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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 🦋
💚 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
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
⚡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
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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...
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🎉 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
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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
November 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
📢 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 👀
November 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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...
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
New updates just dropped 👇

💚 #rgbif 3.8.4
New features &🐞 bug fixes
🔗 docs.ropensci.org/rg...

💙#pygbif 0.6.6
🔗 pygbif.readthedocs.i...

Stats all folks! 👋

#Rstats #python #GBIF
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Reposted by 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?...
Swiss natural history collections network (SwissCollNet)
YouTube video by Swiss Academy of Sciences SCNAT
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
🔎 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...
November 17, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
📣 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
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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
November 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
📣 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
November 6, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Reposted by GBIF
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
November 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
🎨 New research reveals that New Zealand's truffle-like fungi (TLF) are uniquely vibrant compared to their global counterparts. 🍄

While most TLF are dull-coloured, many NZ species are vibrant and grow above ground, 🌈 suggesting adaptations for bird-mediated dispersal.🐦

🔗gbif.link/data-use-t...
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🌍 #MiCoDa hosts >30,000 processed 16S rRNA amplicon samples from aquatic, host-associated and mineral environments globally, making it the largest available human-curated microbiome database! 🤯

It was made available on GBIF using the Metabarcoding Data Toolkit! !🧬

gbif.link/MiCoDa
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Last days to get your concept notes submitted for the 2025 round of the #EuropeanUnion-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme for Sub-Saharan African countries.

⏰Deadline: 3 November 2025, 15:59 CET (UTC+1)

Read more:🔗 gbif.link/BID-Africa

#BIDAfrica #Biodiversity
November 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
👻 Enter if you dare....explore the terrifying world of GBIF where you can find some truly creepy curiosities! 👀

#Halloween

Drop your biodiversity nightmare below 👇
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Catch-up on the outcomes of the 32nd meeting of the GBIF Governing Board in our latest news item! 🤩

🔗 https://gbif.link/GB32

Big thank you to SiB Colombia for hosting this year's meeting!

See you in #Oslo next year for GB33 and @tdwg.org 2026! 💚💙
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
🚀 Today @efsa.europa.eu and @ecdc.europa.eu are launching the VectorNet Data Portal which uses GBIF Hosted Portal infrastructure!

This portal supports increased discovery, access and appropriate use of data on vector occurrences in Europe! 🦟

🔗gbif.link/vectornet
October 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
That's a wrap on #DatosVivos2025! 💃

We're grateful for our co-organizers @tdwg.org @obis.org @geobon.org, #InstitutoHumboldt and every attendee and presenter who made this first-of-its-kind event such a success!

Lots of love from Team GBIF 💚
#Colombia #Bogotá #SiB-Colombia #LivingData2025
October 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🌊 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.
October 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Got plans tonight after #LivingData2025 sessions? Now you do! 🥳

Join members of the Indigenous Data Task Group and other community members interested in or working on Indigenous data governance and sovereignty for a social night! 😍

📍18:30–20:00 tonight in the Gallery Room of the Grand Hyatt
October 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM