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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 24/09/2026

🎉 It was lovely to see our Chief and founding editor Daniel Mietchen at the Pensoft Publishers booth yesterday at #TDWG2026!

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 23/09/2026

📍 We're also featured at @pensoft.net's booth at #SMCC2026, running this week in Sofia! 📚 This Thursday and Friday, come and find out more about the scope of our journal and how we can support your research in small mammal conservation. #SmallMammalConservation @habitatfoundation.bsky.social

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 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. #BiodiversityData

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 10/08/2026

🧬 #iBOL2026 is heading to Bangkok, Thailand, from 2 to 6 November! ⏰ Early bird registration has been extended to 14 August, so register now to save. 🔗 Find out more by visiting our latest news announcement: riojournal.com/news/1430

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 29/07/2026

🌊 A bow-tie risk analysis has been used to map the causes and consequences of decline in five key Irish Sea ecosystem components, from mudflats and mussels to wintering waterbirds. Access the full research article: doi.org/10.3897/rio.12.e194843 @ucddublin.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 29/07/2026

🙌 Come meet our team at #ESA2026, the annual Ecological Society of America meeting at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah! 👋 Stop by @pensoft.net's booth at #204 and say "Hi" - we can't wait to meet you!

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 10/07/2026

Joe Lopez (NSU) now giving #GIGAVI an update on the Earth Biogenome Project @ebpgenome.bsky.social as it moves into its second phase. Joe is the GIGA representative in EBP, bringing this consortium in via role as a “network of networks”

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 10/07/2026

Caroline Howard from Darwin Tree of Life keynote at #GIGAVI. Started by introducing other biodiversity sequencing projects Sanger are contributing to including the European Reference Genome Atlas (eRGA) @ergabiodiv.bsky.social, of which we have a topical collection riojournal.com/topical_coll...

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 09/07/2026

Didier Zoccloa from Centre Scientifique De Monaco presenting on transcriptome-derived markers for high-resolution coral molecular taxonomy derived from the TARA Pacific consortium RNA-seq data #GIGAVI

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 09/07/2026

Very interesting keynote at #GIGAVI from Manuel Aranda (KAUST), presenting work using ML-models for temperature resilience and adaptive potential for corals to enable them to survive coral bleaching. Uses large amounts of genomic data for 100's of colonies across the Red Sea and Persian gulf

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 07/07/2026

These invertebrate genomes have huge potential for discovery of novel anti-fungal/parasitic/microbial/viral peptides. Cone shell anti-microbial peptides have great potential for overcoming antibiotic resistance for example #GIGAVI

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 07/07/2026

At the Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance VI meeting in the Philippines watching Agostinho Antunes give a keynote on "Invertebrate genomes and ecological diversification linking molecular innovation to adaptation" #GIGAVI

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 30/06/2026

🤝The @project-selina.eu consortium is gathering in Galway, Ireland for the 7th #SELINAWorkshop between 29 June and 2 July, focused on "Evidence-based decision-making in the private sector", exploring how #biodiversity and #ecosystemservices #data can better inform business decisions.

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 29/06/2026

🌊 Marine invertebrates have yielded 15,000+ novel chemicals with pharmaceutical potential, but sustainable sourcing remains a challenge. The BLUES project is developing cell culture systems to produce bioactive compounds without wild harvesting. Full grant proposal: doi.org/10.3897/rio.12.e196757

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 29/06/2026

🌍 The 8th Sustainable Phosphorus Summit was convened on African soil for the first time in Accra, Ghana, where knowledge was exchanged by international researchers and policymakers to drive phosphorus sustainability across the continent and beyond. 👉 Workshop report: doi.org/10.3897/rio.12.e193918

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 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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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 15/06/2026

📸 Yesterday, at the @worldbioforum.bsky.social, our E-in-C: @evomri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy and @pensoft.net's founder & CEO: Lyubomir Penev, joined a special workshop aiming at improving #biodiversity literature workflows for #evidence-based biodiversity #research, practice & policy! #WBF2026

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 09/06/2026

👋 Hello from Silkeborg, Denmark! 🎉 We are happy for our materials to be featured at the 2nd #FERRO_GAMeeting meeting. ➡️ Find out more the project: ferroproject.eu @ferroproject.eu

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 09/06/2026

Was great to meet a RIO author at the #FORCE2026 conference. Mochammad Tanzil Multazam published a Research Idea with us on "GO-PUB: Open-Select-Submit", which proposed a ride-hailing style app (inspired by GO-JEK in Indonesia) that connects authors with journals doi.org/10.3897/rio....

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 05/06/2026

Final keynote at #FORCE2026 from Ginny Barbour on "Publishing in 2026: How we got into such trouble and how we get out of it". Discussing how scholarly norms and processes are breaking down (peer review overload, AI-generated papers) and how we need to equip academics for a new world

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 04/06/2026

Up now at #FORCE2026 is a panel on Recognizing Research Data in Tenure & Promotion. Host @kristiholmes.bsky.social starting things off by talking about the @makedatacount.bsky.social resources from ‘Implementing data evaluation in academia’ (IDEA) Working Group makedatacount.org/explore-reso...

