CETAF - Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities
@eurotaxonomy.cetaf.org
Natural History Museums' Network.
Empowering #Taxonomy, at the heart of the decision-making process.
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Empowering #Taxonomy, at the heart of the decision-making process.
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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
#CETAF #ScienceForNature
November 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
🟨 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
#CETAF #ScienceForNature
🟨 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
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
🟨 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
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
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.
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
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.
This new edition will continue the dialogue on the ever-evolving role of natural history museums and botanical gardens in a rapidly changing world.
🟨 🦞 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...
📖 Read the full study: europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ej...
November 4, 2025 at 6:59 AM
🟨 🦞 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...
📖 Read the full study: europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ej...
🔵 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
🟨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
🔵 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
🟨Publishing and Graphics position
➡️ Apply now: bewerbung@bo.berlin
🔗For more information: www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
#JobOpportunity #Publishing #Graphics #Botany #Garden #Berlin #Vacancy
🎥 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
▶️ Watch her presentation ⬇️
#biodiversity #FAIRdata #DiSSCo #CETAF
The CETAF/DiSSCo Specialisation Tool in support of European biodiversity data integration
YouTube video by Living Data 2025
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October 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
🎥 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
▶️ Watch her presentation ⬇️
#biodiversity #FAIRdata #DiSSCo #CETAF
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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
#TETTRIs #Blueprint #Biodiversity #Taxonomy #AIforNature #CitizenScience #Innovation #Conservation
October 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
All our knowledge, challenges, and solutions gathered in one interactive document: TETRIs Blueprint👇
#TETTRIs #Blueprint #Biodiversity #Taxonomy #AIforNature #CitizenScience #Innovation #Conservation
#TETTRIs #Blueprint #Biodiversity #Taxonomy #AIforNature #CitizenScience #Innovation #Conservation
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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
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
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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.👇
Based in Norway, Footprints asks citizen to send pictures of animal tracks in snow and mud.👇
October 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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.👇
Based in Norway, Footprints asks citizen to send pictures of animal tracks in snow and mud.👇
🔵 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
➡️ 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
🔵 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
➡️ Apply now: recruitment@ibot.cas.cz | For more information: www.ibot.cas.cz/en/career/va...
#JobOpportunity #Research #PhD #Postdoc #Botany #Ecology #EnvironmentalHistory #CzechAcademyOfSciences
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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.
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
"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.
Kate Evans works at the Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre. In TETTRIs, she is leading the task of writing a blueprint for building taxonomic capacity.
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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
🇪🇺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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🟨 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
📖Read the full study: shorturl.at/i3L4L
October 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
🟨 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
📖Read the full study: shorturl.at/i3L4L
🟨 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
🔹 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
🟨 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
🔹 The museum is looking for a Postdoc in geology and geochemistry.
#Hiring #JobOpportunity #ScienceJobs #ResearchJobs #SwedenJobs #Biodiversity #Postdoc #Geology #Geochemistry
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The letters of Austrian botanist Eduard Hackel (1850–1926) keep science blooming 🌿
Digitized & transcribed with #AI by @transkribus.bsky.social & volunteers, they unveil 19th-century networks linking #Austria & #Italy.
Explore the story on @Europeana 👉 www.europeana.eu/en/exhibitio...
Digitized & transcribed with #AI by @transkribus.bsky.social & volunteers, they unveil 19th-century networks linking #Austria & #Italy.
Explore the story on @Europeana 👉 www.europeana.eu/en/exhibitio...
October 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The letters of Austrian botanist Eduard Hackel (1850–1926) keep science blooming 🌿
Digitized & transcribed with #AI by @transkribus.bsky.social & volunteers, they unveil 19th-century networks linking #Austria & #Italy.
Explore the story on @Europeana 👉 www.europeana.eu/en/exhibitio...
Digitized & transcribed with #AI by @transkribus.bsky.social & volunteers, they unveil 19th-century networks linking #Austria & #Italy.
Explore the story on @Europeana 👉 www.europeana.eu/en/exhibitio...
🟨 Join the Entomology Information Center at the Senckenberg German Entomological Institute (SDEI)!
The SDEI is looking for motivated professionals to join their team in Müncheberg (Brandenburg).
#Hiring #JobOpportunity #ScienceJobs #ResearchJobs #GermanyJobs #Biodiversity #Entomology #DataScience
The SDEI is looking for motivated professionals to join their team in Müncheberg (Brandenburg).
