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Remote Sensing, GIS, Biodiversity data: GloBi, GBIF, iNaturalist, TDWG/SPNHC 地理学・生物多様性情報データ ・理科甲子園 UCSB Library and Cheadle Center
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Great news! The FOSS4G North America call for presentations is now open! #FOSS4GNA will be held Nov 3-5, 2025 in Reston, VA. Submit your presentation proposal for consideration by May 15, 2025. Check out the web site to learn more: www.foss4gna.org/ #geospatial

Ready for our community call this Thursday? It's about getting the right folks into the LTER, and keeping them here. Recruiting and Retaining Scientists in the LTER: How to find and keep the best and the brightest! 🌟 March 26, 9am PT—register below! lternet.edu/events/recru...

The Conservation Biology Institute is looking for volunteers with GIS and spatial data experience to help secure and preserve federally funded environmental datasets on their Data Basin platform 🌿

Wrapping up a quarter-long Intro to Scientific Computing class -- we've had a blast! So grateful for @allisonhorst.bsky.social amazingly joyful illustrations and @uslter.bsky.social LTER datasampler package of simplified environmental datasets for teaching and learning 🧪🌎🌱⌨️

do you use any climate-related, government-hosted data that has been taken down or is no longer accessible? if you do, DM me please. I know some lawyers who want receipts

Join our Campaign Convo, March 18 at 1pm PT / 4pm ET! In this #PhenologyWeek webinar we’ll be joined by researchers whose work inspired 3 of our Nature’s Notebook campaigns! Learn more and register - arizona.zoom.us/meeting/regi... More Phenology Week webinars - www.usanpn.org/news/article...

We're searching for a postdoc to study insect-microbe symbiosis in our lab at UNC Chapel Hill. Application can be found here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/295...

Call for Sessions for #LivingData2025 has been EXTENDED. Final deadline is now Friday, February 14th, 23:59 COT. Take a breath, dot your i's, cross your t's and get that session proposal in!! www.livingdata2025.com/calls.html #DatosVivos2025

Are you interested in Undergraduate research? Want to learn what happens in an Ecology, Evolution, or Marine Biology research lab? If you are, come and join us at the first-ever EEMB Undergraduate Research Open House Thursday, 20 February, from 3-6 pm. (UCSB only)

Join Xerces and help protect freshwater mussels & other aquatic invertebrates! Job Title: Endangered Species Conservation Biologist 🌎Location: Pacific Northwest (NW Oregon or SW Washington preferred) 💲Compensation: $62,857 per year 📅Apply by: Feb 24, 2025 Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs

Proposals are open through the Gulf Ecosystem Initiative to fund 2-3 working groups to travel to Santa Barbara, CA & develop science for decision making in the Gulf of Mexico. Apply here by March 14th: nceas.ucsb.edu/gulfeco & watch the informational webinar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLOF... 🌊

Does anyone on bluesky have experience bear-proofing environmental data loggers (specifically PAR and soil moisture) without compromising functionality? Bears at our sites have extensively damaged seed and camera traps already, so hoping to get ahead of them this year.

WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt. We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered. Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.

📅 Upcoming community sessions next week https://buff.ly/4gld5P9 Events are in UTC Time : 📣 The Carpentries Welcome Session 4 Feb 09:00 📣 CarpentriesOffline Community Meeting 5 Feb 15:30 🇺🇸 US Midwest Community Call 5 Feb 18:00 📣 HPC Carpentry Community Call 6 Feb 12:00/22:00

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

TONIGHT! The Internet Archive hosts Ideas Worth Saving! 🎬 Star Wars & Tolkien panels & film clips. Come in costume & win a prize! 📅 Jan 31–Feb 1 ⏰ 6 pm–9 pm 📍 300 Funston Ave., SF 🎟️ $20 at the door Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/event/ideas-worth-saving-evening-extravaganza/

Once again, UC Libraries are collaborating on a UC-wide “Love Data Week” series of talks, presentations, and workshops during February 10-14, 2025. All events are free to attend and open to any member of the UC community. #OpenData #AcademicSky #LoveData25

This project is to create a list of closed, closing, and at-risk of closure DEIA offices, programs, and centers across the US. This list will be kept internal as we try to locate potential collections.  https://bit.ly/DEIAclose

🚨PIs of Training Grants and Programs, ESPECIALLY training grants that support students from historically excluded groups (T32s and T34s, IMSD, MARC, PREP, MOSAIC, etc.)🚨 We need to push back on the loss of information and the disappearance of websites about these resources.

Earth, climate, and planetary scientists: If you have an expected upcoming NASA/NSF/NOAA/DOE grant payment in the next couple weeks that, if not received, will have a real impact on your lab and staff, please let us know about it @science.org. You can reach me at [email protected].

