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

1) 🌱 Can open data and AI make environmental impact assessments (EIAs) more transparent and rigorous? A recent study using the Tren Maya railway project in Yucatán, Mexico explores this question. Researchers compared biodiversity information in the EIA with 67,232 species occurrences from GBIF.

📣 Reminder: Register for the 2026 Virtual Data Mobilization Workshop for Southern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia!🐍 📍English version: Application deadline 18 September🔗gbif.link/ECA-worksh... 📍 Russian version: Application deadline 27 September 🔗gbif.link/ECA-worksh...

✍️ Join our last Data Use Club event for the year: Sequence data on the new GBIF.org This session provides an overview of using the sequence search function, including discussions of best practices for using the sequence data. 📍 19 November 09:00-10:30 CET 🔗gbif.link/DUC_sequen...

🥁 Announcing our 2026 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award winners: Masters: Karen D. Sarmiento-Arias (Mexico/Colombia) PhD: Rachel Haderlé (France) Read about Karen's and Rachel's award-winning research here: 🔗 gbif.link/GRA-Karen 🔗 gbif.link/GRA-rachel

1) 🕷️Our spidey senses are tingling 🕸️ Invasive spiders are thriving in North America, but where will they spread next? The Jorō spider (Trichonephila clavata), an orb weaver native to Asia, was introduced to the southeastern United States around 2010 and has since rapidly expanded its range.

🌺 You won't want to miss this one! You're invited to join the GBIF Science Symposium! The theme of the event, “From Open Data to Living Knowledge."🧬 This event is free to join in person at Universitetet i Oslo or through virtual livestream. 🔗 www.gbif.no/events/2... @gbifnorway.bsky.social

🔎 Learn about modelling location, date and time for survey and monitoring (SAM) data in our latest data blog post! Authored by Marie Grosjean and Kate Ingenloff, this blog is the third installment in our Good SAMaritans series. 🚀 Take a journey through space & time🔗: data-blog.gbif.org/p...

🧬 Deep-diving DNA in Denmark! This week, the Secretariat and #danbif are hosting a workshop to support users and publishers in Denmark increase the visibility and reuse of their biodiversity data by publishing it through GBIF using the Metabarcoding Data Toolkit. #NovoNordiskFoundation.

1) 🐢 What tortoises taught us about speciation A recent study of Sonoran and Mojave desert tortoises explores how species can diverge even when they still occasionally hybridize.

🟡 Acacia you haven't heard, it's #NationalWattleDay! Wattles (Acacia) are the largest genus of plants in Australia. Many species are known for their iconic green and gold colours, 💚💛 but there is variation in flower colour and leaf and stem structure among Acacias. 🔗 www.gbif.org/taxon/LV7

📢 Announcement: Dataset crawling and indexing paused Stick with us as we made a few web updates! 🕸️ Crawling and indexing of datasets is suspended from Tuesday 1 September to Friday 4 September on GBIF.org due to Elasticsearch cluster upgrades. 🔗 status.gbif.org/#

📣 Don't miss out on registering for the 2026 Virtual Data Mobilization Workshop for Southern Europe, Caucasus & Central Asia! This workshop guides participants through the data mobilization workflow, including data capture, management and publishing. 📍Deadline 31 August 🔗gbif.link/ECA-worksh...

1) 🦋🌎 Although >7.8 million records about biodiversity in Belize are currently available through GBIF, <1% represent insects. To bridge this gap, an EU-funded BID project led by University of Belize Environmental Research Institute is mobilizing fruit-feeding butterfly occurrence records.

1) 💧 Oh the hue-manatee! A new initiative is bringing together decades of manatee records from universities, NGOs and government agencies across South America and Mexico, helping fill critical gaps in open access data records.

🌿 How can open biodiversity data support achieving land degradation neutrality (LDN)? Kyle Copas will discuss this topic fellow alongside panelists at a Green Zone event at #UNCCDCOP17. 📍 Aug 26, 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM, Green Zone 💚 @unccd.bsky.social #UNCCD #COP17Mongolia

Last chance to register for the GBIF Data Use Club webinar tomorrow! 👀 Topic: The new and improved GBIF.org! 📍 25 August, 09:00–10:30 CET CEST 🎤 Incredible speakers: Esteban Marentes, Marie Grosjean & Kate Ingenloff 👉 Register: 🔗gbif.link/DUC_new-GBIF

📣 Announcing the 2026 Virtual Data Mobilization Workshop for Southern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia! Workshop skills include data mobilization workflow, data capture, management and publishing. 📍English version: Application deadline 31 August 🔗gbif.link/ECA-worksh...

🗻 The Hindu Kush Himalayan Biodiversity Information Facility (HKHBIF) has launched a GBIF hosted portal! 🥳 Hosted by ICIMOD the HKHBIF portal brings together critical biodiversity information for Asian mountain ecosystems. 🔗gbif.link/HKHBIF

Now that GBIF is an officially accredited observer of the #UNCCD, we're joining #COP17Mongolia! Catch the event hosted by Kyle Copas Copas and GBIF Mongolia: Biodiversity data to support desertification research and policy. 🌵 Learn more:🔗 www.gbif.org/event/b... #UNCCDCOP17