🪲The Luffy #beetle, already our most-viral Instagram post ever, with ~130k views and ~12k likes just got covered by BBC Wildlife Magazine! 🎉 📗 Full article in @zookeys.pensoft.net: doi.org/10.3897/zook... 📰 BBC Wildlife article, covered by Magda Patynska: www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

A new species of Chinese giant #salamander - the world's largest #amphibians - has been discovered in Anhui Province, China. ➡️See the full study in our open-access @zse.pensoft.net journal: doi.org/10.3897/zse.... ➡️Or read our blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/07/15/n...

🐜A new species of harvester #ant, Messor odrysarum, has been discovered in the eastern #Rhodopes in Bulgaria! It has been described based on worker, gyne and male castes, using both morphological characteristics and #DNA barcoding. ➡️Full study in @zookeys.pensoft.net: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

📍At #ECCB2026 this week? Come say hi! 🌱We are 100% open access, founded 1992 by scientists for scientists. Explore our journals at our stand! @society4conbio.bsky.social, @unileiden.bsky.social

Researchers investigated the invasive success of the Atlantic blue crab across lagoon, estuary, and marine habitats, finding that the crab completes its full lifecycle in a remarkably small area. Full study in Aquatic Invasions:  doi.org/10.3391/ai.2... Our blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/07/08/t...

🌿 We're at #BEeS2026 - the LifeWatch ERIC Biodiversity and Ecosystem eScience Conference in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. 📚 Check out our booths to browse our journal portfolio and EU-funded projects, such as @aneris.eu, @b-cubed.eu and @bmd-project.eu. 👋 Come and say hi! @lifewatcheric.bsky.social

📢 We're at the 8th European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB) in Leiden! 📚 Pop by the Pensoft stand to explore our journal portfolio and discover the latest in conservation science. We'd love to meet you! #ECCB2026 #ConservationBiology #Biodiversity

Meet Luffy - the new beetle genus named after the One Piece protagonist! 🏴‍☠️🪲 📄 Full taxonomic descriptions in @zookeys.pensoft.net: doi.org/10.3897/zook... 📝 More from the researchers on our blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/07/07/n... #onepiece #newbeetle

🛬We've touched down in Leiden for #ECCB2026, hosted by the @society4conbio.bsky.social and @unileiden.bsky.social! Buzzing with excitement to talk about #conservation, publishing, and connect with all of you! 🙌 🚶Find us at booth 10 in the Goraleus Lecture Hall. #conference #publishing

🦋 Butterfly communities in the Swiss National Park have been found to have shifted their range upwards by an average of 135 metres in elevation over the past two decades. ➡️ Our blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/07/06/a... ➡️ Original study: doi.org/10.3897/alpento.10.186978 @unil.bsky.social

A wrap on #WBF2026! 🏔️ Our team joined the global #biodiversity community in Davos for a week of science, policy & connection - from presenting on FAIR #data & open science, to spotlighting our #EUHorizon projects, our journals and @arphahub.com at our booth. ➡️Blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/07/03/p...

🌱 Introducing the Journal of Regeneration, a new open-access, peer-reviewed journal from Pensoft dedicated to exploring #regeneration across animals, plants and beyond. 🔗 Explore the journal and submission guidelines here: regeneration.pensoft.net #RegenerationResearch

⚽ Our Biodiversity Cup is back - and this time it's the Animal Kingdom edition! 🗳️ Head over to our Instagram story and vote for the species you think deserves to win this round: instagram.com/pensoft/ #BiodiversityCup #FIFAWorldCup2026 #WorldCup2026 #FIFAWorldCup

🌍 Delighted to have run a workshop on Open Science and Open Access at #ECE2026Tours, exploring new publishing models and ways to boost research visibility. 🤝 With Denis Bourguet, co-founder of @peercommunityin.bsky.social - peer review-based publication of preprints. #OpenScience #OpenAccess

📸 A wasp species new to Japan, Eupelmus curvator, was discovered after striking photos of it parasitising a praying mantis egg case were shared on Twitter (now X). ➡️ Our latest blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/07/01/s... 👉 Full study published in @travaux.pensoft.net: doi.org/10.3897/travaux.69.e171809

🎤 It was a pleasure to present our workshop yesterday at #ECE2026Tours - Tiny Creatures, Lasting Impact: Science Communication for Entomology. 🙌 Thank you to everybody who came along! @cnrs.fr @irbi-tours.bsky.social #Entomology #InsectScience

