Michaela Hau
@michaelahau.bsky.social
Group leader Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Professor U Konstanz. I study responses of wild animals to environmental variation, stress hormones, behavior, fitness, evolution.
https://www.bi.mpg.de/hau
https://www.bi.mpg.de/hau
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All action ruff display, the first silent opera singer.
Opera buffa? No, actually ruff male is dead serious in attracting females flying by to land at his lek. #waders #ornithology
May 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
All action ruff display, the first silent opera singer.
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Biases in neurotechnologies can lead to misdiagnosis and marginalization in research. We are excited to welcome neuroscientist Jasmine Kwasa at out Institute to hear her ideas for making the field more inclusive! The talk is open to everyone, on campus or via zoom 🧪⚖️: www.bi.mpg.de/events/41704...
May 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Biases in neurotechnologies can lead to misdiagnosis and marginalization in research. We are excited to welcome neuroscientist Jasmine Kwasa at out Institute to hear her ideas for making the field more inclusive! The talk is open to everyone, on campus or via zoom 🧪⚖️: www.bi.mpg.de/events/41704...
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🧬 Another exciting opportunity at SMNS—this time in our Zoology Department!
🦎🔬 Looking for a Postdoc in molecular biogeography, conservation genetics, or evolutionary morphology.
🤝 Interdepartmental collaboration encouraged!
🔗 naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/research/zoology
🦎🔬 Looking for a Postdoc in molecular biogeography, conservation genetics, or evolutionary morphology.
🤝 Interdepartmental collaboration encouraged!
🔗 naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/research/zoology
The State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart is looking to fill the following position as soon as possible:
Postdoc (m/f/d) to work in research programms of the zoological department
E13 TV-L, 100%, limited until Sep 30th 2026
Application deadline: Jun 30th 2025
www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/jobs
Postdoc (m/f/d) to work in research programms of the zoological department
E13 TV-L, 100%, limited until Sep 30th 2026
Application deadline: Jun 30th 2025
www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/jobs
May 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
🧬 Another exciting opportunity at SMNS—this time in our Zoology Department!
🦎🔬 Looking for a Postdoc in molecular biogeography, conservation genetics, or evolutionary morphology.
🤝 Interdepartmental collaboration encouraged!
🔗 naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/research/zoology
🦎🔬 Looking for a Postdoc in molecular biogeography, conservation genetics, or evolutionary morphology.
🤝 Interdepartmental collaboration encouraged!
🔗 naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/research/zoology
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Uppsala University seeks a PhD student for climate-change adaptation and speciation research on flycatchers. Applicants must hold a Master's degree in biology. More info: https://www.uu.se/en/department/ecology-and-genetics/research/animal-ecology/qvarnstrom-lab. Apply by March 18, 2025. #phd
Qvarnström lab - Uppsala University
Speciation
www.uu.se
February 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Uppsala University seeks a PhD student for climate-change adaptation and speciation research on flycatchers. Applicants must hold a Master's degree in biology. More info: https://www.uu.se/en/department/ecology-and-genetics/research/animal-ecology/qvarnstrom-lab. Apply by March 18, 2025. #phd
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🦤🧬🧑🔬 Junior Group Leader in Conservation Genomics Wanted! 🪲🌿🔬
Help bridge gaps between evolutionary genetics & conservation with museum and monitoring collections.
🔗 Info: tinyurl.com/biodivgen
⏰ Deadline: June 15th
📩 Contact me!
🚀 Excited to explore new horizons!
Please share 🕊️
Help bridge gaps between evolutionary genetics & conservation with museum and monitoring collections.
🔗 Info: tinyurl.com/biodivgen
⏰ Deadline: June 15th
📩 Contact me!
🚀 Excited to explore new horizons!
Please share 🕊️
Jobs | Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
Open positions
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April 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
🦤🧬🧑🔬 Junior Group Leader in Conservation Genomics Wanted! 🪲🌿🔬
Help bridge gaps between evolutionary genetics & conservation with museum and monitoring collections.
🔗 Info: tinyurl.com/biodivgen
⏰ Deadline: June 15th
📩 Contact me!
