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Pensoft @pensoft.net · 6d

🤔 What's the link between celebrated #primatologist and #anthropologist Jane Goodall and a 2015 study in our journal @zookeys.pensoft.net that used #sequencing on hair samples collected from the Himalayas?
✅ The legend of yeti.

📰 News story on @forbes.com by @kionasmith07.bsky.social.

🖤RIP, Jane!

8 Fascinating Facts You Might Not Know About Jane Goodall And Her Work

Jane Goodall died at the age of 91 on October 1, 2025. Here are some things you might not know about the world-famous scientist and her work.

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OASPA - The Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association @oaspa.bsky.social · 7d

Read reflections on #OASPA2025 by @drachiarelli.bsky.social in Italian and with an English translation.
Multilingualism is just one of the many important considerations raised at the conference. Do share your own reflections #inyourownwords

www.linkedin.com/posts/oaspa_...

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 15d

👂We hear that recognising & opening up #research outputs beyond #research articles has come up multiple times at #OASPA2025.

🫣We suspect there are those not yet aware of our #openscience #journal: optimising #scholarly #communication for research ideas, grant proposals, guidelines etc.

👇See more:

RIO Journal 5 years on: over 300 published outcomes from all around the research cycle | Blog

Five years on, the Open Science-driven journal Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) published an editorial that looks back on the 300 research ideas and research outcomes it has published so far. Since i...

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Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social · 17d

To sum up some of the feelings in the panel of OA APC based publishers: all are struggling to get support from funders and libraries to push through barriers, feels like you are being penalised for getting their first. - Catriona MacCallum #OASPA2025

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Iva Boyadzhieva @ivaboyadzhieva.bsky.social · 17d

👏 Day 1 at #OASPA2025: it's great to catch up with the 'hot' topics in the #OA community!

Here's our take at @pensoft.net, as an #openaccess -born publisher with its own technology, on how #scholarlypublishing can support OA #journals whatever their situation:

Cc: @oaspa.bsky.social

Cuckoo in the nest: challenges for smaller journals and publishers in the push towards Diamond Open Access

Arguably, academia is threatened by its own good intentions and a new status quo, where it is only researchers working at well-funded research institutions that get to publish their work in visible an...

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 17d

This guy is looking down at us all over my shoulder. Wondering who this is, in the context of the conversations at #OASPA2025. Monopolistic commercial publishing practices? LLM-based exploitation of open content? Higher education meltdown and rising censorship? Caffeine overload?

Stained glass image of the devil in green glass, with shifty eyes, horns and long fingers. Surrounded by a red lick of fire

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Pensoft @pensoft.net · 23d

🗨️ "The UN Pact for the Future should include #biodiversity as a core pillar: not only of #environmental #sustainability, but of #equity, security, and inter-generational justice."

Our team also demonstrates how our #research #infrastructures collectively contribute to the the #Kunming-Montreal GBF.

Scientists call for a global alliance to place biodiversity at the heart of the UN Pact for the Future

A new white paper delivers a clear message: protecting biodiversity is not just an environmental issue. It is essential for food security, public health, climate stability, and the global economy.

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Nature Conservation @natureconservation.pensoft.net · 24d

Our publisher @pensoft.net presented two awards at #SCCS25, including a Best Talk award which entitles the winner to a free publication in Nature Conservation!

natureconservation.pensoft.net/news/970

Pensoft recognises young talent at the Student Conference on Conservation Science 2025

Between the 2nd and 6th of September 2025, the Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) brought together early-career researchers and students to the shores of Lake Balaton, Hungary. Org...

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Pensoft @pensoft.net · Aug 18

🕷️ Recent study describing a peculiar #newspecies of #tarantula published by @alirezazamani.bsky.social et al. in our journal @zookeys.pensoft.net made the headlines at National Geographic! 🤩

🗞️ The same news story also refers to a 2016 study in the same #journal describing the Johnny Cash Tarantula!

These tarantulas may have evolved huge genitalia to fend off bloodthirsty females

Tarantulas, like all spiders, don’t have penises; they have palps. And these ones are massive.

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Pensoft @pensoft.net · Aug 13

🤝 This week, we welcomed very special guests from the #Vietnam Academy of #Science and #Technology at our headquarters in Sofia to discuss #scholarlypublishing & our future collaborations!

📸 Our CEO & founder Prof Dr Lyubomir Penev signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Prof Dr Thai Hoang.

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Pensoft @pensoft.net · Aug 11

🤩 Check out this thread from the @zse.pensoft.net journal full of #spider🕷️, #snake 🐍 & #isopod curiosities all described on the pages of the @mfnberlin.bsky.social journal 🔓 we are proud to be #publishing for over 10 years now!

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Zoosystematics and Evolution @zse.pensoft.net · Aug 8

Love spiders? Hate spiders? Either way, you'll have mixed feelings about these spider-eating-spiders from China!

blog.pensoft.net/2025/04/11/n... 🧵(2/15)

Spider-eating spiders: new ‘pirate’ species discovered in China

Also known as cannibal spiders, two new species have been discovered in Guizhou Province.

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Pensoft @pensoft.net · Aug 7

⚠️🐍 2023 study published in our journal @neobiota.pensoft.net reported 76 #species falling prey to invasive Burmese #pythons in Florida.

🐇 Now, South Florida responses with remote-controlled, solar-powered rabbits.

🔓 Research paper: doi.org/10.3897/neob...

🗞️ Story via ABC News:

#InvasiveSpecies

Florida snake hunters deploy robotic rabbits to capture invasive Burmese pythons

A team dedicated to controlling populations of invasive Burmese pythons in Florida has deployed another unique method to find the elusive predators: robotic rabbits.

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Pensoft @pensoft.net · Aug 5

📃Check out the paper published in our #openaccess peer-reviewed journal @zookeys.pensoft.net at doi.org/10.3897/zook... by a research team led by @alirezazamani.bsky.social, ‪@utu.fi.

Size matters: a new genus of tarantula with the longest male palps, and an integrative revision of Monocentropus Pocock, 1897 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Eumenophorinae)

A taxonomic revision of the eumenophorine tarantula genus Monocentropus Pocock, 1897, which currently comprises three species, M. balfouri Pocock, 1897 (♂♀; Socotra, Yemen), M. lambertoni Fage, 1922 (...

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Pensoft @pensoft.net · Jul 31

Researchers face growing psychological strain, driven by pressure to obtain statistically significant results in academic publishing, reveals Michal Ordak.

🔗 blog.pensoft.net/2025/07/31/t...

The mental burden of statistical significance in academic publishing

"The pursuit of significance is no longer just a technical issue, but a psychological burden that shapes behaviour, distorts judgement, and affects mental well-being.”

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Pensoft @pensoft.net · Jul 23

Our COO Prof. Pavel Stoev giving an exciting talk: “Towards a common terminology for the morphology of Diplopoda.”

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Pensoft @pensoft.net · Jul 16

Happy World Snake Day! 🐍

In January, we compiled a few of our favourite serpent studies to celebrate the 2025 Year of the Snake for Lunar New Year. Check them out here: blog.pensoft.net/2025/01/29/y...

Year of the Snake: a serpent selection to celebrate Lunar New Year!

Enjoy some of our favourite snake research from across our journals.

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Pensoft @pensoft.net · Jul 14

👁️ Let's take a look at @iccb2025.bsky.social by @society4conbio.bsky.social: THE #conservation event for 2025!

🤩 We talked with #ICCB2025 delegates about #scholarlypublishing, but also about the @horizoneu.bsky.social projects: @selinaproject.bsky.social & REST-COAST.

📍Hosted by @scboceania.org.

