1) 🌴 Tropical insects are feeling the heat 🥵 A recent study found that repeated El Niño events are linked to long-term declines in tropical arthropod diversity, including groups such as beetles and butterflies.
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👾 Level up your data skills with DataCamp! Thanks to our on-going partnership with #DataCampDonates, GBIF is proud to offer free licenses to biodiversity data users to explore courses hundreds of online courses such as Python, GitHub, data theory, SQL and Power BI. 🔗 gbif.link/datacamp2026
Nature versus nurture 🤔 This egg-speriment 🥚 tracked >200 herring gulls to better understand how cognitive performance in the lab relates to behaviour in the wild! 🐦 The project led by University of Gent and #INBO in 2022 tracked juvenile herring gulls (Larus argentatus) hatched in Belgium.
Checking in from Salt Lake City! 👋 GBIF Secretariat Scientific Officer Kate Ingenloff is at the 2026 Ecological Society of America meeting this week.🐊 You can find Kate the GBIF booth and pick up some stickers, Science Reviews and postcards! #ESA2026 1/2
1) 🍄🟫Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi are essential to forest ecosystems and nutrient cycling. 💧 A recent Europe-wide study of 66 ECM species found that the distribution of host trees 🌳 is a stronger predictor of fungal distributions than climate alone. ☀️
📣LAST WEEK to get your proposals in for our two eDNA calls! 📚Preparing DNA reference libraries for GBIF integration 🔗 gbif.link/SPLICE-DNA... 🧬Building pipelines for publishing DNA-derived data through GBIF 🔗gbif.link/SPLICE-DNA... 📍 Deadline: 3 August 2026
1) Echidnas are iconic native Australian monotremes and are often elusive in the wild. 🔎 EchidnaCSI is a #CitizenScience project hosted by University of Adelaide that encourages the public to share photographic and scat records of echidnas to better understand wild populations.
🦛 As part of the latest round of the EU-funded Biodiversity information for Development programme, 22 new projects are announced for sub-Saharan Africa. Explore the newly-funded projects! 🔗gbif.link/BID-Africa... @ec.europa.eu
Across the past 25 years, we've changed a lot, and so too has our logo! 🌱 The name "Global Biodiversity Information Facility" has stuck since our inception, but it took a little while to land on our iconic modern brand identity. 💚 #GBIF25
🌏 This week GBIF Executive Secretary Joe Miller visited Executive Director Jerome Montemayor, Christian Elloran and the team at ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity in the Philippines ahead of the 18th APBON Workshop in #Penang, Malaysia. 🐠
Are you our next GBIF Executive Secretary? One week left to apply for this incredible position! ⭐ We're seeking a visionary leader with demonstrated experience in biodiversity science, international collaboration and organizational management. 🌱 🔗gbif.link/Executive-... Deadline: 24 July
📣 Notice: GBIF dataset ingestion is currently disabled This is beak-ause 🐦we're reprocessing occurrence data against the latest version of the Catalogue of Life. We expect to be back to normal by Tuesday 21 July 2026. 🪶 Keep-up with GBIF status updates: status.gbif.org/inci...
1) Two new eDNA metabarcoding datasets from the Galápagos Marine Reserve are o-fish-ally available on GBIF! 🐠 Generated from standardized seawater sampling across 23 sites, these datasets characterize marine vertebrate communities using mitochondrial 12S rRNA markers.
🔎 Curious to learn about survey and monitoring (SAM) data? Look no further than the latest GBIF data blog post authored by Marie Grosjean and Kate Ingenloff! ⭐ 🐦Good SAMaritans—Introduction to Best Practices for Publishing Survey and Monitoring (SAM) Data to GBIF: 🔗 data-blog.gbif.org/p...
🌱Wrapping up GBIF’s events at #GNPS2026, Kyle Copas presented and joined a panel discussion on Nature Footprint, a life cycle assessment approach that applies GBIF-mediated to provide quantitative assessment of biodiversity risk to companies set on becoming nature positive. 🐝
We are not trolling you 🧌. 🐦 Early bird registration has been extended until 21 July but we can’t go beyond that date. ⚫Secure your spot now! ⚫ 🔗 More info tdwg.link/2026-july-up... #tdwg2026 #early-bird #registration
🏯 From Daejeon to Kumamoto, Joe Miller and Kyle Copas are at the Global Nature Positive Summit 2026 in #Japan! 🩶 As a silver sponsor, GBIF is proud to be part of the event. Be sure to catch Joe and Kyle's presentations on Wednesday! 🔗events.nikkeibp.co.j... #GNPS2026
🎁 Wrapping-up the Asia Regional Nodes meeting with the excursion day, taking participants to the Hanbat Arboretum, National Heritage Centre and the National Museum (Buyeo)! 🪲 Thank you to everyone who made the journey to join us, and especially to #KBIF for hosting such a welcoming meeting.💚
Honored to join my esteemed colleagues this Wednesday in Kumamoto to discuss how businesses are using biodiversity data from the @gbif.org network—whether they know it or not—in nature footprint-based life cycle assessment. #GPNS2026 @npinitiative.bsky.social : events.nikkeibp.co.jp/event/2026/G...
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Nature Positive Initiative@npinitiative.bsky.social · last mo.The Global Nature Positive Summit in Kumamoto, Japan begins next week. It will demonstrate the growing momentum behind nature-positive action. Check out the programme: www.canva.com/design/DAHG1... 📅 14–16 July 2026 📍 Kumamoto, Japan #GNPS2026 #NaturePositive #SustainableBusiness
🌿 Businesses have a critical role in mobilizing biodiversity data to support nature-positive action. We're keen to join discussions about the importance of scaling up corporate contributions of open biodiversity data to the GBIF network at Global Nature Positive Summit in #Japan next week! 🌍
Day 1 of the Asia Regional Nodes Meeting done and dusted 🌏 Hosted by the Republic of Korea's national node (#KBIF) in Daejeon, node representatives, regional support contractors and members from the Secretariat came together to collaborate towards advancing regional biodiversity coordination. 💗
📣 Register for our next Data Use Club covering the new and improved GBIF.org! This session provides a practical demonstration of some of the updates and new features of the recently refreshed GBIF.org website. 📍 25 August 09:00 CEST 👉 Register: 🔗gbif.link/DUC_new-GBIF
1)🐍 Can a species be both native and invasive? A recent study examined #Australia's domestic pet trade and it's impact on biosecurity using GBIF-mediated data. Analyzing 12,317 online listings covering 177 native species, researchers found that 73% were traded outside their natural ranges.
✈️ Members from the GBIF Secretariat are attending events in Asia over the coming weeks including the GBIF Asia Regional Nodes meeting in Republic of Korea, the Global Nature Positive Summit in Japan and the 18th APBON Workshop in Malaysia. 💚 Keep an eye out for more about these events! 👀
1) 🪦 A grave undertaking: cemeteries provide insights into Ukrainian flora A 2008–2021 study surveyed 13 historic cemeteries in Ukraine's Kherson region to investigate the role of highly-modified environments in preserving remnant vegetation.
🌱 Joe Miller was at the @kewgardens.bsky.social this week, presenting at the State of the World's Plants & Fungi Symposium. Joe joined Maui Hudson whose presentation focused on the role of recognizing Indigenous provenance in herbarium collections through culturally appropriate metadata.💚 #SOTWPF
📣We have two open calls for proposals to support the GBIF SPLICE project: 📚Preparing DNA reference libraries for GBIF integration 🔗 gbif.link/SPLICE-DNA... 🧬Building pipelines for publishing DNA-derived data through GBIF 🔗gbif.link/SPLICE-DNA... 📍 Deadline: 3 August 2026
🎉 Our policy brief on why countries need @gbif.org is now available in a total of 11 languages! 👉 The newest language additions are Spanish 🇪🇦 and Lithuanian 🇱🇹 🌐 Check out the policy brief in your own language on: zenodo.org/records/2081...
🚨 LAST DAY to submit entries to the 2026 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge! Submit your tools or prototypes that uses GBIF biodiversity data to win a share of €20,000 in prizes! 💸 Deadline: Friday 26 June 2026 (23:59 CEST) 👉 gbif.link/ENC-2026
