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Guillaume Larocque @glaroc.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Our new paper on BON in a Box is out! 📦 This project has high ambitions: linking biodiversity science to meaningful policy, transforming messy data into useful metrics. 🐝 🌳 📊 💡 Our vision is to make biodiversity science more user friendly, powerful and accessible! academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

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BON in a Box: An Open and Collaborative Platform for Biodiversity Monitoring, Indicator Calculation, and Reporting

Abstract. The Convention on Biological Diversity’s Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals to protect and restore biodive

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McGill Biology @biomcgill.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Explore the McGill Biodiversity Atlas, which catalogues the diverse species across McGill University's properties and green spaces: arcgis.mcgill.ca/portal/apps/...

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Guillaume Larocque @glaroc.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Dear R users, Object of type 'closure' is not subsettable. Yours kindly, R

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CSBQ-QCBS @qcbs.ca · 26/11/2025

CSBQ 2026 Conference! Registration is now officially open. Would you like to present your poster, your research project, or participate in the photo contest? Here is the link to do so: qcbs.ca/symposium-20...

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QCBS SYMPOSIUM 2026 - Centre de la science de la biodiversité du Québec / Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science

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CSBQ-QCBS @qcbs.ca · 26/11/2025

Colloque du CSBQ 2026! Les inscriptions sont officiellement ouvertes. Vous souhaitez présenter votre affiche, votre projet de recherche ou participer au concours de photo? Voici le lien pour le faire : qcbs.ca/fr/colloque-...

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Colloque du CSBQ 2026 - Centre de la science de la biodiversité du Québec / Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science

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ApexRMS Ecology @apexrms.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

We’re hiring a Quantitative Ecologist (Internship)! ApexRMS is looking for an early-career ecologist who’s passionate about using data, models, and code to understand how ecosystems change including wildfire risk, carbon dynamics, species conservation, and land use.

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Guillaume Larocque @glaroc.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Dear @microsoft.com @microsoft365.microsoft.com, how can you explain that Google Docs is still the best way to edit a .docx online in 2025?

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CSBQ-QCBS @qcbs.ca · 21/10/2025

Guillaume Larocque et El-Amine Mimouni, deux professionnels de recherche du CSBQ sont présentement à Bogota pour la conférence Données vivantes 2025! #livingdata2025 @geobon.org @biodiversite-quebec.ca @ateliersbiodiv.bsky.social @bio-diverse.bsky.social @gbif.org @obis.org

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CSBQ-QCBS @qcbs.ca · 21/10/2025

Guillaume and Amine, two research professionals from QCBS, are currently in Bogota for the Living Data 2025 conference! @livingdata.bsky.social #biodiversity #biodiversité @inaturalist.bsky.social @espacepourlavie.bsky.social @ipbes.net @ipbesfr.bsky.social

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Guillaume Larocque @glaroc.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Providers of geospatial data throughout the world: please move away from your dysfunctional APIs and download portals and embrace cloud optimized geospatial formats for both raster and vector. It will be less work for you and much better usability for us. #geoparquet #stac #cog

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Guillaume Larocque @glaroc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

In @geobon.org BON in a Box, a pipeline was working for every country except Austria. It turns out it's an issue created by the Jungholz region being connected to the rest of Austria by a single point, on top of a mountain. A topolitical (?) situation leading to an interesting technical challenge.

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Guillaume Larocque @glaroc.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Discovery of the day. A bounding box over Antarctica on the new @maplibre.org globe looks like a Pokemon ball.

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Guillaume Larocque @glaroc.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I'm always going back and forth between terra in R, rasterio and rioxarray in Python, or GDAL, but when all else fails, my old friend GRASS @grassgis@fosstodon.org is always there to do the job without memory issues, weird crashes or missing GDAL dependencies.

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Guillaume Larocque @glaroc.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

McGill University just released its Biodiversity Atlas, to which I and the @qcbs.ca have collaborated. It's nice to see universities taking biodiversity issues seriously and defining indicators of progress at the very local scale. reporter.mcgill.ca/the-mcgill-b...

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The McGill Biodiversity Atlas: a new resource in support of sustainability - McGill Reporter

The University celebrates International Day of Biological Diversity by publishing a digital compendium of the wealth of flora and fauna on its properties

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Jean-Michel Lord @jean-michel-lord.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Leading an initiative for biodiversity monitoring and reporting at the sub-national level? Come and share the most interesting aspects of it, the challenges that you have faced and means to overcome them, at our #livingdata2025 session! livingdata2025.com/sessions.html

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Guillaume Larocque @glaroc.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I never know what to answer to this when working on my own projects.

