🚨Exciting project alert!!🚨

Are you interested in data and code sharing in Ecology and Evolution?

@eivimeycook.bsky.social and I are running a hackathon to quantify data and code availability and sharing quality across 90 society journals, and looking for people who want to be involved.

So happy to share this!🤩

If you’re interested in supporting or learning more about #OpenScience equipment and instruments check out the 🆕 OSHF library!👇🏾

Por sexto año consecutivo, esta primavera nos unimos a registrar la biodiversidad al sur del mundo @gsbioblitz.bsky.social @inaturalist.bsky.social @biodiversidata.bsky.social
#gbs2026 #gsb2026

🎥Tune in today to livestream the GBIF Science Symposium hosted by @gbifnorway.bsky.social! 🌍

The event will be streamed here: 🔗 https://www.gbif.no/

View the full program: 🔗www.gbif.no/events/2...

📸 Maylinn Hovengen Byrknes

PhyloPic is having an October fundraiser. The goal is to raise enough money to cover web hosting for the past six months. Please share the link, and chip in a bit if you can! www.phylopic.org

#AI in Government 🇺🇾
@amenazaroboto.bsky.social

amenazaroboto.com/uruguay-gove...

New study published in @natecoevo.nature.com !

We assembled the largest global dataset of plant–pollinator networks to ask a simple question: do interactions become more specialised towards the tropics? doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Study led by @saileesakhalkar.bsky.social and myself ☺️

1/8

I started the Czech Vegetation Database 30 years ago. Now, my colleagues and I have prepared the entire database (> 17,000 vegetation plots) as an open dataset.

Our new Preslia article describes the database, its history, current state, published datasets & related resources
doi.org/10.23855/pre...

#CitizenScience Reading Club

62% of surveyed citizen science projects had no data management plan. Templates are built for experts, not volunteers.

doi.org/10.5334/cstp...

#datamanagement #citsci

Not every data problem needs a big project. A broken dashboard, a painful report, a Shiny app that needs a second look?

We take on a few pro bono projects each year for charities, nonprofits and community groups.

Apply: www.jumpingrivers.com/pro-bono/

#rstats

📢 Open position in Biodiversity Science

The 2-year position focuses on how patterns of species co-occurrence are shifting under global change, using long-term biodiversity datasets and advanced statistics.

📍 Helsinki, Finland | ~€3,700/month
📅 Apply by 19 Oct.

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

"Alone against AI"

amenazaroboto.com/alone-agains...

An investigation produced in partnership with the @pulitzercenter.org's AI Accountability Network.

#NewSpecies!!!
New cat from the #bolivia just meowed:

Leopardus tilcayo

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/581887DC-...
Publication: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
#CurrentBiology #LeopardusTilcayo

#FAIRdata
#taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #mammals #cats #leopard #tilcayo

Do you use #iNaturalist data in research—or advise students who do?

We put together a practical guide to using iNaturalist data in scientific research, covering how to access, acquire, analyze, and attribute the data, with examples in R and Python.

Paper: doi.org/10.1093/bios...

#ecology

This ridiculous number of applications is, in my view, the result of 2 nightmare developments happening concurrently 1.the precariousness of the job market for young PhD graduates which then fuels further: 2.the AI tools enabling overproduction of proposals. #Research #ERC #ResearchFunding #Academia

🎧 Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica ?

Answer this quick 5-min survey:

👉 www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en

Take a break and listen to the voice of the forest 💚

Please like & share on 🦋 to reach more participants 🙏

🌐🌍🦤🧪🍁🪴

Siphonophore — the grizzly bear of squishy things. ROV pilots recorded this footage at 1589 meters during the 2025 #AsgardArchaea expedition in the deep waters of Uruguay. (Sound on to learn more.)