🔬 We have an open post-doc position on nutritional immunology, funded by @ncn.gov.pl! 🙌 We study how fatty acids shape insect immune responses to fungal infections, using Galleria mellonella larvae as a model. 📅 Apply by 31.05.2026 to [email protected] (subject: OpusLap) 👉 tinyurl.com/4babnhfp

🐟 New study, co-auth. by H. Panagiotopoulou: European and Atlantic sturgeons partly shared environmental niches in Holocene Europe. Atlantic sturgeon was more cold-adapted, while European sturgeon tolerated broader conditions, which informs restoration under climate change. 📗 shorturl.at/jwaTW

Acta Ornithologica, one of @mizpas.bsky.social scientific journals is now featuring online-early publication and offering free open access in 2026! 👇

📢 Polish Journal of Ecology updates its editorial policy for 2026!!! 📖Open data, fast review, new article types, global inclusion, and free open‑access publishing. 🌍Submit your work and share rigorous science worldwide! #ecology #openscience #bioone

Publish with MIZ PAN, for free and in OA!

New paper! 🌍🔬 With detailed morphological and molecular analyses, researchers from MIZ PAS (Wioletta Tomaszewska & Karol Szawaryn) and Instituto de Ecología, Mexico (Emmanuel Arriaga Varela) transform our understanding of the Mycetaeidae family, a group of rare beetles. 🔗 tinyurl.com/mrx7fpjx

❗️Join our upcoming on-line seminar❗️ 📆24 April, 2026 ⏰12:00 CEST 📍The seminar will be held on-line in English. 🎙️Speaker: Dr Katarzyna Rybarczyk-Mydłowska, MIZ PAS ➡️Title: "Exploring soil nematode diversity: species characteristics and (meta)barcoding" 🔗Join with the link: tinyurl.com/vc5wcez3

My institute publishes four established scientific journals. This year, they will all be open-access in @bioone.bsky.social. Plus the editorial boards have been refreshed and there is now online early publishing. Submissions are welcome!

❗📰 MIZ PAS research in French press: @liberation.fr featured wolf–jackal interactions, citing the study in @royalsocietypublishing.org co-authored by Prof. Wiesław Bogdanowicz & Prof. Przemysław Chylarecki. 🔗Libération article: tinyurl.com/2zhpmpem 👉Paper: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

📣New article by MIZ PAS scientists @martamaziarz.bsky.social, @trigos-peral.bsky.social & M. Witek shows a diverse, dynamic and distinctive macroarthropod community in bird nests on forest floor. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/bdhcsv9d 💰@ncn.gov.pl @respublications.bsky.social #ornithology #Bialowieza #Forest

⏲️ Dont'miss out on-line seminar! Today, at 12:00 CEST. 👇

🐺🦊 Wolves & jackals at the same table? Prof. Bogdanowicz and Prof. Chylarecki show that competition or tolerance between them strongly depends on food abundance. Link 👉 shorturl.at/tbp2X #WolfVsJackal #PredatorDynamics #Fieldwork #CarnivoreEcology Photo by Theodoros Kominos

Passive acoustic monitoring is a powerful way to detect birds. Researchers from my institute contributed to the first annotated dataset of bird vocalisations, which will advance automated bird detection algorithms.

In 2018-2022, artificial islands were built in the Szczecin Laggon, PL by the Maritime Office in Szczecin. Dr Dominik Marchowski from our institute has been an expert ensuring the islands are safe and valuable bird habitats. Science for conservation! #BirdConservation #BalticSea #ScienceImpact

Warszawskie Koło Ornitologów przy MiIZ PAN oraz Warszawska Grupa @otop-birdlife.bsky.social zapraszają na kolejne spotkanie! 📅3 marca 2026 ⏲️17:30 🚩Miejsce Aktywności Lokalnej Kasprowicza 14, Warszawa 👨‍🏫Maciej Boenisch - muzealnik, kustosz w Muzeum Dulag 121 oraz członek Pruszkowskiej Grupy OTOP. 👇

🎉 New paper in Nature Communications! Researchers from MiIZ PAN and Jagiellonian University report extreme genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria of planthoppers — some function with only ~60 genes. 🧬 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 Cities reshape ant diets 🐜🍬 An international team—Stukalyuk et al. (Ukraine), @tomerczaczkes.bsky.social (Germany) & @trigos-peral.bsky.social (Poland) found urban ants accept lower-sugar food than rural ones, likely adapting to different food sources. 👉 shorturl.at/W7bsm #City #Ants #Nutrition

👉Join the upcoming on-line MIZ PAS seminar! 🎤Dr Rowan French (Uni. Toronto / Indiana Uni. / Field Museum) ℹ️Title: "Why the long “horns”? Evolution of exaggerated, sexually dimorphic antennae in longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)" 📅19th Feb (Thu), 3 p.m. CET 🔗https://tinyurl.com/47sr5x5w

❗️📣JOB ALERT❗️ 👉Our Zoological Museum invites applications for a postdoc to study the historical biogeography and evolutionary history of the subfamily Blaptinae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) ℹ️The position is funded by @ncn.gov.pl 🔗 Apply here: url-shortener.me/BFBA 👉 Read more: url-shortener.me/BFBD

📣New publication, co-authored by martamaziarz.bsky.social from MIZ PAS, presents new perspectives on #rewilding policy that was discussed by scientists & practitioners during the britishecologicalsociety.org Policy Training workshop. Find out more here 👉 🔗https://tinyurl.com/ykwfrjmh 📷Marta Maziarz

📢Why are some birds so colourful? 🐦 Our researchers, Dr. Janas et al., explore the wing stripe in great tits. Results shows that the appearance of the stripe is sex‑dependent, but its features did not correlate with other colour traits. Link 👉 shorturl.at/ooYCl 📷Francis Franklin, CC BY-SA 4.0 #bird

📢 New ant species in Poland! 🐜Dr. Trigos-Peral and Prof. Czechowski report the first Polish record of Plagiolepis pygmaea in Warsaw. This finding highlights the role of cities in introducing non-native ants. 📖 shorturl.at/dbn21 #biodiversity #ants #urbanecology #invasive #conservation

Great to see this article published in @peopleandnature.bsky.social. The paper presents valuable perspectives on #rewilding from a discussion among scientists & practitioners during the @britishecologicalsociety.org Policy Training workshop. 👉 tinyurl.com/ykwfrjmh

📢Dr. Attisano and Prof. Jorn Theuerkauf from @MIZ_PAS have participated in the first worldwide evaluation of BirdNET – an AI tool to assess bird communities globally 🐦Link to the paper 👉 shorturl.at/Tk29U #science #birds #acoustic_monitoring #global_biodiversity

Sudyka et al. Avian extra‐pair paternity in the last European primeval forest besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology

📢 Researchers from the MIZ PAN, PhD student Tomasz Czerwiński and Prof. Karol Szawaryn, report the appearance of new invasive beetle species in Poland 🪲. A new article is available at the following link 👉🏼 shorturl.at/T22X0 #biologigal_invasions #beetles #Polish_fauna #new_record

Don't miss our on-line seminar on a cooperative bird from New Caledonia! 📅This Fri at 10:00 CET.

❗️New paper co-authored by MIZ PAS researchers ❗️ ℹ️Roman Gula & Jörn Theuerkauf contributed to a new cooperative breeding database for birds and mammals, Co-BreeD, published recently in animalecology.bsky.social. 👇

Join the upcoming on-line MIZ PAS seminar! "Genomic Insights into the Evolutionary History and Conservation of Sloths in a Changing World" 📅4th Dec (Thursday), 14:00 CET 🔗https://tinyurl.com/2uf75twe 👉Speaker: Dr Larissa Souza Arantes larissasarantes.wixsite.com/research 📷Instituto Tamanduá

📣🎉 Our researchers, Wiesław Bogdanowicz and Marcin Kamiński, have been awarded @ncn.gov.pl grants in the OPUS call! 🏆​ Congratulations👏​ ➡️ tinyurl.com/37rv4rwv

🕷 In Brazil’s Serra do Japi, we’re tracking the world’s rare social spiders! Violette Chiara & Tristan Robineau from MIZ PAS, with Prof. João Vasconcellos Neto of @unicampoficial.bsky.social, are collecting species to uncover how sociality influences behavioural and physiological trends in spiders.

🪶 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.