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Happy #OAWeek! ⬇️
📢 This International #OpenAccess Week, under the theme “The Cost of Knowledge,” we’re celebrating the principle that has guided us throughout our years: research is most useful when it’s open to everyone.
🔗 @Pensoft's blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/10/21/…
#OAWeek
🦉 Don't forget that #ZoologyCon2026 is coming to Bucharest early next month!
📋 Accommodation details have now been added and can be accessed on the official site: zoologycon.ro/scientific-pro…
#zoology #conservation #taxonomy
📷 A FAIR-compliant dataset of #phytoplankton functional traits and environmental variables across transitional coastal waters has been established to enhance #ecological data interoperability.
Full data paper: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1966…
@Cnr_Iret @nbfc_italy @ERICLifeWatch
Two new #springtail species have been described from Colombia as part of an ongoing revision of Neotropical Lepidocyrtus. Lepidocyrtus deiverandersoni and L. rosanae are told apart by tiny differences in their bristle patterns under the microscope.
doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2070…
For Africa's Acropimpla Darwin #wasps, only females were known, and only from the east. Malaise traps in Uganda and Côte d'Ivoire have now revealed the first males and the genus's first record in West Africa.
Read more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2150…
🤔Working on #biodiversity #data, collections, or monitoring?
#LivingData2027 (9-12 June, Montréal, Canada) has an open call for sessions.
🗓 Deadline 31 October, 2026
👉Learn more: bdj.pensoft.net/news/1500
@tdwg
Oceanic islands like Madeira hold many species found nowhere else, and light pollution is a growing pressure on them after dark. A new study looks at the island's moths to see how artificial light at night affects them.
Full #data paper: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2091…
#Lepidoptera
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🌊 Between 21-25 September, our team was at the @ANERISproject booth presenting the latest project's developments & chatting with visitors about how technology can help protect our oceans, at #EGI2026.
👉Conference highlights: blog.pensoft.net/2026/10/08/…
@EGI_eInfra
🎉 We are delighted to welcome Higor Rodrigues as a new Subject Editor in our journal!
👉 Find out more about his expertise here: bdj.pensoft.net/news/1495
🌳 The #aphid Kurisakia querciphila is confirmed from South Korea, based on specimens collected from Quercus variabilis in 2024. A detailed re-description and COI sequence support adding it to the National Species List of Korea.
Read more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2109…
#Taxonomy
🗓 Join us in Varna, 14-17 October 2026, for the LTER-BG International Scientific #Conference! Scientists, practitioners and policy-makers will share findings and shape the future of long-term #ecosystem research.
👉 Details: bdj.pensoft.net/news/1488
#eLTERcommunity
🐒 First systematic survey of two #macaque species in Xizang, China: 11 troops of Arunachal macaques (avg. ~14 individuals) and 10 troops of white-cheeked macaques (~17), with infants in both, giving baseline data for conservation: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1997…
#Primates
🕷️The male of the cave #spider Troglocoelotes doul has been described for the first time. Known only from a female since 2024, the species belongs to a genus of 12 species from Guangxi and Guizhou, China, where eight are still known from females alone: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2148…
🐚 A new @GBIF dataset compiles specimen-level occurrence records of three Abatus #seaurchin species across southern Patagonia, the Subantarctic islands and Antarctica, helping fill knowledge gaps in Antarctic and Subantarctic benthos: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2023…
#echinoids
This article is part of the topical collection "Antarctic and Southern #Ocean #biodiversity", which is freely accessible here: doi.org/10.3897/bdj.coll.143
🔬Check out this new proposal for an eleven-tenet framework for the integrated, evolving and sustainable management of European Research Infrastructure Consortia (ERICs), explicitly adding "enabling scientific excellence" as a key dimension: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2121…
This forum paper is part of the Topical Collection: "LifeWatch ERIC Collection of Data and Services Papers" that you can access here for free: doi.org/10.3897/bdj.coll.109
@LifeWatchERIC
🪰 The call for abstracts for the 11th International Congress of Dipterology (ICD XI) is now open!
📅 Abstracts can be submitted from today until 31 March 2027.
🔗 Read our latest news announcement: bdj.pensoft.net/news/1479
🧬Processing Sanger #DNA sequences is routine but time-consuming, error-prone and hard to reproduce, especially for degraded samples, under-described taxa and teams with limited computational access.
A new tool aims to streamline it: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1986…
🔍Every time a species is redetermined, someone, somewhere, has to update the specimen record - often manually & years later. #OpenDigitalCuration is looking for workflows, tools, and case studies that make this process transparent and automatic.
👉doi.org/10.3897/bdj.coll.339
