News

17
October
2024
Far Eastern bloodsucker: from subspecies to species!
Studying the taxonomic status of different groups of organisms allows us to further study the evolution of different taxa and more accurately predict the features of biology of new species.
04
October
2024
Human pheromones: myth or reality?
A pheromone is a species-specific substance that is secreted into the environment by one animal, enters the body of another animal of the same species, and causes changes in its behavior or physiology.
18
September
2024
An aerial survey is conducted on birds and whales
Specialists from the Northern Eurasian Anseriformes Working Group arrived in Anadyr to continue their census work using small aircraft. This is the third time the ornithologists have flown to the region.
17
September
2024
Dolphin station
Andrey Abramov told about how dolphins sleep, how many kilometers they swim per day, whether they save drowning people, and why they might not like your manicure.
16
September
2024
Wet job
What could be interesting about woodlice? They are commonly disliked, and their appearance in the house can hardly please anyone. But someone devotes years to studying these creatures.

Announcements

The competition for the 2027 L'Oréal-UNESCO “For Women in Science” International Award is open

In 2027, the awards will be presented to outstanding scientific researchers in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer and information sciences, chemistry, and earth and environmental sciences. Five winners will be selected, each receiving a prize of €100,000.

27 May
Pre-defense of T.V. Marchenkova's thesis on "Demographic and spatial structure of the Far Eastern leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) population based on camera trap matrix data"

On Wednesday, May 27 at 14:00, an interlaboratory colloquium will be held at 33 Leninsky Prospekt (room 19) between the Laboratory of Mammalian Behavior and Behavioral Ecology (Head – RAS Academician V.V. Rozhnov) and the Laboratory of Comparative Ethology and Biocommunication (Head – RAS Corresponding Member A.V. Surov).

The selection process for the Vietnam Scholarship Program for studies, internships, and advanced training at Vietnamese universities has begun

Applications are now being accepted for the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Scholarship Program for studies, internships, and professional development at Vietnamese universities in the 2026/2027 academic year.

23 — 26 September 2027
All-Russian (with international participation) scientific zoological conference dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Alekseevich Severtsov

Each participant may submit up to two original publications and two co-authored publications with colleagues, each up to 6 pages long. Publication of a collection of materials is planned for the start of the conference.

28 May
Pre-defense of the candidate's dissertation by Denisenko A.D. "Regional composition and formation of feeding aggregations of juvenile chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) in the Sea of Okhotsk based on the results of genetic identification"

On Thursday, May 28, 2026, at 2:00 PM, an interlaboratory colloquium will be held in the large conference hall of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (33 Leninsky Prospekt) to mark the pre-defense of Anastasia Dmitrievna Denisenko's PhD dissertation.

On the identified incident and measures to improve the information security of the Russian Federation

The Department of Digital Development of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as the Department), as part of its information security measures, reports an increase in fraudulent activity targeting employees of subordinate organizations of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as the organizations).