Only one week left! ⏳ Take part in our survey on the biodiversity monitoring and analysis needs of Europe’s natural site managers. Your insights will help design BMD's Single Access Point 💡 👉 Take the survey here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

💡 BMD was spotted at Pensoft Publishers’ booth during the International Conference on Natural Sciences and Biotechnology – KLIMENT’S DAYS 2025, held at the Faculty of Biology, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. 📅 The event is taking place from 6 to 7 November in Sofia, Bulgaria. @pensoft.net

⏳ 10 days left! Are you working to protect, monitor, or restore Europe’s natural sites? 💚 We invite you to take part in the BMD survey on the biodiversity monitoring and analysis needs of Europe’s natural site managers. 👇 👉 Take the survey here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🔔 Reminder: The BMD User Story Workshop is happening today 👇

💚This publication takes the next step by proposing how harmonisation can be implemented in practice. It introduces common minimum requirements for biodiversity monitoring protocols and a new framework based on expert-led Thematic Hubs. 🌿 @biodiversa.eu 📖Read here: www.biodiversa.eu/2025/10/10/s...

💚 OBSGESSION invites you to take part in their survey by answering a few short questions on their communication and dissemination efforts: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@lifewatcheric.bsky.social shared some highlights from the BEeS Conference 👇

Share your views in the BMD survey on biodiversity monitoring and analysis needs. 💚 Your input will help shape BMD's Single Access Point and support conservation across Europe. 💡 📅 Complete it by 14 November: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 📖 Learn more: bmd-project.eu/news/new-sur...

💚 Only 1 week to go until our online user story workshop on 3 November, 14:00–16:00 (CET). ➡️ Contributions will support the development of BMD’s Single Access Point. ✍️ Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🔎 Explore the upcoming BMD co-design opportunities: bmd-project.eu/news/upcomin...

📅 Under the theme of Leading Transformation Together, the fourth edition of the World Biodiversity Forum WBF will take place from 14 to 19 June 2026 in Davos, Switzerland. 👉 Submit your abstract by Tuesday, 18 November 2025. 🔎 Learn more: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...

Meet BMD partner Robert Waterhouse at #LivingData2025 💚

💚 BMD partner Robert Waterhouse at the Living Data Conference!

Day 3 highlights from #LivingData2025 🌿 We started the day by attending the second part of the “Long Live Biodiversity Data: Knowledge Transfer and Continuity Across Research Projects” symposium. @pensoft.net | @lifewatcheric.bsky.social | @naturalis.bsky.social

🎥 Final episode of #BMDexplained: Chris Ellis describes how BMD will engage stakeholders by giving access to biodiversity data, opportunities to contribute and benefit from shared datasets, and support through tailored tools, trainings, and collaboration. 🔗Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x20...

🌿 Highlights from Day 2 at #LivingData2025! BMD partners contributed to three inspiring sessions advancing open, FAIR, and connected biodiversity data.

Starting in one hour! 🔔 💚 Sharif Islam (@naturalis.bsky.social): “Building and Serving FAIR Terms and Vocabularies for open Digital Specimen” 💚 Mathias Dillen (Meise Botanic Garden): “MIDS in practice: Comparing specimen digitisation levels” 🔎 Learn more: bmd-project.eu/news/bmd-liv...

📅 #LivingData2025: At 2:00 PM in Ballroom B2: “Disentis Roadmap — liberating global biodiversity knowledge from literature.” 💚BMD partner Robert Waterhouse (@sib.swiss) will present “From literature to biodiversity data: mining arthropod traits with ML”. 🔎Learn more: bmd-project.eu/news/bmd-liv...

🔔 The first session of “Long Live Biodiversity Data: Knowledge Transfer and Continuity Across Research Projects” starts in less than two hours! 🔎 Follow the sessions BMD will contribute to: bmd-project.eu/news/bmd-liv...

Day 1 at #LivingData2025 highlights! Great to meet Niels Raes, the LifeWatchERIC team, and Tim Robertson (@gbif.org) at booth No. 9. Kessy Abarenkov featured BMD in her presentation during the @b-cubed.eu workshop. @lifewatcheric.bsky.social | @pensoft.net | @unitartupress.bsky.social

We’re at Living Data 2025! Make sure to stop by the Pensoft Publishers' (@pensoft.net) booth (Number 9) to learn more about our work. 🔎 Follow the sessions BMD will contribute to: bmd-project.eu/news/bmd-liv...

#LivingData2025 kicks off tomorrow! 💚 Follow along for updates, pictures, and highlights from the event. 🔎 Curious about the sessions BMD will be contributing to? Check them out here: bmd-project.eu/news/bmd-liv...

🎉 We’re excited to share our very first newsletter, featuring the latest project updates and key highlights from recent events. 👉 Read it here: preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi... ✉️ Subscribe to get our next issue delivered straight to your inbox: dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/118442...

💡 This week in #BMDexplained: Petteri Vihervaara (Biodiversa+), Joana Beja (EMODnet), and Ronald Thenius (BioDiMoBot) share their perspectives on collaborating with the BMD project. 🔗 Watch here and subscribe to stay tuned for future videos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDR7...

💚 If you are a Natura 2000 site manager or policymaker working to deliver the EU Nature Directives, we would like to know what you think about our Single Access Point mock-ups. ✅ Check out the 3 designs and vote for your preferred one here: bmd.lifewatch.eu

💚 BMD will host an online User Story Workshop on 3 November, 14:00–16:00 (CEST). ➡️ Contributions will support the development of BMD’s Single Access Point. ✍️ Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🔎 Explore the upcoming BMD co-design opportunities: bmd-project.eu/news/upcomin...

