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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 7h

The bird gallery at @mfnberlin.bsky.social is closed for redevelopment, but instead of packing away their #birds, they crated up 11,500 #taxidermy specimens and put the crates on display instead. It's a really interesting - and beautiful - approach to open storage. #museums

A series of wooden crates with glass fronts, containing densely packed shelves of taxidermy birds.

A wooden crate with a glass front, containing densely packed shelves of taxidermy birds.

A wooden crate with a glass front, containing densely packed shelves of taxidermy birds of prey.

A wooden crate with a glass front, containing densely packed shelves of taxidermy toucans and hummingbirds

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 2d

Very excited to be at @mfnberlin.bsky.social for a workshop on comprehending the cultural value of colonial Australian natural history collections (and thoroughly honoured to have been invited to give one of the keynotes).

The lecture screen and lectern. The title slide reads
BERLIN’S AUSTRALIAN ARCHIVE & CENTER FOR HUMANITIES OF NATURE
Translocated Nature from Australia as Indigenous Cultural Belongings

The programme for the workshop. It reads
BERLIN’S AUSTRALIAN ARCHIVE & CENTER FOR HUMANITIES OF NATURE
Translocated Nature from Australia as Indigenous Cultural Belongings Check-In & Opening Opening Remarks (pre-recorded) Laura McBride & Mariko Smith, Australian Museum, Sydney
Keynote Rebecca Carland, Museums Victoria
Coffee Break
Berlin’s Australian Archive Project Presentation
Lunch
Project Presentations, part I
Alison Clark, National Museums Scotland
Rachel Webster, Manchester Museum
Lindiwe Breuer, Technische Universität Berlin
Coffee Break
Project Presentations, part II
Luiza Bengtsson, Botanischer Garten Berlin
Ina Heumann & Katja Kaiser, MfN Berlin
Yann LeGall, Technische Universität Berlin
Isabel Davis, Natural History Museum London
Keynote Jack Ashby, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge
Round Table: ‘Nature’ as Indigenous Cultural Belongings

The title slide, showing a platypus head, with the title:
Museums, colonial entanglements and Australian mammals

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Deutscher Ethikrat @ethikrat.org · 2d

🎥 Sneak Peek! Johannes Vogel (Direktor des Museums für Naturkunde Berlin / @mfnberlin.bsky.social) über Wissen & Macht – exklusiv zu unserer Herbsttagung am 15.10. in Heidelberung und online.

📍 Infos + Anmeldung unter www.ethikrat.org
#Ethikrat #WissenundMacht

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Wissenschaft im Dialog @w-i-d.de · 2d

Gestern fand der erste Campus Citizen Science von mit:forschen! statt. Im Fokus stand die Frage, wie Künstliche Intelligenz die #CitizenScience verändert – von Skalierung und Zugänglichkeit bis zu neuen Formen der Beteiligung. Zum Rückblick:
wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/blog/campus-...

#KI #Wisskomm

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Museum für Naturkunde Berlin @mfnberlin.bsky.social · 3d

What if #Berlin became a place where protecting nature and democracy go hand in hand? 🌱

Join our "Ideas for a liveable Berlin" event to explore how shared knowledge can shape our city’s future. 🤝

🗓️ Mon, 13 Oct | 18:00 | @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de
🔗 eventbrite.com/e/1719108452659

📸 Pablo Castagnola

View over Berlin from the roof of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, with the Berlin TV Tower visible in the background.

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FEdA | Biodiversität erforschen und erhalten @feda.bio · 6d

Achtung Artenvielfalt! Mehr als 80 Events warten darauf, von dir entdeckt zu werden - quer durch die Bundesrepublik, kostenlos, vielfältig! 🌿🦋

Schau mal ins Programm!
🌐 www.achtung-artenvielfalt.de

@sgn.one
@mfnberlin.bsky.social

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Biodiversity Data Journal @bdj.pensoft.net · 3d

A package of terrestrial mollusc collection data from Vietnam's Cuc Phuong National Park, linked to preserved material housed at the @mfnberlin.bsky.social and the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Ha Noi: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

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Christoph Seidler @chs42.bsky.social · 7d

Welt retten in 20 Minuten? Mit meiner @spiegel.de Kollegin Regina Steffens habe ich beim #BeatsAndBones Podcastfestival im @mfnberlin.bsky.social darüber gesprochen, wie man die Erde vor #Asteroiden retten kann. Entstanden ist ein #Shortcut, hier zum Anschauen/-hören: www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

Podcast-Host Regina Steffens (links) und Gesprächspartner Christoph Seidler (rechts). Im Hintergrund sind als Computergrafik mehrere Asteroiden und eine Raumsonde zu sehen.