🚀 Excited to explore new horizons!
Please share 🕊️
Help bridge gaps between evolutionary genetics & conservation with museum and monitoring collections.
🔗 Info: tinyurl.com/biodivgen
⏰ Deadline: June 15th
📩 Contact me!
🚀 Excited to explore new horizons!
Please share 🕊️
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This weekend, our scientist @michaelahau.bsky.social participated in an innovative #scicomm event at a Bavarian "Wirtshaus" with TV reporter Willi Weitzel from the show "Willi wills wissen." She shared insights from her long-term research on great tits. It was a fun event for the whole family!
May 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This weekend, our scientist @michaelahau.bsky.social participated in an innovative #scicomm event at a Bavarian "Wirtshaus" with TV reporter Willi Weitzel from the show "Willi wills wissen." She shared insights from her long-term research on great tits. It was a fun event for the whole family!
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#Capuchins are abducting baby howlers. But why?
Zoë Goldsborough, Brendan Barrett, and Meg Crofoot
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social discuss what’s behind this novel animal tradition. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mooQ... @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social
Zoë Goldsborough, Brendan Barrett, and Meg Crofoot
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social discuss what’s behind this novel animal tradition. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mooQ... @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social
Capuchin monkeys are abducting baby howlers. But why?
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
www.youtube.com
May 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
#Capuchins are abducting baby howlers. But why?
Zoë Goldsborough, Brendan Barrett, and Meg Crofoot
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social discuss what’s behind this novel animal tradition. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mooQ... @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social
Zoë Goldsborough, Brendan Barrett, and Meg Crofoot
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social discuss what’s behind this novel animal tradition. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mooQ... @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social
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Los geht's mit dem „AHA Wirtshaus-Wissen“ am 18. Mai um 16 Uhr im Hofbräukeller mit dem Thema #Wald 🌳🌲als Lebensraum, Erholungsort, Baustofflieferant und Klimaschützer. Willi Weitzel („Willi wills wissen“) nimmt Kinder, Eltern und Interessierte mit auf eine Wissensreise:
eveeno.com/wirtshaus_wi...
eveeno.com/wirtshaus_wi...
May 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Los geht's mit dem „AHA Wirtshaus-Wissen“ am 18. Mai um 16 Uhr im Hofbräukeller mit dem Thema #Wald 🌳🌲als Lebensraum, Erholungsort, Baustofflieferant und Klimaschützer. Willi Weitzel („Willi wills wissen“) nimmt Kinder, Eltern und Interessierte mit auf eine Wissensreise:
eveeno.com/wirtshaus_wi...
eveeno.com/wirtshaus_wi...
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The winners of this year’s “Dance Your PhD” contest from @science.org @aaas.org are extremely fun: www.science.org/content/arti...
And the winner of this year’s ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ contest is …
Helsinki chemist’s food-themed frolic wins overall honors as other awards recognize physics laser raps, swaying leaf cells, and collective dancing takeovers
www.science.org
May 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The winners of this year’s “Dance Your PhD” contest from @science.org @aaas.org are extremely fun: www.science.org/content/arti...
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Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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SBN meeting is July 13-16. Deadline to submit an abstract is May 31. Still plenty of time.
May 3, 2025 at 5:31 AM
SBN meeting is July 13-16. Deadline to submit an abstract is May 31. Still plenty of time.
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May 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Female zebra finches don't learn to sing. However, a new study shows that their supposedly rudimentary song system is more active than thought when it comes to producing innate calls but is driven by different neurons than in males.
🧪Scientific publication: dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
🧪Scientific publication: dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
May 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Female zebra finches don't learn to sing. However, a new study shows that their supposedly rudimentary song system is more active than thought when it comes to producing innate calls but is driven by different neurons than in males.
🧪Scientific publication: dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
🧪Scientific publication: dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
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For German and French speakers interested in animal culture, this doco will be well worth 43 mins of your time. For everyone else, great tits solving puzzle boxes speak for themselves 🐦🧩🧠@lucymaplin.bsky.social @mchimento.bsky.social
www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...
www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...
Kultur im Tierreich - Voneinander lernen - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
Bei Menschen wie bei Tieren beruht die Weitergabe von Kultur auf sozialem Lernen. Vier Arten geben Einblicke in die Kulturvermittlung im Tierreich: Kohlmeisen und Grünmeerkatzen lernen die Tricks der ...
www.arte.tv
May 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
For German and French speakers interested in animal culture, this doco will be well worth 43 mins of your time. For everyone else, great tits solving puzzle boxes speak for themselves 🐦🧩🧠@lucymaplin.bsky.social @mchimento.bsky.social
www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...
www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...
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Big thanks to Kristina Nienhaus for a great interview about our recent #MetaAnalysis on egg hormones and fitness.
Interview ➡️ shorturl.at/HZHJb
📰 Article ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/ele....
💻Data & Code ➡️ github.com/ASanchez-Toj...
®️ Pre-registration ➡️ doi.org/10.17605/OSF...
Interview ➡️ shorturl.at/HZHJb
📰 Article ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/ele....
💻Data & Code ➡️ github.com/ASanchez-Toj...
®️ Pre-registration ➡️ doi.org/10.17605/OSF...
April 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Big thanks to Kristina Nienhaus for a great interview about our recent #MetaAnalysis on egg hormones and fitness.
Interview ➡️ shorturl.at/HZHJb
📰 Article ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/ele....
💻Data & Code ➡️ github.com/ASanchez-Toj...
®️ Pre-registration ➡️ doi.org/10.17605/OSF...
Interview ➡️ shorturl.at/HZHJb
📰 Article ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/ele....
💻Data & Code ➡️ github.com/ASanchez-Toj...
®️ Pre-registration ➡️ doi.org/10.17605/OSF...
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Our paper investigating reproducibility potential in ecological journals without a code-sharing policy is now @peercomjournal.bsky.social
📰 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...
💻 github.com/ASanchez-Toj...
We've shared our results already (bsky.app/profile/asan...), so we won't bother you again.
Instead...👇
📰 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...
💻 github.com/ASanchez-Toj...
We've shared our results already (bsky.app/profile/asan...), so we won't bother you again.
Instead...👇
April 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Our paper investigating reproducibility potential in ecological journals without a code-sharing policy is now @peercomjournal.bsky.social
📰 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...
💻 github.com/ASanchez-Toj...
We've shared our results already (bsky.app/profile/asan...), so we won't bother you again.
Instead...👇
📰 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...
💻 github.com/ASanchez-Toj...
We've shared our results already (bsky.app/profile/asan...), so we won't bother you again.
Instead...👇
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Any meta-analysis peers attending Behaviour 2025 (25th – 30th August 2025 in Kolkata, India)? We are searching for support with a symposium on meta-analysis... (DM)
April 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Any meta-analysis peers attending Behaviour 2025 (25th – 30th August 2025 in Kolkata, India)? We are searching for support with a symposium on meta-analysis... (DM)
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📄 New Paper!
Migratory Birds Advance Spring Arrival and Egg-Laying in the Arctic, Mostly by Travelling Faster doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
@globalchangebio.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social
Migratory Birds Advance Spring Arrival and Egg-Laying in the Arctic, Mostly by Travelling Faster doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
@globalchangebio.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social
Migratory Birds Advance Spring Arrival and Egg‐Laying in the Arctic, Mostly by Travelling Faster
A warming climate is affecting the phenology of life on earth, including when birds migrate and start breeding. We show that earlier arrival is a general pattern also for birds travelling to the Arct...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
📄 New Paper!
Migratory Birds Advance Spring Arrival and Egg-Laying in the Arctic, Mostly by Travelling Faster doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
@globalchangebio.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social
Migratory Birds Advance Spring Arrival and Egg-Laying in the Arctic, Mostly by Travelling Faster doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
@globalchangebio.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social
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🌸🔬 Spring mood – analyzed with unprecedented accuracy: This year, we are not only showing you photos of the beautiful cherry blossoms at our Institute, we have even put them under the microscope. Enjoy the images!
Thanks to the head of our Imaging Facility, Claudio Polisseni.
