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✨ Season’s wishes from CETAF! ✨

Wishing our community happy holidays and a New Year full of health, joy, and new opportunities. 🌱🌍

📬 e.pulse #15, our final newsletter of the year, features a round-up of CETAF’s 2025 highlights and the latest taxonomy news 👉 lnkd.in/eDqyFqMB
December 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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🌍 Horizon Europe 2026–2027 is here!

🌱 Cluster 6 (Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture & Environment) is the most relevant for the CETAF community.

📅 Join the Cluster 6 Info Days: 22–23 January 2026 (Brussels & online)
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December 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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📣Over 1,000 people attend the Citizen Science Fair at MUSE-Museo delle Scienze in #Trento 🇮🇹

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December 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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🐝 Pollinators are in decline.

The EU’s new EU PoMS sets a unified, science-based way to monitor them.

🎯 CETAF helped shape the methodology, ensuring taxonomic expertise is central to accurate pollinator monitoring.

🔎 cetaf.org/cetafhelps-s...

#Biodiversity #Pollinators #TaxonomyMatters
December 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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🟠TETTRIs goes to Africa!
Maarten Van Steenberge, Dr. Rodrigue Pelebe, and Prof. Maarten Vanhove delivered a four-day workshop at the University of Parakou.

#TETTRIs #Taxonomy #Biodiversity #CitizenScience #Africa #CapacityBuilding
December 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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🟨CORE (Collection Research) Grant 2026 – Apply Now!

The OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH in Austria is inviting applications for the CORE program, supporting short-term research visits to study their world-class biological and paleontological collections.

🔗https://www.ooekultur.at/wettbewerbe-und-stipendien
December 4, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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🌍 CETAF joins the Crete Declaration on One Health 🐾🌱

People, animals, plants & ecosystems are connected. Together, we advance #OneHealth, share data, drive innovation & strengthen Europe’s resilience.

Read the complete declaration: lnkd.in/dF4T46wW
#OneHealth #Innovation #Biodiversity #CETAF
December 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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📣 Don’t miss the Citizen Science Fair in Trento!

🔬Explore over 20 citizen science projects from the region, learn about their work, and connect with the people behind them.

Join us for a day of discovery!
📅 14 December | 📍 Trento

#TETTRIs #Taxonomy #Biodiversity #CitizenScience #Trento #Italy
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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The pre-registration period for specimen datasets to join @dissco.bsky.social is almost done (Oct 31) but here is a funny fact: if you have a #DarwinCore archive already, it'll take you 15 minutes to fill in the form. We'll create only 20M #DOIs in 2025 so hurry! dissco.eu/ds-enrollment/
October 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Laura Tilley (CETAF) and Olle Hints (TalTech) presented at the #SwissCollNet Workshop on publishing Earth Science collection data. Highlights: GeoCASe, Estonia’s SARV portal, FAIR data, and open science. 🌍

#CETAF #GeoCASe #EarthScience #FAIRdata #OpenScience
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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🤝 #CETAF58 was made possible thanks to the active participation of all attendees. Their commitment and contributions were essential to the success of the meeting, reinforcing the spirit of #dialogue, #openness, #cooperation, and dedication that defines the CETAF #community.
November 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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🟨 At the 2nd CETAF Directors’ Summit, Klement Tockner, Gilles Bloch, Ursula Warnke, and Esme Ward discussed key challenges for natural history museums, highlighting their role not only in preserving heritage but also as bridges between science, society, and governance.

#CETAF #ScienceForNature
November 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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🟨 Day 2 of the CETAF Directors’ Summit in Berlin
We kicked off this second day with opening remarks by Prof. Dr. Thomas Borsch, Director of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, and CETAF President Mr. Edwin van Huis.
#CETAF58 #Sustainability #Biodiversity #Taxonomy #ScienceForFuture
November 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Today we kick off our 2nd CETAF Directors’ Summit, an event hosted together with the Botanic Garden Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin.

This new edition will continue the dialogue on the ever-evolving role of natural history museums and botanical gardens in a rapidly changing world.
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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🟨 🦞 A team of marine biologists has unveiled three new species of squat lobsters from one of the most remote places on Earth, the Saya de Malha Bank, a vast submerged plateau in the southwestern Indian Ocean.

📖 Read the full study: europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ej...
November 4, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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🔵 Join the Berlin Botanical Garden! @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

🟨Publishing and Graphics position

➡️ Apply now: bewerbung@bo.berlin

🔗For more information: www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...

#JobOpportunity #Publishing #Graphics #Botany #Garden #Berlin #Vacancy
October 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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🎥 CETAF and DiSSCo contributed to #LivingData2025, where Laura Tilley presented the CETAF/DiSSCo Specialisation Tool advancing open and FAIR biodiversity data across Europe 🌍

▶️ Watch her presentation ⬇️

#biodiversity #FAIRdata #DiSSCo #CETAF
The CETAF/DiSSCo Specialisation Tool in support of European biodiversity data integration
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October 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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All our knowledge, challenges, and solutions gathered in one interactive document: TETRIs Blueprint👇

#TETTRIs #Blueprint #Biodiversity #Taxonomy #AIforNature #CitizenScience #Innovation #Conservation
October 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Michael Magee, from the Natural History Museum of Denmark, leads TETTRIs’ communication and impact work. He presented at the Swedish Biodiversity Symposium an initiative engaging young people through nature walks that combine species discovery with music creation under the NATURE the Artist campaign
October 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Leonardo Veronesi, from the European Citizen Science Association, has been working closely with our Satellite project, #Footprints.

Based in Norway, Footprints asks citizen to send pictures of animal tracks in snow and mud.👇
October 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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🔵 Join the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences!

➡️ Apply now: recruitment@ibot.cas.cz | For more information: www.ibot.cas.cz/en/career/va...

#JobOpportunity #Research #PhD #Postdoc #Botany #Ecology #EnvironmentalHistory #CzechAcademyOfSciences
October 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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"Talking about #biodiversity without #taxonomy is like trying to build a puzzle without the pieces"

Kate Evans works at the Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre. In TETTRIs, she is leading the task of writing a blueprint for building taxonomic capacity.
October 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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🇪🇺These projects help establish open access to collections data, design and test novel AI and molecular tools, test training frameworks, and involve citizen scientists in monitoring biodiversity hotspots. This community-based perspective is fundamental to the entire ethos of TETTRIs. #Taxonomy

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October 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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🟨 A team of scientists has unveiled a hidden world of hoverflies in the Caucasus, focusing on the genus Cheilosia. By combining literature review, field expeditions, and DNA analysis, they identified 14 species new to science, each with its own unique traits.

📖Read the full study: shorturl.at/i3L4L
October 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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🟨 Join the department of Geosciences at the Swedish Museum of Natural History!
🔹 The museum is looking for a Postdoc in geology and geochemistry.

#Hiring #JobOpportunity #ScienceJobs #ResearchJobs #SwedenJobs #Biodiversity #Postdoc #Geology #Geochemistry
October 15, 2025 at 8:10 AM