Thriving #biodiversity! 🐌 An international team led by #mfnberlin documented 116 snail species in Vietnam's Cuc Phuong National Park – 47 likely new to #science! Up to 184 species may live there, making it a global hotspot for terrestrial snails. 🌏 🔗 bdj.pensoft.net/article/1632... 📸 K. v. Oheimb

Evaluation isn't just spreadsheets – it shows what our research really changes! 🌍 This training helps you build practical, creative approaches to measuring impact. Expert Anastasia Voloshina shares insights from five years with the BROMACKER Project. 🦎🔨 🔗 Register here: winoda.de/en/event/pub...

Ein Mistkäfer zum Anfassen: Im @mfnberlin.bsky.social können blinde ebenso wie sehende Besucher:innen mit einem responsiven Käfermodell interagieren, das bei Berührung Audioinhalte abspielt. Mehr dazu auf #MAKURA: makura.de/diskurse-ana...

Was können Wissenschaften und Forschungsmuseen zur Stärkung der Gesellschaft beitragen? 👉 Heute am WZB in der Reihe "Wissenschaft, natürlich!": Präsidentin Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln & Johannes Vogel, Generaldirektor @mfnberlin.bsky.social, im Gespräch. Kommt gerne vorbei: www.wzb.eu/de/veranstal...

Unpacking legal narratives in natural history ⚖️ Heritage & Justice is a digital colloquium exploring how legal and ethical frameworks shape natural history collections and their colonial legacies. 🌍 📅 Next session: 12 Nov, 13:00–14:00 CET 💻 Open to all via Zoom 🔗 bit.ly/3Ly2k1G 📸 P. Castagnola

Researchers discover an "all-body brain" in sea urchins - @mfnberlin.bsky.social www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/museum/me...

Guess who's back! 🦇 55 years missing: An international team led by the museum rediscovered the Turkestan long-eared bat in the Karakum Desert. Endemic species like 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘬𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 reveal how life adapts – and why protecting unique habitats matters. 🌏 📹 Christian Dietz #biodiversity #bats

(Not so) Happy Halloween! 🦇🐀🎃 Researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin documented brown rats catching #bats in mid-air at Segeberger Kalkberg, Northern Germany. A rare look at invasive species impacting urban wildlife. 🌍 @berlinbatlab.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

✈️ Last week, we made the journey to the Colombian capital of Bogotá for the #LivingData 2025 conference! 👀 Find out how FORSAID partners from @pensoft.net and @mfnberlin.bsky.social left their mark at the event: 🔗 forsaid.eu/news/living-... #Forests #Pests #PlantHealth

10 years of Berlin Science Week! 🎉 This weekend, the festival kicks off with the CAMPUS at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin – free entry for everyone! Discover science up close with talks, workshops & hands-on formats. 🧠 👉 Full programme: berlinscienceweek.com 📸 Falling Walls

🔦 Our coverage of #LivingData 2025 continues with a spotlight on our partner Prof. Dr. Rudolf Meier from @mfnberlin.bsky.social! 🐞 One of the event's keynote speakers, he delivered a presentation on technological innovation in the context of biodiversity discovery.

💭 Can a museum think like a start-up? Explore how culture and tech can develop business models together – join our workshop at #BerlinScienceWeek CAMPUS next week at mfnberlin! 🧠 📅 Sat. / 01.11.2025 / 13:00–15:00 🔗 Register: bit.ly/4hpYDa9 📸 Credits: Györgyi Kovács

Explore what happens to soil during and after a wildfire! 🔥 Join our #art and #science workshop "Soil, wildfires and biological remediation” with Margherita Pevere, in collaboration with #mfnberlin researchers Katharina and Parm von Oheimb! 🐌 🗓️ Sat, 25 Oct, 14:00 to 18:00 🔗 bit.ly/soil-wildfires

Rudolf Meier paraphrases a post from @rdmpage.bsky.social : as ~ 2/3 of the records in GBIF are birds, @gbif.org is primarily a Global Bird Information Facility. To correct this bias, we need to focus on the “ugly” biodiversity. 🪰 🪱 🪳 🦟 @mfnberlin.bsky.social #LivingData2025 x.com/rdmpage/stat...

@svmering.bsky.social shares how @mfnberlin.bsky.social is digitally cataloguing and digitizing its vast natural history collection of approximately 30 million objects and building a #Wikidata knowledge graph connecting taxa, specimens, people, places, publications, and events. #LivingData2025 🧪 🔗

The tiniest things run the planet – and the tiniest details make a difference! 🪰 Researchers from #Brazil, Singapore and Germany collected fungus gnats in #Singapore and found 120 species – 115 new to #science! 🌏 Among them: 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘣𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘪 and 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘢 𝘵𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘬. 🧵 (1/2) #sciencenews

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).