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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS

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Instytut Systematyki i Ewolucji Zwierząt Polskiej Akademii Nauk Studying animal biodiversity since 1865 🦋🐝🐜🐍🐦🦠🦏

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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
(1/2) 📢 Na tropie ewolucji z Nosią - zapisy ruszyły! 🔎🧬🦏 📚 Warsztaty skierowane są do grup szkolnych. Liczba miejsc jest ograniczona. ℹ Więcej informacji na stronie: www.isez.pan.krakow.pl/pl/projekty-... 👉 Zapisy na warsztaty: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/2LeQh1FUAx
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
#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.
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
(1/2) W ISEZ PAN będzie realizowany projekt „Na tropie ewolucji z Nosią – odkrywaj historię życia zapisaną w DNA i skamieniałościach”🦏, finansowany przez Ministerstwo Edukacji Narodowej w ramach programu "Kompas Młodego Obywatela". Obserwujcie nas w mediach społecznościowych, aby być na bieżąco!
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's not only us who struggle with heatwaves 🌡️🥵 Check out the latest paper by Dr Agnieszka Gudowska and Dr Dawid Moroń from our 🦏 Institute on the impact of heatwaves on adult morphology and flight performance in the red mason bee 🐝Osmia bicornis: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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Marcin Wiorek @marcinwiorek.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🦋 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!
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
#iseapasatconference Researchers from our 🦏 Institute participate in exciting projects on 🦋 Lepidoptera 🧬 genomics ⬇️ @projectpsyche.bsky.social @10klepgenomes.bsky.social
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
#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
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
#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
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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...
Illustration of nine pinned and prepared specimens of black-and-white or black-and-yellow moths with dotted wings, arranged in two columns, on gray background.Front cover of the monograph, with a photo depicting orchids in the foreground, and rainforest in the background.
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
(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 ⬇️
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EU Science, Research & Innovation @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu · 05/05/2026
For over a century, vast mammoth bone deposits in Central Europe have puzzled researchers. New work combines isotopes, ancient DNA and radiocarbon dating to reconstruct mammoth behaviour, and shows Ice Age hunters were organised, skilled and highly knowledgeable: link.europa.eu/rtNRDx 🧪
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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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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
(1/5) W ramach Tygodnia Bibliotek 📒 dziś przedstawiamy wybrane prace i wydawnictwa własne 🦏 Instytutu. Biblioteka ISEZ PAN jest biblioteką wewnętrzną, więc zajmuje się również gromadzeniem publikacji powstających w ramach działalności naukowej pracowników Instytutu. Fot. Wydawnictwa ISEZ PAN
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
(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.
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
(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
Pinned and prepared specimen of Olepa schleini tiger moths, with gray, spotted forewing, pale red hindwing with dark blotches, and black-red abdomen, on pale gray background.Dense aggregation of dark brown caterpillars of Olepa schleini on a stem of castor bean plant.
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
(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.
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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...
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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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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
#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
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
#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
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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 ⬇️
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
(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
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
(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!
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Check out the interview with Dr. Georgios Georgalis, a palaeontologist from our 🦏 Institute, published on the Science in Poland webpage. Doctor Georgalis featured the recently described, new and unusual species of fossil 🐍 snake from 37 million years ago. ⬇️ scienceinpoland.pl/en/news/news...
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New snake species from 37 million years ago sheds light on early evolution of 'advanced snakes'
A newly identified snake species from 37 million years ago is providing rare insight into the early evolution of caenophidians, the group that today dominates snake diversity worldwide, according to p...
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
We are happy to announce that the prestigious "HR Excellence in Research" award has been granted to our 🦏 Institute for another three years 🥳. We received the logo in 2016, as the first scientific unit in Krakow. Its maintenance proves our commitment to creating a top-tier working environment 🤝.
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
(1/3) Step into the fascinating world of the Scientific Collections 🦋 🦴🪨🦣🦠🪰 at the 🦏 Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences! For 1️⃣5️⃣5️⃣ years, our collections have preserved the story of nature and science in Poland.
