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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

📍 Jabłonna | Science Festival 🔬 Our nematode research group MIZ PAS presented a project using AI to identify soil nematodes that cause agricultural losses at the “Science with the Palace in the Background” festival. A great day of science, conversations & curiosity! 🌱🧬💡 #Scienceforeveryone

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

📢Fragmenta Faunistica Special Issue dedicated to Prof. Wojciech Czechowski, a prominent figure in Polish myrmecology 🐜 👥📚A tribute by colleagues, collaborators & friends, and the debut of the journal’s new layout! 🔗Link 👉 l1nq.com/ntgbriq #Science #Friendship #Myrmecology #FragmentaFaunistica

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🦇 New study on Greater Horseshoe Bats in the South Caucasus! A 24-years monitoring with Prof. Bogdanowicz as collaborator, reveals strong roost fidelity, movements between caves & the importance of connected roost networks for conservation. 📄 sl1nk.com/3sj4h4k #Bats #BatConservation #Biodiversity

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Gema Trigos-Peral @trigos-peral.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

📢Thinking about sharing your social insect science? The next Central European IUSSI meeting @ceiussi.bsky.social is at @mizpas.bsky.social in Warsaw! 🇵🇱 Even if you can't ensure attendance, we’d love to hear your interests and preferences. 📝 Fill out our questionnaire! forms.gle/qqjbAc9RuMkj...

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🐦🦋 A new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution, coauthored by T. Chodkiewicz MIZ PAS, analyses data from 27 European countries to predict declines in common birds and butterflies through 2050! More ambitious action is needed! Link 👉 shorturl.at/pSbKs #Biodiversity #Birds #Butterflies #Conservation

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🦉 We said goodbye to summer in Warsaw and @fundacja_ADA! 🌿 Over 10,000 people joined us for a day full of science, zoological curiosities 🐾 and conversations about biodiversity, species protection and caring for nature. 🌍🔬 A wonderful day to remember! #citizenscience #fun #family #zoo #curiosities

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🐫🪳🐜🌏 Expedition Mongolia! Lech Karpiński & Gema Trigos-Peral (MIZ PAS), with Enkhnasan Davaadorj & Gan-Ochir Gerelt (MAS), explored the steppe & Eastern Gobi to study arthropod evolution. Now, the lab awaits! Polish-Mongolian Academy of Sciences collaboration! #Mongolia #Science #Nature #Arthropod

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

📢 An international team including MIZ PAS researchers shows how BirdNET + acoustic monitoring 🎧 help decode bird voices 🐦🌍. Thousands of recordings sharpened ID accuracy, boosting global biodiversity monitoring 🌱✨. Link 👉🏻 l1nq.com/nf7z21p #science #birds #language #biodiversity

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

❓How can we better protect the endangered Kagu? 🐦A new study led by Jörn Theuerkauf, Roman Gula & Alfredo Attisano estimates ~3,640 Kagu on Grande Terre in New Caledonia. Only 12% of suitable habitat is protected. The authors propose 250 km² of new reserves with dog control 🔗 shorturl.at/ndP7t

Map of Grande Terre, the main island of New Caledonia, with A protected areas containing rainforest, including the two main study areas PPRB and PPGF; B Important Bird Areas containing rainforest (details in Table 4); C distribution of 15,095 Kagu observations (blue dots) and forest (green); and D MaxEnt probability above 0.42073 of Kagu occurrence. Source: Theuerkauf et al. 2026 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-025-02318-9

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🏛️ Who were medieval Mazovia’s people? A paper co-authored by MIZ PAS scientists, Wiesław Bogdanowicz & Monika Patrzyk, combined archaeology, isotopes & ancient DNA to reveal communities shaped by mobility, family ties & distant ancestry—including a rare Asian Y-lineage.🧬 📖 🔗 shorturl.at/dbjkd

Part of the research team working with skeletal remains from Stare Łączyno and Narojki. Photo: M. Patrzyk

Selection and documentation of skeletal remains from the medieval cemeteries of Stare Łączyno and Narojki prior to sampling for analyses. Photo: D. Błaszczyk

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

📣🌏🔬MIZ PAS hosted Dr. Shea Kathleen P. Guinto (University of Santo Tomas) to advance research on freshwater biodiversity & zooplankton ecology. The visit marked the first joint activity under the MIZ PAS–UST MoA, laying the groundwork for future Polish-Philippine scientific collaboration.

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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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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A paper led by @justynakubacka.bsky.social and published in @heredityjournal.bsky.social shows that inbreeding depression is phenotype-dependent: more inbred, smaller-bodied, or shorter-winged aquatic warbler males had lower reproductive success and survival, respectively. 👉🔗https://rdcu.be/fpyva

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Discover two papers on sturgeon conservation by Dr Hanna Panagiotopoulou (MIZ PAS), a conservation geneticist! 🐟🧬 Sex identification markers: 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.aq... 🌊 Baltic sturgeon genetic monitoring: 👉 www.landwirtschaft-mv.de/static/LFA/D... #Aquaculture #ConservationGenetics #Sturgeon

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🐜🤖 First systematic review of machine learning in ant research, co-authored by Dr Filip Turza (MIZ PAS). Future research 👉 closer biologist–computer scientist collaboration. Applied Soft Computing (open access:): doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2026.115901 #AI #ants #MachineLearning #MIZPAS #science

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

🗺️📦 A treasure map, buried metal boxes and a mine detector — during WWII Gerd Heinrich hid his ichneumon wasp collection underground. Found 15 years later, still in great condition. #MiIZPAS #MuseumOfZoology #NaturalHistoryCollections #HistoryOfScience #Entomology #Ichneumonidae

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

🐕🔥 Golden jackals keep pushing north and climate is the engine behind their expansion. Genomic data show warming boosts connectivity and adaptation, while dog admixture has little effect. Global Change Biology: doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... Canid News: www.canids.org/canidnews/20...

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🕸️ Deep in the Sulfur Cave on the Greece–Albania border, researchers from our Institute study a huge 100‑meter colonial web built by Tegenaria domestica. A normally solitary spider turned social — a perfect natural lab for uncovering how underground life shapes colonial life! 🕷️

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We were pleased to host colleagues from the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics PAS ❄️🔬. Together we discussed strengthening collaboration, from polar collections to joint research. Combining field expertise with major zoological collections helps protect global biodiversity! 🌍🤝

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

🎙️ Instinct or Compassion? Altruism in the Animal World The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences Academia highlights the interview with Dr. Filip Turza from MIZ PAS!🐬🐀🐜 🔗 academia.pan.pl/instynkt-czy-wspolczuciehttps://academia.pan.pl/instynkt-czy-wspolczucie-altruizm-w-swiecie-zwierzat/

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Instynkt czy współczucie? Altruizm w świecie zwierząt - Academia PAN

Przyroda nie sprowadza się wyłącznie do brutalnej walki o przetrwanie. Delfiny podtrzymujące rannego towarzysza przy powierzchni, szczury uwalniające inne osobniki z pułapki czy mrówki poświęcające si...

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

📢🧬🦠🔬 MIZ PAS research shows that Conidiobolus coronatus infection triggers oxidative and nitrosative stress in Galleria mellonella hemocytes. Mitochondria act as key redox‑signaling hubs. Published in Mitochondrion: doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

AI meets nematology! A new project at the MIZ PAS: "The use of artificial intelligence in the diagnosis of soil nematodes causing economic losses". Funded by the @ministerstwonauki.bsky.social 🇵🇱 #science #thefutureofscienceistoday 📅 Project duration: 2026–2028 🔗 More info: tiny.pl/f2hth2cjd

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

We are proud to announce that last Friday, dr. Gema Trigos-Peral was awarded her habilitation in Biology. Her main achievement was in urban ecology, and her second achievement was in behavioural ecology. Congratulations! 🎉🎓

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

We are proud to announce that Anna Wrońska & Agata Kaczmarek, in partnership with Jolanta Mierzejewska from Warsaw University of Technology (leader), were awarded an @ncn.gov.pl research grant 🥳! The project aims to find if yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus can form a carrier for oral vaccines. 🔬🧪💉

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

📢 Researchers from MIZ PAS uncover how reference choice can distort ancient T. pallidum genomes! 🧬 The high‑coverage W86 genome (17th c., Wrocław) shows SS14‑like ancestry and no resistance mutations. Multi‑reference mapping reduces bias. 🔗 shorturl.at/6lwC4 #Science #Genomics #Mapping

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

📢 Open position for PhD studies in MIZ! 🔎 Join an international team studying desert-adapted Blaptinae beetles with phylogenomics, museomics & morphology, focusing on the diverse Opatrini tribe. 🔗More info – www.kaminskientomo.org #Phylogenomics #Evolution #PhDstudent

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WELCOME to our lab! We're the Systematic Entomology group of Marcin Kaminski. Research interests: We are investigating the evolutionary history of species, genera, and higher-level lineages using gene...

