Kelsey McCune

Research assistant professor at Auburn University, interested in avian ecosystem services, personality, cognition and conservation.

[Shinichi Nakagawa | 中川震一 @itchyshin]

I am still accepting applications. Thanks 🙏

[Shinichi Nakagawa | 中川震一 @itchyshin]

Surely you have always wanted to calculate repeatability (ICC) for the time-to-event (survival) data (Cox Prop. Hazard model) - here is how - led by a wonderful @kbrenmc with the team @coraliewilliams @DochtermannLab @sogohae

https://t.co/PK4Qk1SDmQ

1/n: the latest of our ICC

[Kelsey McCune @kbrenmc]

@Carly_Batist @EthologyScience So excited for you and honored to know such a brilliant woman! ❤️

[Kelsey McCune @kbrenmc]

New Mexican jay paper just dropped! Jays remember a complex foraging task after more than 3 years and this facilitates foraging performance of naive group members. #animalcognition #longtermmemory #sociallearning #openaccess #smartbirds @SciReports

https://t.co/ahRcPolRx7

[Kelsey McCune @kbrenmc]

Thanks to pre- and post-study peer review at @PeerComJournal @PCI_Ecology

[Kelsey McCune @kbrenmc]

Great-tailed grackles on the range edge have higher variance in flexibility. And we found evidence that this species has adapted to urban, arid environments: https://t.co/tvCpepxVnx

https://t.co/JzpQi1N8R0

https://t.co/S8Lx7dCef8
@PeerCommunityJournal #TheGrackleProject

[Kelsey McCune @kbrenmc]

#environmentalchange threatens many species who aren't able to adapt. Can we train them to be more #behaviorallyflexible to help them adapt? See our new pubs:
https://t.co/p4sjU3EMuD
https://t.co/qnO0QGuBzM
https://t.co/Q0fAYWcO2Z
#AnimalBehavior #ecology @thePeerJ @PCI_Ecology

[Kelsey McCune @kbrenmc]

@JamieCraun @BaomiB @JamieCraun I was salutatorian, Joe was valedictorian.

[Corinⓐ Logan (she/her) @LoganCorina]

Covers a 5 year research program, 4 species @ 4 field sites using an automated tracking system by @CellTrackTech for before/after or control/manipulated success measures, & automated feeders from Scissortail Electronics (https://t.co/Wr3BZKbR9V) for reversal learning in the wild

[Corinⓐ Logan (she/her) @LoganCorina]

Today, @kbrenmc, @The_robins_hood, @DieterLukas, & I LAUNCH the #ManyIndividuals project with our #RegisteredReport @PCI_RegReports:
How to succeed in human modified environments

RR https://t.co/k8QRAWgomO
PCI RR Recommendation https://t.co/Nt8PRYkhsa
MI https://t.co/ug22Ykm6tb

[Corinⓐ Logan (she/her) @LoganCorina]

Excited #TheGrackleProject's 1st parasite article is out! Led by Maria Pacheco, tested blood from 87 grackles in Arizona 2018-2020. Found high Plasmodium prevalence & some Haemoproteus. Grackles=tolerant hosts meaning they're infected, but behave normally https://t.co/HmCFM8zMoE

[Kelsey McCune @kbrenmc]

@SGTMcCune I only had two friends as bridesmaids! <3 It's not too unusual.

[Jonathon Valente @JonathonValente]

Shade-grown coffee provides habitat for tropical birds, but it doesn't support all species all of the time; land-sparing will help! Our exciting new @SMBC & @selvaorgco cross-continental collaboration is out! @PeterPMarra @ScottSillett @pipridae #AOSMember https://t.co/I8YFKXNnT9

[The Ethogram @TheEthogram]

Behavioral flexibility is important for PhD students AND animals! Josie Hubbard explains how she practiced flexibility when switching to a local study species during the pandemic. #grackle #behavior #womeninSTEM #cognition https://t.co/3CmBVVElVf

[Jonathon Valente @JonathonValente]

Easily the most analytically challenging project I've ever worked on. Have a look if you want to learn about brilliant science orchestrated by @kbrenmc or see mixed effects Cox proportional hazards models with time-varying covariates in action!

[Kelsey McCune @kbrenmc]

Thank you to @UWPsychology, @UCSB, and @UCSBLibrary for support in making the research and publication possible!

[Kelsey McCune @kbrenmc]

My favorite experiment from my PhD is now published and open access! Check it out to see whether social and asocial species perform differently on a social cognition task: https://t.co/x92tHEE3pO
@JonathonValente
#birds #cognition #socialintelligencehypothesis

[Corinⓐ Logan (she/her) @LoganCorina]

What do grackles eat?
French fries, gummi worms, some kind of coffee-type drink, liquid cheese...
#TheGrackleProject

[Corinⓐ Logan (she/her) @LoganCorina]

Cuervo, a juvenile grackle, is as entertaining in the wild as he was in the aviaries. Here is a photo series of him getting a french fry out of its package while defending it from another male and dealing with a sneaky female. In the end, Cuervo wins!
#TheGrackleProject

[Corinⓐ Logan (she/her) @LoganCorina]

Grackles in the mist #TheGrackleProject