NSF PRFB POSTDOCS: Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs. If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite

🥁The 2026 Science Olympiad National Tournament will be hosted by the University of Southern California in Los Angeles on May 22-23, 2026! Big shoutout to @USC, @USCDornsife, @uscviterbi.bsky.social, and @SoCalScioly for their support & partnership. #ScienceOlympiad #USC

Hearing from @er1ngrady.bsky.social, science grad student as part of @inaturalist.bsky.social event today. We will hear from @vijaybarve.bsky.social + Jeremy Yoder. (archive will be on youtube here ) Phenology is the timing of #seasonal changes in plants and animals www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZGp...

The #GIScience2025 conference deadline extended to Feb 14. See you there. giscience2025.org#proceedings

The event is open to grades 6-12 so middle schoolers and high schoolers. CC Edwards, doctoral student in Geoffrey Attardo lab, UC Davis

⭐️NOW OPEN! ⭐️ 📋The application for the Spring 2025 Young Voices of Science Program is now open through Monday, February 10th! Please share with your community! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #science #scicomm #sciencecommunication

🎉 We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that the #RLadies #RotatingCuration program is restarting Monday! 🔍 Learn more at: tinyurl.com/p9fvk7s2 🙋‍♀️ Want to become a curator? Sign up: tinyurl.com/44twdsbu 🌟 Know someone who’s a perfect fit? Nominate them: tinyurl.com/5yny5cae

(I don't think NACIS has a bluesky) Start the weekend by nominating yourself—or someone else—to serve on the Board? 💼✨Shape the org by selecting the next Directors-at-Large & Student Board Member. Head to nacis.org/nominations/... make it happen! 📅 Deadline: Jan. 31

Working with brilliant biodiversity #data ideas? 💡 Submit a workshop proposal for #LivingData2025! 🚀 Submissions for sessions & workshops for the upcoming conference in #Colombia close 12 Feb 2025 🔗www.livingdata2025.c... #Biodiversity #DatosVivos2025 #TDWG #OBIS @geobon.org #HumboldtInstitute

Paid at-sea internship in ocean mapping: Apply to Explorer-in-Training to join a 2-4 week expedition aboard NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer focused on ocean mapping using multibeam sonar. Priority deadline: Jan 31, 2025. oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/trai...

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Abstract submission is now open for SPNHC 2025 - May 27-31, Lawrence, KS. Submission Guidelines: spnhc2025.ku.edu/oa-abstract-.... List of sessions: spnhc2025.ku.edu/sessions. Deadline: 3 March 2025.

#NHMLAC is currently accepting applications for the next cohort of #UNLAB postbaccalaureate researchers! Apply to spend a year working with a curator on a biodiversity research project in L.A.—view program details, eligibility requirements, and more: nhm.org/how-apply-un...

Bugnet (bug-net.org)) is looking for more collaborators to join its global network. BugNet aims to assess the impact of invertebrate herbivores and fungal pathogens on plant communities. Check out the website and join the info event on the 29th to learn more

iDigBio is hosting a 2-day workshop entitled “Reimagining Post-Degree Training for the Diverse Community Working to Capture High-value Digital Data about Biodiversity” May 7–8, 2025 (apply by Feb. 3) More info and application at bit.ly/3Ecbe1d

PhD opportunity: I am looking for a PhD student to study taxonomy and systematics of labrid fishes and other coral reef taxa. Successful applicants will be jointly based at the University of Sydney and the Australian Museum Research Institute.

"DIY Web Archiving": new free zine by @quinnanya.me @bitarchivist.net @akijas.bsky.social @ilya.webrecorder.net & me, based on the 11/2024 @sucho-org.bsky.social @webrecorder.net @ach.bsky.social workshop: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... #DHmakes +

Lots of groups doing the important work of preserving Federal resources on climate and equity. Here's the @ucsusa.bsky.social page preserving many of the important documents and resources on environmental justice and science. www.ucsusa.org/resources/sc...

Since announcing this, tiktok went down, came back, & blasted Trump propaganda 2x. The internet will be an even tougher place for science. I have enough to fund ~5 of these projects. More than 5 should be funded. They're going to be v important. Help us fund more if you can. givebutter.com/29Ow9Y

At least 11 librarians in LA lost their homes in the LA Fires. A thread of their gofundmes:

📣Call for session proposals - #LivingData2025 🐦 Living Data 2025 is a joint conference jointly hosted by GBIF, TDWG, OBIS and GEO BON from 21 -24 October in #Colombia. Learn more: 🔗www.livingdata2025.c... #Biodiversity #DatosVivos2025

LAPNet (Library, Archive and Museum Preservation in Los Angeles) has compiled a list of resources for recovery after collection-related disasters, whether it's a personal family collection, or those of a large, established institution. \https://lapnet.org/2025/01/14/emergency-resources/