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Marta Maziarz
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Biologist interested in #ecology and #behaviour of #forest #animals: #birds, #invertebrates, #mammals. Currently fascinated by ecological networks based on #tree #seeds. Associate Professor at the Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences .. more

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Forum Akademickie @forumakademickie.bsky.social · 13d
Zatwierdzony kilka dni temu przez Sejm budżet na 2026 rok jeszcze bardziej oddalił nas od unijnego zalecenia 3% PKB na naukę.

Dlaczego nauka traktowana jest przez rządzących aż tak po macoszemu? – pyta dr hab. Marek Wypych z Instytutu Nenckiego ⬇️

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 13d
👉Join the upcoming on-line MIZ PAS seminar!
🎤Speaker: Prof. Jörn Theuerkauf from MIZ PAS.
Talk title: "The first tribe of New Caledonia – social organisation in the cooperative Kagu".
📅19th Dec (Friday), 10:00 CET.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/3hztsuyw
📷JJ Harrison, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3 & R. Gula

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 20d
❗ Applications to a new PhD position within an NCN @ncn.gov.pl project (Opus 28+LAP) are now open ❗
💡 The project, led by Dr Agata Kaczmarek, focuses on nutritional immunology and combines:
🧬 immunology
🦠 microbiology
🧪 molecular biology
🧉 metabolomics and lipidomics
🔗 tinyurl.com/4uynmj75
Galleria mellonella larva, source: Wikimedia Commons

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Mammal Research Institute PAS @mripas.bsky.social · 26d
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

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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 26d
Tonight I'll be speaking to Nature Guelph about our team's research on bioacoustic methods for studying bird migration. Join online through Nature Guelph if you're interested:
natureguelph.ca/events/eaves...

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EOU Fledglings @eoufledglings.bsky.social · 26d
🎤 We’re delighted to announce the final plenary speaker for the 5th EOU Fledglings Meeting in Gdańsk (27–29 March 2026)!

🧬 Piotr Minias will explore host–parasite dynamics and the evolutionary insights revealed through avian immunogenetics.

#EOU26 #Ornithology

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 27d
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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European Ornithologists' Union @eounion.bsky.social · 28d
We are happy to announce that the next EOU Conference will be in Brno, Czech Republic in 2027! Check our website eounion.org and follow us on social media for regular updates! #ornithology #EOU2027

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 29d
“Over nine months, Sky News’ Data and Forensics team investigated whether X’s algorithms amplify right-wing and extreme content.

Their findings were clear: Elon Musk’s X is boosting right-wing and extreme content, as well as politicians Musk favours.”
The X Effect and the dangers of social media bias
Sky News' investigation The X Effect has exposed a right-wing bias in X's algorithm, which boosts extreme content over left-wing voices
centralbylines.co.uk

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EOU Fledglings @eoufledglings.bsky.social · Nov 27
🎤 We’re thrilled to announce our first plenary speaker for the 5th EOU Fledglings Meeting in Gdańsk (27–29 March 2026)!

🌊 Jérôme Fort (@umrlienss.bsky.social) will discuss how seabirds respond to challenges shaping marine ecosystems — and what they reveal about ocean health.

#EOU26 #Ornithology

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · Nov 25
New issue of #BirdStudy
Little Terns nesting in Morocco
Urban Sparrowhawk diet
Urban Blackbird & Robin song shifts
Goosander tracking
Alpine Wheatears
Supplementary feeding of Turtle Doves
Red Kites and wind turbines
Białowieża Robin paternity
www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbis20/c...
#ornithology #birds

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Nov 25
A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opposition to both population growth and hunting 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opp...
www.nature.com

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Nov 19
Last year's Pantanal–Chiquitano fires were 35× larger due to human-driven climate change, the State of Wildfires shows

At #COP30 today UKCEH scientists & partners discuss integrating fire policy with early warning, climate science & local knowledge

📍 Blue Zone Side Event Rm 5
🕐 1:15pm-2:45pm

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Iris Hordijk @iris-hordijk.bsky.social · Nov 19
There is a PhD position available at @w-u-r.bsky.social on seed dispersal and succession! You will be based at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and conduct fieldwork in tropical forests in Mexico on plant-animal interactions. Deadline to apply: 3rd of December shorturl.at/sLVOU
PhD position on 'Seed dispersal shapes tropical forest succession' (Seeds 4 Success)
shorturl.at

