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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🐻⚠️ Arctos requires some downtime to complete a needed security upgrade and other maintenance and testing. Please note the following and please plan ahead! Sorry for any inconvenience. 1/2

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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Arctos planned downtime June 23rd, 2026 8am-930 am CT We will be performing both a TAPIS and Portal maintenance to upgrade our infrastructure and underlying software. During this time, the system will be temporarily unavailable.

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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

TACC will be performing TAPIS maintenance to upgrade our infrastructure June 16th from 8AM-9:30 AM CST. All services will be temporarily unavailable. These updates are essential to ensure the continued reliability and security of our software. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

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koomapper.bsky.social @koomapper.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Culinary adventures in the MVZ mvzarchives.berkeley.edu/2026/05/06/c... Posted this as the first apprentice-contribution for the academic year! Sarah is off for the summer but I am so excited she's back next year in the Archives! @arctosdb.bsky.social

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Written by MVZ Apprentice Sarah Zdebski, a junior majoring in Philosophy and History, who has used her library research skills to investigate and write biographies of historical figures in the muse…

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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Heads up Arctos! Arctos will be offline today, Wednesday 6 May 2026 from 3-5pm PDT: Updates to Arctos Database Instances

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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Arctos will be unavailable Monday 4/27 at 9 am CT for about 4 hours so TACC can perform routine maintenance, backups, and VM implementations. We are excited for the new capacity that these upgrades will provide Arctos. Please plan accordingly and sorry for any inconvenience for the downtime.

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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

TACC log in for Arctos Operators will be offline on Tuesday the 24th of March from 8am - 9:30am CST.

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Ocean Genome Legacy @oceangenomelegacy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

OGL's Hannah and Rosie attended the Arctos User Experience Workshop, hosted by @arctosdb.bsky.social at the University of New Mexico’s Sevilleta Field Station. OGL's collection: ogl.northeastern.edu/catalog/ Image 1: Andy Doll Image 2: Hannah Appiah-Madson Image 3: Emily Braker

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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Arctos is down for scheduled maintenance this morning (3 March 2026) from 9am - 1pm CST. This back-up is to allow Arctos to do routine maintenance, backups, and VM implementations.

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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Day 2 of our Arctos UX Users Workshop! It's a bit windy here at the Sev in New Mexico but we're continuing discussions to elevate Arctos.

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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Perfect day to take Arctos out to the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge

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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Heads up Arctos! The TACC Authenticator has a planned outage on Thursday the 19th of February 2026 from 6-8pm CT. If you need to work in Arctos during the outage, plan to log yourself in before 6pm CST and do not let your session expire.

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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Heads up Arctos! There is an Arctos outage today Friday, 16th of January 2026, from 10am CT - 3pm CT. Arctos will be conducting maintenance and updates.

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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

During maintenance on Tuesday, September 16th from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM (CDT) Arctos will be unavailable. TACC is installing new infrastructure for stability.

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Jocelyn Colella @jcolella.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

This could be a great standard to integrate into museum databases @arctosdb.bsky.social

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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Excited for the SPNHC 2025 - Specimen Spotlight Session on Friday, May 30th? Take a special look at these Arctos partners: #SPNHC2025 #NaturalHistory

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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

We hope to see you tomorrow morning at our SPNHC Symposium "Into the Arctos-verse: Connecting Data and Communities of Practice." There are several presentations with a discussion session at the end for all of your questions! See you there 🐻 virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/74160/...

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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Our partners from @oceangenomelegacy.bsky.social are participating in the Back to Basics Symposium: Museum Techniques Skillshare today at SPNHC 2025! There are two presentations to keep an extra eye out for!

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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Be sure to stop by the SPNHC posters to take a look and speak to one of our newer partners. The Portuguese Blue Biobank (BIOAPT) has joined the Arctos ecosystem! Poster: The Portuguese Blue Biobank is on the Arctos ecosystem - Renato Soares, Vitor Vasconcelos, Michelle Koo, Iris Sampaio

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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Check out this talk today during SPNHC SYM13.1 showcasing Arctos! Mutualism in museums: A 20-year perspective on training undergraduates in biodiversity science and collection management. Presented by Terri Barclay and Carol Spencer

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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Sneak peek at what’s here at SPNHC this week. Lots of opportunities to hear from and about Arctos collections but come find an officer for your button to wear!

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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

⚠️ Arctos will be down on Friday 16th of May starting at 9AM CDT. Planned Maintenance needs to take place for 2 hours, and Arctos will be unavailable during this time.

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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Arctos is coming to SPNHC! Get ready for the Arctos-verse where you can find out about updates and how our solutions to collection management challenges. We are open to everyone, so please join us for demos and overviews of what makes Arctos special. Please see the Friday May 30 morning sessions

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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

🚧 Arctos will be down on Friday April 18th from 9am - 12pm CDT for updates and backups. During this time Arctos will not be available. Please save/ backup your changes before the planned outage.

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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Planned Outage: 🐻 Arctos will be down for scheduled maintenance at 7:00 PDT / 9:00 CDT on Friday, March 21, 2025 for approximately 2 hours.

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Arctos Collections Community @arctosdb.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

We're beary excited to announce our presence on BlueSky! 🐻 Follow us here, @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!

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