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Dr Mark E Hauber
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Executive Director at CUNY ASRC, comparative psychology professor at GC CUNY with an eye on brood parasites; Nat Geo Explorer, married 🏳️‍🌈; I post my own mind. www.cowbirdlab.org

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Mark Erno Hauber is an American ornithologist and Endowed Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research considers the development of avian recognition systems. .. more

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Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · 10h
afonet.org/co-eic-appli...
Co-EIC Application – Association of Field Ornithologists
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Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center @asrc-gc.bsky.social · 18h
An interdisciplinary team of CUNY ASRC scientists unveil a groundbreaking conceptual model & integrative monitoring framework designed to reveal how climate change stresses life across the planet. This study could transform how detect, understand, & respond to climate threats. https://bit.ly/4p06rBU
A digital globe featuring buildings, trees, and red structures, overlaid with a DNA helix and network connections.

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Alexei Maklakov @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social · 1d
Fast females, slow males: accelerated ageing and reproductive senescence in Drosophila melanogaster females across diverse social environments url: academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...
Fast females, slow males: accelerated ageing and reproductive senescence in Drosophila melanogaster females across diverse social environments
Abstract. Females and males typically differ in lifespan, patterns of ageing, and reproduction. General explanations for variation in the magnitude of this
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Reposted by Márk E. Hauber, Marta Maziarz

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EOU Fledglings @eoufledglings.bsky.social · 1d
The date is set for the next EOU Fledglings Meeting 🐥 in Gdansk, Poland! Share the news with your peers! 🦆

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Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · 2d
ethz.ch/en/news-and-... new ERC funding for Andrea Alu @asrc-gc.bsky.social
Two ERC Synergy Grants for ETH Zurich researchers
The European Research Council (ERC) has agreed to fund two high-profile international projects with ETH’s backing. Markus Reiher is helping to accelerate the development of chemical catalysts, while C...
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Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · 2d
Woodpeckers and tennis players share similarities when preparing to strike

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Woodpeckers and tennis players share similarities when preparing to strike
Scientists have investigated how woodpeckers use their muscles and their breathing to prepare to strike wood -- and they liken it to the way tennis players prepare to smack a ball.
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Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · 3d
www.nature.com/articles/s41... now with pagination!
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 experimen...
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Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center @asrc-gc.bsky.social · 3d
Prof. @pinar-ayata.bsky.social, CUNY ASRC Neuroscience Initiative, and colleagues identified a previously unrecognized protective state of microglia (the brain’s primary immune cells) that may open new avenues for treating Alzheimer’s disease. Check out their paper in Nature! go.nature.com/3JMJovx
Lymphoid gene expression supports neuroprotective microglia function - Nature
PU.1low CD28-expressing microglia may act as suppressive cells in Alzheimer’s disease, mitigating its progression by reducing neuroinflammation and amyloid plaque load, indicating potential immunother...
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Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · 4d
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... instant classic!! @nickantonson.bsky.social
Neuromuscular coordination of movement and breathing forges a hammer-like mechanism for woodpecker drilling
Highlighted Article: Woodpeckers engage a broad suite of muscular recruitment in coordination with respiration to forge a hammer-like mechanism when performing their iconic drilling and tapping behavi...
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Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · 4d
My first paper in J Heredity, is now coauthored and published! Thank you team! academic.oup.com/jhered/advan...
Genomic resources for comparative analyses of obligate avian brood parasitism
Abstract. Examples of convergent evolution, wherein distantly related organisms evolve similar traits, including behaviors, underscore the adaptive power o
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BOU @bou.org.uk · 4d
Wildflower strips support birds and ground-dwelling arthropods during winter period regardless of mowing regime | www.sciencedirect.co... | Biological Conservation | #ornithology 🪶
Wildflower strips support birds and ground-dwelling arthropods during winter period regardless of mowing regime
Agri-environmental schemes, such as wildflower strips (WFS), can help to mitigate biodiversity loss caused by agricultural intensification. WFSs can p…
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Reposted by Márk E. Hauber, Luke Rendell

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ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social · 5d
Meet our plenary speaker Felicity Muth!

Assistant professor at the University of California Davis, her lab group are broadly interested in cognition, especially aspects of learning and memory that have a clear function in the natural world, focusing on captive and wild bumblebees.

