🌍 The 41st SPNHC Annual Meeting is coming to the African continent for the first time! Join natural history professionals in Cape Town, South Africa, from 7 to 11 September 2026. ➡️ Check out our latest news announcement for further details: nhcm.pensoft.net/news/1404 #SPNHC2026

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September 7-11, 2026 Cape Town, South Africa Hosted by the Iziko South African Museum Contact: spnhc.conference@gmail.com Home Register Draft Program Workshops Field Trips Gala Dinner Accommodations…

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🏛️ In the following article, an opportunity for media-based storytelling to become a prominent application of natural history museum research is proposed, following a field-wide survey revealing that these stories are underrepresented on institutional social media: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.176227

🔔 Just a reminder - we're at #IAL10 in Trieste until the end of the week. Come find us at the Pensoft Publishers stand! 📚 Swing by to chat with the team and learn about publishing with us. There is still time to say hello! #IAL2026 #IAL10Trieste #IALichenology

📚 Zimbabwe's century-old plant collection, one of the largest in southern Africa, is being unlocked from the #herbarium and made #accessible worldwide through several digitisation initiatives: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.196914

🌿 Meet us at the annual @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social meeting, #ESA2026! @pensoft.net is at the Salt Palace Convention Center, through the end of this week. Want to chat about publishing your research #openaccess? Stop by booth #204 and say hi! 👋

🔬 An open-source workflow has been developed that uses low-cost imaging, AI-based object detection and OCR to transform whole-drawer photographs of insect collections into machine-readable data. 👉 Full research article here: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.196081 @sgn.one

🧬 A recent study has shown that genomic DNA can still be successfully extracted from museum specimens preserved in fluid, even when they were collected many years ago. 🔬 Read the full paper: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.189111

📢 The abstract submission deadline for ZoologyCon 2026 is fast approaching! 📝 Abstracts are invited across all six congress themes, from taxonomy and genomics to conservation and citizen science. ⏰ Submissions are only being accepted until 31 July 2026 - get yours in soon! zoologycon.ro/home/

First Call for Papers - ZOOLOGYCON

The “Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History, in partnership with the Romanian Academy and the University of Bucharest, is pleased to announce ZoologyCon 2026, an international zoology cong...

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🦋 The XIII European Congress of Entomology has opened today in Tours, France. 📖 If you are in attendance, come and visit us at the @pensoft.net booth to find out more and say hello! #ECE2026Tours @cnrs.fr @irbi-tours.bsky.social

Look who we met at #IAVS2026 - Celia Gonzalez Lopez from @mncn-csic.bsky.social, co-author of a methodological article describing the digitization and printing workflow for #3D-scanned #insect replicas, as well as their use in education through sensory interaction 👇 doi.org/10.3897/nhcm...

📍 The 68th International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS) Symposium has officially started in Gijon, Spain! 🙌 Come and visit @pensoft.net's stand to see our journal featured and stay tuned for further updates! #Gijón2026 #IAVS2026

🦴 A historically misidentified bandicoot skull, held at the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe and originally inscribed as the extinct southern pig-footed bandicoot, has been re-examined through virtual 3D-reconstruction using surface scanning. 🔍 Find out more: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.192533

💻 Two lightweight web applications for natural history collections have been successfully developed using AI-assisted coding to overcome traditional resource and programming constraints. ➡️ Full study: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.191202

🎉 Thrilled to be in Davos, Switzerland for #WBF2026. 🤝 Under the theme "Leading Transformation Together", we are showcasing our open-access journal portfolio and participating projects, including @bioagora.eu, @obsgession.eu and @b-cubed.eu. 💬 Come chat with our team!

🏺 For a new permanent exhibition, the Croatian Natural History Museum evaluated nine different silicone, wax, grease, and rubber sealants to find the best option for ground-glass-stopper jars: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.188287

🐟 Data from major Portuguese natural history collections have been recently analysed, revealing that the country’s freshwater fish biodiversity is not fully represented taxonomically, geographically, or temporally. Read more: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.186661

🐸 A comprehensive database of over 6,000 amphibian and reptile records from São Tomé & Príncipe has been successfully compiled from historical collections and citizen science data. ➡️ Read the full study: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.184711 #citizenscience

🪸 DNA mini barcoding has been successfully utilised to acquire molecular data from historical octocoral specimens in a zoological collection, overcoming the challenges of severe DNA degradation associated with older samples. ➡️ Read the full study: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.188052 #zoology

🏛️ Happy International Museum Day and a very special 80th anniversary to the International Council of Museums! ✨ Visit our latest blog to explore our "Best of the Archive" collection and find out more about the articles we have selected for this year's celebration: #InternationalMuseumDay #IMD2026

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Pensoft Publishers is proud to celebrate International Museum Day and its 2026 theme: Museums Uniting a Divided World.

