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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 🦋
Last chance to register!

🤔 Have questions about the European Commission-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) regional and cross-regional call?

📅 Register for the open Q&A session

📍 13 Jan 26, 09:30-10:30 & 15:30-16:30 (UTC+1) (two availabilities)

🔗 gbif.link/BID_QandA
January 13, 2026 at 5:30 AM
🐦 #CitizenScience supports improved invasive species detection

A recent study compared 200M+ citsci records accessed via GBIF with official data from 30 European countries and found that 50% of invasions were detected earlier or in the same year by citsci.

🔗 gbif.link/citsci_IAS

#DataUse
January 12, 2026 at 9:00 AM
🌍 Digital Sequence Information (DSI)

Under the #UnitedNations Convention on Biological Diversity, a study is examining tools and platforms to support transparent and equitable benefit-sharing from the use of DSI on genetic resources.
✍️ Share your views in this survey: 🔗 gbif.link/CBD-survey
January 9, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Have you herd? 🦓 We've just published the GBIF quarterly global and country analytics reports!

Explore dazzling data ✨such as occurrence records by taxa, time and seasonality trends, completeness and precision metrics, data sharing trends by country and more!

🔗 www.gbif.org/analyti...
January 7, 2026 at 8:45 AM
We currently have TWO open positions within the GBIF Secretariat!

🐙 Senior software data enginee within the Engineering team 🔗gbif.link/senior-dat...
📍Applications close 9 Jan 2026

🦭 Data administrator within the Data Products team
🔗 gbif.link/data-admin...
📍Applications close 13 Jan 2026
January 6, 2026 at 8:15 AM
🤔 Have questions about the European Commission-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) regional and cross-regional call?

📅 Register for the open Q&A session on 13 January 2026 (with two sessions available).

📍 13 Jan 26, 09:30-10:30 & 15:30-16:30 (UTC+1)

🔗 gbif.link/BID_QandA
January 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Feeling fabulous stepping into 2026! ✨💃

Fresh from New Year's, we're excited for what's to come in 2026! 👀

📲 Stay up to date with all the latest GBIF news across our social channels (Facebook, LinkedIn, Mastodon and Bluesky) and receive our newsletter here: 🔗 gbif.link/subscribe
January 2, 2026 at 8:30 AM
🐨 2025 has been a big one! We’ll be taking a short break to rest, reflect and recharge 💚

Thank you to our amazing GBIF community including nodes, data publishers, data users, volunteers, committee members and staff for an incredible year. Here’s to an exciting 2026 ahead! ⭐
December 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Documenting the roots 🌺 of Arctic biogeography

The Vascular Plants from Eirik Raude's Land dataset is now available on GBIF, documenting >5,000 plant observations in Greenland from the 1930s.

Data was published through the #DanBIF IPT💚

🔗 gbif.link/plants-of-...
December 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
(1) 📣 Shout out to Symbiota Support Hub (SSH)!

SSH has been a GBIF #Node since 2022 and supports more than 1,900 biological collections using #Symbiota software to manage and publish Darwin Core-aligned data to GBIF. 💻
December 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
📣 The official @tdwg.org Darwin Core public review has been extended until 16 January for community input!

⚡ Get involved! All community members are encouraged to participate.

🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...
December 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🤔 Have questions about the European Commission-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) regional and cross-regional call?

📅 Register for the open Q&A session on 13 January 2026 from 09:30-10:30 (UTC+1) to raise any questions about BID programme.

🔗 gbif.link/BID_QandA
December 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🚀 We're on the lookout for a temporary data administrator to join the Data Products team within in the GBIF Secretariat managing all aspects of data processing and data content!

❄️ Deadline: 13 January 2026

🔗 gbif.link/data-admin...

Note this role is located in Denmark
December 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
(1) 🍄 A newly mobilized macrofungi dataset offers fresh insight into fungal diversity in Kenya! 🤩

Compiled by East African Wild Life Society and National Museums of Kenya the dataset documents macrofungi occurrences in the Lake Ol’Bolossat ecosystem.
December 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🐙 The GBIF Secretariat is seeking a senior data engineer to work with our Engineering team!

🌏 This is a fully remote contractor role, initially for twelve months, with potential travel to workshops or meetings with GBIF partners.

🚀 Deadline: 9 January 2026

🔗gbif.link/senior-dat...
December 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🐆 Call for proposals for the @ec.europa.eu-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme is OPEN!

Regional & cross-regional projects in #SubSaharanAfrica, #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean or the #Pacific are invited.

Call: gbif.link/BID-region...

FAQs: gbif.link/BID-FAQs
December 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
There's still time to register for the GBIF #DataUseClub session TODAY! 🦎

Hear from the two 2025 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award winners - PhD student Kumdet Panshak Solomon and Master's student Esteban Marentes Herrera!

📍 11 December 2025, 15:00-16:30 CET

🔗 gbif.link/DUC_GRA
December 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
News splash! 💦 🐟 GBIF data use surges globally, powering more than 12,000 studies across 180 countries! 🤯

The systematic review led by Dirk Steinke published in @pnas.org examined scopes, methods and complementary data sources in literature citing GBIF.

Read more: 🔗 gbif.link/systematic...
December 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
📣 After years of development and earlier informal feedback rounds, the official @tdwg.org #DarwinCore public review is now live, your input is needed!

This is your chance to have your say in the official review for ratification! 🚀

🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...
December 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
New Danish national atlas provides new insights into the microbial world! 🦠

Microflora Danica is the largest project of its kind, mapping >140,000 bacterial species in the Danish microbial biome, many of which are new to science.
December 8, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Celebrating GBIF #volunteers 💚

This year, more than 2,000 hours of volunteer activities across 55 countries were delivered! 🤯

To commemorate these achievements, 253 volunteer digital badges were issued to 175 active volunteers in 2025!

gbif.link/volunteer-...

#InternationalVolunteerDay
December 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
18 reasons to celebrate! 🎉

Yesterday, 18 new national parks across ASEAN countries were commemorated at the Eighth ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity Heritage Parks Conference in Viet Nam! 🌲

📸 Nguyen Ky-Anh, Joe Miller, Uttam Babu Shrestha and Jerome L. Montemayor

#AHP8
December 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
A new dataset takes flight! 🪶🐦

The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Italy - AIRONE project has just mobilized more than 2.7 million records to GBIF! 🤯

This dataset provides records for bird occurrences across 15 winters in Italy, starting from 2010-11.

🔗 gbif.link/wintering-...
December 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Hello from #Vietnam👋

GBIF Executive Secretary @phylojoe.bsky.social is at the Eighth ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity Heritage Parks Conference (#AHP8). 🌏

This event provides an important opportunity to advance scientific and inclusive approaches to nature-based solutions in the region. 🦋
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Seed-ccessful evolutionary tactics attract birds for seed dispersal 🐦👀

A recent study explored how flowering plant species 🌻 use seed mimicry to attract bird dispersers, revealing that seed mimicry was mostly observed in tropical regions.🏝️

🔗gbif.link/mimetic-seeds

#ScienceReview
December 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM