Decadal Plan blogs

October 31 2017 Taxonomic Implications of Decadal Plan: Perceptions of a Sociopathic Taxonomist
October 23 2017 Criteria for prioritisation of invertebrate taxonomy.
October 13 2017 Direct Action
October 8 2017 Taxonomy 2028 Challenge: Let’s digitally image poorly known described species and undescribed species in an Australian Biodiversity Portal – the end-users perspective
October 2 2017 Ensuring adequate communication between environmental consultants and taxonomists
September 24 2017 Taxonomy 2028 Challenge: Recording Indigenous nomenclature
September 14 2017 Taxonomy 2028 Challenge: Knowing the origins of the Australian biota
September 9 2017 Linnaeus-and-the-Ackronyme-project (a satire)
September 9 2017 A dream of invertebrate utopia
September 5 2017 Counting species - questions and meta-questions
September 2 2017 What about the passionate?
August 31 2017 Taxonomy 2028 Challenge: 75% of species of Australian arthropods described by 2028
August 30 2017 Taxonomy 2028 Challenge: Using citizen surveillance applications to increase the number and frequency of culture collection samples for genomic analysis
August 29 2017 Taxonomy 2028 Challenge: We need to database all specimens in the national collection, focusing on museum collections
August 29 2017 Taxonomy 2028 Challenge: The view from an obligately biotrophic fungus
August 25 2017 The Taxonomy 2028 Challenge: Validation of Australia’s vascular plant collection data
August 25 2017 Taxonomy 2028 Challenge: Collection and characterisation of parasites and symbionts alongside their hosts
August 24 2017 Taxonomy 2028 Challenge: Let's digitally image all (or most) of our type specimens
August 21 2017 Taxonomy 2028 Challenge: Obtain high quality collections of all undescribed vascular plant taxa
August 18 2017 Taxonomy 2028 Challenge: A vision for fungal taxonomy and systematics
August 18 2017 Taxonomy 2028 Challenge: No net loss of FTE dedicated taxonomists
August 15 2017 Taxonomy 2028 Challenge: Greater engagement with the public and end users of taxonomy
August 11 2017 Taxonomy 2028 Challenge: A taxonomic emergency for vanishing coral reef fauna
August 11 2017 Taxonomy 2028 Challenge: The Australian National Biodiversity Collection
August 5 2017 Taxonomy 2028 Challenge: Providing certainty in taxonomic applications through next generation sequencing
August 4 2017 Taxonomy 2028 Challenge: Life in the Late Anthropocene
August 4 2017 Taxonomy 2028 Challenge: Palaeobotany for future planning
August 4 2017 Taxonomy 2028 Challenge: Every Australian species genomed (is that even a verb yet?)
August 3 2017 Taxonomy 2028 Challenge: Microbial diversity
July 10 2017 The Taxonomy 2028 Challenge: Shaping the future of biosystematics and taxonomy in Australasia
June 5 2017 Why Australia's plant phrase-naming system is more interesting than it seems (Part 1)
June 5 2017 Why Australia's plant phrase-naming system is more interesting than it seems (Part 2)
May 17 2017 The Decadal Plan is mission go
March 9 2017 The Botany Bill
February 14 2017 What are the big questions in plant systematics? - a report of a symposium on the future of global plant systematics
December 16 2016 Herbaria wilt in the US