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iNaturalist is a web- & app-based global community where anyone can share their observations of wild organisms. We don't provide ID help on Twitter, but if you post your photo to iNaturalist, our community can help you! inaturalist.org/pages/getting+ #nature #optoutside #biodiversity

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Jardinesilvestres

Ecuador será parte del evento ciencia ciudadana más grande del hemisferio Sur. “Gran Bioblitz Del Sur�? #GBSEcuador. Súmate a este desafío, y demostremos la gran biodiversidad de nuestro país al mundo entero. #BioblitzDelSurEC

Museo de Zoología & Lab Zoología Terrestre USFQ and 4 others

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Using my lunchtime walk to get some

observations from #Luxembourg on to the map of the

#TDWG2022 #Bioblitz project #iNaturalist

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Clarification: the large red anemones are Calliactis polypus, the small white ones are Sagartiomorphe carlgreni.

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Our #TwoferTuesday Observation of the Day is this Jeweled Anemone Hermit #Crab (Dardanus gemmatus) and some attendant Sagartiomorphe carlgreni sea #anemones! Seen in the #UnitedStates by sea-kangaroo. More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/1 #marinebio #biodiversity #nature

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Anacostia Watershed Society

Join our introductory

app training session tonight at 7 PM and get ready for the 6th #AnacostiaBioblitz this coming weekend: anacostiaws.salsalabs.org/101722bioblitz

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These worms bury themselves in the sand and wait for prey to pass by. The largest known specimen was 299 cm (9.81 ft) long.

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It's #MarineMonday and our Observation of the Day is this Sand Striker bristle #worm (Eunice aphroditois), seen off of #Indonesia by craigjhowe! More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/1 #nature #worms #marinebio #invertebrates #polychaetes

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#spongeThursday!

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This Polymastia boletiformis demosponge is our Observation of the Day! Seen off of #Spain by mergullo. More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/1 #sponges #marinebio #nature #biodiversity #invertebrates

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This Polymastia boletiformis demosponge is our Observation of the Day! Seen off of #Spain by mergullo. More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/1 #sponges #marinebio #nature #biodiversity #invertebrates

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Our Observation of the Day is this pair of Indian #Foxes (Vulpes bengalensis), seen in #India by parthkansara! More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/1 #canines #mammalogy #nature #biodiversity #wildlife

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Adventures with Josie

@AdventwithJosie

I love using the

app! Highly recommend everyone give it a try!

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Once, our iNaturalist project held mere 100s of species records, recorded by a handful of fellow geeks, naturalists, and biologists. Thanks to the efforts of our amazing visitors, we now have hundreds of thousands of invaluable records! bit.ly/36O0RLF #CommunityScience

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This Polymastia boletiformis demosponge is our Observation of the Day! Seen off of #Spain by mergullo. More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/1 #sponges #marinebio #nature #biodiversity #invertebrates

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Flatbush 'Vax, Mask, Filter' Gardener

Yay! As planned,

just released Version 1.3 of their computer vision model, a little over a month since the last update, adding ~1,400 taxa. The training data are also just 37 days older than the one for Version 1.2.

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A new Computer Vision Model including 1,368 new taxa in 37 days

We released a new computer vision model today. It has 66,214 taxa, up from 64,884. This new model (v1.3) is the second we’ve trained in about a month using the new faster approach, but it’s the first...

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My observation of Ophidion rochei from Corsica selected as "Observation of the Day" on iNat :-)

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This Ophidion rochei cusk-eel (Donzelle douce in French), seen off of France by jujurenoult, is our #FishFriday Observation of the Day! More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/1 #ichthyology #nature #marinescience #biodiversity

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The two appendanges below its mouth are barbels, which it uses to sense prey.

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This Ophidion rochei cusk-eel (Donzelle douce in French), seen off of France by jujurenoult, is our #FishFriday Observation of the Day! More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/1 #ichthyology #nature #marinescience #biodiversity

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Pasindu Dilshan Abegunawaradhana

The second survey of the fauna diversity project of #MRC #Homagama was held on 8/9th October 2022. Both night and day field sessions were done and successfully complicated the photographic data samplings. All the data will be uploaded to

. #citizenscience #srilanka

Pramuka Attanayaka and Amaditha Amarasinghe

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Aaaand we're back! Thanks for your patience, everyone!

