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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS@iseapas.bsky.social · 2w ago

#chwalimysię Nasz Instytut 🦏 uzyskał kategorię A+ w ewaluacji działalności naukowej przeprowadzonej przez MNiSW 🥳. To najwyższa możliwa ocena, przyznawana jednostkom o najwyższym poziomie prowadzonych badań i wpływie na rozwój dyscypliny.

After Monday's teaser in the session dedicated to COST Actions, @pedrogribeiro.bsky.social just presented an inspiring update on the outputs and progress of @10klepgenomes.bsky.social and @projectpsyche.bsky.social in the Genomics and evolutionary novelties 3 session at @ece2026tours.bsky.social! 🦋

🦋 Today at #ECE2026Tours, our Editor-in-Chief Marcin Wiorek presented research on Euchromia tiger moths - tracing how they crossed the Pacific and spread to Africa, which was revealed through DNA from century-old museum specimens. @cnrs.fr @irbi-tours.bsky.social #entomology

🦋 Excited to present at the XIII European Congress of Entomology @ece2026tours.bsky.social the results of my research on Euchromia zoogeography, funded by @ncn.gov.pl and implemented at @iseapas.bsky.social in collaboration with @lepphylo.bsky.social, @pavelmatosm.bsky.social, and the colleagues!

🦋 Happy to attend the XIII European Congress of Entomology, which has just begun in Tours, France. Many interesting talks ahead! #ECE2026

🦋 The 48th Symposium of the Lepidoptera section of the Polish Entomological Society was a great opportunity to share my own research, but also to spread the news about the progress of @projectpsyche.bsky.social and @10klepgenomes.bsky.social with the local community of lepidopterists. Exciting!

10kLepGenomes@10klepgenomes.bsky.social · last mo.

🦋🚀 @marcinwiorek.bsky.social from the @iseapas.bsky.social, gave a successful talk on @projectpsyche.bsky.social and @10klepgenomes.bsky.social at the 48th Symposium of the Lepidoptera Section, Polish Entomological Society held in Góra Świętej Anny, Poland, June 19–21. #10kLepGenomes #Lepidoptera

#Seminar 📣 🗓️ 17 June 2026 🕙 10:00 am (GMT+2) 📍 ISEA PAS, Sławkowska 17, Kraków + online 👩‍🏫 Andres Alfonso-Rojas MSc, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge @camzoology.bsky.social Link: tiny.pl/h1txsp178 (ID: 379 529 773 661 292, passcode: pL77fH2B) @mizpas.bsky.social @ipaleopan.bsky.social

#Seminar 📣 🗓️ 10 June 2026 🕙 10:00 am (GMT+2) 📍Conference room of ISEA PAS, Sławkowska 17, Kraków, and online 👩‍🏫 dr hab. Sebastian Tarcz, ISEA PAS Link: tiny.pl/33tf2sp-m (ID: 397 308 670 782 311, passcode: m94i3YP7) @mizpas.bsky.social @mripas.bsky.social @igsopas.bsky.social

Seven new genera (named after the Penguins of Madagascar characters, because why not)🐧, and three new species of Madagascan Syntomini 🦋 resulting from the revision, it was fun to do that study!

Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS@iseapas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Check out the latest volume of Faunistic Monographs published by our 🦏 Institute ➡️ a systematic revision of Thyrosticta and Melanonaclia, two previously messy genera of Syntomini tiger moths 🦋 from Madagascar 🇲🇬 🐧. An important contribution to studies of endemic Lepidoptera! doi.org/10.3409/f-mo...

(1/3) Do science with us and implement research projects funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (NCN) @ncn.gov.pl at our 🦏 Institute. We invite both experienced and early-career researchers (post-docs) 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬 who plan to apply in the upcoming grant calls. More details in the comments ⬇️

(1/4) W Bibliotece ISEZ PAN na szczególną uwagę zasługuje publikacja z 1930 r., związana z najcenniejszym naukowym okazem w naszych zbiorach - 🦏 nosorożcem włochatym ze Staruni, sprzed 30 tys. lat, zachowanym w pokładach solanki i wosku ziemnego i odkrytym 23.10.1929 we wsi Starunia na Ukrainie.

Our latest paper on Olepa schleini reported from the Comoros 👇👇

Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS@iseapas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

(1/2) 🦋 Lepidopterists from our 🦏 Institute, Dr hab. Łukasz Przybyłowicz and Dr Marcin Wiorek, together with colleagues from the Comoros, reported Olepa schleini tiger moth for the first time from the Comoro Islands, and the Afrotropic in general: doi.org/10.3161/0003... 📸P. Skraba, H. Mahamoudou

(1/4) Tegoroczny XXIII Ogólnopolski Tydzień Bibliotek (8-15 maja 2026) odbywa się pod hasłem “Biblioteka. Otwierasz. Odkrywasz”. Z tej okazji chcemy podzielić się z Wami ciekawostkami o naszej Bibliotece, za której początek należy uznać rok 1891.

Check out the article about the 🦣 MAMBA (Exploring MAMmoth Bone Accumulations In Central Europe), led by dr hab. Jarosław Wilczyński from our 🦏 Institute ⬇️ projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-m...

