Arctos Collections Community

Considering joining Arctos in this new year? Check out our paper: Arctos: Community-driven innovations for managing natural and cultural history collections. doi.org/10.1371/journa…

We're beary excited to announce our presence on BlueSky! 🐻 Follow us at @arctosdb.bsky.social for notifications, newsletters, and other information. Moving forward, this will be our primary social media account. We look forward to continuing our engagement with the community!

Arctos Newsletter January 2025 - mailchi.mp/ce5554678e37/a…

Arctos Newsletter January 2025 - mailchi.mp/ce5554678e37/a…

#ArctosStatus Arctos will be partially down for maintenance work today, Friday the 8th of November, from 0800 - 1000 CT. Sorry for any inconvenience

Arctos Newsletter October 2024 - mailchi.mp/b2bb27c81741/a…

For the past 2 years, I've taught a class called Introduction to Biodiversity Data. We learn about species occurrence data openly available from @arctosdb, @inaturalist, @NEON_sci, and others via @GBIF. Here we are, touring @NEON_sci tower infrastructure at @MLBS_UVA

Interested in how @museums maintain and serve up @biodiversity #data to scientists around the world? Want to teach your students about it? Check out this educational module on using @arctosdb that we developed as part of @STEPPNETproject: steppnet.weebly.com/data-literacy.…

🚨 Exciting News! The OGL Genomic Collection is now on Arctos! 🌍🔬 Easily explore, search, and access detailed records. Ready to dive in? Start here: [link] #Genomics #Research #OGL @arctosdb Link: arctos.database.museum/search.cfm?gui…

#ArctosStatus Arctos will be down for planned maintenance for 1 - 2 hours on: Friday the 23rd of August 2024 at 7 am PT/ 9 am CT. During the outage the Arctos Database will be unavailable.

#ArctosStatus Arctos is back up. If you have any issues, please post a GitHub issue.

#ArctosStatus Arctos is down for emergency maintenance. We appreciate your patience as we work to bring it back online.

#ArctosStatus We are back up and running

#ArctosStatus Today, Wed 6/26, Arctos will be offline for needed maintenance. Expect no access from 1 pm Pacific/ 3 pm Central for about 2 hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.

#FossilFriday! Well-preserved, ~40 million-year-old gastropods from Alabama. These were photographed as part of a digitization project working with students. Photos of >100,000 specimens will be online @arctosdb later this year. Photo: Kayla Jordan. Specimens: @UAMNH @uamuseums

Heads up Arctos! The scheduled maintenance has been canceled for the Arctos public info page for the 31st of May 2024. Web access should not be affected this Friday for the non-database website Arctosdb.org.

On May 31 2024 UC Berkeley data center will have mechanical and electrical system upgrades Only the non-database website Arctosdb.org will be unavailable during this period. The database and the handbook will function as normal.

Arctosdb.org will be down for most of Friday the 31st of May 2024 (4:30am - 7:30pm PT) for mechanical and electrical system upgrades at the UC Berkeley data center. The Arctos database and Arctos handbook will still be accessible during this time.

Are you ready to register? We can't wait to see you in Okinawa this September! (Psst, there's a special offer if you're one of the first 120 registrants! 🤫) register.oxfordabstracts.com/event/6771?pre… #SPNHC2024 @tdwg

📢 Great news! 📰 The Portuguese Blue Biobank has sailed beyond frontiers and received recognition on the other side of the Atlantic! 🌊🗺