🔎 #BMDexplained: Chris Ellis from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh describes how BMD will engage stakeholders through integrated biodiversity data, shared datasets, and tailored tools. 📽️ Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x20... 🔗 Get involved: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

💐 Today, on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the remarkable contributions women make across STEM disciplines. 💚 #WomenInScience

Missed our #BMDexplained series? 😮 In the first episode, Niels Raes dives into the key challenges facing biodiversity monitoring today – and how our project is working to tackle them. 📽️ Watch the full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Kc... 🔗 About BMD: bmd-project.eu/about#what-w...

🗓️ Registrations and abstract submissions for #BioMonWeek2026 are open! The Conference will bring together science, policy, and business communities to exchange knowledge, build networks, and drive impact for biodiversity. ✍️ Register here: www.biomonweek.eu

The B-Cubed Project is organising a training series that will focus on emerging approaches that help make biodiversity data more actionable in practice. 🌳💻 ⬇️ The series consists of six live sessions, held on consecutive Fridays, starting on 20 February. 🔎 Learn more: b-cubed.eu/news/registr...

Call for Sessions 💡 Share expertise and insights at #TDWG2026, exploring how collections and standards advance the documentation and understanding of #biodiversity. 🗓 Submission deadline: 26 February 2026 👉 Learn more: www.tdwg.org/conferences/...

The sessions accompanying each theme of #BioMonWeek 2026 have officially been announced. 💡 ⏳ Registrations will open in less than two weeks, alongside the call for conference abstracts. Learn more 👇

🗓️ The first Biodiversity Monitoring Week will take place in Montpellier, France, from 4 to 8 May 2026, bringing together science, policy and business communities to strengthen #biodiversity monitoring and turn knowledge into tangible societal impact. Learn more in the post below. 👇

📸 Niels Raes, BMD's coordinator, participated in the eLTER Consortia Meeting 2026 with an online presentation, outlining the connections between the two projects and showcasing the potential for collaboration. 💚 @elter-ri.eu

📍 This year, LifeWatch ERIC's Biodiversity and Ecosystem eScience Conference will take place in Plovdiv, the city of the seven hills. 👇 @lifewatcheric.bsky.social

This technical training workshop, organised by the @mambo-project.eu, will focus on the large-scale and scalable processing of airborne LiDAR for vegetation structure analysis. 👇💻

📄 A recent @obsgession.eu publication reviews the status of primary data for EBVs in terrestrial ecosystems in Japan and Finland. 👇

👏 The @mambo-project.eu has released three policy briefs on the latest technological advances in #biodiversity monitoring. 🔎 Read them here: www.mambo-project.eu/media-center...

🌿 The Convention on Biological Diversity has activated a new feature in their Online Reporting Tool, allowing actors other than national governments to submit their commitments to the global endeavour to halt and reverse #biodiversity loss. 🔎 www.cbd.int/article/2025... @unbiodiversity.bsky.social

Happy New Year! 💚 As we look back on everything we accomplished last year, we're excited for what 2026 will bring. 🎥 Catch up on what we've achieved so far: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Qr...

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💚 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...