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
In July, researchers from our 🦏 Institute participated in the 🦋 Lepidoptera collecting trip to the Italian Alps, part of @projectpsyche.bsky.social and @10klepgenomes.bsky.social - check out the latest article by Glenn Zorpette in @spectrum.ieee.org ⬇️
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
(1/2) #Seminar 📣 📅 17 October 2025 🕐 10:00 am (GMT+2) 📍ISEA PAS conference room, Sławkowska 17, Cracow, and online 🧑‍🎓👩‍🎓 Dr Alan Dargantes & Dr Alma Mohagan, Central Mindanao University, Philippines Link: tiny.pl/kz-ccgbk (ID: 363 417 476 261 6, passcode: YD9Td6k9)
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
#ERASMUS On 15.09-03.10, our 🦏 Institute hosted Adam Heteš from Comenius University, Slovakia @comeniusuni.bsky.social. Our visitor verified 4000(!) out of 7000 specimens of Jurassic crabs 🦀 from southern Poland, and most probably found a new species! The study is to be continued, stay tuned!
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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
MIZ PAS seminar on bird studies in the Białowieża Forest, Poland, today, at 12:00 CET! Don't miss it! @iseapas.bsky.social @mripas.bsky.social
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
(1/3) The 4th Young Ornithologists' Symposium took place at Łódź University on October 26-28, and gathered over 100 students and graduates interested in 🐦 ornithology.
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Researchers from our 🦏 Institute participate in an amazing project! 🦋 @projectpsyche.bsky.social @10klepgenomes.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social @spectrum.ieee.org 👇👇👇
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Our 🦋 lepidopterist, Dr Marcin Wiorek, has been elected a co-Editor-in-Chef of Nota Lepidopterologica @notalepido.bsky.social! ⬇️
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
A couple of days ago a genetic study on the history of Slavs was published in Nature, co-authored by dr hab. Jarosław Wilczyński from our 🦏 Institute! ⬇️
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Our 🦏 Institute is happy to participate in this amazing initiative of sequencing the complete genomes of all European 🦋 Lepidoptera species! Recently Dr hab. Łukasz Przybyłowicz and Dr Marcin Wiorek participated in the field workshop in the Alps 👇👇👇
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
📣 Seminar Title: Dinosaurs and Feathers: An Evolutionary (and Personal) Journey Speaker: Dr Yosef Kiat, Tel Aviv University 📅 5 September 2025 (Friday) 🕐 1:00 pm (GMT+2) 📍 Natural History Museum ISEA PAS, Św. Sebastiana 9, Cracow Link: tiny.pl/dhpq3wnx (ID: 318 594 633 602 4, passcode: t8jx6Fw3)
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
We are pleased to announce that dr hab. Łukasz Kajtoch from our 🦏 Institute has has been nominated professor! Professor Kajtoch works on various aspects of evolution and ecology of invertebrates (mainly 🐞 beetles), population genetics of 🐦 birds, and nature conservation. Congratulations! 🥳
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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
New paper on the importance of linear landscape structures for pollinator conservation! 🐝 peerj.com/articles/19765
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Habitat composition near linear landscape structures across Poland: perspectives on pollinator conservation
Landscape management intensification is a major driver of global decline in insect pollinators and the ecosystem services they provide. Part of the proposed solution is to take advantage of the potent...
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eavpalaeo.bsky.social @eavpalaeo.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Thanks to everyone who made #EAVP2025 in Kraków such a success! 👏 Grateful to all attendees, speakers, organisers, volunteers & funders & for an inspiring week of #palaeontology & connection. See you at the next EAVP in 2026 in Lithuania! 🦖🌍
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The Anatomical Record @anatrecord.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
We are proud to be official sponsors of the upcoming European Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists conference to be held in 30 June - 5 July in Krakow, Poland! eavp2025.wixsite.com/eavp2025
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10kLepGenomes @10klepgenomes.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
(1/4) Exciting news 📣 Announcing the #COST10KLepGenomes initiative! 🦋🧬 We're leveraging genomic data to tackle biodiversity loss, disentangle Lepidoptera evolution and address climate change impacts on European butterflies and moths.
Logo of the 10kLepGenomes COST Action. Orange text "10K LEP GENOMES" accompanied by a design that combines the number 10 and the letter "K" to represent a butterfly and DNA.
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Project Psyche @projectpsyche.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
(1/4)🦋 Introducing Project Psyche! A groundbreaking initiative to sequence the genomes of all 11,000 species of butterflies and moths in Europe. The goal is to analyse this data to understand global climate insecurity and threats to biodiversity on a genomic level🧬 #ProjectPsyche #Genomics
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