CSUN Researchers Call for Public’s Help in Documenting Joshua Trees’ Surprise Out-of-Season Bloom 🌿 newsroom.csun.edu/2025/12/16/c...

All you need to help make identifications on iNaturalist is a computer! Join our first-ever ID-a-thon and build your nature-identification skills — this week, we'd love your help sorting Unknown observations into broad categories. Learn more: tr.ee/identifyweek1

📢 45 extended #conference #abstracts already made publicly & permanently available in the #LivingData2025 conference collection in our #journal! 💡Browse them by session to revisit the 2025 joint event by @tdwg.org, @gbif.org, @obis.org & @geobon.org! biss.pensoft.net/collection/5... 🔓

From Fierce felines to Dueling Dinos and some of the most spectacular minerals ever Unearthed, there’s so much to see this season!  🐾 Spend your 𝙥𝙖𝙬lidays with us! Plan your visit today: NHM.org

This is unusual, but it's not unheard of! There was a late-season bloom in and around Joshua Tree National Park in 2018/2019. A study by a team including @vijaybarve.bsky.social analyzed iNaturalist records and concluded it was cued by an unusually cool, wet fall doi.org/10.1038/s415...

India is one of the most biodiverse & unique countries on Earth, with high levels of endemism & evolutionary distinctiveness, yet its biodiversity is still poorly understood. It is important to make biodiversity research available to all, starting with collections 👇 🌍

PhD student Kumdet Panshak Solomon of #Nigeria has been named as a 2025 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award winner! 🥳 🐦 Panshak’s research advances biodiversity informatics in West Africa by leveraging GBIF-mediated data collected through BirdPlus 📲 🔗: gbif.link/GRA_panshak

Master's student Esteban Marentes of #Colombia has been named as a GBIF Graduate Researcher's Award winner! ⭐ 🪲Esteban’s research focuses on using machine learning models to predict beetle species diversity across Colombia’s Antioquia province. 🌎 🔗: gbif.link/GRA_esteban

Branching out, one buddy group at a time 🌱💡 At the Global Nodes Training, collaboration grows when knowledge takes root 🌳 Featuring 📷 group highlights from the past days #Bogotá #Colombia #SiBColombia

🌊 Seas the day! Today at #LivingData2025 GBIF and @obis.org renewed their Joint Strategy for Marine Biodiversity Data which enhances collaboration between OBIS and GBIF nodes and facilitates opportunities for training and aligned documentation.

💪Train today, mobilize data tomorrow ⚡ Delegates from around the world at the Global Nodes Training are participating in modules organized by the GBIF Community and Capacity team and led by subject-matter expert trainers. #Bogotá #Colombia

We are thrilled to announce that the data gathered during the Bisle Frog Watch from 2012 till 2025 has been published on @gbif.org The Global Biodiversity Information Facility! Thanks to @vijaybarve.bsky.social for making this happen & Bharata for organising it all. See www.gbif.org/dataset/db53...

New paper alert! Worked with an incredible group of scientists across fields on this vision for much needed investment in Indian natural history collections: Linking eras and data: natural history collections as the foundation of India’s biodiversity science url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

Northern Cardinals in #Gainesville, #Florida today.

Pesticide residues found in butterflies during the 2024 western Monarch population crash.

The Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) is a common resident throughout the Eastern United States and one of the most frequent encounters here in #Gainesville, #Florida. myencounterswithnature.blogspot.com/2025/07/caro...

🍌 These slugs are a pretty big deal (literally and figuratively)! Just in time for Snail Search 2025, California finally has a state slug: 𝘼𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙭, a.k.a. the banana slug. bit.ly/CAStateSlug

Please share. We are #hiring #PhD students to work on #citizen #science, #insect #migration, or #insect #conservation. If interested, please email me. You can find more about our research interests and contact information here. shawanchowdhury.com.

⏰ There's still time to register for our upcoming #DataUseClub practical session - Data standards & processing! 📍 Wed 12 Feb 2025 15:00-16:30 CET (this event will be recorded). 🔗 gbif.link/datauseclu...#DataUseClub #Biodiversity #Data #FreeEvent

Do you think butterflies are beautiful? You can help researchers at the University of Florence understand why by taking this online quiz. It only takes a few minutes. Thanks in advance www.unveiling.eu/en_US/

I think this is the first ever iNaturalist based bioblitz to be held in Sri Lanka. Diyasaru Park is on the east side of Diyawanna Lake. As a child I knew the area on the opposite side that was converted into the Beddagana Wetland Park. www.inaturalist.org/projects/cit...

Registrations are open for our next Data Use Club practical session - Data standards & processing! 📍 Wed 12 Feb 2025 15:00-16:30 CET. This event will be recorded. 🔗 gbif.link/datauseclu... #DataUseClub #GBIF #Biodiversity #Data #FreeEvent

Hearing from @er1ngrady.bsky.social, science grad student as part of @inaturalist.bsky.social event today. We will hear from @vijaybarve.bsky.social + Jeremy Yoder. (archive will be on youtube here ) Phenology is the timing of #seasonal changes in plants and animals www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZGp...

