🪶 The Imperial Woodpecker, the world's largest woodpecker species long presumed extinct, has been digitally reconstructed in stunning 3D detail!

📖 Full study in our journal: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm...

🔗 @pensoft.net's latest blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/10/14/i...

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Working on #biodiversitydata, #collections, or monitoring?
#LivingData2027 (9-12 June, Montréal, Canada) has an open call for sessions.

🗓 Deadline 31 October, 2026

Learn more: nhcm.pensoft.net/news/1504

🎉 We are pleased to announce that the journal Natural History Collections and Museomics is now also on LinkedIn.

🔗 Follow us there to stay up to date on the latest research findings, news, and events related to the journal: www.linkedin.com/showcase/nat...

🔍Every time a species is redetermined, someone, somewhere, has to update the specimen record - often manually & years later. Our new collection on #OpenDigitalCuration is looking for workflows, tools, and case studies that make this process transparent and automatic.

🗓 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟏 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔

🧬 It has been revealed that high-quality DNA can be recovered from arthropod specimens preserved in formalin for decades, opening new possibilities for evolutionary research using natural history collections.

➡️ Read the full study: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.200681

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🔬 For the first time, a scientific study has systematically examined what causes deterioration in the chemical mountants used to preserve insect specimens, revealing that slide degradation is driven by multiple complex factors rather than a single culprit: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.194995

🕷️ A remarkable collection of approximately 15,000 spider and scorpion specimens has been made freely available to researchers worldwide, demonstrating how regional museums and open-access initiatives can democratise biodiversity knowledge across Brazil: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.197964

💡 We loved hearing one of our Editors-in-Chief Shelley James' talk at #TDWG2026!

📢 In their talk, James explored how we can better promote biodiversity data, standards and collections through diverse publication formats.

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💡 We are delighted to attend the "Publishing and Communications: Promoting Biodiversity, Natural History Collections, People, Data and Data Standards" session at #TDWG2026, organised by our co-Editor-in-Chief and a long-time friend of Pensoft Publishers, Deborah Paul!

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📚 Delighted to attend this fascinating talk at #TDWG2026 on liberating biodiversity knowledge from scientific literature.

🧬 Heartfelt thanks to Donat Agosti for these insightful perspectives - we're honoured to have him as a reviewer for our open-access journal!

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🎤 Yesterday at #TDWG2026, our Editor-in-Chief Deborah Paul presented a very interesting talk on open digital curation and the importance of openness, interoperability and provenance in biodiversity data!

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#BiodiversityData #OpenScience

📍 We're featured at @pensoft.net's booth at #TDWG2026, running this week in Oslo!

📚 Come and find out more about the scope of our journal and how we can support your research.

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#BiodiversityData

🎤 We were delighted to attend our subject editor Quentin Groom's talk at #TDWG2026 in Oslo on reducing lag in biodiversity information systems.

💡 Key takeaway: when biodiversity data moves faster, environmental governance becomes more responsive.

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🦉 ZoologyCon 2026 | 4-7 Nov, Bucharest

🔬 Taxonomy to genomics, ecology to conservation - join zoologists from around the world.

📋 Preliminary programme now live: zoologycon.ro/scientific-p...

⏰ Register by 20 September: zoologycon.ro/registration...

#ZoologyCon2026 #Zoology