Natural History Collections and Museomics

🪲📚🍂 Meet @pensoft.net in Columbus, Ohio this November and see our journal featured! We will be at the Entomological Collections Network Annual Meeting (6 to 7 November) and Entomology 2026 (8 to 11 November). Read more: nhcm.pensoft.net/news/1527 #ECN2026 #EntSoc26

🗺️ Can AI turn old museum locality labels into accurate map coordinates? A new study tested 12 large language models on UK bumblebee and global dragonfly records. Access the full study to see the results: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.203521

🎉 We are delighted to welcome Dr. Caitlin Colleary as a Subject Editor for our journal! 👉 Read more about her expertise here: nhcm.pensoft.net/news/1520

📢 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.net's latest blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/10/21/o... #OAWeek

📣Nominations are open for the @tdwg.org Executive Committee (2027-2028 term): Secretary, Treasurer, TAG and Outreach chairs, and regional reps for Asia, Latin America, and North America. Application deadline by Nov 13, 2026. Find out more: biss.pensoft.net/news/1515 #biodiversity #informatics

🦉 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-p... #zoology #conservation #taxonomy

🪶 The Imperial Woodpecker, the world's largest woodpecker species long presumed extinct, has been digitally reconstructed in stunning 3D detail! 📖 Full study in our journal: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm... 🔗 @pensoft.net's latest blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/10/14/i... #woodpecker #imperialwoodpecker

Working on #biodiversitydata, #collections, or monitoring? #LivingData2027 (9-12 June, Montréal, Canada) has an open call for sessions. 🗓 Deadline 31 October, 2026 Learn more: nhcm.pensoft.net/news/1504

🎉 We are pleased to announce that the journal Natural History Collections and Museomics is now also on LinkedIn. 🔗 Follow us there to stay up to date on the latest research findings, news, and events related to the journal: www.linkedin.com/showcase/nat...

🔍Every time a species is redetermined, someone, somewhere, has to update the specimen record - often manually & years later. Our new collection on #OpenDigitalCuration is looking for workflows, tools, and case studies that make this process transparent and automatic. 🗓 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟏 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔

🧬 It has been revealed that high-quality DNA can be recovered from arthropod specimens preserved in formalin for decades, opening new possibilities for evolutionary research using natural history collections. ➡️ Read the full study: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.200681 @uni-kiel.de @leibnizlib.bsky.social

🔬 For the first time, a scientific study has systematically examined what causes deterioration in the chemical mountants used to preserve insect specimens, revealing that slide degradation is driven by multiple complex factors rather than a single culprit: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.194995

🕷️ A remarkable collection of approximately 15,000 spider and scorpion specimens has been made freely available to researchers worldwide, demonstrating how regional museums and open-access initiatives can democratise biodiversity knowledge across Brazil: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.197964

💡 We loved hearing one of our Editors-in-Chief Shelley James' talk at #TDWG2026! 📢 In their talk, James explored how we can better promote biodiversity data, standards and collections through diverse publication formats. @tdwg.org

💡 We are delighted to attend the "Publishing and Communications: Promoting Biodiversity, Natural History Collections, People, Data and Data Standards" session at #TDWG2026, organised by our co-Editor-in-Chief and a long-time friend of Pensoft Publishers, Deborah Paul! @tdwg.org

📚 Delighted to attend this fascinating talk at #TDWG2026 on liberating biodiversity knowledge from scientific literature. 🧬 Heartfelt thanks to Donat Agosti for these insightful perspectives - we're honoured to have him as a reviewer for our open-access journal! @tdwg.org

🎤 Yesterday at #TDWG2026, our Editor-in-Chief Deborah Paul presented a very interesting talk on open digital curation and the importance of openness, interoperability and provenance in biodiversity data! @tdwg.org #BiodiversityData #OpenScience

📍 We're featured at @pensoft.net's booth at #TDWG2026, running this week in Oslo! 📚 Come and find out more about the scope of our journal and how we can support your research. @tdwg.org #BiodiversityData

🎤 We were delighted to attend our subject editor Quentin Groom's talk at #TDWG2026 in Oslo on reducing lag in biodiversity information systems. 💡 Key takeaway: when biodiversity data moves faster, environmental governance becomes more responsive. @tdwg.org

🦉 ZoologyCon 2026 | 4-7 Nov, Bucharest 🔬 Taxonomy to genomics, ecology to conservation - join zoologists from around the world. 📋 Preliminary programme now live: zoologycon.ro/scientific-p... ⏰ Register by 20 September: zoologycon.ro/registration... #ZoologyCon2026 #Zoology

🦎 We are delighted to have attended a talk at #BioSyst2026 by Alice Petzold, subject editor for our journal: "Museomics in Practice: Harnessing Wet Collections to Unravel Herpetofaunal Diversity." @systassn.bsky.social

📢 We're at the 4th BioSyst.EU Meeting in Uppsala, Sweden - #biosyst2026! 🤝 Stop by the @pensoft.net booth to learn more about our journal. @systassn.bsky.social

🕷️ Over 16,000 mite specimens from the UFMG-AC Acarological Collection in Brazil have been standardised and prepared for publication using the Darwin Core data standard, through a combination of manual review and automated Python-based cleaning: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.195668

learning models to automatically detect key morphological traits, achieving high accuracy with a recall above 0.95! Learn more: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.187529

🦇 The true origins of the Mexican shrew's type specimens, collected over a century ago, have long been misattributed due to confusing place names. 📜 Through careful examination of historic field journals, the exact type locality has now been pinpointed to Las Milpillas: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.202846

🌍 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

🏛️ 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/

🦋 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

🎉 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