New paper out in @riojournal.com
“Migration should be a personal choice, not the only one – a reflection on scientific diasporas”
How to get a functional scientific diaspora? Here we discuss it!
doi.org/10.3897/rio....
🧒 How well do kids know about the #plants and the #bees?
📝 A survey of 6 to 12-year-olds reports:
🐝 70% know bees are “useful & necessary”
🌱 78% think “plants need bees”
⚠️ Generally, however, the kids do not understand the role of bees in #ecosystems.
🔓 Research Article: doi.org/10.3897/rio....
🎣 What measures have been adopted, and what #fishing practices & technologies have been tested in real-life settings to reduce #endangered, threatened & protected #species #bycatch in drifting longline #fisheries?
🔓 This Methods paper presents a recent scoping review: doi.org/10.3897/rio.....
🆕 A Research Idea - published in our #openscience journal - introduces a vision where advanced generative models could be utilised to not only see a proposed design, but witness its potential dynamics, such as how green infrastructure responds to climate events.
👉 Read more: doi.org/10.3897/rio....
Cc: @amjadkhalaf.bsky.social @astridboehne.bsky.social @brentcemerson.bsky.social @meloferreiraj.bsky.social @norwbol.bsky.social @bgbol.org @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social @sib.swiss @naturalis.bsky.social @ebi.embl.org @embl.org @thebotanics.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @eurotaxonomy.cetaf.org
🆕 The @biogeneurope.bsky.social project - which now gives way to BGE+ - represented a landmark in European research collaboration, bringing together the #DNAbarcoding (@iboleurope.bsky.social) and #reference #genomes (@ergabiodiv.bsky.social) communities.
🔓 Grant Proposal: doi.org/10.3897/rio.....
Cc: @nestorfdez.bsky.social @evelynunderwood.bsky.social @laenavarro.bsky.social @eea.europa.eu @ieep.eu @euenvironmentandclimate.ec.europa.eu @biodiversa.eu @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @csic.es @syke.fi @wwf.eu @iiasa.ac.at
👌 Already 12 #project reports in the @naturaconnect.bsky.social collection!
🎯 #NaturaConnect is to develop data, analytical tools & knowledge to support the development of a Trans-European Nature Network that will protect #ecosystems and #EcosystemServices.
👉 Explore: doi.org/10.3897/rio.....
Cc: @disscoflanders.bsky.social @sharifx.bsky.social @sgn.one @naturalis.bsky.social @dkoureas.bsky.social
🔎 Explore so far 10 #research outcomes by @dissco.bsky.social, i.e. proposals, research papers and project reports at: doi.org/10.3897/rio.... 🔓
👍 @dissco.bsky.social is a pan-European Research Infrastructure that aims to digitally unify #NaturalScience #collections to make them open & accessible.
🆕 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....
Cc: @camillecornet.bsky.social @kaybiodiversity.bsky.social @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social @cmazzoni.bsky.social @diegomics.bsky.social
@sib.swiss @iboleurope.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social @boldsystems.bsky.social @norwbol.bsky.social @cbg-uofg.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social
👉 Check out the ERGA Genome Report doi.org/10.3897/rio.....
🔎 Browse the living #openscience collection by @ergabiodiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.3897/rio...., currently comprising 16 research publications!
👍 Latest contribution to @ergabiodiv.bsky.social's #openscience collection (doi.org/10.3897/rio....) presents the Common Brassy Ringlet! 🦋
ℹ️ An ERGA Genome Report is a technical description of the methodologies employed for #sequencing & assembling #genomes + standard quality metrics & metadata.
Cc: @tokehoye.bsky.social @au.dk
🆕 The @mambo-project.eu consortium used their project's #openscience collection in our journal to share a project report (=same PDF they submitted to @ec.europa.eu!) + a #conference #abstract from #LivingData2025!
🔎 Explore (so far) 51 project outputs by @mambo-project.eu: doi.org/10.3897/rio....
2) What was your main reason to start with #Data #Papers?
"We launched at the very beginning of the open data movement. As a #biologist, I saw too much #research vanish on forgotten USB drives; the fear of losing that data was my strongest motivation to start publishing #DataPapers." - Prof Penev.
We are live from #lovedataweek2026! 📊
Prof. Penev is opening the session: "Data Papers: How and Why?" diving into the "how" behind the #data auditing in our #journals.
@lovedataweek.bsky.social @icpsr.bsky.social
Cc: @evomri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @okarras.bsky.social @schubotz.bsky.social @ufz.de @wikimediade.bsky.social @wikimediafoundation.org @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social @nfdi.de
🤔 How do you discover #software that matches your #research needs?
🤔 How do developers make their software findable for research-related tasks?
👍 Funded by @dfg.de, the community-driven find.software is to provide pathways towards software discovery.
🔓 Grant Proposal: doi.org/10.3897/rio....
ℹ️ You can find a brief overview for @obsgession.eu & its goals on the @pensoft.net blog: blog.pensoft.net/2024/02/19/e...
Cc: @mariahallfors.bsky.social @syke.fi @biologylu.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @brockmannconsult.bsky.social @unepwcmc.bsky.social
🆕 Several new project deliverables now available in the @obsgession.eu's #openscience collection!
👍 The consortium *lifts the curtains* on its project management guide, communication, exploitation & dissemination plans, project branding & more!
🔎 Explore the collection: doi.org/10.3897/rio....
A new study led by Northern Arizona University's @beabock.bsky.social demonstrates how a specialised language model called 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐓 can scan decades of research in minutes to identify fungi, with almost 90% accuracy.
Read more about it on our blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/02/05/u...
Thank you for sharing your proposal openly & publicly - kudos! 👏
Looking forward to publishing more of your outcomes (perhaps organised into a project collection?), so that we have a permanent record of your project's results that's easy to discover, cite & reuse by others in the future!
Cc: @csteinbeck.bsky.social @sneumann.bsky.social @herreslab.bsky.social @jliermann.bsky.social @carkettner.bsky.social @notherchemist.bsky.social @wendypatterson.bsky.social @polymergeek.bsky.social
The @dfg.de-funded @nfdi4chem.de consortium used our #openscience journal to share the Grant Proposal for their second period: doi.org/10.3897/rio....
🎯Goals include seamless data workflows from labs to open repositories & #AI-ready data.
🧪 All Chemists Publish #FAIRData 🧪 remains their vision.
Cc: @naturealexk.bsky.social @davidkleijn.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social @csic.es @w-u-r.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social @helsinki.fi @unepwcmc.bsky.social @eurolandorg.bsky.social
😍 The @valor-project.eu opened its own #openscience collection in our #journal!
🔎 As we are waiting for project outcomes, find about the @horizoneu.bsky.social-funded project & how it is to help understand our relationship with #pollinators on the @pensoft.net blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/02/28/v...
🐝 The #beelibre project provides #free & immediate access to information on the #taxonomy, #NaturalHistory and #geographical distribution of >350 #species of wild #bee species recorded in Luxembourg withing a single multi-lingual website.
👉 Check out the Project Report: doi.org/10.3897/rio.....
