Very happy to see the latest issue of @heredityjournal.bsky.social, which features an aquatic warbler on the cover! 📷Courtesy of Dr Janusz Kupryjanowicz 🔗Read the full text of our aquatic warbler inbreeding depression paper here: rdcu.be/fpyva

Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS@mizpas.bsky.social · 2w ago

A paper led by @justynakubacka.bsky.social and published in @heredityjournal.bsky.social shows that inbreeding depression is phenotype-dependent: more inbred, smaller-bodied, or shorter-winged aquatic warbler males had lower reproductive success and survival, respectively. 👉🔗https://rdcu.be/fpyva

❗New paper in Ecological Informatics, co-authored by MIZ PAS researchers (Joanna Toczydłowska, Roman Gula, Jörn Theuerkauf) developes AI workflow that estimates animal distances from camera traps in ~4 sec., making ungulate population monitoring faster & more accurate. 👉🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

Proud to share my new paper, just published with @springernature.com in @heredityjournal.bsky.social! 🥳 We found phenotype-dependent inbreeding depression in male breeding success 🐤: it was present in small, but not in large males of the aquatic warbler. Read more here 👉 rdcu.be/fpyva 📷I. Arnaldos

🔬 We have an open post-doc position on nutritional immunology, funded by @ncn.gov.pl! 🙌 We study how fatty acids shape insect immune responses to fungal infections, using Galleria mellonella larvae as a model. 📅 Apply by 31.05.2026 to akaczmarek@miiz.waw.pl (subject: OpusLap) 👉 tinyurl.com/4babnhfp

🐟 New study, co-auth. by H. Panagiotopoulou: European and Atlantic sturgeons partly shared environmental niches in Holocene Europe. Atlantic sturgeon was more cold-adapted, while European sturgeon tolerated broader conditions, which informs restoration under climate change. 📗 shorturl.at/jwaTW

Acta Ornithologica, one of @mizpas.bsky.social scientific journals is now featuring online-early publication and offering free open access in 2026! 👇

Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS@mizpas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢 Acta Ornithologica supports open science An international, peer‑reviewed journal ranked 9th of 29 in Ornithology, offering free Open Access in 2026. Benefit from rapid Online Early publication and wide visibility via BioOne. Share your research globally! #ornithology #openscience #bioone

📢 Polish Journal of Ecology updates its editorial policy for 2026!!! 📖Open data, fast review, new article types, global inclusion, and free open‑access publishing. 🌍Submit your work and share rigorous science worldwide! #ecology #openscience #bioone

Publish with MIZ PAN, for free and in OA!

Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS@mizpas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢 Fragmenta Faunistica enters 2026 with a renewed editorial team and a strong commitment to open‑access faunistic, taxonomic and ecological research. 🌍 Free OA, rapid online publication & focused on key biodiversity data. Share your science with us! #biodiversity #faunistics #openaccess

New paper! 🌍🔬 With detailed morphological and molecular analyses, researchers from MIZ PAS (Wioletta Tomaszewska & Karol Szawaryn) and Instituto de Ecología, Mexico (Emmanuel Arriaga Varela) transform our understanding of the Mycetaeidae family, a group of rare beetles. 🔗 tinyurl.com/mrx7fpjx

❗️Join our upcoming on-line seminar❗️ 📆24 April, 2026 ⏰12:00 CEST 📍The seminar will be held on-line in English. 🎙️Speaker: Dr Katarzyna Rybarczyk-Mydłowska, MIZ PAS ➡️Title: "Exploring soil nematode diversity: species characteristics and (meta)barcoding" 🔗Join with the link: tinyurl.com/vc5wcez3

My institute publishes four established scientific journals. This year, they will all be open-access in @bioone.bsky.social. Plus the editorial boards have been refreshed and there is now online early publishing. Submissions are welcome!

Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS@mizpas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

‼️Important Update from MIZ Scientific Journals! 📚 This year, enjoy #OpenAccess with NO APCs for authors. Discover a new visual identity, strengthened editorial boards, faster peer review, and online publishing. Submit your research and share it globally!🌍 #OpenAccess #ScientificPublishing #BioOne

❗📰 MIZ PAS research in French press: @liberation.fr featured wolf–jackal interactions, citing the study in @royalsocietypublishing.org co-authored by Prof. Wiesław Bogdanowicz & Prof. Przemysław Chylarecki. 🔗Libération article: tinyurl.com/2zhpmpem 👉Paper: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Loups et chacals: une diplomatie canine

Le directeur de recherche CNRS au Centre d’écologie fonctionnelle et évolutive de Montpellier tient une chronique écologique pour «Libération» : «l’Albatros hurleur». Aujourd’hui, les relations entre ...

