🪶 Last year, @justynakubacka.bsky.social launched a project to support the #conservation of the threatened aquatic warbler. Now the results are in, offering key insights into its past & present to help safeguard its future. 🔗 www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/big-dat... #Conservation @mizpas.bsky.social

We are live with DAY 2️⃣ - Genomics for Biodiversity Conference Join us: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR7I...

💡 New paper co-auth. by MIZ! By altering the physical and chemical properties of the soil, soil-nesting ants can shape the biodiversity of soil microarthropods — a key role for conserving urban biodiversity. 🐜More info 👉 www.mdpi.com/3547020 #UrbanEcosystems #Ants #SoilMicroarthropods #Conservation

Hidden in museum drawers for 100+ years, Africa’s mysterious Eurynotina beetles finally tell their story - uncovered by our researchers, Marcin Kamiński and Ryan Lumen, using DNA from century-old specimens. 🧬🪲 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/syen... #taxonomy #beetles #ancientDNA

Join the upcoming hybrid MIZ PAS seminar! "Nonhuman Culture: An Overview of Behavioral Diversity in Our Primate Cousins" 📅When: 24th Oct (Friday), 12:00 pm CET 📍 in-person: Twarda 51/55, Warsaw 🔗on-line: tinyurl.com/38k8p33s 👉Speaker: Dr Thurston Cleveland Hicks #behaviour #primates #nonhumanculture

🔎 Robyn Shaw shares key insights from a global meta-analysis: Within-population genetic diversity is declining on timescales shaped by human activity, but #conservation can help mitigate the loss. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @coalitioncongen.bsky.social @robynshaw.bsky.social

Sexual selection drives sex difference in adult life expectancy across mammals and birds | www.science.org/doi/... | Science Advances | #ornithology 🪶

MIZ PAS seminar on bird studies in the Białowieża Forest, Poland, today, at 12:00 CET! Don't miss it! @iseapas.bsky.social @mripas.bsky.social

Join the upcoming on-line MIZ PAS seminar! 👉When: 10th Oct (Friday), 12:00 pm CET 👉Speaker: Dr Grzegorz Neubauer, MIZ PAS @mizpas.bsky.social 👉Title: "50 years of Białowieża Forest bird studies: past, present, future” 👉Link: tinyurl.com/3jztwhyk Everyone is welcome! #ornithology #forest

Darwin posited that innate and learned signals could be evolutionarily related. A new paper in @natecoevo.nature.com, co-authored by Alfredo Attisano, Roman Gula & Jörn Theuerkauf of @mizpas.bsky.social, demonstrates that a learned brood parasite vocalisation induces an innate response in the host.

My WGS🧬project on Aquatic Warbler shows: 👉 Recent genetic bottleneck and low diversity 👉 Elevated inbreeding in declining westernmost population 👉 Growing inbreeding in core population @biogeneurope.bsky.social @sib.swiss @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @otop-birdlife.bsky.social @peenefvp.bsky.social

Join the upcoming on-line MIZ PAS seminar! 👉When: 25th April (Friday), 12:00 pm CET 👉Speaker: Dr. Stephen Venn, Łódź University, Poland 👉Title: "The functional diversity of beetle assemblages of park habitats in Warsaw” 👉Link: tinyurl.com/a4ssayb8 Everyone is welcome! #entomology #diversity #urban

Happy to share my recently published paper! In male aquatic warblers (Acrocephalus paludicola) males that more frequently sang aggressive songs used to deter other males had more nestlings and were more likely to contract avian malaria, and males with more diverse song were in better condition.