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Research from the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
🐜Ants in a teapot!!! Our researchers documented Camponotus nicobarensis escaping a home formicarium and nesting in ceramic teapots, raising brood successfully. A striking example of ant adaptability and a warning about risks linked to exotic ant trade. 🔗https://shorturl.at/NruKr
#Ants
#AnimalTrade
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🦐 Copepods in lowland springs 💧🌿 remain an underexplored part of Europe’s biodiversity. Research in NE Poland revealed rich copepod fauna, showing springs as important ecotonal habitats. 👉
doi.org/10.4081/jlim...
#Science
#Copepoda
#Cyclops
#Biodiversity
#FreshwaterEcology
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Our next seminar is this Fri (Dec 19th, 10 a.m. CET, on-line). Don't miss it! 👇
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👉Join the upcoming on-line MIZ PAS seminar! 🎤Speaker: Prof. Jörn Theuerkauf from MIZ PAS. Talk title: "The first tribe of New Caledonia – social organisation in the cooperative Kagu". 📅19th Dec (Friday), 10:00 CET. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3hztsuyw 📷JJ Harrison, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3 & R. Gula
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📢Visit by scientists from the Mongolian Academy of Sciences (MAS)! A project funded by the
@polskaakademianauk.bsky.social
and the MAS : "Revealing molecular-level diversity of Mongolia's entomofauna in declining habitats". We applied novel methodologies used in entomological systematics.🪳🧬
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❗ Applications to a new PhD position within an NCN
@ncn.gov.pl
project (Opus 28+LAP) are now open ❗ 💡 The project, led by Dr Agata Kaczmarek, focuses on nutritional immunology and combines: 🧬 immunology 🦠 microbiology 🧪 molecular biology 🧉 metabolomics and lipidomics 🔗
tinyurl.com/4uynmj75
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❗️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
. 👇
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19 days ago
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The seminar has been cancelled! We apologise for the inconvenienve.
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20 days ago
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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
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📣🎉 Our researchers, Wiesław Bogdanowicz and Marcin Kamiński, have been awarded
@ncn.gov.pl
grants in the OPUS call! 🏆 Congratulations👏 ➡️
tinyurl.com/37rv4rwv
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Wyniki konkursu OPUS 29, PRELUDIUM 24
28 listopada 2025 r. Koordynatorzy Dyscyplin Narodowego Centrum Nauki przedstawiają listy rankingowe projektów zakwalifikowanych do finansowania w ramach konkursów ogłoszonych przez NCN w dniu 17 marca 2025 r.: OPUS 29 – konkurs na projekty badawcze dla naukowców na wszystkich etapach kariery PRELUDIUM 24 – konkurs na projekty badawcze dla osób bez stopnia doktora
https://ncn.gov.pl/konkursy/wyniki/2025-11-28-opus-preludium
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🕷 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.
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New study from our researchers: golden jackals make epic Europe journeys — from West Pannonia, the Baltics & the Caucasus to Spain, Lapland & Arctic Norway. 1,400–3,400 km! Link -
surl.li/zkalku
#GoldenJackal
#WildlifeResearch
#ConservationBiology
#Mammals
#NationalGeographic
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Species on the move: a genetic story of three golden jackals at the expansion front - Mammalian Biology
One of the most fascinating mammalian range expansions in Europe involves an opportunistic mesocarnivore―the golden jackal (Canis aureus). However, key questions about the origins and dispersal strate...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42991-024-00452-0
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🌿🐜 Don’t miss it this Thursday - 16:30h! Join our colleague Gema Trigos-Peral (MIZ,
@trigos-peral.bsky.social
) for an online seminar on urban ant ecology organized by
@igue-aeet.bsky.social
. Discover how these tiny creatures play a big role in shaping our cities! 🔗
rb.gy/hvikb1
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The vulnerability of New Caledonia’s ecosystems to destruction by deer 🦌 is underscored by the fact that the island’s vegetation 🌱 evolved in the absence of large herbivores – the only native mammals there are bats 🦇
#NewCaledonia
#Drones
#EcosystemConservation
#InvasiveSpecies
#ThermalImaging
about 1 month ago
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reposted by
Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS
Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE)
about 2 months ago
There's a new Biodiversity Genomics Europe case study! 🥳 Learn more about the threatened aquatic warbler. 👉 More info on our website:
biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/11/05/b...
@justynakubacka.bsky.social
@mizpas.bsky.social
@gdosgovpl.bsky.social
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reposted by
Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS
ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas
about 2 months ago
🪶 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
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Big data and small brown birds: how whole-genome sequencing can inform conservation of the threatened aquatic warbler?
The ERGA-BGE case study led by Dr Justyna Kubacka of Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, is drawing to an end. You can read about the project here. In a nutshell, the study re...
https://www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/big-data-and-small-brown-birds-how-whole-genome-sequencing-can-inform-conservation-of-the-threatene
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Nature inspires innovation! 🐞💡 Our team from the MIZ PAS visited the school in Jazgarzew with the project “Nature’s Inventions – Inspirations for the Future.” Students explored bionics and discovered how animal and plant designs inspire modern engineering.
#Bionics
#ScienceEducation
#MiIZPAN
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The flightless beetles of the tribe
#Dorcadionini
(Col: Cerambycidae) in
#CentralAsia
are similar but not closely related. Their first phylogeny is now out in a paper led by
@ceramb.bsky.social
of MIZ PAS. Environmental adaptation could play a key role here.
@ncn.gov.pl
👉https://tinyurl.com/yy9kp2ab
about 2 months ago
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💡 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
about 2 months ago
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reposted by
Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS
Iberian Group of Urban Ecology
about 2 months ago
The next IGUE
#UrbanEcology
seminar will take place in three weeks' time, on 20 November at 16:30 CET. It will be delivered by
@trigos-peral.bsky.social
🐜🌇 from
@mizpas.bsky.social
Scan the QR to save the event in your calendar or save the link:
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
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Don't miss our hybrid seminar! 24 Oct, 12:00 CEST. 👇
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2 months ago
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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
2 months ago
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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
2 months ago
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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS
Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS
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#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)
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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
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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
3 months ago
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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.
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Learned use of an innate sound-meaning association in birds - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Over 20 species of geographically and phylogenetically diverse bird species produce convergent whining vocalizations towards their respective brood parasites. Model presentation and playback experiments across multiple continents suggest that these learned calls provoke an innate response even among allopatric species.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02855-9
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With whole-genome sequencing data for two PL populations: declining and isolated West Pomerania and stable and large Biebrza Valley, Dr Kubacka explored past and current genetic diversity in threatened Aquatic Warbler. Results will support conservation efforts.
#conservation
#genomics
#biodiversity
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3 months ago
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reposted by
Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS
ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas
3 months ago
🌾 The
#threatened
aquatic warbler relies on fragmented European wetlands to survive. Researchers from
@mizpas.bsky.social
led by
@justynakubacka.bsky.social
use
#genomic
data from two populations to guide management and help restore an extinct population.
erga-biodiversity.eu/post/conserv...
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Conservation genomics of the aquatic warbler, a specialist bird breeding in declining mire habitat
This ERGA-BGE project, started in June 2024 and led by Dr. Justyna Kubacka, builds upon an ongoing study on the conservation genomics of the aquatic warbler, a threatened bird of highly fragmented cen...
https://erga-biodiversity.eu/post/conservation-genomics-of-the-aquatic-warbler-a-specialist-bird-breeding-in-declining-mire-habitat
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🎉New publication from MiIZ PAS 👉🏼
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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
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New publication from MIZ PAS: Combining distance sampling and triangulation to estimate density of elusive rainforest vertebrates
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ornithology
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Combining distance sampling and triangulation to estimate density of elusive rainforest vertebrates
Knowledge of the density of endangered or game species is important for conservation and management. Distance sampling and triangulation have been use…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320725001703?via%3Dihub
9 months ago
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Mimikra głosowa kukułeczek napędza ewolucję
naukawpolsce.pl/aktualnosci/...
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Mimikra głosowa kukułeczek napędza ewolucję
Kukułeczki jarzębate, aby uniknąć odrzucenia, naśladują głosy piskląt swoich gospodarzy tak dobrze, że zaczynają mocno różnić się w zależności od miejsca występowania. To może prowadzić do powstawania...
https://naukawpolsce.pl/aktualnosci/news%2C107326%2Cmimikra-glosowa-kukuleczek-napedza-ewolucje.html
9 months ago
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Naukowiec: badania długoterminowe są kluczowe dla nauk przyrodniczych, ich finansowanie jest wyzwaniem
naukawpolsce.pl/aktualnosci/...
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Naukowiec: badania długoterminowe są kluczowe dla nauk przyrodniczych, ich finansowanie jest wyzwaniem
Badania długoterminowe mają dla nauk przyrodniczych ogromne znaczenie. Niestety, są niechętnie finansowane, ponieważ nie wpisują się w model nauki nastawionej na szybko osiągane i publikowane rezultat...
https://naukawpolsce.pl/aktualnosci/news%2C107165%2Cnaukowiec-badania-dlugoterminowe-sa-kluczowe-dla-nauk-przyrodniczych-ich
9 months ago
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reposted by
Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS
Marta Maziarz
10 months ago
Our new
#OpenAccess
paper published in Biological Conservation: "The Białowieża Forest as an example of the resilience of long-term studies in a changing world”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@richardkbroughton.bsky.social
#ecology
#ornithology
#mammals
#plants
#climate
#forestecol
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