Our first newsletter is just around the corner! 💚 📬 Subscribe to receive it directly in your inbox and learn the latest project updates: dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/118442...

🎥 This week in #BMDexplained, Nikol Yovcheva (@pensoft.net) explains two key strategies to ensure BMD’s results have a long-term impact. 🔗 Watch here and subscribe to stay tuned for future videos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_my...

See you in Bogotá in 2 weeks! 💚 BMD will contribute to four sessions at the Living Data Conference (21–24 October). ✍️ Register until 10 October: www.livingdata2025.com/registration...

We're already counting the days to the Living Data Conference (21–24 October)! 💚 🔎 Explore the four sessions that BMD will contribute to: bmd-project.eu/news/bmd-liv...

🎉 Today we’re celebrating 24 years of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility! 🌍 For nearly a quarter of a century, @gbif.org has been connecting data, people, and institutions worldwide to make biodiversity information openly available for science, conservation, and policy.

Yesterday, the 6th Natura2000 Monitoring Workshop officially kicked off with keynote speeches, including a presentation by Niels Raes 👇 @nielsraes.bsky.social | @naturalis.bsky.social

This week in #BMDexplained: Joaquín López (@lifewatcheric.bsky.social) explains how our SAP will improve access to biodiversity and ecosystem data. It will be co-designed with stakeholders to meet real needs. Join our network: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🔗 More: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3Ch...

💡The first stakeholder workshop to shape BMD's Single Access Point and visualisation tools took place at the Eurosite Annual Meeting 9–11 Sept). Practitioners explored their needs through interactive sessions. 👇 🔎 bmd-project.eu/news/first-s... 📷Photo by Harm Schoten (Eurosite)

💡 This week in #BMDexplained, Ingolf Kühn (UFZ) discusses the challenges of #biodiversity data. 👉 BMD is developing visualisation tools to provide an up-to-date view of biodiversity across terrestrial, freshwater and marine realms. 🔗 Watch and subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW4F...

One week left to register for the 6th Natura 2000 Monitoring Workshop.⌛ 👉 Join in to help us shape BMD's Single Access Point for #biodiversity monitoring, data, and analysis. 🔎🦋 Registration and event programme: www.eurosite.org/event/6th-na...

🎥 This week in #BMDexplained: In this video, Sharif Islam explains the challenges of integrating biodiversity data. 🔗 Watch to learn more about BMD's Biodiversity Data Space: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3EE... @sharifx.bsky.social | @naturalis.bsky.social

2 days until the Biodiversa+ Midterm Conference, taking place from 17 to 18 September ⌛| @biodiversa.eu @naturalis.bsky.social 🔎 Agenda & registration: www.biodiversa.eu/2025/08/26/s...

Your abstract has been accepted for the #LivingData2025 Conference? Now make sure you are registered! ✍️ ⌛ The presenter registration deadline ends on 24 September 2025. 🔗 www.livingdata2025.com/registration...

🎥 This week in #BMDexplained: How will BMD use data cubes to harmonise biodiversity & environmental data? 🔎 Mathias Dillen (Meise Botanic Garden) discusses the challenges of #biodiversity data and the need for reproducible harmonisation. 🌿 🔗 Watch and subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpl8...

At MAMBO’s AGM (Day 2), Vincent Kalkman (Naturalis) highlighted a key challenge: limited expertise in analysing opportunistic data. He emphasised that connecting with BMD could boost WP3 image & sound recognition for citizen-led biodiversity monitoring. 🌍🔬 @mambo-project.eu

💻 Officially introducing our website! 🎉 🌍 Now available in 4 languages, making it accessible to a diverse audience. 🔎 Discover how we're building BMD's Single Access Point – a one-stop digital toolbox for natural resource managers and policy-makers, and learn how to get involved: bmd-project.eu

🎤 Daniele Silvestro (SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics) will speak at “Biodiversity Conservation Planning with Reinforcement Learning” on 15 September.🌿 🔎 Learn more: aiforgood.itu.int/event/biodiv...

BMD's coordinator, Niels Raes - @nielsraes.bsky.social presented today at MAMBO's AGM meeting, providing an overview of the products developed since the start of @mambo-project.eu.

⌛ Just two weeks to go until the Biodiversa+ Midterm Conference, taking place on 17–18 September 2025 at Naturalis Biodiversity Center and online. 🔎 Learn more and register here: www.biodiversa.eu/2025/08/26/s...

🌍 Exciting Job Opportunity! 🌿Naturalis Biodiversity Center is looking for a Senior Projectleader for BMD. Ready to make an impact? Apply here: www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/...

Something exciting is coming soon… 🥳 📢 BMD’s first newsletter is just around the corner! 📬 Subscribe to receive it directly in your inbox and learn the latest project updates: dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/118442...

We're already counting the days until Living Data 2025! ⌛ See you soon in Bogotá. 🌍

🎥How will the BMD Data Catalogue tackle biodiversity data challenges? 🔎In this video, Robert Waterhouse (@sib.swiss) speaks on how the BMD Data Catalogue unites datasets, mobilises legacy data to FAIR repositories, and links AI-driven taxon ID. 🔗Watch and subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kce...

🎥 In this video, Niels Raes outlines the key challenges facing biodiversity monitoring today, and how BMD is working to overcome them. 🍂 Join our workshops this autumn to help co-design BMD's Single Access Point: bmd-project.eu/news/bmd-wil... 🔗 Watch and subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Kc...

💻 CO-OP4CBD is organising an online training from 1 to 5 September 📅 👉 The sessions aim to provide expert, up-to-date knowledge to individuals seeking to engage with experts, stakeholders, and other parties involved in the SBSTTA process. 🔎 coop4cbd.eu/news/co-op4c...