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Want to be the first to learn about new datasets and use of data in GBIF? Check out @gbifmorpho.bsky.social 🦋
Want to be the first to learn about new datasets and use of data in GBIF? Check out @gbifmorpho.bsky.social 🦋
📣 Reminder: Register for the 2026 Virtual Data Mobilization Workshop for Southern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia!🐍
📍English version: Application deadline 18 September🔗gbif.link/ECA-worksh...
📍 Russian version: Application deadline 27 September 🔗gbif.link/ECA-worksh...
📍English version: Application deadline 18 September🔗gbif.link/ECA-worksh...
📍 Russian version: Application deadline 27 September 🔗gbif.link/ECA-worksh...
September 17, 2026 at 10:33 AM
📣 Reminder: Register for the 2026 Virtual Data Mobilization Workshop for Southern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia!🐍
📍English version: Application deadline 18 September🔗gbif.link/ECA-worksh...
📍 Russian version: Application deadline 27 September 🔗gbif.link/ECA-worksh...
📍English version: Application deadline 18 September🔗gbif.link/ECA-worksh...
📍 Russian version: Application deadline 27 September 🔗gbif.link/ECA-worksh...
✍️ Join our last Data Use Club event for the year: Sequence data on the new GBIF.org
This session provides an overview of using the sequence search function, including discussions of best practices for using the sequence data.
📍 19 November 09:00-10:30 CET
🔗gbif.link/DUC_sequen...
This session provides an overview of using the sequence search function, including discussions of best practices for using the sequence data.
📍 19 November 09:00-10:30 CET
🔗gbif.link/DUC_sequen...
September 15, 2026 at 8:30 AM
✍️ Join our last Data Use Club event for the year: Sequence data on the new GBIF.org
This session provides an overview of using the sequence search function, including discussions of best practices for using the sequence data.
📍 19 November 09:00-10:30 CET
🔗gbif.link/DUC_sequen...
This session provides an overview of using the sequence search function, including discussions of best practices for using the sequence data.
📍 19 November 09:00-10:30 CET
🔗gbif.link/DUC_sequen...
🥁 Announcing our 2026 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award winners:
Masters: Karen D. Sarmiento-Arias (Mexico/Colombia)
PhD: Rachel Haderlé (France)
Read about Karen's and Rachel's award-winning research here:
🔗 gbif.link/GRA-Karen
🔗 gbif.link/GRA-rachel
Masters: Karen D. Sarmiento-Arias (Mexico/Colombia)
PhD: Rachel Haderlé (France)
Read about Karen's and Rachel's award-winning research here:
🔗 gbif.link/GRA-Karen
🔗 gbif.link/GRA-rachel
September 14, 2026 at 9:30 AM
🥁 Announcing our 2026 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award winners:
Masters: Karen D. Sarmiento-Arias (Mexico/Colombia)
PhD: Rachel Haderlé (France)
Read about Karen's and Rachel's award-winning research here:
🔗 gbif.link/GRA-Karen
🔗 gbif.link/GRA-rachel
Masters: Karen D. Sarmiento-Arias (Mexico/Colombia)
PhD: Rachel Haderlé (France)
Read about Karen's and Rachel's award-winning research here:
🔗 gbif.link/GRA-Karen
🔗 gbif.link/GRA-rachel
1) 🕷️Our spidey senses are tingling 🕸️ Invasive spiders are thriving in North America, but where will they spread next?
The Jorō spider (Trichonephila clavata), an orb weaver native to Asia, was introduced to the southeastern United States around 2010 and has since rapidly expanded its range.
The Jorō spider (Trichonephila clavata), an orb weaver native to Asia, was introduced to the southeastern United States around 2010 and has since rapidly expanded its range.
September 11, 2026 at 7:30 AM
1) 🕷️Our spidey senses are tingling 🕸️ Invasive spiders are thriving in North America, but where will they spread next?
The Jorō spider (Trichonephila clavata), an orb weaver native to Asia, was introduced to the southeastern United States around 2010 and has since rapidly expanded its range.
