❗📰 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...

📢 Reconstructing Coccinellini Phylogeny A new study by W. Tomaszewska (MIZ PAS) & colleagues uncovers a time-calibrated phylogeny of 200+ “true ladybird” species, revealing boreotropical origin, multiple migrations & shifts in diet 🐞🧬 🔗 shorturl.at/8TxNH 📷 G. San Martin #ladybirds #evolution #diet

📣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. 👇

🐜 First outdoor record of exotic ant Plagiolepis alluaudi in continental Europe 🌱🌍 Dr. Trigos-Peral shows it now established outdoors. Driven by global trade & climate change, alien species are rising. A call for stronger monitoring & prevention. 🔗 shorturl.at/wNoZf #Global_change #Conservation

📢Upcoming on-line MIZ PAS seminar! ℹ️Talk title: "Ecology of haemoparasitic infections in birds: occurrence patterns and host-level effects" 👉by Dr. Anna Dubiec from MIZ PAS. 📅 30 March (Monday), 12:00 CEST. 🔗 shorturl.at/QvjxO #ornithology #haemoparasites #species_interactions 📷A. Dubiec

🌿✨ A big step for wildlife conservation We’re proud to share that the Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS now sponsors Wala 🧡- a bongo antelope at Warsaw Zoo! This step helps protect an endangered species and supports conservation together with the PANDA Foundation 🌍 #Antelope #WildlifeProtection

📢New article co-authored by MIZ PAS scientists - R. Rutkowski & M. Maziarz - finds 40–50% of blue tit & great tit broods had mixed paternity in Poland’s primeval Białowieża Forest. 🐣🌲🌳🌿 Link to publication 👉 tinyurl.com/3tsbfnjd #ornithology #openaccess @funecology.bsky.social 📷RK Broughton

Taenia hydatigena cycles between carnivores and wild ungulates 🐺🦌. A study led by Dr Slivinska shows ~10% of roe deer and moose in Poland carry its larva, Cysticercus tenuicollis 🐛 #parasitology #wildlife #ecology 🔗 tiny.pl/pzkn85-hy

The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences Academia highlights the research of dr hab. Marta Maziarz from our Institute! 👏 #BiałowieżaForest #change #environment 🔗 Link to the interview: academia.pan.pl/tam-gdzie-sw...

🐺🦊 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

"Polityka spotlight! 🎉 Prof. Wiesław Bogdanowicz joins the debate in this magazine with Giving the Mouse a Voice, showing why vernacular animal names matter in science, education & conservation in Poland. 📚 Published Feb 11 in the Science section." Link 👉https://shorturl.at/8EJBq #science #names

Dr Attisano & Prof. Theuerkauf contributed to first 🌍 annotated dataset of 🐦vocalisations: 91,931 recordings from 1,192 species across 13 biomes. The dataset supports training & validation of automated bird detection algorithms. 🔗Paper: tinyurl.com/mr2mr6ym 🔗Data: tinyurl.com/2azvryp3

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. 👇

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

📣 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

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🎉 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...

🐜 Can fungi reshape ant societies? 👉 Rickia wasmannii speeds up task shifts: young workers leave the nest sooner and take on risky foraging. Age—not task—drives immune strength. 🔗 Read more: tiny.pl/gm4_zh0f4 #science #ants #fungi #NCN #Horizon2020 #MarieSklodowskaCurie

👉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

🕷️ Can ticks reveal pollution? 👉A new study shows that the exoskeleton of Dermacentor reticulatus accumulates heavy metals (Cd, Pb, Hg, Cs, Sr). Levels vary by site (Warsaw, rural Poland, Chornobyl), sex and body part—making ticks useful tiny environmental sensors. 🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/nhda8yvx

❗️📣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 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

🐜🔍 Our researchers — Dr. Magdalena Witek, Dr. Gema Trigos‑Peral and Dr. Filip Turza — spent a wonderful morning at Monet International School, where students explored live ant colonies up close. ✨ Curiosity was buzzing everywhere! #Education #ScienceCommunication #Ants #SocialInsects

📢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 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

Do all ants forage the same way when it’s too hot? 🐜🔥 Dr. Ślipiński (MIZ PAS) et al. @ebdonana.bsky.social shows they don’t: some rely on speed, others on smarter routes and cooperation. Different strategies, same challenge. Link 👉🏼 shorturl.at/uPe8o #ants #thermal_adaptations #Doñana #desert

📢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

Our researcher @justynakubacka.bsky.social has recently talked on population genomics of aquatic warbler at: 📢Genomics for Biodiversity Conference - from genomes to impact 🎥 tinyurl.com/mr6dhbpj (from 01:25:30) 📢International Aquatic Warbler Conference 🎥📗 tinyurl.com/2ck2yjs7 📷Irene Arnaldos Giner

📢 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

📢Prelekcja: „Mewy w Warszawie – występowanie i rozpoznawanie” Wstęp wolny! ℹ️Środę, 7 stycznia 2026 - 17:30 📍Miejsce Aktywności Lokalnej Kasprowicza 14, przy metrze Słodowiec. 🗣️Gościem: Jan Rapczyński - kierownik Terenowej Stacji Ornitologicznej Obóz Wisła. 👉https://shorturl.at/xBoPd

🦞🌎 Tiny crustaceans, big questions! Two freshwater cyclopid copepods are recorded in South America for the first time. Are they newcomers or overlooked natives? A recent publication explores biogeography, taxonomy & invasions. Link 👉 shorturl.at/jy9vd #FreshwaterEcology #Copepoda #InvasiveSpecies

🐜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

🦐 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

Our next seminar is this Fri (Dec 19th, 10 a.m. CET, on-line). Don't miss it! 👇

👉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

📢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.🪳🧬

❗ 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

❗️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. 👇

The seminar has been cancelled! We apologise for the inconvenienve.

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.

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

🌿🐜 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

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

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

🪶 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

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

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