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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">iDigBio’s</span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u><a href="https://digitizationacademy.org/" id="OWA8f773861-961e-4054-370b-fe840139654a" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px;"> Digitization
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due by 5p ET on Monday, February 3, 2025. </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://www.idigbio.org/content/reimagining-post-degree-training-diverse-community-working-capture-high-value-digital-data" id="OWA95feb8f4-b8db-6c51-4904-47c744efcf81" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.idigbio.org/content/reimagining-post-degree-training-diverse-community-working-capture-high-value-digital-data" style="margin: 0px;">Reimagining
Post-Degree Training for the Diverse Community Working to Capture High-value Digital Data about Biodiversity</a></span></div>
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iDigBio is pleased to announce this <a href="https://www.idigbio.org/content/reimagining-post-degree-training-diverse-community-working-capture-high-value-digital-data" id="OWAcff80bd3-4c1e-96dc-6a06-f464034787a3" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.idigbio.org/content/reimagining-post-degree-training-diverse-community-working-capture-high-value-digital-data" style="margin: 0px;">
2-day workshop</a> to be held<i> </i>May 7–8, 2025, on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida<span style="font-weight: 700;">.</span> This workshop will focus on designing strategies for building new competencies during careers that
typically span decades after formal education opportunities have ended. This is often discussed as professional development. However, today, the community capturing high-value digital biodiversity data has become a powerful combination of those with degrees
in a relevant field (e.g., in our museums and universities) and those joining it through engagement with participatory science (sometimes called citizen or community science), monitoring, and other pathways.</div>
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How can post-degree training support a diverse data creation community where members understand and value each other’s roles? How can training help this community to leverage the rapid pace of technological innovation to address evolving needs? And how can
these strategic training efforts be sustained for the long-term?</div>
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<b>We invite expressions of interest from individuals with relevant expertise (including on professional development, biodiversity collections, the participatory sciences, the digital biodiversity data creation and use pipeline, and adjacent fields like formal
education) and representatives from organizations and projects with a vision to build a sophisticated data creation community in support of science, society, and Earth’s biota.</b></div>
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This event will create opportunities for active exchange of insights, challenges, solutions, and visions for the future for the purpose of strategizing next steps for this community’s post-degree capacity building.</div>
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We are able to support about 20 participants’ travel, lodging, and meals. Applicants from outside the US may apply. </div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Apply </b></span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><b><u><a href="https://forms.gle/wMXzEU4XLgUGBBG19" id="OWAfe9045ed-2387-90a3-0e89-a506e1ec52d0" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px;">here</a></u></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>!</b></span></div>
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<b>Applications are due by 5p ET on Monday, February 3, 2025. </b></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please reach out to<a href="http://amast@fsu.edu/" id="OWAa531e5a1-5d5d-195f-4b62-cc0451b46ffb" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"> </a><a href="http://kjakymec@fsu.edu/" id="OWA84741fb0-274a-c016-2812-20db48f3dd3a" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"> </a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u><a href="http://kjakymec@fsu.edu/" id="OWAa548e700-e97e-295b-48e7-3fa2b72d761f" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); margin: 0px;">Kalina
Jakymec</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> or </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u><a href="http://amast@fsu.edu/" id="OWA1db1ceff-9517-07bb-788e-506289df30c6" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); margin: 0px;">Austin
Mast</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> with any questions!</span></div>
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<i>Kalina Jakymec</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i>iDigBio </i></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Workforce Development Manager</i></span></div>
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<i>Florida State University </i></div>
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