1) 🌿 Spotlighting #GBIFBenin! Benin has been part of the GBIF network since 2004, became a voting participant in 2024, and has contributed almost 1M biodiversity records to date! 🚀

📢 Registrations for #BioMonWeek2026 are opening in early February! 📍 Montpellier, France 📅 4–8 May 2026 Join the first edition of the European conference on biodiversity monitoring! www.biomonweek.eu @biodiversa.eu, GBIF, MARCO-BOLO project, @bioagora.eu#BioMonWeek2026#AllianceforNature

📣 Last days to have your say in the official @tdwg.org Darwin Core public review! ⚡ Get involved! All community members are encouraged to participate. Deadline: 16 January 2026 🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...

Last chance to register! 🤔 Have questions about the European Commission-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) regional and cross-regional call? 📅 Register for the open Q&A session 📍 13 Jan 26, 09:30-10:30 & 15:30-16:30 (UTC+1) (two availabilities) 🔗 gbif.link/BID_QandA

🐦 #CitizenScience supports improved invasive species detection A recent study compared 200M+ citsci records accessed via GBIF with official data from 30 European countries and found that 50% of invasions were detected earlier or in the same year by citsci. 🔗 gbif.link/citsci_IAS#CitizenScience #DataUse

🌍 Digital Sequence Information (DSI) Under the #UnitedNations Convention on Biological Diversity, a study is examining tools and platforms to support transparent and equitable benefit-sharing from the use of DSI on genetic resources. ✍️ Share your views in this survey: 🔗 gbif.link/CBD-survey

Have you herd? 🦓 We've just published the GBIF quarterly global and country analytics reports! Explore dazzling data ✨such as occurrence records by taxa, time and seasonality trends, completeness and precision metrics, data sharing trends by country and more! 🔗 www.gbif.org/analyti...

We currently have TWO open positions within the GBIF Secretariat! 🐙 Senior software data enginee within the Engineering team 🔗gbif.link/senior-dat... 📍Applications close 9 Jan 2026 🦭 Data administrator within the Data Products team 🔗 gbif.link/data-admin... 📍Applications close 13 Jan 2026

🤔 Have questions about the European Commission-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) regional and cross-regional call? 📅 Register for the open Q&A session on 13 January 2026 (with two sessions available). 📍 13 Jan 26, 09:30-10:30 & 15:30-16:30 (UTC+1) 🔗 gbif.link/BID_QandA

Feeling fabulous stepping into 2026! ✨💃 Fresh from New Year's, we're excited for what's to come in 2026! 👀 📲 Stay up to date with all the latest GBIF news across our social channels (Facebook, LinkedIn, Mastodon and Bluesky) and receive our newsletter here: 🔗 gbif.link/subscribe

🐨 2025 has been a big one! We’ll be taking a short break to rest, reflect and recharge 💚 Thank you to our amazing GBIF community including nodes, data publishers, data users, volunteers, committee members and staff for an incredible year. Here’s to an exciting 2026 ahead! ⭐

Documenting the roots 🌺 of Arctic biogeography The Vascular Plants from Eirik Raude's Land dataset is now available on GBIF, documenting >5,000 plant observations in Greenland from the 1930s. Data was published through the #DanBIF IPT💚 🔗 gbif.link/plants-of-...

(1) 📣 Shout out to Symbiota Support Hub (SSH)! SSH has been a GBIF #Node since 2022 and supports more than 1,900 biological collections using #Symbiota software to manage and publish Darwin Core-aligned data to GBIF. 💻

📣 The official @tdwg.org Darwin Core public review has been extended until 16 January for community input! ⚡ Get involved! All community members are encouraged to participate. 🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...

🤔 Have questions about the European Commission-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) regional and cross-regional call? 📅 Register for the open Q&A session on 13 January 2026 from 09:30-10:30 (UTC+1) to raise any questions about BID programme. 🔗 gbif.link/BID_QandA

🚀 We're on the lookout for a temporary data administrator to join the Data Products team within in the GBIF Secretariat managing all aspects of data processing and data content! ❄️ Deadline: 13 January 2026 🔗 gbif.link/data-admin... Note this role is located in Denmark

(1) 🍄 A newly mobilized macrofungi dataset offers fresh insight into fungal diversity in Kenya! 🤩 Compiled by East African Wild Life Society and National Museums of Kenya the dataset documents macrofungi occurrences in the Lake Ol’Bolossat ecosystem.

