Bioblitz in Bulgaria!💥 More information on our website 👉 biodiversitygenomics.eu/2026/02/20/f... The Ali Botush UNESCO Biosphere Reserve is a biodiversity hotspot in Bulgaria. In this hotspot live a lot of endemic and protected species; a perfect place for a bioblitz! 🌻🪲

🇨🇾 Two citizen science events in #Cyprus brought together researchers, NGOs, students & local stakeholders to learn pollinator identification and field monitoring. 👉 www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/wings-b... @ucy1.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social

Another new ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas - Biodiversity Genomics Europe reference genome is available! ✨ Meet the eastern mosquito fish: Gambusia Holbrooki! 🐟 More information 👉 open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/6-48

The last BGE workshop in Portugal ✨ More information on our website 👉 biodiversitygenomics.eu/2026/02/16/b... In this workshop the participants learned more about the small animals that live in the soil and about their different characteristics. 🪱 🐜 🪳

Bioblitz in Cyprus! ✨ More information on our website 👉 biodiversitygenomics.eu/2026/02/16/w...

Another new @ergabiodiv.bsky.social - @biogeneurope.bsky.social reference genome is available! ✨ Have you ever seen this spineless thistle before? Carlina diae! 🏵️ This species of thistle is endemic to Crete, Greece. More information 👉 open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/6-3...

Another workshop in Greece! ✨ More information on our website 👉 biodiversitygenomics.eu/2026/02/09/d... During this workshop over 150 people, students, parents and educators, learned more about how genetics are used to study biodiversity.

New @ergabiodiv.bsky.social - @biogeneurope.bsky.social reference genomes have been made available! 🥳 Meet these mosquitoes: Culex laticinctus, Culex, modestus, Culex perexiguus and Culex theileri! 🦟🦟 🦟🦟 More information 👉 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

BGE workshop about DNA barcoding and biodiversity in Greece ✨ More information on our website 👉 biodiversitygenomics.eu/2026/02/09/b... @horizoneu.bsky.social, @iboleurope.bsky.social, @ergabiodiv.bsky.social, @biogeneurope.bsky.social #biodiversity #genomics #europe #DNA

Our experience in @biogeneurope.bsky.social suggests that we need to go beyond "project-level thinking" for biodiversity genomics in Europe, and that is exactly what we have started to do today at @naturalis.bsky.social! @horizoneu.bsky.social @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @iboleurope.bsky.social

Another new @ergabiodiv.bsky.social - @biogeneurope.bsky.social reference genome is available! 🥳 Meet this interesting milky worm endemic to the Pyrenees, Ailoscolex lacteospumosus! 🪱 ⛰️ More info👉 open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/6-26

A new @ergabiodiv.bsky.social - @biogeneurope.bsky.social reference genome is available! 🥳 Meet this little, rock dwelling land snail from Crete, Greece! Albinaria teres 🐌 Want to know more? 👉 open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/6-25 #europe #greece #DNA #Genome #biodiversity

Read the report of BGE's policy roundtable “Biodiversity innovation: Enabling technology for nature and green growth” last October 2025 in Brussels. 👉https://biodiversitygenomics.eu/2026/01/26/bgconnects-roundtable-report/

BGE is done sampling! 🥳 All over Europe scientists and citizen scientists took samples for BGE. Those samples needed to be transported to a lab for research, travelling thousands of kilometers. And that's not easy! More info on our website! 👉 biodiversitygenomics.eu/2026/01/21/b...

✨ Let's celebrate a new BGE research paper! ✨ 🥳 K. Reichel et al. wrote a paper about the challenges on generating high-quality reference genomes. More information on our website 👉 biodiversitygenomics.eu/2026/01/21/c...

A new @ergabiodiv.bsky.social - @biogeneurope.bsky.social reference genome is available! 🥳 Have you heard about this European medicinal leech? Hirudo verbana! Learn more about this medicinal leech here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mily... @iboleurope.bsky.social @horizoneu.bsky.social

A beautiful start of the new year: there's is new BGE research paper! ✨ 🤩 In their paper Pešić et al. discuss the phylogeny of a group of water mites (Hygrobates longipalpis complex). They also highlight a water mite species new to science! 🥳 🕷️ More info 👉 biodiversitygenomics.eu/2026/01/12/m...

Another BGE workshop in Portugal! ✨ BIOPOLIS-CIBIO and Município de Lousada organised a workshop about scientific bird ringing. 🐦‍⬛ 🦅 🦆 🦢 🪿 More information on our website 👉 biodiversitygenomics.eu/2026/01/05/s...

We want to thank our BGE community for all their efforts in 2025! We have done a lot thanks to you! We are looking forward to an amazing #biodiversity #genomics year in #europe in 2026 Happy Holidays to you all!

We are grateful for our citizen scientists! ✨ Unilodz held a two-day event to celebrate the collaboration with their entomological citizen scientists. 🪲 🦗 🐞 More information on our website 👉 biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/12/18/p...

New BGE Bioblitz at two #biodiversity #hotspots in Georgia! 💥 More information on our website 👉 biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/12/16/f...

Another BGE workshop in Thessaloniki! ✨ How can DNA-based methods enhance #biodiversity monitoring and environmental management? During this workshop scientists and policymakers discussed the possibilities. More info on our website 👉 biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/12/16/s... Vertaling weergeven

A new study shows that over 90% of insect biomass declines are driven by shrinking species numbers, posing a risk to ecosystem function. www.idiv.de/majority-of-... #biodiversity

Celebrating World Soil Day with a BGE workshop ✨ BIOPOLIS-CIBIO and Centro Social e Cultural de S. Pedro de Bairro organised a workshop about #soil and the different animals that live there. 🪳 🪱 🐌 More information on our website 👉 biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/12/15/c...

Good news! There is a new episode of the #Genomics Connection #Podcast by @ergabiodiv.bsky.social and @iboleurope.bsky.social. 🤩 👉 More information on our website: biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/12/12/g... 🔔Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/06SG...

Another exciting BGE workshop in Norway! 💥 Researchers from the NTNU University Museum visited a primary school to talk about #insects and their role in terrestial and aquatic #ecosystems. 🐛 🐞 🪲 🐝 🐜 🦗 🪳 Want to know more? Go to our website 👉 biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/12/11/i...

Remember this beautiful yellow gorgonian? @didier-aurelle.bsky.social wrote a blog post about why this species is important when studying genomic evolution. Read more on our website 👉 biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/12/09/u... @biogeneurope.bsky.social, @horizoneu.bsky.social, @ergabiodiv.bsky.social

There is another new @ergabiodiv.bsky.social - @biogeneurope.bsky.social reference genome available! 🥳 Please meet this moss species: Lewinskya acuminata 🌿 Want to know more? Take a look at the genome report 👉 open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-357 @horizoneu.bsky.social #genomics

🕷️ 🕸️ New @ergabiodiv.bsky.social - @biogeneurope.bsky.social reference genome available! 🥳 Please welcome the Common Orb-Weaving Spider! Want to know more? Go to the genome report 👉 open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-365 @horizoneu.bsky.social @cnag-eu.bsky.social #Spider #genomics

We are proud to count the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics among our partners, and thankful for their efforts in connecting the expertise from the DNA barcoding and genomics communities within BGE. Read more 👉 www.swisscore.org/connecting-s... @sib.swiss

There is a new @biogeneurope.bsky.social - @ergabiodiv.bsky.social reference genomes report! 🥳 Please welcome the plant: Xanthium orientale subsp. italicum!🧬 Want to know more? Go to the genome report👉 open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-367 @horizoneu.bsky.social @iboleurope.bsky.social

We are thrilled to announce a new BGE research paper! 🥳 Marius Hannes Eisele et al. wrote a paper evaluating the performance of denoising tools for metabarcoding and discusses how they can be improved. More information on our website! 👉 biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/12/02/n...

