❤️ Have you shared your perspectives on the survey led by the GBIF #TaskGroup on Indigenous data governance? This week, task group chair @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social shared initial results of the survey at the Living Data, Living Lands event at #ClimateWeekNYC. 🔗gbif.link/Indigenous...

Thinking about applying for the 2025 round of the Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme for Africa? Come along to our Q&A session to have all your questions answered by the GBIF Secretariat! 📍7 October 2025 13:00 - 14:00 CEST Register: gbif.link/BID_Africa_QA

🐍 Scaling up biodiversity data access ✨#VertNet launches a GBIF hosted portal! Run by a dedicated volunteer network, VertNet plays a vital role in mobilizing biodiversity datasets worldwide. 🌍 🔗 Explore the new portal: gbif.link/VertNet

🌱 This week GBIF Executive Secretary Joe Miller joined global leaders at #G20SouthAfrica. 📸 Pictured is Joe presenting the Biodiversity Information for Sustainable Development deliverables for the G20 Research and Innovation Ministerial in #Pretoria.

The GBIF Guide for Publishing Biological Survey Data has been released! 📊✨ This guide supports ecologists, monitoring professionals and data managers publish survey data to GBIF using the Darwin Core standard and FAIR data principles. 🔎 gbif.link/SAM_guide @heathnecologist.bsky.social

🦀 Don't forget to join the GBIF #DataUseClub session TODAY! 📍 23 September 2025 15:00 - 16:30 CEST Join Matt Blissett and John Waller from the Secretariat for our next Data Use Club practical session: Making occurrence maps. 🗺️ 🔗 gbif.link/DUC_mapping#DataUseClub

Convenient development at @gbif.org as I pack for a flight Lenapehoking and #ClimateWeekNYC. Not much time left to cram, though, so maybe stick to the highlights: www.gbif.org/resource/sea...

Let's talk a-bao-t data! 🥟 GBIF Head of Communications @kylecopas.bsky.social is presenting in at #ClimateWeekNYC alongside Lisett Luik and Peter Ward in a unique session hosted by Alex Logan called "Data and Dumplings" 🐙 in Lenapehoking (aka New York City). Register: luma.com/lt9ss2t6

📸🌱 Snap to it! New dataset documents carnivorous plants across 250 sites in Taiwan and Kinmen Island. 🔎 Surveys aimed to assess species from the Droseraceae and Lentibulariaceae families. This dataset was mobilized with the support of #TaiBIF! 💚 🔗 gbif.link/carnivorou...

@gbif.org #NowPresenting at the the 135th EFSA Plant Health [email protected] #NowPresenting. The next effort will be on #Agrobiodiversity

🚨Have your say on the new conceptual model and Data Package Guide for #DarwinCore The @tdwg.org Darwin Core Maintenance Group has opened a 90-day public review and comment period for the new conceptual model and Data Package Guide. 🗓️ 17 September – 16 December 2025 🔗 www.tdwg.org/news/20...

🌱 This week GBIF Executive Secretary Joe Miller presented at the @biodiversa.eu+ Midterm Conference. The event marks the midpoint of Biodiversa+ and brings together partners, stakeholders and the European Commission to reflect on progress and co-design the road ahead. 🌍 @nlbif.bsky.social

Why register for #LivingData2025? 🌎 Connect with leading biodiversity experts from across the globe 🚀 Join 97 inspiring sessions designed for discussion and collaboration + 100 other reasons! 👉 www.livingdata2025.c...#LivingData2025? #DatosVivos2025 @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org #InstitutoHumboldt

🦀 Have you registered for the next GBIF #DataUseClub? Join Matt Blissett and John Waller from the Secretariat for our next Data Use Club practical session: Making occurrence maps. 🗺️ 📍 23 September 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 CEST 🔗 gbif.link/DUC_mapping

📣 Calling all #LivingData2025 presenters! ⏰ Presenter registration deadline: Wednesday 24 September 2025 If you are not registered by this date, your presentation will be removed from the program. 😱 🔗 www.livingdata2025.c...#LivingData2025 @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org #InstitutoHumboldt

Conference registration ✅ Tour registration 😱 Don't miss out on registering for one of the FREE interpretive tours as part of the #LivingData2025 conference! 🚀 Spaces are limited! 🔗www.livingdata2025.c...#LivingData2025 #DatosVivos2025 @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org #InstitutoHumboldt

The 2025 round of the @ec.europa.eu-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme is open for concept notes from eligible organizations in sub-Saharan African countries. ⏰Deadline: 3 November 2025, 15:59 CET (UTC+1) Read more:🔗 gbif.link/BID-Africa #BIDAfrica #Biodiversity

❤️ Keen to combine CARE with FAIR? 🌱 Get involved with the work of the GBIF task group on Indigenous data governance to advance Indigenous rights and interests in open biodiversity data! 📣 Have your say in our survey: 🔗 gbif.link/Indigenous... 👀 Follow the work: 🔗 gbif.link/Indigenous...

