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Justyna Kubacka @justynakubacka.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Very happy to see the latest issue of @heredityjournal.bsky.social, which features an aquatic warbler on the cover! 📷Courtesy of Dr Janusz Kupryjanowicz 🔗Read the full text of our aquatic warbler inbreeding depression paper here: rdcu.be/fpyva

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

❗New paper in Ecological Informatics, co-authored by MIZ PAS researchers (Joanna Toczydłowska, Roman Gula, Jörn Theuerkauf) developes AI workflow that estimates animal distances from camera traps in ~4 sec., making ungulate population monitoring faster & more accurate. 👉🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

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Justyna Kubacka @justynakubacka.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Proud to share my new paper, just published with @springernature.com in @heredityjournal.bsky.social! 🥳 We found phenotype-dependent inbreeding depression in male breeding success 🐤: it was present in small, but not in large males of the aquatic warbler. Read more here 👉 rdcu.be/fpyva 📷I. Arnaldos

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

🔬 We have an open post-doc position on nutritional immunology, funded by @ncn.gov.pl! 🙌 We study how fatty acids shape insect immune responses to fungal infections, using Galleria mellonella larvae as a model. 📅 Apply by 31.05.2026 to akaczmarek@miiz.waw.pl (subject: OpusLap) 👉 tinyurl.com/4babnhfp

Galleria mellonella, source: Curtis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

🐟 New study, co-auth. by H. Panagiotopoulou: European and Atlantic sturgeons partly shared environmental niches in Holocene Europe. Atlantic sturgeon was more cold-adapted, while European sturgeon tolerated broader conditions, which informs restoration under climate change. 📗 shorturl.at/jwaTW

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Justyna Kubacka @justynakubacka.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Acta Ornithologica, one of @mizpas.bsky.social scientific journals is now featuring online-early publication and offering free open access in 2026! 👇

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

📢 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

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Lech Karpiński @ceramb.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Publish with MIZ PAN, for free and in OA!

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

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

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

❗️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

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Justyna Kubacka @justynakubacka.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

My institute publishes four established scientific journals. This year, they will all be open-access in @bioone.bsky.social. Plus the editorial boards have been refreshed and there is now online early publishing. Submissions are welcome!

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

❗📰 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...

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Loups et chacals: une diplomatie canine

Le directeur de recherche CNRS au Centre d’écologie fonctionnelle et évolutive de Montpellier tient une chronique écologique pour «Libération» : «l’Albatros hurleur». Aujourd’hui, les relations entre ...

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

⏲️ Dont'miss out on-line seminar! Today, at 12:00 CEST. 👇

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

🐺🦊 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

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Justyna Kubacka @justynakubacka.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Passive acoustic monitoring is a powerful way to detect birds. Researchers from my institute contributed to the first annotated dataset of bird vocalisations, which will advance automated bird detection algorithms.

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

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

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Bird Paradise of the Szczecin Lagoon – New Islands and Bird Conservation (Baltic Sea, Poland)

YouTube video by Dominik Marchowski

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

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. 👇

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

🎉 New paper in Nature Communications! Researchers from MiIZ PAN and Jagiellonian University report extreme genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria of planthoppers — some function with only ~60 genes. 🧬 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Convergent extreme reductive evolution in ancient planthopper symbioses - Nature Communications

Symbiotic bacteria can have exceedingly small genomes. This study finds that ancient bacterial symbionts of planthoppers have repeatedly evolved the smallest known genomes, losing most biosynthetic fu...

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

📣 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

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

👉Join the upcoming on-line MIZ PAS seminar! 🎤Dr Rowan French (Uni. Toronto / Indiana Uni. / Field Museum) ℹ️Title: "Why the long “horns”? Evolution of exaggerated, sexually dimorphic antennae in longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)" 📅19th Feb (Thu), 3 p.m. CET 🔗https://tinyurl.com/47sr5x5w

Source: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71380

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

❗️📣JOB ALERT❗️ 👉Our Zoological Museum invites applications for a postdoc to study the historical biogeography and evolutionary history of the subfamily Blaptinae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) ℹ️The position is funded by @ncn.gov.pl 🔗 Apply here: url-shortener.me/BFBA 👉 Read more: url-shortener.me/BFBD

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

📣New publication, co-authored by martamaziarz.bsky.social from MIZ PAS, presents new perspectives on #rewilding policy that was discussed by scientists & practitioners during the britishecologicalsociety.org Policy Training workshop. Find out more here 👉 🔗https://tinyurl.com/ykwfrjmh 📷Marta Maziarz

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

📢Why are some birds so colourful? 🐦 Our researchers, Dr. Janas et al., explore the wing stripe in great tits. Results shows that the appearance of the stripe is sex‑dependent, but its features did not correlate with other colour traits. Link 👉 shorturl.at/ooYCl 📷Francis Franklin, CC BY-SA 4.0 #bird

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

📢 New ant species in Poland! 🐜Dr. Trigos-Peral and Prof. Czechowski report the first Polish record of Plagiolepis pygmaea in Warsaw. This finding highlights the role of cities in introducing non-native ants. 📖 shorturl.at/dbn21 #biodiversity #ants #urbanecology #invasive #conservation

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Marta Maziarz @martamaziarz.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Great to see this article published in @peopleandnature.bsky.social. The paper presents valuable perspectives on #rewilding from a discussion among scientists & practitioners during the @britishecologicalsociety.org Policy Training workshop. 👉 tinyurl.com/ykwfrjmh

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Embedding rewilding in policy: Perspectives on overcoming barriers and unlocking opportunities