In June, Pensoft joined the 2025 largest meeting for conservation experts

We attended the International Congress for Conservation Biology to present the REST-COAST and SELINA Horizon-funded projects, as well as our scholarly journals and books portfolio.

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One Ecosystem @oneecosystem.pensoft.net · Jul 4

❓ Did you miss last week's 11th #EcosystemServices Partnership World Conference in Australia?

👇 We present you the highlights of a week full of inspirational talks, including #sustainability, #ScholarlyPublishing & #OpenScience!

One Ecosystem and Pensoft at the 11th ESP World Conference in Darwin

Between 22nd and 26th June, the 11th Ecosystem Services Partnership World Conference (ESP11) brought about 250 international delegates from diverse backgrounds: professional and demographic alike, to ...

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Pensoft @pensoft.net · Jul 7

🤗 Once more, we attended the #EcosystemServices Partnership World Conference to present our #scientific #journals, academic #books & partnering #research projects like @selinaproject.bsky.social!
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👇 Check out the event higlights on our blog:

#EcosystemServices #ScholarlyPublishing

In a Land Down Under, Pensoft joined the 11th ESP World Conference

The latest outcomes at the SELINA project and modern, open-access scholarly publishing were ‘hot’ topics we discussed with delegates in Darwin.

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Pensoft @pensoft.net · Jul 2

📢 FREE webinar by @merlin-project.bsky.social, #EcoAdvance & #EcosystemServices Partnership!

📌 Lessons learnt at EU projects on freshwater #restoration
📌 Highlights from the #ESP11 World Conference
📌 How @oneecosystem.pensoft.net supports dialogue & collaboration

🔗 project-merlin.eu/webinars.html

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SELINA Project @selinaproject.bsky.social · Jun 26

🙌Our coordinator @benjaminburkhard.bsky.social and Editor-in-Chief of @oneecosystem.pensoft.net, together with @ivaboyadzhieva.bsky.social at the 11th ESP conference!
Together they represent our and @pensoft.net's mutual commitment to make ecosystem services knowledge accessible and impactful.

One Ecosystem @oneecosystem.pensoft.net · Jun 26

🤩 A tradition that lives on!

📸 Our Editor-in-Chief @benjaminburkhard.bsky.social and @pensoft.net 's Head of Journal development & PR @ivaboyadzhieva.bsky.social at the #Pensoft -‪‪ @selinaproject.bsky.social stand at yet another Ecosystem Services Partnership conference!

🥂 Here's to many more!

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Iva Boyadzhieva @ivaboyadzhieva.bsky.social · Jun 25

🤩 Looking forward to our talk tomorrow w/ @benjaminburkhard.bsky.social at the #EcosystemServices Partnership conference!

We'll talk about sharing various #research outputs in line with #OpenScience practices.

🗝️After all, transparency, discoverability & context hold the key to efficient #science!

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Pensoft @pensoft.net · Jun 24

👋 This week, we're at the #EcosystemServices Partnership World conference in Darwin!🌏

📍Delegates can meet @ivaboyadzhieva.bsky.social & find about our #openaccess #journal portfolio, e.g. @oneecosystem.pensoft.net & the latest from the @horizoneu.bsky.social project @selinaproject.bsky.social!

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Pensoft @pensoft.net · Jun 23

📸 Opening ceremony & keynotes today at the #EcosystemServices Partnership World Conference in Darwin🇦🇺 with a strong focus on indigenous knowledge & real values holding the key to a #sustainable & happy future!

#ESPConference #ESP11 #ESP11Darwin

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Iva Boyadzhieva @ivaboyadzhieva.bsky.social · Jun 19

Totally agree with @pattedplants.bsky.social: we #publishers have a role to uphold humanity & be available for authors (also reviewers & editors!)

This is why at @pensoft.net we keep most services (e.g. tech support, #scicomm, layout) in-house & human-powered!

#ICCBB2025 @iccb2025.bsky.social

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