📢 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

💡 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

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...

Don't miss our hybrid seminar! 24 Oct, 12:00 CEST. 👇

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

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

(1/2) #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)

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

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

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.

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

🌾 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... ‬

🎉New publication from MiIZ PAS 👉🏼

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

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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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 1/3