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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.
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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 3h
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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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals PAS @iseapas.bsky.social · 1d
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#Seminar 📣
📅 17 October 2025
🕐 10:00 am (GMT+2)
📍ISEA PAS conference room, Sławkowska 17, Cracow, and online
🧑‍🎓👩‍🎓 Dr Alan Dargantes & Dr Alma Mohagan, Central Mindanao University, Philippines
Link: tiny.pl/kz-ccgbk
(ID: 363 417 476 261 6, passcode: YD9Td6k9)
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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 5d
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 · 9d
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
Białowieża Forest, Poland
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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 9d
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
Białowieża Forest, Poland
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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 9d
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.
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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 13d
With whole-genome sequencing data for two PL populations: declining and isolated West Pomerania and stable and large Biebrza Valley, Dr Kubacka explored past and current genetic diversity in threatened Aquatic Warbler. Results will support conservation efforts. #conservation #genomics #biodiversity
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Justyna Kubacka @justynakubacka.bsky.social · 13d
My WGS🧬project on Aquatic Warbler shows:
👉 Recent genetic bottleneck and low diversity
👉 Elevated inbreeding in declining westernmost population
👉 Growing inbreeding in core population
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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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ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas @ergabiodiv.bsky.social · 14d
🌾 The #threatened aquatic warbler relies on fragmented European wetlands to survive. Researchers from
@mizpas.bsky.social led by @justynakubacka.bsky.social
use #genomic data from two populations to guide management and help restore an extinct population.
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Conservation genomics of the aquatic warbler, a specialist bird breeding in declining mire habitat
This ERGA-BGE project, started in June 2024 and led by Dr. Justyna Kubacka, builds upon an ongoing study on the conservation genomics of the aquatic warbler, a threatened bird of highly fragmented cen...
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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · Jun 17
🎉New publication from MiIZ PAS 👉🏼
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Gema Trigos-Peral @trigos-peral.bsky.social · Jun 16
Excited to share an incredible research that brings together all the essentials for success: outstanding researchers leading the way and strong international collaboration. It’s been an honor to be part of it. Now… dive in and enjoy—I’m sure you’ll find it fascinating! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · Apr 23
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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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · Apr 10
New publication from MIZ PAS:

Combining distance sampling and triangulation to estimate density of elusive rainforest vertebrates

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#ornithology
Combining distance sampling and triangulation to estimate density of elusive rainforest vertebrates
Knowledge of the density of endangered or game species is important for conservation and management. Distance sampling and triangulation have been use…
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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · Apr 10
Mimikra głosowa kukułeczek napędza ewolucję

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Mimikra głosowa kukułeczek napędza ewolucję
Kukułeczki jarzębate, aby uniknąć odrzucenia, naśladują głosy piskląt swoich gospodarzy tak dobrze, że zaczynają mocno różnić się w zależności od miejsca występowania. To może prowadzić do powstawania...
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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · Apr 10
Naukowiec: badania długoterminowe są kluczowe dla nauk przyrodniczych, ich finansowanie jest wyzwaniem

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Naukowiec: badania długoterminowe są kluczowe dla nauk przyrodniczych, ich finansowanie jest wyzwaniem
Badania długoterminowe mają dla nauk przyrodniczych ogromne znaczenie. Niestety, są niechętnie finansowane, ponieważ nie wpisują się w model nauki nastawionej na szybko osiągane i publikowane rezultat...
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Marta Maziarz @martamaziarz.bsky.social · Mar 5
Our new #OpenAccess paper published in Biological Conservation:

"The Białowieża Forest as an example of the resilience of long-term studies in a changing world” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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#ecology #ornithology #mammals #plants #climate #forestecol 1/3
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