Thank you @gbif.org for the shout out! 😍 So proud of being part of this team 🥰. Send us a message if you want to mobilize your collections using #Symbiota 💚 ➡️ www.gbif.org/publisher/96... @kunhm.bsky.social

Symbiota support hub team photograph

(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. 💻

#Symbiota team in SLO! 🥰 Last week, we visited our colleagues at CalPoly to review a very productive year and continue planning for 2026 🌿🐞☀️. We are thrilled to keep working to enable the #digitization of many collections in the US (and around the world 🌎). More about us ➡️ symbiota.org 💚

You can already check our #LivingData abstract in @biss.pensoft.net about the use of #Symbiota portals in Latin America 🌎 (slides in Spanish) biss.pensoft.net/article/1773.... One more abstract about our @guatemalaportal.bsky.social is in production. Stay tuned! 😁

Our abstract for #LivingData about the use of #Symbiota portals in #LatinAmerica is out! At least 140 collections in 12 countries are actively using the portals 🥰. So far, less than 40% of collections in the region are available anywhere online. We'd love to help! 💚 biss.pensoft.net/article/1773...

If you missed any of our #Symbiota talks/posters, they are still available in the #LivingData platform! We'll also submit extended abstracts to BISS so you can check every detail later 💚.

Moving to the Grand Hyatt for #LivingData! Don't miss my poster (Wednesday) and presentation (Friday) about our work with #Symbiota digitizing collections in #LatinAmerica! 🌎

October has been full of #Symbiota adventures in South America 🌎💚. It started last week in Peru🇵🇪, where we held a digitization workshop in collaboration with UNMSM Natural History Museum and Yale Peabody Museum. Around 80 participants from all over the country attended. We had a blast! 🌿

Este mes participaremos en la conferencia internacional #DatosVivos2025. Durante el evento, compartiremos acerca del uso de portales #Symbiota en Latinoamérica y del incremento de capacidades de digitalización en 🇬🇹 con el Portal de Biodiversidad. Programa ya disponible en: www.livingdata2025.com

It's #WeevilWednesday! Perfect day to introduce our #Symbiota Weevil Portal! Still under construction, but already with some data. This beautiful Curculio, deposited in #KUSEMC, was originally digitized in #Specify and has been mobilized to our portal 💚. ➡️ weevil.symbiota.org/portal/colle...

One of my major motivations is sharing specimens I study with researchers around the world 🌎. None of this would be possible without the amazing support from #iDigBio and #Symbiota. Here are some of the collections also mobilized to #GBIF and @bionomia.net 💚.
➡️ www.gbif.org/network/0479...

Today, we are celebrating our Independence Day in #Guatemala. I'm proud to keep contributing to my country from afar, helping local collections to share their data online 🇬🇹🌎. Thanks to the #Symbiota team for making it possible, and to the amazing #BiodiversityData community for their support 🥰💚.

Cinco años compartiendo la Biodiversidad de Guatemala, en apoyo a investigadores nacionales. Nuestro Portal #Symbiota ha facilitado la generación de +45 perfiles virtuales y +56,000 registros de especímenes y observaciones de animales, plantas y hongos del país. Disponible en: biodiversidad.gt 🐞🍄🌿🇬🇹🌎

#LivingData is quickly approaching 😱. Who is going to Bogota? 🥳. Who is attending remotely? 🌎. You can't miss our presentations (in English and Spanish) about #Symbiota and our collaborations with collections all over the world to make their data available 💚🌎.

➡️ livingdata2025.com/registration...

A long weekend was perfect to catch up on digitization 🥰. Let us know if you want your own profile to digitize and mobilize your arthropod/plant/vertebrate/fungi/fossil data 💚: help@symbiota.org. #Symbiota
➡️ ecdysis.org/collections/... 🐞

🎉El Portal de Biodiversidad de Guatemala cumple cinco años apoyando la digitalización de más de 45 colecciones y proyectos científicos nacionales. Felicitamos a todos los curadores en investigadores involucrados y agradecemos al equipo #Symbiota por el mantenimiento de nuestra plataforma 🐞🌿🍄🇬🇹🌎.

