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We are pleased to announce that Julia Morales Garcia, a PhD student in the Genomics and Experimental Evolution Research Group at the Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, has successfully defended her doctoral dissertation.

The frequency of mowing affects the quality of the biomass entering urban food webs!

🧵5/5 Bonus for @mikekaspari.bsky.social Frequent lawn mowing can increase the sodium content of plants by as much as tenfold! I wonder if grazing might have a similar effect? doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

🧵4/5 Our key message: mowing is not only a technical or aesthetic practice. It is also a biogeochemical driver. Urban lawn management should consider not only biodiversity and biomass, but also the elemental quality of matter moving through urban food webs. doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

🧵3/5 This matters because plant biomass is not only “green matter”. It is a multielement resource for herbivores, detritivores, soil organisms and microbes. Changing its chemistry may change nutritional quality, stoichiometric mismatches and contaminant transfer in urban ecosystems.

🧵2/5 We studied roadside lawns in Kraków and Katowice under three mowing regimes: once, three times, or six times per year. Frequent mowing reshaped shoot stoichiometry: increasing P, K, Na and Mg, while decreasing several metals, including Pb.

🧵1/5 Lawns are usually managed and evaluated by what we can see: height, flowers, biomass, tidiness, or biodiversity. But mowing also changes what we cannot see: the elemental composition of plant biomass entering food webs: doi.org/10.1016/j.je... @ioes-ju.bsky.social @filipiakzuza.bsky.social

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Podczas wiosennych porządków w hodowli pszczół @ioes-ju.bsky.social w domku dla murarki ogrodowej znaleźliśmy… ptasie gniazdo! 🪹 Budki dla owadów mogą być domem nie tylko dla dzikich 🐝, ale też dla 🐞🕷️🪲, a nawet 🐦. Przyroda naprawdę nie lubi pustki. #DzikiePszczoły #PtasieGniazdo

Our paper is now out in its final form in @natcomms.nature.com ! We show that ancient insect symbionts can undergo extreme, convergent genome reduction to as little as ~50 kb - driven by ecological shifts and symbiont replacement. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... More below 👇 1/

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Alaa Hseiky, Edyta T. Sadowska and Paweł Koteja (@ioes-ju.bsky.social) explore the effects of short-term consumption of a Western diet on aerobic exercise performance in bank voles with inherently distinct metabolic rates. 📖

What’s the catch of the day? | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A commentary to the Science paper whose first author is Prof. Jan Kozłowski from our institute. Evolutionary adaptation to global change reduces sustainable fisheries yields.

Huge congratulations! Prof. Kozłowski's work in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Save the date! www.uni.lodz.pl/pec2026

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Article alert! Is demographic inference affected by inversions in the genome? Read and find out:) Led by Piotr Zieliski and @krynadachowska.bsky.social from our Institute.

Finally! Influence of polimorphic inversions on demographic inference and the spruce bark beetle demographic history! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Demographic History Inferred From an Inversion-Rich Spruce Bark Beetle Genome

Article alert :) take and read about crazy genomes rich in inversions - led by @krynadachowska.bsky.social from our Institute.

Article alert:) with Anna Łabęcka from our Institute! conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Take and read :) with @michalfilipiak.bsky.social from our Institute :) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Congratulations @ewachrostek.bsky.social from our Institute!

Take and read :) with Marcin Czarnoleski from our Institute doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Article alert:) with Anna Łabęcka from our Institute!

Article alert! with @sympiotr.bsky.social from our Institute. Symbiotic solutions for colony nutrition: Conserved nitrogen recycling within the bacterial pouch of Tetraponera ants | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The assessment on conservation potential of the European wildcat (Felis silvestris) was recently published by IUCN. Dr hab. Izabela Wierzbowska, prof. UJ, and MSc Ekaterina Rostovskaya from our Institute took part in the assessment of wildcat status. www.iucnredlist.org/species/1810...

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