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#GlobalChange is the most pressing challenge to ecosystems & economies. We ask @EU_Commission @vonderleyen to cont investing in #science & fund #EuropeanReferenceGenomeAtlas projects to study the book of life in the #EU. Join us! #ERGA bit.ly/3iRTk4a @EU_FP9 @EBPgenome 
#DYK 23% EU species are at extinction risk, e.g. Canary Island Dragon Tree, Montseny brook newt, & Macedonian grayling? We need #ERGA for sustainable pan-EU biodiv conservation! We are 39+ EU institutions & partners e.g., @B10K_project @bat1kgenomes @darwintreelife @Arthropod_i5K
Nerdier details @ the proposed #ERGA? It aligns w/EU Commission's #GreenDeal for #HorizonEurope to restore biodiversity (threatened, endemic + keystone species), resurrect #EcosystemServices, implement sustainable agricultural actions bit.ly/3iH3GUB @GIGA_COS @euronext
Is the EU making progress in fighting disinformation?
Part of #ERGA webinar today.
My topline: Perhaps? A little? Though problems continue to evolve, maybe faster than responses.
But if nothing else, 🇪🇺 has done more than other large, complex polities like 🇧🇷🇮🇳🇺🇸.
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Part of #ERGA webinar today.
My topline: Perhaps? A little? Though problems continue to evolve, maybe faster than responses.
But if nothing else, 🇪🇺 has done more than other large, complex polities like 🇧🇷🇮🇳🇺🇸.
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To take it from beginning - EU has for years identified disinfo as a “major challenge for European democracies and societies”, #covid19 crisis has only further underlined challenges
First response was creation of High Level Group on Online Disinformation, I was part of it
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First response was creation of High Level Group on Online Disinformation, I was part of it
2/15
In March 2018, the HLG delivered its report ec.europa.eu/digital-single…
It's long and uneven.
@cjimenezcruz, @cward1e @Mantzarlis (then director of @factchecknet) and myself, all of whom had served on it, identified six key takeaways in this post medium.com/@hlegresponse/…
3/15
It's long and uneven.
@cjimenezcruz, @cward1e @Mantzarlis (then director of @factchecknet) and myself, all of whom had served on it, identified six key takeaways in this post medium.com/@hlegresponse/…
3/15
