@tdwg.org 2026: Call for abstracts 🎉
You're invited to submit abstracts for presentations or posters at #TDWG2026 in Oslo, Norway, 21-25 September.
Submissions are encouraged to consider the theme: 🔬 & 🤖 Research and Robot-ready Biodiversity Data Standards.
🔗 www.tdwg.org/confere...
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💙🤍❤️ Le GBIF France lance une enquête auprès de ses partenaires et utilisateurs.
L’objectif est de faire un bilan des usages, des attentes et des besoins vis-à-vis des données et outils proposés par le GBIF.
⏰ Réponses souhaitées avant le 15 mai 2026.
🔗 gbif.link/gbif.fr-su...
2) 🌍 The event is intended for government and organizational reps from Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
The workshop is hosted by the GBIF Asia Regional Support Team 💖
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1)⚡Reminder⚡ Register for the virtual data mobilization workshop for West Asia.💙
This workshop is held across May-June 2026, and is based on the GBIF Biodiversity Data Mobilization curriculum.
Application deadline: 17 April 2026🔗 gbif.link/virtual-da...
2) 📊 Data have been used to inform Ireland’s national pollinator monitoring scheme, aligned with EU recommendations, with data made openly accessible on GBIF via #NationalBiodiversityDataCentre.
Explore the dataset:🔗 gbif.link/irish-moths
Learn about the project: 🔗 gbif.link/irish-moth...
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1) 🦋🔦 A new farmer-led moth initiative is lighting the way for agricultural biodiversity monitoring in #Ireland
This project tested the feasibility of integrating farmer-led monitoring into national biodiversity observation frameworks across farms without affecting productivity.
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🌳Register for the upcoming Virtual Data Mobilization Workshop for Africa (English version)
Hosted by the GBIF Africa Regional Support Team, this training workshop is based on the GBIF Biodiversity Data Mobilization curriculum.
📍Application close 31 May 2026
🔗 gbif.link/Data-Mob-W...
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📣 Applications for 2026 DataCamp licences are OPEN!
🍄 Join more than 500 biodiversity professionals in the GBIF network who have completed data courses across topics such as Python, RStats, SQL, AI and GitHub.
🔗Apply: gbif.link/DCD_2026
#DataCampDonates
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🎓 The 2026 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award is open for nominations! This award celebrates innovative Master’s and PhD research powered by GBIF-mediated data, with opportunity to win 2x €5,000 prizes!
Learn more:🔗 gbif.link/GRA_2026
#ApplyNow #EarlyCareerResearch #FundingOpportunity
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Why #BioMonWeek26?
Biodiversity monitoring in Europe connects the community to collaborate and drive impact. #BioMonWeek offers a space to exchange ideas and align on key challenges.
ℹ️ www.biomonweek.eu
@biodiversa.eu #AllianceForNature @bioagora.eu GBIF MARCO-BOLO project
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Hunting for eggs this weekend? 🥚🐰 Some of the best eggs aren't chocolate! 🍫
Tinamous birds are relatively inconspicuous, but their eggs are egg-ceptional.
Researchers have taken steps to crack the code, 🐦determining that egg colour likely evolved as a mating signal.
🔗https://gbif.link/egg
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🔦 Amplifying amphipods with two new datasets from publishers in #Italy! 💚🤍❤️
Explore >22,000 amphipod records from scientific literature, unpublished data, public and private institutions.
🔗: gbif.link/amphipod_1
🔗: gbif.link/amphipod_2
#GBIFItalia
2) More than 2.4 million vegetation occurrence records are now accessible in GBIF through this dataset, which is also registered in the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (#GIVD) 🤯
Check it out: 🔗
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1) 🍃 The Czech Vegetation Database is a new open digital archive of vegetation-plot records from the Czech Republic now accessible in GBIF, including records of plant species composition and cover-abundances in delimited plots surveys, monitoring programs and ecological studies.🍄
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💚 Atelier virtuel sur la mobilisation des données de biodiversité (français) – Afrique 2026, à renforcer les capacités des institutions francophones en Afrique à mobiliser, gérer et publier leurs données via le réseau GBIF.
