News

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December
2025
Lynx cubs use very complex sounds to communicate
The cubs from four litters, kept with their mothers in large outdoor enclosures, were recorded both immediately after birth in their maternity houses and outside, after the cubs entered their enclosures.

Announcements

16 — 19 June
International Conference "Diversity of Soils and Biota of North and Central Asia"

We invite you to participate in the International Conference "Diversity of Soils and Biota in Northern and Central Asia," dedicated to the 45th anniversary of the Institute of General and Experimental Biology (IGEB SB RAS), which will be held June 16–19, 2026, in Ulan-Ude, Russia.

27 January
Seminar "Results of experimental and methodological geophysical work to detect burrows of the Russian desman (Desmana moschata) and the beaver (Castor fiber) in the Oka Biosphere Reserve"

The "Modern Problems of Geophysics" seminar resumes its Tuesday meetings at Moscow State University. The first meeting of the year and season will be held on January 27 at 5:00 PM, as a mobile event at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences.

18 — 22 May
School-seminar "Nature reserve Geographic Information Systems (GIS) 2026"

NextGIS and the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences are holding the Nature reserve GIS 2026 school-seminar from May 18 to 22, 2026. The event will take place at 33 Leninsky Prospekt, Moscow.

12 — 16 October
The Seventh International Symposium "Alien Species in the Holarctic. Borok-VII"

The date and venue of the Seventh International Symposium "Alien Species in the Holarctic. Borok-VII" will be October 12–16, 2026, in Yaroslavl.

17 — 19 December 2025
Conference "Morphogenesis in Individual and Historical Development: From the Concept of Morphogenetic Fields through the Study of Their Axial Symmetry and Mechanobiology to the Theory of Self-Organization"

From December 17 to 19, 2025, the Borissiak Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (123 Profsoyuznaya Street, Moscow) will host the conference "Morphogenesis in Individual and Historical Development: From the Concept of Morphogenetic Fields through the Study of Axial Symmetry and Mechanobiology to the Theory of Self-Organization." The conference is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Professor Lev Vladimirovich Belousov (July 18, 1935 – September 11, 2017).

02 — 06 February
Conference with international participation "Mammals in a changing world: current problems of theriology" (XII Congress of the Theriological Society named after Academician V.E. Sokolov at the Russian Academy of Sciences)

The V.E. Sokolov Theriological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences will hold a conference with international participation “Mammals in a Changing World: Current Problems of Theriology” (XII Congress of the V.E. Sokolov Theriological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences) from February 2 to 6, 2026, in Moscow, at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IEE RAS).