#behavior

2025-07-13

(2/x) While demand-side actions tend to focus on consumer #behavior, the economic & regulatory environment will need to evolve substantially to unlock technological #innovation and the changes in choice infrastructure necessary to shift #consumers behavior… doi.org/10.1016/j.on...

2025-07-12

Elephants gesture with an intention to communicate their desires, study finds

A recent study provided the first-ever evidence that, in the presence of a visually attentive audience, elephants are capable of using a wide range of gestures to convey their desires.
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#elephants #communication #behavior
phys.org/news/2025-07-elephant

Paul HouleUP8
2025-07-09
GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦GrrlScientist@scicomm.xyz
2025-07-08

Super Enzyme Regulates Testosterone Levels In Male Ruffs

"A single gene in the shorebird species known as ruffs controls the blood concentrations of testosterone in males, and this in turn affects their appearances and behavior."

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#birds #testosterone #androgens #enzyme #ornithology #morphology #behavior grrlscientist.substack.com/p/s

three male ruffs
GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified:GrrlScientist@mstdn.science
2025-07-08

Super Enzyme Regulates Testosterone Levels In Male Ruffs

"A single gene in the shorebird species known as ruffs controls the blood concentrations of testosterone in males, and this in turn affects their appearances and behavior."

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#birds #testosterone #androgens #enzyme #ornithology #morphology #behavior grrlscientist.substack.com/p/s

Todd Lyons 🪶toddlyons
2025-07-07

People with higher cognitive ability tend to endorse moral values less strongly across the board, according to new research published in the journal Intelligence. The pattern held across two independent studies and did not differ by gender. These findings challenge popular assumptions that smarter people hold stronger or more “enlightened” moral values.

psypost.org/people-with-higher

GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦grrlscientist
2025-07-07

Super Enzyme Regulates Testosterone Levels In Male Ruffs

"A single gene in the shorebird species known as ruffs controls the blood concentrations of testosterone in males, and this in turn affects their appearances and behavior."

by @grrlscientist

grrlscientist.substack.com/p/s

WordofTheHourwordofthehour
2025-07-06

: manner of behaving, whether good or bad

- French: Comportement

- German: das Verhalten/das Benehm

- Italian: comportamento

- Portuguese: comportamento

- Spanish: comportamiento

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Fill in missing translations @ wordofthehour.org/r/translatio

GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦GrrlScientist@scicomm.xyz
2025-07-06

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"

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#birds #ornithology #behavior #hummingbirds #hawks grrlscientist.substack.com/p/l

nesting hummingbird
GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified:GrrlScientist@mstdn.science
2025-07-05

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"

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#birds #ornithology #behavior #hummingbirds #hawks grrlscientist.substack.com/p/l

Peter Bittnerpeterbittner
2025-07-04

"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. ❤️ felipec.wordpress.com/2025/06/

J of Systematics and EvolutionJSE@mstdn.science
2025-07-04

#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.
doi.org/10.1111/jse.13139
@WileyEcolEvol
#evolution #JSE #FossilFriday

(A) Results of the unconstrained phylogenetic analyses. (B) Holotype male of Acanthomacrothele pauciverrucae sp. nov. (C) Web and habitat of an extant macrothelid spider.
GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦grrlscientist
2025-07-04

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"

by @grrlscientist

grrlscientist.substack.com/p/l

GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦GrrlScientist@scicomm.xyz
2025-07-04

Wild Orcas Sometimes Offer To Share Their Lunch With Humans, study led by Bay Cetology, report published by Journal of Comparative Psychology

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#Orca #KillerWhale #food #behavior #psychology forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist

two orcas
GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified:GrrlScientist@mstdn.science
2025-07-03

Wild Orcas Sometimes Offer To Share Their Lunch With Humans, study led by Bay Cetology, report published by Journal of Comparative Psychology

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#Orca #KillerWhale #food #behavior #psychology forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist

GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦grrlscientist
2025-07-02

Wild Orcas Sometimes Offer To Share Their Lunch With Humans, study led by Bay Cetology, report published by Journal of Comparative Psychology

by @grrlscientist

forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-07-01

A quotation from Robert Bolt

   MURRAY: If you’re insubordinate with me, Lawrence, I’ll put you under arrest!
   LAWRENCE: It’s my manner, sir.
   MURRAY: What?
   LAWRENCE: My manner, sir. It looks insubordinate, but it isn’t really.
   MURRAY: I can’t make out whether you’re bloody bad-mannered or just half-witted.
   LAWRENCE: I have the same problem, sir.
   MURRAY: Shut up!
   LAWRENCE: Yes, sir.

Robert Bolt (1924-1995) English dramatist
Lawrence of Arabia, Part 1, sc. 38 (1962) [with Michael Wilson]

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bolt-robert/77280/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #behavior #insubordination #manner #selfeffacing

LAWRENCE: My manner, sir. It looks insubordinate, but it isn’t really.

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