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Biodiversity Data Journal @bdj.pensoft.net · 9d

A new study reveals the diversity of land snails and slugs in Vietnam’s Cuc Phuong National Park, highlighting it as one of the richest tropical forests for terrestrial gastropods known. Read more: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

@mfnberlin.bsky.social

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Wissenschaft im Dialog @w-i-d.de · 16d

🏆 Wissen der Vielen – Forschungspreis für Citizen Science 2025: Wir gratulieren herzlich den Preisträger*innen. Mit dem Preis fördern wir die Sichtbarkeit partizipativer Forschung und stärken deren Anerkennung! ➡️ www.mitforschen.org/forschungspr...

#CitizenScience

Foto einer Trophäe für den Wissenschaftspreis. Text: Wir gratulieren! Preisträger*innen 2025. Logos: Wissen der Vielen Forschungspreis für Citizen Science und mit:forschen!

Portrait von Dr. Dirk Knoche, Platz 1 Wissen der Vielen Forschungspreis für Citizen Science für die Publikation “Gemeinsam die Birke erforschen: Bürgerforschung zum Waldwandel”

Portrait von Sven Bittenbinder, Platz 2 Wissen der Vielen Forschungspreis für Citizen Science für die Publikation „Research Buddy – From a Framework for Overcoming Language Barriers to the Development of a Qualitative Citizen Science Platform”

Portrait von Dr. Melike Sahinol, Platz 3 Wissen der Vielen Forschungspreis für Citizen Science für die Publikation „3D printed children’s prostheses as enabling technology? The experience of children with upper limb body differences”

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Ute Hausmann @utehausmann.bsky.social · 19d

This coming Tuesday in #Berlin

Naturally Contested: Whose Nature, Whose Conservation?

@mfnberlin.bsky.social

www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/participa...

Naturally Contested: Whose Nature, Whose Conservation?

Nature Conservation in the Global South

www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin

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Leibniz-Gemeinschaft @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de · 21d

Haben Menschen und #Dinosaurier gemeinsame Vorfahren?
Jörg Fröbisch von @mfnberlin.bsky.social und @humboldtuni.bsky.social in der neusten Folge von #TonspurWissen, dem Podcast von @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de & Rheinischer Post.
🎧 👉 pod.fo/e/32d080
#Paläontologie #LeibnizMuseen #Evolution

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Max Körner @max-evolbio.bsky.social · 29d

Great start to day 2 of #DZG2025 with babbling bats and Mirjam Knörnschild of @mfnberlin.bsky.social!

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Journal of Hymenoptera Research @jhr.pensoft.net · Sep 10

Three new species of the parasitoid wasp genus Heinrichiellus are described from India and Thailand. See more about them here: doi.org/10.3897/jhr....

#wasps #newspecies #phylogeny @gavinbroad.bsky.social @mfnberlin.bsky.social

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Pauline Fleischmann @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social · Sep 9

🤩 Phenomenal start @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social with special insights into #Botany & #Paleontology: Tomato specimen collected by Humboldt 😱🍅🌱 at the Herbarium of the Botanical Garden and Icebreaker event at the the Dinosaur Hall 🦕🦖🏛 of @mfnberlin.bsky.social Looking forward to the next #Zoology days 😍

Humboldt's tomato - "the first cherry tomsto in Berlin"

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DZG section Behavioural Biology @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social · Sep 10

And #DZG2025 is officially open!

Great opening event at the @mfnberlin.bsky.social - what a stunning venue! We are looking forward to a great conference!

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Museum für Naturkunde Berlin @mfnberlin.bsky.social · Sep 3

Carnivorous #bats that hug? 🦇

New study on the spectral bat reveals prey provision, grooming and even wing-wrapped greetings – complex social behaviour with big implications for #conservation! 🌎

🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
📸 Marisa Tietge
#science #sciencenews

Social roosting of spectral bats (Vampyrum spectrum) inside a hollow tree, with three individuals resting closely together.

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Markus Hesselmann @hesselmann.bsky.social · Aug 26

"Praktisch können wir bereits jetzt auf Plastik verzichten und unverpackt statt verpackt einkaufen. Wir können auf Mehrweg statt Einweg setzen. Wir können Plastik reduzieren..." @mfnberlin.bsky.social www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/gesch...

