@AMDigiVol

Crowdsourcing volunteers to build knowledge and communities through digitising biodiversity collections. A collaboration between @austmus and @atlaslivingaust

 Sydney, New South Wales
digivol.org
Joined August 2015
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#wedigbio is already started! Many parts of the world it is well into the first day, like New Zealand! xitter.cf/SiobhanLeachman/status… and @AMDigiVol #scistarter, #citizenscience, @nfromn @iDigBio
Siobhan@SiobhanLeachman16 Apr 2024
Any New Zealand #botanists, #ecologists or other folk involved with the #DSIR or the Department of Conservation know the full name of "D. J. Campbell"? wikidata.org/wiki/Q125495305 I'm having THE MOST FRUSTRATING AFTERNOON trying to track at least the first name of this person down!
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It's the start of the April @WeDigBio event here in NZ and I'm off to @AMDigiVol to choose an expedition to contribute to for the next four days. volunteer.ala.org.au/
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That's a wrap for day 2 of #SydneyScienceTrail @austmus! Today was all about citizen science with @FrogIDAus and @AMDigiVol, digitisation and expeditions.
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@SiobhanLeachman @AMDigiVol #scistarter, #citizenscience New Zealand, Australia, the South Pacific - ALREADY entering Day TWO - over 18 hours of activity @WeDigBio over 18,000 records transcribed. Many events about to start Day One in minutes! @nfromn #globaltcn @FieldMuseum
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@WeDigBio7 Apr 2023
@WeDigBio April 2023 - counting down - six more sleeps. Join this exciting global evening helping unlock biodiversity. We can all help the planet by continuing to transcribe one natural history specimen at a time. So many platforms @AMDigiVol @nfromn #globaltcn to name a few .
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Save the date! @WeDigBio Symposium! April 14, 3–4 ET. Featuring Ciaran Mathewson, @AMDigiVol Online Coordinator - Digitisation Down-Under!; @SiobhanLeachman, Independent Researcher - Virtual Voyaging; @AcaciaJoe, #GBIF Executive Secretary - Linking Community Science to Policy"
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The results from last year’s #FrogIDWeek are in & our incredible citizen scientists gathered over 32,000 frog records from 11-20 November 2022 🐸 On 13 November more than 3 frogs were recorded every minute 😱 Find out more here: bit.ly/3EPK8dT 📸: Jodi Rowley
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Our latest expedition on @AMDigiVol is now live. Help us to transcribe Papaveraceae specimens from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Nepal. volunteer.ala.org.au/project…
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Fellow EnviroSci educators let’s join forces to have students reflect on the importance of partaking in #CitizenScience - it helps them connect to #climatechange & #human impacts on habitat. @AMDigiVol @jillfnugent @CitSciAssoc @CitSciOZ
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Fellow EnviroSci educators let’s get students to assist in saving #threatened #species by serving as #CitizenScience volunteers to examine & record #wildlife data using #wilderness cams in Australia. #koala @AMDigiVol @CitSci @LEARN_CitSci @jillfnugent @NSTA – at West Milford, NJ
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FrogID@FrogIDAus23 Oct 2022
Have you had a go at identifying #FrogID frog call recordings on the new audio project at @AMDigiVol? It’s your chance to participate in frog call identification! Register at DigiVol.org and listen to the latest set of recordings here: volunteer.ala.org.au/institu…
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FrogID@FrogIDAus15 Sep 2022
Partnering with our great friends at @DigiVol, we’ve launched an exciting project involving your participation in #FrogID frog call identification! Register at DigiVol.org and listen to the latest set of recordings here: volunteer.ala.org.au/institu… 📷: Gary Brown
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Today is #AskAMuseum Day 🏛 Ever wondered how we clean our fossils? Or what our curators favourite pieces in our collection are? Leave your question in the comments & our team will get them answered for you 🤔
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As the Jobs and Skills Summit gets underway, we highlight that volunteering can equip applicants with work-relevant skills and experience.
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📣 Shout out to @Arthur_Chapman who has uploaded his 15,000th observation to @inaturalist! An incredible achievement spanning 5,487 species with 40,000 images! These records feed into the ALA weekly from iNaturalist, supporting Australian biodiversity research & decision-making.
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#SpeciesoftheWeek Spotted-tailed Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) The Spotted-tailed Quoll is the second largest carnivorous marsupial in Australia after the Tasmanian Devil. Find out more @austmus: australian.museum/learn/anim… 📸 Craig Tingle, WWF
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And we're off! For community day at #SydneyScienceTrail22 @austmus we have both the AMRI stall and Citizen Science stall running at the Expo. Please hop on by! @FrogIDAus @AMDigiVol @RBGSydney
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Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby delight! 🙌🙌 If you are looking for some good news to finish your week on, look no further. Yellow-footed Rock-wallabies have been recorded at a new location at Boolcoomatta Reserve, Adnyamathanha and Wilyakali Country in South Australia: the Saddle.
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Smashing strawberries 🍓 and bananas 🍌with #ACWG today for #SydneyScienceTrail22! Who knew extracting DNA would be so fun? #NationalScienceWeek @austmus @RBGSydney @GretaFrankham
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"Climate change is stressing bumblebees 🐝 New research has found that the asymmetry of bumblebee wings, a signal of their underlying stress, has increased over the past 100 years. Find out how we can help insect populations with #NatureNews 👇 nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2022…
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