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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 17/09/2026
We depend on nature, not the other way around. It's time we stop pushing our best ally to the brink.
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 25/08/2026
⚖️ Traditional vs. novel pollinator monitoring: Which one will win? 🪤 We tested different methods in Doñana and Julia Aledo (EBD-CSIC) shared the insights during a special seminar. 👉 Find out the breakdown in the seminar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=peEW...
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WildPosh Project @wildposh.eu · 12/08/2026
Did you know Europe is running out of taxonomists - the experts who identify pollinator species? 🐝 The Pollinator Academy is an open-source platform from 25 European institutes, offering free courses, ID tools & field guides for all experience levels. 📖 👉 Check them out: pollinatoracademy.eu
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Pollinator Academy
The Pollinator Academy is a learning platform with integrated taxonomic tools and information on European pollinators.
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Biodiversity Meets Data @bmd-project.eu · 29/07/2026
🗓️ Join the BMD project in Seville for a high-throughput biodiversity monitoring workshop, providing practical training on biodiversity monitoring and analyses. 🔗 Learn more and express your interest: bmd-project.eu/news/biodive... @gbif.org | @eurosite.org | @lifewatcheric.bsky.social
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 23/07/2026
ANTENNA’s Biodiversity Forecasting Challenge with @ebdonana.bsky.social generated great interest and received extensive coverage. It was featured in the newsletters of four pollinator-related projects and showcased on @ece2026tours.bsky.social! 🐝Read more: pollinators-antenna.eu/news/biodive...
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 20/07/2026
Happy #NationalMothWeek! Learn more about moths:
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 08/07/2026
The ANTENNA project reached new audiences at two key European events dedicated to entomology and biodiversity. It was featured at the XIII European Congress of Entomology and BioMonWeek. 👉 Read more: pollinators-antenna.eu/news/antenna...
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 01/07/2026
🐝 New research co-authored by ANTENNA scientist @ibartomeus.bsky.social explores how insect life-history dynamics can help explain population declines and improve conservation efforts. 👉 Read more: pollinators-antenna.eu/news/antenna...
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Pensoft @pensoft.net · 30/06/2026
Our workshop is happening today at #ECE2026Tours! 🐝 Tiny Creatures, Lasting Impact: Science Communication for Entomology 🕐 12:50–13:50 | 📍 Level +2, Room Courteline Beyond the paper: how do we make insect science land with policymakers, practitioners & the public? Come join us!
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 29/06/2026
🦋 Come and find us at the ECE2026 - XIII European Congress of Entomology! The ANTENNA project is on display at the @pensoft.net booth. 🤝 You can come say ‘Hi!', share your thoughts, and check out our promo materials!
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 29/06/2026
👀 Don't miss out on taking a peek at the latest PollinERA newsletter and see if you can spot ANTENNA's appearance.
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WildPosh Project @wildposh.eu · 26/06/2026
🔎 Did you get the answer to #InsectGame2026 right? I am a moth! 🧐 Did you guess correctly? Let us know below. @pollinera-horizon.eu @safeguard-pollinators.eu @valor-project.eu @eufawready.eu @agri4pol.eu @pollinators-antenna.eu
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 26/06/2026
🌿 This week, we present Yamini Yogya, a postdoctoral researcher dedicated to bridging the gap between biodiversity science and the policies that shape our world. 👉 Read her interview here: www.mambo-project.eu/news/behind-... #EarlyCareerResearchers #MAMBOECRs #MAMBO
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Behind the research: Yamini Yogya
Each week, we will introduce an interview with an early-career researcher working on the MAMBO project. Meet the scientists who bring innovation to the way we monitor biodiversity across Europe. Can...
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 25/06/2026
🦋Happy #InsectWeek 2026! Join our Insect Game, together with the EU pollinator projects @agri4pol.eu, @eufawready.eu, @pollinera-horizon.eu, @safeguard-pollinators.eu, @wildposh.eu and @valor-project.eu. Find the first clue in the thread below and follow the feeds of the other projects for the rest.
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 05/06/2026
The online journal #NatureConservation just announced a new pollinator-focused collection, which addresses the accelerating decline of insect pollinators and the urgent need for comprehensive extinction risk assessments:
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Pensoft @pensoft.net · 05/06/2026
🐝 New topical collection now open in Nature Conservation: IUCN Red List assessments, spatial metrics & #conservation strategies for #insect #pollinators. Understudied regions & Data Deficient species especially welcome. Led by @muzafar-riyaz.bsky.social 🔗 natureconservation.pensoft.net/news/1265
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New Topical Collection: IUCN Red List Assessments: Advances in Spatial Metrics, Threat Analysis, and Conservation of Insect Pollinators
Nature Conservation is pleased to announce a new topical collection addressing the accelerating decline of insect pollinators and the urgent need for comprehensive extinction risk assessments.Wild bee...
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 05/06/2026
Both climate change and biodiversity loss are intertwined crises with severe consequences for people and nature. seedling On this #EnvironmentDay and every day, we remember the essential role of biodiversity in effective climate action.
