🦎 Dr Mateusz Piotr Tałanda z Instytutu Biologii Ewolucyjnej otrzymał 1 888 876 zł w konkursie NCN OPUS 30. Projekt zbada, jak rozpad superkontynentów i dawne migracje wpłynęły na ewolucję jaszczurek. Gratulujemy! 👏🔗 www.biol.uw.edu.pl/grant-opus-n...

🍄 Dr Mikołaj Dziurzyński z Instytutu Biologii Ewolucyjnej otrzymał 1 247 300 zł w konkursie NCN SONATA 21. Projekt zbada symbiozę grzybów Umbelopsis i bakterii Paraburkholderia oraz jej potencjał biotechnologiczny. Gratulujemy! 👏🔗 www.biol.uw.edu.pl/grant-sonata...

#Multiple records of #tapeworm eggs from #Permian #coprolites and their palaeoparasitological significance: dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.01294.2025 #Platyhelminthes, #Cestoda, #bromalite, #palaeoparasitology, Rio do Rasto Formation, #Permian, #Paraná Basin #Paleobiology #Fossils

Daily mollusk 🧪

🍄 Dr hab. Julia Pawłowska w wideokaście Pulsara opowiada o niezwykłym świecie grzybów, ich rozmnażaniu i podobieństwach do człowieka. 🎙️▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrQY...

🆕 New paper in collaboration with @djbirddanerd.bsky.social! 📏📊We study the morphology of the ammonite family Echioceratidae to analyse the serpenticone conchs and the influence of their preservation in key parameters 👇🏻

🌀 Beyond preservation: morphological analysis of Lower #Jurassic serpenticone #ammonoids The family serves as a crucial model for studying serpenticone morphology across various taxa. 📄 DOI: doi.org/10.18261/let... #Paleontology #Ammonoids #Stratigraphy #Paleobiology #Geology #Mesozoic

Exceptionally preserved #embryos reveal maternal #care in #freshwater #bivalves since the #Cretaceous: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A ten year journey comes to a happy end with this publication. We find the Lilliput effect (the dwarfing of species) is larger and more volatile during warming-induced crises than others. Thanks @palaeolina.bsky.social and @djbirddanerd.bsky.social for a most fruitful collaboration.

Unique fingerprint of marine ectotherm body size change during hyperthermal crises: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #Lilliputeffect | #extinction | #hyperthermal | #climatechange | #bodysize

The 43rd International Conference of Polish Phycological Society was a success for us 🥳🏆 Marta Sałek, our PhD student, won the 3rd place in best oral presentation, and Zofia Sochaczewska, our MSc student, won the poster award. Congratulations!

Congratulations to our Institute’s researchers Mateusz Tałanda 🦎 and Mikołaj Dziurzyński 🍄 for successfully securing @ncn.gov.pl OPUS grants! 🎊🎉🎊

Excellent job by @marta-tischer.bsky.social, Beniamin Abramczyk, Dorota Wiktorowicz, Michał Kochanowski and Maksymilian Nowak from IBE for organizing MycoRise Up! Youth in Mycology this year at ECEG 🍄 3 days of biodiversity, taxonomy & ecology by early-career researchers and students!

🚨Paper Alert!🚨 Dr Wojciech Pawlak & colleagues discuss 'First dipnoan remains from the Late #Triassic of Frick (#Switzerland) and the re-evaluation of #lungfish #palaeobiogeography controls in the Late Triassic' sjp.pensoft.net/article/1865...

Congratulations to Dr Julia Pawłowska & Dr Tomasz Sulej (Polish Academy of Sciences) on your Copernicus Science Centre Special Award - a distinction for individuals who collaborate with the Copernicus Science Centre and inspire their team with their passion & commitment to advancing education 🥳

Congratulations to our PhD student, Kamil Poteralski, on his @paleosoc.bsky.social Student Research Grant - the Rodney M. Feldmann Award - for his project "The Brzechów Lagerstätte – an exceptionally preserved Cambrian fauna in coarse sandstones of the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland)" 🥳

Looking for a place to do your #thesis? Want to find out what we do & meet a potential promoter? Tuesday 12th May is our #OpenDay! In room 4.152, CNBCh UW (IV floor), we will have 3 sessions at 10:00, 13.00 and 16:00. Come & join us! #biology #chemistry #student #Warsaw #Poland

Our protistologists attending the #Protistology Open 2026 Conference in #Prague! The event was attended by Prof. Anna Karnkowska, who chaired sessions, and Dr Ivan Garcia-Cunchillos, who gave an invited presentation during the symposium on #kleptoplasty

Thank you to our Guest Speaker @emmadnn.bsky.social from @tcddublin.bsky.social for presenting her latest research, '#Climate Impacts on Terrestrial #Tetrapods in Deep Time' at our Institute of Evolutionary #Biology Seminar 👏🦖🌍 #biodiversity #palaeontology

Thank you to our Guest Speaker @taphonomist.bsky.social for presenting his latest research, 'All #Fossils Are #Rotten: The Science of #Death, #Decay and Preservation' at our Institute of Evolutionary #Biology Seminar 👏🐟🦴 #taphonomy #palaeontology

#WBPUBLIKUJE 🎓Jonatan Audycki i dr hab. Kennetha De Baets, prof. ucz. z Instytutu Biologii Ewolucyjnej są współautorami artykułu opisującego nowy rodzaj skrzypłocza o „ekstremalnej” budowie zewnętrznej. Więcej: www.biol.uw.edu.pl/nowe-skamien... @jaudycki.bsky.social | @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social

Really excited to share our new paper from @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social protist team! 🎉 We dive into protist symbioses and show how these interactions shape ecosystems and have played a key role in the evolution of eukaryotes 🦠

Congratulations to our Master's student Jakub Zalewski on winning the competition for Best Poster at the Młodzi w Paleontologii XIV Conference! 🎉🥳

Members of our #palaeobiology group explored the World of the #Witcher in an Easter board game evening 🎲⚔️🐺

Well done to our students who presented their amazing research at the 'Youth in #Palaeontology' XIV Conference in Gdynia, #Poland last week! Many thanks to the organisers for their commitment and for the invitation ☺️🦖🦴🧬

🚨Paper Alert!🚨Andrej Čerňanský & colleagues reveal 'The reptiles from the Lavergne locality of Phosphorites du Quercy in France show a high taxonomic diversity at the end of the middle Eocene (MP 16)' in the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology doi.org/10.3897/sjp....

