GBIF

🎉 Somalia joins GBIF as a Voting Participant! 📩 Hot off the press at #COP17Armenia, Somalia is the seventh participant to join GBIF in East Africa region, and the 71st national participant in the network. 💚 Read more: 🔗gbif.link/Somalia_VP

🪲 A terrific Tuesday ahead at #COP17Armenia! Today Joe Miller is a panelist in the session hosted by #CIP, #CGIAR and #FAO. Kyle Copas is presenting in a session hosted by #WasedaUniversity and also check out the session hosted by colleagues at #ThinkNatureInc

A few moments from the weekend at #COP17Armenia! 🌿📸 We're grateful for the opportunity to connect with colleagues, partners and the wider biodiversity community, sharing ideas on how biodiversity data can support global monitoring, research and decision-making. 🌍🤝

🐝 Keeping busy on a Sunday! Here's were you can find GBIF at #COP17Armenia today: 🌎 Catch GBIF presentations at the GEO BON and Nature Positive Initiative pavilions, and visit the #TaiBIF and #GBIFEstonia sessions at the #DataToActionPavilion! 💙 🔗cop17pavilion.org/pr...

⚙️ Gearing-up for a packed weekend at #COP17Armenia! Today Kyle Copas, Joe Miller and Dmitry Schigel are speaking across several events in the #BlueZone 💙covering topics including invasive alien species, nature finance and science policy. 🌍 🔗cop17pavilion.org/pr...

💡 Highlights from the first week at #COP17Armenia! 💙 Thank you to all those who have visited the #DataToActionPavilion. We've got a jam-packed🍓 line-up over the weekend and next week too! Check out the rest of the programme: 🔗cop17pavilion.org/pr... UN Biodiversity

Today at #COP17Armenia: ⛅ Catch Joe Miller speaking at the Nature Positive Pavilion in the AM ☀️ Joe & Dmitry Schigel are panelists in an event hosted by IUCN 🌙 Hilary Goodson is presenting at the #DataToAction Pavilion 🔗cop17pavilion.org/pr... UN Biodiversity

📣 Contractor call! We're seeking proposals for developing high-throughput publishing workflows that facilitate the sharing and regular updating of biodiversity data derived from DNA. 🧬 💰Funding of up to €20,000 📍Application deadline: 30 Nov 26 🔗gbif.link/SPLICE-pub...

🎃 Spooky season is upon us and we have another installment of our Data Blog series: Good SAMaritans! 👻 Dive into the world of modelling sampling protocols and understand the horrifying realities of what happens if you DON'T share critical information! 💀 🔗 data-blog.gbif.org/p...

What's on for today at #COP17Armenia? 🌍 This morning Joe Miller is speaking at the GEF Pavilion and in the afternoon we have two GBIF events at the #DataToActionPavilion hosted by #SiBBR and the Secretariat! ⭐ 🔗cop17pavilion.org/ UN Biodiversity

📅 Today’s line-up at the #DataToActionPavilion 🗻We have sessions hosted by Kyle Copas, Dmitry Schigel and Salza Palpurina from GBIF and🌱 #TaiBIF! Learn more: 🔗 cop17pavilion.org/ UN Biodiversity #BiodiversityAction #KMGBF #COP17Armenia

🌱 This week, researchers, policymakers and the members of the GBIF network are in #Lithuania to discuss national biodiversity data infrastructure in the country. This visit is in connection to a project supported through the 2026 round of #CESP led by #GBIFSweden💖🔗www.gbif.org/project...

📅 Today’s line-up at the #DataToActionPavilion We have two GBIF-hosted events, one with UNDP and one with #SmithsonianScience ⭐ GBIF events are facilitated by Kyle Copas Dmitry Schigel and Salza Palpurina 🔗 cop17pavilion.org/ UN Biodiversity #COP17Armenia

Care to kelp us out with your feedback? 🌊✍️ We're seeking community feedback on expanding our current Parquet data offering. The new Parquet formats contain similar data columns to a DwC Archive format downloads, with the blog presenting three possible 🔗data-blog.gbif.org/p...

🦋 Welcome to the Data to Action Pavilion at #COP17Armenia! 🩵 Come see us in the Blue Zone Hosted by GBIF, GEO BON, #GEO, #Smithsonian, #UniversityofZurich, #AllenInstitute, Ai2, #Esri, @esa.int, #QCBS & #NOMISFoundation. 🔗 cop17pavilion.org/pr... UN Biodiversity

📅 What's on today at #COP17Armenia? Over the weekend Kyle Copas is at the Yerevan Conservation Symposium hosted by the Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets. Learn more:🔗 cop17pavilion.org/

Check out our latest Data Blog to learn how to update your numeric GBIF Backbone taxon keys to alphanumeric COL XR keys 🗝️ for #SQL downloads 🤖 These updates are necessary changes as the GBIF Backbone will no longer be updated. 🔗data-blog.gbif.org/p...