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 04/06/2026
🐝 Have you already tried The Biodiversity Forecasting Challenge? Combine the data on temperature, location, humidity, and species characteristics with your own intuition and see how the forecasting is actually happening! 🔗No installation needed, just the link: pollinators-antenna.eu/forecasting
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 29/05/2026
🤔 Can you beat AI in predicting insect populations around the world? Take our challenge! The choice of strategy is yours: you can use the trends shown in our interactive challenge, or you can guess randomly. 🔗 Try it here: pollinators-antenna.eu/forecasting
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UN Biodiversity @unbiodiversity.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
10 days to go until #BiodiversityDay 2026!🌿 A global moment to celebrate biodiversity and the actions helping protect life on Earth 🌍 Be part of the celebration for nature 💚 🔗 cbd.int/biodiversity... #LocalAction #ForNature #UNBiodiversity #IDB2026
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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 24/04/2026
🐝 The @restpoll.bsky.social consortium brings together expertise of #natural & #social #scientists, as well as #NGOs, businesses & ministries to provide society with tools to reverse wild #insect #pollinator declines. 🔓 Grant Proposal: doi.org/10.3897/rio.... 📸 Relationships among work packages.
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 23/04/2026
🔬 How does ANTENNA advance pollinator biodiversity monitoring? A recent seminar tackles the uncertainty in pollinator trends by providing insights from monitoring, modelling, and prediction. Watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=peEW... #biodiversity #monitoring #PollinatorResearch
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 21/04/2026
🐝 The Biodiversity Forecasting Challenge is an experiment to understand how well machine learning models compare to human intuition. Discover the perks of predicting insect population trends yourself. No need for previous expertise to try it out! 👉 pollinators-antenna.eu/forecasting
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 15/04/2026
🦋 Do you think you can read nature's patterns better than an AI? We just released an interactive challenge that puts human intuition to the test. 🔗 No expertise required, and anyone is invited to participate! Try ANTENNA's Biodiversity Forecasting Challenge here: pollinators-antenna.eu/forecasting
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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 08/04/2026
🧒 How well do kids know about the #plants and the #bees? 📝 A survey of 6 to 12-year-olds reports: 🐝 70% know bees are “useful & necessary” 🌱 78% think “plants need bees” ⚠️ Generally, however, the kids do not understand the role of bees in #ecosystems. 🔓 Research Article: doi.org/10.3897/rio....
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Biodiversity Meets Data @bmd-project.eu · 02/03/2026
Join us for a three-day hands-on workshop on the deployment of plug-and-play devices. 🗓️ 27-29 May 📍 Barcelona, Spain 📖 Learn more: bmd-project.eu/storage/app/... ✍️ Express your interest: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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NeoBiota @neobiota.pensoft.net · 23/03/2026
🌸How do non-native #pollinators change pollinating networks? 🐝By analyzing 2,100+ records in Chile, researchers found that non-native bees (like 𝘉. 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘴) are shifting #pollination networks toward less specialized homogenized structures, with 𝘉. 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘴 dominating 73% of the interactions.
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Silent takeover: How invasive bees reshaped plant-pollinator interactions in a biodiversity hotspot
Biological invasions are a major driver of biodiversity loss. Invasive pollinators can reshape native plant-pollinator networks. This study, taking Chile as an example, is divided into two parts. Firs...
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 20/03/2026
🇪🇺 ANTENNA is on the move! Our project materials have been crossing borders - landing in Freiburg, Turin, Brussels and Lund alongside pollinator projects @agri4pol.eu, @safeguard-pollinators.eu, @wildposh.eu and @pollinera-horizon.eu. Read about ANTENNA's scope of work: pollinators-antenna.eu/about
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 09/03/2026
🔎 In this final post, part of the #ANTENNAexpertise campaign, we are sharing a paper that delves into how the future distributions of 48 European bumblebee species are strongly affected by both climate change and land use change. Discover the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 02/03/2026
💡 A study assessed how climate change and landscape structure affect wild bee communities. Results show that rising temperatures reduce bee species richness, but maintaining a high proportion of semi-natural habitats can mitigate these negative effects. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365... #ANTENNAexpertise
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 23/02/2026
🐝 Pollinators are essential for crops and wild plants, yet data on their declines are limited and biased. Coordinated research infrastructures are key to monitoring trends and supporting pollinator conservation in agroecosystems. Read on the topic here: doi.org/10.1088/1748... #ANTENNAexpertise
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Pensoft @pensoft.net · 20/02/2026
🐝🦇 🐦In light of the numerous threats to #pollinator health, we are launching Advances in Pollinator Research - @apr.pensoft.net, a diamond #OpenAccess #journal that brings together diverse pollinator #science efforts. The journal will be powered by @arphahub.com 👇Read more about it on our blog:
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Pensoft launches a new journal: Advances in Pollinator Research | Blog
Pensoft launches Advances in Pollinator Research, a diamond open-access journal unifying diverse pollinator science efforts.