#Hiring #JobOpportunity #ScienceJobs #ResearchJobs #GermanyJobs #Biodiversity #Entomology #DataScience
October 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
🟨 Join the Entomology Information Center at the Senckenberg German Entomological Institute (SDEI)!
The SDEI is looking for motivated professionals to join their team in Müncheberg (Brandenburg).
#Hiring #JobOpportunity #ScienceJobs #ResearchJobs #GermanyJobs #Biodiversity #Entomology #DataScience
The SDEI is looking for motivated professionals to join their team in Müncheberg (Brandenburg).
#Hiring #JobOpportunity #ScienceJobs #ResearchJobs #GermanyJobs #Biodiversity #Entomology #DataScience
🟡 Call for Applications: 7th Edition of the E-SCoRe Award 🏆
The E-SCoRe Award (Excellence in Scientific Collections-based Research) is a CETAF community initiative that celebrates the new generation of scientists.
#taxonomy #biodiversity #PhD #Opportunity #escoreaward
The E-SCoRe Award (Excellence in Scientific Collections-based Research) is a CETAF community initiative that celebrates the new generation of scientists.
#taxonomy #biodiversity #PhD #Opportunity #escoreaward
October 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🟡 Call for Applications: 7th Edition of the E-SCoRe Award 🏆
The E-SCoRe Award (Excellence in Scientific Collections-based Research) is a CETAF community initiative that celebrates the new generation of scientists.
#taxonomy #biodiversity #PhD #Opportunity #escoreaward
The E-SCoRe Award (Excellence in Scientific Collections-based Research) is a CETAF community initiative that celebrates the new generation of scientists.
#taxonomy #biodiversity #PhD #Opportunity #escoreaward
Ana Casino Rubio (Executive Director @eurotaxonomy.cetaf.org and Deputy Coordinator @dissco.bsky.social ) took part in the Biodiversity Genomics Europe – #BGE Connects event. 🌿✨
#Biodiversity #Genomics #OpenData #CETAF #DiSSCo #Conservation #ResearchInfrastructure #EuropeScience #SciencePolicy
#Biodiversity #Genomics #OpenData #CETAF #DiSSCo #Conservation #ResearchInfrastructure #EuropeScience #SciencePolicy
October 2, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Ana Casino Rubio (Executive Director @eurotaxonomy.cetaf.org and Deputy Coordinator @dissco.bsky.social ) took part in the Biodiversity Genomics Europe – #BGE Connects event. 🌿✨
#Biodiversity #Genomics #OpenData #CETAF #DiSSCo #Conservation #ResearchInfrastructure #EuropeScience #SciencePolicy
#Biodiversity #Genomics #OpenData #CETAF #DiSSCo #Conservation #ResearchInfrastructure #EuropeScience #SciencePolicy
🔵 Do you want to learn how to make biodiversity data more accessible, reusable, and FAIR? Join the #DEST training session!
✍ Register now in this link: www.cognitoforms.com/CETAFDEST/Li...
#Taxonomy #biodiversity #training #course #session #opendata
✍ Register now in this link: www.cognitoforms.com/CETAFDEST/Li...
#Taxonomy #biodiversity #training #course #session #opendata
September 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🔵 Do you want to learn how to make biodiversity data more accessible, reusable, and FAIR? Join the #DEST training session!
✍ Register now in this link: www.cognitoforms.com/CETAFDEST/Li...
#Taxonomy #biodiversity #training #course #session #opendata
✍ Register now in this link: www.cognitoforms.com/CETAFDEST/Li...
#Taxonomy #biodiversity #training #course #session #opendata
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🟠 Are you part of a citizen science project? Join us at the Citizen Science Fair in Trento!
🔗Click here to know more about it: tettris.eu/2025/09/11/c...
✍️Register in the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#Tettris #Taxonomy #biodiversity #citizenscience #trento #project #italy
🔗Click here to know more about it: tettris.eu/2025/09/11/c...
✍️Register in the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#Tettris #Taxonomy #biodiversity #citizenscience #trento #project #italy
September 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
🟠 Are you part of a citizen science project? Join us at the Citizen Science Fair in Trento!
🔗Click here to know more about it: tettris.eu/2025/09/11/c...
✍️Register in the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#Tettris #Taxonomy #biodiversity #citizenscience #trento #project #italy
🔗Click here to know more about it: tettris.eu/2025/09/11/c...