Gescheiterter Plastikpakt der UN: Zeit zu handeln – eine plastikfreie Zukunft ist möglich

Dass die Verhandlungen für ein Plastikabkommen der Vereinten Nationen scheiterten, darf nicht in Resignation münden. Der schädliche Müll muss reduziert werden, in der Industrie und im Alltag.

www.tagesspiegel.de

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Russell Garwood @russellgarwood.co.uk · Aug 22

For #FossilFriday here's some gorgeous fossil scorpions - four reconstructions of species spanning 200 million years by my very talented colleague Jason Dunlop at @mfnberlin.bsky.social. Far left of these four is Palaeophonus, also shown in the photo and an interprative drawing below.

⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

Reconstructions of four fossil scorpions - black and white stippled drawings of scorpions becoming increasingly moderm looking towards the right. Original caption: From left to right are shown: the Silurian Palaeophonus, of note are leg proportions and digitigrade stance; Silurian Proscorpius, the carapace of which bore both median and compound lateral eyes; Lower Carboniferous Pulmonoscorpius, which for which there is unequivocal evidence of book lungs; and Upper Carboniferous Compsosorpius, which is an early representative of the orthosternous scorpions.

A photo of Palaeophonus - a dark brown smudge on a rock. It's quite underwhelming really. On the right is an interprative drawing which makes it a little clearer. Original caption: Palaeophonus caledonicus Hunter, 1886 (Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, UK) from the mid-Silurian (Llandovery to Wenlock) of Lesmahagow, Scotland, UK, image courtesy of Lyndsay C. Jess, and by permission of East Ayrshire Council/East Ayrshire Leisure Trust, and a reconstruction from Pocock (1901).

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Mirjam Knörnschild @berlinbatlab.bsky.social · Aug 20

New publication from my lab: Vampyrum spectrum, the Neotropics' largest carnivorous bat, is very cooperative. These gentle apex predators regularly provide prey for family member – documented in the wild for the first time.
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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CETAF - Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities @eurotaxonomy.cetaf.org · Aug 13

🟨The @mfnberlin.bsky.social is seeking a Senior Researcher.

👉 Deadline: Aug 20, 2025
More information here: tinyurl.com/49feksk7

#Hiring #SeniorResearcher #ResearchJobs #NaturalHistory #MuseumJobs

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Transkribus @transkribus.bsky.social · Aug 13

Finding specimens in the collection at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin used to be a complex process. That is, until they digitised their specimen labels with Transkribus.

Find out more in this week's Success Story 👇

blog.transkribus.org/en/transkrib...

@mfnberlin.bsky.social

Creating a model to transcribe 250,000 specimen labels at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

Transkribus collaborates with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin to digitise and transcribe 250,000 insect specimen labels, enhancing digital access for researchers and educators.

blog.transkribus.org

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Museum für Naturkunde Berlin @mfnberlin.bsky.social · Aug 13

Master your collection data with the #WiNoDa Winter School! 🎓

This free, online programme offers expert lectures and hands-on sessions on data management and analysis – from #biodiversity to #archaeology and beyond! 🦋

📅 24-28 November
🔗 Register here: winoda.de/en/event/win...

📸 Kirill Tatarenkov

High-resolution photo of a butterfly display case from the museum’s collection shown on a computer screen.

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Museum für Naturkunde Berlin @mfnberlin.bsky.social · Aug 12

We trap small mammals in diverse habitats on both sides of the border, recording species data, DNA, habitat links and the impact of invasive predators. 🦝

Collection-based research in action – combining historic data with modern fieldwork to protect #nature! 🌐 (3/3)

📸 Anke Hoffmann, Jan Decher

A live-trapping moment during a field survey: waiting for a small mammal to jump from the live trap into a cloth bag for identification and data recording.

A researcher holding a bank vole during a biodiversity survey.

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Museum für Naturkunde Berlin @mfnberlin.bsky.social · Aug 12

Small #mammals = big impact! 🐀

They feed predators, shape plant communities, spread seeds and control pests. Their decline is a warning sign for the health of our ecosystems. 🌍 (2/3)

📸 Klaudia Kuzdrowska
ℹ️ 1: Root vole, 2: Bank vole, 3: Lesser white-toothed shrew

Root vole inside an observation box, with brown fur and rounded ears.

Bank vole in an observation box, showing its reddish-brown fur.

Lesser white-toothed shrew inside an observation box, with a pointed snout, small eyes, and short velvety fur.

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