GBIF
@gbif.org
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Want to be the first to learn about new datasets and use of data in GBIF? Check out @gbifmorpho.bsky.social 🦋
Want to be the first to learn about new datasets and use of data in GBIF? Check out @gbifmorpho.bsky.social 🦋
🦋 The Swiss Node of GBIF (GBIF.ch) and #SwissNatColl has transformed access to Switzerland’s natural history collections by launching a national data aggregator that improves the discoverability, standardization and reusability of specimen data.
January 22, 2026 at 8:30 AM
🦋 The Swiss Node of GBIF (GBIF.ch) and #SwissNatColl has transformed access to Switzerland’s natural history collections by launching a national data aggregator that improves the discoverability, standardization and reusability of specimen data.
🎓 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
Learn more:🔗 gbif.link/GRA_2026
#ApplyNow #EarlyCareerResearch #FundingOpportunity
January 20, 2026 at 8:30 AM
🎓 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
Learn more:🔗 gbif.link/GRA_2026
#ApplyNow #EarlyCareerResearch #FundingOpportunity
🦑 Rough seas ahead for commercial squid species
Researchers modeled distributions for 12 squid species using GBIF, OBIS and climate data under different climate scenarios, but results showed regional variation across species.
Read more in the GBIF Science Review🔗gbif.link/science_re...
Researchers modeled distributions for 12 squid species using GBIF, OBIS and climate data under different climate scenarios, but results showed regional variation across species.
Read more in the GBIF Science Review🔗gbif.link/science_re...
January 19, 2026 at 8:30 AM
🦑 Rough seas ahead for commercial squid species
Researchers modeled distributions for 12 squid species using GBIF, OBIS and climate data under different climate scenarios, but results showed regional variation across species.
Read more in the GBIF Science Review🔗gbif.link/science_re...
Researchers modeled distributions for 12 squid species using GBIF, OBIS and climate data under different climate scenarios, but results showed regional variation across species.
Read more in the GBIF Science Review🔗gbif.link/science_re...
1) 🌿 Spotlighting #GBIFBenin!
Benin has been part of the GBIF network since 2004, became a voting participant in 2024, and has contributed almost 1M biodiversity records to date! 🚀
Benin has been part of the GBIF network since 2004, became a voting participant in 2024, and has contributed almost 1M biodiversity records to date! 🚀
January 16, 2026 at 8:30 AM
1) 🌿 Spotlighting #GBIFBenin!
Benin has been part of the GBIF network since 2004, became a voting participant in 2024, and has contributed almost 1M biodiversity records to date! 🚀
Benin has been part of the GBIF network since 2004, became a voting participant in 2024, and has contributed almost 1M biodiversity records to date! 🚀
📢 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
📍 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
January 15, 2026 at 1:00 PM
📢 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
📍 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
📣 Last days to have your say in the official @tdwg.org Darwin Core public review!
⚡ Get involved! All community members are encouraged to participate.
Deadline: 16 January 2026
🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...
⚡ Get involved! All community members are encouraged to participate.
Deadline: 16 January 2026
🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...
January 14, 2026 at 8:30 AM
📣 Last days to have your say in the official @tdwg.org Darwin Core public review!
⚡ Get involved! All community members are encouraged to participate.
Deadline: 16 January 2026
🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...
⚡ Get involved! All community members are encouraged to participate.
Deadline: 16 January 2026
🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...
Last chance to register!
🤔 Have questions about the European Commission-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) regional and cross-regional call?
📅 Register for the open Q&A session
📍 13 Jan 26, 09:30-10:30 & 15:30-16:30 (UTC+1) (two availabilities)
🔗 gbif.link/BID_QandA
🤔 Have questions about the European Commission-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) regional and cross-regional call?
📅 Register for the open Q&A session
📍 13 Jan 26, 09:30-10:30 & 15:30-16:30 (UTC+1) (two availabilities)
🔗 gbif.link/BID_QandA
January 13, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Last chance to register!
🤔 Have questions about the European Commission-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) regional and cross-regional call?
📅 Register for the open Q&A session
📍 13 Jan 26, 09:30-10:30 & 15:30-16:30 (UTC+1) (two availabilities)
🔗 gbif.link/BID_QandA
🤔 Have questions about the European Commission-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) regional and cross-regional call?