R you ready for #rgbif version 3.8.3?! 🤩 What's new? ⏱️ repeated occ_search() calls will now pause for 5 seconds, encouraging users to instead use occ_download() for accessing occurrence records 🔎 installation_search() and collection_search() updates Learn more: 🔗 docs.ropensci.org/rg...

📢 Biologists, botanists, ecologists, researchers and student: have you ever said “I’ll publish that dataset later”? ChatIPT = the “later” 😎 Built by @rukayaj.bsky.social, this chatbot makes it easy to share data to GBIF. 🚀 New update just dropped! chatipt.svc.gbif.no/ @gbifnorway.bsky.social

That’s a wrap! 🦟💚 The GBIF task group on biodiversity data for human diseases has completed its second term, with the release of the new guide to publishing biodiversity data on disease vectors, hosts and pathogens! 📖 Check out the story and explore the guide:🔗gbif.link/vector_tas...

🦋 The McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the Florida Museum of Natural History is home to the world’s largest research collection of butterflies and moths. Thanks to a recently mobilized dataset, >100,000 records from the collection are now on GBIF! 🔎 🔗 gbif.link/Florida_Mu...

Crawling into the weekend? 🐛 The slump before the weekend has hit GBIF systems - crawling and ingestion are currently paused ⏱️ Our team are investigating the issues and are expecting to have the them resolved soon. 😎

⏰ Last few days to submit entries to the 2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge! 📅 Deadline: 7 September 2025🚀 Entries may detail newly developed functional prototypes, tools and techniques or existing ones to leverage biodiversity data from the GBIF network. 🔗: gbif.link/ebbe-2025

🌎 #LivingData2025 is seeking Inclusion Champions to sponsor participants from the Global South, giving greater participation and representation in international biodiversity forums. ✉️Email: exhibitionliving@ce....#LivingData2025 #DatosVivos2025 @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org #InstitutoHumboldt

⭐ The twelfth edition of the GBIF #ScienceReview is published! The Science Review is an annual compilation of peer-reviewed papers that use data published through GBIF’s global infrastructure. In this edition, we explore 50 exciting examples of biodiversity data use. 🦇 🔗 gbif.link/science_re...

🌍 Why countries need GBIF: lessons from Belgium A recently published policy brief provides details how Belgium has leveraged GBIF to support sustainable development, conservation and innovation for effective #biodiversity governance. 🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

🌱 Wattle you know, it's #NationalWattleDay! 💖 Wattle is the common name for plants in the genus Acacia, with #Australia home to more than 1,000 unique Acacia species! Acacia want to deep-dive into the data, you can explore more than 1.1 million wattle records on GBIF! 🔗gbif.link/wattle#NationalWattleDay!

🚀 ONE week left to submit your entry to the 2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge! Enter to win a share of €20,000! 💸 Who can enter the Challenge? 😎 individuals 💪teams 🏢 companies 🔍 governmental agencies from anywhere in the world! Submissions close 7 September 2025 🔗 gbif.link/ebbe-2025

Have you checked out #ChatIPT yet?👇 This chatbot 🤖developed by @rukayaj.bsky.social cleans and standardizes spreadsheets, creates basic metadata and guides users through the process of publishing data into the GBIF network! It's so impressive, it won the Ebbe Nielsen Challenge last year! 😍

🫣 Ignorance is not bliss: A new study maps gaps in #Orthoptera records 🦗 Researchers analyzed 30k+ species records to reveal uneven data coverage across the world, likely reflecting uneven access to taxonomists, digitization & funding. 📊 Read more: 🔗 gbif.link/orthoptera...#Orthoptera #DataUse

You've been spotted! 👀🐆 📸 Through camera traps, the Jaguar Landscapes aka Paisaje Jaguar project recently mobilized more than 3,600 records, with all images now accessible via GBIF and was supported by #GBIFEcuador. 💚 🔗 gbif.link/Paisaje-Ja...

