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niooknaw.bsky.social
New publication: Local dominance predicts foraging decisions in a changing environment, by @keesvanoers.bsky.social and others. #climatechange #foodavailability #behavioralplasticity #parusmajor
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Figure 1 in Ibáñez-Herranz et al. (2025): "Timeline of the experiments"
December 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
niooknaw.bsky.social
New publication: Parental control: ecology drives #plasticity in parental response to #offspring signals, by @tjommem.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social and others. #feedingbehaviour #foodavailability
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Figure 1 in Caro et al. (2025): "Experimental design. (A) On hatching day, nests were randomly assigned to be in a good environment (supplemented, green, Nest A), or a poor environment (unsupplemented, orange, Nest B). Supplemented nests received a daily mix of meal worms and wax worms (approximating 20% of the brood’s nutritional needs) for the week after hatching. Unsupplemented nests were visited daily to control for human disturbance. (B) After 1 week, we removed supplemented food and ranked chicks by size (weight) within natal nests. We created foster broods with chicks 1, 3, 5 and 7 from natal nest A, and chicks 2, 4, 6 from natal nest B. This accounted for potential differences in chick behavior based on their previous size rank; standardized size differences within broods; and standardized foster brood size to 7 or 6 chicks. We re-ranked chicks by size within foster nests (Nest C and Nest D). We handfed half of each foster brood to satiation in an alternating pattern by size rank; a mix of unsupplemented and supplemented chicks were fed in order to disentangle short-term and long-term need. This standardized brood-level begging intensity at the beginning of filming; ensured begging is variable enough across chicks to be a useable signal; and ensured begging intensity varied across size ranks. (C) We filmed adults feeding their fostered broods for 4.5 h, excluding first 0.5 h to ensure behavior had normalized (see Supplementary Movie 2 for an example). Fostered broods contained only unrelated chicks to ensure adult behavior was not influenced by familiarity to their own chicks. Photos by S. Caro."
July 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
jmirpub.bsky.social
JMIR Formative Res: Association Between Availability of Fruits and Vegetables in Neighborhood Food Stores and Weight Among Residents of Low-Income Urban Public Housing: Cross-Sectional Study #FoodAvailability #PublicHealth #UrbanNutrition #FruitsAndVeggies #WeightManagement
Association Between Availability of Fruits and Vegetables in Neighborhood Food Stores and Weight Among Residents of Low-Income Urban Public Housing: Cross-Sectional Study
This cross-sectional study examined presence of food stores and availability of fruits/vegetables in food stores with weight among urban public housing residents; while there was no association between average number of fruits/vegetables in food stores and weight, there were positive associations between number of convenience stores and weight and between number of general merchandise stores and weight.
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February 9, 2026 at 8:01 PM
bryanchristian.bsky.social
#NewYork🗽 #NewYorkers #MIDTERMS2026 #PrimaryElection #Politics #Comptroller #Money💰 #PensionFund #FoodAvailability🍲 #PBS #Info #StayInformed #StayEngaged #YourVoteYourVoice #WatchThis #ShareThis
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New York NOW | What’s at Stake in New York’s Comptroller Primary | Season 2026 | Episode 17
DiNapoli faces a rare primary fight over the future of the NY Comptroller’s office.
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June 14, 2026 at 10:16 PM