📅 Register for the open Q&A session
📍 13 Jan 26, 09:30-10:30 & 15:30-16:30 (UTC+1) (two availabilities)
🔗 gbif.link/BID_QandA
🐦 #CitizenScience supports improved invasive species detection
A recent study compared 200M+ citsci records accessed via GBIF with official data from 30 European countries and found that 50% of invasions were detected earlier or in the same year by citsci.
🔗 gbif.link/citsci_IAS
#DataUse
A recent study compared 200M+ citsci records accessed via GBIF with official data from 30 European countries and found that 50% of invasions were detected earlier or in the same year by citsci.
🔗 gbif.link/citsci_IAS
#DataUse
January 12, 2026 at 9:00 AM
🐦 #CitizenScience supports improved invasive species detection
A recent study compared 200M+ citsci records accessed via GBIF with official data from 30 European countries and found that 50% of invasions were detected earlier or in the same year by citsci.
🔗 gbif.link/citsci_IAS
#DataUse
A recent study compared 200M+ citsci records accessed via GBIF with official data from 30 European countries and found that 50% of invasions were detected earlier or in the same year by citsci.
🔗 gbif.link/citsci_IAS
#DataUse
🌍 Digital Sequence Information (DSI)
Under the #UnitedNations Convention on Biological Diversity, a study is examining tools and platforms to support transparent and equitable benefit-sharing from the use of DSI on genetic resources.
✍️ Share your views in this survey: 🔗 gbif.link/CBD-survey
Under the #UnitedNations Convention on Biological Diversity, a study is examining tools and platforms to support transparent and equitable benefit-sharing from the use of DSI on genetic resources.
✍️ Share your views in this survey: 🔗 gbif.link/CBD-survey
January 9, 2026 at 9:20 AM
🌍 Digital Sequence Information (DSI)
Under the #UnitedNations Convention on Biological Diversity, a study is examining tools and platforms to support transparent and equitable benefit-sharing from the use of DSI on genetic resources.
✍️ Share your views in this survey: 🔗 gbif.link/CBD-survey
Under the #UnitedNations Convention on Biological Diversity, a study is examining tools and platforms to support transparent and equitable benefit-sharing from the use of DSI on genetic resources.
✍️ Share your views in this survey: 🔗 gbif.link/CBD-survey
Have you herd? 🦓 We've just published the GBIF quarterly global and country analytics reports!
Explore dazzling data ✨such as occurrence records by taxa, time and seasonality trends, completeness and precision metrics, data sharing trends by country and more!
🔗 www.gbif.org/analyti...
Explore dazzling data ✨such as occurrence records by taxa, time and seasonality trends, completeness and precision metrics, data sharing trends by country and more!
🔗 www.gbif.org/analyti...
January 7, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Have you herd? 🦓 We've just published the GBIF quarterly global and country analytics reports!
Explore dazzling data ✨such as occurrence records by taxa, time and seasonality trends, completeness and precision metrics, data sharing trends by country and more!
🔗 www.gbif.org/analyti...
Explore dazzling data ✨such as occurrence records by taxa, time and seasonality trends, completeness and precision metrics, data sharing trends by country and more!
🔗 www.gbif.org/analyti...
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
🐙 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
January 6, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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
🐙 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
🤔 Have questions about the European Commission-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) regional and cross-regional call?
📅 Register for the open Q&A session on 13 January 2026 (with two sessions available).
📍 13 Jan 26, 09:30-10:30 & 15:30-16:30 (UTC+1)
🔗 gbif.link/BID_QandA
📅 Register for the open Q&A session on 13 January 2026 (with two sessions available).
📍 13 Jan 26, 09:30-10:30 & 15:30-16:30 (UTC+1)
🔗 gbif.link/BID_QandA
January 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM
🤔 Have questions about the European Commission-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) regional and cross-regional call?
📅 Register for the open Q&A session on 13 January 2026 (with two sessions available).
📍 13 Jan 26, 09:30-10:30 & 15:30-16:30 (UTC+1)
🔗 gbif.link/BID_QandA
📅 Register for the open Q&A session on 13 January 2026 (with two sessions available).