🐙 The GBIF Secretariat is seeking a senior data engineer to work with our Engineering team! 🌏 This is a fully remote contractor role, initially for twelve months, with potential travel to workshops or meetings with GBIF partners. 🚀 Deadline: 9 January 2026 🔗gbif.link/senior-dat...

🐆 Call for proposals for the @ec.europa.eu-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme is OPEN! Regional & cross-regional projects in #SubSaharanAfrica, #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean or the #Pacific are invited. Call: gbif.link/BID-region... FAQs: gbif.link/BID-FAQs

There's still time to register for the GBIF #DataUseClub session TODAY! 🦎 Hear from the two 2025 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award winners - PhD student Kumdet Panshak Solomon and Master's student Esteban Marentes Herrera! 📍 11 December 2025, 15:00-16:30 CET 🔗 gbif.link/DUC_GRA

We love to sea 🌊 marine datasets, so if you're a data publisher, make sure you're publishing your data 🐙 to both GBIF and OBIS to maximize data consistency, usability and interoperability across global networks!

News splash! 💦 🐟 GBIF data use surges globally, powering more than 12,000 studies across 180 countries! 🤯 The systematic review led by Dirk Steinke published in @pnas.org examined scopes, methods and complementary data sources in literature citing GBIF. Read more: 🔗 gbif.link/systematic...

📣 After years of development and earlier informal feedback rounds, the official @tdwg.org #DarwinCore public review is now live, your input is needed! This is your chance to have your say in the official review for ratification! 🚀 🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...

New Danish national atlas provides new insights into the microbial world! 🦠 Microflora Danica is the largest project of its kind, mapping >140,000 bacterial species in the Danish microbial biome, many of which are new to science.

Celebrating GBIF #volunteers 💚 This year, more than 2,000 hours of volunteer activities across 55 countries were delivered! 🤯 To commemorate these achievements, 253 volunteer digital badges were issued to 175 active volunteers in 2025! ⭐ gbif.link/volunteer-...#volunteers #InternationalVolunteerDay

📟What if we could just predict by looking into the environment how subspecies distribute in the geographical space? Could that help us to optimize sampling efforts? 3 years ago @gbif.org recognized the potential of the work, now we have it here! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

18 reasons to celebrate! 🎉 Yesterday, 18 new national parks across ASEAN countries were commemorated at the Eighth ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity Heritage Parks Conference in Viet Nam! 🌲 📸 Nguyen Ky-Anh, Joe Miller, Uttam Babu Shrestha and Jerome L. Montemayor #AHP8

A new dataset takes flight! 🪶🐦 The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Italy - AIRONE project has just mobilized more than 2.7 million records to GBIF! 🤯 This dataset provides records for bird occurrences across 15 winters in Italy, starting from 2010-11. 🔗 gbif.link/wintering-...

Hello from #Vietnam👋 GBIF Executive Secretary @phylojoe.bsky.social is at the Eighth ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity Heritage Parks Conference (#AHP8). 🌏 This event provides an important opportunity to advance scientific and inclusive approaches to nature-based solutions in the region. 🦋

Seed-ccessful evolutionary tactics attract birds for seed dispersal 🐦👀 A recent study explored how flowering plant species 🌻 use seed mimicry to attract bird dispersers, revealing that seed mimicry was mostly observed in tropical regions.🏝️ 🔗gbif.link/mimetic-seeds #ScienceReview

📣 Last days to apply for our contractor position!🪲 GBIF are seeking a contractor to support the Secretariat in producing an overview paper documenting GBIF's 25 years of operations. Deadline: 📍 3 December 2025. Learn more about the opportunity: 🔗 gbif.link/25-year-co...

🐿️ We've gathered the latest GBIF headlines in one place 👀 💙 See the November newsletter:🔗gbif.link/Nov-news 💜 Stay in the loop and receive our quarterly GBIF newsletter: gbif.link/subscribe

🌿 The TNFD recommends scaling up the GBIF network to help companies share open biodiversity data! Through initiatives across the GBIF network, >120 businesses are contributing data, turning corporate data into a global public good for science, conservation and policy. 🌎 https://gbif.link/TNFD

Yesterday the GBIF Secretariat celebrated the 20 year anniversaries of Tim Robertson (Deputy Director and Head of Informatics) and Andrea Hahn (Head of Data Products)! 💚🎉 A big thank you to Marie, Cecilie and Susanne for organizing the celebrations 🎂 and Mélianie for pics! 📸

