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Animal behaviorist, neuroscience research, former zookeeper, failed jedi, amateur camel trainer, mouse pimp. I spend a lot of time running mice through mazes. Current research is focused on improving welfare through enrichment. 🐪🦍🦒🐁🐾🧠
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THIS IS ONE NEURON! Jaw dropping. It distributes a particular neurotransmitter (norepinephrine) across the mouse brain; it’s a locus coeruleus neuron. @jeremiahycohen.bsky.social and colleagues at the @alleninstitute.bsky.social are using new biotech to see things never seen before.

@moderation.bsky.app hey Mona is not spam, she's my friend. She's desperate not spamming people. bsky.app/profile/mona...

The four boxes of liberty, is a 19th-century American idea that proposes: "There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and cartridge (or ammo). Please use in that order."

Free dog training info - 7 days of canine cognition 🧪🐾🐶🧠 #PositiveDogTraining #PositiveReinforcement

Six ape species' genomes have been sequenced telomere-to-telomere, offering a comprehensive resource for studying human evolution and genetic diversity among primates. doi.org/g9dxz3

Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador

Solid science 🧪 is the goal

The same damage being done to the stock market is being done to our health, securities & environment, there just isn't a stock ticker to show how bad it is for the others.

Let’s be clear. He sold $2.4 billion of his stock the day before he announced tariffs. He’s now crashing the stock market deliberately. He will then buy stock when it’s fallen through the floor. All this is is him stiffing everyone to get richer. That’s it.

Did you read this @carlzimmer.com article and want to know more? nyti.ms/4iO0zct See 🧵 from first author @berthetmelissa.bsky.social 👇 Key finding: context reveals compositionally of bonobo calls "animal linguistics" FTW! Includes the phrase "bonobo dictionary" 🙈 🧐 #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

So proud of American Resisters today! #Handsoff

I'm in that crowd somewhere #HandsOff

The protest in Chicago is packed! Hands off our country!

We posted this a few times, but here it is again — President Reagan warns us about (Trump’s) tariffs: “Beware demagogues ready to declare a trade war against our friends… weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world.”

Turns out I have T-Rex arms! Me and Sue from the Field Museum match up #dino #Sue #Chicago

Really nice Science perspective by Ammie Kalan @ammiekalan.bsky.social & Lydia Luncz on the intrinsic value of animal culture-and nice contrast with many of the instrumental arguments out there. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@fidaagaza.bsky.social every morning I check for your posts to see if you have survived another day. I've told my friends and family about you and your children. You are not forgotten 💚

I'm very concerned how these penguins are going to pay their tariffs, let alone deal with the paperwork with their little wings.

@corybooker.com Did you seriously vote to send more weapons and money to Israel to use in their genocide of Palestinian children?

Field #Museum

This mornings agenda - breakfast and then Field Museum #chicago

Hello #Chicago

Did you know that domestic ferrets (but not the wild ones) can maintain eye contact with humans they know and follow their gestures almost as well as dogs can? Pretty impressive socio-cognitive skills! 👀 #AnimalCognitionFunFacts Today, April 2, is Ferret Day #FerretDay #ferrets

“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.” Obi-Wan Luigi

It's #Camel time www.earthandsuncamels.com

@booker.senate.gov Thank you for actually doing something