📍 13 Jan 26, 09:30-10:30 & 15:30-16:30 (UTC+1)
🔗 gbif.link/BID_QandA
Feeling fabulous stepping into 2026! ✨💃
Fresh from New Year's, we're excited for what's to come in 2026! 👀
📲 Stay up to date with all the latest GBIF news across our social channels (Facebook, LinkedIn, Mastodon and Bluesky) and receive our newsletter here: 🔗 gbif.link/subscribe
Fresh from New Year's, we're excited for what's to come in 2026! 👀
📲 Stay up to date with all the latest GBIF news across our social channels (Facebook, LinkedIn, Mastodon and Bluesky) and receive our newsletter here: 🔗 gbif.link/subscribe
January 2, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Feeling fabulous stepping into 2026! ✨💃
Fresh from New Year's, we're excited for what's to come in 2026! 👀
📲 Stay up to date with all the latest GBIF news across our social channels (Facebook, LinkedIn, Mastodon and Bluesky) and receive our newsletter here: 🔗 gbif.link/subscribe
Fresh from New Year's, we're excited for what's to come in 2026! 👀
📲 Stay up to date with all the latest GBIF news across our social channels (Facebook, LinkedIn, Mastodon and Bluesky) and receive our newsletter here: 🔗 gbif.link/subscribe
🐨 2025 has been a big one! We’ll be taking a short break to rest, reflect and recharge 💚
Thank you to our amazing GBIF community including nodes, data publishers, data users, volunteers, committee members and staff for an incredible year. Here’s to an exciting 2026 ahead! ⭐
Thank you to our amazing GBIF community including nodes, data publishers, data users, volunteers, committee members and staff for an incredible year. Here’s to an exciting 2026 ahead! ⭐
December 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🐨 2025 has been a big one! We’ll be taking a short break to rest, reflect and recharge 💚
Thank you to our amazing GBIF community including nodes, data publishers, data users, volunteers, committee members and staff for an incredible year. Here’s to an exciting 2026 ahead! ⭐
Thank you to our amazing GBIF community including nodes, data publishers, data users, volunteers, committee members and staff for an incredible year. Here’s to an exciting 2026 ahead! ⭐
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-...
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-...
December 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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-...
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-...
📣 The official @tdwg.org Darwin Core public review has been extended until 16 January for community input!
⚡ Get involved! All community members are encouraged to participate.
🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...
⚡ Get involved! All community members are encouraged to participate.
🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...
December 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
📣 The official @tdwg.org Darwin Core public review has been extended until 16 January for community input!
⚡ Get involved! All community members are encouraged to participate.
🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...
⚡ Get involved! All community members are encouraged to participate.
🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...
🤔 Have questions about the European Commission-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) regional and cross-regional call?
📅 Register for the open Q&A session on 13 January 2026 from 09:30-10:30 (UTC+1) to raise any questions about BID programme.
🔗 gbif.link/BID_QandA
📅 Register for the open Q&A session on 13 January 2026 from 09:30-10:30 (UTC+1) to raise any questions about BID programme.
🔗 gbif.link/BID_QandA
December 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🤔 Have questions about the European Commission-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) regional and cross-regional call?
📅 Register for the open Q&A session on 13 January 2026 from 09:30-10:30 (UTC+1) to raise any questions about BID programme.
🔗 gbif.link/BID_QandA
📅 Register for the open Q&A session on 13 January 2026 from 09:30-10:30 (UTC+1) to raise any questions about BID programme.
🔗 gbif.link/BID_QandA
🚀 We're on the lookout for a temporary data administrator to join the Data Products team within in the GBIF Secretariat managing all aspects of data processing and data content!
❄️ Deadline: 13 January 2026
🔗 gbif.link/data-admin...
Note this role is located in Denmark
❄️ Deadline: 13 January 2026
🔗 gbif.link/data-admin...
Note this role is located in Denmark
December 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🚀 We're on the lookout for a temporary data administrator to join the Data Products team within in the GBIF Secretariat managing all aspects of data processing and data content!
❄️ Deadline: 13 January 2026
🔗 gbif.link/data-admin...
Note this role is located in Denmark
❄️ Deadline: 13 January 2026
🔗 gbif.link/data-admin...
Note this role is located in Denmark
(1) 🍄 A newly mobilized macrofungi dataset offers fresh insight into fungal diversity in Kenya! 🤩
Compiled by East African Wild Life Society and National Museums of Kenya the dataset documents macrofungi occurrences in the Lake Ol’Bolossat ecosystem.