💚 Thanks to all who contributed to the GBIF eDNA Data Infrastructure: Technical Roadmap Review workshop!🧬 We've just published a summary report detailing the outcomes and future directions of the eDNA roadmap review, check it out! 👀 🔗 gbif.link/edna-roadm... @minderoo.bsky.social

⚡The GBIF Indigenous Data Governance task group led by @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social is seeking inputs to help inform and define future work on Indigenous data rights, interest, governance and sovereignty. Contribute to the survey! 🔗 gbif.link/Indigenous-d... @localcontexts.bsky.social

Tracing the tree-mendous 🌳 lineage of baobabs 🔎 A recent study conducted genetic analyses to determine the evolutionary history of baobabs in Africa and Australia. 🧬 Phylogenetic and modelling evidence suggests Madagascar is the most likely home of Baobab lineages. 🔗 gbif.link/science_re...

🎉 Ethiopia joins the GBIF network as an Associate Participant! This comes following Ethiopia's involvement across a 2024 Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (CESP) project and a 2017 Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) project. 🔗gbif.link/ethiopia

Register for our next GBIF #DataUseClub 😍✍️ Hear about the research of the 2025 GBIF Graduate Researcher's Award winners - PhD student Kumdet Panshak Solomon (#Nigeria) and Master's student Esteban Marentes Herrera (#Colombia)! 📍 11 December 2025, 15:00-16:30 CET 🔗 gbif.link/DUC_GRA

📢 Save the dates Join @biodiversa.eu, @gbif.org @marco-bolo.bsky.social, @bioagora.eu and #AllianceForNature in Montpellier, France for the new European conference dedicated to advancing biodiversity monitoring - #BioMonWeek2026! 📅 4–8 May 2026 📍 Montpellier, France More information coming soon 👀

Searching for a spectacular writer! 🔎🪲 GBIF are seeking a contractor to support the Secretariat in producing an overview paper documenting GBIF's 25 years of operations. Deadline for proposal submissions: 📍 3 December 2025. ⚡Explore the details here:🔗 gbif.link/25-year-co...

New updates just dropped 👇 💚 #rgbif 3.8.4 New features &🐞 bug fixes 🔗 docs.ropensci.org/rg... 💙#pygbif 0.6.6 🔗 pygbif.readthedocs.i...#rgbif#pygbifStats all folks! 👋 #Rstats #python #GBIF

I'm happy to announce the going live of the Swiss Natural History Collections portal swissnatcoll.ch, a project, I had the pleasure to contribute to over the past few years. It's hosted by @gbif.org and provides open access to biological & paleontological specimen data. youtu.be/KgHyJqWjLvo?...

🔎 Curious about the new #DarwinCore public review process? Listen up! 📣 @tdwg.org are hosting informal help desk and Q&A sessions on the Darwin Core public review over the coming weeks. Register for a session in your time zone here: 🔗 www.tdwg.org/news/20...

That's a wrap 🧬 on the eDNA workshop this week! Thank you to all participants for engaging in productive discussions! This workshop was made possible by @minderoo.bsky.social 💚 @obis.org @hifmb.de #JonahVentures @dtobioflow.bsky.social @myco-microbio.bsky.social @unite-sh.bsky.social

📣 Opportunity alert! Participate in the external review of the @ipbes.net monitoring assessment The IPBES external review of the methodological assessment on monitoring biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people is open for expert review until 7 Jan 26. 💚Register🔗ipbes.net/user/register

Deep-diving eDNA-derived data 🧬 The Secretariat is hosting a three-day workshop in #Copenhagen this week along with invited experts and stakeholders to review the future GBIF eDNA roadmap.🚀 @minderoo.bsky.social

Do you find yourself wishing you had a few more technical skills in your data toolkit? 🧰 📊 Through our partnership with DataCamp, hundreds of users have enhanced their skills in areas such as SQL, R, Python, and data visualization. Want to learn more? 👀 gbif.link/datacampdo... #DCDonates

📣 Don't miss our next GBIF #DataUseClub! Hear about the incredible research of the two 2025 Graduate Researchers Award winners - PhD student Kumdet Panshak Solomon (Nigeria) and Master's student Esteban Marentes Herrera (Colombia)! 🤩 📍 11 December 2025, 15:00-16:30 CET 🔗 gbif.link/DUC_GRA

Happy, with Marie Grosjean, to present @gbif.org to 23rd meeting of the @efsa.europa.eu Scientific Network for Risk Assessment in Plant Health; excellent discussions and perspectives! www.efsa.europa.eu/en/events/23rd-meeting-efsa-scientific-network-risk-assessment-plant-health-plh-risk-assessment