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Justyna Kubacka
@justynakubacka.bsky.social
Ecology | Evolution | Ornithology | Population Genomics
Very happy to see the latest issue of @heredityjournal.bsky.social, which features an aquatic warbler on the cover!
📷Courtesy of Dr Janusz Kupryjanowicz
🔗Read the full text of our aquatic warbler inbreeding depression paper here: rdcu.be/fpyva
August 12, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Reposted by Justyna Kubacka
❗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...
August 4, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Proud to share my new paper, just published with @springernature.com in @heredityjournal.bsky.social! 🥳 We found phenotype-dependent inbreeding depression in male breeding success 🐤: it was present in small, but not in large males of the aquatic warbler.
Read more here 👉 rdcu.be/fpyva
📷I. Arnaldos
June 21, 2026 at 9:14 AM
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🔬 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 [email protected] (subject: OpusLap)
👉 tinyurl.com/4babnhfp
May 8, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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🐟 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
May 15, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Acta Ornithologica, one of @mizpas.bsky.social scientific journals is now featuring online-early publication and offering free open access in 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
May 5, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Reposted by Justyna Kubacka
📢 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
April 17, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Reposted by Justyna Kubacka
Publish with MIZ PAN, for free and in OA!
📢 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
April 20, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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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
April 21, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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❗️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
April 17, 2026 at 12:48 PM
My institute publishes four established scientific journals. This year, they will all be open-access in @bioone.bsky.social. Plus the editorial boards have been refreshed and there is now online early publishing. Submissions are welcome!
‼️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
April 14, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Reposted by Justyna Kubacka
❗📰 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...
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 ...
tinyurl.com
April 7, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Reposted by Justyna Kubacka
📣New article by MIZ PAS scientists @martamaziarz.bsky.social, @trigos-peral.bsky.social & M. Witek shows a diverse, dynamic and distinctive macroarthropod community in bird nests on forest floor.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/bdhcsv9d 💰@ncn.gov.pl
@respublications.bsky.social #ornithology #Bialowieza #Forest
Bird nests support a diverse, dynamic and distinctive macroarthropod community on the forest floor
Nests built by vertebrates, such as birds and mammals, constitute diverse microhabitats that are inhabited by many arthropod taxa and represent important hubs of local biodiversity. Compared to leaf...
tinyurl.com
April 1, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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⏲️ Dont'miss out on-line seminar! Today, at 12:00 CEST. 👇
📢Upcoming on-line MIZ PAS seminar!

ℹ️Talk title: "Ecology of haemoparasitic infections in birds: occurrence patterns and host-level effects"
👉by Dr. Anna Dubiec from MIZ PAS.

📅 30 March (Monday), 12:00 CEST.
🔗 shorturl.at/QvjxO

#ornithology #haemoparasites #species_interactions
📷A. Dubiec
March 30, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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🐺🦊 Wolves & jackals at the same table? Prof. Bogdanowicz and Prof. Chylarecki show that competition or tolerance between them strongly depends on food abundance.
Link 👉 shorturl.at/tbp2X

#WolfVsJackal #PredatorDynamics #Fieldwork #CarnivoreEcology

Photo by Theodoros Kominos
March 6, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Passive acoustic monitoring is a powerful way to detect birds. Researchers from my institute contributed to the first annotated dataset of bird vocalisations, which will advance automated bird detection algorithms.
Dr Attisano & Prof. Theuerkauf contributed to first 🌍 annotated dataset of 🐦vocalisations: 91,931 recordings from 1,192 species across 13 biomes. The dataset supports training & validation of automated bird detection algorithms.
🔗Paper: tinyurl.com/mr2mr6ym
🔗Data: tinyurl.com/2azvryp3
February 27, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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In 2018-2022, artificial islands were built in the Szczecin Laggon, PL by the Maritime Office in Szczecin. Dr Dominik Marchowski from our institute has been an expert ensuring the islands are safe and valuable bird habitats. Science for conservation!
#BirdConservation #BalticSea #ScienceImpact
Bird Paradise of the Szczecin Lagoon – New Islands and Bird Conservation (Baltic Sea, Poland)
YouTube video by Dominik Marchowski
youtu.be
February 25, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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Warszawskie Koło Ornitologów przy MiIZ PAN oraz Warszawska Grupa @otop-birdlife.bsky.social zapraszają na kolejne spotkanie!
📅3 marca 2026
⏲️17:30
🚩Miejsce Aktywności Lokalnej Kasprowicza 14, Warszawa
👨‍🏫Maciej Boenisch - muzealnik, kustosz w Muzeum Dulag 121 oraz członek Pruszkowskiej Grupy OTOP.
👇
February 25, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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🎉 New paper in Nature Communications! Researchers from MiIZ PAN and Jagiellonian University report extreme genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria of planthoppers — some function with only ~60 genes. 🧬 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Convergent extreme reductive evolution in ancient planthopper symbioses - Nature Communications
Symbiotic bacteria can have exceedingly small genomes. This study finds that ancient bacterial symbionts of planthoppers have repeatedly evolved the smallest known genomes, losing most biosynthetic fu...
www.nature.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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📣 Cities reshape ant diets 🐜🍬

An international team—Stukalyuk et al. (Ukraine), @tomerczaczkes.bsky.social (Germany) & @trigos-peral.bsky.social (Poland) found urban ants accept lower-sugar food than rural ones, likely adapting to different food sources. 👉 shorturl.at/W7bsm

#City #Ants #Nutrition
February 20, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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👉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
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❗️📣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
Reposted by Justyna Kubacka
📣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
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📢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
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📢 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