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Projections indicate that the COVID-19 outbreak and stay-at-home orders will have a deep and lasting impact on many aspects of our lives and work.  In order to document the effect of the crisis on biodiversity collections and those who use and care for them, the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), the Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN), […]
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Science Groups Request Support for Collections-enabled Research and Education to Tackle Current and Future Global Problems, Advance Science
Written by Jyotsna Pandey on April 1st, 2020April 1st, 2020. Leave a comment
On March 31, 2020, the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSC Alliance), and Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) – the founding members of the Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN), wrote to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) […]
BCoN Early Career Travel Awards for Team and Interdisciplinary Science Training
Written by Jyotsna Pandey on January 17th, 2020January 17th, 2020. Leave a comment
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BCoN Announces Winners of Travel Awards for Communications Training
Written by Jyotsna Pandey on September 19th, 2019. Leave a comment
The Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN) is pleased to announce the winners of travel awards to enable early career biodiversity scientists, collection managers, educators, and other biodiversity-collection professionals to participate in the AIBS Communications Boot Camp for Scientists in Washington, DC this fall.  The Boot Camp is an intensive, two-day, hands-on professional development program. Ms. Sarah […]
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BCoN Announces Travel Awards for Communications Training
Written by Jyotsna Pandey on August 19th, 2019August 20th, 2019. Leave a comment
In 2016, the Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN) published a workshop report, Building a More Networked System for Communicating about Natural History Collections, that called for a renewed community focus on communications – both within the biodiversity sciences community and with outside stakeholder groups (e.g. policymakers, news media, civic organization leaders, university administrators).  That report also […]
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BCoN Report: Extending U.S. Biodiversity Collections to Promote Research and Education
Written by Jyotsna Pandey on April 4th, 2019February 19th, 2021. Leave a comment
The Biodiversity Collections Network has released its new report, Extending U.S. Biodiversity Collections to Promote Research and Education.  You are invited to download and share the summary brochure and to review the longer report that provides additional detail about this vision for the future.  James Lendemer, et al., The Extended Specimen Network: A Strategy to […]
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Community Input Requested: Extending U.S. Biodiversity Collections to Address National Challenges
Written by Jyotsna Pandey on January 16th, 2019January 16th, 2019. Leave a comment
A workshop held 30 October – 1 November 2018 at Oak Spring Garden in Upperville, VA under the leadership of the Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN) addressed the future deployment of data held in U.S. biodiversity collections for research, policy and education. In their discussions, participants drew heavily on recent literature as well as surveys, meetings […]
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Survey Results: Harnessing Natural History Collections Data for Addressing National Challenges: The Biodiversity Collections and Data Wishlist
Written by Jyotsna Pandey on October 12th, 2018. Leave a comment
The results of the survey are in! This document summarizes the responses to this survey, which was active from 24 September to 5 October, 2018. These results, along with the results of earlier surveys and discussions sessions held in the biodiversity collections and information community, will inform a report on a primary stakeholder vision for […]
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Nominations Sought for National Academies Panel on Biological Collections
Written by Jyotsna Pandey on September 7th, 2018. Leave a comment
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) Board on Life Sciences (BLS) is seeking experts to serve on a committee that will review the contributions of biological collections in research and education. The expert panel will examine both living organisms and preserved biodiversity specimens that are supported by the National Science Foundation.  The […]
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Surveys: Integrating Changes into Collections Databases: Challenges and Opportunities
Written by Jyotsna Pandey on July 18th, 2018September 21st, 2018. Leave a comment
The purpose of these surveys is to gather information from the collections community regarding your experience incorporating changes into your local collections databases. The goal is to compile and share findings at SPNHC-TDWG 2018 as part of the SPNHC symposium: Challenges for Implementing Collections Data Quality Feedback: synthesizing the community experience. The focus for the […]
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RT @BlackInNHMs: The schedule is here!!👇👇👇 Looking forward to a great week! 🦊🕷️🐍🦉🌹🐞 #BlackInScience #BlackInNature #BlackInNHMs https://t.co/bsEPbYLwDo
RT @MegBalk: So excited for @_FuTRES_ paper to finally come out: learn about best practices for collecting, contributing, and re… https://t.co/8Zm1PYwRlL
A solution to the challenges of interdisciplinary aggregation and use of specimen-level trait data https://t.co/E5vj2Nupk9 #ExtendedSpecimen
An important article in #BioScience about the fate of #orphanedcollections, featuring interviews with BCoN steering… https://t.co/ILcnneK6Cf
RT @kunhm: KUNHM Ichthyology Collections Manager Andy Bentley (@O_Fish_Man) & international colleagues published recommendatio… https://t.co/m83BBnelUU
RT @libbyellwood: New article on the #DigitalExtendedSpecimen out now! Link all the data and solve lots of problems! 🌿🐞 @AlexHardisty… https://t.co/31uzThynAq