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🐚 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
🔬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
🌳 New of leaf diversity established for a critically endangered Greek oak species, Quercus trojana subsp. euboica, which was severely impacted by catastrophic wildfires in Euboea in 2021: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1994…
🌊 Over two decades of research in Antarctica's Ross Sea has yielded the first comprehensive checklist of pelagic organisms accidentally captured by sediment traps, documenting over 210,000 individuals representing 68 species. Read more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e1970…@nbfc_italy
🪰 The adult stage of the mayfly Otamanthellus unicutibius has been studied for the first time, revealing evolutionary adaptations that shed light on how male reproductive structures have changed across mayfly lineages over millions of years: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2118…
🕷️ A new trapdoor spider species belonging to the genus Raveniola has been discovered in Jinggangshan National Nature Reserve, marking the first formal record of the Nemesiidae family from Jiangxi Province, China: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2117…
🐝 A global group of parasitoid wasps belonging to the genus Aximopsis has been under renewed scientific scrutiny, with molecular studies revealing that the current taxonomic classification does not accurately reflect the wasps' evolutionary relationships: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2067…
New data from the LIFE SNAILS project on Santa Maria Island surveys arthropod communities in mixed forests as habitat-quality indicators, supporting conservation of three endemic molluscs - two land snails and a semi-slug: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e2031…
🎤 Two brilliant talks today at #SMCC2026!
🐿️ Yana Andonova: "Reintroduced Saker Falcons are dependent on European ground squirrels during the breeding period in Bulgaria".
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🦅 Anton Stamenov: "Foraging and parental behaviour of a Saker falcon pair raising five fledglings: implications for territory quality and prey demand".
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📚 We're pleased to attend the "BHL and the Planetary Knowledge Base: Structuring Biodiversity Literature for the Next Generation" talk by our Editor-in-Chief, Dr Vincent Smith, at #TDWG2026.
✨ An insightful presentation on the future of biodiversity data infrastructure!
@tdwg
📚 Delighted to attend this fascinating talk at #TDWG2026 on liberating biodiversity knowledge from scientific literature.
🧬 Heartfelt thanks to Donat Agosti for these insightful perspectives!
➡️ Read one of Agosti's articles in our journal: bdj.pensoft.net/article/1530…@tdwg