The review is released alongside a new @gbif.org Global Biodiversity Information Facility-hosted portal that will help users explore data collected by biological recording data.brc.ac.uk 2/

More GB33 and the GBIF Science Symposium snaps 📸 from last week! A huge thank you to @gbifnorway.bsky.social for their incredible hospitality and organization of the events. 💖 Stay tuned for a detailed wrap-up of all our Oslo events coming soon! 👀

🎥Tune in today to livestream the GBIF Science Symposium hosted by @gbifnorway.bsky.social! 🌍 The event will be streamed here: 🔗 https://www.gbif.no/ View the full program: 🔗www.gbif.no/events/2... 📸 Maylinn Hovengen Byrknes

📣 Remote contractor wanted! We're on the hunt for an expert on molecular OTU clustering and target-gene classification services as part of the GBIF SPLICE project🧬 📍 Application deadline: 30 October 2026 ⌚ 12 month contract 🔗 gbif.link/SPLICE-con...

🚀 Day 2 of the 33rd GBIF Governing Board Meeting was filled with lively discussions and continued advancement on key governance decisions for the year ahead. In the evening, the Governing Board ventured out on the Oslo Fjord 🛥️🌙 @gbifnorway.bsky.social 📸 Mélianie Raymond

🎊 Congratulations to the four winners of the 2026 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge! 🏆 BioRisk AI (Argentina) 🏆 OBIS Species Distribution Models (SDMs) (Belgium) OBIS 🏆bioReportR (Canada) 🏆georeference.it (Portugal) Read about the ENC winning projects: 🔗gbif.link/ENC-2026-w...

✍️Meeting once per year, the GBIF Governing Board discusses critical work for both the Secretariat and the broader network, updates from the GBIF Committees, review of the GBIF budget for the next financial year and other emerging priorities. 💚 Thank you to our GB33 hosts @gbifnorway.bsky.social!

🌱 A wonderful evening last night at Klimahuset in Oslo 🌕 with GBIF Norway and the Director of the Naturhistorisk Museum opening the icebreaker event ahead of the 33rd GBIF Governing Board Meeting. 💚 📸 Mélianie Raymond

🕷️ Introducing community metrics: a new pilot set of national-level metrics that are designed to quantify data gaps in GBIF and help to identify priorities for biodiversity data mobilization. 🔎 Explore the metrics and share your feedback! 🔗data-blog.gbif.org/p...

Following #TDWG2026 last week, we've got another full week in #Oslo! ⭐ Monday: Meetings of the GBIF Committees 🐝 Tuesday - Thursday: The 33rd meeting of the GBIF Governing Board 🧬Friday: GBIF Science Symposium 🔗gbif.link/SciSympOslo Thank you to our hosts @gbifnorway.bsky.social

And that's a wrap! A huge shout-out to the incredible #TDWG team for bringing to life such a wonderful conference. 💙💚 It's been great to connect with so many talented biodiversity professionals, catch up with old friends and hear about the work happening across the community!

🚀 Wrapping up the last day of #TDWG2026 with a presentation by Dmitry Schigel at 09:15: Handling evidence: a cross-disciplinary perspective.

⭐ More #TDWG2026 highlights from the past few days including conference talks, side-meetings, booth conversations and excursions 🎨 @tdwg.org

You won't want to miss these talks at #TDWG2026! ✍️ Today you can catch Executive Secretary Joe Miller's talk on GBIF after 25 year and Training Officer Laura Anne Russell is speaking in the session CO4 FAIR data in practice - eDNA, modelling and biodiversity concepts. 🦋 @tdwg.org

🦋 Four projects have been selected for funding through the 2026 round of #CESP! This initiative addresses specific capacity needs identified through the GBIF Participant networks. 🔗gbif.link/CESP-2026 SNIBgt #AtlasofLivingAustralia @dissco.bsky.social NLBIF

It’s been a busy day for GBIF at TDWG! 🌎 💚Thanks to everybody who attended the GBIF presentations and participated in the engaging discussions! #TDWG2026 @tdwg.org

⭐ Celebrating 25 years of GBIF! ⭐ To mark GBIF’s 25th anniversary, a new open access article in the Biodiversity Data Journal provides a comprehensive overview of GBIF’s history, network and infrastructure. 📖 Read the article:🔗https://gbif.link/gbif25paper-news @bdj.pensoft.net @pensoft.net

🔍 We've got a packed agenda ahead for day 2 of #TDWG2026! ⭐ Catch presentations by Matt Blissett, John Waller, Joe Miller, Esteban Marentes and Marie Grosjean from the Secretariat (see below for more details), and head over to the GBIF booth to chat to the team. @tdwg.org

Starting day 1 of #TDWG2026 off with a bang! ✨ We’re looking forward to meeting colleagues, catching up with familiar faces and discussing new concepts throughout the week. Congratulations to the Engineering team on their fantastic presentation today! 💙 @tdwg.org

⭐ Kicking off the week at #TDWG2026 in Oslo! Today you can catch a presentation by members from the Secretariat's Engineering team on the progress toward integrating the new Darwin Core Data Package standard into GBIF infrastructure. 📍 14:45, Aula UiO @tdwg.org