News and information about the Rubenstein Lab in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology at Columbia University in New York City.
04/23/2017
Gettleman only surfaces on NY Times cover when violence gets bad. Come on NY Times. How about a piece with some background and actual reporting on the topic for once. This is a complicated issue that should be reported.
‘I Dreamed of Africa’ Author Is Shot by Raiders in Kenya Kuki Gallmann, a well-known conservationist, was wounded and taken to a hospital for treatment, her family said.
03/11/2017
Cooperative species can invade harsher environments Through cooperation, animals are able to colonise harsher living environments that would otherwise be inaccessible, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden, together with researchers in England and USA. The research community has long believed this was the other way around - that spe...
Our new paper that develops a unifying framework to explain different types of evolutionary responses to environmental variation.
Evolutionary tipping points in the capacity to adapt to environmental change
06/12/2013
On the Origin of Really Shiny Species If you talk about a starling, most people in Europe and North America will picture a small bird with glossy black plumage. But that’s the common starling. It’s just one of 113 starling species, ma...
Watchful Shrimp, Defending Their Territory Scientists on a small Caribbean island identify sponge-dwelling snapping shrimps that produce a 60 mile-per-hour jet of water and shock wave that can stun or even kill their competitors.
07/18/2012
Snapping Shrimps and Hidden Sponges Scientists travel to Carrie Bow Cay, a tiny island off the coast of Belize, to study sponge-dwelling snapping shrimps.
09/03/2010
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07/28/2010
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DUSTIN RUBENSTEIN - Scientist at Work Blog - NYTimes.com Before we departed Kalacha, we made the rounds to revisit all of our sites. We went back to the primary school to sign the guest book, the women’s clinic to give them some money for their cement, the hospital to give a tip to the doctor who let us charge our cellphones, and the mission to give a tip...