@tdwg.org 2026: Call for abstracts 🎉 You're invited to submit abstracts for presentations or posters at #TDWG2026 in Oslo, Norway, 21-25 September. Submissions are encouraged to consider the theme: 🔬 & 🤖 Research and Robot-ready Biodiversity Data Standards. 🔗 www.tdwg.org/confere...

💙🤍❤️ Le GBIF France lance une enquête auprès de ses partenaires et utilisateurs. L’objectif est de faire un bilan des usages, des attentes et des besoins vis-à-vis des données et outils proposés par le GBIF. ⏰ Réponses souhaitées avant le 15 mai 2026. 🔗 gbif.link/gbif.fr-su...

1)⚡Reminder⚡ Register for the virtual data mobilization workshop for West Asia.💙 This workshop is held across May-June 2026, and is based on the GBIF Biodiversity Data Mobilization curriculum. Application deadline: 17 April 2026🔗 gbif.link/virtual-da...

1) 🦋🔦 A new farmer-led moth initiative is lighting the way for agricultural biodiversity monitoring in #Ireland This project tested the feasibility of integrating farmer-led monitoring into national biodiversity observation frameworks across farms without affecting productivity.

🌳Register for the upcoming Virtual Data Mobilization Workshop for Africa (English version) Hosted by the GBIF Africa Regional Support Team, this training workshop is based on the GBIF Biodiversity Data Mobilization curriculum. 📍Application close 31 May 2026 🔗 gbif.link/Data-Mob-W...

📣 Applications for 2026 DataCamp licences are OPEN! 🍄 Join more than 500 biodiversity professionals in the GBIF network who have completed data courses across topics such as Python, RStats, SQL, AI and GitHub. 🔗Apply: gbif.link/DCD_2026 #DataCampDonates

🎓 The 2026 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award is open for nominations! This award celebrates innovative Master’s and PhD research powered by GBIF-mediated data, with opportunity to win 2x €5,000 prizes! Learn more:🔗 gbif.link/GRA_2026 #ApplyNow #EarlyCareerResearch #FundingOpportunity

Why #BioMonWeek26? Biodiversity monitoring in Europe connects the community to collaborate and drive impact. #BioMonWeek offers a space to exchange ideas and align on key challenges. ℹ️ www.biomonweek.eu @biodiversa.eu #AllianceForNature @bioagora.eu GBIF MARCO-BOLO project

Hunting for eggs this weekend? 🥚🐰 Some of the best eggs aren't chocolate! 🍫 Tinamous birds are relatively inconspicuous, but their eggs are egg-ceptional. Researchers have taken steps to crack the code, 🐦determining that egg colour likely evolved as a mating signal. 🔗https://gbif.link/egg

🔦 Amplifying amphipods with two new datasets from publishers in #Italy! 💚🤍❤️ Explore >22,000 amphipod records from scientific literature, unpublished data, public and private institutions. 🔗: gbif.link/amphipod_1 🔗: gbif.link/amphipod_2#Italy! #GBIFItalia

1) 🍃 The Czech Vegetation Database is a new open digital archive of vegetation-plot records from the Czech Republic now accessible in GBIF, including records of plant species composition and cover-abundances in delimited plots surveys, monitoring programs and ecological studies.🍄

💚 Atelier virtuel sur la mobilisation des données de biodiversité (français) – Afrique 2026, à renforcer les capacités des institutions francophones en Afrique à mobiliser, gérer et publier leurs données via le réseau GBIF. 📍4 au 7 mai 2026 (08:00–11:00 UTC) 🔗: gbif.link/Africa-dat...

🚀 #rgbif 3.8.5 ➡️New release! Explore new functions for accessing GBIF occurrence download statistics including: 🔹retrieving summarized download statistics 🔹exporting download summaries & more. 🐛 Bug fixes and minor improvements are now also available. 🔗: gbif.link/rgbif-385

💚 Wrapping up the 2026 GBIF Midterms in #Copenhagen This event brings together members of the Executive, Science and Budget Committees as well as the Nodes Steering Group and members of the Secretariat to discuss updates, progress and strategic priorities ahead of the Governing Board meeting. 🦋

💚 @b-cubed.eu FINAL online training: The b3verse: an R package suite to process cubes and calculate indicators 📍27 March, 15:00 CET Learn about the b3verse and how it can be used to retrieve, process and explore occurrence cubes, and how to calculate indicators. 🔗gbif.link/b-cubed-tr...

¿Puede la ecología predecir la taxonomía? @armandrm.eurosky.social (2022 GBIF Young Researchers Award) demuestra que con datos de ocurrencia de @gbif.org y modelos de clustering se detecta diversidad intraespecífica oculta en tetrápodos usando solo variables ambientales: ▶️ doi.org/10.1111/2041...

🟢 Are you a researcher in #Switzerland involved in collecting species observations #data ? 🗺️🦋🐸🦉 🟣 Then you can join us to learn about Swiss #biodiversity data mobilisation, publication, & sharing @gbif.org ! www.sib.swiss/training/cou...

💪 Last week, a workshop attended by 29 participants in Lithuania hosted by #GBIFSweden and #NatureResearchCentre was delivered to increase capacity in biodiversity data management, standardization and publishing through GBIF. 💚 🔗 gbif.link/CESP-Lithu...

🚀 The 2026 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge is OPEN! Have an idea, tool or prototype that uses GBIF biodiversity data to advance open science, research or policy? Submit it to GBIF’s annual Challenge and compete for a share of €20,000 in prizes! 💸 ⭐ Deadline: 26 June 2026 🔗 gbif.link/ENC-2026

💚 @b-cubed.eu online training tomorrow: Making use of colorblind friendly maps🗺️ 📍20 March, 15:00 CET This session will highlight the importance of colouring maps for daltonic people, including good practices and coding solutions to maximize accessibility. 🔗gbif.link/b-cubed-tr...

1) 🤝This week, #GBIFZimbabwe is hosting a workshop focused on #BusinessSector engagement & capacity building, bringing together colleagues from the Endangered Wildlife Trust, node staff from #GBIFMalawi and invited guests Ricardo Ortiz Gallego (#SiBColombia) and Niels Raes (NLBIF#GBIFZimbabwe#BusinessSector💚

🧬 GBIF has launched #SPLICE, an initiative to fully integrate eDNA into its data infrastructure 🌎 SPLICE aims to transform eDNA data discovery and access while also bridging taxonomic gaps, developed alongside #DanBIF with the support of Novo Nordisk Foundation 💚 🔗gbif.link/SPLICE

1) 🦋 Are you a biodiversity data holder in #WestAsia? 👉 Register for the virtual data mobilization workshop for West Asia hosted by the GBIF Asia Regional Support Team. 💙 The deadline for workshop applications is 17 April 2026 at 23:59 UTC. 🔗 gbif.link/virtual-da...

🔦 Spotlight on the Data Management and Mass Monitoring themes at #BioMonWeek26! Submit an abstract by 18 March and bring your work to the European stage! Explore the full programme:🔗 www.biomonweek.eu @biodiversa.eu, #AllianceforNature, @bioagora.eu, GBIF, MARCO-BOLO project

💚 Atelier virtuel sur la mobilisation des données de biodiversité (français) – Afrique 2026, à renforcer les capacités des institutions francophones en Afrique à mobiliser, gérer et publier leurs données via le réseau GBIF. 📍4 au 7 mai 2026 (08:00–11:00 UTC) 🔗: gbif.link/Africa-dat...

💚 B-Cubed Project online training tomorrow: Automating compositional dissimilarity and biodiversity turnover mapping with #dissmapr 📍13 March, 15:00 CET Learn about dissmapr, an open-source R framework that automates compositional dissimilarity and turnover analysis. 🦋 🔗gbif.link/b-cubed-tr...

🦀 There's still time to register for the GBIF Data Use Club: Best practices for using GBIF-mediated data, happening TODAY! This online session will also feature a panel discussion and opportunities for Q&A. 📍 11 March 226. 15:00-16:30 CET 🔗 gbif.link/DUC-using-...

🌱 Webinar alert! Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)'s data recommendations: Understanding corporate nature data exchange 📍16 March 2026 14:00 - 15:00 GMT 🔗Register: gbif.link/TNFD-webinar ⭐Read about GBIF & TNFD: gbif.link/TNFD-news

For the (biodiversity) record, women in GBIF are leading by example, speaking up and shaping the future of biodiversity science every day. 🌏❤️ #IWD2026 #IWD #WomenInSTEM #Biodiversity

🤔💭 Are you wondering about the best strategies to parallel publish to OBIS and @gbif.org simultaneously? We've got you covered! Join our free hands-on workshop on 12 March 2026 at 16:00 UTC. 👉 Register: bit.ly/46Cc9U1

🌊💧 Spotlight on marine and freshwater monitoring at #BioMonWeek26! Are you working on eDNA, invasive alien species, habitats, or any of the many topics covered in our contributed sessions? Submit an abstract and bring your work to the European stage! Explore the full programme: www.biomonweek.eu

🦀 Register for our next GBIF Data Use Club: Best practices for using GBIF-mediated data! This online session will also feature a panel discussion and opportunities for Q&A. 📍 11 March 226. 15:00-16:30 CET 🔗 gbif.link/DUC-using-...

🪰 @b-cubed.eu online training happening tomorrow: Indicators for national invasion reporting 📍6 March, 15:00 CET Learn about the South African process of reporting on the state of biological invasions every three years. 🔗gbif.link/b-cubed-tr... #SANBI

1) 🎉Today is UN Biodiversity' World Wildlife Day, which celebrates the unique roles and contributions of wildlife to our planet. This year's theme highlights medicinal and aromatic plants! 🌱 🔎 A recent study modelled medicinal flora ranges in the Himalaya using GBIF-mediated data.

1) 📣 Read all about it: BHL is the one-stop-shop for biodiversity literature! 📖 @biodivlibrary.bsky.social (BHL) is the world's largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.

1) 💡 Seeking inspo for your Graduate Researchers Award nomination? 👀 Using open access occurrence records from GBIF, 2022 GRA winner Armand Rausell-Moreno led research to investigate whether environmental data combined with predictive modelling can reveal hidden diversity within species. @gbif.es

🧊 @b-cubed.eu online training happening tomorrow: Occurrence cubes and biological invasions 📍27 February, 15:00 CET 💡 What's covered: An overview of the Invasibility Cube and the b3alien #Python package. Register: 🔗gbif.link/b-cubed-tr...

🦀 Register for our next GBIF Data Use Club: Best practices for using GBIF-mediated data! This online session will also feature a panel discussion and opportunities for Q&A. 📍 11 March 226. 15:00-16:30 CET 🔗 gbif.link/DUC-using-... See less

Taking data from the Aussie microbiome to macro scales! 🚀🌏 🤯 A staggering 93 million records from >14,000 samples, across eight datasets have been mobilized via the Australian Microbiome (AM), using the GBIF Metabarcoding Data Toolkit. 🔗 gbif.link/australian...

⭐ Register for the Virtual Data Use Workshop for Asia 2026 hosted by the GBIF Asia Regional Support Team! ⭐ The workshop will be conducted in English for up to 25 participants ✍️ Dates: 16–17 March 2026 Application deadline: 25 February 2026, 23:59 UTC 🔗 gbif.link/Asia-data-...

📣 Call for sessions for TDWG 2026 closing soon! You're invited to submit a proposal for an organized session at TDWG 2026 in #Oslo, Norway. Conference theme: 🤖 Research & robot-ready biodiversity data standards ⭐Deadline 26 Feb 2026, 10:59 GMT +1 🔗 www.tdwg.org/confere... @tdwg.org

🚀 Submit an abstract for a talk, poster or booth under one of the nine conference themes. See details and descriptions of the full programme! ⭐ Deadline: 18 March 2026 🔗 2026.biomonweek.eu/p... @biodiversa.eu+, #AllianceforNature, @bioagora.eu GBIF and MARCO-BOLO project#AllianceforNature,

🔎 Spotted a suspicious record... maybe an erroneous entry? 🥁 Introducing.... rule-based annotations in GBIF! This new experimental tool allows users to mark certain occurrence data as suspicious to improve data cleaning and user feedback to publishers. 🔗gbif.link/rule-based...

🔎 From biodiversity observations to insights: Hands-on training 🤝 Over the upcoming Fridays at 15:00 CET, @b-cubed.eu is hosting a training series to showcase emerging approaches that help make biodiversity data more actionable in practice. 🔗gbif.link/b-cubed-tr...

1) Compartilhe as suas perspectivas num #inquérito breve sobre governança e soberania de dados indígenas e ajude a promover os #PrincípiosCARE em toda a rede GBIF. ⭐ A pesquisa está agora disponível em inglês, espanhol e português! ⭐ 🔗 gbif.link/Indigenous...

Don't be a neigh-sayer, be a celebrator for #LunarNewYear! 🎉🔥🐎 Spotlighting the Year of the Fire Horse with the Equus genus, which includes all extant horses, donkeys and zebras! The Przewalski’s horse is considered the only truly wild extant horse species. 🔗 https://gbif.link/Equus

1) Bringing AI to biodiversity research!🌿🤖 iDigBio (Integrated Digitized Biocollections) has been active in using generative AI to help researchers quickly find, explore and process biodiversity data from iDigBio and beyond, all through a conversational interface called iChatBot.

1) 💕 Looking for your perfect match on #ValentinesDay? So are these marine species 😍 As ocean temperatures and conditions shift, predators and prey are falling out of sync, causing cascading effects across marine ecosystems in South America, Southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Deadline for session proposals: 🗓️ 25 Feb, 23:59 UTC‑10! There’s still time 🕐 but act fast ⚡️ Submit an organized session for #TDWG2026 in #Oslo. New this year: 🌟Discussion sessions🌟. Theme: 🔬🤖 Research & robot‑ready biodiversity data standards. More info: 🔗 tdwg.link/call-for-ses...

🎓 Student job alert! Are you studying in #Copenhagen, have an interest in open data and scientific literature and want to make some extra cash💰 ⏰ 10-12 hours per week 💸 Competitive hourly wage 😍 Flexible hours 📍 Deadline: 27 February 2026 🔗 gbif.link/student-job