I was on an exciting meeting this morning of the iNaturalist Network. That's the consortium of 21 country nodes (and growing) that use the iNaturalist platform for their biodiversity recording. Until now, we've been a somewhat informal group, each working with iNaturalist to facilitate its use in our countries (e.g., iNaturalist NZ is at inaturalist.nz and defaults to NZ's people, places, and species). This morning we moved things up several notches by establishing a formal general assembly for the iNaturalist Global Network. Thanks to Biodiversity4All in Portugal for their leadership in making this happen. We're starting with three working groups, one on building international collaborations to connect students and educators and nature together using iNaturalist, one on improving and standardising how iNaturalist data are integrated into country biodiversity data repositories, and one on strengthening iNaturalist in research. I'm eager to see where this takes us. Nature is the universal language and observing biodiversity can be a good way to connect everyone across international and cultural boundaries. https://www.inaturalist.org/sites/network #iNaturalist #iNaturalistNZ #Biodiversity #CitizenScience #iNaturalistNetwork