Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 (@ebpgenome) — Bluesky Profile

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Last chance for early bird registration.
Join @invertebrates.bsky.social at the Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance VI in Boracay July 6–10, 2026.

A global gathering for the invertebrate genomics community.
Register now and don’t miss it. 🧬🐜🐙🌍
🧬🐚🐛🌊Register here 👇
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5 days ago

GIGA VI Conference Registration Registration for one (1) attendee for GIGAVI conference in Boracay, Philippines in July 2026.

Register today and join the global invertebrate genomics community this July — the spineless majority deserves the spotlight! 🧬🐜🐙

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5 days ago

Register today and join the global invertebrate genomics community this July — the spineless majority deserves the spotlight! 🧬🐜🐙

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3 days ago

We are pleased to announce that Nature’s SAFE has joined GGBN. Nature's SAFE maintains approximately 1,200 cell/tissue cultures derived from 379 different species of terrestrial and marine invertebrates, as well as vertebrates, in its collection.
Welcome! @natures-safe.bsky.social

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3 days ago

The goal: real-time biodiversity assessments that are locally grounded but globally scalable, helping guide conservation and policy worldwide.

#Biodiversity #ConservationScience #Bioinformatics #Genomics #EarthBioGenomeProject 🌍🧬🚀

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3 days ago

Aerial view of a winding river cutting through dense green forest.
Overlaid text reads:
“Technology alone is not enough.
We must:
• Integrate data across sources
• Standardize monitoring methods globally
• Calibrate new tools with historical data
• Fill tropical and taxonomic data gaps
• Protect databases from AI-generated misinformation
• Value biodiversity data generation
• Respectfully incorporate Indigenous Knowledge
• Measure conservation effectiveness
• Build resilient global biodiversity datasets”
A white arrow in the bottom right corner indicates the next slide.

Four-image collage illustrating collaboration in biodiversity science.
Top left: hands gently holding a small frog in a forest setting.
Top right: scientists working together in a laboratory with pipettes and equipment.
Bottom left: a gloved hand collecting a water sample from a shallow stream.
Bottom right: professionals in a meeting discussing work around a table with laptops.
Overlaid text reads:
“Radical collaboration is essential.
The paper calls for collaboration between:
• Field ecologists
• Indigenous communities
• Citizen scientists
• Molecular biologists
• Data scientists
• Computer scientists
• Engineers
• Policy makers.”

We are entering a new era of biodiversity measurement
🧬 eDNA from water, soil, and air
🧬 Reference genomes at scale
🤖 AI image and acoustic monitoring
🛰️ High-resolution satellite sensing
📱 Billions of citizen science records

🚀 The opportunity is extraordinary — if we build the right systems. 🌍

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3 days ago

Four-panel collage showing biodiversity across ecosystems.
Top left: a reindeer grazing in snow.
Top right: a colorful coral reef underwater.
Bottom left: a jaguar walking through dense green vegetation.
Bottom right: tall desert cacti in an arid landscape.
Overlaid text reads:
“Biodiversity is in rapid and widespread decline.
This paper outlines nine urgent changes needed to transform how we measure life on Earth and guide conservation and policy.”
A white arrow in the bottom right corner points forward, indicating the next slide.

A scientist wearing a blue glove collects a water sample from a rocky stream while kneeling outdoors.
Overlaid text reads:
“We are entering a new era of biodiversity measurement:
• eDNA from water, soil, and air
• Reference genomes at scale
• AI image and acoustic monitoring
• High-resolution satellite sensing
• Billions of citizen science records
The opportunity is extraordinary — if we build the right systems.”
A white arrow at the bottom right indicates the next slide.

Biodiversity is declining rapidly 🌍📉 — but our ability to measure life on Earth is advancing faster than ever.
A new paper by Sutherland and colleagues outlines Nine changes needed to transform how we monitor biodiversity and guide conservation decisions.
📄 Sutherland et al. 2026 👉 lnkd.in/g5nsc2qk

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5 days ago

OGL participated in the High School Marine Science Symposium on Thursday hosted by Northeastern's Marine Science Center and the Massachusetts Marine Educators!