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📣New article by MIZ PAS scientists @martamaziarz.bsky.social, @trigos-peral.bsky.social & M. Witek shows a diverse, dynamic and distinctive macroarthropod community in bird nests on forest floor. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/bdhcsv9d 💰@ncn.gov.pl @respublications.bsky.social #ornithology #Bialowieza #Forest

Bird nests support a diverse, dynamic and distinctive macroarthropod community on the forest floor

Nests built by vertebrates, such as birds and mammals, constitute diverse microhabitats that are inhabited by many arthropod taxa and represent important hubs of local biodiversity. Compared to leaf...

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⏲️ Dont'miss out on-line seminar! Today, at 12:00 CEST. 👇

Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS@mizpas.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢Upcoming on-line MIZ PAS seminar! ℹ️Talk title: "Ecology of haemoparasitic infections in birds: occurrence patterns and host-level effects" 👉by Dr. Anna Dubiec from MIZ PAS. 📅 30 March (Monday), 12:00 CEST. 🔗 shorturl.at/QvjxO #ornithology #haemoparasites #species_interactions 📷A. Dubiec

🐺🦊 Wolves & jackals at the same table? Prof. Bogdanowicz and Prof. Chylarecki show that competition or tolerance between them strongly depends on food abundance. Link 👉 shorturl.at/tbp2X #WolfVsJackal #PredatorDynamics #Fieldwork #CarnivoreEcology Photo by Theodoros Kominos

Passive acoustic monitoring is a powerful way to detect birds. Researchers from my institute contributed to the first annotated dataset of bird vocalisations, which will advance automated bird detection algorithms.

Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS@mizpas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Dr Attisano & Prof. Theuerkauf contributed to first 🌍 annotated dataset of 🐦vocalisations: 91,931 recordings from 1,192 species across 13 biomes. The dataset supports training & validation of automated bird detection algorithms. 🔗Paper: tinyurl.com/mr2mr6ym 🔗Data: tinyurl.com/2azvryp3

In 2018-2022, artificial islands were built in the Szczecin Laggon, PL by the Maritime Office in Szczecin. Dr Dominik Marchowski from our institute has been an expert ensuring the islands are safe and valuable bird habitats. Science for conservation! #BirdConservation #BalticSea #ScienceImpact

Bird Paradise of the Szczecin Lagoon – New Islands and Bird Conservation (Baltic Sea, Poland)

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Warszawskie Koło Ornitologów przy MiIZ PAN oraz Warszawska Grupa @otop-birdlife.bsky.social zapraszają na kolejne spotkanie! 📅3 marca 2026 ⏲️17:30 🚩Miejsce Aktywności Lokalnej Kasprowicza 14, Warszawa 👨‍🏫Maciej Boenisch - muzealnik, kustosz w Muzeum Dulag 121 oraz członek Pruszkowskiej Grupy OTOP. 👇

🎉 New paper in Nature Communications! Researchers from MiIZ PAN and Jagiellonian University report extreme genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria of planthoppers — some function with only ~60 genes. 🧬 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 Cities reshape ant diets 🐜🍬 An international team—Stukalyuk et al. (Ukraine), @tomerczaczkes.bsky.social (Germany) & @trigos-peral.bsky.social (Poland) found urban ants accept lower-sugar food than rural ones, likely adapting to different food sources. 👉 shorturl.at/W7bsm #City #Ants #Nutrition

👉Join the upcoming on-line MIZ PAS seminar! 🎤Dr Rowan French (Uni. Toronto / Indiana Uni. / Field Museum) ℹ️Title: "Why the long “horns”? Evolution of exaggerated, sexually dimorphic antennae in longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)" 📅19th Feb (Thu), 3 p.m. CET 🔗https://tinyurl.com/47sr5x5w

❗️📣JOB ALERT❗️ 👉Our Zoological Museum invites applications for a postdoc to study the historical biogeography and evolutionary history of the subfamily Blaptinae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) ℹ️The position is funded by @ncn.gov.pl 🔗 Apply here: url-shortener.me/BFBA 👉 Read more: url-shortener.me/BFBD

📣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

📢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 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

Great to see this article published in @peopleandnature.bsky.social. The paper presents valuable perspectives on #rewilding from a discussion among scientists & practitioners during the @britishecologicalsociety.org Policy Training workshop. 👉 tinyurl.com/ykwfrjmh

Embedding rewilding in policy: Perspectives on overcoming barriers and unlocking opportunities

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📢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

Sudyka et al. Avian extra‐pair paternity in the last European primeval forest besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology

Avian extra‐pair paternity in the last European primeval forest

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📢 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

Don't miss our on-line seminar on a cooperative bird from New Caledonia! 📅This Fri at 10:00 CET.

Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS@mizpas.bsky.social · 8mo ago

👉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