Iva Boyadzhieva
ivaboyadzhieva.bsky.social
Iva Boyadzhieva
@ivaboyadzhieva.bsky.social
Head of Journal development, Marketing and PR at @pensoft.net.
#Scicomm advocate. All views here are my own.
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Three newly discovered toad species skip the tadpole phase entirely and give birth to live toadlets! 🐸

Learn more about these rare amphibians on our blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/11/17/t...
Three new toad species skip the tadpole phase and give birth to live toadlets
Researchers have identified three new species of tree-dwelling toads from Africa, all of which skip the tadpole phase and give birth to live toadlets.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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🎉 BROKEN RECORD!

🕸️ The recent discovery of a 100,000- #spider “megacity” on the border between Greece and Albania, published in our #openaccess, peer-reviewed journal @subtbiol.pensoft.net, became the most popular article across our entire #scientific portfolio, outperforming ~27,000 articles! 👏
Record-breaking success: Study on spider megacolony is the most popular article published by Pensoft
In less than a month, a paper in Subterranean Biology surpassed nearly 27,000 Pensoft studies in popularity.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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🌏 A field survey of the #pollinators of a rare Australian wildflower led Kit S. Prendergast to describe the 🐝 Megachile lucifer #bee in hope to bring new light to the #conservation of native #bees and their native #habitats.

🗞️ News via @washingtonpost.com.
🔓 Research paper from @jhr.pensoft.net
Scientists discovered a bee with devil horns. Meet ‘Lucifer.’
Only female bees from the new species have the distinctive horns, scientists said, after it was discovered in a remote part of Western Australia.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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🤔 What's the link between celebrated #primatologist and #anthropologist Jane Goodall and a 2015 study in our journal @zookeys.pensoft.net that used #sequencing on hair samples collected from the Himalayas?
✅ The legend of yeti.

📰 News story on @forbes.com by @kionasmith07.bsky.social.

🖤RIP, Jane!
8 Fascinating Facts You Might Not Know About Jane Goodall And Her Work
Jane Goodall died at the age of 91 on October 1, 2025. Here are some things you might not know about the world-famous scientist and her work.
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October 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Read reflections on #OASPA2025 by @drachiarelli.bsky.social in Italian and with an English translation.
Multilingualism is just one of the many important considerations raised at the conference. Do share your own reflections #inyourownwords

www.linkedin.com/posts/oaspa_...
October 2, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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👂We hear that recognising & opening up #research outputs beyond #research articles has come up multiple times at #OASPA2025.

🫣We suspect there are those not yet aware of our #openscience #journal: optimising #scholarly #communication for research ideas, grant proposals, guidelines etc.

👇See more:
RIO Journal 5 years on: over 300 published outcomes from all around the research cycle | Blog
Five years on, the Open Science-driven journal Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) published an editorial that looks back on the 300 research ideas and research outcomes it has published so far. Since i...
blog.pensoft.net
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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To sum up some of the feelings in the panel of OA APC based publishers: all are struggling to get support from funders and libraries to push through barriers, feels like you are being penalised for getting their first. - Catriona MacCallum #OASPA2025
September 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
👏 Day 1 at #OASPA2025: it's great to catch up with the 'hot' topics in the #OA community!

Here's our take at @pensoft.net, as an #openaccess -born publisher with its own technology, on how #scholarlypublishing can support OA #journals whatever their situation:

Cc: @oaspa.bsky.social
Cuckoo in the nest: challenges for smaller journals and publishers in the push towards Diamond Open Access
Arguably, academia is threatened by its own good intentions and a new status quo, where it is only researchers working at well-funded research institutions that get to publish their work in visible an...
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September 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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This guy is looking down at us all over my shoulder. Wondering who this is, in the context of the conversations at #OASPA2025. Monopolistic commercial publishing practices? LLM-based exploitation of open content? Higher education meltdown and rising censorship? Caffeine overload?
September 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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🗨️ "The UN Pact for the Future should include #biodiversity as a core pillar: not only of #environmental #sustainability, but of #equity, security, and inter-generational justice."

Our team also demonstrates how our #research #infrastructures collectively contribute to the the #Kunming-Montreal GBF.
Scientists call for a global alliance to place biodiversity at the heart of the UN Pact for the Future
A new white paper delivers a clear message: protecting biodiversity is not just an environmental issue. It is essential for food security, public health, climate stability, and the global economy.
blog.pensoft.net
September 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Our publisher @pensoft.net presented two awards at #SCCS25, including a Best Talk award which entitles the winner to a free publication in Nature Conservation!

natureconservation.pensoft.net/news/970
Pensoft recognises young talent at the Student Conference on Conservation Science 2025
Between the 2nd and 6th of September 2025, the Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) brought together early-career researchers and students to the shores of Lake Balaton, Hungary. Org...
natureconservation.pensoft.net
September 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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🕷️ Recent study describing a peculiar #newspecies of #tarantula published by @alirezazamani.bsky.social et al. in our journal @zookeys.pensoft.net made the headlines at National Geographic! 🤩

🗞️ The same news story also refers to a 2016 study in the same #journal describing the Johnny Cash Tarantula!
These tarantulas may have evolved huge genitalia to fend off bloodthirsty females
Tarantulas, like all spiders, don’t have penises; they have palps. And these ones are massive.
www.nationalgeographic.com
August 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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🤝 This week, we welcomed very special guests from the #Vietnam Academy of #Science and #Technology at our headquarters in Sofia to discuss #scholarlypublishing & our future collaborations!

