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2) These findings reveal how widespread pharmaceutical use can create chronic risks for keystone scavengers and highlights the importance of expanded monitoring open data sharing and collaborative science to support effective vulture conservation. 🔎

🔗 https://gbif.link/vulture-data-use

#DataUseSummary #ResearchImpact #BiodiversityData

Keep calm and carrion: data models predict vulture exposure risk to contaminants

Widespread use of veterinary pharmaceuticals results in persistent, low-level toxic exposure in vultures

Biodiversa+Jan 26
2️⃣weeks until registrations and abstract submissions open for May’s #BioMonWeek2026, the European conference for Biodiversity Monitoring!
Choose to apply among the sessions tied to the conference's 9️⃣ themes.
ℹ️ https://www.biodiversa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/BioMonWeek_Contributed-sessions_full.pdf
🌐 https://www.biomonweek.eu/
#BiodiversityMonitoring #BiodiversityData #Science4Biodiversity
Biodiversa+Jan 15
📢 Registrations for #BioMonWeek2026 are opening in early February!
📍 Montpellier
📅 4–8 May 2026
Join the first edition of the European conference on cooperation and innovation in biodiversity monitoring, bringing together science, policy and business communities
ℹ️ www.biomonweek.eu
#BiodiversityMonitoring #BiodiversityData #BiodiversityWeek #BusinessForNature #EUEnvironment #Science4Biodiversity
Alghero International SymposiuNov 13, 2025
Digital twins for nature 🌍
TODAY at 09.00 CEST!!!! Don't miss Thomas Geenen (ECMWF, UK) presenting Destination Earth: Interoperability with Biodiversity Digital Twins.
#NBFC2025 #DigitalTwin #BiodiversityData #ALGHEROSYMPOSIUM2025 https://www.algherosymposium.it/
Alghero International SymposiuNov 12, 2025

💻 Oral Presentations | 15:30–16:30 – NBFC Digital Platform

🧬 Jessica Frigerio (Univ. Milano-Bicocca) — NBFC Platform: Enabling Global Access to Italian Biodiversity Genomics
🏛️ Elena Canadelli (Univ. of Padua) — Digitizing and Mapping Italian Natural History Collections: The Actions of NBFC
#NBFC2025 | #BiodiversityData | #DigitalPlatform | #OpenScience

WiNoDa Knowledge LabApr 7, 2025

📦 Data standards for natural science collections – what are they and why should you care?

DarwinCore, LIDO, ABCD… if these sound familiar but confusing, this webinar is for you! Our colleague Caitlin Thorn will explain what data standards are, how to use them, and how to choose the right one for your work.

📅 April 29, 2025 | 11:00–12:00 CET
🌐 Online | 🇬🇧 English
🔗 Register: https://winoda.de/en/event/webinar-data-standards/
#WiNoDa #DataStandards #OpenScience #NaturalScience #BiodiversityData

[Webinar] Data Standards for Natural Science Collections – WiNoDa Knowledge Lab

GBIFJan 29, 2025

📣 Calling #BiodiversityData innovators!

The 2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge has opened for submissions! ⭐

The annual GBIF grant programme celebrates innovation in the development of new and existing biodiversity data tools.

An expert jury will judge entries on their relevance, novelty and quality to select a pool of winners to share a prize pool of up to €20,000.

🕷️ Deadline: 7 September 2025

🔗 https://www.gbif.org/news/7cNvqaLzeSyQrLOulk4L5S/

2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge seeks innovations for open biodiversity data

Call to submit entries to GBIF's annual incentive competition with €20,000 in prizes **DEADLINE: 7 September 2025**

RIO JournalJan 6, 2025

📝 Survey amongst 638 informally trained members of the public engaged in #scientific endeavours reveals the majority - especially younger & non-white participants - preferred the term '#community' over '#citizen' #science.

📄 The Forum Paper is openly accessible in our #journal: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e137412.

#citizenscience #citizenscientists
#CollectionsClub #collections #biodiversity #opendata #biodiversitydata #naturalhistory

Ground Truth Forest NewsAug 17, 2024
Discover how the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) is revolutionizing biodiversity data access with its integrated Biodiversity Advisor platform.#BiodiversityData #SANBI #EnvironmentalSustainability #OpenData https://groundtruth.app/south-africas-integrated-biodiversity-data-portal-initiative-a-paradigm-shift-in-environmental-data-management/
South Africa's Integrated Biodiversity Data Portal Initiative: A Paradigm Shift in Environmental Data Management

Transforming Biodiversity Data Access in South Africa The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) is taking significant steps to create a coordinated and comprehensive biodiversity data platform. Despite the increasing availability of biodiversity information through various providers, a unified platform is missing. SANBI's redevelopment of the Biodiversity Advisor aims to

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Jon SullivanAug 15, 2023

I had a good experience with #GBIF. A record from the Natural History Museum in London had stag-horn fern, Platycerium bifurcatum, present in Wellington, NZ, in 1933, "very common on rocks and cliff faces.” This species is only now starting to naturalise from Auckland garden plants.

I submitted a note and within days the senior curator of ferns at NHM emailed saying they'd corrected the mistake—it was in Papua New Guinea—and updated the species ID.

🙂

#BiodiversityData #museum #herbarium