We studied great-tailed grackles (an urban bird) and found that a trait related to adapting to environmental changes, behavioral flexibility, is manipulable via serial reversal learning. Those grackles who were trained to be more flexible, were then able to better solve problems and were more flexible in a new context (a puzzlebox) #TheGrackleProject

Human-modified environments are increasing & threaten many species who aren't able to adapt. Can we train them to be more flexible & help them adapt? See our new articles #PeerReviewed @PeerCommunityIn Ecology & @pcirr, published @PeerCommunityJournal & @PeerJ
Press release https://www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/manipulating-flexibility-to-increase-survival-in-the-city-2/
Article (flexibility manipulation) https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.284
Article (flexibility is repeatable) https://peerj.com/articles/15773/
#ManyIndividuals #RegisteredReport http://corinalogan.com/ManyIndividuals/mi1.html
#TheGrackleProject

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I investigate how behavioral flexibility relates to invasion success in grackles (#TheGrackleProject https://github.com/corinalogan/grackles)
& whether training species to be more flexible increases their chances of success in human modified environments (#ManyIndividuals https://github.com/ManyIndividuals/ManyIndividuals)

I co-founded #BulliedIntoBadScience (http://bulliedintobadscience.org) & Peer Community in Registered Reports (https://rr.peercommunityin.org) to innovate publishing & make RRs accessible to all fields