Long before the dinosaurs, #insects were already eating their way through leaves! 🌿 #Fossils from Thuringia reveal the world’s oldest insect plague – 295 million years old. Understanding global change thanks to natural history collections! 🌍 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #science #sciencenews

Im #netzwerknaturwissen denken Menschen aus Wissenschaft, Kultur, Initiativen und Museen gemeinsam über eine gestaltbare und nachhaltige Zukunft für #Berlin nach. Gestern hatte ich das Vergnügen, in der Leibnitzgemeinschaft neben dem @mfnberlin.bsky.social dort mitdenken zu können. Ich finde, … 1/2

The bird gallery at @mfnberlin.bsky.social is closed for redevelopment, but instead of packing away their #birds, they crated up 11,500 #taxidermy specimens and put the crates on display instead. It's a really interesting - and beautiful - approach to open storage. #museums

Very excited to be at @mfnberlin.bsky.social for a workshop on comprehending the cultural value of colonial Australian natural history collections (and thoroughly honoured to have been invited to give one of the keynotes).

🎥 Sneak Peek! Johannes Vogel (Direktor des Museums für Naturkunde Berlin / @mfnberlin.bsky.social) über Wissen & Macht – exklusiv zu unserer Herbsttagung am 15.10. in Heidelberung und online. 📍 Infos + Anmeldung unter www.ethikrat.org #Ethikrat #WissenundMacht

Gestern fand der erste Campus Citizen Science von mit:forschen! statt. Im Fokus stand die Frage, wie Künstliche Intelligenz die #CitizenScience verändert – von Skalierung und Zugänglichkeit bis zu neuen Formen der Beteiligung. Zum Rückblick: wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/blog/campus-... #KI #Wisskomm

What if #Berlin became a place where protecting nature and democracy go hand in hand? 🌱 Join our "Ideas for a liveable Berlin" event to explore how shared knowledge can shape our city’s future. 🤝 🗓️ Mon, 13 Oct | 18:00 | @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de 🔗 eventbrite.com/e/1719108452659 📸 Pablo Castagnola

Achtung Artenvielfalt! Mehr als 80 Events warten darauf, von dir entdeckt zu werden - quer durch die Bundesrepublik, kostenlos, vielfältig! 🌿🦋 Schau mal ins Programm! 🌐 www.achtung-artenvielfalt.de @sgn.one @mfnberlin.bsky.social

A package of terrestrial mollusc collection data from Vietnam's Cuc Phuong National Park, linked to preserved material housed at the @mfnberlin.bsky.social and the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Ha Noi: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

Welt retten in 20 Minuten? Mit meiner @spiegel.de Kollegin Regina Steffens habe ich beim #BeatsAndBones Podcastfestival im @mfnberlin.bsky.social darüber gesprochen, wie man die Erde vor #Asteroiden retten kann. Entstanden ist ein #Shortcut, hier zum Anschauen/-hören: www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

A new study reveals the diversity of land snails and slugs in Vietnam’s Cuc Phuong National Park, highlighting it as one of the richest tropical forests for terrestrial gastropods known. Read more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... @mfnberlin.bsky.social

🏆 Wissen der Vielen – Forschungspreis für Citizen Science 2025: Wir gratulieren herzlich den Preisträger*innen. Mit dem Preis fördern wir die Sichtbarkeit partizipativer Forschung und stärken deren Anerkennung! ➡️ www.mitforschen.org/forschungspr... #CitizenScience

This coming Tuesday in #Berlin Naturally Contested: Whose Nature, Whose Conservation? @mfnberlin.bsky.social www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/participa...

Haben Menschen und #Dinosaurier gemeinsame Vorfahren? Jörg Fröbisch von @mfnberlin.bsky.social und @humboldtuni.bsky.social in der neusten Folge von #TonspurWissen, dem Podcast von @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de & Rheinischer Post. 🎧 👉 pod.fo/e/32d080 #Paläontologie #LeibnizMuseen #Evolution

Great start to day 2 of #DZG2025 with babbling bats and Mirjam Knörnschild of @mfnberlin.bsky.social!

Three new species of the parasitoid wasp genus Heinrichiellus are described from India and Thailand. See more about them here: doi.org/10.3897/jhr.... #wasps #newspecies #phylogeny @gavinbroad.bsky.social @mfnberlin.bsky.social

🤩 Phenomenal start @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social with special insights into #Botany & #Paleontology: Tomato specimen collected by Humboldt 😱🍅🌱 at the Herbarium of the Botanical Garden and Icebreaker event at the the Dinosaur Hall 🦕🦖🏛 of @mfnberlin.bsky.social Looking forward to the next #Zoology days 😍

And #DZG2025 is officially open! Great opening event at the @mfnberlin.bsky.social - what a stunning venue! We are looking forward to a great conference!

Carnivorous #bats that hug? 🦇 New study on the spectral bat reveals prey provision, grooming and even wing-wrapped greetings – complex social behaviour with big implications for #conservation! 🌎 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 📸 Marisa Tietge #science #sciencenews

"Praktisch können wir bereits jetzt auf Plastik verzichten und unverpackt statt verpackt einkaufen. Wir können auf Mehrweg statt Einweg setzen. Wir können Plastik reduzieren..." @mfnberlin.bsky.social www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/gesch...

For #FossilFriday here's some gorgeous fossil scorpions - four reconstructions of species spanning 200 million years by my very talented colleague Jason Dunlop at @mfnberlin.bsky.social. Far left of these four is Palaeophonus, also shown in the photo and an interprative drawing below. ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

New publication from my lab: Vampyrum spectrum, the Neotropics' largest carnivorous bat, is very cooperative. These gentle apex predators regularly provide prey for family member – documented in the wild for the first time. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

🟨The @mfnberlin.bsky.social is seeking a Senior Researcher. 👉 Deadline: Aug 20, 2025 More information here: tinyurl.com/49feksk7 #Hiring #SeniorResearcher #ResearchJobs #NaturalHistory #MuseumJobs

Finding specimens in the collection at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin used to be a complex process. That is, until they digitised their specimen labels with Transkribus. Find out more in this week's Success Story 👇 blog.transkribus.org/en/transkrib... @mfnberlin.bsky.social

Master your collection data with the #WiNoDa Winter School! 🎓 This free, online programme offers expert lectures and hands-on sessions on data management and analysis – from #biodiversity to #archaeology and beyond! 🦋 📅 24-28 November 🔗 Register here: winoda.de/en/event/win... 📸 Kirill Tatarenkov

How have small mammal communities in the Lower Oder Valley changed in 30 years? 🐭 A German-Polish team combines 1990s data with new field surveys – to guide #conservation and protect #biodiversity. 🧵 (1/3) 📸 Jan Decher 🤝 @leibnizlib.bsky.social #brandenburg #science #sciencenews

Large herbivores shaped ecosystems for millions of years. But can ecosystems survive their loss? 🐃 A new Nature study by Göteborgs universitet, #mfnberlin and others shows past stability – but warns: human-driven extinctions risk collapse. 🌎 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📸 Juan L Cantalapiedra

Just out! This #AmniotaLab study led by 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 on 𝘗𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘺𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴 🦎 across the Balearics finds that bite force & morphology vary within populations, but don’t scale up to macroevolutionary scales 🔗 More: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... #Evolution #Lizards #FunctionalMorphology

More #AmniotaLab science! 📢 Khalafallah Salih et al. describe a new Late Pleistocene crocodile from #Sudan 🐊 the first 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘺𝘭𝘶𝘴 from this period in Africa, and distinct from all known species! Just the beginning for the #PALEONILE project 🌍🦴 🔗 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The three journals we publish on behalf of @mfnberlin.bsky.social have taken the step from X to Bluesky! 🧵(1/4)

Trilling for love! 🦇 Male greater mouse-eared #bats compete acoustically in church attics – a rare lek mating system now documented by researchers from FU Berlin and #mfnberlin. Their roosts deserve protection, too! 🌍 🔗 Publication: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... 📸 Lisa Printz

255-million-year-old fossil reveals hidden diversity before Earth’s greatest extinction! 🌋 It belonged to an archosauromorph – a reptile group including crocodilians, #dinosaurs & #birds – and helps us trace how modern groups emerged. 🐊🦕🐣 🔗 Full publication: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Beim ersten Campus Citizen Science von mit:forschen! am 6. Oktober im @mfnberlin.bsky.social erwarten euch Impulse, praxisnahe Workshops zur Anwendung von KI in #CitizenScience und viel Raum für Austausch und Vernetzung. Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos. ℹ️&🎟️👉 www.mitforschen.org/campus-citiz...

I just visited the natural history museum in Berlin @mfnberlin.bsky.social: Highly recommended! I saw the legendary Archaeopteryx, the tallest mounted dinosaur skeleton (Giraffatitan brancai) and good old Tristan Otto (T. rex).