Reposted by Márk E. Hauber, Raquel Ponti

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BOU @bou.org.uk · 6d
Morphological Evolution in Island Birds Is Associated With More Terrestrial Lifestyles and a Lower Number of Raptors and Intra‐Family Competitors | onlinelibrary.wiley.... | Global Ecology and Biogeography | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶

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Joshua Brumberg @joshbrumberg.bsky.social · 6d
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 7d
#Evolution of complex adaptations can involve changes in multiple traits that lack standalone function. @benitoexplains.bsky.social &co show that leaf masquerade in #katydids evolved via concurrent modification in wing colour & shape, driven by evolutionary synergy @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4oUE741
Functional synergy underlies effective leaf masquerade in the wild. Top: Photographs of Itarissa costaricensis (left) and Aegmia maculofolia (right), leaf-masquerading katydid species (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) found at the field site in Panama. Photos courtesy of Dr Hannah ter Hofstede and Dr Laurel Symes. Bottom: All experimental color × shape treatment combinations in situ, pinned to tree bark with a mealworm (Tenebrio molitor larvae) as bait. From left to right: “green oval,” “green elongated oval,” “green rectangle,” “brown oval,” “brown elongated oval,” “brown rectangle,” “blue oval,” “blue elongated rectangle,” “blue rectangle.”

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Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · 7d
Great Auk drawing: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A Neolithic rock engraving apparently showing a Great Auk being captured
We evaluate whether a Neolithic engraved rock image at the Alta archaeological site in Finnmark, Norway – of a bird being held by a person – represents a Great Auk Pinguinus impennis. There are sever...
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Reposted by Elena Litchman, Márk E. Hauber

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 8d
The Dobzhansky Prize recognizes the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. The awardee will present the Dobzhansky Prize plenary at #Evol2026. Apply by December 1! shorturl.at/p70wY
Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Dobzhansky Prize to recognize the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. Nominations due December 1, 2025.

thecowbirdlab.bsky.social
Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · 8d
Congrats!!
asanchez-tojar.bsky.social Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 9d
Big news. I’ve started a new PI position @ucoimbra.bsky.social

I'm joining the meta-research group led by @tweissgerber.bsky.social & the @ec.europa.eu funded @excelscior-era.bsky.social

Thrilled to join this historic university & continue my work on #MetaResearch #EvidenceSynthesis & #OpenScience

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 9d
Big news. I’ve started a new PI position @ucoimbra.bsky.social

I'm joining the meta-research group led by @tweissgerber.bsky.social & the @ec.europa.eu funded @excelscior-era.bsky.social

Thrilled to join this historic university & continue my work on #MetaResearch #EvidenceSynthesis & #OpenScience

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Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · 9d
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Explorer Home
Where National Geographic Explorers start.
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nature.com
Nature @nature.com · 9d
Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake

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From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected
Nature - In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.
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Reposted by Márk E. Hauber, Nina Farwig

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Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · 10d
NEW PAPER: Female wild turkeys produce fewer male offspring where hunting increases male mortality, suggesting adaptive adjustment of brood sex ratios to enhance reproductive success under harvest pressure.

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#ornithology #birds #adaptive #sexratio 🪶
Male wild tureky. Photo: Mcvoorhis, Wikimedia commons. Fig. 1 from the article: Proportion of male eastern wild turkey Meleagris gallopavo silvestris offspring in Georgia, southeast Louisiana, South Carolina, and west Louisiana, USA from 2020–2023. Fig. 2 from the article: Coefficient plot representing Bayesian logistic regression model estimating variation in offspring sex ratio of female eastern wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) across the southeastern United States during 2020–2023.

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Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · 10d
From last year! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Architectural traditions in the structures built by cooperative weaver birds
Humans cooperate to build complex structures with culture-specific architectural styles. However, they are not the only animals to build complex structures nor to have culture. We show that social gro...
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Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · 10d
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Chants are relaxing to produce and to perceive.
Chants across seven traditions share acoustic traits that enhance subjective relaxation | PNAS
For over 5,000 y, chanting has been practiced across many Western and Eastern traditions. However, there is hardly any empirical research on 1) whe...
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Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · 11d
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Genomic architecture of egg mimicry and its consequences for speciation in parasitic cuckoos
Host-parasite arms races facilitate rapid evolution and can fuel speciation. Cuculus cuckoos are deceptive egg mimics that exhibit a broad diversity of counterfeit egg phenotypes, representing host-ad...
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Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · 12d
A\Prof. Qiushi Guo of @asrc-gc.bsky.social giving his Feliks Gross/Henry Wasser award lecture @cunyacademygc.bsky.social

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Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · 12d
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When it comes to mating, female mosquitoes call the shots - News
Scientists discovered that a subtle behavior by the female mosquito dictates whether mating is successful.
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Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · 12d
New paper on the role of hormones in American robin egg rejection behavior: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · 13d
@asrc-gc.bsky.social Halloween social!

Reposted by Wolfgang Wüster, Márk E. Hauber, John R. Hutchinson

yukihaba.bsky.social
Yuki Haba @yukihaba.bsky.social · 17d
How does life evolve to adapt to modern cities?

Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation.

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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515
Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito
Understanding how life is adapting to urban environments represents an important challenge in evolutionary biology. In this work, we investigate a widely cited example of urban adaptation, Culex pipie...
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