💡The EU recently adapted its first ever soil monitoring and resilience directive 🌱 Soil is recognized as a living ecosystem 🌱 Soil biodiversity monitoring will be mandatory 🪱We developed monitor protocols 👇 Read the whole statement here: https://t.co/HpXqTnGHK7

🚀 The SHARE Handbook on Soil Health Monitoring is online! 🪱 The Handbook provides standardized protocols for evaluating the physical, chemical, and biological properties of soils, designed, developed and tested to be used by YOU! 🌱Download it here: https://t.co/ljO09GWAwm

🌱During the Projects Trail session at #EMSW, our colleagues Virginia Sánchez Navarro & Iuliana Floricică shared the presentation stand & #Biodiversity corner with Simon Jeffery from @sob4es, where they engaged participants in interactive activities & rewarded the curious ones🤝

📽️Thanks to the support of our partners, the #SOB4ES project video is now available with subtitles in the 11 languages of our collaboration — making our message more accessible across Europe and beyond. Video link👉 https://t.co/jLsDWgsOl1 #HorizonEurope #SoilHealth #MissionSoil

🌱 We’re hiring! 🌱 The #SOB4ES project is looking for a PostDoc in Soil Biodiversity at project partner WSL! 🪱Passionate about soil biodiversity? Make your impact here! 📍 WSL, Switzerland 🕒 ~2-year position (80–100%) 📢 Spring 2026 🔗 Apply here:

🗓️ Join us at the European Mission Soil Week in Denmark! 🌍 Our colleagues Virginia Sánchez Navarro, Iuliana Floricică & Chiara de Notaris Researcher will participate and share insights on advancing soil health, along with our sister project @sob4es. 🌱Meet you in Aarhus! 🇩🇰

📢 Meet us at #MissionSoil Week in Aarhus! 🌱 @Dr_S_Jeffery (@HarperAdamsUni) presents #SOB4ES at the Project Trail 📆 Nov 5 | ⏰ 11:25–13:00 | 📍 Aarhus, DK 🪱 Learn about our biodiversity indicator survey & take part 👉 https://t.co/csCe8K1Zql @bioserviceseu

📢 Our temporal sampling campaign is in full swing! 🌱 #SOB4ES partners across 🇧🇪 🇨🇭 🇪🇸 🇮🇪 🇳🇱 🇷🇴 🇸🇮 🇸🇪 are wrapping up soil sampling over time 🪱 By analysing these samples, we uncover how soils change through the seasons — vital insights for protecting Europe’s soils

📢 Are you an expert or a user of soil biodiversity indicators? Based in the EU or the UK? Then we need your help! 🪱 Please fill out our cost effectiveness surveys! 🧑‍🔬 Survey for experts https://t.co/6pgAWOrqgA 🧑‍🌾 Survey for users https://t.co/YGRCXFRtKX

🌍 This #WorldFoodDay you too can improve soil biodiversity! 🪱 Biodiverse soils mean healthy soils and healthy soils mean food security for everyone. 🌱#SOB4ES aims to understand, manage and protect our soils - and our food - for future generations. #SoilHealth #Biodiversity

🌱What’s the full story — and why does it matter to all of us? 🎥Watch our SOB4ES project video to find out! ➡️ https://t.co/jLsDWgtmaz #SOB4ES #HorizonEurope #SoilHealth #Biodiversity

On Sept. 13th #SOB4ES hosted a workshop in Galicia bringing together landowners, nursery managers & more. 💡 Key takeaways: - Low soil health awareness - Knowledge gaps on ecosystem services - Call for user-friendly soil monitoring tools 🔎 More insights https://t.co/X91ptvRlLt

🍕Happy International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste! 🌱Did you know? Reducing food waste supports soil health by reducing pressures and preserving future food systems. #FoodWasteEU

🌱Did you know that soil is one of the most biodiverse habitats on Earth?🌍 Read our latest guest article to discover how the @sob4es project is pioneering ways to assess and protect soil biodiversity, ensuring a sustainable future for all! 💚 🔎 https://t.co/djDH6o3l8m

📢New Blog Post Alert: "Assessing Soil Biodiversity" We teamed up with @bioserviceseu to highlight why and how we monitor biodiversity in a post on their blog. 🌱 Read the full post here: https://t.co/fkEA6lDWl8 #SOB4ES #SoilHealth

🎤 Thanks to Giles Ross from @niooknaw for presenting #SOB4ES research at the 14th Acarological Colloquium in Görlitz! He discussed how to intergrate multiple approaches to improve scalable monitoring of soil mite diversity.🕷️

🪱Earthworm Talk Alert! On Wed, 17 Sept at 16:15 Giuseppe Nicolosi and @cdmMulder from University of Catania present their work at the Italian Society of Ecology meeting. They show how soil temperature & land use influence earthworms’ richness across European soils. #SOB4ES

📅 Participa en el taller interactivo: «Integración de la biodiversidad del suelo en las prácticas agrícolas» 🌱 Victor Boga (Millo e Landras, #SOB4ES) explorará cómo los agricultores pueden impulsar tanto la biodiversidad como la agricultura 💡 👉 https://t.co/S8bC209fvB

📅 Join us for an interactive workshop: “Integrating Soil Biodiversity into Farming Practices” 🌱🐝 Led by Victor Boga (Millo e Landras, #SOB4ES), this session will explore how farmers can boost biodiversity while improving farming 💡 👉 https://t.co/S8bC209fvB

Finding yourself at #EUROSOIL2025 in Sevilla? 🌱 Check out Giles Ross` talk on standardising soil monitoring protocols (Sept 8th) and Antonio Adrián Gonzalez-Pedrouzou's poster on observation-based models for soil data sharing (Sept 10th) #SOB4ES