Love thy enemy's enemy: why hummingbirds nest near hawks
"Hummingbird eggs and babies are a favourite snack for nest-robbing jays, so what’s a mother to do to protect her family? According to a new study, it’s best to build her nest near or under a hawk nest"
#birds #ornithology #behavior #hummingbirds #hawks https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/love-thy-enemys-enemy-why-hummingbirds
"We’re all adult people, we don’t need a kindergarten teacher who’s lecturing us on how to get along with each other." Great call by Enrico Weigelt! - Read: Code of Conduct. A fascist-like instrument of political power, ready for abuse. "We don’t need it." - I love it.
#coc #codeofconduct #dei #fascism #power #abuse #professional #behavior #freesoftware #opensource #xlibre https://felipec.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/enrico-weigelt/
#Spiders have always been perfect!
Wang et al. find that new mid-#Cretaceous macrothelids had a similar living mode to extant spp., with similar retreat construction #behavior, #habitat preference, and #mating position.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13139
@WileyEcolEvol
#evolution #JSE #FossilFriday
Wild Orcas Sometimes Offer To Share Their Lunch With Humans, study led by Bay Cetology, report published by Journal of Comparative Psychology
#Orca #KillerWhale #food #behavior #psychology https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/07/02/wild-orcas-sometimes-offer-to-share-their-lunch-with-humans/
https://www.europesays.com/uk/229784/ This parasite can alter your behavior, and 2 billion humans already have it #behavior #Benchmarks #Dopamine #GraphicsCard #Health #humans #ImmuneSystem #Infection #laptop #MentalDisorders #netbook #neuropsychiatric #notebook #Parasite #processor #reports #Research #Review #Reviews #test #tests #ToxoplasmaGondii #UK #UnitedKingdom
@ratgenome is excited to announce the new #Behavioral & #Substance Use Disorder Portal—your resource for data and tools on #behavior, #addiction, & more.
Explore: https://rgd.mcw.edu/rgdweb/portal/home.jsp?p=16
Learn more: https://rgd.mcw.edu/wg/behavior_portal_new/
What could be the next great school of thought. A commingling of:
- ecology
- Space and Place
- Behavioral Studies
I would even say such a commingling would supersede what has been my primary preoccupation, Violence Studies. The above could rise above that and lead the way.
It would be the new ontology. It would not even require Marx inspired sociology.
How Memory and Habits Shape Mental Health Outcomes https://www.byteseu.com/1117386/ #behavior #BrainResearch #habits #Health #memory #MentalHealth #neurobiology #neuroscience #Psychology #UCBerkeley
Scenes of Synchroneity — clips from Ron Fricke's Baraka & Samsara, two of the most stunning, touching & memorable films ever made...
Screen time trapping kids in ‘vicious cycle’ of bad behaviour: study
While there's a lot of chatter around kids and social media use, the study found that time spent on gaming consoles was particularly damaging.
#children #technology #behavior #study #Lifestyle #Trending
https://globalnews.ca/news/11238062/screen-time-cycle-kids-bad-social-emotional-behaviour-study/
Screen time trapping kids in ‘vicious cycle’ of bad behaviour: study
While there's a lot of chatter around kids and social media use, the study found that time spent on gaming consoles was particularly damaging.
#children #technology #behavior #study #Lifestyle #Trending
https://globalnews.ca/news/11238062/screen-time-cycle-kids-bad-social-emotional-behaviour-study/
Minding Nature: Climate #Psychiatry and #Psychotherapy
An interview on #ClimateChange and mental #health factors with author and psychiatrist Dr. Elizabeth Haase.
#Climate can impact mental #health, influencing #behavior, #stress, and emotional #WellBeing.
Anyone can benefit from a deeper dive into their own relationship with #nature.
"Eventually, I stopped responding to my body. I was responding instead to a dashboard." — @Daojoan
This is a great point and very much translates to so many other parts of life/work where people stop listening to their "body" (or to their org/product/offering), outsourcing/numbing/dumbing down their decision making based on dashboards of collected metrics and then changing their behaviors on auto-pilot to improve said metrics — without ever asking themselves if the data collected actually represents answers to the right (or even important) questions...
Metrics always invite comparison & competition — on a global scale — often without considering our own subjective contexts/needs/limits/aims...
Does the number of copilot prompts per day on a CTO dashboard indicate a highly productive developer or does a big fat zero merely show a different approach to problem solving?
Does the lack of constant updates to a FLOSS project mean it's become neglected/unusable or does it simply indicate it reached a level of stability?
Likewise, does my product/app need constant UI changes/updates to "streamline" user experience (often without even consulting users) based on some "goal" metrics?
Am I seen as an unproductive FLOSS developer if my public commit log doesn't show daily updates? Do gaps indicate laziness, illness, deep thinking or work on other projects? Like gaps in a CV, will these gaps of activity data hinder future employment chances or would I even want to work with orgs who select on this criteria?
Is a hike only good/better because it exceeds X kilometers or Y elevation meters? How does one measure the stunning views or the quality of the company which shared that experience?
I’m going to write about this… Any thoughts? OpenAI's ChatGPT may be driving countless of its users into a dangerous state of "ChatGPT-induced psychosis."
“Friends and family are watching in alarm as users insist they've been chosen to fulfill sacred missions on behalf of sentient AI or nonexistent cosmic powerse — chatbot behavior that's just mirroring and worsening existing mental health issues, but at incredible scale and without the scrutiny of regulators or experts.” #CyberPsychosis #AI #ChatBots #psychology #Behavior
Source: Futurism https://share.google/5gbEHBdr0SQiso6bv