OGL led activities that explained the importance of marine biorepositories.

📷: Alyssa Stone and Charlee Rivera

#COSconnects #NUexperience

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5 days ago

Register today and join the global invertebrate genomics community this July — the spineless majority deserves the spotlight! 🧬🐜🐙

🧬🐚🐛🌊Register here 👇
gigavi.org/product/giga...

Learn more 👉 gigavi.org

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5 days ago

GIGA VI Conference Registration Registration for one (1) attendee for GIGAVI conference in Boracay, Philippines in July 2026.

Register today and join the global invertebrate genomics community this July — the spineless majority deserves the spotlight! 🧬🐜🐙

🧬🐚🐛🌊Register here 👇 gigavi.org/product/giga...

👉 gigavi.org

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5 days ago

📣 Mark your calendars!
The Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance VI will take place in Boracay, Philippines
📅 July 6–10, 2026
A key gathering for the global invertebrate genomics community. 🧬🐜🐙

#BiodiversityGenomics #InvertebrateGenomics #Biodiversity #EvolutionaryBiology #GenomeSequencing 🧬🌍

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1 week ago

Pangenomes, really?

Most early “pangenomes” = oligogenomes (oligo, Gr., few).

More recent “pangenomes” generally = poligenomes (polis, Gr., many).

True pangenomes (pas, Gr., every/all) would be rare indeed.

🙏🏼 @zbao.bsky.social for pointing out his review.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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2 weeks ago

Be part of the global biodiversity genomics community 🌍🧬🚀

Join the conversation by referencing biodiversity genomics or 🌍🧬

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1 week ago

The #ERGA committees cover every step of the #genome generation pipeline, from sampling to communicating research results. They are #open to all members who wish to get involved:
www.erga-biodiversity.eu/community-co...

➡️ Choose your favorite, email them, and join today!

@ebpgenome.bsky.social

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1 week ago

For #WWD26, we invite you to learn about the Biomonitores of Antioquia Program. This initiative trains local community members in the propagation and production of mortiño as a dual #conservation strategy: restoring degraded habitats while creating #regenerative economic opportunities.

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1 week ago

A yellow historic tram travels along a narrow cobblestone street lined with bright-colored buildings in Lisbon, Portugal. The 10kLepGenomes and LepEU logos are overlaid in the bottom corner.

(1/4) 📢 Applications are open for the #LepEU Workshop 2026: a joint training + hackathon event focused on the analysis of #Lepidoptera genomic data.

🗓️ 26–29 May 2026
📍 Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (Portugal)

Save the date! ⬇️

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1 week ago

Apply for access vouchers - Therapeutic Innovation Australia TIA facilities are directly accessible and in most cases can provide subsidised access to capabilities. The Pipeline Accelerator scheme was introduced to further reduce the cost of access to a specifi...

🚀 The Pipeline Accelerator voucher scheme Round 2 is now open!

Vouchers help researchers & SMEs access advanced facilities, from molecular discovery to clinical trials.

🗓 Closes 17 April 2026, 5 pm AEST
👉 therapeuticinnovation.com.au/pipeline-acc...

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2 weeks ago

And it does not end there ... as we will continue our efforts through the #Biodiversity #Genomics #Europe PLUS (BGE+) project biodiversitygenomics.eu/2026/02/16/b...

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2 weeks ago

Be part of the global biodiversity genomics community 🌍🧬🚀

Join the conversation by referencing biodiversity genomics or 🌍🧬

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2 weeks ago

Huge news 🌍🧬
The Protist 10,000 Genomes Project is joining the Earth BioGenome Project.
Protists may represent the majority of eukaryotic diversity — yet only a tiny fraction have reference genomes.
Time to change that. 🚀✨
Learn more 👉 ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/p10k/
#EBP #Protists #Genomics #TreeOfLife

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2 weeks ago

Evolution, genomics and conservation of butterflies and moths - Nature Reviews Biodiversity Butterflies and moths are key indicators of functioning and healthy ecosystems around the world. This Review describes the evolutionary history of the order Lepidoptera and tracks shifts in researcher...

