Learn more about data spaces from Sharif Islam (@sharifx.bsky.social), one of BMD's partners from @naturalis.bsky.social 📊 🔗 bmd-project.eu/news/demysti...

Meet our partners: @lifewatcheric.bsky.social 🌿🇪🇺 LifeWatch ERIC will lead the design, development and operation of BMD’s Biodiversity Explorer and maintain the BMD data catalogue. They will also host the BMD training materials. 📚 Their research here: bmd-project.eu/resources/li... #BMDpartners

🌿📊 Check out @b-cubed.eu's blog post for one of their project results - modelled cubes! 💻Find it here: b-cubed.eu/news/how-be-... 👉 More #HowToBeCubed blog posts are available on their website: b-cubed.eu/news

B-Cubed Project@b-cubed.eu · 7d ago

B-Cubed developed pipelines that translate raw biodiversity data into policy-relevant indicators 🌱📊 This time we spotlight the second key component of the data pipelines 👉 Modelled Cubes 🔗 More about how you can use modelled cubes: b-cubed.eu/news/how-be-... #HowToBeCubed

People need to grapple with the fact we're in an epistemic crisis that's starting to corrode countless elements of human knowledge.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Al-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk

Meet our partners: @naturalis.bsky.social 🦦🇳🇱 Naturalis is not only the coordinating team behind BMD, but they will also develop the engine of BMD and the core infrastructure that provides cloud computing, a data visualisation engine, and web-GIS viewer 💻 🔗 www.naturalis.nl/en #BMDpartners

Meet our partners: @thebotanics.bsky.social 🌼🇬🇧 Through in-person and online workshops, RBGE helps embed stakeholders’ requirements in BMD’s tools for biodiversity status assessment, trend analyses, and future projections. 🔗 Check out their research: bmd-project.eu/resources/li... #BMDpartners

💻 The OneSTOP Project is organising a webinar that introduces the concept of plant-blindness in One Health and explores why it matters for prevention, resilience, and policy. 📝 Learn more and register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

OneSTOP@onestop-project.eu · 4w ago

Join our upcoming webinar to learn more about plant-blindness in One Health and how we can approach this issue in policy and health decision-making 🌱 📅 23 September 2026 ⏰ 15:00 CET 💻 Online on Zoom 🔗 Sign up for the webinar here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

EU invests in ocean monitoring as US cuts funding With underwater drones and ocean-focused satellites, the EU is expanding its monitoring network of Earth’s seas as climate change fuels heat waves and stronger storms and the Trump administration plans severe cuts to a similar system in the US.

EU invests in ocean monitoring as US cuts funding

With underwater drones and ocean-focused satellites, the EU is expanding its monitoring network of Earth’s seas as climate change fuels heat waves and stronger storms and the Trump administration plans severe cuts to a similar system in the United States.

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Here's more on today's EU plans on ocean observation ec.europa.eu/commission/p... One of the EU Commissioners explicitly referred to the "extremely worrying" context of the US "dismantling" its ocean observation role ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Commission presents OceanEye initiative to put EU at the forefront of ocean observation

Today, the European Commission adopted OceanEye to expand the EU\'s role in ocean observation.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Days after the U.S. said it would kill a network of ocean monitors, European officials pledged to invest more in their version, calling it a “necessity.”” Good. 🧪🦑🌎 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/c...

Free newsletter: The dawn of token-based-billing has shown that generative AI doesn’t have a return on investment. It's too unpredictable, too unreliable, you can't easily measure the cost of tasks, and organizations are already pulling back. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-have-roi/

AI Doesn't Have ROI

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The 2026 FIFA World Cup was recently coined ‘the most polluting World Cup’ due to its sheer geographic footprint. This year’s event stretches across 16 cities in Canada, the US, and Mexico. Get data on each host city’s annual emissions impacts at climatetrace.org/explore.

@lifewatcheric.bsky.social CEO Christos at the BGE+ kick off. @biogeneurope.bsky.social @naturalis.bsky.social

New publications from our colleagues at @iboleurope.bsky.social: Strategic priorities for boosting #DNA #barcoding research and application in Europe, at the continental and national level. Two must-reads. @eurotaxonomy.cetaf.org @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @horizoneu.bsky.social

iBOL Europe@iboleurope.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On this International Day for Biological Diversity, we are releasing two papers that aim to facilitate the development of a robust network of DNA barcoding practitioners in Europe and beyond: iboleurope.org/acting-local...