📍4 au 7 mai 2026 (08:00–11:00 UTC)
🔗: gbif.link/Africa-dat...
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🚀 #rgbif 3.8.5 ➡️New release!
Explore new functions for accessing GBIF occurrence download statistics including:
🔹retrieving summarized download statistics
🔹exporting download summaries & more.
🐛 Bug fixes and minor improvements are now also available.
🔗: gbif.link/rgbif-385
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💚 Wrapping up the 2026 GBIF Midterms in #Copenhagen
This event brings together members of the Executive, Science and Budget Committees as well as the Nodes Steering Group and members of the Secretariat to discuss updates, progress and strategic priorities ahead of the Governing Board meeting. 🦋
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💚 @b-cubed.eu FINAL online training: The b3verse: an R package suite to process cubes and calculate indicators
📍27 March, 15:00 CET
Learn about the b3verse and how it can be used to retrieve, process and explore occurrence cubes, and how to calculate indicators.
🔗gbif.link/b-cubed-tr...
Biodiversidad oculta: el entorno como pista taxonómica Temperatura, lluvia, vegetación y altitud revelan diversidad intraespecífica que la taxonomía formal aún no reconoce. La ecología puede anticiparse a la taxonomía. Foto: Vista de un lago en el valle del río Eagle, municipio de Anchorage, Alaska, Estados Unidos. Autor: Diego Delso. Licencia: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Foto reencuadrada.
¿Qué método de clustering detecta mejor la diversidad ecológica en tetrápodos? Los modelos gaussianos (GMM) superaron al resto con un índice de Rand corregido (ARI) medio de 0,37 y clasificaron subespecies con precisión no atribuible al azar usando solo datos de GBIF. Figura: “Media del ARI externo por método. El ARI externo representa la correlación entre la solución de clustering predicha y la estructura observada. Los histogramas muestran el número de especies en cada valor de ARI externo. Las líneas discontinuas negras indican el valor de referencia ARI = 0,5. El gráfico inferior derecho resume los resultados por método (gmm, hclust, hdbscan, kmeans y pam, respectivamente).
¿Coinciden las subespecies descritas con las unidades ecológicas más estables? En la mayoría de las especies, sí. Cuando divergen, el método detecta más grupos de los reconocidos: una señal de que existe biodiversidad infraespecífica aún por describir. Figura: “Número de especies según la diferencia entre el número de clusters (k) con la mayor estabilidad (evaluada mediante el ARI interno) y el número de grupos definidos taxonómicamente para cada especie y método. Además del número conocido de unidades taxonómicas, aplicamos el algoritmo de clustering a ±2 del número de grupos definidos taxonómicamente para cada especie, limitado al rango 2–10. Un valor de diferencia igual a 0 implica que los clusters definidos taxonómicamente son también las unidades ecológicas más estables a lo largo de 500 réplicas, según lo determinado por los algoritmos de clustering.
Los modelos random forest clasifican subespecies con alta precisión a partir de datos ecológicos Con cinco variables ambientales alcanzan más del 75 % de acierto en la mayoría de especies y ofrecen una vía escalable para explorar la diversidad críptica no reflejada en la taxonomía. Figura: Precisión del modelo random forest y desviación entre la precisión de clasificación predicha y la esperada por azar para cada especie. La precisión está corregida por el desequilibrio en el número de ocurrencias. Cada punto de color representa un modelo random forest para una especie concreta. La línea roja indica la precisión esperada bajo una clasificación aleatoria. La desviación respecto a la clasificación aleatoria varía del azul oscuro al amarillo brillante.
¿Puede la ecología predecir la taxonomía? @armandrm.eurosky.social (2022 GBIF Young Researchers Award) demuestra que con datos de ocurrencia de @gbif.org y modelos de clustering se detecta diversidad intraespecífica oculta en tetrápodos usando solo variables ambientales:
▶️ doi.org/10.1111/2041...
