The Open science lab for biodiversity is an externally funded team at the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). It offers technical support to researchers of projects in which it participates (such as the Belgian Biodiversity Platform, LifeWatch, TrIAS and GloBAM). This support is mainly focused on open data publication and research software development. Its approach is open by default, international, and community-oriented, with the goal of making biodiversity research more efficient and reproducible.