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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS
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Research from the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
📢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
January 13, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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
January 8, 2026 at 11:38 PM
📢 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
January 6, 2026 at 11:43 AM
📢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
January 2, 2026 at 5:15 PM
🦞🌎 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
December 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🐜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
December 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
🦐 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
December 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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
December 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
👉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
December 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
📢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.🪳🧬
December 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
❗ 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
December 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
❗️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. 👇
December 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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
December 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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
December 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
📣🎉 Our researchers, Wiesław Bogdanowicz and Marcin Kamiński, have been awarded @ncn.gov.pl grants in the OPUS call! 🏆​ Congratulations👏​
➡️ tinyurl.com/37rv4rwv
Wyniki konkursu OPUS 29, PRELUDIUM 24
28 listopada 2025 r. Koordynatorzy Dyscyplin Narodowego Centrum Nauki przedstawiają listy rankingowe projektów zakwalifikowanych do finansowania w ramach konkursów ogłoszonych przez NCN w dniu 17 marca 2025 r.: OPUS 29 – konkurs na projekty badawcze dla naukowców na wszystkich etapach kariery PRELUDIUM 24 – konkurs na projekty badawcze dla osób bez stopnia doktora
ncn.gov.pl
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
🕷 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.
November 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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
Species on the move: a genetic story of three golden jackals at the expansion front - Mammalian Biology
One of the most fascinating mammalian range expansions in Europe involves an opportunistic mesocarnivore―the golden jackal (Canis aureus). However, key questions about the origins and dispersal strate...
link.springer.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🌿🐜 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
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Reposted by Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS
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
November 6, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Reposted by Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS
🪶 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
Big data and small brown birds: how whole-genome sequencing can inform conservation of the threatened aquatic warbler?
The ERGA-BGE case study led by Dr Justyna Kubacka of Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, is drawing to an end. You can read about the project here. In a nutshell, the study re...
www.erga-biodiversity.eu
November 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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
November 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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
November 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
💡 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
October 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Reposted by Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS
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

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October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM