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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · 1d

🚀Last month, along with #TrIAS and @onestop-project.eu, we published a policy brief on how Belgium has leveraged @gbif.org to support sustainable development, conservation and innovation for effective #biodiversity governance.
🔎 Read more:
b-cubed.eu/news/new-pol...

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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · 1d

📢 The Living Data 2025 Conference is less than a month away!
🔎 Learn more about the sessions B-Cubed will be part of: b-cubed.eu/news/b-cubed...
👉 Register for the Living Data 2025 until 10 October: www.livingdata2025.com/registration...

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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · 2d

📢 A new paper presents B-Cubed’s perspective and how the project contributes to more efficient biodiversity monitoring.
🔗 Read it: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
🔎 Learn more: b-cubed.eu/news/new-pap...

B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · 8d

📑 A new paper provides a comprehensive assessment of #Biodiversity #Monitoring initiatives in Europe and how they address the requirements for producing Essential Biodiversity Variables (#EBVs) at a continental scale
👉 Read it: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Large Biodiversity Monitoring Gaps Remain Across Europe

Transnational monitoring frameworks are crucial for tracking progress and guiding biodiversity conservation policies at continental and global levels. Yet their development is constrained by the lack...

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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · 8d

🔎 Stay informed about all the ways we help decision-makers work with #biodiversitydata
📫 Subscribe to our newsletter on dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/457412...
#BiodiversityData

B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · 9d

⚙️ Still wondering how to use the @gbif.org SQL-based service for creating species occurrence cubes?
🎥 Andrew Rodrigues and Quentin Groom will guide you through the process in this B-Cubed video:
🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QgcUqJnpqs
Watch more B-Cubed videos: b-cubed.eu/videos

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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · 15d

Join @gbif.org session on Making Occurrence Maps today 👀

GBIF @gbif.org · 15d

🦀 Don't forget to join the GBIF #DataUseClub session TODAY!

📍 23 September 2025 15:00 - 16:30 CEST

Join Matt Blissett and John Waller from the Secretariat for our next Data Use Club practical session: Making occurrence maps. 🗺️

🔗 gbif.link/DUC_mapping

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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · 19d

📢 A 90-day public review and comment period has been opened for the new conceptual model and Data Package Guide for #DarwinCore
Have your say until 16 December!
🔗 Learn more: www.tdwg.org/news/2025/pu...

GBIF @gbif.org · 20d

🚨Have your say on the new conceptual model and Data Package Guide for #DarwinCore

The @tdwg.org Darwin Core Maintenance Group has opened a 90-day public review and comment period for the new conceptual model and Data Package Guide.

🗓️ 17 September – 16 December 2025
🔗 www.tdwg.org/news/20...

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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · 22d

💡Join B-Cubed partner Dr. @Sandra MacFadyen from Stellenbosch University on a colloquium on Turning Data into Decisions by Bridging Mathematics, Ecology, and Policy.
📆 13 October
🕓16h00–17h00 SAST
📍 Register to attend: nithecs-ac-za.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
👉 Read more: b-cubed.eu/news/upcomin...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: 2205-10-13 - NITheCS Colloquium: 'Turning Data into Decisions by Bridging Mathematics, Ecology, and Policy' by Dr Sandra MacFadyen (Stellenbosch University)...

ABSTRACT: Biodiversity loss is one of the defining challenges of our time. Yet monitoring biodiversity change across regions, scales, and taxonomic groups remains complex, making it difficult to deliv...

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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · 23d

📬 Subscribe to BMD's newsletter and learn the latest news about #BiodiversityData

Biodiversity Meets Data @bmd-project.eu · Sep 5

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...

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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · Sep 5

Upcoming training session on🦀Making occurrence maps 🗺️as part of the @gbif.org #DataUseClub

📍 23 September 2025 15:00 - 16:30 CEST

Register here: 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Find out more: 🔗 b-cubed.eu/news/upcomin...

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GBIF @gbif.org · Sep 1

🌍 Why countries need GBIF: lessons from Belgium

A recently published policy brief provides details how Belgium has leveraged GBIF to support sustainable development, conservation and innovation for effective #biodiversity governance.

🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · Sep 4

🚀Along with TrIAS and @onestop-project.eu, we recently published a policy brief on how Belgium has leveraged @gbif.org to support sustainable development, conservation and innovation for effective #biodiversity governance.
🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · Sep 4

Look out for B-Cubed materials at #LivingData 2025 in October 👀

Pensoft @pensoft.net · Sep 3

📢 Shoutout to ALL packing up for #LivingData2025!

📌 In our session, you'll find how multiple @horizoneu.bsky.social projects are carrying on the legacy of their predecessors in an excellent example of knowledge transfer done right✅!

👌We'll also talk about #science #communication!

#DatosVivos2025

Pensoft to co-host a session on knowledge transfer & continuity at Living Data 2025

Pensoft is a co-organiser of a four-hour session, titled: “Long Live Biodiversity Data: Knowledge Transfer and Continuity across Research Projects”.

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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · Sep 2

📢 CO-OP4CBD, which coordinates and supports the implementation of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) in Europe, is organising online training sessions this week!
👉 Find out more: www.linkedin.com/events/co-op...

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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · Sep 1

🚀Step into the b3verse, a collection of related R packages that support the entire workflow of creating indicators from occurrence cubes.
👀Check out B-Cubed’s guide to the b3verse: lnkd.in/dQmPtBdi
#BiodiversityData #B3verse #DataCubes

B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · Aug 29

👀 Stay informed about all the ways to support #IAS management in Europe.
📬 Subscribe to OneSTOP's newsletter: dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/128157...

OneSTOP @onestop-project.eu · Aug 26

Something is baking…👀
📢 OneSTOP’s first newsletter will be out in no time!
📬 Subscribe to receive it directly in your inbox and learn about all the ways we support #IAS management in Europe: dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/128157...
#InvasiveAlienSpecies #Bioinvasions

B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · Aug 26

💡 Do you want to learn how to work with species occurrence cubes?
🟢 B-Cubed’s guide on Specification for species occurrence cubes and their production can help you
🔗 Read more: docs.b-cubed.eu/guides/occur...
#BiodiversityData #DataCubes

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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · Aug 22

📢 You can take part in the 2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge until 7 September 2025!
🔬 Participate with newly developed functional prototypes, tools and techniques or existing ones whose capabilities and features have been extended to leverage biodiversity data from @gbif.org network.

GBIF @gbif.org · Aug 11

🚀 Four weeks left to submit your entry to the 2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge!

Who can enter the Challenge?
😎 individuals
💪teams
🏢 companies
🔍 governmental agencies from anywhere in the world!

Submissions close 7 September 2025

🔗 gbif.link/ebbe-2025

Enter to win a share of €20,000! 💸

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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · Aug 19

🌐 @bmd-project.eu organises two workshops on biodiversity monitoring, data and analysis.
🐞 The workshops will be hosted by Eurosite - the European Land Conservation Network
📍 9 September – 11 September 2025, Lithuania
📍29 September – 2 October 2025, Sweden
➡️ Learn more:

Biodiversity Meets Data @bmd-project.eu · Jul 1

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...

B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · Aug 15

👉 The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission has developed the The Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity (KCBD) Global Biodiversity Data Viewer
🔎 Check it out: dopa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/gbdv/
#BiodivesityData

B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · Aug 15

A new white paper on how #science, #technology and #innovation can support the UN #SDGs
🔗Read it below:

Pensoft @pensoft.net · Aug 15

🆕 Coordinated by @lifewatcheric.bsky.social, with our partners from across Europe, we put together this white paper to present a collective commitment to leveraging #scientific #knowledge & #digital #innovation in support of the #SDGs and the UN Pact for the Future.

🔓Read: doi.org/10.3897/rio....

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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · Aug 15

🪴 @nbntrust.bsky.social is celebrating 25 years of making data work for nature with a conference for everyone from the conservation and biodiversity data sector.
📅 20 November 2025
📍 Bristol
#BiodiversityData

National Biodiversity Network Trust @nbntrust.bsky.social · Aug 14

Bookings are now open for the 25th NBN Conference!
Join us on 20 November at the SS Great Britain in Bristol for a day of inspiring talks, networking, and celebrating 25 years of making data work for nature. Find all the details and book your place here: nbn.org.uk/.../nbn-conf...

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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · Aug 8

☀️Wondering what to do on a summer afternoon?
🎧Sit back and enjoy @idiv-research.bsky.social's podcast on biodiversity changes.

iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · Aug 7

🎧 New episode of #InsideBiodiversity out now! Megafaunal extinctions — mammoths, giant sloths, woolly rhinos — all happened just 10K–50K years ago. Prof. Susanne Fritz (iDiv & @uni-jena.de) shares how climate & humans played a role — & why speciation may be ongoing. 🦣🌡️ insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · Aug 1

🌐Have you ever wondered what a data space actually is?

➡️ Check out this publication explaining the concept of data spaces and how they are used:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#DataSpaces #BiodiversityData

What are data spaces? Systematic survey and future outlook

Data spaces, a novel concept pushing data sharing and exchange, are experiencing momentum because of recent developments motivated by the increasing n…

www.sciencedirect.com