He adds that he doubts that the findings are applicable to other insect species, which still might act purely on instinct.
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Do Invertebrates Have Emotions? | The Scientist Magazine® - 1 views
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Invertebrate nervous systems, physiology, and sensory experiences are dissimilar to ours, and designing experiments to measure their emotions has been challenging.
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If the responses weren’t purely reflexive, it would open up the possibility that the animals could feel pain.
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Dopamine Drives Bee Desires: Study | The Scientist Magazine® - 0 views
Control of behavioral decisions is similar in insects and mammals | ScienceDaily - 2 views
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I wonder what sort of electronics were needed to accomplish this. I also wonder how difficult it would be to attach those to a living insect without sacrificing it.
Dice snakes fake their own death, smearing themselves with blood and poop to make the p... - 1 views
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Only one juvenile snake bled from the mouth
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How do they do that??
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Dams trigger exponential population declines of migratory fish | Science Advances - 0 views
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When the GD, the first dam across the mainstream of the Yangtze River, was built in the 1970s, the Chinese government explicitly demanded that the dam consider the conservation of fish.
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Dams can harm migratory fish by disrupting their life cycles and then causing population extinctions.
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Is it possible to give the fish a different area to migrate to and from?
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We divide the species population into spawning stock (spawners), which are sexually mature adults participating in the current year’s breeding, and recruitment stock, which includes larvae, juveniles, and subadults that have not reached the reproductive age and sexually immature adults/post-spawners that do not participate in the current year’s breeding.
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Study traces an infectious language epidemic | ScienceDaily - 0 views
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Rho's work is grounded in a social science framework called Fuzzy Trace Theory that was pioneered by Valerie Reyna, a Cornell University professor of psychology and a collaborator on this Virginia Tech project. Reyna has shown that individuals learn and recall information better when it is expressed in a cause and effect relationship, and not just as rote information. This holds true even if the information is inaccurate or the implied connection is weak. Reyna calls this cause-and-effect construction a "gist."
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Fuzzy Trace Theory looks interesting for this, and perhaps many other reasons. I want to learn more about this myself, and I'm wondering if this theory could be put to work in other potential behavioral science projects. What do you think?
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Acute fluoxetine exposure alters crab anxiety-like behaviour, but not aggressiveness | ... - 0 views
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fluoxetine
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This is an anxiety medicine in the Serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
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World's largest hummingbird is actually two species | ScienceDaily - 0 views
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"They are as different from each other as chimpanzees are from bonobos,"
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The article does not go into any more depth about the behavioural differences the two birds have. I wish it did.
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Sustaining America's Aquatic Biodiversity - Crayfish Biodiversity and Conservation | VC... - 0 views
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Crayfish are ecologically and economically valuable animals.
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nearly 75 percent crayfish.
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Crayfish are important indicators of water quality
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Virtual reality warps your sense of time | ScienceDaily - 1 views
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Interesting, perhaps. Well, we DO have a solid VR headset.
Effect of Chronic Exposure to Prometryne on Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Response i... - 0 views
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oxidative stress
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Is this the same a phycological stress, or is it a different kind of stress?
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Effects of Prometryn Exposure on Hepatopancreas Oxidative Stress and Intestinal Flora i... - 0 views
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Eriocheir sinensis
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Chinese mitten crab
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alternative to atrazine due to its low toxicity
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In addition, due to its low toxicity to fish, prometryn can be applied directly to aquatic activities for the removal of harmful algae and weeds in aquaculture waters
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Study shows that opportunity costs influence when people leave social interactions - 1 views
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I like this sort of research. Do you think a game like this is either build-able or perhaps even getting access to the one they used? Is it open source? Can you track down this paper? I'm wondering about tying it to depression, etc. That might drift into territory they might not approve at this age (especially since all participants have paperwork they have to sign off on, and any participants under 18 have to have the paperwork signed off by a parent. I wonder if you might dig into introversion/extroversion and whether that might have an impact on similar things. Seems like it might.
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This also makes me think of the UCSD juncos... and how they forage longer in stressful environments due to decreased corticosterone levels....... and how that is a key characteristic allowing them to survive in a human-built environment.
Airplane Noise Exposure May Increase Risk of Chronic Disease | SPH - 0 views
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people who were exposed to higher levels of noise from aircraft were more likely to have a higher body mass index, an indicator for obesity that can lead to stroke or hypertension. The findings highlight how the environment—and environmental injustices—can shape health outcomes
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self-reported body mass index (BMI)
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The study is the first to explore a connection between aircraft noise exposure and obesity nationwide in the United States; past studies on this subject have focused on European populations, and results have varied
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It would be interesting to see how these studied varied. I would bet that there are other, stronger factors overlying this effect, and it would be challenging to tease out this signal from other socioeconomic factors, but I very much like this concept.
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Picture this: Snapping photos of our food could be good for us - 0 views
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Research reveals taking pictures of food isn't just content for our social media feeds, but could be the key to improving people's diets
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I just have a gut feeling that, over time, if you knew you were going to photograph every meal, you would tend to eat less, eat more colorful things, and eat more varied things... so that it would make a better photograph. Each of those elements might just lead to healthier meals over time. Very interesting. It is sort of like imposing a metacognitive approach to food selection.
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Racing drivers blink at the same points when going round a track | New Scientist - 0 views
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Studying this further could help us better understand conditions where blinking rates change, such as Parkinson’s disease.
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Not a lot of information in this particular article here, however it does introduce a possible connection to Parkinson's disease. There are multiple links within the article containing a surplus of information around this subject that I will have to research further.
Potential Pain in Fish and Decapods: Similar Experimental Approaches and Similar Result... - 1 views
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how they provided guidance on general methods that could be applied to other animals such as decapod crustaceans.
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indicate that responses of both go beyond those expected of mere nociceptive reflex.
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Where is the limit between a reflex and a cognitive response?
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I really like this topic, and it is one that is getting some current attention. so, we obviously cannot discern cellular-level factors with the nervous system of animals (and obviously- especially when dealing with pain response, we would have to work exclusively with invertebrates and the experimental design would have to be very well thought out. That said, behavioral studies where you have a really tight experimental design set up.... and you're recording behavioral changes... is likely feasible. If this is interesting, keep digging into pain vs. reflex studies, and also begin to look at invertebrate models that we can both successfully raise... and that have interesting behavioral responses we can readily discern in the lab.