A close-up of the colourful tree snail Amphidromus roseolabiatus

A close-up of the land snail Ganesella procera

A detailed view of the land snail Dioryx messageri

Thriving #biodiversity! 🐌

An international team led by #mfnberlin documented 116 snail species in Vietnam's Cuc Phuong National Park – 47 likely new to #science! Up to 184 species may live there, making it a global hotspot for terrestrial snails. 🌏

🔗 bdj.pensoft.net/article/1632...
📸 K. v. Oheimb

Explore what happens to soil during and after a wildfire! 🔥

Join our #art and #science workshop "Soil, wildfires and biological remediation” with Margherita Pevere, in collaboration with #mfnberlin researchers Katharina and Parm von Oheimb! 🐌

🗓️ Sat, 25 Oct, 14:00 to 18:00
🔗 bit.ly/soil-wildfires

Ich war mal wieder im #mfnberlin unterwegs und habe mir dieses Mal Florian Witzmann geschnappt! Hört gerne rein um zu erfahren, was er macht 🦕🦖

Überall wo es Podcasts gibt!

Ich freue mich unendlich, dass heute die erste Folge des neuen Museumsprojekts im Podcast rauskam! Ich habe mir die Frage gestellt, "Was macht eigentlich eine wissenschaftliche Leitung in einem Museum?". Und die hat mir Daniela Schwarz vom #MfNBerlin beantwortet!

African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) standing in its natural habitat in Tanzania, illustrating one of the large herbivores that play a key role in shaping ecosystems.

Large herbivores shaped ecosystems for millions of years. But can ecosystems survive their loss? 🐃

A new Nature study by Göteborgs universitet, #mfnberlin and others shows past stability – but warns: human-driven extinctions risk collapse. 🌎

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📸 Juan L Cantalapiedra

Two male greater mouse-eared bats rest side by side in a church attic.

Trilling for love! 🦇

Male greater mouse-eared #bats compete acoustically in church attics – a rare lek mating system now documented by researchers from FU Berlin and #mfnberlin. Their roosts deserve protection, too! 🌍

🔗 Publication: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
📸 Lisa Printz

Amniota Lab members working in the collections at the Museum für Naturkunde, surrounded by bones.

Some collection work at the @mfnberlin.bsky.social
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#AmniotaLab #MfNBerlin

A subadult Greater Sac-Winged Bat vocalizing in Panama.

Bats ignore cries for help – if the caller’s sitting unharmed right there! 🦇

New study by researchers from #mfnberlin and UNINA: 𝘚𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘹 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘢 use voice cues to recognize group members and integrate conflicting sensory info. 💡

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
📸 Michael Stifter
#science #bats

Research data, museum collections, public engagement: the #WiNoDa Knowledge Lab, coordinated at #mfnberlin, connects it all! Interdisciplinary, hands-on and focused on natural historical collections. 💡

👉 Curious? Boost your data skills and explore our webinars: winoda.de/en/english/

📸 T. Rosenthal

Zitat: „Wenn grundlegende menschliche Bedürfnisse wie Gemeinschaft und Sicherheit nicht mehr gewährleistet sind oder aktiv untergraben werden, ist die Stabilität der Demokratie gefährdet.“

Klimakrise, Demokratiekrise - zwei verschiedene Probleme? Ganz im Gegenteil.

Die Wissenschaft muss sich einschalten, sagen Sarah Darwin und Johannes Vogel:

www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/frau-darwin-...
#Wisskomm #MfNBerlin @mfnberlin.bsky.social #Scicomm

“Museums shouldn’t get political.” It should they? The Berlin Museum of Natural History is challenging this idea of neutrality 🧵 #mfnberlin

a glow in the dark dinosaur skeleton is displayed Alt: a glow in the dark dinosaur skeleton is displayed

Schon bei #FridaysforFuture ging das @mfnberlin.bsky.social in den Dialog mit den Demonstrant*innen. Jetzt will man noch einen Schritt weiter gehen. Dafür müssen die Dinosaurier umziehen... 👇
www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/frau-darwin-...

#Wisskomm #Scicomm #Sciencenews #mfnberlin

Historische Zeichnung mit Insekten und floralen Elementen.

Save the Date!

Join us for BHL Day 2025 at #mfnberlin or online on 9 April. Explore how data, technology, and #biodiversity come together to enhance our understanding of nature. 🌍 #BHLDay2025 #OpenData #OpenAccess

🔗 Registration details:
about.biodiversitylibrary.org/get-involved...

Two snails on a tree trunk in a Berlin cemetery, viewed through a magnifying glass

(3/3) At #mfnberlin, we’ve supported #CitizenScience for over a decade. We co-founded the European Citizen Science Association (2014) and continue to foster research and #publicengagement through projects like @mitforschen.bsky.social and competence or network building. 🌱

📸 Pablo Castagnola (1-3)

Two museum researchers in a park using the Naturblick app on a smartphone to identify bird sounds

(1/3) "Citizen Science is sometimes seen as #science communication rather than real #research." – Susanne Hecker, #mfnberlin 🗣️

Why is #CitizenScience such a valuable research method?

🔗 Read more in this interview (Paywall, in German): www.forschung-und-lehre.de/heftarchiv/a...

Summary below. 🧵⬇️

An individual of the studied bat species Glossophaga soricina handley

(1/3) Can personality be heard? 🦇 A new study led by Theresa Schabacker at #mfnberlin suggests that bat social calls reveal individual personality traits! More curious and bold individuals of 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘨𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘺𝘪 produced social calls more frequently. Learn more ⬇️ Credits: Marco Tschapka 📸

Fossil bone now identified as the pelvis of Dimetrodon teutonis

Researchers from the ongoing Bromacker project excavating at the fossil site

CT scans at #mfnberlin revealed a pelvis from #Bromacker as 𝘋𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴, shedding light on its anatomy and movement. The 290-million-year-old site still holds much undiscovered knowledge, calling for more #research! Learn more: bit.ly/dimetrodon-p... 🔨 Credits: T. Martens (1), A. End (2) 📸

Great Meeting Alan Irwin #citizenscience at the #mfnberlin this week and discovering the digitalisation projects in the #mollusk department 🐚🐌

I look forward to taking part in this exciting workshop tomorrow at the #mfnberlin on the consequence of the #anthropocene on #museology and more broadly knowledge production and science. @Europeanaeu @mfnberlin

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