The new year has arrive! 🍾 🙌
So time to start a new season of #biodiversity recording with #iNaturalist #iNaturalistLU
While #birdwatching is a sure bet during #winter to spot some interesting 🐦 species, with temperatures well above 0° #Luxembourg 🇱🇺 it's even possible to find flowering plants 😲
However more interesting is diving into the fascinating #microcosmos 🔍 of reproductive structures of numerous lichen species.

It's the #EndOfTheYear, so time to do some data housekeeping: like creating a new download of my RG #iNaturalistLU #biodiversity data @gbif and citing the #DOI on my @ORCID_Org profile.
By adding #ORCID to #iNaturalist it becomes easy to track ones research grade observations on #GBIF
6.191 #opendata records made available to #science 😍👍 and more to come.

Nice to see that you can actually validate your #mastodon account against your #iNaturalistLU user account 👍 ❤️
Simply add the appropriate link back to your mastodon account to your #iNaturalist profile bio.

The perks of working from home:
the occasional peak out the window #birdwatching 🐦🦅🦆🦉 📷
Today spotted another first for me: a Redwing 🐦(Turdus iliacus) & immediately reported #iNaturalist #iNaturalistLU for identification confirmation👍
https://inaturalist.lu/observations/144410502

Let the #mastodon experience begin with an #introduction
Paul Braun #DigitalCurator @naturmusee #Luxembourg
- working on pretty much everything concerning #digitisation of #naturalHeritage #naturalHistory collections
- #iNaturalist site manager for 🇱🇺 #iNaturalistLU
- #GBIF 🇱🇺 node manager
- #wikidata & #wikicommons ? I'm in!