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Pensoft @pensoft.net · 27/07/2026

🐌Meet the newly discovered #snails: Cochlostoma dobrido, named after the Dobri Do Plateau, which lies between the peaks of Durmitor National Park, and “Cochlostoma komarnica, named after the stunning but unprotected Komarnica Canyon, south of Durmitor in Montenegro👉 doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

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Taxon Expeditions @taxonexpeditions.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The latest discovery from our Borneo expeditions. As always, this new beetle species was collected, curated, studied, described, and published in a process of co-creation among local and international lay people and scientists -- 'cause "You can be Darwin, too!" bdj.pensoft.net/articles.php...

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A new Dermatohomoeus from the Ulu Temburong forest, Brunei (Coleoptera, Leiodidae)

‘Taxon expeditions’ are field courses/expeditions for mixed teams of scientists, students and lay people with the aim to do biodiversity inventories, particularly of cryptobiota and to discover and de...

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Taxon Foundation @taxonfoundation.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Bij Insect van het Jaar wijden we onderzoek aan de winnende insecten. Zojuist is een publicatie verschenen door Niels van Hof, Luuk Torn, @aglaia.bsky.social en Jan Wieringa aan het geurvretende effect van larven van de WC-motmug (winnaar 2023). Open access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Clogmia albipunctata Larvae Influence the Odour Dynamics of Rotting Organic Matter

Drain flies live in organic waste. We investigated how drain fly larvae influence the unpleasant smells produced by sewage sludge and rotting nettle. Although the perception of these smells did not c...

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Taxon Foundation @taxonfoundation.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Zijn we bezig een groot community-science project op te zetten in #Rotterdam? Ja. Willen we ook in de plaatselijke politiek? Nee, deze oproep betreft Taxon Verheij van de Revolutionair Socialistische Partij. (met dank aan Frank van Rooij voor de waarneming.)

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Aglaia Bouma @aglaia.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Voor de volledigheid: deze verkiezing wordt ook georganiseerd door de @nev.nl, EIS Kenniscentrum Insecten en @taxonfoundation.bsky.social.

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Taxon Foundation @taxonfoundation.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

We run a DNA-barcoding service for amateur biologists. We recently helped with genetic data for a mystery snail. It confirmed ID and revealed that the full mitochondrial genome of Helicella itala, that has been sitting in Genbank and other data bases for 10 years, actually belongs to another species

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Menno Schilthuizen @schilthuizen.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Last month, we hosted Yeliz Ergöl on an Erasmus+ scholarship. She devoted herself to creating a collection of mollusc specimens from our project in the Komarnica Canyon in Montenegro, to be deposited in the Natural History Museum of Montenegro (Prirodnjački Muzej Crne Gore).

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Taxon Foundation @taxonfoundation.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Hans van Bostelen is not just Taxon Foundation's much-appreciated secretary, he is also an expert on Heteroptera. He identified all true bugs in our collections and is now organising them. Soon ready to be studied! #naturalhistory #bugs #TrueBugs #entomology #citizenscience #communityscience

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Taxon Foundation @taxonfoundation.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

For 2026 we have space for new community science projects in the Netherlands or abroad. So if you are a team of neighborhood nature enthusiasts who need expert help with biodiversity inventories, please drop us a line. #scicomm #insects #Biodiversity #communityscience #citizenscience #urbannature

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Taxon Foundation @taxonfoundation.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Veel leerlingen verlaten de middelbare school met het idee dat de menselijke voortplanting min of meer 'standaard' is. Met het lespakket "Een regenboog van reproductie" (gesubsidieerd door Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging) laten we op scholen zien dat er nog zoveel meer is

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Taxon Expeditions @taxonexpeditions.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

A new generation of acarologists! Gaby Schutte en Stijn Kroon (students of applied biology at Aeres Hogeschool) are working on our soil mite collection and yesterday were visited by the eminence grise of Dutch acarology, Henk Siepel. They had a mitey old time!

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Menno Schilthuizen @schilthuizen.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Morgen (zo 27 apr), 19.25 u op NPO2: VroegeVogels over Voorne, met item over het project van @taxonfoundation.bsky.social waarbij we na 40 jr de kevers van het gebied opnieuw analyseren; met verrassende verschuivingen! Na de uitzending is het item hier te bekijken: www.bnnvara.nl/vroegevogels...

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I am humbled to receive the @msafungi.bsky.social Martin-Baker Research Award this year, in support of a taxonomy project with #citizenscientists and volunteers in collaboration with @schilthuizen.bsky.social and @taxonexpeditions.bsky.social! #TeamLaboul #MSAfungi25

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Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging @nev.nl · 16/03/2025

Het is zover! De deelnemers voor de Insect van het Jaar verkiezing zijn bekend gemaakt. Vanaf vandaag mag Nederland naar de stembus voor de kriebeligste verkiezing van het jaar. @insectvanhetjaar.bsky.social @aglaia.bsky.social @taxonfoundation.bsky.social @naturalis.bsky.social #ElkeDagEenInsect

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Menno Schilthuizen @schilthuizen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Small is beautiful! In a new pre-print in @elife.bsky.social, a team led by Alexey Polilov do the first-ever 3d electron-microscopic analysis of a miniaturized eye: the 29-lens compound eye of a 0.2-mm-long parasitic wasp! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... (whole wasp image by Andrew Polaszek.)

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Menno Schilthuizen @schilthuizen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

In my new book, The Urban Naturalist, I talk about inspiring community scientists like Graham Moates, who used his plastic cleanups to discover that, in the UK, 3 million mammals every year die inside discarded bottles and cans. His paper: lnkd.in/er8u49s8

a composite image of a vole, a discarded plastic bottle, Mr. Moates during a plastic cleanup, and a graph from the paper that he wrote about his research. The graphs shows the relationship between the neck width of the bottle and the species of mammal that died inside.

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Menno Schilthuizen @schilthuizen.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

One of the more innovative ways in which I communicate science is by taking people on real scientific expeditions. Everybody -- whether young or old, experienced or novice, with or without a science background can join! Check out this year's portfolio: www.taxonexpeditions.com

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Menno Schilthuizen @schilthuizen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

No matter how the usage of "common" names is growing, old-fashioned "Latin" names are still the only official naming of species, so we cannot do without. But they are hard to remember and pronounce. My friend, Belgian insect advocate Bart Van Camp, makes these lovely mnemonics to help us out.

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Taxon Foundation @taxonfoundation.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Samen met buurtbewoners onderzoekt en beschermt Stichting Taxon Foundation stukjes bedreigde (stads)natuur. Steun ons werk! www.taxonfoundation.com

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