Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
LightNews LightNews
banner
mfnberlin.bsky.social
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
@mfnberlin.bsky.social
830 followers 84 following 51 posts
Follow us for real science and research stories beyond the sky! 🦋
Posts Replies Media Videos
mfnberlin.bsky.social
Unpacking legal narratives in natural history ⚖️

Heritage & Justice is a digital colloquium exploring how legal and ethical frameworks shape natural history collections and their colonial legacies. 🌍

📅 Next session: 12 Nov, 13:00–14:00 CET
💻 Open to all via Zoom

🔗 bit.ly/3Ly2k1G
📸 P. Castagnola
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Reposted by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
jeromeollier.bsky.social
Researchers discover an "all-body brain" in sea urchins - @mfnberlin.bsky.social

www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/museum/me...
Researchers discover an “all-body brain” in sea urchins
An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, has uncovered a surprisingly complex nervous system in sea urchins. The animals appear to possess an “...
www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin
November 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
mfnberlin.bsky.social
Guess who's back! 🦇

55 years missing: An international team led by the museum rediscovered the Turkestan long-eared bat in the Karakum Desert. Endemic species like 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘬𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 reveal how life adapts – and why protecting unique habitats matters. 🌏

📹 Christian Dietz
#biodiversity #bats
November 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
mfnberlin.bsky.social
(Not so) Happy Halloween! 🦇🐀🎃

Researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin documented brown rats catching #bats in mid-air at Segeberger Kalkberg, Northern Germany. A rare look at invasive species impacting urban wildlife. 🌍 @berlinbatlab.bsky.social

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
October 31, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Reposted by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
forsaid.eu
✈️ Last week, we made the journey to the Colombian capital of Bogotá for the #LivingData 2025 conference!

👀 Find out how FORSAID partners from @pensoft.net
and @mfnberlin.bsky.social left their mark at the event:

🔗 forsaid.eu/news/living-...

#Forests #Pests #PlantHealth
October 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
mfnberlin.bsky.social
10 years of Berlin Science Week! 🎉

This weekend, the festival kicks off with the CAMPUS at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin – free entry for everyone! Discover science up close with talks, workshops & hands-on formats. 🧠

👉 Full programme: berlinscienceweek.com

📸 Falling Walls
October 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Reposted by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
forsaid.eu
🔦 Our coverage of #LivingData 2025 continues with a spotlight on our partner Prof. Dr. Rudolf Meier from @mfnberlin.bsky.social!

🐞 One of the event's keynote speakers, he delivered a presentation on technological innovation in the context of biodiversity discovery.
October 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
mfnberlin.bsky.social
💭 Can a museum think like a start-up?

Explore how culture and tech can develop business models together – join our workshop at #BerlinScienceWeek CAMPUS next week at mfnberlin! 🧠

📅 Sat. / 01.11.2025 / 13:00–15:00
🔗 Register: bit.ly/4hpYDa9

📸 Credits: Györgyi Kovács
Museum staff talk with partners in an exhibition hall featuring digitisation stations and an installation of numerous insect display cases.
October 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
mfnberlin.bsky.social
Explore what happens to soil during and after a wildfire! 🔥

Join our #art and #science workshop "Soil, wildfires and biological remediation” with Margherita Pevere, in collaboration with #mfnberlin researchers Katharina and Parm von Oheimb! 🐌

🗓️ Sat, 25 Oct, 14:00 to 18:00
🔗 bit.ly/soil-wildfires
October 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Reposted by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
nicolekearney.bsky.social
Rudolf Meier paraphrases a post from @rdmpage.bsky.social : as ~ 2/3 of the records in GBIF are birds, @gbif.org is primarily a Global Bird Information Facility. To correct this bias, we need to focus on the “ugly” biodiversity. 🪰 🪱 🪳 🦟 @mfnberlin.bsky.social #LivingData2025 x.com/rdmpage/stat...
October 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Reposted by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
nicolekearney.bsky.social
@svmering.bsky.social shares how @mfnberlin.bsky.social is digitally cataloguing and digitizing its vast natural history collection of approximately 30 million objects and building a #Wikidata knowledge graph connecting taxa, specimens, people, places, publications, and events. #LivingData2025 🧪 🔗
October 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
mfnberlin.bsky.social
The tiniest things run the planet – and the tiniest details make a difference! 🪰

