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
Posts by Mammal Research Institute PAS
🌿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:
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🌲🦅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
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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.
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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 🐺🦌
Here's us planting a #seed for this week's Open Seminar 🌱Welcome Eike Lena Neuschulz Senckenberg BiK-F who will show us how #birds plant #forests 🌳 Save the date and get your Zoom link via DM!
Projekt „Noc horroru w IBS PAN” dofinansowany ze środków Polskiej Akademii Nauk w ramach Programu „Otwarta Nauka”.
Opowiemy Wam o naszych badaniach, które w pierwszej chwili mogą wydawać się straszne i odpychające, ale po bliższym poznaniu okazują się niezwykle istotne dla zrozumienia funkcjonowania ekosystemów i świata zwierząt.
Serdecznie zapraszamy na NOC HORRORU w piątek, 31 października 2025, w godzinach 16:00-20:00!
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 ✉️
Photo with a blue tit and information text of how to apply for the announced postdoc position.
📢 #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
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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:
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We welcome you to our open seminar on Friday:
Kinga Stępniak will take us on a #dog walk across #wildlife ecology and #nature conservation. 🐕 Don't miss our and get your Zoom link via DM ✉️
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
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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
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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. 📸🦌
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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
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📢 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!
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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 www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/bioinf... #course
👉 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 ✉️