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · Nov 17
🌿🐜 Don’t miss it this Thursday - 16:30h!
Join our colleague Gema Trigos-Peral (MIZ, @trigos-peral.bsky.social ) for an online seminar on urban ant ecology organized by @igue-aeet.bsky.social . Discover how these tiny creatures play a big role in shaping our cities!
🔗 rb.gy/hvikb1

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · Nov 13
The vulnerability of New Caledonia’s ecosystems to destruction by deer 🦌 is underscored by the fact that the island’s vegetation 🌱 evolved in the absence of large herbivores – the only native mammals there are bats 🦇
#NewCaledonia #Drones #EcosystemConservation #InvasiveSpecies #ThermalImaging

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EOU Fledglings @eoufledglings.bsky.social · Nov 9
The date is set for the next EOU Fledglings Meeting 🐥 in Gdansk, Poland! Share the news with your peers! 🦆

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · Nov 6
⚠️ Please report sightings of dead birds for possible testing for bird flu via the forms below ⬇️

📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/rep...
📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/.../daera-de....
📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.services.agriculture.gov.ie/report
Report dead wild birds
How to report dead wild birds.
www.gov.uk

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Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) @biogeneurope.bsky.social · Nov 6
There's a new Biodiversity Genomics Europe case study! 🥳
Learn more about the threatened aquatic warbler.
👉 More info on our website: biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/11/05/b...
@justynakubacka.bsky.social @mizpas.bsky.social @gdosgovpl.bsky.social

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · Oct 29
A video is now available of the lecture I gave last week to the Linnean Society & British Ornithologists' Club in London, on woodland birds, Marsh Tits & Willow Tits (~45 mins): www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7HF... #ornithology #ukbirding @ukceh.bsky.social
A Quietening of the Woods | The Decline of Woodland Birds
YouTube video by Linnean Society
www.youtube.com

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · Oct 25
Almost a third of UK Hawfinches used artificial birdfood when available, with implications for disease transmission.

Investigating supplementary food use of UK Hawfinch Coccothraustes coccothraustes populations using DNA metabarcoding doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#BirdStudy #ornithology
(c) rob Stoeltje, wiki commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appelvink._(40555770115).jpg

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · Oct 21
🚨The European Parliament just rejected the #Forest Monitoring Law 🚨

The proposal was a much-needed piece of legislation, essential to better understanding the state of Europe’s forests and how best to tackle their current breakdown.

Our reaction 👇

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · Oct 19
New in #BirdStudy

Loyal as a Robin: low frequency of extra-pair paternity in a European Robin Erithacus rubecula population in the natural forest of Białowieża National Park (Poland)
doi.org/10.1080/0006...

#ornithology
Frank Vassen Wiki Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:European_Robin_(Erithacus_rubecula),_Bia%C5%82owie%C5%BCa_Forest,_Poland.jpg

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · Oct 15
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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BOU @bou.org.uk · Oct 6
EARLY VIEW in IBIS

Inadequate reproductive success is a potential cause of Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) population decline in England | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Malcolm D. Burgess et al | #ornithology 🪶

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · Oct 6
Darwin posited that innate and learned signals could be evolutionarily related. A new paper in @natecoevo.nature.com, co-authored by Alfredo Attisano, Roman Gula & Jörn Theuerkauf of @mizpas.bsky.social, demonstrates that a learned brood parasite vocalisation induces an innate response in the host.
Learned use of an innate sound-meaning association in birds - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Over 20 species of geographically and phylogenetically diverse bird species produce convergent whining vocalizations towards their respective brood parasites. Model presentation and playback experiments across multiple continents suggest that these learned calls provoke an innate response even among allopatric species.
doi.org

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · Oct 5
May 2015. David Cameron was Prime Minister, UK an EU member, Barack Obama was US President, and this male Marsh Tit hatched in Monks Wood. Colour-ringed 28 August 2015. Photo 2 April 2016. Observed every year since. @martamaziarz.bsky.social & I saw him again today, 10 yrs 5 mo old, still surviving.

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · Oct 3
Why are Britain’s woods falling silent?

Marsh & Willow Tits have declined by up to 96%.

Join @richardkbroughton.bsky.social at 6pm, Oct 23 at the Society to uncover what’s driving these losses - and what they reveal about our vanishing forests.

Book now: buff.ly/IuNlpoH

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Marta Maziarz @martamaziarz.bsky.social · Oct 1
Congratulations!

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Marta Maziarz @martamaziarz.bsky.social · Oct 1
#ornithology
justynakubacka.bsky.social Justyna Kubacka @justynakubacka.bsky.social · Oct 1
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.