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The @marbefes.bsky.social Autumn School started this, with our CEO Christos Arvanitidis delivering the institutional welcome. Our trainers will take students through ecological tools for the valuation and assessment of marine biodiversity and ecosystem services. Stay tuned! 🦑 bit.ly/4yJkO28

🧬 On 11-12 November, join the Metagenomics in Biodiversity & Ecosystem Working Group: the group integrates expertise from LifeWatch ERIC and ELIXIR-IT to build a coordinated monitoring network, and develop biodiversity assessment services. Free registration by 5 November!👇 bit.ly/4yW61BY

🌊 Kalispera from Crete! 🧬 We kicked off our genomic in-person training. Here, students will learn practical tips on #eDNA sample collection, sequencing, and data analysis, and how RIs serve as the digital backbone of biodiversity research. @embrc.eu @lifewatcheric.bsky.social @vliz.be

🧬 On 11-12 November, join the Metagenomics in Biodiversity & Ecosystem Working Group for its kickoff event: the group integrates expertise from LifeWatch ERIC and ELIXIR-IT to build a coordinated monitoring network, and develop biodiversity assessment services. Free registration👇 bit.ly/4yW61BY

🌊 @marinesabres.bsky.social held its final General Assembly in Cork: three days of Decision Support System testing, Demonstration Area results and a joint session with the ICES Working Group on MPAs. 🎬 We also screened our documentary Tides of Balance, now available to watch: bit.ly/4jYyHpk

In September we joined the launch of an exciting project, #MedConnect, coordinated by the Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute: a three-year initiative to accelerate the restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems and the transition to a climate-neutral, competitive blue economy. 👉 bit.ly/3TDkMun

REWIRE consortium came together to launch three years of work on computational reproducibility, bringing together five pilots across biodiversity, life sciences, robotics, AI and IT. We also held a joint session with our sister project @arion-project.bsky.social. 👉 Recap: tinyurl.com/4hep465r

Analysis of cancer mutations introduced into the <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> Notch negative regulatory region uncovers a diversity of regulatory outcomes

ENVRI at the #EOSC Symposium 2026 in Florence! Join us 14–16 Oct: 🔹 Talk: "Automating data FAIRification" w/ Anca Hienola (15 Oct, 14:30 CEST) 🏛️ Visit the ENVRI Node exhibition booth! 👉 Full details: envri.eu/eosc-symposi... @actris.bsky.social @ilmatieteenlaitos.fi @egieinfra.bsky.social

(1/) The chattering Reed Warbler is frequently found along reed fringed waterways. It declined by 5% in this habitat 1999–2024. However, the BBS trend shows that this species is on the increase across the UK. @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social #Ornithology

Don't forget! 🚨 The @marbefes.bsky.social Autumn School 2026 applications close on 9 October! Learn how to use decision-support tools and apply them to real marine management challenges! 🦑 Selected candidates will be hosted for 3 days in Lecce, Italy. Read more and apply 👉 bit.ly/4hxDFYt

REWIRE Kick-off is underway in Athens! Day 1 started alongside our sister project @arion-project.bsky.social, bringing reproducibility and responsible research assessment together and opening the door to collaboration from the very beginning. #REWIRE #OpenScience #ComputationalReproducibility

🌊 Sponsor spotlight: LifeWatch ERIC We thank @lifewatcheric.bsky.social for supporting #WCMB2026 wcmb2026.org/sponsors-pre... @unoceandecade.bsky.social @vliz.be

🔬Check out this new proposal for an eleven-tenet framework for the integrated, evolving and sustainable management of European Research Infrastructure Consortia (ERICs), explicitly adding "enabling scientific excellence" as a key dimension: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... @lifewatcheric.bsky.social

This forum paper is part of the Topical Collection: "LifeWatch ERIC Collection of Data and Services Papers" that you can access here for free: doi.org/10.3897/bdj.... @lifewatcheric.bsky.social

Join us in Varna, 14-17 October 2026, for the LTER-BG International Scientific Conference! Scientists, practitioners and policy-makers will share findings and shape the future of long-term #ecosystem #research. More details: riojournal.com/news/1484 #eLTERcommunity @elter-ri.eu

A week in Paris with #ontoportal! From 21 to 25 September, the OntoPortal Workshop took place in Paris hosted by the @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social and organised by OntoPortal-Astro. Representatives from the different portals across the network came together to discuss the future of OntoPortal.

