🐍 Honouring late #SteveIrwin: the famous Australian #conservationist & #wildlife educator, this wolf #snake was described as a #newspecies in the #openaccess peer-reviewed journal @evolsyst.pensoft.net. 🗺️ The #reptile is thought to occur only on one island in the Indian Ocean. 🗞️ Via BBC Wildlife:

Three newly discovered toad species skip the tadpole phase entirely and give birth to live toadlets! 🐸 Learn more about these rare amphibians on our blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/11/17/t...

🎉 BROKEN RECORD! 🕸️ The recent discovery of a 100,000- #spider “megacity” on the border between Greece and Albania, published in our #openaccess, peer-reviewed journal @subtbiol.pensoft.net, became the most popular article across our entire #scientific portfolio, outperforming ~27,000 articles! 👏

🌏 A field survey of the #pollinators of a rare Australian wildflower led Kit S. Prendergast to describe the 🐝 Megachile lucifer #bee in hope to bring new light to the #conservation of native #bees and their native #habitats. 🗞️ News via @washingtonpost.com. 🔓 Research paper from @jhr.pensoft.net

🤔 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!

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_...

👂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:

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

👏 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

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?

🗨️ "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.

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

🕷️ 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!

🤝 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.

🤩 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! 🧵👇👇👇

⚠️🐍 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

📃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.

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...

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

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...

👁️ 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.

❓ 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!

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

📢 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

🙌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.

🤩 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!

👋 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! 1/2

📸 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

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

Engaging panel about #scholarly #publishing led by @pattedplants.bsky.social at #ICCB2025! At @pensoft.net, we perfectly understand different #researchers may have varying priorities when choosing an #academic #journal. 👍 So, we have put together a diverse portfolio of #openaccess #journals.

But Wisdom surprised us all this breeding season by finding a new mate and laying an egg, which subsequently hatched. Video of them is here. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s... And a timeline of Wisdom the mōlī up until 2020 is here. www.audubon.org/magazine/sev... #ICCB2025 🧪

📣 Final SALE on all display copies you can find at our #Pensoft stand! 💸 Happy to offer 50% DISCOUNT on all books left! 📚 🇦🇺 We've got a selection of books about #Australian #biodiversity, as well as popular #ecology titles! #ICCB2025 @iccb2025.bsky.social @society4conbio.bsky.social

👏 Moving #ICCB2025 plenary talk by Amy Van Nice admitting efforts to tackle #wildlife traficking are far from enough. 🗨 Amid slow policies, corruption and overall apathy, the solution is in the smallest of steps. 👍 Also social media has a big role in bringing up the change! @iccb2025.bsky.social

🤩 So much excellent #research shared at #ICCB2025! We can only imagine how much great #scientific knowledge awaits #publication & even wider acknowledgment! 📍Visit our stand to find about our #journals welcoming diverse #ecological topics AND #publications! 🔍See also: pensoft.net/browse-journ....

👋 Hello from @iccb2025.bsky.social! 🇦🇺 😊 Happy to chat with anyone this week in Brisbane about #science sharing, #publishing, #communication & basically anything that helps novel & valuable #research findings reach to the right people in the right time & manner! 📍Meet me at the @pensoft.net stand!

We're excited to share we'll have our representative at @iccb2025.bsky.social as @ivaboyadzhieva.bsky.social will welcome conversation researchers and anyone interested in publishing with us at @pensoft.net's stand at the event! oneecosystem.pensoft.net/news/862

🦜 Brilliant lesson from the Animal kingdom. Mastered since Gondwanan times, it has earned them higher intellect and extended longevity. 👌 #Aves #BirdLife theconversation.com/what-austral...

🤩 Starter pack with all #journals published by @pensoft.net on @bsky.app! 👌 Follow for lots of #biodiversity & #ecology publications from across our exclusively #openaccess portfolio! #entomology #zoology #botany #mycology #taxonomy #biodiversitydata #invasivespecies #invasionbiology #science

🥰 Forget about #scientific forums: nothing beats grabbing the attention of a few dozens of 16-year-olds! 📸 Yesterday, me & colleagues at @pensoft.net visited the Izzi Science school in Bulgaria to introduce the next generation to #scholarlypublishing & #scicomm and their role in #society & policy!

It's #DeepDay, a day to celebrate the world’s largest, least explored habitat: the deep sea. Today we thank all those working to understand and protect the darkest depths of our planet. #DefendTheDeep @deepseaconserve.bsky.social 🧵(1/7)

🏴‍☠️ New ARRR-achnids! 🕷️ Two new pirate spiders have been discovered in China - read all about them on our blog (including how they got that name!). 🔗 blog.pensoft.net/2025/04/11/n...

🏅 Our #Pensoft blog is in the 🔝 Top 5 #entomology blogs, according to #FeedSpot! 🎉 💡 Reminder to subscribe to our blog: blog.pensoft.net for the top latest peer-reviewed #research published across our #journals, including also #zoology, #botany, #mycology & #ecology! 📄 List: t.co/LBn7ZU3O8R.

☺️ Delighted to have been invited at #TRACE2025 by the team behind #Estuarine Management and Technologies: a fantastic #journal we launched together on #ARPHA Platform, to speak about the mission of @pensoft.net to efficiently share robust #scientific knowledge with the world openly & permanently!

Just in case someone out there is still waiting for the villain, whose sole mission in life is wiping Earth clean of humanity. ⚠️ Here is the plot twist: the villain trying to kill off the planet's best and pure has been the human all along. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

✨Highlights from our CEO & fouder Lyubomir Penev's talk at the 🇨🇺 #XIIICLB congress: "Advancing 🌿 #plant #taxonomy and #conservation through #biodiversity #publishing & science #communication! 📸 🌎 #botany #plantscience

🤩 Latest shots from the XIII Latin American Congress of #Botany! 🇨🇺 📍 Don't forget to drop by our stand & say 'Hola!' to our team on site! ☺️ Cool #science-illustrated leaflets & stickers still up for grabs! #XIIICLB @phytokeys.pensoft.net @imafungus.pensoft.net @mycokeys.pensoft.net

🎉 Happy New Year of the Wood #Snake! 🐍 🤔 I can't think of any better way to celebrate than a best-of collection of #snake studies published across our #journal portfolio at @pensoft.net! . . . excuses for the bias! 👀 blog.pensoft.net/2025/01/29/y...

🗨️“Protecting these rare #species & their #habitats is not only a moral imperative but also a crucial step toward sustaining the #ecological integrity of Kosovo’s freshwater systems” -Halil Ibrahimi tells BBC Wildlife Magazine following a #caddisfly #species description in our @bdj.pensoft.net. 1/3

🫣 #Biologists discovered a #newspecies of supergiant #isopod after purchasing #crustaceans from Vietnam. 📄 They gave it the name of #StarWars' #DarthVader in the #species description in our journal @zookeys.pensoft.net . 🗞️ News via @cnn.com. #taxonomy #marinespecies edition.cnn.com/2025/01/17/s...

🤩 In 2024, at #Pensoft, we: 🎉 Attracted record numbers of authors & readers at our #journals! 🎉 Launched niche #DiamondOA journals headed by renowned experts! 🎉 Presented linked & #FAIR scholarly tech! 🎉 Raised the voice of so many #HorizonEU projects! 🔎 More 2024 highlights on our blog: