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
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...
🧬 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
Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart@smnstuttgart.bsky.social · last yr.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
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
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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 🕊️
Jobs | Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
Open positions
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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!
#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
Capuchin monkeys are abducting baby howlers. But why?
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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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...
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
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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...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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SBN meeting is July 13-16. Deadline to submit an abstract is May 31. Still plenty of time.
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....
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...
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 ...
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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...
Meta-analysis questions assumptions about egg hormones
Do maternal hormones in bird eggs influence reproductive success? A new study shows surprisingly small effects. Dr Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar explains why previous assumptions need to be questioned.
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar@asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 2y agoOur 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...
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...👇
Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar@asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 2y agoIn 2020, we showed that studies published in ecological journals WITH a code-sharing policy showed a 21% reproducibility potential at max (Culina et al 2020, @plosbiology.bsky.social) We've now investigated journals WITHOUT a code-sharing policy. The results are worrying. 📰 doi.org/10.32942/X21...
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)
📄 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
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...
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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.
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...
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...
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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/...
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.
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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....
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...
🌍🔥🐦 Is global warming shrinking birds?! A new study reveals that shearwaters raised in warmer temperatures develop smaller bodies and beaks, linked to cellular stress, reduced metabolic energy and lower growth factors: doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... @stefi-casagrande.bsky.social #mitochondria #proteome
A popular account by @cogniivan.bsky.social of our study on sexual selection and intelligence in fish that is now out in Nature Ecology & Evolution. The journal link is in the article. theconversation.com/smart-is-sex...
Smart is sexy – new study on fish doing puzzles hints intelligence partly evolved via sexual selection
A better brain might help an animal find more mates, have more sex, and eventually have more babies.
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Very proud of this masterpiece!!! Prof Lu Mentesana absolutely brilliant first author and Prof Fredy rules as last!!!
Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar@asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 2y ago💥 Our study 👇 has just been accepted for publication in Ecology Letters in arguably the fastest resubmission-to-acceptance time ever: 8h 13' 💥 Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2024... Data & Code: github.com/ASanchez-Toj... Pre-registration: doi.org/10.17605/OSF... Congrats to Lu Mentesana & the team!
A single gene underlies male mating morphs in ruff sandpipers, a new Science study finds. The results show how evolutionary changes in a single gene's structure, sequence, and regulation can drive significant diversity within a single species. Learn more in our new issue: https://scim.ag/4arzNmU
I wrote a piece on how cool this new ruff paper is. Total endocrine game-changer! Congrats to the authors on a rad discovery. doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Adaptations in surprising places
Testosterone is controlled while it circulates in the bloodstream
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Science Magazine@science.org · 2y agoA single gene underlies male mating morphs in ruff sandpipers, a new Science study finds. The results show how evolutionary changes in a single gene's structure, sequence, and regulation can drive significant diversity within a single species. Learn more in our new issue: https://scim.ag/4arzNmU