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The Symbiota Support Hub collaborated with the Yale Peabody Museum to conduct a digitization workshop in Lima, Peru. At least 90 participants attended the event, which took place at the Natural History Museum of Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos…
The Symbiota Support Hub participated in multiple conferences and meetings in October-November 2025:GB32, Living Data, GSA, ESA, & Longhorn PHP! GB32 October 16-20, 2025, Bogotá, Colombiagb32.gbif.org Samanta Orellana attended the annual GBIF Governing Board Meeting and Global Nodes Training that…
The migration of the Mycology Collections Data Portal—aka MyCoPortal—to Symbiota Support Hub servers was successfully completed on October 31, 2025! We owe huge thanks in particular to Phil Anders (University of Illinois) and Greg Post (Symbiota Support Hub) for all their hard work…
(Español) Dear Symbiota community, All 54 Symbiota Support Hub (SSH)-hosted portals and services are now fully operational following the unprecedented security breach that occurred in July. To summarize what happened, we believe that the breach of the IT infrastructure that…
The Symbiota Support Hub continues to troubleshoot ongoing portal slowdowns. To address performance issues on our servers, we have made a temporary change to portals operating on the newest codebase (3.3.9) that will affect data downloads. We expect that these…
July-September 2025 The items below are a reference archive of messages sent to the Symbiota community during the unprecedented portal outage in late summer 2025. 9/11/2025 The Weevil Portal has been successfully restored. 9/9/2025 The following portals have now been…
The Symbiota Support Hub participated in the annual Botany meeting, July 27-30, 2025 in Palm Springs, CA. Presentations Help Desk
As part of our mission, the Symbiota Support Hub is hard at work trying to make it easier for people like you to get Help & Resources for using Symbiota portals. To this end, we have transitioned the Symbiota Docs help…
The Symbiota Support Hub is excited to announce the release of the newest version of Symbiota: Symbiota 3.3! SSH-managed* Symbiota portals that you know and love will be updated to this newest code version over the coming weeks. This code version largely…