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

📢Dr. Attisano and Prof. Jorn Theuerkauf from @MIZ_PAS have participated in the first worldwide evaluation of BirdNET – an AI tool to assess bird communities globally 🐦Link to the paper 👉 shorturl.at/Tk29U #science #birds #acoustic_monitoring #global_biodiversity

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Elina Mäntylä @elinamantyla.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Sudyka et al. Avian extra‐pair paternity in the last European primeval forest besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology

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Avian extra‐pair paternity in the last European primeval forest

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

📢 Researchers from the MIZ PAN, PhD student Tomasz Czerwiński and Prof. Karol Szawaryn, report the appearance of new invasive beetle species in Poland 🪲. A new article is available at the following link 👉🏼 shorturl.at/T22X0 #biologigal_invasions #beetles #Polish_fauna #new_record

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Justyna Kubacka @justynakubacka.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Don't miss our on-line seminar on a cooperative bird from New Caledonia! 📅This Fri at 10:00 CET.

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

❗️New paper co-authored by MIZ PAS researchers ❗️ ℹ️Roman Gula & Jörn Theuerkauf contributed to a new cooperative breeding database for birds and mammals, Co-BreeD, published recently in animalecology.bsky.social. 👇

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Join the upcoming on-line MIZ PAS seminar! "Genomic Insights into the Evolutionary History and Conservation of Sloths in a Changing World" 📅4th Dec (Thursday), 14:00 CET 🔗https://tinyurl.com/2uf75twe 👉Speaker: Dr Larissa Souza Arantes larissasarantes.wixsite.com/research 📷Instituto Tamanduá

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

🕷 In Brazil’s Serra do Japi, we’re tracking the world’s rare social spiders! Violette Chiara & Tristan Robineau from MIZ PAS, with Prof. João Vasconcellos Neto of @unicampoficial.bsky.social, are collecting species to uncover how sociality influences behavioural and physiological trends in spiders.

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ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas @ergabiodiv.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

We are live with DAY 2️⃣ - Genomics for Biodiversity Conference Join us: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR7I...

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DAY 2 - Genomics for Biodiversity Conference

YouTube video by ERGA Coordination

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

💡 New paper co-auth. by MIZ! By altering the physical and chemical properties of the soil, soil-nesting ants can shape the biodiversity of soil microarthropods — a key role for conserving urban biodiversity. 🐜More info 👉 www.mdpi.com/3547020 #UrbanEcosystems #Ants #SoilMicroarthropods #Conservation

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Hidden in museum drawers for 100+ years, Africa’s mysterious Eurynotina beetles finally tell their story - uncovered by our researchers, Marcin Kamiński and Ryan Lumen, using DNA from century-old specimens. 🧬🪲 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/syen... #taxonomy #beetles #ancientDNA

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Join the upcoming hybrid MIZ PAS seminar! "Nonhuman Culture: An Overview of Behavioral Diversity in Our Primate Cousins" 📅When: 24th Oct (Friday), 12:00 pm CET 📍 in-person: Twarda 51/55, Warsaw 🔗on-line: tinyurl.com/38k8p33s 👉Speaker: Dr Thurston Cleveland Hicks #behaviour #primates #nonhumanculture

Photos: C. Hicks & E. Mpaka, courtesy C. Hicks

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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 07/10/2025

Sexual selection drives sex difference in adult life expectancy across mammals and birds | www.science.org/doi/... | Science Advances | #ornithology 🪶

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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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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Join the upcoming on-line MIZ PAS seminar! 👉When: 10th Oct (Friday), 12:00 pm CET 👉Speaker: Dr Grzegorz Neubauer, MIZ PAS @mizpas.bsky.social 👉Title: "50 years of Białowieża Forest bird studies: past, present, future” 👉Link: tinyurl.com/3jztwhyk Everyone is welcome! #ornithology #forest

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Justyna Kubacka @justynakubacka.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

My WGS🧬project on Aquatic Warbler shows: 👉 Recent genetic bottleneck and low diversity 👉 Elevated inbreeding in declining westernmost population 👉 Growing inbreeding in core population @biogeneurope.bsky.social @sib.swiss @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @otop-birdlife.bsky.social @peenefvp.bsky.social

An Aquatic Warbler from Western Pomerania, Poland, a previously nearly extinct population that is now under restoration. Photo: J. Kubacka

Temporal changes in the effective population size of two Aquatic Warbler populations: a large core metapopulation, represented by the Biebrza Valley subpopulation (sampled in 2018), and a small westernmost declining population, West Pomerania (sampled in 1999). The analysis was run with the GONE software.

The current effective population sizes in the three populations sampled.

Long runs of homozygosity (>1Mb) in the three sampled populations: Biebrza in 1997; Biebrza in 2018; and West Pomerania in 1999. Long ROHs are indicative of recent inbreeding.

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Join the upcoming on-line MIZ PAS seminar! 👉When: 25th April (Friday), 12:00 pm CET 👉Speaker: Dr. Stephen Venn, Łódź University, Poland 👉Title: "The functional diversity of beetle assemblages of park habitats in Warsaw” 👉Link: tinyurl.com/a4ssayb8 Everyone is welcome! #entomology #diversity #urban

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Justyna Kubacka @justynakubacka.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Happy to share my recently published paper! In male aquatic warblers (Acrocephalus paludicola) males that more frequently sang aggressive songs used to deter other males had more nestlings and were more likely to contract avian malaria, and males with more diverse song were in better condition.

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Agonistic song rate positively correlates with male breeding success and avian malaria infection in Acrocephalus paludicola (Aquatic Warbler), a promiscuous songbird with female-only parental care

ABSTRACT. The link between male song and reproductive success has been explored at length in socially monogamous birds, but results were inconsistent and u

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