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Marta Maziarz
@martamaziarz.bsky.social
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Biologist interested in #ecology and #behaviour of #forest #animals: #birds, #invertebrates, #mammals. Currently fascinated by ecological networks based on #tree #seeds. Associate Professor at the Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences .. more

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 20h
Last year's Pantanal–Chiquitano fires were 35× larger due to human-driven climate change, the State of Wildfires shows

At #COP30 today UKCEH scientists & partners discuss integrating fire policy with early warning, climate science & local knowledge

📍 Blue Zone Side Event Rm 5
🕐 1:15pm-2:45pm

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Iris Hordijk @iris-hordijk.bsky.social · 21h
There is a PhD position available at @w-u-r.bsky.social on seed dispersal and succession! You will be based at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and conduct fieldwork in tropical forests in Mexico on plant-animal interactions. Deadline to apply: 3rd of December shorturl.at/sLVOU
PhD position on 'Seed dispersal shapes tropical forest succession' (Seeds 4 Success)
shorturl.at

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 2d
🌿🐜 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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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 6d
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

Reposted by Márk E. Hauber, Marta Maziarz, Darius Stiels

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EOU Fledglings @eoufledglings.bsky.social · 10d
The date is set for the next EOU Fledglings Meeting 🐥 in Gdansk, Poland! Share the news with your peers! 🦆

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 13d
⚠️ Please report sightings of dead birds for possible testing for bird flu via the forms below ⬇️

📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/rep...
📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/.../daera-de....
📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.services.agriculture.gov.ie/report
Report dead wild birds
How to report dead wild birds.
www.gov.uk

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Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) @biogeneurope.bsky.social · 13d
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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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 21d
A video is now available of the lecture I gave last week to the Linnean Society & British Ornithologists' Club in London, on woodland birds, Marsh Tits & Willow Tits (~45 mins): www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7HF... #ornithology #ukbirding @ukceh.bsky.social
A Quietening of the Woods | The Decline of Woodland Birds
YouTube video by Linnean Society
www.youtube.com

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 25d
Almost a third of UK Hawfinches used artificial birdfood when available, with implications for disease transmission.

Investigating supplementary food use of UK Hawfinch Coccothraustes coccothraustes populations using DNA metabarcoding doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#BirdStudy #ornithology
(c) rob Stoeltje, wiki commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appelvink._(40555770115).jpg

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 29d
🚨The European Parliament just rejected the #Forest Monitoring Law 🚨

The proposal was a much-needed piece of legislation, essential to better understanding the state of Europe’s forests and how best to tackle their current breakdown.

Our reaction 👇

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · Oct 19
New in #BirdStudy

Loyal as a Robin: low frequency of extra-pair paternity in a European Robin Erithacus rubecula population in the natural forest of Białowieża National Park (Poland)
doi.org/10.1080/0006...

#ornithology
Frank Vassen Wiki Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:European_Robin_(Erithacus_rubecula),_Bia%C5%82owie%C5%BCa_Forest,_Poland.jpg

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · Oct 15
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
Photos: C. Hicks & E. Mpaka, courtesy C. Hicks

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BOU @bou.org.uk · Oct 6
EARLY VIEW in IBIS

Inadequate reproductive success is a potential cause of Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) population decline in England | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Malcolm D. Burgess et al | #ornithology 🪶

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · Oct 6
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.
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.
doi.org

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · Oct 5
May 2015. David Cameron was Prime Minister, UK an EU member, Barack Obama was US President, and this male Marsh Tit hatched in Monks Wood. Colour-ringed 28 August 2015. Photo 2 April 2016. Observed every year since. @martamaziarz.bsky.social & I saw him again today, 10 yrs 5 mo old, still surviving.

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · Oct 3
Why are Britain’s woods falling silent?

Marsh & Willow Tits have declined by up to 96%.

Join @richardkbroughton.bsky.social at 6pm, Oct 23 at the Society to uncover what’s driving these losses - and what they reveal about our vanishing forests.

Book now: buff.ly/IuNlpoH

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Marta Maziarz @martamaziarz.bsky.social · Oct 1
Congratulations!

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Marta Maziarz @martamaziarz.bsky.social · Oct 1
#ornithology
justynakubacka.bsky.social Justyna Kubacka @justynakubacka.bsky.social · Oct 1
My WGS🧬project on Aquatic Warbler shows:
👉 Recent genetic bottleneck and low diversity
👉 Elevated inbreeding in declining westernmost population
👉 Growing inbreeding in core population
@biogeneurope.bsky.social @sib.swiss @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @otop-birdlife.bsky.social @peenefvp.bsky.social
An Aquatic Warbler from Western Pomerania, Poland, a previously nearly extinct population that is now under restoration. Photo: J. Kubacka Temporal changes in the effective population size of two Aquatic Warbler populations: a large core metapopulation, represented by the Biebrza Valley subpopulation (sampled in 2018), and a small westernmost declining population, West Pomerania (sampled in 1999). The analysis was run with the GONE software. The current effective population sizes in the three populations sampled. Long runs of homozygosity (>1Mb) in the three sampled populations: Biebrza in 1997; Biebrza in 2018; and West Pomerania in 1999. Long ROHs are indicative of recent inbreeding.

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Justyna Kubacka @justynakubacka.bsky.social · Oct 1
My WGS🧬project on Aquatic Warbler shows:
👉 Recent genetic bottleneck and low diversity
👉 Elevated inbreeding in declining westernmost population
👉 Growing inbreeding in core population
@biogeneurope.bsky.social @sib.swiss @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @otop-birdlife.bsky.social @peenefvp.bsky.social
An Aquatic Warbler from Western Pomerania, Poland, a previously nearly extinct population that is now under restoration. Photo: J. Kubacka Temporal changes in the effective population size of two Aquatic Warbler populations: a large core metapopulation, represented by the Biebrza Valley subpopulation (sampled in 2018), and a small westernmost declining population, West Pomerania (sampled in 1999). The analysis was run with the GONE software. The current effective population sizes in the three populations sampled. Long runs of homozygosity (>1Mb) in the three sampled populations: Biebrza in 1997; Biebrza in 2018; and West Pomerania in 1999. Long ROHs are indicative of recent inbreeding.

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ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas @ergabiodiv.bsky.social · Oct 1
🌾 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... ‬
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...
erga-biodiversity.eu

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Aleksandra Wróbel 🕊️🐁🌱🌳 @aleksandrawrobel.bsky.social · Oct 1
Happy to announce that my photo has been chosen for the journal's cover 🐿️🥳

Link to our article on seed predation by rodents in the Swiss Alps:
dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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Marta Maziarz @martamaziarz.bsky.social · Sep 25
Here’s our work funded by @ncn.gov.pl & published #OpenAccess:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#ornithology #forestecol
Thermal ecosystem engineering by songbirds promotes a symbiotic relationship with ants - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Thermal ecosystem engineering by songbirds promotes a symbiotic relationship with ants
www.nature.com

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Marta Maziarz @martamaziarz.bsky.social · Sep 25
Wonderful to see the BBC Springwatch 2025 episode 8, where Chris Packham mentions our study on ants & ground-nesting birds 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Starts 25:29 saying that ants can be drawn to ground-nesting birds, attracted by heat.
Springwatch - 2025: Episode 8
More of the wildlife wonders on the Longshaw Estate, some urban characters in Sheffield, and the enchanting golden hare on Rathlin Island.
www.bbc.co.uk

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · Sep 24
The woods are growing quieter. On 23 Oct, join us in partnership with @britornitholclub.bsky.social for an evening lecture at our building with @richardkbroughton.bsky.social, exploring the dramatic decline of Marsh and Willow Tits - key voices in Britain's woodland soundscape: buff.ly/k6h5bit

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Marta Maziarz @martamaziarz.bsky.social · Sep 22
Truly enjoyable and productive weekend at Monks Wood 🌳🍁🪶
richardkbroughton.bsky.social Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · Sep 21
Successful start to the 24th annual Marsh Tit colour-ringing census at Monks Wood (Cambs), with @martamaziarz.bsky.social. Thirteen new birds ringed and several colour-ringed adults re-sighted in first section of the wood. A notable year for acorns, & happy Jays. #ornithology

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · Sep 21
The Monks Wood study features very heavily in the Marsh Tit & Willow Tit Poyser book, showing the value of this and other long-term population studies. We know lots about how the Marsh Tit population functions in/around Monks Wood, but many questions remain: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/marsh-tit...
The Marsh Tit and The Willow Tit
'A superb account of the ecology and behaviour of two declining bird species whose lives are intimately shaped by their woodland habitats.' – Rob Fuller'There c…
www.bloomsbury.com

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · Sep 21
Successful start to the 24th annual Marsh Tit colour-ringing census at Monks Wood (Cambs), with @martamaziarz.bsky.social. Thirteen new birds ringed and several colour-ringed adults re-sighted in first section of the wood. A notable year for acorns, & happy Jays. #ornithology

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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · Sep 19
We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below!

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PiedFly.Net @piedflynet.bsky.social · Sep 18
Fully funded PhD with me, @uniexecec.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social working on insectivorous bird declines - hopefully esp. House martin www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Marta Maziarz @martamaziarz.bsky.social · Sep 18
It’s been a privilege and great joy to attend the HNB conference as a keynote speaker, seeing other fabulous presentations in a friendly atmosphere. Big thanks to organisers: Miloš Krist, Peter Adamík and the local team for an amazing job!
hnbirds2025.bsky.social 10th Hole-nesting Birds Conference @hnbirds2025.bsky.social · Sep 17
The 10th HNB Conference has finished! The atmosphere was fantastic, and we hope everyone enjoyed both the conference and the city of Olomouc. Congrats to the winners of the student competition: Beau Strijker (Best Poster) and Daisy Abraham (Best Talk)! We’re already looking forward to the next HNB!