It's amazing to see our beautiful @guatemalaportal.bsky.social back online 🥰. I'm forever grateful to the #Symbiota team for their commitment to maintaining such incredible tools and making them accessible to the global #collections community 💚.

✅El Portal de Biodiversidad🇬🇹 permite la generación de recursos interactivos con especies registradas en el país. Compartimos el listado actualizado de aves de la Ciudad de Guatemala, publicado en Zeledonia por investigadores del CDC-CECON. ➡️ biodiversidad.gt/portal/check... 🐦🦜🦉🐦‍⬛ #Symbiota

✅Tenemos el gusto de informarles que los portales #Symbiota, incluyendo el Portal de Biodiversidad de 🇬🇹, serán reactivados en el transcurso de esta y la próxima semana. Agradecemos su paciencia y los invitamos a explorar los portales ya disponibles con registros para el país:
➡️ www.pteridoportal.org

🟢¡Servicio técnico en progreso! Agradecemos su paciencia mientras se realizan actualizaciones requeridas para mantener la seguridad de más de 60 portales #Symbiota. Los invitamos a explorar los registros compartidos desde el Portal de Biodiversidad en GBIF y GRSciColl. tinyurl.com/portalgbif 🇬🇹🌎🐞🌿🍄

Felicitamos al ITCR y @gbif.org por el desarrollo del nuevo hosted portal para Mesoamérica "RedBioma". Las colecciones guatemaltecas digitalizadas y movilizadas a GBIF desde el Portal de Biodiversidad con #Symbiota, ya están disponibles en #RedBioma: tinyurl.com/portalredbioma 🌿🍄🐞🇬🇹

El Portal de Biodiversidad de Guatemala ha facilitado la digitalización de más de 40 colecciones y proyectos científicos desde 2020, apoyando el trabajo de curadores, investigadores y estudiantes locales. Portal disponible en: biodiversidad.gt 🇬🇹🌿🐞🍄 #Symbiota #GBIF #FAIRdata

I had a wonderful time with the collection managers in Guatemala, sharing some updates about #Symbiota and our @guatemalaportal.bsky.social. It was great to visit the collections and learn more about their biodiversity projects 🥰🇬🇹🌿🍄🐞.

Asimismo, para facilitar la integración de nuevas colecciones y usuarios, se realizó un taller introductorio en el Museo de Historia Natural USAC. ¡Agradecemos el apoyo del equipo #Symbiota en Kansas University, para realizar estas actividades y por el mantenimiento constante de nuestro Portal!

The Symbiota Support Hub at the KU Natural History Museum.

The Symbiota Support Hub at the KU Natural History Museum.

Specify and Symbiota teams.

A gorgeous sunflower seed weevil, deposited in the Snow Entomology Collection, at KU.

The #Symbiota Support Hub recently moved to the University of Kansas. Most of the team works remotely, but we met here at KU earlier this month 🥰. Lots to do, great new colleagues (Specify, Biodiversity Institute), and a growing passion to continue supporting collections everywhere. Stay tuned! 💚

We are still working hard to update and maintain our @guatemalaportal.bsky.social 🥰. Look how beautiful this species page looks with digitized records, maps, publications, conservation assessments, and the amazing CC0 images shared by the Smithsonian NMNH ➡️ biodiversidad.gt/portal/taxa/... #Symbiota

It's been a lovely break in Guatemala 🥰. Today, I visited some collections and shared some special souvenirs with curators and volunteers. Thanks to #Symbiota, #iDigBio and all the biodiversity data community for all the support to our digitization efforts 🥰. See you all soon at KU!

Wonder where our specimen records are headed? You can find digitized collections from the DigIn project in #InvertEBase, a specimen data portal powered by #Symbiota.

Photos: Symbiota Support Hub #iDigBio #diginverts

Wonderful results in the US from lots of initiatives and projects enabled and supported by #iDigBio 🥰🥰🥰 (including #Symbiota 💚).

Did you know Arizona State University has a mollusk collection of approximately 140K specimens? It’s currently managed by a dedicated Volunteer Curator and Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center staff.

Photos: Samanta Orellana
#iDigBio #Symbiota #SymbiotaSupportHub #ASUMOC #diginverts