📸 Our CEO & founder Prof Dr Lyubomir Penev signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Prof Dr Thai Hoang.
August 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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🤩 Check out this thread from the @zse.pensoft.net journal full of #spider🕷️, #snake 🐍 & #isopod curiosities all described on the pages of the @mfnberlin.bsky.social journal 🔓 we are proud to be #publishing for over 10 years now!

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August 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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⚠️🐍 2023 study published in our journal @neobiota.pensoft.net reported 76 #species falling prey to invasive Burmese #pythons in Florida.

🐇 Now, South Florida responses with remote-controlled, solar-powered rabbits.

🔓 Research paper: doi.org/10.3897/neob...

🗞️ Story via ABC News:

#InvasiveSpecies
Florida snake hunters deploy robotic rabbits to capture invasive Burmese pythons
A team dedicated to controlling populations of invasive Burmese pythons in Florida has deployed another unique method to find the elusive predators: robotic rabbits.
abcnews.go.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Researchers face growing psychological strain, driven by pressure to obtain statistically significant results in academic publishing, reveals Michal Ordak.

🔗 blog.pensoft.net/2025/07/31/t...
The mental burden of statistical significance in academic publishing
"The pursuit of significance is no longer just a technical issue, but a psychological burden that shapes behaviour, distorts judgement, and affects mental well-being.”
blog.pensoft.net
July 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Our COO Prof. Pavel Stoev giving an exciting talk: “Towards a common terminology for the morphology of Diplopoda.”
July 23, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Happy World Snake Day! 🐍

In January, we compiled a few of our favourite serpent studies to celebrate the 2025 Year of the Snake for Lunar New Year. Check them out here: blog.pensoft.net/2025/01/29/y...
Year of the Snake: a serpent selection to celebrate Lunar New Year!
Enjoy some of our favourite snake research from across our journals.
blog.pensoft.net
July 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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👁️ Let's take a look at @iccb2025.bsky.social by @society4conbio.bsky.social: THE #conservation event for 2025!

🤩 We talked with #ICCB2025 delegates about #scholarlypublishing, but also about the @horizoneu.bsky.social projects: @selinaproject.bsky.social & REST-COAST.

📍Hosted by @scboceania.org.
In June, Pensoft joined the 2025 largest meeting for conservation experts
We attended the International Congress for Conservation Biology to present the REST-COAST and SELINA Horizon-funded projects, as well as our scholarly journals and books portfolio.
blog.pensoft.net
July 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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❓ Did you miss last week's 11th #EcosystemServices Partnership World Conference in Australia?

👇 We present you the highlights of a week full of inspirational talks, including #sustainability, #ScholarlyPublishing & #OpenScience!
One Ecosystem and Pensoft at the 11th ESP World Conference in Darwin
Between 22nd and 26th June, the 11th Ecosystem Services Partnership World Conference (ESP11) brought about 250 international delegates from diverse backgrounds: professional and demographic alike, to ...
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July 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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🤗 Once more, we attended the #EcosystemServices Partnership World Conference to present our #scientific #journals, academic #books & partnering #research projects like @selinaproject.bsky.social!
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👇 Check out the event higlights on our blog:

#EcosystemServices #ScholarlyPublishing
In a Land Down Under, Pensoft joined the 11th ESP World Conference
The latest outcomes at the SELINA project and modern, open-access scholarly publishing were ‘hot’ topics we discussed with delegates in Darwin.
blog.pensoft.net
July 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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📢 FREE webinar by @merlin-project.bsky.social, #EcoAdvance & #EcosystemServices Partnership!

📌 Lessons learnt at EU projects on freshwater #restoration
📌 Highlights from the #ESP11 World Conference
📌 How @oneecosystem.pensoft.net supports dialogue & collaboration

🔗 project-merlin.eu/webinars.html
July 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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🙌Our coordinator @benjaminburkhard.bsky.social and Editor-in-Chief of @oneecosystem.pensoft.net, together with @ivaboyadzhieva.bsky.social at the 11th ESP conference!
Together they represent our and @pensoft.net's mutual commitment to make ecosystem services knowledge accessible and impactful.
🤩 A tradition that lives on!

📸 Our Editor-in-Chief @benjaminburkhard.bsky.social and @pensoft.net 's Head of Journal development & PR @ivaboyadzhieva.bsky.social at the #Pensoft -‪‪ @selinaproject.bsky.social stand at yet another Ecosystem Services Partnership conference!

🥂 Here's to many more!
June 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
🤩 Looking forward to our talk tomorrow w/ @benjaminburkhard.bsky.social at the #EcosystemServices Partnership conference!

We'll talk about sharing various #research outputs in line with #OpenScience practices.

🗝️After all, transparency, discoverability & context hold the key to efficient #science!
June 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM