Dmitry Schigel

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Searching for a spectacular writer! 🔎🪲

GBIF are seeking a contractor to support the Secretariat in producing an overview paper documenting GBIF's 25 years of operations.

Deadline for proposal submissions: 📍 3 December 2025.

⚡Explore the details here:🔗 gbif.link/25-year-co...

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That's a wrap 🧬 on the eDNA workshop this week!

Thank you to all participants for engaging in productive discussions!

This workshop was made possible by @minderoo.bsky.social 💚

@obis.org @hifmb.de #JonahVentures @dtobioflow.bsky.social @myco-microbio.bsky.social
@unite-sh.bsky.social

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Deep-diving eDNA-derived data 🧬

The Secretariat is hosting a three-day workshop in #Copenhagen this week along with invited experts and stakeholders to review the future GBIF eDNA roadmap.🚀

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Probably the easiest index to measure civilization progress is VAT on books

Many thanks for inviting me to represent GBIF @gbif.org, excellent discussion and top level of hosting and of organization. Let's link some data and some services! 🍎🍏🍇🍊🥭🍄🪰🪲🐛🐞

👀 Are you a strategic operator with strong interpersonal leadership?
✨ #ELIXIR is looking for a Head of Operations to lead the ELIXIR Operations team and coordinate implementation of our scientific programme.
Apply by 15 November 👉 https://loom.ly/uHj611E

Impressed by the @efsa.europa.eu building, meeting facilities, thought about architectural detail (incl. placing outdoor work stations where building’s midday shadow is). Happy people in good ergonomic setup work better! EU🇪🇺funds well spent on supporting efficiency (x sun, food, and coffee via 🇮🇹)

🌱 EFSA 23rd Plant Health Risk Assessment Network meeting: the Agenda has been published, presenting the variety of topics that will be discussed at EFSA from the 4th to the 6th November! Experts from 27 countries are coming together to strengthen plant health. bit.ly/4hgoZeM

Happy, with Marie Grosjean, to present @gbif.org to 23rd meeting of the @efsa.europa.eu Scientific Network for Risk Assessment in Plant Health; excellent discussions and perspectives! www.efsa.europa.eu/en/events/23rd-meeting-efsa-scientific-network-risk-assessment-plant-health-plh-risk-assessment

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🎨 New research reveals that New Zealand's truffle-like fungi (TLF) are uniquely vibrant compared to their global counterparts. 🍄

While most TLF are dull-coloured, many NZ species are vibrant and grow above ground, 🌈 suggesting adaptations for bird-mediated dispersal.🐦

🔗gbif.link/data-use-t...

Looking forward to joining the V.I.P screening in Copenhagen!

Data Shadows: i dati si svelano - Orto Botanico di Padova Lunedì 3 novembre, a partire dalle ore 16, il Teatro botanico ospiterà in prima visione nazionale la proiezione del film Data Shadows

If around Padova on Nov 3, join the Italian launch of film Data Shadows, in conversation with outstanding colleagues & National Centre for Biodiversity. Dialogues on data rights and nature, extractive epistemologies, public science and constructive ways forward ortobotanico1545.it/eventi/data-...

Thanks to @insectai.bsky.social for supporting my time-lapse based short-term scientific mission of invertebrate-fungus interactions. Summary of the 2025 hot season insectai.eu/stsms-experi.... Thanks to LUOMUS @helsinki.fi for project hosting and for excellent questions at the last week's seminar!

Amazed that on-demand nature of mail (and that reading in control of recipient) manages to escape understanding. I've heard concerns about late hours, weekend emails and I wonder if folk also meet postmen in person... Next level - an email which closes for weekend! Who unionized email?🤦‍♂️

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🚀 Today @efsa.europa.eu and @ecdc.europa.eu are launching the VectorNet Data Portal which uses GBIF Hosted Portal infrastructure!

This portal supports increased discovery, access and appropriate use of data on vector occurrences in Europe! 🦟

🔗gbif.link/vectornet

🙌 Join #ELIXIR’s international and dynamic team as the ELIXIR Head of Operations:💡 Lead the Operations team, coordinate ELIXIR's governance processes and foster connections with key stakeholders.
Apply now 👉 https://loom.ly/uHj611E

#ResearchInfrastructures #hiring

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💙💛 #Ukraine joins GBIF as the 23rd Associate Participant!

Despite the profound disruptions caused by war, more than 2.4 million records have been mobilized by institutes in Ukraine to GBIF to date, supporting research and decision making.

🔗 Learn more: gbif.link/ukraine

Data is for life (and not just International Data Week) This week is International Data Week in Brisbane, and having watched along and participated I've decided to share a brief write-up of what I thought the highlights and themes of the event were.

As International Data Week has just finished, if you didn't make it to Brisbane here is a brief write-up of my highlights and what I thought were some of the main themes this year open.substack.com/pub/scedmund... #IDW2025

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📣 #CatalogueOfLife (COL) enhancement supports improved global taxonomic reference for GBIF!

The enhancement expands the taxonomic sources for species information to include global, regional, national, management and digital literature data sources (checklists). 🦋

🔗https://gbif.link/COL

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Master's student Esteban Marentes of #Colombia has been named as a GBIF Graduate Researcher's Award winner! ⭐

🪲Esteban’s research focuses on using machine learning models to predict beetle species diversity across Colombia’s Antioquia province. 🌎

🔗: gbif.link/GRA_esteban

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PhD student Kumdet Panshak Solomon of #Nigeria has been named as a 2025 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award winner! 🥳

🐦 Panshak’s research advances biodiversity informatics in West Africa by leveraging GBIF-mediated data collected through BirdPlus 📲

🔗: gbif.link/GRA_panshak

DNA metabarcoding data on saproxylic fungal communities inhabiting fine woody debris in boreal forests of northern Finland: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

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⏰ 3 weeks to go until #LivingData2025!

The presentation deadline has been extended to 14 October 🎉

👉If you're a presenter, check inbox for further instructions! ✉️

See you in Bogotá or online! 🌍✨

#DatosVivos2025 @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org #InstitutoHumboldt

Thanks for the post, Sabina, abstract submitted

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🎂 Happy 24th birthday to us! 🥳

This month we're celebrating our 24 years of the Global Biodiversity information Facility, 💚 but did you know that we almost weren't called GBIF?

Take a brief look at some of GBIF's fascinating history 👀

Big thank you to Steve Young for sharing his knowledge!

Guide out! Connecting ecology & monitoring data to be FAIR and @GBIF. Guide for data-intensive research and for policy , incl. indicators, EBVs, and cubes for decision making. Developed with Kate Ingenloff's leadership, everything is ready for quantitative data to become discoverable through GBIF!

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🚨Have your say on the new conceptual model and Data Package Guide for #DarwinCore

The @tdwg.org Darwin Core Maintenance Group has opened a 90-day public review and comment period for the new conceptual model and Data Package Guide.

🗓️ 17 September – 16 December 2025
🔗 www.tdwg.org/news/20...

It's a pro con

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That’s a wrap! 🦟💚

The GBIF task group on biodiversity data for human diseases has completed its second term, with the release of the new guide to publishing biodiversity data on disease vectors, hosts and pathogens! 📖

Check out the story and explore the guide:🔗gbif.link/vector_tas...

Thanks for posing! I will try to tune in, though registration seem to only offer onsite options... Would be nice to find out how to get a working link on time. Thanks!