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 04/06/2026

Michelle Barker presenting now at #FORCE2026 on ReSA - the Research Software Alliance, and organisation helping better integrating research software into open scholarship. You can see her slides here tinyurl.com/FORCE-software

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 03/06/2026

While Lily Kong (President of SMU) #FORCE2026 keynote admits that her “diagnosis is not new”, it is still very encouraging to see someone in Asia highlight problems with “publish or perish” culture and failings of citation based metrics. Great promotion of DORA, CoARA, Leiden manifesto, FAIR etc.

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 03/06/2026

Appropriate (and poignant) to start #FORCE2026 with a tribute to @force11.bsky.social co-founder Phill Bourne who has been such a driving force behind so many initiatives, practices and tools that today we take for granted in scholarly comms force11.org/post/a-tribu...

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 03/06/2026

If you are at the #FORCE2026 @force11.bsky.social meeting in Singapore come and say hello to @scedmunds.bsky.social if you'd like to discuss how RIO helps address the conference goal in "Advancing Scholarly Communication Across Boundaries and Disruptions" https:// force11.org/force2026/

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 19/05/2026

💻 CAgriLab is a new platform that enables real-time data sharing, helping farmers and researchers adapt sustainable practices to local conditions. 📌 Funded by the Horizon Europe programme. 📖 Read the full grant proposal here: doi.org/10.3897/rio.12.e188665

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 15/05/2026

🧠 This forum paper reflects on the "brain drain" phenomenon and its impact on intellectual capital in the Global South. 🔍 Discussion focuses on the systemic barriers that often force highly skilled professionals to leave their home countries. 📖 Full forum paper: doi.org/10.3897/rio.12.e174543

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 15/05/2026

🧬 This project report focuses on bridging the gap in biodiversity genomics by harmonising data from simple DNA barcodes to complex reference genomes. 📌 Part of the Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) project. 📖 Read the full project report in our #openscience journal: doi.org/10.3897/rio.12.e187033

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 14/05/2026

📖 Check out the abridged grant proposal in our #openscience journal: doi.org/10.3897/rio.12.e187550 (2/2)

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 13/05/2026

📜 New research reveals the hidden impact of trading houses on global museum collections. 🏢 This workshop report focuses on J.F.G. Umlauff, a family company that supplied zoological and ethnographic specimens to museums worldwide for nearly a century: doi.org/10.3897/rio.12.e181653

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 11/05/2026

🏠 New research looks into how childhood domestic violence impacts self-efficacy and self-leadership in adulthood. 📖 Read the full research article by Jordy van den Berg in our #openscience journal: doi.org/10.3897/rio.12.e177555

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 11/05/2026

🔍 NetDeal is all about updating Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) to fit with new EU standards like the Green Deal and EU Taxonomy. 📖 Check out the full grant proposal in our #openscience journal: doi.org/10.3897/rio.12.e183952 #Sustainability #GreenDeal

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 08/05/2026

🧪 Artificial intelligence is bringing new transparency to chemical analysis. 🧠 This project report evaluates using Grad-CAM to make neural networks more interpretable when classifying 2D-NMR spectra. 📖 Access the full project report in our #openscience journal: doi.org/10.3897/rio.12.e183261

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 08/05/2026

🌳 How does tree diversity impact the entire forest food web? 🕸️ This #open-access study explores MultiTroph, a project within the world's largest forest biodiversity experiment in subtropical China. 📖 Read the full grant proposal: doi.org/10.3897/rio.12.e181743 #Biodiversity

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 24/04/2026

🐝 The @restpoll.bsky.social consortium brings together expertise of #natural & #social #scientists, as well as #NGOs, businesses & ministries to provide society with tools to reverse wild #insect #pollinator declines. 🔓 Grant Proposal: doi.org/10.3897/rio.... 📸 Relationships among work packages.

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 23/04/2026

📒 A total of 10 research project outputs, including Grant Proposal, Guidelines, Policy Briefs, various reports & deliverables, as well as Research Articles 🔓openly available in the @pollinera-horizon.eu collection in our #openscience journal! 👉 Check it out: doi.org/10.3897/rio.... #EUPollinators

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 08/04/2026

🧒 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....

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 06/04/2026

🎣 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.....

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 12/03/2026

🆕 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....

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 04/03/2026

🆕 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.....

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 02/03/2026

👌 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.....

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 23/02/2026

🔎 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.

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 23/02/2026

🆕 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....

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 19/02/2026

👉 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!

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 19/02/2026

👍 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.

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 17/02/2026

🆕 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....

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 11/02/2026

🤔 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....

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 06/02/2026

🆕 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....

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 02/02/2026

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.

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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal @riojournal.com · 26/01/2026

😍 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...

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