🕸️ Deep in the Sulfur Cave on the Greece–Albania border, researchers from our Institute study a huge 100‑meter colonial web built by Tegenaria domestica. A normally solitary spider turned social — a perfect natural lab for uncovering how underground life shapes colonial life! 🕷️

We were pleased to host colleagues from the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics PAS ❄️🔬. Together we discussed strengthening collaboration, from polar collections to joint research. Combining field expertise with major zoological collections helps protect global biodiversity! 🌍🤝

🎙️ Instinct or Compassion? Altruism in the Animal World The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences Academia highlights the interview with Dr. Filip Turza from MIZ PAS!🐬🐀🐜 🔗 academia.pan.pl/instynkt-czy-wspolczuciehttps://academia.pan.pl/instynkt-czy-wspolczucie-altruizm-w-swiecie-zwierzat/

📢🧬🦠🔬 MIZ PAS research shows that Conidiobolus coronatus infection triggers oxidative and nitrosative stress in Galleria mellonella hemocytes. Mitochondria act as key redox‑signaling hubs. Published in Mitochondrion: doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...

AI meets nematology! A new project at the MIZ PAS: "The use of artificial intelligence in the diagnosis of soil nematodes causing economic losses". Funded by the @ministerstwonauki.bsky.social 🇵🇱 #science #thefutureofscienceistoday 📅 Project duration: 2026–2028 🔗 More info: tiny.pl/f2hth2cjd

We are proud to announce that last Friday, dr. Gema Trigos-Peral was awarded her habilitation in Biology. Her main achievement was in urban ecology, and her second achievement was in behavioural ecology. Congratulations! 🎉🎓

We are proud to announce that Anna Wrońska & Agata Kaczmarek, in partnership with Jolanta Mierzejewska from Warsaw University of Technology (leader), were awarded an @ncn.gov.pl research grant 🥳! The project aims to find if yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus can form a carrier for oral vaccines. 🔬🧪💉

📢 Researchers from MIZ PAS uncover how reference choice can distort ancient T. pallidum genomes! 🧬 The high‑coverage W86 genome (17th c., Wrocław) shows SS14‑like ancestry and no resistance mutations. Multi‑reference mapping reduces bias. 🔗 shorturl.at/6lwC4 #Science #Genomics #Mapping

📢 Open position for PhD studies in MIZ! 🔎 Join an international team studying desert-adapted Blaptinae beetles with phylogenomics, museomics & morphology, focusing on the diverse Opatrini tribe. 🔗More info – www.kaminskientomo.org #Phylogenomics #Evolution #PhDstudent

📢 Curious how plant-based feeds affect sturgeon? 🐟🌱 A study co-authored by Dr. H. Panagiotopoulou (MIZ PAS) reveals that phytoestrogens have little impact on sex ratios in Russian sturgeon, but induce gonadal changes. Learn more in🔗 shorturl.at/y3PKD #aquaculture #science #genetic #conservation

📢Join to our next MIZ Seminar about "The functional ecology and evolution of cuticular hydrocarbon profiles in bees” 🐝 👤 Prof. Thomas Schmitt (Chemical Ecology Group of Wűrzburg University) 📅 8th of June 2026 at 12:00 h 📍Hybrid (in-person & online) 🔗 shorturl.at/AKZPH #seminar #science

👩‍👦‍👦Celebrate children's day with us!!! Explore the fascinating world of land snails, learn about endangered species, and enjoy a fun family picnic 🐌 📆When - May 31 📍Warsaw Zoo - Ratuszowa 1/3, Warsaw Partners: PANDA Foundation & Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS #Fun #Nature #Family #Science

Enjoy MIZ Scientific Journals!!! 📚 This year, enjoy #OpenAccess with NO APCs for authors. Discover a new visual identity, strengthened editorial boards, faster peer review, and online publishing. 🌍Submit your research and share it globally! #OpenAccess #ScientificPublishing #BioOne

🐟 Medieval Baltic sturgeons: Atlantic sturgeon dominated (~83%) in Lake Ladoga 🧬 Co-authored by H. Panagiotopoulou (MIZ PAS), ancient DNA from 7,000+ bones shows limited hybridization with European sturgeon & rapid postglacial expansion. 📖🔗Link shorturl.at/nm0Pj #fish #genetics #conservation

🐦🏙️ Bird colours are changing in cities! Dr. Janas (MIZ PAS) co-authored a study across 8 Polish cities showing that more urban “concreting” leads to duller, more variable yellow in Great Tits 💛, while Blue Tits have brighter tails - yet melanin colours stay unchanged. 🐦🪽 🔗 Link: shorturl.at/Adsyw

