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
📢 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
❗️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
📢 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
📢 On 11 April, Dr. Gema Trigos Peral (MIZ PAS) joined the VI Bioblitz at @pablodeolavide.upo.es (Seville, Spain) as the expert of the “Hormigas II” group 🐜. Over 300 participants celebrated biodiversity, curiosity, and citizen science! 🌿
#nature #citizen_science #biodiversity #ANTS
➡️ Paper "Jackals among wolves: balancing between competition and tolerance" co-authored by Wiesław Bogdanowicz & Przemysław Chylarecki, recently published in Proc. R. Soc. B @royalsocietypublishing.org, featured in Canid News of the IUCN SSC Canid Specialist Group 👇
📗 www.canids.org/canidnews/20...
‼️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
The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Academia, features an interview with Dr. Filip Turza from our Institute in the podcast “What’s science all about?” 🐜🎙️
What connects humans and ants? 👇
🎧 www.polskieradio.pl/podcasty/o-c... (~9:30 min)
📄 academia.pan.pl/nie-tylko-pr... (text version)
❗📰 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...
📢 Reconstructing Coccinellini Phylogeny
A new study by W. Tomaszewska (MIZ PAS) & colleagues uncovers a time-calibrated phylogeny of 200+ “true ladybird” species, revealing boreotropical origin, multiple migrations & shifts in diet 🐞🧬
🔗 shorturl.at/8TxNH
📷 G. San Martin
#ladybirds #evolution #diet
📣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
⏲️ Dont'miss out on-line seminar! Today, at 12:00 CEST. 👇
🐜 First outdoor record of exotic ant Plagiolepis alluaudi in continental Europe 🌱🌍
Dr. Trigos-Peral shows it now established outdoors. Driven by global trade & climate change, alien species are rising. A call for stronger monitoring & prevention.
🔗 shorturl.at/wNoZf
#Global_change #Conservation
📢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
🌿✨ A big step for wildlife conservation
We’re proud to share that the Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS now sponsors Wala 🧡- a bongo antelope at Warsaw Zoo! This step helps protect an endangered species and supports conservation together with the PANDA Foundation 🌍
#Antelope #WildlifeProtection
📢New article co-authored by MIZ PAS scientists - R. Rutkowski & M. Maziarz - finds 40–50% of blue tit & great tit broods had mixed paternity in Poland’s primeval Białowieża Forest. 🐣🌲🌳🌿
Link to publication 👉 tinyurl.com/3tsbfnjd
#ornithology #openaccess @funecology.bsky.social
📷RK Broughton
Taenia hydatigena cycles between carnivores and wild ungulates 🐺🦌. A study led by Dr Slivinska shows ~10% of roe deer and moose in Poland carry its larva, Cysticercus tenuicollis 🐛 #parasitology #wildlife #ecology
🔗 tiny.pl/pzkn85-hy
The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences Academia highlights the research of dr hab. Marta Maziarz from our Institute! 👏 #BiałowieżaForest #change #environment
🔗 Link to the interview: academia.pan.pl/tam-gdzie-sw...
🐺🦊 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
"Polityka spotlight! 🎉 Prof. Wiesław Bogdanowicz joins the debate in this magazine with Giving the Mouse a Voice, showing why vernacular animal names matter in science, education & conservation in Poland. 📚 Published Feb 11 in the Science section."
Link 👉https://shorturl.at/8EJBq
#science #names
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
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.
👇
@marchowski.bsky.social
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
📣 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
Meeting location change:
utoronto.zoom.us/j/81690566796
Meeting ID: 816 9056 6796
Passcode: 138731
Don't miss our on-line seminar! 👇