Researchers from #Brazil, Singapore and Germany collected fungus gnats in #Singapore and found 120 species – 115 new to #science! 🌏

Among them: 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘣𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘪 and 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘢 𝘵𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘬. 🧵 (1/2)

#sciencenews
Male holotype of Allactoneura tumasik in lateral view, showing the general body shape and proportions. Female paratype of Allactoneura limbosengi, shown in lateral view to illustrate the overall body shape, size and coloration pattern of the species.
October 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
mfnberlin.bsky.social
Long before the dinosaurs, #insects were already eating their way through leaves! 🌿

#Fossils from Thuringia reveal the world’s oldest insect plague – 295 million years old. Understanding global change thanks to natural history collections! 🌍

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#science #sciencenews
Fossil leaf of the seed fern Autunia conferta from the Permian period. The pinnules show numerous small oval depressions – traces of insect oviposition. These scars occur in large numbers and likely represent sites where eggs were deposited but never hatched. Line drawing of the same Autunia conferta fossil leaf as in. The sketch highlights the distribution of oviposition scars across the pinnule, showing their clustered occurrence.
October 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Reposted by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
klauslederer.bsky.social
Im #netzwerknaturwissen denken Menschen aus Wissenschaft, Kultur, Initiativen und Museen gemeinsam über eine gestaltbare und nachhaltige Zukunft für #Berlin nach. Gestern hatte ich das Vergnügen, in der Leibnitzgemeinschaft neben dem @mfnberlin.bsky.social dort mitdenken zu können. Ich finde, … 1/2
Flyer mit Text: “eine andere Zukunft ist möglich” Blick in den Raum, vorne die Input-Geber*innen
October 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Reposted by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
jackdashby.bsky.social
The bird gallery at @mfnberlin.bsky.social is closed for redevelopment, but instead of packing away their #birds, they crated up 11,500 #taxidermy specimens and put the crates on display instead. It's a really interesting - and beautiful - approach to open storage. #museums
A series of wooden crates with glass fronts, containing densely packed shelves of taxidermy birds. A wooden crate with a glass front, containing densely packed shelves of taxidermy birds. A wooden crate with a glass front, containing densely packed shelves of taxidermy birds of prey. A wooden crate with a glass front, containing densely packed shelves of taxidermy toucans and hummingbirds
October 10, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Reposted by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
jackdashby.bsky.social
Very excited to be at @mfnberlin.bsky.social for a workshop on comprehending the cultural value of colonial Australian natural history collections (and thoroughly honoured to have been invited to give one of the keynotes).
The lecture screen and lectern. The title slide reads BERLIN’S AUSTRALIAN ARCHIVE & CENTER FOR HUMANITIES OF NATURE Translocated Nature from Australia as Indigenous Cultural Belongings The programme for the workshop. It reads BERLIN’S AUSTRALIAN ARCHIVE & CENTER FOR HUMANITIES OF NATURE Translocated Nature from Australia as Indigenous Cultural Belongings Check-In & Opening Opening Remarks (pre-recorded) Laura McBride & Mariko Smith, Australian Museum, Sydney Keynote Rebecca Carland, Museums Victoria Coffee Break Berlin’s Australian Archive Project Presentation Lunch Project Presentations, part I Alison Clark, National Museums Scotland Rachel Webster, Manchester Museum Lindiwe Breuer, Technische Universität Berlin Coffee Break Project Presentations, part II Luiza Bengtsson, Botanischer Garten Berlin Ina Heumann & Katja Kaiser, MfN Berlin Yann LeGall, Technische Universität Berlin Isabel Davis, Natural History Museum London Keynote Jack Ashby, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge Round Table: ‘Nature’ as Indigenous Cultural Belongings The title slide, showing a platypus head, with the title: Museums, colonial entanglements and Australian mammals
October 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Reposted by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
ethikrat.org
🎥 Sneak Peek! Johannes Vogel (Direktor des Museums für Naturkunde Berlin / @mfnberlin.bsky.social) über Wissen & Macht – exklusiv zu unserer Herbsttagung am 15.10. in Heidelberung und online.

📍 Infos + Anmeldung unter www.ethikrat.org
#Ethikrat #WissenundMacht
October 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Reposted by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
w-i-d.de
Gestern fand der erste Campus Citizen Science von mit:forschen! statt. Im Fokus stand die Frage, wie Künstliche Intelligenz die #CitizenScience verändert – von Skalierung und Zugänglichkeit bis zu neuen Formen der Beteiligung. Zum Rückblick:
wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/blog/campus-...

#KI #Wisskomm
October 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
mfnberlin.bsky.social
What if #Berlin became a place where protecting nature and democracy go hand in hand? 🌱

Join our "Ideas for a liveable Berlin" event to explore how shared knowledge can shape our city’s future. 🤝

🗓️ Mon, 13 Oct | 18:00 | @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de
🔗 eventbrite.com/e/1719108452659

📸 Pablo Castagnola
View over Berlin from the roof of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, with the Berlin TV Tower visible in the background.
October 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Reposted by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
feda.bio
Achtung Artenvielfalt! Mehr als 80 Events warten darauf, von dir entdeckt zu werden - quer durch die Bundesrepublik, kostenlos, vielfältig! 🌿🦋

Schau mal ins Programm!
🌐 www.achtung-artenvielfalt.de

@sgn.one
@mfnberlin.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Reposted by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
bdj.pensoft.net
A package of terrestrial mollusc collection data from Vietnam's Cuc Phuong National Park, linked to preserved material housed at the @mfnberlin.bsky.social and the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Ha Noi: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
October 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Reposted by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
chs42.bsky.social
Welt retten in 20 Minuten? Mit meiner @spiegel.de Kollegin Regina Steffens habe ich beim #BeatsAndBones Podcastfestival im @mfnberlin.bsky.social darüber gesprochen, wie man die Erde vor #Asteroiden retten kann. Entstanden ist ein #Shortcut, hier zum Anschauen/-hören: www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
Podcast-Host Regina Steffens (links) und Gesprächspartner Christoph Seidler (rechts). Im Hintergrund sind als Computergrafik mehrere Asteroiden und eine Raumsonde zu sehen.
October 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Reposted by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
bdj.pensoft.net
A new study reveals the diversity of land snails and slugs in Vietnam’s Cuc Phuong National Park, highlighting it as one of the richest tropical forests for terrestrial gastropods known. Read more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

@mfnberlin.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Reposted by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
w-i-d.de
🏆 Wissen der Vielen – Forschungspreis für Citizen Science 2025: Wir gratulieren herzlich den Preisträger*innen. Mit dem Preis fördern wir die Sichtbarkeit partizipativer Forschung und stärken deren Anerkennung! ➡️ www.mitforschen.org/forschungspr...

#CitizenScience
Foto einer Trophäe für den Wissenschaftspreis. Text: Wir gratulieren! Preisträger*innen 2025. Logos: Wissen der Vielen Forschungspreis für Citizen Science und mit:forschen! Portrait von Dr. Dirk Knoche, Platz 1 Wissen der Vielen Forschungspreis für Citizen Science für die Publikation “Gemeinsam die Birke erforschen: Bürgerforschung zum Waldwandel” Portrait von Sven Bittenbinder, Platz 2 Wissen der Vielen Forschungspreis für Citizen Science für die Publikation „Research Buddy – From a Framework for Overcoming Language Barriers to the Development of a Qualitative Citizen Science Platform” Portrait von Dr. Melike Sahinol, Platz 3 Wissen der Vielen Forschungspreis für Citizen Science für die Publikation „3D printed children’s prostheses as enabling technology? The experience of children with upper limb body differences”
September 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Reposted by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
utehausmann.bsky.social
This coming Tuesday in #Berlin

Naturally Contested: Whose Nature, Whose Conservation?

@mfnberlin.bsky.social

www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/participa...
Naturally Contested: Whose Nature, Whose Conservation?
Nature Conservation in the Global South
www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin
September 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM