#Seminar 📣 🗓️ 29 April 2026 🕙 10:00 am (GMT+2) 📍Conference room of ISEA PAS, Sławkowska 17, Kraków, and online 👩‍🏫 Bartłomiej Surmacz MSc, ISEA PAS Link: tiny.pl/9dxv78w8h (ID: 357 738 466 076 860, passcode: AE3Ni9KW) @mizpas.bsky.social @mripas.bsky.social @igsopas.bsky.social

#Seminar 📣 🗓️ 15 April 2026 🕙 10:00 am (GMT+2) 📍Conference room of ISEA PAS, Sławkowska 17, Kraków, and online 👩‍🏫 Dr hab. Dominika Chmolowska, ISEA PAS Link: tiny.pl/3vpnxt-4s (ID: 349 702 296 117 137, passcode: MH259Tf9) @mizpas.bsky.social @mripas.bsky.social @igsopas.bsky.social

Join the Whiskered Tern Research Team! 🪶 We are seeking interns to join our fieldwork at the Zator fishponds in Poland 🇵🇱. We have been studying this Whiskered tern population for many years, and this season we will focus on breeding success🪺, avian ageing, and colony formation. More details below ⬇️

(1/2) W Światowy Dzień Backupu 💿 przypominamy, że kolekcje naukowe są „kopią zapasową” bioróżnorodności Ziemi. W Antropocenie tempo wymierania gatunków dramatycznie rośnie 📈, dlatego archiwa przyrodnicze są dziś kluczowe. Foto: kolekcja Hemiptera Antoniego Wagi z XIX w., fot. J. Sternalski

(1/4) Come do science with us! 👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬 Interested in researching the diversity of the animal world? If your work involves taxonomy, systematics, phylogenetics, paleontology, zooarcheology, or zoogeography, do not miss the Top200 NAWA programme by @nawapoland.bsky.social!

Check out the interview with Dr. Georgios Georgalis, a palaeontologist from our 🦏 Institute, published on the Science in Poland webpage. Doctor Georgalis featured the recently described, new and unusual species of fossil 🐍 snake from 37 million years ago. ⬇️ scienceinpoland.pl/en/news/news...

We are happy to announce that the prestigious "HR Excellence in Research" award has been granted to our 🦏 Institute for another three years 🥳. We received the logo in 2016, as the first scientific unit in Krakow. Its maintenance proves our commitment to creating a top-tier working environment 🤝.

(1/3) Step into the fascinating world of the Scientific Collections 🦋 🦴🪨🦣🦠🪰 at the 🦏 Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences! For 1️⃣5️⃣5️⃣ years, our collections have preserved the story of nature and science in Poland.

In July, researchers from our 🦏 Institute participated in the 🦋 Lepidoptera collecting trip to the Italian Alps, part of @projectpsyche.bsky.social and @10klepgenomes.bsky.social - check out the latest article by Glenn Zorpette in @spectrum.ieee.org ⬇️

(1/2) #Seminar 📣 📅 17 October 2025 🕐 10:00 am (GMT+2) 📍ISEA PAS conference room, Sławkowska 17, Cracow, and online 🧑‍🎓👩‍🎓 Dr Alan Dargantes & Dr Alma Mohagan, Central Mindanao University, Philippines Link: tiny.pl/kz-ccgbk (ID: 363 417 476 261 6, passcode: YD9Td6k9)

#ERASMUS On 15.09-03.10, our 🦏 Institute hosted Adam Heteš from Comenius University, Slovakia @comeniusuni.bsky.social. Our visitor verified 4000(!) out of 7000 specimens of Jurassic crabs 🦀 from southern Poland, and most probably found a new species! The study is to be continued, stay tuned!

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

(1/3) The 4th Young Ornithologists' Symposium took place at Łódź University on October 26-28, and gathered over 100 students and graduates interested in 🐦 ornithology.

Researchers from our 🦏 Institute participate in an amazing project! 🦋 @projectpsyche.bsky.social @10klepgenomes.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social @spectrum.ieee.org 👇👇👇

Our 🦋 lepidopterist, Dr Marcin Wiorek, has been elected a co-Editor-in-Chef of Nota Lepidopterologica @notalepido.bsky.social! ⬇️

A couple of days ago a genetic study on the history of Slavs was published in Nature, co-authored by dr hab. Jarosław Wilczyński from our 🦏 Institute! ⬇️

Our 🦏 Institute is happy to participate in this amazing initiative of sequencing the complete genomes of all European 🦋 Lepidoptera species! Recently Dr hab. Łukasz Przybyłowicz and Dr Marcin Wiorek participated in the field workshop in the Alps 👇👇👇

📣 Seminar Title: Dinosaurs and Feathers: An Evolutionary (and Personal) Journey Speaker: Dr Yosef Kiat, Tel Aviv University 📅 5 September 2025 (Friday) 🕐 1:00 pm (GMT+2) 📍 Natural History Museum ISEA PAS, Św. Sebastiana 9, Cracow Link: tiny.pl/dhpq3wnx (ID: 318 594 633 602 4, passcode: t8jx6Fw3)

We are pleased to announce that dr hab. Łukasz Kajtoch from our 🦏 Institute has has been nominated professor! Professor Kajtoch works on various aspects of evolution and ecology of invertebrates (mainly 🐞 beetles), population genetics of 🐦 birds, and nature conservation. Congratulations! 🥳

New paper on the importance of linear landscape structures for pollinator conservation! 🐝 peerj.com/articles/19765

Thanks to everyone who made #EAVP2025 in Kraków such a success! 👏 Grateful to all attendees, speakers, organisers, volunteers & funders & for an inspiring week of #palaeontology & connection. See you at the next EAVP in 2026 in Lithuania! 🦖🌍

We are proud to be official sponsors of the upcoming European Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists conference to be held in 30 June - 5 July in Krakow, Poland! eavp2025.wixsite.com/eavp2025

(1/4) Exciting news 📣 Announcing the #COST10KLepGenomes initiative! 🦋🧬 We're leveraging genomic data to tackle biodiversity loss, disentangle Lepidoptera evolution and address climate change impacts on European butterflies and moths.

(1/4)🦋 Introducing Project Psyche! A groundbreaking initiative to sequence the genomes of all 11,000 species of butterflies and moths in Europe. The goal is to analyse this data to understand global climate insecurity and threats to biodiversity on a genomic level🧬 #ProjectPsyche #Genomics