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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 29/09/2026

🧬 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 28/09/2026

🔬 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 28/09/2026

🕷️ 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 25/09/2026

💡 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 25/09/2026

💡 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 24/09/2026

📚 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 23/09/2026

🎤 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 23/09/2026

📍 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 21/09/2026

🎤 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 18/08/2026

🦎 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 17/08/2026

📢 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 13/08/2026

🕷️ 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 12/08/2026

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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 10/08/2026

🦇 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 03/08/2026

🏛️ 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 30/07/2026

🔔 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 29/07/2026

📚 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 29/07/2026

🌿 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! 👋

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 23/07/2026

🔬 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 03/07/2026

🧬 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 29/06/2026

🦋 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 26/06/2026

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...

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 22/06/2026

📍 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 19/06/2026

🦴 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 17/06/2026

💻 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 09/06/2026

🏺 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 09/06/2026

🐟 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 01/06/2026

🐸 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 20/05/2026

🪸 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 11/05/2026

🎉 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 07/05/2026

🦋 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/

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 11/03/2026

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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 10/03/2026

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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 18/02/2026

🧬📚 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

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 16/02/2026

A 170-year-old flat wasp specimen was recently restored using an inexpensive ammonia-based protocol. 🐝 This study provides the first modern redescription of this rare species. Read all about it: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.184068

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 13/02/2026

Introducing the Cricut Maker® 3 – a new tool used to automatically cut precision entomological labels. This can be used to automate the tedious task of cutting tiny specimen labels, since it’s five times faster than doing it by hand! Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.179306

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 09/02/2026

By screening 4,000 historical insect specimens at the Phyletisches Museum Jena, researchers have discovered rare parasites - including two species never before documented in Germany - hidden within 100-year-old cicadas. Read more: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.173071 @uni-jena.de @mpi-ce.bsky.social

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 06/02/2026

The digitisation and labelling of specimens is a time-consuming and error-prone process as labels are often hand-cut. This paper proposes a low-cost solution - the Cricut Maker® 3 - which automatically and precisely cuts entomological labels: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.179306

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 03/02/2026

Did you know that the Natural History Museum in London holds a collection of true flies, comprising 2,596 jars of alcohol-preserved material? 🫙 @nhm-london.bsky.social

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 23/01/2026

Glass is an important aspect of specimen storage in most major natural history collections 🫙 By observing specimens housed in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, this study outlines the impact of glass deterioration on their preservation: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.173156

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 22/01/2026

Natural History Collections and Museomics is delighted to welcome Dr. Duc-Anh Nguyen as a new subject editor. Learn more about his expertise here: nhcm.pensoft.net/news/1089

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 06/01/2026

🫀Are you curious to learn how the Museo Anatomico in Naples contributed to the development of #scientific thought and #medical education? 🔗Find out more here: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm...

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 17/11/2025

The OSCA consortium in Austria unites 14 institutions to digitise and harmonise millions of natural history specimens, building a nation-wide infrastructure for accessible, interoperable scientific collection. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/nhcm...

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 14/11/2025

The tangled history of Liverpool’s White-eye bird collection illustrates the impacts of war, imperialism, and scientific legacy on museum archives and taxonomy. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/nhcm...

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 10/11/2025

Today, our editor-in-chief Deborah L Paul is at #ECN2025 to represent our journal - make sure to ask her about us if you're there!

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 09/11/2025

We're at #ECN2025 in Portland, Oregon! We're passionate about entomological collections, which is why we published some of last year's ECN in a special topical collection: nhcm.pensoft.net/topical_coll... Check out the @pensoft.net stand for our latest news!

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 04/11/2025

This paper reexamines the century-old holotype of the singleton Madagascan woodlouse 𝐴𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑎, revealing distinctive morphology that justifies its transfer to a new genus, 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑎. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/nhcm...

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 03/11/2025

This retrospective honours John Fordyce Peake's pioneering contributions to science and museum policy, highlighting his innovations in biodiversity data management and natural history collections worldwide. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/nhcm...

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 24/10/2025

An intense week for our team as our publisher @pensoft.net is representing us at #LivingData2025! A great way to showcase our new open access journal to a huge scientific audience interested in protecting and cataloguing #biodiversity

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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 17/10/2025

The bias and incompleteness of Portuguese birds in natural history collections present serious consequences for researchers. Steps towards stable investment, bridging gaps between museums and the scientific community, and the digitisation of metadata are encouraged. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/nhcm...

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