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The growing body of research we have been conducting on #TheGrackleProject is showing that #behavioral #flexibility enables birds to #adapt to #human #modified #habitats 🌆 , but plays a smaller role in expanding into new #geographic areas 🗺️

Moving to new towns likely involves more #persistence because we previously found that grackles on the edge of their range in northern California had similar levels of average flexibility (though higher variance), but were more persistent than grackles nearer the center of their range in Arizona peercommunityjournal.org/artic

This is also supported by the fact that the preliminary data we were able to collect on persistence in boat-tailed grackles (who are not rapidly expanding their geographic range) showed that they are less persistent than great-tailed grackles, while having similar levels of flexibility
Articles: doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.573 and doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.582
Press release: mpg.de/25000634/0701-evan-when

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#Behavioral #flexibility is not the primary facilitator of a rapid #range expansion. Although we found high levels of flexibility in 2 successful urban bird species (great-tailed & boat-tailed grackles), only one (great) is rapidly expanding its range. This suggests flexibility alone doesn't drive rapid range expansions

#TheGrackleProject went to Florida to study boat-tailed grackle flexibility and compare it with the great-tailed grackles. These species look and behave so similarly, if they were right next to each other, I couldn’t tell them apart (except greats have yellow irises and these boats had brown irises). They are parking lot birds through & through! 🅿️

But in the aviaries, it becomes obvious really quickly that the great-tailed grackles are much more persistent - they will try and try to solve something, whereas a boat-tailed grackle often just sits on their perch 🐥, looks at the apparatus & decides not to even try

doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.582
mpg.de/25000634/0701-evan-when

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In the process of studying #behavioral #flexibility in great-tailed grackles on #TheGrackleProject, we discovered 🎉 a new measure of flexibility! The grackles that were more flexible in the reversal learning test also switched between eating different food types more often in the wild 🌮 🍿 🍪 🍒

This is such an exciting discovery because it is really difficult to bring birds into aviaries to measure their flexibility. Now we have the ability to measure their flexibility just by watching them in the wild!

This will make studying flexibility much more accessible to a wide range of researchers because, apart from needing to be able to tell the individuals apart, all that is needed is a pair of binoculars
Article: doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.573
Press release: mpg.de/25000634/0701-evan-when

#Decentralized #Module #Federation #Microfrontend #Architecture

I'm working on a #webapp and I'm being #creative on the #approach. It might be considered #overcomplicated (because it is), but I'm just trying something out. It's entirely possible this approach won't work #longterm. I see it as there is #onewaytofindout. I don't recommend this approach. Just sharing what I'm trying/#investigating.

How it will be #architected: [positive-intentions.com/blog/d
Some #benefits of the #approach: [positive-intentions.com/blog/s

I find that #modulefederation and #microfrontends to generally be #discouraged when I see posts, but I think it works for me in my #approach. I'm #optimistic about the approach and the #benefits and so I wanted to #share details.

When I serve the #federatedmodules, I can also host the #storybook statics so I think this could be a good way to #document the modules in #isolation.

#Cryptography modules - cryptography.positive-intentio

#P2P framework - p2p.positive-intentions.com/?p

This way, I can create #microfrontends that consume these #modules. I can then #share the #functionality between #apps. The following apps are using a different codebase from each other (there is a #distinction between these apps in #opensource and #closesource). Sharing those #dependencies could help make it easier to roll out #updates to #coremechanics.

#P2P chat - [chat.positive-intentions.com/]
#P2P file transfer - [file.positive-intentions.com/]

The #functionality also works when I create an #Android build with #Tauri. This could also lead to it being easier to create #newapps that could use the #modules created.

I'm sure there will be some distinct #test/#maintenance #overhead, but depending on how it's #architected I think it could work and make it easier to #improve on the current #implementation.

Everything about the #project is far from finished. It could be seen as this is a #complicated way to do what #npm does, but I think this #approach allows for greater #flexibility by being able to #separate #opensource and #closesource code for the #web. (Of course as #javascript, it will always be "source code available". Especially in the age of #AI, I'm sure it's possible to #reverseengineer it like never before.)

(mastodon might not be the place for something like this, so let me know if you dont like this kind of content. i typically post on reddit and would like to shift it more towards mastodon. i also use lemmy, but mastodon has a better reach.)

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