Heads up Arctos! There is an Arctos outage today Friday, 16th of January 2026, from 10am CT - 3pm CT. Arctos will be conducting maintenance and updates.

During maintenance on Tuesday, September 16th from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM (CDT) Arctos will be unavailable. TACC is installing new infrastructure for stability.

This could be a great standard to integrate into museum databases @arctosdb.bsky.social

Excited for the SPNHC 2025 - Specimen Spotlight Session on Friday, May 30th? Take a special look at these Arctos partners: #SPNHC2025 #NaturalHistory

We hope to see you tomorrow morning at our SPNHC Symposium "Into the Arctos-verse: Connecting Data and Communities of Practice." There are several presentations with a discussion session at the end for all of your questions! See you there 🐻 virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/74160/...

Our partners from @oceangenomelegacy.bsky.social are participating in the Back to Basics Symposium: Museum Techniques Skillshare today at SPNHC 2025! There are two presentations to keep an extra eye out for!

Be sure to stop by the SPNHC posters to take a look and speak to one of our newer partners. The Portuguese Blue Biobank (BIOAPT) has joined the Arctos ecosystem! Poster: The Portuguese Blue Biobank is on the Arctos ecosystem - Renato Soares, Vitor Vasconcelos, Michelle Koo, Iris Sampaio

Check out this talk today during SPNHC SYM13.1 showcasing Arctos! Mutualism in museums: A 20-year perspective on training undergraduates in biodiversity science and collection management. Presented by Terri Barclay and Carol Spencer

Sneak peek at what’s here at SPNHC this week. Lots of opportunities to hear from and about Arctos collections but come find an officer for your button to wear!

⚠️ Arctos will be down on Friday 16th of May starting at 9AM CDT. Planned Maintenance needs to take place for 2 hours, and Arctos will be unavailable during this time.

Arctos is coming to SPNHC! Get ready for the Arctos-verse where you can find out about updates and how our solutions to collection management challenges. We are open to everyone, so please join us for demos and overviews of what makes Arctos special. Please see the Friday May 30 morning sessions

Heads up Arctos Community! There will be an Arctos 🚧reboot at 12:30pm Pacific time today. Save any work, and we should be down only 15-30 minutes. Follow this issue if you need help! github.com/ArctosDB/arc...

🚧 Arctos will be down on Friday April 18th from 9am - 12pm CDT for updates and backups. During this time Arctos will not be available. Please save/ backup your changes before the planned outage.

Planned Outage: 🐻 Arctos will be down for scheduled maintenance at 7:00 PDT / 9:00 CDT on Friday, March 21, 2025 for approximately 2 hours.

We're beary excited to announce our presence on BlueSky! 🐻 Follow us here, @arctosdb.bsky.social for notifications, newsletters, and other information. Moving forward, this will be our primary social media account. We look forward to continuing our engagement with the community!