🚨Paper Alert!🚨 @keeganselig.bsky.social, @sergilopeztorres.bsky.social, @chrislaw.bsky.social, AM Burrows & @marytsilcox.bsky.social explore 'The evolution & development of molar size among exudate-feeding #lorises & #bushbabies' American Journal of Biological Anthropology 🦷🐵 doi.org/10.1002/ajpa...

Dr Daria Tashyreva & our PhD candidate Małgorzata Chwalińska presenting their research at the 'Cellular mechanics of #symbiosis: Sensing friend from foe' symposium, organised by EMBO & EMBL Heidleberg 🧫👩‍🔬

A new #Triassic austrolimulid from #Poland presents insight into xiphosurid evolution and palaeobiogeography at the dawn of the Mesozoic led by @jaudycki.bsky.social and with @grzegorzniedz.bsky.social: peerj.com/articles/209... @peerj.bsky.social #paleobiology #evolution

Scientific examination of the nearly fully prepared and nearly complete skeleton of #Mastodonsaurus with prof. Jerzy Dzik!

Our new paper has been published in the Journal of #Quaternary #Science! 🥳 Find '#Taphonomic insights into #fossil preservation and accumulation of #Pleistocene Pongo-bearing assemblages from Tham Khao Phak Kut in Krabi, Peninsular #Thailand' here >> onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Katarzyna Tratkiewicz, dr Jakub Baczyński i dr Ludwik Gąsiorowski z @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social autorami artykułu pt. „Molecular phylogeny of Catenulida (Platyhelminthes) with special focus on their diversity in Poland” w Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. www.biol.uw.edu.pl/filogeneza-w...

🎓Huge congratulations to Ali Fells! Last Thursday, we celebrated her amazing doctoral defence! We are very proud and happy for Ali in her success. Congratulations! 🍾🥂

🚨Paper Alert!🚨 Wojciech Pawlak, Mateusz Tałanda & colleagues show 'High-latitude dipnoan aestivation #burrows suggest seasonal aridity for early #dinosaur ecosystems in the Late #Triassic of East Greenland' in #Palaeo3 🐟https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2026.113624

This year #DarwinDay fell on the traditional #Polish holiday of Tłusty Czwartek, so we celebrated with doughnuts and board games! 🍩🎲

The group of Evolution & Genomics of Microbial Eukaryotes welcomes Jan Procházka from @charlesuni.cuni.cz who is visiting us until March 2nd! 😊 Charles University is our partner in the 4EU+ Alliance Programme & we look forward to collaborating on Platyhelminthes amplicon 🧬

🧑‍🔬Polish #Science Day is a #Polish National Holiday celebrated today, dedicated to commemorating the achievements of scientists. The date is not accidental, Nicholas #Copernicus was born on February 19th 1473! 🎓

Congratulations @djbirddanerd.bsky.social and colleagues on your latest publication! 🥳

On Friday, our IBE members participated in the 15th Jubilee edition of the Night of Biologists hosted by the Faculty of Biology of the University of #Warsaw, Poland. The event slogan was “#Biology full of signals – discover how life speaks!” 🌱🍄🦠🔬

Dr. Ludwik Gąsiorowski from EMBO (Excellence in life sciences) received an #InstallationGrant from Wydział Biologii UW! Ludwik will create his own laboratory to study microscopic flatworms. This is the only "installation" grant in this edition for Poland! 🇵🇱 Congratulations! 🥳👏

What a better way to start the New Year than with a new publication ? I am very glad to introduce the first paper linked with my current post-doc at @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social. We describe the first trionychid remains from the Middle Miocene of Poland, in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social.

In December, we took part in a #Phylogenomics workshop in Urwitałt for #C4inV4: improving collaboration in V4 countries to learn about cryptic #fungi. It was a fantastic team effort; we learned so much. Looking forward to next year!🍄 Workshop summary here: lnkd.in/dh2Yt2_a

Great #SVP2025 in #Birmingham 🇬🇧! As always, an excellent chance to collect feedback and reconnect with collaborators! #WarsawTeam

Dr Mateusz Tałanda presents his research on the early development of #aetosaurs (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) - a key to their success in the Late #Triassic ecosystems at #2025SVP

@yohanpochatcot.bsky.social presenting his research on the first occurrence of #Trionychidae (Testudines, Cryptodira) from the #Miocene of #Poland expanding the biogeographic range of the family at #2025SVP

@sergilopeztorres.bsky.social presenting his research on an expectionally well preserved maxilla of Komba walkeri (Galagidae, #primates) from the Early #Miocene of #Rusinga island, #Kenya at #2025SVP

Happy #Halloween from all of us here at IBE - where we like to celebrate spooky #skeletons all year round! 💀🦴

Our mascot Geno enjoyed a little pumpkin treat for #Halloween today 🎃

Wishing Dr Andrej Čerňanský a fond farewell today, as he completes his research visit and returns to Comenius University Bratislava - come back soon! 👋