The Jorō spider (Trichonephila clavata), an orb weaver native to Asia, was introduced to the southeastern United States around 2010 and has since rapidly expanded its range.
🌺 You won't want to miss this one! You're invited to join the GBIF Science Symposium!
The theme of the event, “From Open Data to Living Knowledge."🧬
This event is free to join in person at Universitetet i Oslo or through virtual livestream.
🔗 www.gbif.no/events/2...
@gbifnorway.bsky.social
The theme of the event, “From Open Data to Living Knowledge."🧬
This event is free to join in person at Universitetet i Oslo or through virtual livestream.
🔗 www.gbif.no/events/2...
@gbifnorway.bsky.social
September 10, 2026 at 7:50 AM
🌺 You won't want to miss this one! You're invited to join the GBIF Science Symposium!
The theme of the event, “From Open Data to Living Knowledge."🧬
This event is free to join in person at Universitetet i Oslo or through virtual livestream.
🔗 www.gbif.no/events/2...
@gbifnorway.bsky.social
The theme of the event, “From Open Data to Living Knowledge."🧬
This event is free to join in person at Universitetet i Oslo or through virtual livestream.
🔗 www.gbif.no/events/2...
@gbifnorway.bsky.social
🔎 Learn about modelling location, date and time for survey and monitoring (SAM) data in our latest data blog post!
Authored by Marie Grosjean and Kate Ingenloff, this blog is the third installment in our Good SAMaritans series.
🚀 Take a journey through space & time🔗: data-blog.gbif.org/p...
Authored by Marie Grosjean and Kate Ingenloff, this blog is the third installment in our Good SAMaritans series.
🚀 Take a journey through space & time🔗: data-blog.gbif.org/p...
September 7, 2026 at 8:30 AM
🔎 Learn about modelling location, date and time for survey and monitoring (SAM) data in our latest data blog post!
Authored by Marie Grosjean and Kate Ingenloff, this blog is the third installment in our Good SAMaritans series.
🚀 Take a journey through space & time🔗: data-blog.gbif.org/p...
Authored by Marie Grosjean and Kate Ingenloff, this blog is the third installment in our Good SAMaritans series.
🚀 Take a journey through space & time🔗: data-blog.gbif.org/p...
🧬 Deep-diving DNA in Denmark!
This week, the Secretariat and #danbif are hosting a workshop to support users and publishers in Denmark increase the visibility and reuse of their biodiversity data by publishing it through GBIF using the Metabarcoding Data Toolkit.
#NovoNordiskFoundation.
This week, the Secretariat and #danbif are hosting a workshop to support users and publishers in Denmark increase the visibility and reuse of their biodiversity data by publishing it through GBIF using the Metabarcoding Data Toolkit.
#NovoNordiskFoundation.
September 3, 2026 at 9:00 AM
🧬 Deep-diving DNA in Denmark!
This week, the Secretariat and #danbif are hosting a workshop to support users and publishers in Denmark increase the visibility and reuse of their biodiversity data by publishing it through GBIF using the Metabarcoding Data Toolkit.
#NovoNordiskFoundation.
This week, the Secretariat and #danbif are hosting a workshop to support users and publishers in Denmark increase the visibility and reuse of their biodiversity data by publishing it through GBIF using the Metabarcoding Data Toolkit.
#NovoNordiskFoundation.
1) 🐢 What tortoises taught us about speciation
A recent study of Sonoran and Mojave desert tortoises explores how species can diverge even when they still occasionally hybridize.
A recent study of Sonoran and Mojave desert tortoises explores how species can diverge even when they still occasionally hybridize.
September 2, 2026 at 9:00 AM
1) 🐢 What tortoises taught us about speciation
A recent study of Sonoran and Mojave desert tortoises explores how species can diverge even when they still occasionally hybridize.
A recent study of Sonoran and Mojave desert tortoises explores how species can diverge even when they still occasionally hybridize.
🟡 Acacia you haven't heard, it's #NationalWattleDay!
Wattles (Acacia) are the largest genus of plants in Australia. Many species are known for their iconic green and gold colours, 💚💛 but there is variation in flower colour and leaf and stem structure among Acacias.
🔗 www.gbif.org/taxon/LV7
Wattles (Acacia) are the largest genus of plants in Australia. Many species are known for their iconic green and gold colours, 💚💛 but there is variation in flower colour and leaf and stem structure among Acacias.
🔗 www.gbif.org/taxon/LV7
September 1, 2026 at 10:00 AM
🟡 Acacia you haven't heard, it's #NationalWattleDay!
Wattles (Acacia) are the largest genus of plants in Australia. Many species are known for their iconic green and gold colours, 💚💛 but there is variation in flower colour and leaf and stem structure among Acacias.
🔗 www.gbif.org/taxon/LV7
Wattles (Acacia) are the largest genus of plants in Australia. Many species are known for their iconic green and gold colours, 💚💛 but there is variation in flower colour and leaf and stem structure among Acacias.
🔗 www.gbif.org/taxon/LV7
📢 Announcement: Dataset crawling and indexing paused
Stick with us as we made a few web updates! 🕸️
Crawling and indexing of datasets is suspended from Tuesday 1 September to Friday 4 September on GBIF.org due to Elasticsearch cluster upgrades.
🔗 status.gbif.org/#
Stick with us as we made a few web updates! 🕸️
Crawling and indexing of datasets is suspended from Tuesday 1 September to Friday 4 September on GBIF.org due to Elasticsearch cluster upgrades.
🔗 status.gbif.org/#
September 1, 2026 at 7:30 AM
📢 Announcement: Dataset crawling and indexing paused
Stick with us as we made a few web updates! 🕸️
Crawling and indexing of datasets is suspended from Tuesday 1 September to Friday 4 September on GBIF.org due to Elasticsearch cluster upgrades.
🔗 status.gbif.org/#
Stick with us as we made a few web updates! 🕸️
Crawling and indexing of datasets is suspended from Tuesday 1 September to Friday 4 September on GBIF.org due to Elasticsearch cluster upgrades.
🔗 status.gbif.org/#
📣 Don't miss out on registering for the 2026 Virtual Data Mobilization Workshop for Southern Europe, Caucasus & Central Asia!
This workshop guides participants through the data mobilization workflow, including data capture, management and publishing.
📍Deadline 31 August 🔗gbif.link/ECA-worksh...
This workshop guides participants through the data mobilization workflow, including data capture, management and publishing.
📍Deadline 31 August 🔗gbif.link/ECA-worksh...
August 31, 2026 at 7:30 AM
📣 Don't miss out on registering for the 2026 Virtual Data Mobilization Workshop for Southern Europe, Caucasus & Central Asia!
This workshop guides participants through the data mobilization workflow, including data capture, management and publishing.
📍Deadline 31 August 🔗gbif.link/ECA-worksh...
This workshop guides participants through the data mobilization workflow, including data capture, management and publishing.
📍Deadline 31 August 🔗gbif.link/ECA-worksh...
1) 🦋🌎 Although >7.8 million records about biodiversity in Belize are currently available through GBIF, <1% represent insects.
To bridge this gap, an EU-funded BID project led by University of Belize Environmental Research Institute is mobilizing fruit-feeding butterfly occurrence records.
To bridge this gap, an EU-funded BID project led by University of Belize Environmental Research Institute is mobilizing fruit-feeding butterfly occurrence records.
August 28, 2026 at 7:30 AM
1) 🦋🌎 Although >7.8 million records about biodiversity in Belize are currently available through GBIF, <1% represent insects.
To bridge this gap, an EU-funded BID project led by University of Belize Environmental Research Institute is mobilizing fruit-feeding butterfly occurrence records.
To bridge this gap, an EU-funded BID project led by University of Belize Environmental Research Institute is mobilizing fruit-feeding butterfly occurrence records.
