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
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1/n: the latest of our ICC
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
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@PeerCommunityJournal #TheGrackleProject
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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