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🌍 Two species of Asian mantises are now considered 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 across Europe due to their high reproductive rates and ability to thrive in urban areas.

Check out our latest blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/02/19/c...

Original study: doi.org/10.3897/jor.35.165233

🧧 As we welcome the Year of the Horse, the Pensoft team extends our warmest wishes for a happy New Year!

🐎 To celebrate the occasion, we're taking a look at horse-related species published in our journals.

➡️ Check out our latest blog post to read all about them: blog.pensoft.net/2026/02/17/y...

Pensoft Celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science | Blog In honour of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Pensoft Publishers celebrates the remarkable contributions of women in our journals’ editorial teams.

👩‍🔬Happy International Day of Women and Girls in #Science!

Explore the reflections and visions for the future from our Women Editors-in-Chief.

💫With these insights, we hope to foster a more equitable #scientific community and inspire the next generation of girls to pursue their passions in #STEM.⤵

The Internet Names a New Deep-Sea Species, Senckenberg researchers choose a scientific name from over 8,000 suggestions. | Blog Published in the Biodiversity Data Journal, a new deep-sea chiton species was named via a global internet naming competition by Senckenberg, Pensoft, and Ze Frank.

🥁 After a week of 1000s of name suggestions - the newly found #chiton finally has a name! 👋Meet 𝘍𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘪!

The "chiton of the people" is now officially described in @bdj.pensoft.net!

🌊 Many thanks to everyone who participated, @zefrank.bsky.social, @oceanspecies.bsky.social, & @sgn.one

Cc: @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one

True Facts: New Species Naming Competition YouTube video by Ze Frank

📢 Tomorrow, 30 Jan, is your last chance to become THE ONE to name a curious weirdo from the ocean depths off Japan, soon to be published in @bdj.pensoft.net!

🤩 An opportunity to go down in history!

👇 Watch the video by @zefrank.bsky.social & leave your name suggestion in the comments on YouTube!

Tarantula with XXL genitalia, 'death ball' sponge among cool species of 2025 | CBC News A spider with extraordinary genitalia, a carnivorous caterpillar that wears its prey's body parts, and a tiny opossum are among the cool new species described by science in 2025.

Our journals in taxonomy often get featured in new species showcases like this one - more proof, if we needed any, of our work's relevance in describing and protecting life on Earth and spreading awareness of the biodiversity crisis.

www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Fly-arousing orchid and zombie fungus among 2025 botanical and fungal finds Botanists also name an overlooked snowdrop growing in the UK and a fruit that tastes like banana and guava

🍄➡️🕷️ The #predator becomes the #prey: New #parasite #fungus 𝘗𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘢𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘮 feasts on trapdoor spiders in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Described as #newspecies in our open-access journal (Dec 2025).

📰Story on @theguardian.com by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Who’s the Parasite Now? This Newly Discovered ‘Fairy Lantern’ Flower.

🧐 It might be named a "fairy", but there's little fairy-like about this parasitic #plant (especially if you happen to be a peaceful #fungus!), described as a #newspecies in November in our journal @phytokeys.pensoft.net.

🗞️ Story on @nytimes.com by @dmain.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/s...

🙌 At #LivingData2025, our team presented the 2.0 version of our signature XML-first #ARPHA Writing Tool.

👉 Find more about its #biodiversity data features in the conference abstract made available via @biss.pensoft.net journal: doi.org/10.3897/biss...

📢 #ARPHA Writing Tool 2.0 is COMING SOON!

As 2025 draws to a close, we at Pensoft want to extend our warmest wishes to our editors, reviewers, researchers, partners, and followers. Thank you for being part of our journey this year.

Wishing you all a joyful holiday season and a bright start to the new year! 🎄✨

We are delighted to be exhibiting at #BES2025 this week! Head to the Lennox Suite (L12) to say hello and learn about our open-access journals.

Black wolf snake discovered on remote Indian island. It's over a metre long and eats other reptiles | Discover Wildlife A newly described species has been named after the famous conservationist and wildlife educator Steve Irwin.

🐍 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 new toad species skip the tadpole phase and give birth to live toadlets Researchers have identified three new species of tree-dwelling toads from Africa, all of which skip the tadpole phase and give birth to live toadlets.

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...

Record-breaking success: Study on spider megacolony is the most popular article published by Pensoft In less than a month, a paper in Subterranean Biology surpassed nearly 27,000 Pensoft studies in popularity.

🎉 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! 👏

Scientists discovered a bee with devil horns. Meet ‘Lucifer.’ Only female bees from the new species have the distinctive horns, scientists said, after it was discovered in a remote part of Western Australia.

🌏 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

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.

🤔 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

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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...

👂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

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...

👏 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

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

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?

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.

🗨️ "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.

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...

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

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.

🕷️ 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!

🧵👇👇👇

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.

⚠️🐍 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

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 (...

📃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.

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.”

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...