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GBIF @gbif.org · 20h

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

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GBIF @gbif.org · 20h

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

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GBIF @gbif.org · 1d

🐸 2 week to go until #LivingData2025!

Have you started packing for your trip to #Colombia yet?

See the activities page for inspo on making the most out of your trip to #Bogotá: www.livingdata2025.c...

#DatosVivos2025 @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org #InstitutoHumboldt

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GBIF @gbif.org · 2d

Trying to blend in? 😶‍🌫️ Bots stand out! 🤖

We have introduced a "challenge page" to protect GBIF services (like occurrence pages) from data scraping that may cause unreasonable loads on our systems.

No action is required, but if you see a page that's bare-ly there, 🐻 now you know why!

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GBIF @gbif.org · 5d

🌳 A recent project led by Svetlana Miteva & Dennis Wansink mobilized 1,441,356 biodiversity records in the Balkans, representing +89% increase of records for the region on GBIF! ⭐

The project was supported by Dimitri Brosens & @nlbif.bsky.social 💚

gbif.link/balkans_data

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GBIF @gbif.org · 6d

There's still time to register for the question and answers session for the Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme for Africa!

📍7 October 2025 13:00 - 14:00 CEST

Register: gbif.link/BID_Africa_QA

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GBIF @gbif.org · 7d

📣The next virtual data mobilization workshop for Asia has been announced for December 2025!

🌏Join the GBIF Asia Support Team for a workshop based on the GBIF Biodiversity Data Mobilization curriculum.

Applications are limited to 30 spaces and close 1 Nov

🔗 gbif.link/Asia-workshop

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GBIF @gbif.org · 8d

⏰ 3 weeks to go until #LivingData2025!

The presentation deadline has been extended to 14 October 🎉

👉If you're a presenter, check inbox for further instructions! ✉️

See you in Bogotá or online! 🌍✨

#DatosVivos2025 @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org #InstitutoHumboldt

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GBIF @gbif.org · 8d

GBIF currently speaks 12 languages!

🗣️ This is thanks to amazing volunteers like Julia (#GBIFPoland) who led translation events with students, adding 80k+ Polish words to GBIF, and Jiří (#CzechRepublic) who single-handedly translated 133k+ words to Czech!

Inspired? gbif.link/gbif-volun...

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GBIF @gbif.org · 8d

Congratulations!! 😍👏

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Portal de Biodiversidad de Guatemala 🇬🇹 @guatemalaportal.bsky.social · 9d

Este mes de aniversario superamos los 50mil registros compartidos en #GBIF desde el Portal de Biodiversidad. Los últimos especímenes digitalizados por el Herbario USCG CECON, junto a registros de 30 colecciones de 🇬🇹, hicieron esto posible. ➡️ tinyurl.com/portalgbif (Happy birthday @gbif.org! 🥳).

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GBIF @gbif.org · 9d

🎂 Happy 24th birthday to us! 🥳

This month we're celebrating our 24 years of the Global Biodiversity information Facility, 💚 but did you know that we almost weren't called GBIF?

Take a brief look at some of GBIF's fascinating history 👀

Big thank you to Steve Young for sharing his knowledge!

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GBIF @gbif.org · 12d

❤️ Have you shared your perspectives on the survey led by the GBIF #TaskGroup on Indigenous data governance?

This week, task group chair @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social shared initial results of the survey at the Living Data, Living Lands event at #ClimateWeekNYC.

🔗gbif.link/Indigenous...

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GBIF @gbif.org · 13d

Thinking about applying for the 2025 round of the Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme for Africa?

Come along to our Q&A session to have all your questions answered by the GBIF Secretariat!

📍7 October 2025 13:00 - 14:00 CEST

Register: gbif.link/BID_Africa_QA

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GBIF @gbif.org · 14d

🐍 Scaling up biodiversity data access ✨#VertNet launches a GBIF hosted portal!

Run by a dedicated volunteer network, VertNet plays a vital role in mobilizing biodiversity datasets worldwide. 🌍

🔗 Explore the new portal: gbif.link/VertNet

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GBIF @gbif.org · 15d

🌱 This week GBIF Executive Secretary Joe Miller joined global leaders at #G20SouthAfrica.

📸 Pictured is Joe presenting the Biodiversity Information for Sustainable Development deliverables for the G20 Research and Innovation Ministerial in #Pretoria.

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GBIF @gbif.org · 15d

The GBIF Guide for Publishing Biological Survey Data has been released! 📊✨

This guide supports ecologists, monitoring professionals and data managers publish survey data to GBIF using the Darwin Core standard and FAIR data principles.

🔎 gbif.link/SAM_guide

@heathnecologist.bsky.social

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GBIF @gbif.org · 15d

🦀 Don't forget to join the GBIF #DataUseClub session TODAY!

📍 23 September 2025 15:00 - 16:30 CEST

Join Matt Blissett and John Waller from the Secretariat for our next Data Use Club practical session: Making occurrence maps. 🗺️

🔗 gbif.link/DUC_mapping

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Kyle Copas @kylecopas.bsky.social · 18d

Convenient development at @gbif.org as I pack for a flight Lenapehoking and #ClimateWeekNYC.

Not much time left to cram, though, so maybe stick to the highlights:
www.gbif.org/resource/sea...

Screenshot of landing page highlighting the more than 3,000 peer-reviewed research articles that use data from the GBIF network. Text reads: "Biodiversity loss and climate change interact in many ways, reflecting two sides of the same problem: humanity’s unsustainable relationship with the natural world. Explore the research relying on data from the GBIF network to understand and assess the growing impact that changing temperatures, precipitation and other climate-related phenomena are having on biodiversity."

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GBIF @gbif.org · 16d

Let's talk a-bao-t data! 🥟

GBIF Head of Communications @kylecopas.bsky.social is presenting in at #ClimateWeekNYC alongside Lisett Luik and Peter Ward in a unique session hosted by Alex Logan called "Data and Dumplings" 🐙 in Lenapehoking (aka New York City).

Register: luma.com/lt9ss2t6

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GBIF @gbif.org · 19d

📸🌱 Snap to it! New dataset documents carnivorous plants across 250 sites in Taiwan and Kinmen Island.

🔎 Surveys aimed to assess species from the Droseraceae and Lentibulariaceae families.

This dataset was mobilized with the support of #TaiBIF! 💚

🔗 gbif.link/carnivorou...

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EFSA Plants @efsa-plants.bsky.social · 20d

@gbif.org #NowPresenting at the the 135th EFSA Plant Health [email protected] #NowPresenting. The next effort will be on #Agrobiodiversity

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GBIF @gbif.org · 20d

🚨Have your say on the new conceptual model and Data Package Guide for #DarwinCore

The @tdwg.org Darwin Core Maintenance Group has opened a 90-day public review and comment period for the new conceptual model and Data Package Guide.

🗓️ 17 September – 16 December 2025
🔗 www.tdwg.org/news/20...

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GBIF @gbif.org · 21d

🌱 This week GBIF Executive Secretary Joe Miller presented at the @biodiversa.eu+ Midterm Conference.

The event marks the midpoint of Biodiversa+ and brings together partners, stakeholders and the European Commission to reflect on progress and co-design the road ahead. 🌍

@nlbif.bsky.social

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GBIF @gbif.org · 21d

Why register for #LivingData2025?

🌎 Connect with leading biodiversity experts from across the globe
🚀 Join 97 inspiring sessions designed for discussion and collaboration + 100 other reasons!

👉 www.livingdata2025.c...

#DatosVivos2025 @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org #InstitutoHumboldt

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