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Such a huge difference, the now looks sooo much better!
Do you have pumps in your ponds, or are the plants enough for aeration?

Take a break from the summer heat and check out the beautiful images and stories from Luis and @joanjsoto.bsky.social 's Antarctic adventure!

Beautiful!
Is this a stacked image, or single shot? How big (or small!) are these guys?

Watch Nico finally spot his velvet belly lantern shark(s) from a submersible!
Also, GLOW IN THE DARK SHARK! 🦈
youtu.be/zHWVFDi6qQk?...

blue background with a drawing of a flamingo, some trees and a flattened map of the world

🦩 Have your say on the new #guide for publishing biological survey data to GBIF!

The guide supports data holders in structuring and making biological survey data openly accessible.

⭐ Community review is open until 20 July 2025

🔗 gbif.link/survey-dat...

An insect with a short body and long abdomen, like a dragonfly. It has four wings and is holding them raised over the body. The ant lion is on a wall of the garage, but the photo is rotated to show it like its sitting on a white surface.

Ant Lion that we found hanging out in @crytzerfry.bsky.social garage. These insects are mostly known for their predatory larva which build sand pits to trap passing insects, like ants. Ecology of adults is understudied and not well know.
(Euptilon arizonense) Mammoth, AZ

#wormwednesday!

🚨BREAKING🚨COOL SHREW FOUND
insideecology.com/2025/07/03/o...

A narrow, tiny (10? cm) aquarium with rounded bottom made in acrylic. Image snagged from the website, which is https://www.frederiksen-scientific.no/produkt/demonstrasjonskyvette/761550

Oh wow, they look stunning though!
Re: photos of small fish, this little gadget is one of my favourite things to have in the field (or at outreach events) - it's like the smallest little aquarium!

If anyone cross-stitches this, I want to see it!
(very cool #PixelArt!)

blue background with a drawing of a flamingo, some trees and a flattened map of the world

🦩 New guide for publishing biological survey data to GBIF is open for community review!

The guide supports data holders in structuring and making biological survey data openly accessible.

⭐ Community review is open until 20 July 2025

🔗 gbif.link/survey-dat...

Ok, this is a delightful read *cackles*
And I repeat, please come to Bergen later, Ursula!
We have more whales, less poop!
(though I agree with Sven's vision regarding birds!)

Safe travels! I was really, really hoping you would come to Bergen as well, but lucky Oslo then! Maybe next time? Would happily show you the city (and the natural History Museum!).
Hope you get to see many nice things and meet cool people (and animals!).

Corals

Congratulations!

What then remained?

Launch of iBOL Europe Gap List We are building a DNA reference library of the eukaryotic species in Europe.  The iBOL Europe community aims to accelerate the completion of a DNA barcode reference library of European species. An ess...

The last, much participated edition of our Community Meeting is just behind us.

Rutger Vos presented our Gap List: an updated list of the animal species that occur in Europe according to various taxonomic databases: iboleurope.org/launch-of-ib...

Fitting for #MolluscMonday!

(bonus #ILOVEBHL tagging!)
(though I'm annoyed at Flickr for insisting I sign up to browse your content there now)

Oof! :( But a good read! There's a link to the pdf in the comments.

It looks so good!

Love it!
(and yes, it happens here too!)

Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, June 23, 2025

A competitive 3-year postdoc has opened at the Natural History Museum Oslo. Message me if you are interested in developing a project aimed as using digital PCR methods to evaluate apicomplexans in Norwegian migratory birds and tropical arthropods
#protist #parasite #ProtistsOnSky

There's a Norwegian proverb which goes "Det er i motbakke det går oppover" - it's uphill that brings you upwards!
You're working, you're learning - keep at it!

Data mobilization call 2025 - GBIF Norway - Global Biodiversity Information Facility 2025 call for project proposals for co-funding the preparation of your species occurrence data and ensuring the data quality before datasets are published in GBIF and the Norwegian Species Map (Artska...

www.gbif.no/projects/co-...

Screengrab from gbif.org of the world map, showing the location of preserved specimen occurrences as a heatmap. The colors range from dark green (=no records) to red (many records).

💰 Data mobilization call 2025 from @gbifnorway.bsky.social is out!

It's a call for project proposals for co-funding the preparation of your species occurrence data, targeting Norwegian institutions - check it out (link in comment).

Deadline 15th of June!

@gbif.org #DataSharing #Biodiversity

These are *amazing*!

The COVER! *swoons* Oh my, it's beautiful - need to study it in more detail now, and follow even more cool creative invertebrate people 😁

Oh my goodness how beautiful it looks! 🤩
Very cool that a SEM photo of a Bryozoan from #NorDigBryo made it :) DO give a follow to Franz if you aren't already, and if you are on Insta, check out @NorDigBryo there!

@tkingfisher.com are you coming to Bergen, Norway?! Drop a message if you want a tour!

Screengrab of "Agassiz, Alexander. Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoology: North American Acalephae. Vol. 2. p. 44.", showing pages of (quite fun to read!) text about what was then Cyanea arctica, now Cyanea capillata, with a black and white drawing of the jellyfish with "tentacles cut off for want of room"

Just one of many, many uses of @biodivlibrary.bsky.social ; was looking for the original citation on enormous size of Lion's mane jellyfish (it's repeated throughout the internet without reference) - ta-da; BHL to the rescue! #ILOVEBHL www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28070439