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Guillaume Larocque @glaroc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Les inscriptions sont toujours ouvertes pour des ateliers du @qcbs.ca, notamment l'atelier d'introduction aux SIG, mardi et mercredi prochain qcbs.ca/fr/ateliers-... Registrations are still open for @qcbs.ca workshops, including Introduction to GIS next Tuesday and Wednesday qcbs.ca/training-wor...

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Ateliers de formation - Centre de la science de la biodiversité du Québec / Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This week the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science held its annual conference. Our theme “mobilizing science in support of conservation” created a buzz among the 300 attendees from across our network of universities and partners in conservation and gov. Thank you to all who made it happen.

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Guillaume Larocque @glaroc.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Spending a very stimulating week at @esa.int in Frascati, Italy for the #biospace25 conference, focused on observing biodiversity from space. I'm here thanks to @biodiversite-quebec.ca to learn about EO solutions for biodiversity, and working with @geobon.org colleagues to showcase BON in a Box.

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GEO BON @geobon.org · 05/02/2025

🚀 New video tutorial series! Learn how to install #BONinaBox, GEO BON’s open tool for biodiversity modeling & indicator calculation! 🌍📊 ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3T3... 📢 Join our free workshops in March & April to build & run analysis pipelines! Register here 👉 boninabox.geobon.org/events

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GEO BON @geobon.org · 14/01/2025

📣Call for session proposals - #LivingData2025 🐦 Living Data 2025 is a joint conference jointly hosted by @gbif.org, TDWG, OBIS and @geobon.org at the Instituto Humboldt from 21-24 October in #Colombia. Learn more here: 🔗https://livingdata2025.com/calls.html #Biodiversity #DatosVivos2025

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Guillaume Larocque @glaroc.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I'm really liking the @maplibre.org globe projection view. When combined with Titiler and COGs in our STAC catalog, we can finally visualize custom layers without the distortions created by the Mercator projection. Performance is A+ as well!

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CSBQ-QCBS @qcbs.ca · 10/01/2025

⚠️ Dates limites pour le colloque 2025 du CSBQ : 1️⃣ Soumissions (présentations/affiches) : 12 janvier, minuit 👉 registration.qcbs.ca/fr/colloque 2️⃣ Concours photo : 19 janv. 2025, minuit Pour plus d'infos: qcbs.ca/fr/colloque-...

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Qiusheng Wu @giswqs.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

🎉 I just wrapped up teaching the Introduction to GIS Programming course this semester at the University of Tennessee! All course materials and lecture recordings (26 hours) are freely available online. Explore #geospatial 🌍 data visualization and analysis using #opensource Python packages:

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Guillaume Larocque @glaroc.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Wow! I was an avid user of Idrisi during grad school and taught multiple courses with it. To see it being now free and open access is amazing, packed with features and merged with Terrset's modelling power. Check out Terrset liberaGIS! www.clarku.edu/centers/geos...

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TerrSet

TerrSet is an integrated geospatial software system for monitoring and modeling the earth system for sustainable development.

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GEO BON @geobon.org · 28/11/2024

Hello Bluesky 🦋 We’re a global biodiversity observation network, connecting scientists, policymakers, and communities. From genes to ecosystems, our mission is to provide the data and tools needed to monitor & conserve biodiversity. Become a GEO BON member - it's free! members.geobon.org/register/

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Beatrix Beisner @trixiebb.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Reposting for weekend readers: 🧪 🧪 We are hiring a new limnology professor at UQAM! Come join us in the GRIL in Montreal. Posting is below / Nous embauchons un nouveau prof en limnologie à l'UQAM! Rejoignez-vous à nous dans le GRIL 🧪 🧪 --> bio.uqam.ca/wp-content/u... Please re-post.

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Guillaume Larocque @glaroc.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Bienvenue à Centre de la science de la biodiversité du Québec @qcbs.ca et Biodiversité Québec @biodiversite-quebec.ca !

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Guillaume Larocque @glaroc.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

First post on #bluesky is of the view just before landing in Cali for #cop16Colombia. The sky is always blue above the clouds.

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