🟢 Are you a researcher in #Switzerland involved in collecting species observations #data ? 🗺️🦋🐸🦉
🟣 Then you can join us to learn about Swiss #biodiversity data mobilisation, publication, & sharing @gbif.org !
www.sib.swiss/training/cou...
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💪 Last week, a workshop attended by 29 participants in Lithuania hosted by #GBIFSweden and #NatureResearchCentre was delivered to increase capacity in biodiversity data management, standardization and publishing through GBIF. 💚
🔗 gbif.link/CESP-Lithu...
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🚀 The 2026 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge is OPEN!
Have an idea, tool or prototype that uses GBIF biodiversity data to advance open science, research or policy? Submit it to GBIF’s annual Challenge and compete for a share of €20,000 in prizes! 💸
⭐ Deadline: 26 June 2026
🔗 gbif.link/ENC-2026
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💚 @b-cubed.eu online training tomorrow: Making use of colorblind friendly maps🗺️
📍20 March, 15:00 CET
This session will highlight the importance of colouring maps for daltonic people, including good practices and coding solutions to maximize accessibility.
🔗gbif.link/b-cubed-tr...
2) This event is connected to the 2025 GBIF #CESP project, which aims to strengthen engagement with the private sector across Southern Africa. 🔗
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1) 🤝This week, #GBIFZimbabwe is hosting a workshop focused on #BusinessSector engagement & capacity building, bringing together colleagues from the Endangered Wildlife Trust, node staff from #GBIFMalawi and invited guests Ricardo Ortiz Gallego (#SiBColombia) and Niels Raes (NLBIF).💚
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🧬 GBIF has launched #SPLICE, an initiative to fully integrate eDNA into its data infrastructure
🌎 SPLICE aims to transform eDNA data discovery and access while also bridging taxonomic gaps, developed alongside #DanBIF with the support of Novo Nordisk Foundation 💚
🔗gbif.link/SPLICE
2)🌍 The event is intended for government and organizational representatives from Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
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1) 🦋 Are you a biodiversity data holder in #WestAsia?
👉 Register for the virtual data mobilization workshop for West Asia hosted by the GBIF Asia Regional Support Team. 💙
The deadline for workshop applications is 17 April 2026 at 23:59 UTC. 🔗 gbif.link/virtual-da...
List of the data management sessions:• EU-funded projects lightning-talks about data* • Biodiversity Data Cubes** • Environmental DNA survey data publication, management and interoperability** • Tools for data use, curation, management** • Standardising and sharing survey and monitoring data through GBIF & OBIS** • Data infrastructures, coordination and interoperability** • Reusable Data Workflows and Pipelines for WorkFlowHub** • Other** • How to handle derived data products and outputs for EBVs and EOVs*
The mass monitoring session list • EU-funded projects lightning-talks about mass monitoring* • Novel remote-sensing approaches for biodiversity monitoring using multiple sensors** • Citizen Science for biodiversity monitoring** • Lessons learnt from passive acoustic recorders and their data** • Lessons learnt from camera-based sensors and their data** • Other** • Barcoding, metabarcoding and other DNA-based species monitoring* • Successful Citizen Science approaches for long-term & cost-effective monitoring*
🔦 Spotlight on the Data Management and Mass Monitoring themes at #BioMonWeek26!
Submit an abstract by 18 March and bring your work to the European stage! Explore the full programme:🔗 www.biomonweek.eu
@biodiversa.eu, #AllianceforNature, @bioagora.eu, GBIF, MARCO-BOLO project
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💚 Atelier virtuel sur la mobilisation des données de biodiversité (français) – Afrique 2026, à renforcer les capacités des institutions francophones en Afrique à mobiliser, gérer et publier leurs données via le réseau GBIF.
📍4 au 7 mai 2026 (08:00–11:00 UTC)
🔗: gbif.link/Africa-dat...