUAL

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Silverstone's Robber Frog (Pristimantis silverstonei) is a vulnerable species of frog from Colombia’s Western Andes. There are few photos of this frog in its habitat, and none is CC-licensed. Thanks to iNat contributor @gesnerio, Wikipedia now has one ✨. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristi…
Silverstone's Robber Frog on Wikipedia

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New Wikipedia stub: Promachus consanguineus, a robber fly endemic to the Canary Islands. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promac… 📷 CC BY SA image courtesy of @inaturalist contributor Sandy Rae. #Asilidae
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500 Women Scientists (@500womensci) profile picture500 Women Scientists@500womensci5 Sep 2022
Join @BirdNoteRadio, 500 Women Scientists & more for a Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon to make bird-related Wiki pages more accurate & representative of the community, ft @RosemaryMosco as keynote speaker! @birdability @BlackAFinSTEM @SeattleAudubon Register today: birdnote.org/Wiki22
Promotional graphic. Representation in birding. A Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon with BirdNote and friends. Wednesday 28 September, 4-6 PM ET. Everyone is welcome, regardless of experience. Photo of Rosemary Mosco, keynote speaker. List of partner logos.

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…and make sure to RSVP as registration is required. ⬆️
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Margaret @MeMerricks2 Sep 2022
My 1000th #wikipedia page/stub. Written because of the Kevin Thiele photograph to the right. Stub or not, as always it involved #wikidata work and #wikicommons work. In wikidata adding to articles, authors, and taxa. @annreynolds988 @SiobhanLeachman @wm_au
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The Laurel Pigeon, an endangered species endemic to the laurel forests of the Canary Islands, Spain, finally has a high-quality, free-licensed photo for its Wikipedia entry, courtesy of iNat contributor Thibaud Aronson. 🙌🏻
Screenshot of the Laurel Pigeon article on English Wikipedia

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The Laurel Pigeon, an endangered species endemic to the laurel forests of the Canary Islands, Spain, finally has a high-quality, free-licensed photo for its Wikipedia entry, courtesy of iNat contributor Thibaud Aronson. 🙌🏻
Screenshot of the Laurel Pigeon article on English Wikipedia

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Lipochaeta ranica—a recently described species of shore fly from California—has a new Wikipedia article, illustrated with gorgeous CC0 macro images by iNaturalist contributor Tobias Hays. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipoch…
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iNaturalist@inaturalist25 Jun 2022
Our Observation of the Day is this Spiranthes infernalis #orchid, seen in the #UnitedStates by graeserr! This #plant is listed as Imperiled by NatureServe. More details at: inaturalist.org/observations… #botany #flowers #nature #biodiversity
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A female Toque macaque (Macaca sinica) with her child foraging on the hard ground at Katagamuwa Sanctuary, Sri Lanka. Photo by Senthi Aathavan Senthilverl, CC BY-SA 4.0 via @WikiLovesEarth commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F…
A female Toque macaque (Macaca sinica) with her child foraging on the hard ground at Katagamuwa Sanctuary, Sri Lanka

ALT A female Toque macaque (Macaca sinica) with her child foraging on the hard ground at Katagamuwa Sanctuary, Sri Lanka

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