Join us for Fall 2023 WeDigBio – October 12-15!

Globaltcn/ September 13, 2023/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

Dear community scientists! Be a part of a global effort to digitize centuries of data about life on Earth! Organisms may include ferns, fungi, mosses, lichens, insects, and mammals. Participants will have an opportunity to meet scientists and join in behind-the-scenes tours or talks about the significance of the scientific collections! WeDigBio will be held online daily from Thursday, October

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Welcome to our new PEN Partners!

Globaltcn/ May 19, 2023/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

I am pleased to announce that the GLOBAL Bryophyte TCN will be joined by our first Partner to Existing Network (PEN), which includes the Bishop Museum (BISH), National Tropical Botanical Garden (PTBG), and the University of Hawai’i (HAW)! Our new collaborators expect to begin digitization work in June and will add even more unique specimens to the Bryophyte and Lichen

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WeDigBio Spring 2023 – Thank you, Volunteers!

Globaltcn/ April 17, 2023/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

Thank you to all the wonderful volunteers – and GLOBAL team members – who participated in our GLOBAL WeDigBio events last week! Together you helped to transcribe data from almost 2,500 specimens and add barcodes to over 8,000! Join us again next October! If you’re interested in helping out before then, consider joining our Friday transcription group (register here). Recordings of

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Join us for Spring 2023 WeDigBio – April 13-16!

Globaltcn/ April 3, 2023/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

Dear community scientists! Be a part of a global effort to digitize centuries of data about life on Earth! Organisms may include ferns, fungi, mosses, lichens, insects, and mammals. Participants will have an opportunity to meet scientists and join in behind-the-scenes tours or talks about the significance of the scientific collections! WeDigBio will be held online daily from Thursday, April 13th – Sunday,

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WeDigBio Fall 2022 – Thank you!

Globaltcn/ October 21, 2022/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

Thank you to everyone who participated in our GLOBAL WeDigBio events! Both virtual and in-person teams really turned out and made a huge impact for our project. Together you helped to transcribe data from over 2,700 specimens and add barcodes to over 6,000! Join us again next April! If you’re interested in helping out before then, consider joining our Friday

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Join us for Fall 2022 WeDigBio – October 14-16th!

Globaltcn/ October 3, 2022/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

Dear community scientists! Be a part of a global effort to digitize centuries of data about life on Earth! Organisms may include ferns, fungi, mosses, lichens, insects, and mammals. Participants will have an opportunity to meet scientists and join in behind-the-scenes tours or talks about the significance of the scientific collections! WeDigBio will be held online daily from Friday, October 14th – Sunday,

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Join us for GLOBAL WeDigBio – April 7th, 9th, and 10th!

Globaltcn/ March 31, 2022/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

Be a part of a global effort to digitize centuries of data about life on Earth! Organisms may include ferns, fungi, mosses, insects, and mammals. Participants will have an opportunity to meet scientists and join in behind-the-scenes tours or talks about the significance of the scientific collections! WeDigBio will be held online daily from Thursday, April 7th, Saturday, April 9th,

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GLOBAL Transcription Event – February 18

Globaltcn/ February 15, 2022/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in our Feb. 11th GLOBAL transcription event! We hope you enjoyed learning more about bryophytes, herbaria, and collection digitization. Together you helped to transcribe 200 specimen records! If you missed out or couldn’t attend our session but are still interested in learning about transcription or more about the GLOBAL project, please click

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GLOBAL Transcription Event – February 11

Globaltcn/ February 2, 2022/ Uncategorized/ 3 comments

Join us online for a virtual transcription event on Zoom on Friday, February 11th from 2-3pm EST! This week we will focus on transcribing bryophyte specimen label data from the University of Tennessee Herbarium (UTK) collections using online and computer tools. To register for this virtual event, please click here. We are hoping to make this a recurring event in the future so stay tuned

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WeDigBio Fall 2021 – October 15 – 16, 2021 – COMPLETED!

Globaltcn/ November 2, 2021/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

Thank you to all of our amazing WeDigBio volunteers! Over 80 people participated during our two GLOBAL days and more than 200 assisted throughout the Field Museum’s four-day event. Together these volunteers helped us to transcribe over 6,000 bryophyte and lichen specimens! The WeDigBio event included tours of collections, presentations from scientists and students, and a lot of transcription! In

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