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

📢 Curious how plant-based feeds affect sturgeon? 🐟🌱 A study co-authored by Dr. H. Panagiotopoulou (MIZ PAS) reveals that phytoestrogens have little impact on sex ratios in Russian sturgeon, but induce gonadal changes. Learn more in🔗 shorturl.at/y3PKD #aquaculture #science #genetic #conservation

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

📢Join to our next MIZ Seminar about "The functional ecology and evolution of cuticular hydrocarbon profiles in bees” 🐝 👤 Prof. Thomas Schmitt (Chemical Ecology Group of Wűrzburg University) 📅 8th of June 2026 at 12:00 h 📍Hybrid (in-person & online) 🔗 shorturl.at/AKZPH #seminar #science

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

👩‍👦‍👦Celebrate children's day with us!!! Explore the fascinating world of land snails, learn about endangered species, and enjoy a fun family picnic 🐌 📆When - May 31 📍Warsaw Zoo - Ratuszowa 1/3, Warsaw Partners: PANDA Foundation & Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS #Fun #Nature #Family #Science

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Enjoy 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

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

🐟 Medieval Baltic sturgeons: Atlantic sturgeon dominated (~83%) in Lake Ladoga 🧬 Co-authored by H. Panagiotopoulou (MIZ PAS), ancient DNA from 7,000+ bones shows limited hybridization with European sturgeon & rapid postglacial expansion. 📖🔗Link shorturl.at/nm0Pj #fish #genetics #conservation

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

🐦🏙️ Bird colours are changing in cities! Dr. Janas (MIZ PAS) co-authored a study across 8 Polish cities showing that more urban “concreting” leads to duller, more variable yellow in Great Tits 💛, while Blue Tits have brighter tails - yet melanin colours stay unchanged. 🐦🪽 🔗 Link: shorturl.at/Adsyw

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Replicated urban mosaics reveal trait- and species-specific shifts in carotenoid and structural plumage colouration of two passerines - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Replicated urban mosaics reveal trait- and species-specific shifts in carotenoid and structural plumage colouration of two passerines

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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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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

🎙️Ants and the city The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences Academia (Akademia PAN) highlights the research in urban ecology of dr Gema Trigos-Peral @trigos-peral.bsky.social from our Institute! 🐜🌇 #UrbanEcology #Ants #Conservation 🔗 Link to the interview: sl1nk.com/efdo6v1

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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 · 06/05/2026

🦇 Acta Chiropterologica - No barriers, no fees... Just bats! Our international journal and impact-indexed journal with no fees for authors and readers in this 2026. 👉Submit your bat research with us and share it with the world! 🔗 miiz.waw.pl/acta-chiropt... #openaccess #batresearch #science

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

📢 Acta Ornithologica supports open science An international, peer‑reviewed journal ranked 9th of 29 in Ornithology, offering free Open Access in 2026. Benefit from rapid Online Early publication and wide visibility via BioOne. Share your research globally! #ornithology #openscience #bioone

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

📣👨‍🏫Don't miss our upcoming on-line seminar! 📅Tomorrow (24 April), at 12:00 CEST ℹ️Language: English 🔗Join with the link: tinyurl.com/vc5wcez3

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

📢Annales Zoologici is evolving - faster and more accessible‼️ Since 1921, a trusted voice in zoology. ℹ️This 2026, enjoy FREE open access with rapid publishing, streamlined review & immediate online release. Submit your work in systematic entomology: bioone.org/journals/ann...

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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 · 20/04/2026

📢 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

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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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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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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

📢 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

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

➡️ 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...

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

‼️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

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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)

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Nie tylko pracowite. Jak naprawdę żyją mrówki - Academia PAN

Podział pracy, chemiczne systemy identyfikacji, hodowla mszyc i nawet 40 proc. „nieaktywnych” robotnic. Mrowisko to nie metafora, lecz jeden z najbardziej zaawansowanych systemów społecznych w przyrod...

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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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