1) 💧 Oh the hue-manatee!
A new initiative is bringing together decades of manatee records from universities, NGOs and government agencies across South America and Mexico, helping fill critical gaps in open access data records.
A new initiative is bringing together decades of manatee records from universities, NGOs and government agencies across South America and Mexico, helping fill critical gaps in open access data records.
August 26, 2026 at 7:35 AM
1) 💧 Oh the hue-manatee!
A new initiative is bringing together decades of manatee records from universities, NGOs and government agencies across South America and Mexico, helping fill critical gaps in open access data records.
A new initiative is bringing together decades of manatee records from universities, NGOs and government agencies across South America and Mexico, helping fill critical gaps in open access data records.
🌿 How can open biodiversity data support achieving land degradation neutrality (LDN)?
Kyle Copas will discuss this topic fellow alongside panelists at a Green Zone event at #UNCCDCOP17.
📍 Aug 26, 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM, Green Zone 💚
@unccd.bsky.social #UNCCD #COP17Mongolia
Kyle Copas will discuss this topic fellow alongside panelists at a Green Zone event at #UNCCDCOP17.
📍 Aug 26, 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM, Green Zone 💚
@unccd.bsky.social #UNCCD #COP17Mongolia
August 25, 2026 at 7:30 AM
🌿 How can open biodiversity data support achieving land degradation neutrality (LDN)?
Kyle Copas will discuss this topic fellow alongside panelists at a Green Zone event at #UNCCDCOP17.
📍 Aug 26, 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM, Green Zone 💚
@unccd.bsky.social #UNCCD #COP17Mongolia
Kyle Copas will discuss this topic fellow alongside panelists at a Green Zone event at #UNCCDCOP17.
📍 Aug 26, 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM, Green Zone 💚
@unccd.bsky.social #UNCCD #COP17Mongolia
Last chance to register for the GBIF Data Use Club webinar tomorrow!
👀 Topic: The new and improved GBIF.org!
📍 25 August, 09:00–10:30 CET CEST
🎤 Incredible speakers: Esteban Marentes, Marie Grosjean & Kate Ingenloff
👉 Register: 🔗gbif.link/DUC_new-GBIF
👀 Topic: The new and improved GBIF.org!
📍 25 August, 09:00–10:30 CET CEST
🎤 Incredible speakers: Esteban Marentes, Marie Grosjean & Kate Ingenloff
👉 Register: 🔗gbif.link/DUC_new-GBIF
August 24, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Last chance to register for the GBIF Data Use Club webinar tomorrow!
👀 Topic: The new and improved GBIF.org!
📍 25 August, 09:00–10:30 CET CEST
🎤 Incredible speakers: Esteban Marentes, Marie Grosjean & Kate Ingenloff
👉 Register: 🔗gbif.link/DUC_new-GBIF
👀 Topic: The new and improved GBIF.org!
📍 25 August, 09:00–10:30 CET CEST
🎤 Incredible speakers: Esteban Marentes, Marie Grosjean & Kate Ingenloff
👉 Register: 🔗gbif.link/DUC_new-GBIF
📣 Announcing the 2026 Virtual Data Mobilization Workshop for Southern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia!
Workshop skills include data mobilization workflow, data capture, management and publishing.
📍English version: Application deadline 31 August 🔗gbif.link/ECA-worksh...
Workshop skills include data mobilization workflow, data capture, management and publishing.
📍English version: Application deadline 31 August 🔗gbif.link/ECA-worksh...
August 24, 2026 at 10:00 AM
📣 Announcing the 2026 Virtual Data Mobilization Workshop for Southern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia!
Workshop skills include data mobilization workflow, data capture, management and publishing.
📍English version: Application deadline 31 August 🔗gbif.link/ECA-worksh...
Workshop skills include data mobilization workflow, data capture, management and publishing.
📍English version: Application deadline 31 August 🔗gbif.link/ECA-worksh...