Now online! In this review, we cover four major topics on butterflies and moths: their evolutionary history and diversification dynamics, genomics, global diversity patterns, and conservation 🦋🌏 (1/8) @natrevbiodiv.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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2 weeks ago

Transposable elements in the dark genome - Nature Biotechnology Transposable elements (TEs), such as retrotransposons and endogenous retroviruses, are increasingly recognized for their important roles in genome function and impact on disease development. Residing ...

Transposable elements in the dark genome go.nature.com/4tQ1zTn

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2 weeks ago

#biodiversity #bioinformatics Summer School ... 21-26 June in Siegen, Germany co-organised by @sib.swiss & @denbi.bsky.social
www.sib.swiss/training/cou...
🟢 eDNA & ecosystems
🟣 pangenome diversity
🔵 population genetics
🟡 comparative genomics
Register to apply, selections will start from March 16th

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2 weeks ago

A sperm whale swims upward through deep blue ocean water, its massive head and body illuminated by filtered sunlight from the surface above.
“High-quality genomes at scale reveal:
• the genetic basis of resilience, longevity, and adaptation
• smarter conservation strategies
• lasting biological knowledge for future discovery”

A view of Earth from space shows continents lit by city lights and sunlight along the horizon, representing global collaboration and planetary-scale science.
“The Earth BioGenome Project is a global collaboration working to generate high-quality reference genomes for all eukaryotic species, unlocking the biological knowledge needed to understand, protect, and sustain life on Earth.”

🌍 ✨Thank you to the global community making this possible. This is collaboration at #global scale. 🚀 👉 go.bsky.app/CRvXDF4

EBP-affiliated projects worldwide are building a shared scientific foundation — powered by collaboration, open #data, and a collective vision to sequence life at scale.

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2 weeks ago

A Greenland shark swims through dark ocean water, its large body and pale mottled skin visible against a deep green background, representing one of the longest-lived vertebrates on Earth.
“Nature’s Superpowers (Longevity)
How do Greenland sharks live for hundreds of years?”

A highly magnified grayscale image of a tardigrade shows its segmented body and clawed limbs, highlighting one of the most resilient microscopic animals known.
“Nature’s Superpowers (Extreme Survival)
What allows tardigrades to survive radiation, vacuum, and desiccation?”

A diagram illustrates planarian flatworms being cut into pieces and regenerating into complete individuals, demonstrating extraordinary regenerative abilities in some eukaryotes.
“Nature’s Superpowers (Extreme regeneration)
Some eukaryotes, like planarians, don’t just heal damage — they can rebuild an entire body from a fragment.”

🚀Sequencing across eukaryotic life will unlock discoveries we can’t yet predict — from resilience to entirely new biology.
Many of the biggest genomic gaps remain among small unicellular and multicellular eukaryotes across marine and terrestrial environments.
#TreeOfLife #BiodiversityGenomics

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2 weeks ago

A microscopic image of Volvox, a spherical green colonial alga composed of many small cells arranged in a hollow globe, glowing against a dark background.
“Beyond Humans: The Eukaryotic Frontier”

A collage grid showing diverse eukaryotic life — including fungi, a seahorse, insects, deer, protists, bees, trees, birds, mammals, plants, and marine invertebrates — representing the breadth of species across Earth.
“A moonshot for LIFE on Earth: deliver reference genomes for all known eukaryotic species — 1.8 million — in the next decade.”

A stylized image of Earth encircled by a glowing DNA double helix, surrounded by animals, plants, fungi, and marine life, symbolizing the genetic unity and diversity of life on the planet.
“What secrets are hidden in the DNA of life on Earth?”
image generated by AI

Beyond humans lies the eukaryotic frontier. 🧬🌍
Sequencing the human genome showed us how powerful a single reference can be.
Now the challenge is scaling that insight across all eukaryotic life — plants, animals, fungi, and the vast unknown diversity of the Tree of Life.