Today, 1 July, join us at #ECTE2026Tours for a workshop at #ECTE2026Tours with Denis Bourguet from @peercommunityin.bsky.social on "Open Science and Open Access: From Publication Models to Scholarly Communication." 🕐 When: 12:50 - 13:50 📍 Where: Level +2, Room Courteline #sciencecommunication

🙌 Yesterday at #ECTE2026Tours, we had the pleasure of meeting two Subject Editors for our open-access journal Bulletin of Insectology: Giovanni Burgio and Antonio Masetti of the University of Bologna. 🔉 Stay tuned for further updates from the congress! @cnrs.fr @irbi-tours.bsky.social

Our workshop is happening today at #ECE2026Tours! 🐝 Tiny Creatures, Lasting Impact: Science Communication for Entomology 🕐 12:50–13:50 | 📍 Level +2, Room Courteline Beyond the paper: how do we make insect science land with policymakers, practitioners & the public? Come join us!

🦗 #ECE2026Tours is underway in Tours, France! We're here with our own booth showcasing our insect science journals, and proud consortium partners on @eufawready.eu, @agri4pol.eu and @valor-project.eu. 📍Come find us! @cnrs.fr @irbi-tours.bsky.social #Entomology #Insects #Biodiversity

🌿 On the #InternationalDayOfTheTropics a finding that flips the script. Camera traps in Honduras revealed small mammals, not tapirs, are the real drivers of cassava crop loss. 📖 Full study in @neotropical.pensoft.net: doi.org/10.3897/neot... 👉Blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/06/29/c... @wcs.org

🎉 Yesterday, we had the pleasure of bringing editorial board of @vcs.pensoft.net together at the 68th Annual International Association for #Vegetation Science #IAVS2026. 🌱A wonderful reminder, once again, of just how vital our community is to the journal's growth and direction.

The review article on Brazil's Cerrado, covering agriculture, fire, water stress & threats to Indigenous communities, now has a 12-part YouTube series to make the science accessible to all. 📖 Full #openaccess article in @natureconservation.pensoft.net: doi.org/10.3897/natu... #biodiversity

🌿 A new study in Ethiopia’s Hamer District reveals that while wildlife populations are declining due to threats like deforestation, there is a powerful reason for hope. Full study in @bioriskjournal.bsky.social: biorisk.pensoft.net/article/1754... Our blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/06/25/r...

⚽ Round three of our Biodiversity Cup is here: Cave vs. Coast! 🗳️ Can a 3mm sea slug outlast a creature named after a demon of the ancient world? Head to our Instagram story and vote for the species you think deserves to win: www.instagram.com/pensoft/ #FIFAWorldCup2026

🌱Meet the Vegetation Classification and Survey Editorial Board at #IAVS2026! Join the editorial board of VCS for an open conversation with Editors-in-Chief: Idoia Biurrun, Jürgen Dengler, and Wolfgang Willner 🕠 25.06 at 18:40 - 20:00 (UTC+2) 📍 Jardín Botánico Atlántico We'd love to see you there!

🌿 Halfway through #IAVS2026 and it's been a joy to meet in person Gianmaria Bonari - Editor-in-Chief of @vegecoldiv.bsky.social, our #openaccess, peer-reviewed journal! Gianmaria is also an avid contributor to our other #vegetationscience journals @italianbotanist.pensoft.net and @vcs.pensoft.net!

🪰 A new wormlion fly species - Vermitigris tsangyanggyatso - is described from Xizang, China, named after the 6th Dalai Lama, a Tibetan poet-monk renowned for his romantic verse. 🕵️ Our blog post: blog.pensoft.net/2026/06/24/n... 📖 Original study in @zookeys.pensoft.net: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

🦋Happy #InsectWeek from Pensoft Publishers! 🐝The @royentsoc.bsky.social #StandTallForTheSmall campaign is a timely reminder of just how much depends on the smallest members of our #ecosystems and just how much work still needs to be done to protect them. 🧵(1/3) #PollinatorWeek #insect

🗺️ The distributions of three Polyspilota praying mantis species across South Africa have been studied, and they have been observed consuming snails and geckos! ➡️ Our latest blog post: blog.pensoft.net/2026/06/23/s... ➡️ Original article, published in @jor.pensoft.net: doi.org/10.3897/jor....