Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS
@mizpas.bsky.social
Research from the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
📢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
📢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
💡 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
❗ 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
💡 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. 👇
ℹ️Roman Gula & Jörn Theuerkauf contributed to a new cooperative breeding database for birds and mammals, Co-BreeD, published recently in animalecology.bsky.social. 👇
1/6 The Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD) is alive! Co-BreeD covers key biological parameters relevant to cooperative breeding research in birds and mammals. Get your copy of this updateable & open-access database: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@animalecology.bsky.social
@animalecology.bsky.social
An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD)
Co-BreeD is the first updatable and open-source database dedicated to cooperative breeding. It enables continuous, non-binary measurement of cooperative breeding, transforming how we study breeding s....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
❗️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. 👇
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
"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
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
"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
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
"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
➡️ 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
📣🎉 Our researchers, Wiesław Bogdanowicz and Marcin Kamiński, have been awarded @ncn.gov.pl grants in the OPUS call! 🏆 Congratulations👏
➡️ tinyurl.com/37rv4rwv
➡️ 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.
November 27, 2025 at 8:30 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.
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
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
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
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
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
🌿🐜 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
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
#NewCaledonia #Drones #EcosystemConservation #InvasiveSpecies #ThermalImaging
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 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
#NewCaledonia #Drones #EcosystemConservation #InvasiveSpecies #ThermalImaging
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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
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
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
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
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
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
🪶 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
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
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
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
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
👉https://tinyurl.com/yy9kp2ab
November 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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
👉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
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
💡 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
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
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
Scan the QR to save the event in your calendar or save the link:
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Scan the QR to save the event in your calendar or save the link:
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October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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...
Scan the QR to save the event in your calendar or save the link:
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Don't miss our hybrid seminar! 24 Oct, 12:00 CEST. 👇
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
"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
October 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/syen...
#taxonomy #beetles #ancientDNA
October 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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
🔗 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
"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
October 15, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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
"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
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#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)
#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)
October 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
(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)
#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
👉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
October 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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
👉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
October 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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
👉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.
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
October 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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
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
👉 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
October 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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
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🌾 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...
@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...
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October 1, 2025 at 9:59 AM
🌾 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...
@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...