@thecowbirdlab.bsky.social
Executive Director at CUNY ASRC, comparative psychology professor at GC CUNY with an eye on brood parasites; Nat Geo Explorer, married π³οΈβπ; I post my own mind. www.cowbirdlab.org
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Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake
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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 2020β2023.
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 2020β2023.
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 πͺΆ
From last year! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Chants are relaxing to produce and to perceive.
31.10.2025 15:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New study funded in part by our Rosemary Grant Advanced Award - congratulations @yukihaba.bsky.social !!
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A\Prof. Qiushi Guo of @asrc-gc.bsky.social giving his Feliks Gross/Henry Wasser award lecture @cunyacademygc.bsky.social
29.10.2025 17:40 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0New paper on the role of hormones in American robin egg rejection behavior: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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@asrc-gc.bsky.social Halloween social!
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π£ Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my Lab @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social
π¬We will explore how coral larvae sense their environment and guide settlement.
Check out the details! π
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#Coral #SensoryEcology #PhD #MarineScience
Examples of some recent papers from graduate students in my group - a full list of recent papers and preprints can be found here (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=pTdxVdIAAAAJ) and profile of the group here: https://egioxford.web.ox.ac.uk/members
The annual Wytham Field Team Photo!
Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025
Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford
Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Are you looking to do independent research related to machine learning and/or data science? Want to get some teaching experience too? Apply to be a faculty fellow at the Center for Data Science at New York University! Positions are for two years. apply.interfolio.com/174686
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Ana LeitΓ£o & Raquel Ponti, from CIBIO-BIOPOLIS, will investigate bird evolution in insular environments. Their SIBECOL-funded project explores how reduced predation & stable climates shape sexual dimorphism in endemic species. @anavleitao.bsky.social @raquelponti.bsky.social #evolution #birdresearch
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Meet our plenary speaker Renata Sousa-Lima!
Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), Renata βs research focuses on bioacoustics of aquatic mammals and has pioneered the field of ecoacoustics and soundscape ecology in Brazil.
A collage featuring some laboratory analyses, a schematic of the structure of DNA, a pocket watch in an elderly person's hand, and a family of wild meerkats.
π¨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my groupπ¨
π§¬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?πΎ
Find out by studying meerkats!
π§ͺEpigenetic clocks
β¨Bioinformatics
πLong-term data
πKalahari fieldwork
π‘Big evolutionary questions
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A group of CUNY students gathered on a city street, holding green and white signs that read β23 Street - Baruch College Stationβ with the number 6 in a circle. One person in the foreground is taking a selfie with the group. Buildings and a subway entrance are visible in the background.
A group of six people standing together on a city sidewalk near a subway entrance, holding two large green and white signs that read β23 Street - Baruch College Stationβ with the number 6 inside a circle.
@cunychancellor.bsky.social joined the @mta.info to announce the renaming of the 23 St 6 train station in to 23 StβBaruch College. The station is now the seventh in the subway system to include the name of a CUNY college. ow.ly/boEf50XepnL
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If you are a plant biologist interested in collaborating on an evolutionary floral scent/plant volatile project please reach out!
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
π¨π¨Job! π¨π¨Permanent (75% time) job! We are a pretty awesome research group & seek a manager who deals with everything: personnel tasks, organizing retreats, preparing code for teaching / data structures for research... Fluency in German & English essential. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/51527
17.10.2025 07:38 β π 37 π 42 π¬ 1 π 0Wheatears are very cool (and sometimes hard to ID in the field). This is an interesting paper describing the genetic background behind their colour variation. Good stuff for another daily avian hybridisation story @jenteo.bsky.social :)
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