🗻 The Hindu Kush Himalayan Biodiversity Information Facility (HKHBIF) has launched a GBIF hosted portal! 🥳
Hosted by ICIMOD the HKHBIF portal brings together critical biodiversity information for Asian mountain ecosystems.
🔗gbif.link/HKHBIF
Hosted by ICIMOD the HKHBIF portal brings together critical biodiversity information for Asian mountain ecosystems.
🔗gbif.link/HKHBIF
August 24, 2026 at 7:35 AM
🗻 The Hindu Kush Himalayan Biodiversity Information Facility (HKHBIF) has launched a GBIF hosted portal! 🥳
Hosted by ICIMOD the HKHBIF portal brings together critical biodiversity information for Asian mountain ecosystems.
🔗gbif.link/HKHBIF
Hosted by ICIMOD the HKHBIF portal brings together critical biodiversity information for Asian mountain ecosystems.
🔗gbif.link/HKHBIF
Now that GBIF is an officially accredited observer of the #UNCCD, we're joining #COP17Mongolia!
Catch the event hosted by Kyle Copas Copas and GBIF Mongolia: Biodiversity data to support desertification research and policy. 🌵
Learn more:🔗 www.gbif.org/event/b...
#UNCCDCOP17
Catch the event hosted by Kyle Copas Copas and GBIF Mongolia: Biodiversity data to support desertification research and policy. 🌵
Learn more:🔗 www.gbif.org/event/b...
#UNCCDCOP17
August 21, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Now that GBIF is an officially accredited observer of the #UNCCD, we're joining #COP17Mongolia!
Catch the event hosted by Kyle Copas Copas and GBIF Mongolia: Biodiversity data to support desertification research and policy. 🌵
Learn more:🔗 www.gbif.org/event/b...
#UNCCDCOP17
Catch the event hosted by Kyle Copas Copas and GBIF Mongolia: Biodiversity data to support desertification research and policy. 🌵
Learn more:🔗 www.gbif.org/event/b...
#UNCCDCOP17
We're breaking free (of our old taxonomy)! 🪁
The newest version of rgbif (3.9.0) is planned to be release to #CRAN the end of September and introduces a number of breaking changes as GBIF's default taxonomy moves to the Catalogue of Life Extended Release.
Learn more:🔗data-blog.gbif.org/p...
The newest version of rgbif (3.9.0) is planned to be release to #CRAN the end of September and introduces a number of breaking changes as GBIF's default taxonomy moves to the Catalogue of Life Extended Release.
Learn more:🔗data-blog.gbif.org/p...
August 20, 2026 at 1:20 PM
We're breaking free (of our old taxonomy)! 🪁
The newest version of rgbif (3.9.0) is planned to be release to #CRAN the end of September and introduces a number of breaking changes as GBIF's default taxonomy moves to the Catalogue of Life Extended Release.
Learn more:🔗data-blog.gbif.org/p...
The newest version of rgbif (3.9.0) is planned to be release to #CRAN the end of September and introduces a number of breaking changes as GBIF's default taxonomy moves to the Catalogue of Life Extended Release.
Learn more:🔗data-blog.gbif.org/p...
1) 🔥 How will changing fire regimes reshape savannah vegetation?
A recent study uses 1,145 GBIF-mediated species occurrences to explore how woody plants in Brazil’s Cerrado respond to changing fire frequency, intensity and severity.
A recent study uses 1,145 GBIF-mediated species occurrences to explore how woody plants in Brazil’s Cerrado respond to changing fire frequency, intensity and severity.
August 20, 2026 at 9:55 AM
1) 🔥 How will changing fire regimes reshape savannah vegetation?
A recent study uses 1,145 GBIF-mediated species occurrences to explore how woody plants in Brazil’s Cerrado respond to changing fire frequency, intensity and severity.
A recent study uses 1,145 GBIF-mediated species occurrences to explore how woody plants in Brazil’s Cerrado respond to changing fire frequency, intensity and severity.