Register for this @inaturalist.bsky.social webinar next Wednesday to learn about annotating phenophase— buds, flowers, or fruits on a plant you're observing with the app— and how researchers use that data, with examples from @vijaybarve.bsky.social and me! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Publication!🚨@zookeys.pensoft.net published an 167-page guide to marine isopods in the Southern CA Bight. This paper covers 190 species of isopods & is an organized biodiversity resource that will allow for scientists to better monitor the SCB. @nhmla.bsky.social zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1003...

Sea stars are excellent at regenerating. Most can grow back a lost arm, & some species can grow an entire body back from a severed arm! ⭐️ But even these stars of regrowth make mistakes. Regeneration errors cause some individuals to have 1 too many or 1 too few arms. @myfwc.bsky.social

To avoid males as much as possible, female Rocky Mountain Parnassians don’t fly much. Instead, they spend most of their time running around on the ground! Douglas County, Colorado, USA

Going to other clubs: 😵😒🍹 Going to GBIF clubs: 😎💚🧬#DataUseClub Registrations are open for our next Data Use Club practical session - Data standards & processing! 📍 Wed 12 Feb 2025 15:00-16:30 CET. This event will be recorded. 🔗 gbif.link/datauseclu...#DataUseClub #FreeEvent #Webinar #Biodiversity

🔎🌱 Are you a #biodiversity data holder located in Asia? The GBIF Asia Regional Support Team is hosting a virtual #DataMobilization workshop in February 2025 📍 to support capacity needs and to promote data publication across the #Asia region! Registrations are open! 🔗gbif.link/2025-asia-...#biodiversity

I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the University of Dayton (Fall 2025) to study the evo-devo of tadpoles! More info here: evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

News flash! ⚡ Four new projects have been selected to receive funding under the GBIF 2024 Capacity and Enhancement Support Programme (CESP)! 🐍 Sssssee more here: 🔗https://gbif.link/2024-cesp #Biodiversity #DataMobilization #NewsItem #GBIF

👩‍💻📊 Join us for #12DaysOfData as we re-cap stats highlights from the year! Starting off with the total amount of occurrence records accessible through GBIF (to date)! 2024 was an exciting year as we ticked over 3 billion records! 🤯 🔗: gbif.org

Check out the mantis shrimp🦐✨ It's actually not a shrimp, but a stomatopod with impressive raptorial claws that deliver punches at speeds of 10 m/s — one of the fastest movements in the animal kingdom. This strike is so fast, it can even boil water! #FunFactFriday

Interesting use of eDNA to monitor marine biodiversity #citizenscience dashboard.ednaexpeditions.org

Powdered Oakblue (Arhopala bazalus ssp. turbata) #Okinawa #Japan Dozens encountered during September 2024. #Butterflies #Lepidoptera

Why DigIn? The marine biome is the LARGEST but LEAST KNOWN biome on earth. Invertebrates make up about 75% of marine species but most specimens are essentially invisible outside of museum collections. DigIn is adding data from 7.5 MILLION specimens to online portals. #digitization #naturalhistory

Lesser Grass Blue (Zizina otis) #Okinawa #Japan Frequently encountered during September 2024. #Butterflies #Lepidoptera

California Tortoiseshell (Nymphalis californica) @boisestate.bsky.social #Idaho #USA This was the the most common butterfly I encountered during my two day visit in late September 2024. #Butterflies #Lepidoptera

Marine Blue (Leptotes marina) caterpillar being attended by Argentine Ant (Linepithema humile) at @nhmla.bsky.social Nature Garden, #California #USA #Butterflies #Lepidoptera #Ants #BioticAssociation

Reakirt's Blue (Echinargus isola) from @nhmla.bsky.social Nature Garden, #California #USA Not very common visitor. #Butterflies #Lepidoptera

Marine Blue (Leptotes marina) from @nhmla.bsky.social Nature Garden, #California #USA One of the most common visitor. #Butterflies #Lepidoptera

🦕 Dinosaurs are hardly ever found in their entirety, and Gnatalie is no exception. Learn about the 150-million-year journey from the Jurassic to Exposition Park with @latimes.com: bit.ly/JrscJrny

We are far from conserving migratory butterflies. Our new paper shows that current protected areas are inadequate for 👉84% of migratory butterfly species in at least one season 👉45% of species in all seasons. (1/7) doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

An interesting exploration: From Keynote in Brisbane Australia to Rye, Arizona via a Wikipedia enabled rabbit hole cogdogblog.com/2024/12/keyn... @siobhanleachman.bsky.social

Sapsuckers are, without a doubt, my favorite birds! They drill these elaborate sap wells, which attract lots of insects... Here is a Red-naped Sapsucker hard at work, with some insects that came to her wells- Mourning Cloak, Red Admiral, Satyr Anglewing, plus Honey Bees and Bald-faced Hornets.

A thread of Katydids from the Northern Territory! LETS DO IT!! 🥳💚 First off, is my absolute FAVOURITE! Built like a tank, Armadillagraecia mataranka is found during the wet seasons feeding on tall grass in savannas! 🌱

Common Mormon Swallowtail (Papilio polytes) encounter in #Okinawa, #Japan. Just got lucky with this in flight capture. #butterflies #Lepidoptera #Swallowtails

For #EYAAnimal we present these beautiful paintings of South Indian birds. Painted on sheets of mica and mounted into an album, the colours are as vibrant as when they were painted in the 1850s. #EYA #ExploreYourArchives #EYAAnimal #Animal