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...

📃 A recently published policy brief, developed in collaboration between TrIAS, @b-cubed.eu, and @onestop-project.eu, details how Belgium has leveraged @gbif.org to support sustainable development, conservation and innovation for effective biodiversity governance. 🔍 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

✉️ OneSTOP's first newsletter is coming soon! 👉 Don’t miss out, subscribe here: dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/128157...

Ready to map biodiversity data? Join the next GBIF DataUseClub! Learn how to access GBIF data, use the Map API, generate local maps, and work with occurrence cubes. 📅 23 September 2025 | 15:00–16:30 CEST 🔗 www.gbif.org/event/7W6Cm2... *Recording will be available after the session.

📃 New white paper from leading European legal, biodiversity, ecology, and engineering communities calls for stronger global Science, Technology and Innovation efforts to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 👇

👉 This year's NBN Conference is themed “25 years of making data work for nature” and will feature expert talks, opportunities for sector networking, and presentations highlighting the evolution of UK biodiversity data. 📅 20 November 2025 📍 SS Great Britain, Bristol 🔗 nbn.org.uk/news-events-...

👉 The Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity (KCBD) Global Biodiversity Data Viewer, developed by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, is an information system designed to assess, monitor, and report on the state of and pressures on biodiversity worldwide. 🦋 🔎 dopa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/gbdv

🕷️ A study on Antarctic sea spiders (pycnogonids) used GBIF and OBIS data from 254 species across 2,187 sites to map distribution, richness, and diversity hotspots across the Antarctic Polar Front. 🔎 Learn more: www.gbif.org/data-use/21g...

🌍 Upcoming BMD Workshops: Explore practical data needs for natural site management & help shape a "Single Access Point" for biodiversity monitoring & analysis. Нosted by Eurosite. 📍Lithuania (9–11 Sept): www.eurosite.org/event/eurosi... 📍Sweden (29 Sept – 2 Oct): www.eurosite.org/event/6th-na...

🌍It's World Nature Conservation Day! 🌳Natura 2000, the world’s largest network of protected areas, supports over 1,200 threatened species and 230 habitat types. It provides ecosystem services worth €200–300 billion yearly, benefiting people and nature. 👉 environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/natur...

Interested in learning new data skills? 🧑‍💻 DataCamp 2025 is now open to all GBIF users! Get free access to online courses in R, Python, SQL, machine learning, and more. 👉 Learn more: www.gbif.org/news/5Fkpxvd...

🌿 GBIF released a new guide for publishing biological survey data, helping data holders structure and make their data openly accessible. 📊 Community review open until 20 July 2025 🗓️ 🔗 gbif.link/survey-dat...

👏Congratulations to Bulgaria on joining GBIF: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility as a Voting Participant! 🔎 GBIF users can currently explore more than two million species occurrences in Bulgaria shared by 378 publishers in 46 countries. 🌱

🌍 Upcoming BMD Workshops: Explore practical data needs for natural site management & help shape a "Single Access Point" for biodiversity monitoring & analysis. Нosted by Eurosite. 📍Lithuania (Sept 9–11): www.eurosite.org/event/eurosi... 📍Sweden (Sept 29–Oct 2): www.eurosite.org/event/6th-na...

📅 From 14–16 July, partners gathered for the first BMD hackathon on Improving FAIRability of research with RO-Crate to develop first prototypes for BMD's SDM infrastructure to support EU nature directives and the restoration and protection of ecosystems across Europe.

📢 The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025 shows that with just 5 years to 2030, progress is too slow. Millions of lives have improved, but poverty, hunger, climate change, and inequality still remain major challenges. 📘 Read the full report unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/... @unep.org

🌱 Future research projects are invited to join BioAgora in building the Science Service for Biodiversity (SSBD) – the scientific pillar of the EU’s Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity. 🔎 Help shape the future of biodiversity policy in Europe: bioagora.eu/news/bioagor...

📸Some of the highlights from #BEeS2025, where BMD was also presented 🤩

The European Commission launched a €7M tender to pilot the EU Biodiversity Observation Coordination Centre (EBOCC). 🌍📊 Developed via EuropaBON, EBOCC marks a major step toward coordinated biodiversity monitoring in Europe. 👉 ec.europa.eu/info/funding...