✍️Register in the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#Tettris #Taxonomy #biodiversity #citizenscience #trento #project #italy
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We wouldn't have it any other way! @dissco.bsky.social
participates in the OSCA (Open #ScientificCollections #Austria) Perspectives talks, hosted by our partners @nhmwien.bsky.social 👉https://osca.science/osca-veranstaltung-11-12-09-2025/ @disscoflanders.bsky.social @eurotaxonomy.cetaf.org
participates in the OSCA (Open #ScientificCollections #Austria) Perspectives talks, hosted by our partners @nhmwien.bsky.social 👉https://osca.science/osca-veranstaltung-11-12-09-2025/ @disscoflanders.bsky.social @eurotaxonomy.cetaf.org
September 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
We wouldn't have it any other way! @dissco.bsky.social
participates in the OSCA (Open #ScientificCollections #Austria) Perspectives talks, hosted by our partners @nhmwien.bsky.social 👉https://osca.science/osca-veranstaltung-11-12-09-2025/ @disscoflanders.bsky.social @eurotaxonomy.cetaf.org
participates in the OSCA (Open #ScientificCollections #Austria) Perspectives talks, hosted by our partners @nhmwien.bsky.social 👉https://osca.science/osca-veranstaltung-11-12-09-2025/ @disscoflanders.bsky.social @eurotaxonomy.cetaf.org
🟡Join the Young Systematists' Forum on 14th November 2025!
It represents an exciting setting for postgraduate students and early postdoctoral researchers to present their work to a scientific audience interested in taxonomy and systematic biology.
It represents an exciting setting for postgraduate students and early postdoctoral researchers to present their work to a scientific audience interested in taxonomy and systematic biology.
September 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
🟡Join the Young Systematists' Forum on 14th November 2025!
It represents an exciting setting for postgraduate students and early postdoctoral researchers to present their work to a scientific audience interested in taxonomy and systematic biology.
It represents an exciting setting for postgraduate students and early postdoctoral researchers to present their work to a scientific audience interested in taxonomy and systematic biology.
🟡Prof. Dr. Jörg Overmann has been appointed full-time Director General of the Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, a CETAF member. He will also hold the Chair of #Biodiversity Research at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
September 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🟡Prof. Dr. Jörg Overmann has been appointed full-time Director General of the Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, a CETAF member. He will also hold the Chair of #Biodiversity Research at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
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Listening to Nature’s Hidden Voices 🦗
The TEOSS 3 workshop, part of the TETTRIs satellite projects, brought together experts and enthusiasts in the scenic Serranía de Cuenca to explore the sounds of Iberian crickets and grasshoppers.
🔗 shorturl.at/vfuHW
#Bioacoustics #NatureSounds #Taxonomy
The TEOSS 3 workshop, part of the TETTRIs satellite projects, brought together experts and enthusiasts in the scenic Serranía de Cuenca to explore the sounds of Iberian crickets and grasshoppers.
🔗 shorturl.at/vfuHW
#Bioacoustics #NatureSounds #Taxonomy
September 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Listening to Nature’s Hidden Voices 🦗
The TEOSS 3 workshop, part of the TETTRIs satellite projects, brought together experts and enthusiasts in the scenic Serranía de Cuenca to explore the sounds of Iberian crickets and grasshoppers.
🔗 shorturl.at/vfuHW
#Bioacoustics #NatureSounds #Taxonomy
The TEOSS 3 workshop, part of the TETTRIs satellite projects, brought together experts and enthusiasts in the scenic Serranía de Cuenca to explore the sounds of Iberian crickets and grasshoppers.
🔗 shorturl.at/vfuHW
#Bioacoustics #NatureSounds #Taxonomy
🟨This comprehensive revision of the neotropical darkling beetle genus 'Phrenapates' (Tenebrionidae: Phrenapatinae), published in the @ejtaxonomy.bsky.social, redefines the genus’ taxonomy and describes 2 new species from Panama🇵🇦.
🔗Read the full revision: h1.nu/1d8Fs
#Taxonomy #Biodiversity
🔗Read the full revision: h1.nu/1d8Fs
#Taxonomy #Biodiversity
September 4, 2025 at 8:06 AM
🟨This comprehensive revision of the neotropical darkling beetle genus 'Phrenapates' (Tenebrionidae: Phrenapatinae), published in the @ejtaxonomy.bsky.social, redefines the genus’ taxonomy and describes 2 new species from Panama🇵🇦.
🔗Read the full revision: h1.nu/1d8Fs
#Taxonomy #Biodiversity
🔗Read the full revision: h1.nu/1d8Fs
#Taxonomy #Biodiversity