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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS
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Research from the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
🐜 Can fungi reshape ant societies?
👉 Rickia wasmannii speeds up task shifts: young workers leave the nest sooner and take on risky foraging. Age—not task—drives immune strength.
🔗 Read more: tiny.pl/gm4_zh0f4

#science #ants #fungi #NCN #Horizon2020 #MarieSklodowskaCurie
February 13, 2026 at 10:16 AM
👉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
February 12, 2026 at 12:20 PM
🕷️ Can ticks reveal pollution?
👉A new study shows that the exoskeleton of Dermacentor reticulatus accumulates heavy metals (Cd, Pb, Hg, Cs, Sr). Levels vary by site (Warsaw, rural Poland, Chornobyl), sex and body part—making ticks useful tiny environmental sensors.
🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/nhda8yvx
February 9, 2026 at 11:21 PM
❗️📣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
February 8, 2026 at 1:33 PM
📢 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
February 3, 2026 at 9:09 AM
🐜🔍 Our researchers — Dr. Magdalena Witek, Dr. Gema Trigos‑Peral and Dr. Filip Turza — spent a wonderful morning at Monet International School, where students explored live ant colonies up close. ✨ Curiosity was buzzing everywhere! #Education #ScienceCommunication #Ants #SocialInsects
January 30, 2026 at 11:53 AM
📢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
January 27, 2026 at 10:52 AM
📣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
January 23, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Do all ants forage the same way when it’s too hot? 🐜🔥

Dr. Ślipiński (MIZ PAS) et al. @ebdonana.bsky.social shows they don’t: some rely on speed, others on smarter routes and cooperation. Different strategies, same challenge. Link 👉🏼 shorturl.at/uPe8o #ants #thermal_adaptations #Doñana #desert
January 20, 2026 at 11:58 AM
📢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
January 13, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Our researcher @justynakubacka.bsky.social has recently talked on population genomics of aquatic warbler at:
📢Genomics for Biodiversity Conference - from genomes to impact
🎥 tinyurl.com/mr6dhbpj (from 01:25:30)
📢International Aquatic Warbler Conference
🎥📗 tinyurl.com/2ck2yjs7

📷Irene Arnaldos Giner
January 8, 2026 at 11:38 PM
📢 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
January 6, 2026 at 11:43 AM
📢Prelekcja: „Mewy w Warszawie – występowanie i rozpoznawanie” Wstęp wolny!
ℹ️Środę, 7 stycznia 2026 - 17:30
📍Miejsce Aktywności Lokalnej Kasprowicza 14, przy metrze Słodowiec.
🗣️Gościem: Jan Rapczyński - kierownik Terenowej Stacji Ornitologicznej Obóz Wisła.
👉https://shorturl.at/xBoPd
January 2, 2026 at 5:15 PM
🦞🌎 Tiny crustaceans, big questions! Two freshwater cyclopid copepods are recorded in South America for the first time. Are they newcomers or overlooked natives? A recent publication explores biogeography, taxonomy & invasions. Link 👉 shorturl.at/jy9vd
#FreshwaterEcology #Copepoda #InvasiveSpecies
December 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🐜Ants in a teapot!!!
Our researchers documented Camponotus nicobarensis escaping a home formicarium and nesting in ceramic teapots, raising brood successfully. A striking example of ant adaptability and a warning about risks linked to exotic ant trade. 🔗https://shorturl.at/NruKr
#Ants #AnimalTrade
December 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
🦐 Copepods in lowland springs 💧🌿 remain an underexplored part of Europe’s biodiversity. Research in NE Poland revealed rich copepod fauna, showing springs as important ecotonal habitats.
👉 doi.org/10.4081/jlim...

#Science #Copepoda #Cyclops #Biodiversity #FreshwaterEcology
December 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Our next seminar is this Fri (Dec 19th, 10 a.m. CET, on-line). Don't miss it! 👇
👉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
December 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
👉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
December 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
📢Visit by scientists from the Mongolian Academy of Sciences (MAS)! A project funded by the @polskaakademianauk.bsky.social and the MAS : "Revealing molecular-level diversity of Mongolia's entomofauna in declining habitats". We applied novel methodologies used in entomological systematics.🪳🧬
December 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
❗ 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
December 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
❗️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. 👇
December 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The seminar has been cancelled! We apologise for the inconvenienve.
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
December 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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
December 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
📣🎉 Our researchers, Wiesław Bogdanowicz and Marcin Kamiński, have been awarded @ncn.gov.pl grants in the OPUS call! 🏆​ Congratulations👏​
➡️ tinyurl.com/37rv4rwv
Wyniki konkursu OPUS 29, PRELUDIUM 24
28 listopada 2025 r. Koordynatorzy Dyscyplin Narodowego Centrum Nauki przedstawiają listy rankingowe projektów zakwalifikowanych do finansowania w ramach konkursów ogłoszonych przez NCN w dniu 17 marca 2025 r.: OPUS 29 – konkurs na projekty badawcze dla naukowców na wszystkich etapach kariery PRELUDIUM 24 – konkurs na projekty badawcze dla osób bez stopnia doktora
ncn.gov.pl
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
🕷 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.
November 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM