It is completely unnecessary how adorable this Easter spadefoot is.
8.5.2025 11:28It is completely unnecessary how adorable this Easter spadefoot is.Built and installed a new roof for this years data collection season. Last year rain significantly impacted the breeding behavior.
7.5.2025 12:04Built and installed a new roof for this years data collection season. Last year rain significantly impacted the breeding behavior.Three new fledglings!
5.5.2025 17:06Three new fledglings!With a preface by Brian Goodwin, theoretical inspiration from D’Arcy Thompson and Hans Driesch, and methodologies drawn from Bohmian mechanics and dynamical systems theory, this book by Koenraad Kortmulder presents a truly novel perspective on animal behavior. I'm glad I found it!
4.5.2025 00:06With a preface by Brian Goodwin, theoretical inspiration from D’Arcy Thompson and Hans Driesch, and methodologies drawn from Bohmian...Really interesting study on the function of greeting displays in Java Sparrow pairs. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-025-01953-2
2.5.2025 16:11Really interesting study on the function of greeting displays in Java Sparrow pairs....Wrote a short note about resurrecting a moribund theory in animal behavior — approach-withdrawal theory — by merging it with enactivist perspectives on organization and behavior. Could this merger result in a general theory of basal behavioral abilities?
https://gregorykohn.substack.com/p/can-we-develop-a-general-theory-of
24.4.2025 23:56Wrote a short note about resurrecting a moribund theory in animal behavior — approach-withdrawal theory — by merging it with enactivist...In frigid Siberia workers at a factory in Ulan-Ude could take a break in a tropical indoor garden. There were similar indoor tropical gardens built in the cultural palaces along the БАМ railway (my favorite one is in Severobaikalsk with turtles and finches).
20.3.2025 13:27In frigid Siberia workers at a factory in Ulan-Ude could take a break in a tropical indoor garden. There were similar indoor tropical...Nice example of lateralization.
17.3.2025 15:40Nice example of lateralization.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/natal-conference-austin-texas-eugenics
4.3.2025 00:30https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/natal-conference-austin-texas-eugenicsI have spent a LOT of time in the last few years writing, publishing and advocating against genetic determinism in everything from innate behavior in animals to the menace of using behavior genetics for education. I am sometimes asked if I am fighting against a ghost of the past. But the hydra of genetic determinism is very much alive, and one of its ugliest heads --eugenics-- has a larger than comfortable margin of becoming policy again in the US. Insane. #Eugenics https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/world/the-us-is-talking-about-mass-sterilisation-again/
26.2.2025 15:40I have spent a LOT of time in the last few years writing, publishing and advocating against genetic determinism in everything from innate...With all the literal insanity of the last couple of weeks I somehow missed that Helen Hays passed away. She was a beacon among budding ornithologists in NYC when I was growing up. I never made it out to her research station on Great Gull Island, but always wanted to. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/science/helen-hays-dead.html
18.2.2025 12:44With all the literal insanity of the last couple of weeks I somehow missed that Helen Hays passed away. She was a beacon among budding...The Coloration of the Neck Feathers of Large-Billed Crows and Carrion Crows―the Color Variation Observed in Large-Billed Crows | https://doi.org/10.2326/osj.24.147
18.2.2025 12:28The Coloration of the Neck Feathers of Large-Billed Crows and Carrion Crows―the Color Variation Observed in Large-Billed Crows |...Excited to read this! https://www.sup.org/books/anthropology/common-circuits
11.2.2025 12:21Excited to read this! https://www.sup.org/books/anthropology/common-circuitsPhysics - Biological Magnetic Sensing Comes Close to Quantum Limit
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v18/s8?utm_campaign=weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=emailalert
7.2.2025 02:17Physics - Biological Magnetic Sensing Comes Close to Quantum...White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation - Ars Technica
7.2.2025 02:02White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation - Ars...The new rats for a class I am teaching are super super friendly. The class draws strongly from behaviorism, but I am trying to smuggle enough organismal agency and enactive cognition into it as I can. Just because the behavior can be shaped by reinforcement doesn’t explain why the behavior occurred in the first place!
7.2.2025 01:54The new rats for a class I am teaching are super super friendly. The class draws strongly from behaviorism, but I am trying to smuggle...Soviet Poster, 1981, "Protect Ants!" (БЕРЕГИТЕ МУРAВЬЕВ!)
6.2.2025 23:30Soviet Poster, 1981, "Protect Ants!" (БЕРЕГИТЕ МУРAВЬЕВ!)⬆️
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