🌍 By 29 July 2024, we had consumed more natural resources than the Earth replenished this year. 💚 That’s where BMD comes in, improving the monitoring and management of the EU’s natural resources. 📖 Learn more: ec.europa.eu/environment/...

Christos Arvanitidis, President of LifeWatch ERIC, was at our stand yesterday. 💚 Be sure to stop by until 3 July, pick up some promotional materials, and meet our partners from @pensoft.net 🦋

Join our workshops this autumn! Explore practical data needs for natural site management & help shape a "Single Access Point" for biodiversity monitoring & analysis. Нosted by Eurosite. 📍Lithuania (Sept 9–11): www.eurosite.org/event/eurosi... 📍Sweden (Sept 29–Oct 2): www.eurosite.org/event/6th-na...

🌍 BMD’s Niels Raes is at the LifeWatch ERIC BEeS Conference in Heraklion! 📅 Visit our stand until 3 July to pick up promotional materials and meet our partners from @pensoft.net. 🔗 See the full programme: www.lifewatch.eu/bees-2025/pr...

We're at the LifeWatch ERIC Biodiversity & Ecosystem eScience Conference in Heraklion, Greece! 😊📆 👉 This year’s conference explores how eScience and European Research Infrastructures can drive innovation for a sustainable future. 🔎 🔗 www.lifewatch.eu/bees-2025 @lifewatcheric.bsky.social

🔎 Did you know that around 84% of EU crops depend on wild insect pollinators? 🐝 👉 Losing them may trigger species extinctions, loss of ecosystem services, and could eventually lead to ecosystem collapse. 🦋🌍 📖 Learn more: www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/...

📸 Day 1 at the Nature FIRST Conference in Rhenen! 👉 Started with the panel “From Tools to Action – Scaling Conservation Solutions for Global Impact”, featuring our coordinator @nielsraes.bsky.social 💚 Don't forget to stop by the BMD stand!

The Nature FIRST Conference starts today! 😊 This morning, our coordinator @nielsraes.bsky.social joined the panel “From Tools to Action – Scaling Conservation Solutions for Global Impact” ✔ Don't forget to stop by the BMD stand! 🗓️ Full programme: www.naturefirst.info/nfconf-progr...

📢 Nature FIRST Conference begins tomorrow! 🌿Visit the BMD stand and join @nielsraes.bsky.social on 25 Wed at 10:15 as he discusses how research tools can help drive conservation action. See the full program: www.naturefirst.info/nfconf-progr... #NatureFIRST #BMDproject #NFConf2025

📅 The Nature FIRST Conference is coming up on 25–26 June 2025 in Rhenen, Netherlands. 💚 BMD will be there with an interactive booth! Come explore our work in high-throughput biodiversity monitoring! 🔎 👉 www.naturefirst.info/events/natur...

From sampling to solutions, eDNA Expeditions are accelerating impact in marine ecosystems, helping track species migrations driven by climate change, detect invasive species before they spread, and monitor biodiversity shifts in near real time. 🌊

🔎 More than 3.4 million insect occurrence records based on DNA metabarcoding of bulk samples from across Sweden and Madagascar have been mobilised to GBIF through a series of datasets. 💚

📄 A recent paper shows how EMODnet Biology turns complex marine biodiversity data into actionable knowledge for policy. 🔎 Read the paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Earth in 100 Seconds 🌍 What are we (mis)using Earth for? Would love to hear your thoughts on my new short film. Each second = 1% of global land use. What would you change if you had the power? Please comment and share widely. Watch on YouTube youtu.be/MshXmxjEQnc #EarthIn100Seconds

🔁 In case you missed it… Our first YouTube video is out! 🎥 BMD coordinator, Niels Raes shares how BMD is supporting biodiversity monitoring across Europe. 🌍🌿 📺 Watch and subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Kc...

🌱Join Eurosite in exploring this vital question at its annual conference, this year in Lithuania, under the slogan: ‘Restoring Nature, Reviving Communities: A United Vision for European Biodiversity’ 🐦🌸 🗓️ 9-11 September 2025 📍 Vilnius, Lithuania 🔗 Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/eurosite-a...