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GreatSouthernBioblitz

Time to start planning what you will be doing .... You can find all the project area bit.ly/GSB2022umbrella Or learn more here linktr.ee/gsbioblitz

@RCE_GreaterNai

@wildlifedirect

GSB América do Sul and 8 others

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Make that more like 2 hours, sorry about that!

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iNaturalist is currently down for scheduled maintenance. It should be back up in three hours, at 11 pm PDT. See this in your local time: timeanddate.com/worldclock/fix

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iNaturalist is currently down for scheduled maintenance. It should be back up in three hours, at 11 pm PDT. See this in your local time: timeanddate.com/worldclock/fix

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Today, we tip our Tilley hats to all community scientists using

! 🤠 We've surpassed 500,000 observations of 10,325 species by 11,688 observers — a fantastic feat! �?� Let's count down our 5 most common species reported: bit.ly/3D1mnix #CommunityScience

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Our Observation of the Day is this Bassia bassensis #siphonophore! Seen off of #NewZealand by luca_dt. More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/1 #marinescience #cnidaria #nature #biodiversity #marinebio

iNaturalist NZ — M�?taki Taiao

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“With my photos, I want to show people about the beauties we have, like birds, animals, and everything that belongs to the wild world.�?

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This gorgeous Nose-horned #Viper was spotted by a naturalist in #Kosovo and it's our Observation of the Week! Read our blog post here: inaturalist.org/blog/71206-a-n #snakes #herpetology #wildlife #biodiversity

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Invasive Species BC

that feeling when you're enjoying BC's biodiversity and want to help protect it so you join the "I Spy and Identify" project on

and report invasive species you see ⬇�? (join here: inaturalist.ca/projects/i-spy)

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A member of the dogbanes (Family Apocynaceae), this species is native to the Canary Islands and Morocco.

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This Caralluma burchardii #plant, seen in #Spain by pvaraujo, is our #WildflowerWednesday Observation of the Day! More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/1 #botany #nature #plants #flowers

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Heads up: iNaturalist will be down for scheduled maintenance for about 3 hours on Thursday, October 13th, starting at 8pm PDT. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. See in your own time zone: timeanddate.com/worldclock/fix

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Seek by iNaturalist

Android users, the latest release of Seek (2.14.3) has a bug that interferes with species suggestions. We're really sorry about that and we're going to get a fix out today.

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�?��?to all

users who help to identify unknown species. I can confirm that I saw my first "nosferatu spider" which is spreading in Germany. Its unfamiliarity triggered my spider fear + I almost threw away the catch jar. In any case, learn to calm yourself + be nice to🕷�?

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Plants are amazing!

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Our Observation of the Day is this really cool comb #fern (potentially Schizaea elegans), seen in #Brazil by harturnoia! More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/1 #plants #botany #ferns #biodiversity

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A Cyphipelta rufocyanea hover #fly slurps up nectar from a tea #tree (Genus Leptospermum) flower in #Australia - it's our #TwoferTuesday Observation of the Day! Seen by mariannebroug. More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/1 #biodiversity #nature #entomology #botany

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Just realised that 10 Oct is #JumpingSpiderDay 🕷�? Thanks to

& members of the awesome

community inaturalist.org/projects/jumpi for helping with the IDs! #TwitterNatureCommunity #jumping #spiders #wildlife #animals #NaturePhotography #wild #TwitterNaturePhotography

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Our Observation of the Day is this really cool comb #fern (potentially Schizaea elegans), seen in #Brazil by harturnoia! More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/1 #plants #botany #ferns #biodiversity

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Sunday we attended a field trip to

@SagehenCreekFS

. Extensive historical documentation of the flora & fauna in its 9,000 acres has been augmented by a robust

#CitizenScience project.

students & others have added to it for almost 10 yrs. Amazing to see!

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Natural History Museum

#FatSpiderFortnight is back! 🕷�? In the lead up to spooky season we’ll be sharing lots of fun spider facts, and asking you to get involved by logging your fat spider finds on the

app. Find out why 👇

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#basalcognition

@basalcognition

Wow. Everywhere I look it's cilia cilia cilia! Talk about a multi-tasking biological innovation that does so much. Tremendous bang for the evolutionary buck. Loving

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This Florometra serratissima feather star is our #MarineMonday Observation of the Day! Seen in the #UnitedStates by aquaristmatt. More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/1 #echinodermology #nature #marinescience #biodiversity

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An echinoderm with yellow-red feathery stalks over a black background.

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