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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 🦋

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✍️ Join our last Data Use Club event for the year: Sequence data on the new GBIF.org

This session provides an overview of using the sequence search function, including discussions of best practices for using the sequence data.

📍 19 November 09:00-10:30 CET

🔗gbif.link/DUC_sequen...

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2) In 2023, researchers surveyed soil fungal communities across 225 sites in mainland Ukraine, including Carpathian montane forests and mixed forests to forest-steppe and Pontic steppe habitats.

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1) 🍄 What lies beneath Ukraine’s soils? 🧬 Two recently published datasets used DNA metabarcoding to reveal fungal diversity that can be difficult to capture through traditional field surveys alone.

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📣 Attention R and python users! 🐸 The latest versions rgbif (3.9.0) and pygbif (0.7.0) have now be published! These new version introduce potentially breaking changes 💔 as the default taxonomy has shifted from the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy to the Catalogue of Life Extended Release. ⬇️⬇️

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More GB33 and the GBIF Science Symposium snaps 📸 from last week! A huge thank you to @gbifnorway.bsky.social for their incredible hospitality and organization of the events. 💖 Stay tuned for a detailed wrap-up of all our Oslo events coming soon! 👀

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📣 Remote contractor wanted! We're on the hunt for an expert on molecular OTU clustering and target-gene classification services as part of the GBIF SPLICE project🧬

📍 Application deadline: 30 October 2026
⌚ 12 month contract
🔗 gbif.link/SPLICE-con...

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🚀 Day 2 of the 33rd GBIF Governing Board Meeting was filled with lively discussions and continued advancement on key governance decisions for the year ahead. In the evening, the Governing Board ventured out on the Oslo Fjord 🛥️🌙 @gbifnorway.bsky.social 📸 Mélianie Raymond

Collage of highlights from the second day of the 33rd GBIF Governing Board meeting
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🎊 Congratulations to the four winners of the 2026 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge!

🏆 BioRisk AI (Argentina)
🏆 OBIS Species Distribution Models (SDMs) (Belgium) OBIS
🏆bioReportR (Canada)
🏆georeference.it (Portugal)

Read about the ENC winning projects: 🔗gbif.link/ENC-2026-w...

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✍️Meeting once per year, the GBIF Governing Board discusses critical work for both the Secretariat and the broader network, updates from the GBIF Committees, review of the GBIF budget for the next financial year and other emerging priorities. 💚 Thank you to our GB33 hosts @gbifnorway.bsky.social!

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🌱 A wonderful evening last night at Klimahuset in Oslo 🌕 with GBIF Norway and the Director of the Naturhistorisk Museum opening the icebreaker event ahead of the 33rd GBIF Governing Board Meeting. 💚 📸 Mélianie Raymond

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🕷️ Introducing community metrics: a new pilot set of national-level metrics that are designed to quantify data gaps in GBIF and help to identify priorities for biodiversity data mobilization.

🔎 Explore the metrics and share your feedback! 🔗data-blog.gbif.org/p...

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Following #TDWG2026 last week, we've got another full week in #Oslo!

⭐ Monday: Meetings of the GBIF Committees
🐝 Tuesday - Thursday: The 33rd meeting of the GBIF Governing Board
🧬Friday: GBIF Science Symposium 🔗gbif.link/SciSympOslo

Thank you to our hosts @gbifnorway.bsky.social

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And that's a wrap! A huge shout-out to the incredible #TDWG team for bringing to life such a wonderful conference. 💙💚

It's been great to connect with so many talented biodiversity professionals, catch up with old friends and hear about the work happening across the community!

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You won't want to miss these talks at #TDWG2026! ✍️ Today you can catch Executive Secretary Joe Miller's talk on GBIF after 25 year and Training Officer Laura Anne Russell is speaking in the session CO4 FAIR data in practice - eDNA, modelling and biodiversity concepts. 🦋 @tdwg.org

Calendar lineup of GBIF talks on thursday
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