Mammoth bones reveal secrets of Ice Age hunters

Shortly before the peak of the last Ice Age, herds of woolly mammoths roamed across Central Europe, following seasonal routes through a vast, frigid landscape of grassland and tundra. Across the regio...

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Please share: last week to apply for a PhD position on comparative and population genomics in high elevation butterflies 🦋

Pável Matos@pavelmatosm.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New PhD position: Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️🧬 The project aims to understand the rapid evolution and adaptation of Andean white butterflies using genomics. DEADLINE: May 8, 2026 Start: Autumn 2026 (Czechia) More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

#Seminar 📣 🗓️ 29 April 2026 🕙 10:00 am (GMT+2) 📍Conference room of ISEA PAS, Sławkowska 17, Kraków, and online 👩‍🏫 Bartłomiej Surmacz MSc, ISEA PAS Link: tiny.pl/9dxv78w8h (ID: 357 738 466 076 860, passcode: AE3Ni9KW) @mizpas.bsky.social @mripas.bsky.social @igsopas.bsky.social

Today we close the @projectpsyche.bsky.social spring meeting at @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Final discussions and the summary session helped define our strategy for the coming months of data analysis 🧬🦋! #10kLepGenomes #Lepidoptera #Genomics

Day 3 of the @projectpsyche.bsky.social spring meeting at @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Summary sessions brought together the ideas we’ve developed so far, followed by a visit to the entomological collection 🧬🦋 #10kLepGenomes #Lepidoptera #Genomics

Day 2 of the spring meeting at @liverpooluni.bsky.social focused on breakout sessions across the different @projectpsyche.bsky.social working groups 🧬🦋 Great discussions today—exciting to dig deeper into challenges in Lepidoptera genome analysis! #10kLepGenomes #Lepidoptera #Genomics

Today kicks off the first day of the spring #10kLepGenomes and @projectpsyche.bsky.social meeting at the @liverpooluni.bsky.social 🧬🦋 Great to join colleagues to explore ideas for genomes analysis. Looking forward to the discussions ahead! #10kLepGenomes #Lepidoptera #Genomics

#Seminar 📣 🗓️ 15 April 2026 🕙 10:00 am (GMT+2) 📍Conference room of ISEA PAS, Sławkowska 17, Kraków, and online 👩‍🏫 Dr hab. Dominika Chmolowska, ISEA PAS Link: tiny.pl/3vpnxt-4s (ID: 349 702 296 117 137, passcode: MH259Tf9) @mizpas.bsky.social @mripas.bsky.social @igsopas.bsky.social

Join the Whiskered Tern Research Team! 🪶 We are seeking interns to join our fieldwork at the Zator fishponds in Poland 🇵🇱. We have been studying this Whiskered tern population for many years, and this season we will focus on breeding success🪺, avian ageing, and colony formation. More details below ⬇️

(2/2) Kolekcja Naukowa ISEZ PAN – trzecia co do wielkości w Polsce – zawiera ponad 2,5 mln okazów zwierząt współczesnych 🦋 i wymarłych 🦣. To nasz wspólny backup wiedzy dla przyszłych pokoleń naukowców 👩‍🏫. Foto: kolekcja skoczogonków (Collembola), fot. J. Sternalski

(1/2) W Światowy Dzień Backupu 💿 przypominamy, że kolekcje naukowe są „kopią zapasową” bioróżnorodności Ziemi. W Antropocenie tempo wymierania gatunków dramatycznie rośnie 📈, dlatego archiwa przyrodnicze są dziś kluczowe. Foto: kolekcja Hemiptera Antoniego Wagi z XIX w., fot. J. Sternalski

(1/3) The 2nd Genome Curation Workshop continues! Today, participants explored Merian elements and chromosome evolution in #Lepidoptera in a fantastic talk by @charlottewright.bsky.social More info below 👇🦋

📢 Today marks the start of the 2nd Genome Curation Workshop, organised by #10kLepGenomes and @projectpsyche.bsky.social From Feb 16–27, seventeen participants will learn how to interpret and edit Hi-C maps alongside senior curators at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Stay tuned for updates! 🦋🧬

(1/4) Come do science with us! 👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬 Interested in researching the diversity of the animal world? If your work involves taxonomy, systematics, phylogenetics, paleontology, zooarcheology, or zoogeography, do not miss the Top200 NAWA programme by @nawapoland.bsky.social!

New PhD position: Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️ The project aims to understand the rapid evolution and adaptation of white butterflies at high elevations. DEADLINE: January 11, 2025 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

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Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. Fully-funded PhD position The project aims to understand rapid evolution and adaptation in white butterflies flying at high elevatio…

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“Overall, these findings suggest that the value of natural history collections as global research infrastructure is eroding due to decreased collecting of specimen data across species, locations, and time.“ doi.org/10.1038/s414... Interesting analysis based on @gbif.org data.

Global sampling decline erodes science potential of natural history collections - Nature Communications

Natural history collections hold over two billion specimens representing Earth’s biodiversity, but their scientific value depends on continued specimen collection and digitisation. This study demonstr...

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