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🎉 We are delighted to welcome Dr. Srinivasan Pandiarajan as a new Subject Editor for our journal! ➡️ Read more about his expertise here: nhcm.pensoft.net/news/1228

⏰ Deadline approaching! 📆The #TDWG2026 Call for Abstracts closes on 20 May 2026, 23:59 UTC-12. Submit your presentation or poster for the upcoming conference (21-25 Sep) on the topic: #Research & Robot-ready #Biodiversity #Data Standards. Learn more here: nhcm.pensoft.net/news/1181

Call for Abstracts: TDWG 2026

The annual conference of Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) is coming to Oslo, Norway, 21-25 September 2026, and the call for abstracts is now open. This year's conference th...

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🦋 Abstract submission for ZoologyCon 2026 is now open! ➡️ Check out our latest news announcement to learn more: nhcm.pensoft.net/news/1213 ➡️ Official website of ZoologyCon: zoologycon.ro/home/

The call for abstracts for the annual conference of #Biodiversity Information Standards @tdwg.org is now OPEN. Submit oral presentations, lightning talks, or posters on #biodiversity #data standards and #informatics. ⏳Deadline: 20 May 2026 👉 See all the details here: nhcm.pensoft.net/news/1181

Call for Abstracts: TDWG 2026

The annual conference of Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) is coming to Oslo, Norway, 21-25 September 2026, and the call for abstracts is now open. This year's conference th...

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Check out our new paper focusing on unaccessioned herbarium specimens. nhcm.pensoft.net/article/1829... We found that bryophytes and fungi/lichens were over-represented in the specimen backlog, compared to vascular plants. This highlights the need for more bryophyte and fungi/lichen identification!

The state of herbarium specimen backlogs: Perspectives from bryophyte collections

An herbarium must have its specimens processed, identified and accessioned so that members of the botanical community can readily consult these materials. However, many herbaria struggle to keep up wi...

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🫨 104 million specimens are estimated to sit in #herbarium backlogs worldwide. A new study surveyed staff at 65 #herbaria about unaccessioned #specimens and #curation challenges. See the reasons and practical strategies for tackling backlogs👇

The state of herbarium specimen backlogs: Perspectives from bryophyte collections

An herbarium must have its specimens processed, identified and accessioned so that members of the botanical community can readily consult these materials. However, many herbaria struggle to keep up wi...

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New archival research reveals a power struggle behind the scenes of Bonn's famous Museum Koenig, where Nazi officials attempted to boycott the museum’s foundation. Read the full paper, which also provides a brief recap of the museum's entomologist Erich Schmidt: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.180615

For decades, a few museum specimens suggested that Ethiopia’s iconic gelada monkeys once lived west of the Blue Nile Gorge... However, new research reveals these monkeys were actually mislabeled and collected elsewhere! Read more: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.185998

🆕 Latest research in @dissco.bsky.social's #openscience collection illustrates a Machine Learning as a Service approach for quantitative analysis of #herbarium #specimens. 🌿 Subsequently, DiSSCO's models are used to calculate surface area of identified #plant organs. 🔓 See: doi.org/10.3897/rio....

🦋 ZoologyCon 2026 is coming to Bucharest! Join us 4-7 Nov 2026 for an international congress hosted by Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History. 📅 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬: 𝟏 𝐀𝐩𝐫: Reg/Abstracts open 𝟑𝟎 𝐉𝐮𝐧: Abstract deadline 𝟏𝟓 𝐎𝐜𝐭: Reg deadline 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬: travaux.pensoft.net/journal_news...

ZoologyCon 2026 set to convene this November in Bucharest, Romania

The "Grigore Antipa" National Museum of Natural History announced the ZoologyCon 2026 international congress, scheduled to take place from 4-7 November 2026 in Bucharest, Roma...

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🧬📚 In conjunction with the 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 at @nhmwien.bsky.social, we’re launching a special topical collection. We invite submissions on: ✨ Technical innovations 📜 Historical DNA 🌍 Conservation & policy 📅 Deadline: 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝟑𝟎, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 Read more here: nhcm.pensoft.net/news/1126 #Museomics