I subscribe to RSS feeds for dozens of journals and (usually) review those feeds every morning and every evening. There is usually at least one paper each day that I share with colleagues via email. But I miss people who might find a paper interesting, and mass emails to #STAFF would be annoying. Plus, there might be people out “there,” somewhere, who aren’t coworkers but who might find these discoveries interesting. Instead of bombarding people who may never find those papers of interest with emails they do not want, and to make my time reviewing more worthwhile, I will try out the GitHub Pages blog for sharing on a regular basis. Each post will contain records for each paper I find of interest, including:

We can document many species using the Soundcloud integration with iNaturalist. And just like having clear photos for visual identification, we would like to have clear audio for identification. But I haven’t been able to find any good, simple explanations about how to go from a raw recording in the field to one ideal for confirming the identity of a species in the observation. This is an attempt at such a guide.

As with any such endeavor, we need an inaugural post to test the system out. Because this is all written in markdown, I need to test out a few basic features.