Great to have @evomorpholab.bsky.social visiting us! A fantastic few days of sharing ideas, methods, and common interests. Looking forward to more collaboration ahead! #EvolutionaryBiology #Paleobiology #AmniotaLab

𝘔𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘷𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘪 changes how we see reptile skin! 💡 Christian Foth joined us in June to study predatory #dinosaurs and bird origins. In this @nature.com study, he analysed Mirasaura's skin: feather-like, but independently evolved. 🪶 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📸 SMNS, Rick Stikkelorum

Heute im @mfnberlin.bsky.social gewesen und dabei die Beats & Bones Folge zur Zukunft/Renovierung des Hauses gehört. 😃

What a pleasant surprise to receive this gorgeously illustrated book, packed with information about Evolution in the mail today! I had no idea that I featured herein! 😊 Thanks, @sarahdarwin and Eva-Maria Sadowski

Some collection work at the @mfnberlin.bsky.social 🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴👀 #AmniotaLab #MfNBerlin

💧📚 Schon über 20T€ sind für den Entdecke-Kalender zum Thema #Wasser gespendet worden. Helft mit, 10.000 Exemplare kostenfrei an Grundschulen zu bringen. Eine Aktion von #Pindactica mit Berliner Wasserbetriebe, IGB und @mfnberlin.bsky.social. Jetzt Spenden: www.betterplace.org/de/projects/...

Wissenschaft meets Hollywood. Zum Kinostart von "Jurassic World: Die Wiedergeburt" widmet sich der #Podcast Beats & Bones des @mfnberlin.bsky.social dem Thema #Dinosaurier und wie realistisch die Wiederbelebungs-Phantasien im Film sind. beats-and-bones.podigee.io/88-new-episode #LeibnizMuseen

Welcome to the "Permian Park"! 😉🦎 This year’s #Bromacker excavation revealed bones, tiny skeletons and even volcanic ash – offering insights into life 290 million years ago. Now, the #fossils head into the project labs for preparation and selected CT scans. 🌍 📲 Learn more via explore.bromacker.de!

Pollinator pathmaker Garten vor dem @mfnberlin.bsky.social immer noch und wieder wunderschön 🐝🐝🐝🐞🐞🦋🦋🪲🪲🦗🦗#pollinatorgardens

Wie verändert #KünstlicheIntelligenz die #CitizenScience? Beim ersten Campus Citizen Science von mit:forschen! am 6. Oktober im Museum für Naturkunde Berlin erwarten euch spannende Impulse, praxisnahe Workshops und Raum für Austausch. Jetzt vormerken, weitere Infos in Kürze! @mfnberlin.bsky.social

How do #ticks reach their hosts? 🦊 A study led by @samjakeengland.bsky.social shows: Static electricity can passively pull ticks onto mammals, birds or even reptiles – despite the air gap. No jump needed, just electrostatic charge. ⚡ 🔗 Learn more: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... 📸 Credits: Sam J. England

Why is #OpenAccess to research data still such a challenge — despite better tech and years of advocacy? 🔓 Join the upcoming #WiNoDa webinar on 1 July to unpack the ethics and practical hurdles of data sharing in #science. 🔬 👉 Register here: winoda.de/en/event/web... 📸 Credits: Pablo Castagnola

In weniger als 2 Wochen startet die Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften in Berlin. Wir öffnen für euch unsere Türen in der Chausseestr. u.a. mit @bbfdipf.bsky.social, @diw.de, @zasberlin.bsky.social, @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social und @weierstrassinst.bsky.social. Kommt rum und erlebt Wissenschaft hautnah!✨

Brettspiele als Kommunikationsmedium für wichtige und schwierige Themen? Absolut möglich, wenn kan es richtig angeht. Ich durfte mit @fm4.orf.at über meine Meinung und Erfahrungen dazu sprechen 👇 U.a. auch über unsere Brettspielabende im @mfnberlin.bsky.social fm4.orf.at/stories/3048...

Early-bird registrations closes TODAY!! Sign up now to join us for #DZG2025 in beautiful Berlin this September - includes the conference dinner and icebreaker under the dinosaurs here at @mfnberlin.bsky.social 😍🦕

Loving this current installation at the Berlin Natural History Museum @mfnberlin.bsky.social: "MIGRATORY Birds - A Collection in Motion". >11k bird specimens had to be moved due to renovations, so the museum opted to turn the process into an exhibit. Such a beautiful way to see the collection!