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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

One week until the next installment in #LibreTexts Basics for Beginners webinar series brought to you by our #Academy for professional development. Hear success stories from one-time #LibreTexts beginners on how they use the #LibreVerse to create, curate, and remix #OER; use #ADAPT for their #open #homework and #assessment needs; and organize and run a successful #OER program on campus.

Registration is free: forms.gle/6bXnmgUymcxxjpFe7

See you June 20 @ 12 pm PST!

Registration for #LibreTexts #LibreFest workshop is officially open!

Register: commons.libretexts.org/events/

This year's #LibreFest will be held virtually the week of July 7-11, 2025.

LibreFest covers: creating #OER; editing/modifying #OER; using our Conductor project management platform; & using our #ADAPT open #homework platform. We will also hear Success Stories from LibreTexts users each day.

Fee waivers are available for current #LibreNet members. Please email jrogers@libretexts.org.

Until recently, I used to focus on reducing #GHGs. As the #climateimpacts of #climatechange became apparent, I switched focus to #adaptation. But most early impacts are on poor places. Unfortunately, #rich are unwilling to share their #wealth to help the #poor #adapt . Which means #migration becomes the default option. But #immigration is hated by the same #wealthy #nimby and those that are forced #suffer, too.

We need to #welcome #climaterefugees and help them #settle

theguardian.com/global-develop

The Guardian · ‘I don’t want to be here. But we can’t go home’: what life is like for people forced to flee floods and fightingBy Thaslima Begum

Looking forward to this from the Editorial Freelancers Association: May 28 (noon Eastern time) #panel #discussion, ‘Changes in the #Academic and #Government Realms and How to #Adapt,’ on #freelance #editorial #pros dealing with upheaval. tinyurl.com/6najutd6

tinyurl.com#panel #discussion #academic #government #adapt #freelancers #banned #words | Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELSI’m looking forward to this from the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA): “It's STET Talk time again! Join us May 28 for a #panel #discussion, ‘Changes in the #Academic and #Government Realms and How to #Adapt,’ as we tackle the upheaval currently taking place, how it affects us as #freelancers, and what we can do about it.” Here are the panelists: • Joy Drohan, an EFA member who works for a university that has been affected by the environmental #banned #words list; https://lnkd.in/e-Ann6H7 • Viannah E. Duncan, an EFA member who works as a government contractor at the state and federal levels in the field of editing; https://lnkd.in/emNz2vnA   • Kassel Coover, ELS, a board-certified editor in life sciences and a senior editor at a health marketing agency; https://lnkd.in/eNkBxc9W   • Alexandra Rogers, PhD, a science writer and editor who works with biotech, pharmaceutical, and other scientific groups  to write grant applications and peer-reviewed publications; https://lnkd.in/edyfC8bi There is no charge for the event, and you can take part even if you're not an EFA member. I plan to be in the audience. https://lnkd.in/eKVT8_NP

Join the Academic Senate for CA Community Colleges #OERI team, in collaboration with De Anza College, and East Los Angeles College, for two in-person events covering an Introduction to Remixing and Open Homework Systems using #LibreTexts one-of-a-kind #OER #remixer, and open #homework and #assessment platform, #ADAPT.

Register for May 16, 8:30 – 3:30, at De Anza College:

eventbrite.com/e/introduction-

Register for May 17, 8:30- 3:30, at East Los Angeles College:

eventbrite.com/e/introduction-

EventbriteIntroduction to Remixing and Open Homework Systems Regional Meeting - NorthThis workshop will showcase LibreTexts, the LibreTexts Remixer, and the ADAPT Open Homework System.

❤️‍🔥 #NewRelease #OEGVoices #OEAwardwinners

Bryan Mathers is in the OEGlobal Voices studio talking talking to @cogdog Levine about the Fabulous Remixer Machine from a “shed” outside London, located on “an island off the east coast of Ireland.”

The Fabulous Remixer Machine is a #RemixReuseAdapt #OEAward24 winner

Listen 🎧 bit.ly/OEGVoices80
#weekendlistening #creativity #remix #reuse #adapt #impact stories #oeawardsimpact

OE Global Voices · OEG Voices 080: Bryan Mathers on the Fabulous Remixer Machine
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❤️‍🔥#NewRelease #OEGVoices #OEAwardwinners

Bryan Mathers is in the OEGlobal Voices studio talking talking to @cogdog Levine about the Fabulous Remixer Machine from a “shed” outside London, located on “an island off the east coast of Ireland.”

The Fabulous Remixer Machine is a #RemixReuseAdapt #OEAward24 winner

Listen 🎧 bit.ly/OEGVoices80
#weekendlistening #creativity #remix #reuse #adapt #impact stories #oeawardsimpact

OE Global Voices · OEG Voices 080: Bryan Mathers on the Fabulous Remixer Machine
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Shoutout to #LibreTexts advocate, Lisa Sharpe Elles, from The University of Kansas who has been named KU Libraries Textbook Hero of 2025. Lisa began using #LibreTexts in her #Chemistry courses in 2019, and officially ditched her expensive online commercial homework platform for our #ADAPT open homework and assessment platform in 2021.
Read more about Lisa's journey with #OpenEducation on the KU Libraries website:

lib.ku.edu/news/article/chemis