Dr Mark E Hauber
@thecowbirdlab.bsky.social
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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After the Ngogo chimpanzee group killed 21 members of neighboring groups and expanded their territory by 22%, female birth rates more than doubled and infant survival increased sharply—showing clear fitness benefits from intergroup killing. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/TKmf50XuPjY
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
After the Ngogo chimpanzee group killed 21 members of neighboring groups and expanded their territory by 22%, female birth rates more than doubled and infant survival increased sharply—showing clear fitness benefits from intergroup killing. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/TKmf50XuPjY
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Calling all rising juniors & seniors: Interested in biological or biomedical research? Applications for our ’26 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program are now open! Nine weeks, hands-on research, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists — learn more: bit.ly/CechFellows
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November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Calling all rising juniors & seniors: Interested in biological or biomedical research? Applications for our ’26 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program are now open! Nine weeks, hands-on research, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists — learn more: bit.ly/CechFellows
www.cell.com/cell-reports... now with pagination @asrc-gc.bsky.social and the cover!
A Climate BioStress Sentinel System: Identifying climate impacts from the genome to the urbanized biosphere
Since its beginnings deep in Earth’s history, life has confronted a dynamic climate,
whose biological impacts play out across scales from milliseconds to millennia and
from genetics to the global bios...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
www.cell.com/cell-reports... now with pagination @asrc-gc.bsky.social and the cover!
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There’s such beauty in variety – and the eggs laid by our terns show it too. In our newest paper we try to find patterns in this variety and test how female identity and age, as well as laying order, affect the colour, spottiness, shape, and size of eggs: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
There’s such beauty in variety – and the eggs laid by our terns show it too. In our newest paper we try to find patterns in this variety and test how female identity and age, as well as laying order, affect the colour, spottiness, shape, and size of eggs: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
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Congrats! Andrea Alù, Distinguished Prof. & director of the ASRC Photonics Initiative, his team, & an international group of colleagues were awarded European Research Council (ERC)'s highly competitive Synergy Grant. They aim to revolutionize how data travels through the air. https://bit.ly/43xH9TH
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Congrats! Andrea Alù, Distinguished Prof. & director of the ASRC Photonics Initiative, his team, & an international group of colleagues were awarded European Research Council (ERC)'s highly competitive Synergy Grant. They aim to revolutionize how data travels through the air. https://bit.ly/43xH9TH
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These orb-weaver spiders build FAKE SPIDER DECOYS in their webs, potentially to deter predators 🤯 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Cyclosa Menge, 1866 (Araneidae) Orb‐Weavers Build Stabilimenta That Resemble Larger Spiders
The orb-weaving spider Cyclosa longicauda from Peru constructs unique stabilimenta from detritus and silk that visually resemble a larger spider. This previously undescribed behavior likely functions....
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November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
These orb-weaver spiders build FAKE SPIDER DECOYS in their webs, potentially to deter predators 🤯 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
New paper on disturbance foraging and eye size evolution is published! academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
New paper on disturbance foraging and eye size evolution is published! academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
@fieldornith.bsky.social new position search!
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
@fieldornith.bsky.social new position search!
www.cell.com/cell-reports... new paper in cell reports sustainability with @asrc-gc.bsky.social colleagues
A Climate BioStress Sentinel System: Identifying climate impacts from the genome to the urbanized biosphere
Since its beginnings deep in Earth’s history, life has confronted a dynamic climate,
whose biological impacts play out across scales from milliseconds to millennia and
from genetics to the global bios...
www.cell.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
www.cell.com/cell-reports... new paper in cell reports sustainability with @asrc-gc.bsky.social colleagues
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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
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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
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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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November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Fast females, slow males: accelerated ageing and reproductive senescence in Drosophila melanogaster females across diverse social environments url: academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...
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The date is set for the next EOU Fledglings Meeting 🐥 in Gdansk, Poland! Share the news with your peers! 🦆
November 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The date is set for the next EOU Fledglings Meeting 🐥 in Gdansk, Poland! Share the news with your peers! 🦆
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Awesome paper. Poor woodpeckers, bashing their heads against trees *and* hyperventilating....
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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November 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Awesome paper. Poor woodpeckers, bashing their heads against trees *and* hyperventilating....
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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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November 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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
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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November 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
ethz.ch/en/news-and-... new ERC funding for Andrea Alu @asrc-gc.bsky.social
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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November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Woodpeckers and tennis players share similarities when preparing to strike
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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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November 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
www.nature.com/articles/s41... now with pagination!
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...
journals.biologists.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... instant classic!! @nickantonson.bsky.social
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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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November 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Wildflower strips support birds and ground-dwelling arthropods during winter period regardless of mowing regime | www.sciencedirect.co... | Biological Conservation | #ornithology 🪶
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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.
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.
November 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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.
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.
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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November 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
My first paper in J Heredity, is now coauthored and published! Thank you team! academic.oup.com/jhered/advan...
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New work out from our @islandbirdproject.bsky.social team lead by @raquelponti.bsky.social
We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25
"A day at the museum: collections-based
ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.
We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25
"A day at the museum: collections-based
ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.
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 🪶
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
New work out from our @islandbirdproject.bsky.social team lead by @raquelponti.bsky.social
We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25
"A day at the museum: collections-based
ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.
We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25
"A day at the museum: collections-based
ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.