@dschigel.bsky.social
@GBIF Lead scientific officer, Associate Prof. (Docent) @helsinkiuni. Data, fungi, beetles, trees, books & dead wood. Mix of work, research and personal posts
Добре дошли! Excellent news
24.07.2025 07:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🦩 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...
More Things That Editors Dislike - hype. Words such as 'groundbreaking', 'breakthrough' and 'transformative' are anathema. Good data analysed properly should speak for themselves.
10.07.2025 10:44 — 👍 36 🔁 5 💬 6 📌 2
🙌 A case study from #PathOS project has demonstrated the value and impact of #UniProt, the universal protein resource. 💪 Findings of this case study strengthen the case for sustainable funding for 🌍 global #openscience resources.
Read the news 👉 https://loom.ly/Rcpa8cU
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💙 This week Tsiky Rabetrano and Paloma Shimabukuro co-hosted a workshop on data sharing for vector-borne disease control in #Ghana as part of the 5th Annual #WAASuN Meeting!
They covered topics such as biodiversity data standards, data cleaning and preparing datasets for publication on GBIF.
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🦇 Community review is open until 30 June for the GBIF new guide on publishing data about disease vectors, hosts and pathogens!
The guide aims to reduce barriers to sharing and accessing vector data 🌏
gbif.link/vectors-guide
GRIIS appears working for me at griis.org
18.06.2025 20:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Nice! I would like to use a datalogger that measures basic weather data but also light at the camera location. What would be a good choice so the camera produced data could be go neatly with datalogger's (without major syncing pains etc). Did not use dataloggers since 2013, tech has evolved a bit...
11.06.2025 18:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A red flower on a green stem withe the words: BHL Call for support now open overlayed.
📢 The #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary is entering a bold new chapter – and we need your help! Today we release our official Call for Support. We’re seeking new hosts for BHL’s staff, infrastructure, and services. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL
11.06.2025 17:05 — 👍 87 🔁 87 💬 2 📌 13
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📣🦟 The third call for data papers describing datasets on #vectors of #humandiseases is closing this week!
GBIF has collaborated with #TDR, and Gigabyte Press for a special journal issue in @gigabytejournal.bsky.social.
📌 Deadline: 6 June 2025
🔗gbif.link/Vector-Pap...
🦋 >3.4 million insect records based on DNA metabarcoding of bulk samples from #Sweden and #Madagascar have been mobilized to GBIF thanks to collaborative efforts of research institutions led by the #NaturhistoriskaRiksmuseet! 🧬
🔗gbif.link/insect_dat...
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🦇 A new guide on publishing data about disease vectors, hosts and pathogens is now open for community review!
The guide aims to reduce barriers to sharing and accessing vector data globally. 🌏
⭐ Community review is open until 30 June 2025.
gbif.link/vectors-guide
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🚀 Last call for registrations to the webinar: Introducing the Darwin Core Data Package!
Join us as we share updates on a new data model for GBIF and exciting changes proposed for the Darwin Core standard!
📍 2 June 2025 14:00 - 15:00 CEST
Register here: 🔗 gbif.link/DwC-webinar
@tdwg.org
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🌽1 day left to have your say in the GBIF consultation #survey on agrobiodiversity data!
Help shape the future of GBIF's engagement across the agrobiodiversity thematic community! 👩🔬
📍Survey deadline: 30 May 2025
🔗gbif.link/agro-consu...
Thank to a partnership between @pensoft.net and @biodivlibrary.bsky.social , our content is now available in the Biodiversity Heritage Library! A lot of other journals using the ARPHA Platform are also archived there.
blog.pensoft.net/2025/05/20/p...
Love self-developed postdoc – was lucky to have such 1st (& self-) PI experience @SuomenAkatemia - was probably the steepest prof & highly valued learning stage. ⬇️ is opposite to "publication machine" opportunities or <2yrs jobs that some try to normalize. Be like @uio.no & Natural History Museum
21.05.2025 19:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hey you researcher of forest biodiversity!
If your research merits and ambitions are of the highest level, and you want to influence the societal debate on biodiversity, we offer a dream position @syke.fi! 👇
valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/rese...
XII European symposium on saproxylic ecology — ESSE2025. The largest event in the series: about 100 people from 20 countries, expanding saproxylic scope beyond insects #saproxylic #deadwood
14.05.2025 08:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wonderful video ode to dead wood with particular focus on mimicking windfall: brilliant 10 mins video by Bill Sutherland and his guest speaker Richard Mason. I have been watching Bill's series with great pleasure, and today I was rewarded by an episode about my fav habitat 🪵🪲🍄
08.05.2025 21:27 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0A remote #job for @datadryad.bsky.social - head of data publishing
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Are you subscribed to the GBIF #newsletter? ⚡
Catch up on recent news items, current calls and opportunities, upcoming events and more!
🦋 Latest newsletter: gbif.link/may-newsle...
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🌿 Biodiversity is the backbone of our planet's health—let's protect it for a sustainable future. 🌍
#BiodiversityDay #KMGBF #SDGs @unbiodiversity.bsky.social
We need all possible @gbif.org voices and inputs for efficient work with agrobiodiversity data - hope to see many of you online tomorrow
29.04.2025 09:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you missed last weeks "Author Insight on How to Publish Vectors of Human Disease Data with @gbif.org and GigaByte" webinar you can watch it here doi.org/10.52843/cas...
29.04.2025 07:17 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Wishing @biodivlibrary.bsky.social smooth transition, content growth, and stability of services #ILOVEBHL
23.04.2025 10:09 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#TDR GBIF and @gigascience.bsky.social have extended their third call data papers on #vectors of human disease for inclusion in a series published in #GigaByteJournal!
Join the team for a #webinar to learn how to submit your work to the series.
📍22 April 17:00 - 18:00
🔗 ow.ly/AEFN50VutFC
We're recruiting a new Head of Data Publishing. If you're passionate about open science and research data – and know all about publishing operations – take a look: bit.ly/4jhQ4xJ
04.04.2025 13:31 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
🆕 @gbif.org service enables easy creation of customised species occurrence data cubes, aiding biodiversity analysis, developed as part of their work in the B-Cubed Project with
@inbo.be 🌐
📌 Full details: www.gbif.org/news/5PapgYC...
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🧬 This week GBIF executive secretary Joe Miller is attending the 20th Session of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the #UNFAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
📸Pictured with Joe is Benoît Girard, former GBIF Canada head of delegation and current #CGFRA chair
We’re #hiring! Dryad is looking for a full-time data curator to join our team. Fully remote, but fully supported. If you have a passion for research data quality and open data publication, take a look: blog.datadryad.org/jobs/
#opendata #datasharing #scisky