Compiled by East African Wild Life Society and National Museums of Kenya the dataset documents macrofungi occurrences in the Lake Ol’Bolossat ecosystem.
December 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
(1) 🍄 A newly mobilized macrofungi dataset offers fresh insight into fungal diversity in Kenya! 🤩
Compiled by East African Wild Life Society and National Museums of Kenya the dataset documents macrofungi occurrences in the Lake Ol’Bolossat ecosystem.
Compiled by East African Wild Life Society and National Museums of Kenya the dataset documents macrofungi occurrences in the Lake Ol’Bolossat ecosystem.
🐙 The GBIF Secretariat is seeking a senior data engineer to work with our Engineering team!
🌏 This is a fully remote contractor role, initially for twelve months, with potential travel to workshops or meetings with GBIF partners.
🚀 Deadline: 9 January 2026
🔗gbif.link/senior-dat...
🌏 This is a fully remote contractor role, initially for twelve months, with potential travel to workshops or meetings with GBIF partners.
🚀 Deadline: 9 January 2026
🔗gbif.link/senior-dat...
December 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🐙 The GBIF Secretariat is seeking a senior data engineer to work with our Engineering team!
🌏 This is a fully remote contractor role, initially for twelve months, with potential travel to workshops or meetings with GBIF partners.
🚀 Deadline: 9 January 2026
🔗gbif.link/senior-dat...
🌏 This is a fully remote contractor role, initially for twelve months, with potential travel to workshops or meetings with GBIF partners.
🚀 Deadline: 9 January 2026
🔗gbif.link/senior-dat...
🐆 Call for proposals for the @ec.europa.eu-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme is OPEN!
Regional & cross-regional projects in #SubSaharanAfrica, #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean or the #Pacific are invited.
Call: gbif.link/BID-region...
FAQs: gbif.link/BID-FAQs
Regional & cross-regional projects in #SubSaharanAfrica, #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean or the #Pacific are invited.
Call: gbif.link/BID-region...
FAQs: gbif.link/BID-FAQs
December 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🐆 Call for proposals for the @ec.europa.eu-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme is OPEN!
Regional & cross-regional projects in #SubSaharanAfrica, #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean or the #Pacific are invited.
Call: gbif.link/BID-region...
FAQs: gbif.link/BID-FAQs
Regional & cross-regional projects in #SubSaharanAfrica, #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean or the #Pacific are invited.
Call: gbif.link/BID-region...
FAQs: gbif.link/BID-FAQs
There's still time to register for the GBIF #DataUseClub session TODAY! 🦎
Hear from the two 2025 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award winners - PhD student Kumdet Panshak Solomon and Master's student Esteban Marentes Herrera!
📍 11 December 2025, 15:00-16:30 CET
🔗 gbif.link/DUC_GRA
Hear from the two 2025 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award winners - PhD student Kumdet Panshak Solomon and Master's student Esteban Marentes Herrera!
📍 11 December 2025, 15:00-16:30 CET
🔗 gbif.link/DUC_GRA
December 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
There's still time to register for the GBIF #DataUseClub session TODAY! 🦎
Hear from the two 2025 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award winners - PhD student Kumdet Panshak Solomon and Master's student Esteban Marentes Herrera!
📍 11 December 2025, 15:00-16:30 CET
🔗 gbif.link/DUC_GRA
Hear from the two 2025 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award winners - PhD student Kumdet Panshak Solomon and Master's student Esteban Marentes Herrera!
📍 11 December 2025, 15:00-16:30 CET
🔗 gbif.link/DUC_GRA
We love to sea 🌊 marine datasets, so if you're a data publisher, make sure you're publishing your data 🐙 to both GBIF and OBIS to maximize data consistency, usability and interoperability across global networks!
OBIS joined the @gbif.org Technical Support Hour for a session on interoperability, data quality, & why publishing marine biodiversity data to OBIS and GBIF matters for science & policy.
👉 The main takeaway: GBIF-ready datasets are a click away from being added to OBIS!
obis.org/2025/10/23/o...
👉 The main takeaway: GBIF-ready datasets are a click away from being added to OBIS!
obis.org/2025/10/23/o...
December 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
We love to sea 🌊 marine datasets, so if you're a data publisher, make sure you're publishing your data 🐙 to both GBIF and OBIS to maximize data consistency, usability and interoperability across global networks!
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...
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...
December 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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...
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...