This caterpillars no softie! 🐛💥 Not until it passes the larval stage, that is... 👊🏻 This spike-tacular caterpillar was once Calcarifera ordinata, but new research has found the Rainbow Battleship Caterpillar to be Comana albibasis 🦹🏻‍♂️🙈 📰 Paper |

What happens with species data that may be at risk if shared openly? 👨🏼‍💻📊 Some data is potentially risky when openly shared & precautions aren't taken. RASD obscures or totally withholds certain data – while enabling sharing by authorised individuals. 📚 | Read more below:

Warning authorities about potential pests is high on our to-do list in 2025! 📋✅ 🔗 | Read more about how our ALA Biosecurity Alerts system is helping in the fight against invasive species:

Our team member Javier is in Mexico! 🇲🇽 Recently he visited CONABIO: The Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity to learn from the team, see what they do, and share some of our current projects and expertise. 📡 🌎 Thanks for having us!🧑🏼‍🔬🧫

Citizen science... on the uprise! 👩🏼‍🔬📈🤳 As one of the largest data sources in the ALA, citizen science harnesses some massive potential. Research suggests it could get even more powerful by increasing its capabilities. 🧬🧫 📚 | More below:

The iconic soundtrack to the Aussie summer – the cicada chorus! 🪲🎶 Cicadas are the loudest insects in the world, with their noise reaching up to 120 decibels! 📣💥 #Cicada #SoundsOfSummer #CicadaChorus

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Thanks to you, Australia's freshwater fish research has been (stream)lined 💛🐟🎣 Read more of our #researchimpact highlight featured on ALA Labs below 📚 📚🔗: Highlight: Paper:

The Atlas of Living Australia's galah R package has been updated to allow image downloads from global atlases! 🌎 Explore some new & local species and list them directly into your downloaded dataset! 📊 🧑🏽‍💻 | 💾 |

Have you heard about the Australian Reference Genome Atlas? It's a digital atlas researchers can use to easily discover and work with genomic data. 🌱🐨🧬 Researchers can use this resource to to better-understand the environment 🌳

It’ssssssss perfect snake weather and we often see 🐍 observation data increase on the ALA during summer. They may be a little scary to some, but here's why we think danger noodles are our unsung Aussie heroes:

New year, new data... 💅🏻📊 We're in the weeds of protecting Aussie native species 🌱 We've worked with @nswagriculture to upload > 400k new weed occurrence records to the ALA! Data 🔗: More here 📚: #Biosecurity #Weeds

Heading home (or going away) these holidays? 🎄🎅🏻🏖️ Check out what species are around you using the "Explore Your Area" tool! 🔧 🗺️🕵🏼‍♀️ A safe & happy holidays from the whole Atlas of Living Australia team! ❤️ We'll be back on the 6th of January. 🎉 🔗:

Each year, EcoAssets aggregates data from the ALA with @TERN_Aus and @IMOS_AUS data to generate summaries for national environmental reporting 📊🌱. This year's datasets & summaries are now openly available online! 💻 🔗:

@barqueira Thanks for the Q. The makeup of our social channel presence is a continual discussion for the ALA. This year, we launched our ALA Instagram account, but we also engage with our community on Facebook and LinkedIn.

We're excited to share we've awarded five new projects an ALA Australian Biodiversity Mobilisation Program grant to enable the provision of new biodiversity data into the ALA! 📈🦗 Read more about the new data coming into the ALA here: #BiodiversityData

Monitoring Aus Gov-funded resource management grant outcomes can be tough, so we've created MERIT. It helps @DCCEEW capture data to showcase the impact of natural resource management on Australian biodiversity. 🪱🪲

Join Dr. Dax Kellie for a workshop today in the ALA's upcoming R package galaxias at #ESA2024, which aims to make standardising and sharing your biodiversity observation data at large easier! 🌏👩🏼‍🔬📊

Ecologists: worried that the code for your research analyses won’t run again in the future? 📊🧑🏽‍💻 If you're at #ESA2024 today, Dax from Science & Decision Support will be offering some tips on making your R code more reproducible, transparent, & accessible! #openscience