Thanks to the head of our Imaging Facility, Claudio Polisseni.
April 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🌸🔬 Spring mood – analyzed with unprecedented accuracy: This year, we are not only showing you photos of the beautiful cherry blossoms at our Institute, we have even put them under the microscope. Enjoy the images!
Thanks to the head of our Imaging Facility, Claudio Polisseni.
Thanks to the head of our Imaging Facility, Claudio Polisseni.
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New publication in @animalecology.bsky.social by @oscarvedder.bsky.social & @matteobeccardi.bsky.social 'Poor developmental conditions decrease adult body size and egg size, but not egg laying rate and survival throughout adulthood: A long-term experiment in a precocial bird'
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Poor developmental conditions decrease adult body size and egg size, but not egg laying rate and survival throughout adulthood: A long‐term experiment in a precocial bird
This research experimentally manipulated the quality of early-life conditions in Japanese quail, and monitored individual performance over the complete adult lifespan under standardized conditions. I...
doi.org
April 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
New publication in @animalecology.bsky.social by @oscarvedder.bsky.social & @matteobeccardi.bsky.social 'Poor developmental conditions decrease adult body size and egg size, but not egg laying rate and survival throughout adulthood: A long-term experiment in a precocial bird'
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Over the moon to finally share our new study in @science.org led by the amazing @jack-brand.bsky.social!
Pharmaceutical pollution at environmentally realistic levels alters behaviour and migration in Atlantic salmon, directly affecting survival
👉 science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Pharmaceutical pollution at environmentally realistic levels alters behaviour and migration in Atlantic salmon, directly affecting survival
👉 science.org/doi/10.1126/...
April 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Over the moon to finally share our new study in @science.org led by the amazing @jack-brand.bsky.social!
Pharmaceutical pollution at environmentally realistic levels alters behaviour and migration in Atlantic salmon, directly affecting survival
👉 science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Pharmaceutical pollution at environmentally realistic levels alters behaviour and migration in Atlantic salmon, directly affecting survival
👉 science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Online now: Elevating local perspectives for equity in ecological research
Elevating local perspectives for equity in ecological research
High-profile studies conducted in Global South (GS) countries with few, or no GS authors are published frequently, underrepresenting GS researchers in local high-impact publications. Here, we reiterate the importance of conducting equitable research, valuing GS researchers as equal contributors, and propose pathways to decolonize science.
dlvr.it
April 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Online now: Elevating local perspectives for equity in ecological research
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Though we didn't find clear evidence for a relationship between egg hormones and fitness proxies, this does NOT mean hormones are unimportant
The high heterogeneity found suggests context dependency (meta-analyses are rarely conclusive!)
📢 We need more research! 👇
📰 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
The high heterogeneity found suggests context dependency (meta-analyses are rarely conclusive!)
📢 We need more research! 👇
📰 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
March 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Though we didn't find clear evidence for a relationship between egg hormones and fitness proxies, this does NOT mean hormones are unimportant
The high heterogeneity found suggests context dependency (meta-analyses are rarely conclusive!)
📢 We need more research! 👇
📰 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
The high heterogeneity found suggests context dependency (meta-analyses are rarely conclusive!)
📢 We need more research! 👇
📰 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Reposted by Michaela Hau
Our preregistered #systematicreview & #metaanalysis, now out in Ecology Letters, synthesises 438 effects from 57 studies on 19 wild bird 🐦species to test if & how egg hormones relate to fitness
📰 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Data & Code github.com/ASanchez-Toj...
Registration: doi.org/10.17605/OSF...
📰 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Data & Code github.com/ASanchez-Toj...
Registration: doi.org/10.17605/OSF...
March 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Our preregistered #systematicreview & #metaanalysis, now out in Ecology Letters, synthesises 438 effects from 57 studies on 19 wild bird 🐦species to test if & how egg hormones relate to fitness
📰 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Data & Code github.com/ASanchez-Toj...
Registration: doi.org/10.17605/OSF...
📰 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Data & Code github.com/ASanchez-Toj...
Registration: doi.org/10.17605/OSF...
Reposted by Michaela Hau