💚 Here's to a year of improved biodiversity decisions and nature as the source of inspiration. Wishing you a cheerful holiday season and a fantastic beginning to the new year!🎄

💚 B-Cubed is organising a hands-on training in transforming biodiversity observations into insights. Learn more 👇

💚 As 2025 comes to a close, we reflect on all that we have accomplished so far. Thank you for being part of the journey. We’re excited for what 2026 will bring. 🎉 🎥 Watch the highlights of BMD's first year: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Qr...

Our coordinator, Niels Raes, and Urmas Kõljalg (University of Tartu) presented the BMD project at iBOL Europe's (@iboleurope.bsky.social) Community Meeting. 👇 @naturalis.bsky.social | @nielsraes.bsky.social

#BioMonWeek, Europe’s new biodiversity monitoring conference, will take place in Montpellier, France, 4–8 May 2026. 💚

BMD partners Niels Billiet and Mathias Dillen from Meise Botanic Garden, together with Robert Waterhouse from the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, took part in the BioHackathon Europe 2025. 🔎 Learn more: bmd-project.eu/news/bmd-tea...

😮 It’s already been one month since the Living Data Conference! Did you miss our updates? 🔎 Catch up on all the key moments, insights, and highlights from the event: bmd-project.eu/news/strengt...

💚 Freshwater ecosystems – our rivers, lakes, streams, and wetlands – are some of the most biodiverse places on Earth. Yet they are also among the most threatened.💡 👉 Join IUCN SOS for a webinar on safeguarding #freshwater species through collective action: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/11a3ba...

🌿 LifeWatch ERIC is leading the development of BMD’s Single Access Point and will host our data catalogue to ensure long-term access. 🔎 Learn more: bmd-project.eu/news/lifewat... @lifewatcheric.bsky.social

Our coordinator Niels Raes will join iBOL Europe's next Community meeting, where he will present the BMD project. 💚👇

The Crete Declaration outlines a clear vision for implementing One Health across Еurope with concrete commitments to drive innovation, generate evidence, and support effective policy-making. 🔎 bmd-project.eu/news/crete-d... @lifewatcheric.bsky.social @naturalis.bsky.social @sib.swiss @pensoft.net

Only 4 days left! ⏳ Do you work to protect and restore Europe's biodiversity sites? Take our 10-minute survey and help shape BMD’s Single Access Point. 🌿 👉 Take the survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #Natura2000 #EUBiodiversity #NatureRestoration

The IPBES monitoring assessment is open for external review until 7 January 2026. 📅 Participation from experts across all relevant disciplines and backgrounds is encouraged to ensure the highest scientific quality and policy relevance. 👉 Get involved: oppla.eu/monitoring-k...

📅 The BMD team participated in the #BioHackEU25, organised by ELIXIR. 👇

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