🐟 New study, co-auth. by H. Panagiotopoulou: European and Atlantic sturgeons partly shared environmental niches in Holocene Europe. Atlantic sturgeon was more cold-adapted, while European sturgeon tolerated broader conditions, which informs restoration under climate change. 📗 shorturl.at/jwaTW

🎙️Ants and the city The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences Academia (Akademia PAN) highlights the research in urban ecology of dr Gema Trigos-Peral @trigos-peral.bsky.social from our Institute! 🐜🌇 #UrbanEcology #Ants #Conservation 🔗 Link to the interview: sl1nk.com/efdo6v1

🔬 We have an open post-doc position on nutritional immunology, funded by @ncn.gov.pl! 🙌 We study how fatty acids shape insect immune responses to fungal infections, using Galleria mellonella larvae as a model. 📅 Apply by 31.05.2026 to [email protected] (subject: OpusLap) 👉 tinyurl.com/4babnhfp

🦇 Acta Chiropterologica - No barriers, no fees... Just bats! Our international journal and impact-indexed journal with no fees for authors and readers in this 2026. 👉Submit your bat research with us and share it with the world! 🔗 miiz.waw.pl/acta-chiropt... #openaccess #batresearch #science

📢 Acta Ornithologica supports open science An international, peer‑reviewed journal ranked 9th of 29 in Ornithology, offering free Open Access in 2026. Benefit from rapid Online Early publication and wide visibility via BioOne. Share your research globally! #ornithology #openscience #bioone

📣👨‍🏫Don't miss our upcoming on-line seminar! 📅Tomorrow (24 April), at 12:00 CEST ℹ️Language: English 🔗Join with the link: tinyurl.com/vc5wcez3

📢Annales Zoologici is evolving - faster and more accessible‼️ Since 1921, a trusted voice in zoology. ℹ️This 2026, enjoy FREE open access with rapid publishing, streamlined review & immediate online release. Submit your work in systematic entomology: bioone.org/journals/ann...

New paper! 🌍🔬 With detailed morphological and molecular analyses, researchers from MIZ PAS (Wioletta Tomaszewska & Karol Szawaryn) and Instituto de Ecología, Mexico (Emmanuel Arriaga Varela) transform our understanding of the Mycetaeidae family, a group of rare beetles. 🔗 tinyurl.com/mrx7fpjx

📢 Fragmenta Faunistica enters 2026 with a renewed editorial team and a strong commitment to open‑access faunistic, taxonomic and ecological research. 🌍 Free OA, rapid online publication & focused on key biodiversity data. Share your science with us! #biodiversity #faunistics #openaccess

❗️Join our upcoming on-line seminar❗️ 📆24 April, 2026 ⏰12:00 CEST 📍The seminar will be held on-line in English. 🎙️Speaker: Dr Katarzyna Rybarczyk-Mydłowska, MIZ PAS ➡️Title: "Exploring soil nematode diversity: species characteristics and (meta)barcoding" 🔗Join with the link: tinyurl.com/vc5wcez3

📢 Polish Journal of Ecology updates its editorial policy for 2026!!! 📖Open data, fast review, new article types, global inclusion, and free open‑access publishing. 🌍Submit your work and share rigorous science worldwide! #ecology #openscience #bioone

📢 On 11 April, Dr. Gema Trigos Peral (MIZ PAS) joined the VI Bioblitz at @pablodeolavide.upo.es (Seville, Spain) as the expert of the “Hormigas II” group 🐜. Over 300 participants celebrated biodiversity, curiosity, and citizen science! 🌿 #nature #citizen_science #biodiversity #ANTS

➡️ Paper "Jackals among wolves: balancing between competition and tolerance" co-authored by Wiesław Bogdanowicz & Przemysław Chylarecki, recently published in Proc. R. Soc. B @royalsocietypublishing.org, featured in Canid News of the IUCN SSC Canid Specialist Group 👇 📗 www.canids.org/canidnews/20...

‼️Important Update from MIZ Scientific Journals! 📚 This year, enjoy #OpenAccess with NO APCs for authors. Discover a new visual identity, strengthened editorial boards, faster peer review, and online publishing. Submit your research and share it globally!🌍 #OpenAccess #ScientificPublishing #BioOne

The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Academia, features an interview with Dr. Filip Turza from our Institute in the podcast “What’s science all about?” 🐜🎙️ What connects humans and ants? 👇 🎧 www.polskieradio.pl/podcasty/o-c... (~9:30 min) 📄 academia.pan.pl/nie-tylko-pr... (text version)

❗📰 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

Don't miss our on-line seminar! 👇

🎉 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