🌊 We’re live at the European Researchers’ Night in Lecce! ✨ Discover @marinesabres.bsky.social through our Serious Game and Tides of Balance, our documentary, exploring how science, innovation and communities can support a more sustainable ocean. 🌍 📍 Ex Monastero degli Olivetani, Area 3

ENVRI-Hub NEXT at #EGI2026 in Ghent! 🌍 Join us this week for our dedicated session on cross-domain data integration, live demos, posters & booth presence! 🗓️ Main Session: Wed 23 Sept | 11:00 CEST 👉 Full schedule & details: envri.eu/envri-egi2026/ @egieinfra.bsky.social

📢 Applications open for the @marbefes.bsky.social Autumn School 2026: learn how to use decision-support tools and apply them to real marine management challenges! 🦑 Selected candidates will be hosted for 3 days in Lecce, Italy. Read more and apply 👉 bit.ly/4hxDFYt

3 futures for #Europe – but which #economy delivers for both #biodiversity and #equity? More: mydaisy.eu/3-futures-fo... #eu #transformation #transformationchange #daisy @greenformation.bsky.social @spark4bplus.bsky.social

Ever wondered whether microplastics could affect the ocean carbon cycle? New research suggests they may interfere with the growth of phytoplankton - microscopic algae that play an important role in absorbing and moving carbon through the ocean.

Join us in a new #EBDSeminar this thursday!👇 🔹"Microbiota analyses in birds: Overview of interactions between hosts, microbiota and blood parasites" 🔸Vaidas Palinauskas (Nature Research Centre, Lithuania) 📅 10th September, 2026. 13:00h CEST

We've had over 1,000 colony count submissions to the SMP in 2026 so far! Of the 23 seabird species with data, Fulmar has the most. Remember to submit your colony count and breeding success data before the October 31st data deadline. #Seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

💬 "We look in at the environment as something beautiful, but we don't see that we are actually part of it, and everything we do has an impact on that environment." 📽️ 👉 Watch "Tides of Balance", the documentary by @marinesabres.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/4A0JXXY @ucc.ie

We just attended the #ToScA symposium on Tomography for Scientific Advancement, at the Aritstotle University of Thessaloniki. Niki Keklikoglou, from #LifeWatchGreece, talked about advancing marine research through 3D imaging. Great to learn about tomography applications in biology! 👇👇👇

🌿 What does Europe need to scale up wetland restoration? A new white paper from REWET, WET HORIZONS, ALFAwetlands, Restore4Cs, ForPeat, Wetland4Change & Palus Demos outlines four key policy priorities. 📄 Read more: shorturl.at/6Z2pm @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social

Last week we attended the #SERE2026 Conference on ecological restoration: a particularly relevant one, as what we learnt could prove very useful in RECUP-DAS (our project on the restoration of river basins affected by mining activities). Read more 👉 bit.ly/4zSBI04 @serestoration.bsky.social

The @lifewatcheric.bsky.social Pilot Node is testing biodiversity and ecosystem data integration in #EOSC, enabling cross-domain research, cloud-based workflow execution, and federated metadata discovery. Explore this Pilot Node landing page: www.lifewatch.eu/lifewatch-er... #OpenScience

September is here with a series of new research-focused events! 🍇 Join the OntoPortal Alliance members for a public session about OntoPortal, including an open Q&A and a practical tutorial.👇 Info: bit.ly/4x41JHh @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social @jonquet.bsky.social

This week, members of LifeWatch ERIC and partners are attending the #ECSA61 Conference: Find out where to find us! We'll talk about toolboxes for marine and estuarine management, environmental DNA workflows, and much more! 👇 bit.ly/4gsh79P @elsevierconnect.bsky.social @marbefes.bsky.social

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