@biogeneurope.bsky.social getting started with BGE+ #biodiversity 🧬🧪

Day 2️⃣ begins with a session led by Julian Oeser from @ufz.de. Partners discussed the main challenges for the development of BMD’s Biodiversity Analysis Tools, such as alignment with stakeholders and different teams and integration with data processing infrastructure. #BMDmeets26

📊 In this episode of #BMDexplained, @sharifx.bsky.social from @naturalis.bsky.social outlines the challenges of integrating biodiversity data from diverse sources. Watch the full video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3EE...

🚀 The 2026 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge is OPEN! Have an idea, tool or prototype that uses GBIF biodiversity data to advance open science, research or policy? Submit an entry and compete for a share of €20,000 in prizes 💸 ⭐ Deadline: Friday 26 June 2026 (23:59 CEST) 👉 gbif.link/ENC-2026

We must stand in solidarity with Jews being attacked by antisemitic criminals and terrorists: no ifs or buts. We must stand in solidarity with Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli government: no ifs or buts. These are not contradictory positions. They are consistent ones. 🧵1/5

It truly is about the money. Killing people is profitable. U.S. Fast-Tracks Arms Deals Valued at $8.6 Billion to Mideast Partners www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/w...

U.S. Fast-Tracks Arms Deals Valued at $8.6 Billion to Mideast Partners

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Nature’s careers team interviewed research-support professionals to hear how their work helps to shape the course of modern science, and how recognition — or the lack of it — has influenced their careers. #Academicsky 🧪

How hidden contributions power modern research

The people who work behind the scenes to keep research moving say that there should be more recognition for their roles.

go.nature.com

whoa... powerful stuff

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Absolutely fire speech by Amitav Ghosh accepting the Erasmus prize last year: erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...

Ahead of the World Cup, Saudi Aramco — the world's biggest climate polluter — is estimated to be spending $400 million to sponsor FIFA: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @hayleysmith.bsky.social

One of the World Cup's biggest sponsors is Big Oil

FIFA is promoting its commitment to environmental sustainability ahead of this year's World Cup. It also signed a sponsorship deal with the largest oil and gas company in the world, Saudi Aramco.

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A species on the edge 🐧 On this #WorldPenguinDay we take a close look at the lives of the Emperor Penguin. Learn more about it’s recent uplisting to Endangered here: www.birdlife.org/news/2026/04...

@tdwg.org #TDWG2026 opportunity! contribute to this #digitalcuration #roundtripping topic at the conference and in the BDJ. @sharifx.bsky.social @nickynicolson.bsky.social @miketrizna.bsky.social @evomri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @aguentsch.bsky.social @njdowdy.bsky.social @cabbageleek.bsky.social

Biodiversity Data Journal@bdj.pensoft.net · 6mo ago

📢 Call for submissions: "Beyond Digitization: Open Digital Curation of Collections-based Biodiversity Data." This topical collection aims to explore how #AI and human annotations can enhance #biodiversity #data and flow back to source systems. 📅 Deadline: 1 Sept 2026 Details 👇

We'll do almost anything to avoid building actual trains.

Yale Climate Connections@climateconnections.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If this company has its way, you might soon see airplanes pulling other airplanes through the sky.

"Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has said he is open to the idea that Claude may already have some form of consciousness, and company leaders frequently talk about the need to give it a moral character." This is a sales pitch, and journalism that doesn't highlight this has failed.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

“Anthropic staff sought advice on how to steer Claude’s moral and spiritual development as the chatbot reacts to complex and unpredictable ethical queries, participants said.”

Least surprising story of the day: fossil fuel lobbyist of two decades (who was PM before that), lobbies for fossil fuels www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Tony Blair calls for more North Sea drilling to protect against shocks of Iran war

Former prime minister’s think tank says Labour should back Jackdaw and Rosebank oil and gas fields

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Reposting here to see if anyone can help. @gbif.org @taxonworks.bsky.social @naturalis.bsky.social

Tuna@antea04.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸 We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto. The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.

open.substack.com/pub/sadnewsl...

Reading Notes

Against Purity and Fear of a Dead White Planet

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🎉Happy Taxonomist Appreciation Day! We're thrilled to see 𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘺𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘶𝘴 𝘷𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘪 featured in the World Register of Marine Species @marinespecies.bsky.social Top 10 Marine Species of 2025. 🌌🪐Meet the Sith Lord of the sea on our blog 👇 #TaxonomistAppreciationDay #marinebiology #taxonomy #biodiversity

The Sith Lord of the Sea: Supergiant Isopod in the WoRMS’ Top 10 Marine Species of 2025 | Blog

Supergiant isopod named after Darth Vader joins the prestigious World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) top 10 Marine Species of 2025.

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