Mammal Research Institute PAS
@mripas.bsky.social
Independent research unit of the Polish Academy of Sciences 🎓 Discovering wildlife ecology & evolution for management & conservation 🐭🦌🦬🐺🦫🦉
📢 Open Seminar #84 at the Mammal Research Institute PAS 🎙 Presenter: Viktar Fenchuk (Frankfurt Zoological Society) 🧭 Title: Bringing Water Back to Białowieża Forest: Introducing a 5-year Renaturalization Project 📅 Date: Thursday, 11th June 2026 🕙 Time: 10:00 am CEST Link on our website!
📢 Open Seminar #82 at Mammal Research Institute PAS This Friday, Dr Vanesa Bejarano Alegre will present: “Living at the edge of human-modified landscapes: jaguar movements and interactions” 📅 29 May 2026 🕙 10:00 am CEST 📍 MRI PAS Library + online For the link, visit our website!
🐺 What’s the story behind the unusually bold wolf that appeared in the village of Białowieża, Poland, in 2020–2021? Our case study shows that the wolf in the photo, later named Gudrun, had a history with humans that likely explained her unusual behaviour. 🐾 doi.org/10.1007/s107...
Dr. hab. Katarzyna Nowak awarded the Wrocław Prize 2026! 🌿 Though she works mainly in Białowieża Primeval Forest, she also contributes locally in Wrocław, collecting observations in Mokrzański Forest, supporting conservation, and speaking on citizen science. More: bip.um.wroc.pl/artykul/197/...
A science comic from MRI PAS 🦬 How does winter diet shape breeding in European bison? Our new study shows: farmland-fed herds calve year-round, while forest herds have a short, synchronized season. Read more: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320726001205
🌿Why do mammals feed on tree bark and what does it mean for forest ecosystems? Join us this Thursday for a seminar by Theodore Lefebvre (MRI PAS PAS), exploring the ecological significance of mammal bark feeding. 📅 2 April 2026, 10:00 CET 📍 MRI PAS Library (Białowieża) + online (link at MRI website)
Work on Mustelids? Share it with the community! ⏳Abstracts + Early Bird open for the 36th European Mustelid Colloquium organized within the frames of Białowieża Ecology Conference 2026 📅 Deadline: March 31, 2026 Find out more & submit: bialowiezaecologyconference.org www.vwt.org.uk/36th-europea...
🌲🦅This Friday, dive into the hidden lives of raptors with Ülo Väli (Estonian University of Life Sciences), exploring how telemetry reveals the ecology of avian predators in Białowieża Forest. 📅 March 27, 2026, 10:00 CET Join Open Seminar #76 online: link at MRI PAS website
Are people and #wolves competitive #hunters? Join us to this Thursday when we dive into the topic, with our guest Francesca Ceoldo from the Bavarian Forest National Park 🐺 @wild-ecol-cons.bsky.social Get your Zoom link via DM ✉️
📣 Job alert: #Postdoc position for studying #predation effects on #ungulates 🦌🐺 Apply by 3rd of Jan 2026. bip.ibs.bialowieza.pl/wp-content/u...
For our next Open Seminar, we bridge our disciplines with #criminology related to #wildlife - a crucial aspect to #conservation globally. Get on our call with Paulina Bednik by requesting your Zoom link now!
Listen up for this week's Open Seminar 🎶 Rosanne Michielsen will translate what #sound tells us about the #environment and #bird communities 🐦 Get your Zoom link via DM ✉️ #bioacoustics #ecoacoustics #soundscape
Save the date for our next Open Seminar next Friday! Jacopo Cerri will help us discover whether #wolves have measurable effects on their prey populations. Get your Zoom link via DM 🐺🦌
Uwaga, polskojęzyczni! 🇵🇱 Serdecznie zapraszamy na naszą noc horroru w tegoroczne Halloween. ☠️🕷️🦠
Check out our upcoming Friday Seminar with K. Whitney Hansen from the University of California Santa Cruz. Join online and get some interesting insights into #Africanwilddog #conservation in #Botswana, #biofencing, and more 🌳🐾 Get your link via DM ✉️
📢 #Postdoc (75%) 3+2 years on identifying #West-Nile-Virus wildlife hosts and #modelling spatial risk factors. Be part of a consortium on "Combating #WNV through an integrated #OneHealth approach" w #TUBerlin , #Charite, #FUBerlin, #UniBayreuth and health authorities ▶️ tinyurl.com/yuhfwpdr
Looking for a #job in science? We have an opening for a RESEARCH ASSISTANT studying the unique #ecology of the Białowieża Forest 🌳🦌🦬🦊🐭 Apply latest by November 12, 3:30 PM CET & find all your information here: bip.ibs.bialowieza.pl/wp-content/u...
Our new article shows: The 'big bad wolf' fears us. Would you have thought? authors.elsevier.com/c/1lt5E3QW8S... Photo by Rafał Kowalczyk. @currentbiology.bsky.social @kathikasper.bsky.social
This Friday we invite you to our open seminar about our understanding of #heritage. Is it shifting in light of pressing global challenges? How do "natural” and “cultural” heritage differ? Can we think across national borders or do we reinforce existing divisions? Get your Zoom link via DM 🌳
📢 Next week, we have two open seminars coming up! Don't miss out on our exciting speakers, Whitney Hansen & Svitlana Kudrenko, and get your Zoom link now via DM ✉️ #wildlife #management #conservation #rewilding #largecarnivores www.kwhitneyhansen.com www.researchgate.net/profile/Svit...
Congratulations to our core developers of the #OpenScienceConservationFund for their WILDLABS Award-winning project 'Trapper Keeper'! Over recent years, it has continually evolved, integrating cutting-edge AI tools like TrapperAI to enhance wildlife monitoring and conservation efforts. 📸🦌
WILDLABS Community@wildlabs.bsky.social · last yr.After reviewing 251 applications, it’s time to introduce the winners of the WILDLABS Awards 2025! We're honoured to work with @Arm again to support and advance the adoption, scaling, & innovation of #conservationtech. Learn more about the awardees here: wildlabs.net/article/anno...
Looking for a #PhD? Join the Mammal Research Institute and study animal roles in #seeddispersal with @aleksandrawrobel.bsky.social 🐭🌰
Why are iconic trees so important to us? 🌳 As the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree reappears in the news, @ewanamacdonald.bsky.social and Helen Parish reshare their thoughts on why the felling of trees can be an emotive topic. Read more 👉 bit.ly/3Z3MMqz @biology.ox.ac.uk
📢 We are hiring! Are you passionate about #ecology & creative #sciencecommunication? Join us as Social Media Officer for the #GfÖ & our journal #BAAE 🌿 Check our call below 📅 Apply by 1 July 2025 Join us & make ecology visible! @gfoesoc.bsky.social @basicapplecol.bsky.social #EcologyJobs #SciComm
Join the online course on Reproducibility in Bioinformatics, July 7-9, 2-8 PM (Berlin time). Learn about containers, version control, and more! Details at https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/bioinformatics-reproducibility/ #course
Reproducibility in Bioinformatics
ONLINE, 7th-9th July 2025 To foster international participation, this course will be held online
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👉 Open #seminar coming up! Szymon Czyżewski will invite us to the historical human-forest relationships 🌲🌳 Don't miss out and get your Zoom link via DM ✉️