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 16/02/2026
🏛️ Museum specimens reveal long-term changes in pollinators, from species distributions to interactions, yet data remains scarce for most species. Case studies from New Zealand and Spain show how historical collections can help assess global declines. 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rstb... #ANTENNAexpertise
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WildPosh Project @wildposh.eu · 13/02/2026
💛🐝 This Valentine’s Day, show some love to the ones who keep our world blooming. The Young Citizens Assembly on Pollinators has launched its participation platform, and your voice can help shape the solutions to reverse the decline of wild pollinators: panoramic.make.org/en/partner/e...
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Biodiversity Data Journal @bdj.pensoft.net · 11/02/2026
The newly created National park Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse National Park (ESEMNP) in southern Belgium is buzzing! A 5-month survey of 32 sites collected 1,159 specimens from 102 species. See which habitat supported the highest #diversity here: ⤵️ doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
Megachile argentataHalictus quadricinctus
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 09/02/2026
💡 Automatised methods for scoring behaviours at scale give biologists powerful tools to interpret complex phenotypes. This paper shows how rethomics supports storing, handling, and visualising large behavioural datasets. Read it here: doi.org/10.1371/jour... #ANTENNAexpertise
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 02/02/2026
#ANTENNAexpertise continues with another study related to how global warming may fuel the spread of the small hive beetle (Aethina tumida), a parasite threatening honey bees. Find the publication here: doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 26/01/2026
⛰️ Take a look at a study that compared plant-pollinator communities in the Gavarnie-Gèdre commune of the Pyrenees across 115 years to assess the impact of climate change. Access the publication here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #ANTENNAexpertise
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 19/01/2026
👀#ANTENNAexpertise continues, and this time we are focusing on an autonomous trap designed to better monitor insects in the field. Sticky Pi takes images of sticky cards every 20 minutes and, using deep learning algorithms, identifies which insects were captured and when. 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 12/01/2026
💡 We continue our campaign highlighting research relevant to ANTENNA with a study from the Netherlands that examined over 4 million plant observations to assess the role of natural land cover in species conservation. Discover the study and its findings: doi.org/10.1371/jour... #ANTENNAexpertise
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 05/01/2026
🎉 We’re excited tо start the new year with a campaign highlighting research that is relevant to ANTENNA. The first publication comes from the PoshBee project, and it examines how large-scale ecological studies handle complex challenges. Read it here: www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14... #ANTENNAexpertise
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 22/12/2025
📹 We’re excited to share a glimpse of everything we’ve achieved together in the past year in our new highlights video. Watch to see the key moments from ANTENNA's fruitful year: youtu.be/roU1nwv8klM #ANTENNAhighlights
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 19/12/2025
❄️ From ANTENNA, we wish you a joyous holiday season! We prepared a special surprise to celebrate the end of the year, so make sure you follow our social media channels to not miss out. 🔜
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 15/12/2025
📢 The 2nd Annual General Meeting of the ANTENNA project was held on 11 to 12 December 2025 at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden. The meeting brought together project partners to review progress, exchange results, and coordinate the next phases of project implementation. #ANTENNAagm
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Pensoft @pensoft.net · 13/11/2025
🌏 A field survey of the #pollinators of a rare Australian wildflower led Kit S. Prendergast to describe the 🐝 Megachile lucifer #bee in hope to bring new light to the #conservation of native #bees and their native #habitats. 🗞️ News via @washingtonpost.com. 🔓 Research paper from @jhr.pensoft.net
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Scientists discovered a bee with devil horns. Meet ‘Lucifer.’
Only female bees from the new species have the distinctive horns, scientists said, after it was discovered in a remote part of Western Australia.
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 17/10/2025
🐝 #ANTENNA celebrates the International Pollinators Initiative #IPI25. Technology can transform how we monitor and protect pollinators. At ANTENNA, we’re advancing technologies to close monitoring gaps and strengthen EU-wide pollinator monitoring. Read about ANTENNA's work: pollinators-antenna.eu
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MAMBO Project @mambo-project.eu · 14/10/2025
🗓️ Save the date for an upcoming 2-day MAMBO drone mapping course! This course will guide you through a real-world example workflow, mapping individual Hawthorn shrubs in a rewilding site. Find more information and register: www.mambo-project.eu/events/how-c... #MAMBOwebinars @ukceh.bsky.social
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 07/10/2025
💡 New research shows that interval photography can effectively survey #pollinator communities with less labour than traditional observation. Read the ANTENNA-relevant paper here: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 15/09/2025
💡 #ANTENNApartners concludes today with @pensoft.net! Well-known among academics worldwide with its technologically advanced peer-reviewed Open Access journals, the company is actively developing new tools and workflows for scientific data publishing and dissemination. Discover more: pensoft.net
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ANTENNA Project @pollinators-antenna.eu · 05/09/2025
👀 #ANTENNAtravels to the Student Conference on Conservation Science! The event is the largest conference in conservation science, where students and early career scientists can present their research and meet with experts to receive career guidance.
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