Overview
This page will be dedicated to listing all my ongoing and future projects. Finished projects are archived at the ‘Finished Projects’ section at the end of this page.
Ongoing projects
Academic projects
- PhenoBees - Porto (Coordinator), Silva (Postdoc)
- Misplaced causality in biodiversity conservation: rethinking the taxonomic impediment - Silva (Review)
- A critical review of Frame Semantics applied to biological terminology - Silva (Submitted)
- Reframing fundamental concepts of insect societies for bio-ontologies - Silva (Submitted)
- Gaia’s Navel: on the limits of biological representation. - Silva (Draft)
- Grammatical similarity beyond Taxonomy: a corpus-based study of species descriptions - Silva (Data assembly and analysis)
- Contextualizing biological archives: a frame-based study of collection records - Silva (Designing frames and building corpus)
Writing
- Writing Part 3 of Aquaria.
- Drafting the second installment of the Old Sun books, the sequel to Ashes of Mazin.
- Drafting Urihi - Densho.
Finished projects
Academic projects
- Materiality and context of specimen labels: exposing frictions between local and global priorities in the preservation of ‘non-prototypical’ records - Silva, Neundorf, Feitosa. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 147(1), 2026
- Additions to the taxonomy of Neotropical Strumigenys (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): description of new species, terminology alignment, and etymology of the generic epithet - Silva, Ladino, Feitosa. Rev. Bras. Entomol. 69 (4), 2025.
- Narratives of Environmental Crisis in Chrono Cross: Settler Colonialism, Interspecies Conflicts and Environmental Injustice - Silva, Silva. Rev. Eletr. Ludus Sci., 9, 7-28, 2025
Writing
- Ashes of Mazin: Old Sun (Portuguese ebook version)
- Urihi: Espíritos ao vento (Portuguese ebook version)
Wikipedia and Wiktionary projects
- Evaluating the Ḳurʾānic translation of ʿibād (عِبَاد).
- Extending the List of Strumigenys species at the Anglophone Wikipedia.