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2 weeks ago

A close-up of a brown mouse with large dark eyes and whiskers looks toward the viewer, representing model organisms that serve as foundational reference genomes for research across biology.
“Reference genomes are foundational infrastructure. One high-quality genome enables: comparative genomics, functional gene discovery, population and evolutionary genomics, and method and tool development. Everything starts with a reference.”

A collage of diverse life forms — including a chimpanzee, octopus, beetle, fungi, plants, and microscopic organisms — appears over an image of Earth, illustrating global biodiversity and the power of shared genomic data.
“Open data and scale accelerate discovery. The Human Genome Project showed that: open data sharing multiplies impact, collaboration drives innovation, and technology improves rapidly at scale. These principles made today’s large-scale genomics possible.”

A glowing golden DNA double helix arcs across Earth from space with a sunrise on the horizon, symbolizing the global impact of genomics on understanding life.
“One genome changed how we study life. Sequencing millions will transform how we understand evolution — and power breakthroughs in medicine, agriculture, and the global bioeconomy.”

🌍 We’re not just sequencing genomes.
We’re building the biological foundation for the next century of science. 🚀
Powered by an extraordinary global community 🧬
🌍 ✨Thank you to the many groups around the world driving this shared effort to sequence and understand life on Earth 👉 go.bsky.app/CRvXDF4

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2 weeks ago

A stylized Tree of Life radiates outward from a central point, showing the major branches of life across eukaryotes and microbes, illustrating how insights from a single reference genome expanded across the diversity of life.
“Sequencing a single reference genome transformed biology by revealing lessons that extend far beyond humans.”

A close-up of a pale axolotl with soft pink gills and wide eyes looks toward the viewer, highlighting one of nature’s most genetically remarkable species.
“Genes alone don’t explain complexity. Humans have ~20,000 genes — similar to many other organisms. What makes life complex is how genes are regulated, structured, and connected.”

A brightly patterned butterfly rests on small purple flowers, representing the diversity of life shaped by genomic variation beyond protein-coding genes.
“Non-coding DNA is biologically important. Regulatory elements, repeats, and structural variation shape development, health, and evolution — even when they don’t code for proteins.”

If one genome transformed biology, imagine what millions will do.
The Earth BioGenome Project and EBP-affiliated projects worldwide are scaling from a single species to all eukaryotic life — unlocking new insights into evolution, conservation, food systems, and the future bioeconomy.

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2 weeks ago

English:
Stylized graphic of a human face formed by colorful horizontal bars (red, yellow, blue, and green) on a dark background. Text reads “Where It All Began” and “Every global genome effort starts with a first success,” with a white arrow pointing forward.
Español:
Gráfico estilizado de una doble hélice de ADN formada por barras horizontales de colores (rojo, amarillo, azul y verde) sobre un fondo oscuro. El texto dice “Where It All Began” y “Every global genome effort starts with a first success,” con una flecha blanca apuntando hacia adelante.

English:
World map illuminated with glowing connection lines across continents, symbolizing global collaboration. Overlaid text explains that the Human Genome Project was the first international effort to assemble an entire genome—3 billion base pairs—and laid the foundation for initiatives like the Earth BioGenome Project to scale from one species to all life.
Español:
Mapa del mundo iluminado con líneas brillantes que conectan los continentes, simbolizando la colaboración global. El texto superpuesto explica que el Proyecto Genoma Humano fue el primer esfuerzo internacional para ensamblar un genoma completo—3 mil millones de pares de bases—y sentó las bases para iniciativas como el Earth BioGenome Project para escalar de una especie a toda la vida.

One genome changed everything.
The Human Genome Project showed us that:
• reference genomes are scientific infrastructure
• open data accelerates discovery
• collaboration makes scale possible
Those same principles now power a far bigger vision — understanding life across the entire Tree of Life. 🌳🧬

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2 weeks ago

🌲Western redcedar, BC’s provincial tree, faces climate, drought & pest threats. Thanks to Genome BC and Genome Canada researchers are using genomics to breed stronger, resilient trees—cutting timelines from 20 years to 4 🌱
#GenomicsSavesTrees

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