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By the way, nearly all the specimen images we've been creating in the UT collection have been placed in the public domain, and are free to take and use for anything:
One thing I wish more people understood about natural history and taxonomy: this knowledge of what species are, how they are recognized, and where they are found, is expensive.
The knowledge comes from millions of collected specimens going back centuries, which are housed in buildings that have utilities and maintenance costs, and require salaried people to look after them and to gather and pass the data into public databases, which also require funding.
It’s great to see more museums, universities, and collectors called out for harboring stolen indigenous artifacts. It doesn’t matter how they came into possession. If their origin is theft, they must be returned.
The precise curatorial work of one of our undergraduate student assistants. 💜🪲🥹
(Yes, we are leaving space to accommodate the barcode labels that will be added to each specimen at the time of digitization).
*Coleoptera: Staphylinidae. #beetlecuration#curation#collections#museums#NaturalHistoryCollections