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💡 Switching on a new era for GBIF!

Yesterday GBIF went live in a new data centre, on new hardware and moved from our Cloudera-based data warehouse onto Stackable.tech!

This is the result of a huge amount of work from engineering team who work tirelessly to keep GBIF serving billions of records a day. ❤️

There may be teething issues, 🦷 so please bear with us! 🐻

Getting the hang of #3Dprinting #naturalhistoryspecimens
@naturmusee #MNHNLcollections
Great way to enlarge, miniaturize or multiply otherwise inaccessible #naturalhistorycollection objects.
All the original scans are of course freely available on our #sketchfab profile: https://sketchfab.com/mnhnl
Musée national d'histoire naturelle Luxembourg (@mnhnl)

View the profile and 3D models by Musée national d'histoire naturelle Luxembourg (@mnhnl). National Museum of Natural History, digitizing the natural heritage of Luxembourg.

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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.
Einen großen Dank an Dr. Michael Eickermann vom Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology - LIST, der gestern Abend im Rahmen der Impakt-Ausstellung über den Zusammenhang von Insektenschwund und Klimawandel informierte. Erschwerend kommt noch dazu, dass es für bessere Erkenntnisse auch dramatisch an Taxonomen fehlt, vor allem in Luxemburg. Auch hier müsste angesetzt werden. Eine Position, der wir uns als naturhistorisches Museum nur anschließen können.

A kind observation that exclusively calling this place "Mastodon" has a bit similar energy as saying "I just sent a GMail."

"Fediverse" (or "fedi") is a more inclusive, general term.

Mastodon is just one of many software projects that talk to each other to create this multi-instance social network:
https://axbom.com/fediverse/

(kudos to @axbom for this fantastic infographic!)

There are blogs, Reddit-like communities, video instances and many more, all part of fedi.

#TwitterMigration #NewHere

The many branches of the Fediverse

As more and more people are asking me about Mastodon I felt a need for a picture to point at, showcasing how the software known as Mastodon fits into the much larger concept of the Fediverse. I made this infographic to help myself and others explain the many different use-cases

Axbom • My Next Heartbeat
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.

A nice addition to the @ORCID_Org website to help integrate with Mastodon would be to support the use of the rel="me" attribute in a way that Mastodon users can use it to #verify academic identities.

This would let links to ORCID's show in green with check marks on user profiles, thus quickly proving that the account is run by the person associated with that #ORCID.

There's already an issue open, so go up vote if you'd like to see this supported

https://github.com/ORCID/ORCID-Source/issues/6668

rel="me" links are not rendered in the source code · Issue #6668 · ORCID/ORCID-Source

Websites like Mastodon, allow users to "verify" their profiles on other websites. For example, adding <a href="https://mastodon.example/@username" rel="me">Mastodon</a> to a website will let a craw...

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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.
What better way to get ready for the #holydays ❄️🎄🌨️ than to #3dprint some #iNaturalist themed ornaments 😍
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
Redwing (Turdus iliacus)

Redwing from Bouneweg-Süd, Lëtzebuerg, Luxembourg on December 15, 2022 at 10:56 AM by Paul Braun

iNaturalist Luxembourg