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⭐ Four projects have been selected for funding through the 2025 Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (CESP)! 🦉The annual grant programme encourages collaboration, mentoring and knowledge-sharing across the GBIF Participant network. Read more:🔗gbif.link/CESP_2025

🗺️ You don't need a map to find the next GBIF #DataUseClub, just follow the registration link! Join Matt Blissett and John Waller from the Secretariat for our next Data Use Club practical session: Making occurrence maps. 🦀 📍 23 September 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 CEST 🔗 gbif.link/DUC_mapping

🌏 New global rotifer dataset spans three decades, >50 countries, 5,294 records and 2,160 samples... and was compiled by two researchers! 🤯 This comprehensive dataset is now accessible on GBIF.org. 🌊🌱 🔗 gbif.link/rotifers

🚨 New study on ulcerative colitis (UC): 🐁 Mice exposed to the HBx protein developed UC-like symptoms—but RNA therapy eased symptoms. 🌱 Using GBIF-mediated data, researchers investigated potential origins of the HBx protein. 🔗 gbif.link/data-use-v...

A tardi-great new dataset!😍 🔬 The historic (now digitized) Ramazzotti Collection of Tardigrada (1938–1964) includes 3,319 records of tardigrade specimens and eggs collected by Italian taxonomist Giuseppe Ramazzotti! 🔗 gbif.link/tardigrades @pagepress.bsky.social

Celebrating @nhmdk.bsky.social has now digitized 1 million of our 14 million collections of plants, fish, birds, fossils etc. dating back 400 years available for public and professional browsing and search at collections.snm.ku.dk and @gbif.org

Cacao's history is choc-full of human influence 🍫🌱 A recent study examined cacao’s historical distribution by analyzing published literature, >15,000 GBIF-mediated records and remote sensing data with land-use profiles to distinguish native from introduced ranges. 🌎 🔍 https://gbif.link/cacao

Let's get down to business! 👀 Overnight we ticked over the 1,000th dataset shared to GBIF from the business sector.🌎 Impressively, >50% of these have been shared from #Colombia via #SiBColombia, with the latest coming from #ParexResources! Explore the datasets: 🔗gbif.link/business-s...

🐙 An ink-credible new dataset provides insight into cephalopod monitoring in the Azores! The MONICEPH project— coordinated by Stéphanie Suciu and José Azevedo—analyzes cephalopods collected during whale-watching activities to better understand deep-sea ecology 🐋 🔗 gbif.link/MONICEPH

🚀 Four weeks left to submit your entry to the 2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge! Who can enter the Challenge? 😎 individuals 💪teams 🏢 companies 🔍 governmental agencies from anywhere in the world! Submissions close 7 September 2025 🔗 gbif.link/ebbe-2025 Enter to win a share of €20,000! 💸

Our spider senses are tingling 🕷️🦹... maybe it's from the Antarctic cold? A study investigated sea spider distribution across the Antarctic Polar Front 🧊 through spatial mapping mapping using occurrence data from GBIF and @OBIS. 🔍 Read about this #DataUse summary: 🔗 gbif.link/sea-spiders#DataUse

Another dataset using the GBIF Metabarcoding Data Toolkit has been o-fish-ally 🐟 published! Researchers used eDNA as a non-invasive method to sample reef fish in the West Indian Ocean. 🌊 🏝️>1,200 records have been mobilized to GBIF, supported by #GBIFFrance! 🔗 gbif.link/edna-fish

🐊 How do skills acquired through DataCamp translate to a better understanding of biodiversity data? For Ibrahim Abdel Basir Gomaa, who completed courses in #Pandas, #Seaborn, machine learning and #SQL, these skills enabled him to confidently query large biodiversity datasets from GBIF. 🔎

Not worth its weight in gold... 🟡 Recent study explores the impacts of illegal gold mining in the Amazon. Researchers developed a framework, utilizing GBIF-mediated species occurrence data, to assess impacts from deforestation, erosion and mercury contamination. 🔗 gbif.link/amazon-gol...

🌧️ Did rainfall influence bubonic plague spread in China (1772–1964)? A study using niche modeling of 33 rodents, one flea vector, GBIF-mediated data and climate records found little evidence that precipitation drove regional patterns. 🐭🔎 Read more in the data summary🔗 gbif.link/data-use-r...

🪼The Medusa a la Vista project—part of the #MINKA Citizen Science Observatory—engages the public in documenting pelagic organisms along the Catalan coast. A recent dataset of ~4,000 medusa records from this project has been made accessible on GBIF, supported by @gbif.es 🔗 gbif.link/minka-medusa

Last few days to have your say in the pre-review phase for the new Darwin Core Data Package! ⚡ We encourage you to get familiar with the Data Package and provide feedback by attempting to map original datasets as part of a community pre-review. 🔎 Deadline: 1 August 2025. gbif.link/dwc-dp