Alma/Hooks
Complement that crow.
Offer to help with field work
Alma has posted flyers around the Wayne State University campus:
How does a changing city soundscape affect corvid populations?
Are you interested in birds and behavioral ecology? sensors networks? drones? audio processing? machine learning? You do not need to be an expert in all of these fields!
I’m seeking student collaborators for multi-disciplinary field work to do population studies of corvids in Detroit.
Help make knowledge and research universally accessible
While doing this work not only will you make exciting discoveries you will also advance the cause of open science and free culture. Existing professional-grade tools are outside of the price range of researchers. Data and research are hidden behind pay-walls. But by following the principles of open science, software freedom, and open source hardware we can make research that is accessible to all.
(In collaboration tla tla yadda yadda supported by foobar grants)
Ask her what she is doing
For example,
- "Why are you stuck up in that tree?"
- "Did you drop this?"
- "What are you doing to that bird?"
- "Did you really just take the left overs from that table?"
- "It's okay, I wasn't going to eat that anyway." (not technically a question)
- "No, it's okay, this shrimp is expired." (ditto)
- "That squirrel is very expired."
- "Did you know your jacket has a weird smell?"
Offer to help with
- Is there an LGBQT+ elder care volunteer group?
- Pamphletting for "Know Your Rights" information
