@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
🌿 New paper: "FAIR Digital Twins for biodiversity"
Combining #DigitalTwins with #FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) addresses data fragmentation & model integration using #RO-Crate.
Thanks to co-authors & BioDT team! @horizoneu.bsky.social
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s441...
Registration for the Dead Wood Course 2026 - forma iberica - will close on 15 February. Two weeks before the deadline - and half of the places are gone, thanks to the interest from Spain, Italy, Norway, Poland, and Finland. Remining all planning to join to register on time!
02.02.2026 19:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Registrations and abstract submissions for #BioMonWeek2026 open on 4 February 2026!
Explore the 9️⃣ conference themes and list of contributed sessions!
🗓️ 4-8 May 2026
🌐 www.biomonweek.eu
Co-organized by @biodiversa.eu #AllianceforNature @bioagora.eu @gbif.org & @marco-bolo.bsky.social
All videos from our #LivingData2025 conference with @geobon.org, @gbif.org, and @obis.org are now public! It was an amazing conference in Bogota, Colombia, thanks to our hosts at Instituto Humboldt. www.youtube.com/@LivingData2...
24.01.2026 00:29 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
TDWG 2026, Oslo, Call for Sessions, Deadline: 26 Feb 2026, 09:59 UTC
📣 Call for sessions for TDWG 2026
You're invited to submit a proposal for an organized session at TDWG 2026 in #Oslo, Norway.
Conference theme: 🤖 Research & robot-ready biodiversity data standards
⭐Deadline 26 Feb 2026, 10:59 GMT +1
Learn more: 🔗 tdwg.link/call-for-ses...
Cream coloured background with an illustration of a tarsier and in red text overlaid reads 2026 Graduate Researchers Award with the GBIF logo displayed at the bottom
🎓 The 2026 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award is now open for nominations! This award celebrates innovative Master’s and PhD research powered by GBIF-mediated data, with opportunity to win 2x €5,000 prizes!
Learn more:🔗 gbif.link/GRA_2026
#ApplyNow #EarlyCareerResearch #FundingOpportunity
The Dead Wood Course 2026 will take place in Northern Spain, in the forested mountains of Asturias near Oviedo on 18-22 May 2026. Only 18 places open for registration. Webpage: wp.me/PasgGV-xX
Registration: forms.gle/QvPwGEX4iANL... is open until 15 February 2026
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📢 Registrations for #BioMonWeek2026 are opening in early February!
📍 Montpellier, France
📅 4–8 May 2026
Join the first edition of the European conference on biodiversity monitoring!
www.biomonweek.eu
@biodiversa.eu, GBIF, MARCO-BOLO project, @bioagora.eu #AllianceforNature
Happy to share the backstage & interview video about my #timelapse based fieldwork on #insect 🪲🦟 visitation of #fungi 🍄 in Finland, supported by @insectai.bsky.social #InsectAICOSTAction and hosted by the Finnish Museum of Natural History. Cinematography🎥: Peter Schigel youtu.be/aloSfcnzCYs?...
10.01.2026 12:44 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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We currently have TWO open positions within the GBIF Secretariat!
🐙 Senior software data enginee within the Engineering team 🔗gbif.link/senior-dat...
📍Applications close 9 Jan 2026
🦭 Data administrator within the Data Products team
🔗 gbif.link/data-admin...
📍Applications close 13 Jan 2026
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Documenting the roots 🌺 of Arctic biogeography
The Vascular Plants from Eirik Raude's Land dataset is now available on GBIF, documenting >5,000 plant observations in Greenland from the 1930s.
Data was published through the #DanBIF IPT💚
🔗 gbif.link/plants-of-...
Announcing Dead Wood Course 2026 – forma iberica
The course will take place in Asturias in Northern Spain on (17) 18–22 May 2026, and only up to 18 participant places will be available this time. Link to expression of interest forms.gle/zhfvJFoxouLq...
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News splash! 💦 🐟 GBIF data use surges globally, powering more than 12,000 studies across 180 countries! 🤯
The systematic review led by Dirk Steinke published in @pnas.org examined scopes, methods and complementary data sources in literature citing GBIF.
Read more: 🔗 gbif.link/systematic...
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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...
group photo of the edna workshop
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.🚀
@minderoo.bsky.social
Probably the easiest index to measure civilization progress is VAT on books
07.11.2025 19:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Many 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! 🍎🍏🍇🍊🥭🍄🪰🪲🐛🐞
06.11.2025 13:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
👀 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 🇮🇹)
06.11.2025 12:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🌱 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
17.10.2025 12:49 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
04.11.2025 21:08 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
bright pink truffle fungi in the dirt
🎨 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!
02.11.2025 07:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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-...
01.11.2025 15:57 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1Thanks 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!
01.11.2025 10:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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?🤦♂️
31.10.2025 12:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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