Take a look at the 9th "ERGA iBOL Europe Connections" blog! Go to our BGE website 👉https://biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/11/26/erga-ibol-europe-connections-9-how-biodiversity-genomics-drives-conservation-impact/ @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @iboleurope.bsky.social @horizoneu.bsky.social

4️⃣ Watch the fourth session of our BGE connects event on youtube now! 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynpm... Go to our website for more information on our event and the other sessions 🧬👉https://biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/11/18/biodiversity-genomics-connects-recordings/

3️⃣ Watch the third session of our BGE connects event on youtube now! 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZkq... Go to our website for more information on our event and the other sessions 🧬👉 biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/11/18/b... @iboleurope.bsky.social, @ergabiodiv.bsky.social, @horizoneu.bsky.social

During our recent BGE connects event several interesting sessions were held focused on the use of DNA methods and genomics science.🧬 Did you miss our event? Don't worry! You can now watch the first session of the symposium here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXnM...

We are thrilled to announce a new @biogeneurope.bsky.social - @ergabiodiv.bsky.social reference genomes report! 🥳 Please welcome this Lusitanian limpet!🧬 Want to know more? Go the genome report👉 open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-3... @ruimmfaria.bsky.social, @iboleurope.bsky.social

New Citizen Science event!🐿️ 🦔 🦇 More info on our website👉 biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/11/11/w... This September the University of Primorska, Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies organised two citizen science events at Campus Livade, Slovenia. Vertaling weergeven

The Genomics for Biodiversity Conference held at the end of October was a great succes! 🥳 👉 More information on our website: biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/11/10/f... The conference was organized by @biogeneurope.bsky.social and @ergabiodiv.bsky.social, and hosted by the BIOPOLIS-CIBIO near Porto.

We are thrilled to announce a new @biogeneurope.bsky.social - @ergabiodiv.bsky.social reference genomes report! Please welcome this marine ribbon worm! 🪱 🧬 Want to know more? Go the genome report👉 open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-317 @iboleurope.bsky.social @horizoneu.bsky.social

There's a new Biodiversity Genomics Europe case study! 🥳 Learn more about the threatened aquatic warbler. 👉 More info on our website: biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/11/05/b... @justynakubacka.bsky.social @mizpas.bsky.social @gdosgovpl.bsky.social

We are thrilled to announce a new @biogeneurope.bsky.social - @ergabiodiv.bsky.social genomes report! Please welcome this yellow gargonian, Eunicella cavolini! 🧬 open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-323 @horizoneu.bsky.social #genomes #DNA

Another new BGE paper! 🥳 Vladimir Pešić et al. wrote about "A new species of Torrenticola ungeri complex (Acari, Hydrachndia, Torrenticolidae), and new water mite records for Portugal" 👉 Read more! biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/11/04/n... @iboleurope.bsky.social @ergabiodiv.bsky.social

BGE papers published! 🥳 Want to know more? Take a look at BGE's news and events. biodiversitygenomics.eu/communicatio... @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @iboleurope.bsky.social @horizoneu.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social

Day 3 of Genomics for Biodiversity Conference! It starts at 12.30 CET. Find the zoom links for today's sessions in the programme. 👉 www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic... @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @horizoneu.bsky.social

🌍 We are back for the 2nd case study session of the day! Genomics for #Biodiversity conference - from genomes to impact. A really biodiverse set of @biogeneurope.bsky.social case studies are presenting today 🔽 www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR7I... www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic... #conference

Today is the second day of the Genomics for Biodiversity Conference. It starts at 10:00 CET. Watch it live👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq17... Check out the programme: www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic... @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social @horizoneu.bsky.social

Listen to the 6th episode of the Genomics Connection #podcast by @ergabiodiv.bsky.social en @iboleurope.bsky.social 🔔Listen here! open.spotify.com/episode/4w4D... 👉 More information on our website biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/10/29/g...

We have been busy! 😄 Last summer @biogeneurope.bsky.social organised a lot of workshops with a lot of different topics. Want to know more? Take a look at our citizen science platform 🧐 biodiversitygenomics.eu/citizen-scie...

This October @biogeneurope.bsky.social reached a #milestone: over one hundred #genomes have been sequenced and publicly released as part of the project.🥳 Want to know more? 👉 biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/10/27/c... @iboleurope.bsky.social @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @horizoneu.bsky.social