GBIF has been officially accredited as an observer to the #UNConventionToCombatDesertification! 🥳 This allows GBIF to participate in key activities and initiatives of the convention and coordinate efforts to respond to UNCCD's global challenges and national needs.🐫
🔗 https://gbif.link/UNCCD
🔗 https://gbif.link/UNCCD
August 19, 2026 at 7:40 AM
GBIF has been officially accredited as an observer to the #UNConventionToCombatDesertification! 🥳 This allows GBIF to participate in key activities and initiatives of the convention and coordinate efforts to respond to UNCCD's global challenges and national needs.🐫
🔗 https://gbif.link/UNCCD
🔗 https://gbif.link/UNCCD
🧬 Sequence search is now available on GBIF.org! 🎉
This new feature allows users to search for nucleotide (DNA or RNA) sequences to discover occurrence records not only through names but also genetic sequences. 🔍
Learn more:🔗gbif.link/sequence-s...
This new feature allows users to search for nucleotide (DNA or RNA) sequences to discover occurrence records not only through names but also genetic sequences. 🔍
Learn more:🔗gbif.link/sequence-s...
August 18, 2026 at 7:30 AM
🧬 Sequence search is now available on GBIF.org! 🎉
This new feature allows users to search for nucleotide (DNA or RNA) sequences to discover occurrence records not only through names but also genetic sequences. 🔍
Learn more:🔗gbif.link/sequence-s...
This new feature allows users to search for nucleotide (DNA or RNA) sequences to discover occurrence records not only through names but also genetic sequences. 🔍
Learn more:🔗gbif.link/sequence-s...
📣 Register for our next Data Use Club covering the new and improved GBIF.org!
This session provides a practical demonstration of some of the updates and new features of the recently refreshed GBIF.org website.
📍 25 August 09:00 CEST
👉 Register: 🔗gbif.link/DUC_new-GBIF
This session provides a practical demonstration of some of the updates and new features of the recently refreshed GBIF.org website.
📍 25 August 09:00 CEST
👉 Register: 🔗gbif.link/DUC_new-GBIF
August 17, 2026 at 7:30 AM
📣 Register for our next Data Use Club covering the new and improved GBIF.org!
This session provides a practical demonstration of some of the updates and new features of the recently refreshed GBIF.org website.
📍 25 August 09:00 CEST
👉 Register: 🔗gbif.link/DUC_new-GBIF
This session provides a practical demonstration of some of the updates and new features of the recently refreshed GBIF.org website.
📍 25 August 09:00 CEST
👉 Register: 🔗gbif.link/DUC_new-GBIF
🦋 Our latest GBIF #DataBlog post authored by Marie Grosjean and Kate Ingenloff has just launched! This post is the second in the series about survey and monitoring (SAM) data, focusing on reporting in surveys.
Check it out: 🔗data-blog.gbif.org/p...
Check it out: 🔗data-blog.gbif.org/p...
August 14, 2026 at 7:30 AM
🦋 Our latest GBIF #DataBlog post authored by Marie Grosjean and Kate Ingenloff has just launched! This post is the second in the series about survey and monitoring (SAM) data, focusing on reporting in surveys.
Check it out: 🔗data-blog.gbif.org/p...
Check it out: 🔗data-blog.gbif.org/p...
1) 🐺 Hungry like the wolf: Mitigating Mexican wolf and livestock conflict
A recent study on endangered Mexican wolves found that diversionary feeding reduced livestock depredation by more than 40% in the three months after food was provided to wolf packs.
A recent study on endangered Mexican wolves found that diversionary feeding reduced livestock depredation by more than 40% in the three months after food was provided to wolf packs.
August 13, 2026 at 7:40 AM
1) 🐺 Hungry like the wolf: Mitigating Mexican wolf and livestock conflict
A recent study on endangered Mexican wolves found that diversionary feeding reduced livestock depredation by more than 40% in the three months after food was provided to wolf packs.
A recent study on endangered Mexican wolves found that diversionary feeding reduced livestock depredation by more than 40% in the three months after food was provided to wolf packs.