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Lemur Researcher. Primatologist. Cognition, welfare & enrichment. #QueerInSTEM PhD Candidate @ Texas State University #TXST #Anthropology. #PokemonGO. Currently in Durham, NC. Wanderlust. He/Him/His www.raymondvagell.com
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4:30 AM emailing DeepSeek like we're buddies gossiping about academia. 🤣 We currently have a private DeepSeek server that we run in our house and you "chat" with DeepSeek by sending him an email. *Him = I have decided my DeepSeek buddy is male/men presenting.

Happy 1 year anniversary to the Glasgow Willy Wonka Chocolate Experience. We have been in the Bad Place all along.

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Grass Type 🍃 Pokémon Cards #fanart

I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

If you see this, share a skeleton #Art #DarkArt #Skeleton

5 things I've accomplished this week: 1. Wrote Chapter 1 of my dissertation 2. Revised Chapter 1 of my dissertation 3. Wrote Chapter 2 of my dissertation 4. Made a delicious kumquat marmalade (it's sooooo good) 5. Mind your fking business El0n

I used the new Google #NotebookLM to produce a podcast episode of my paper "SMARTA: Automated testing apparatus for visual discrimination tasks" (Vagell et al., 2018). #SMARTA #ColorVision #Touchscreen #Cognition #CognitiveResearch #Android #Lemurs www.raymondvagell.com/post/smarta-...

You fill the void in my heart ♥️

A pair of red-shouldered hawks (Buteo lineatus) in my backyard. 🪶

#DurhamPoGONC Hoopa Raid Day at American Tobacco Campus (ATC). #PokemonGO @pokemongo-eng.bsky.social #Durham #NorthCarolina

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Hearts 🫶 #ValentinesDay

You are purrrrrrfect 🩷 for me 🫶 #ValentinesDay

Well, that's fun. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science to the Pruetz Lab! 💪👩 #TXST @jilldpruetz.bsky.social @txst.edu

Karrablast & Shelmet Community Day 🐚🤺. Love seeing my community #DurhamPoGONC @pokemongo-eng.bsky.social

I always say "please" when I ask ChatGPT to do something because I'm not a bourgeoisie.

Pleased to say our public effort has apparently been successful for the moment. History must be accurately preserved and recognized, regardless of race, gender or ethnicity, etc.

We have a winner

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USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

I feel bad for all the indie game devs out there making horror games right now, having to compete with reality and all.

N.B. Liquor won't buy U.S. alcohol, even with tariff delay #NewBrunswick With trade threat delayed but not gone, premier says stores won’t order more American booze www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Our coalition has grown rapidly, now standing strong with over 92,000 federal employees. We are united by our oath and our commitment to hold the line. Every day, more of us are being targeted simply for speaking the truth to America.

Me, every single day now, hearing Gwen Stefani’s voice in my head: THIS SHIT IS BANANAS

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No one accidentally accesses (steals) sensitive National Security data. Just like no one accidentally, emphatically does a *certain* salute. Twice.

😂😂😂 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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"We have got to tell Elon Musk, NOBODY ELECTED YOUR ASS!” 🔥

This is amazing. Daisy the grandma AI bot chatting with scammers. youtu.be/bL9iJJICOLc?...

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

Sea cucumbers are one of my favorite foods but harvesting sea cucumbers is not sustainable. You can now buy "vegan" sea cucumbers, which are the mock versions of the real ones made from curdlan gum.

Happy 7th Day of Chinese New Year aka Renri (人日) or the day human beings were created (by Nüwa). It is commonly known as Human's birthday. 🎂

I believe that the scientific community will get through this, but not without some damage. And in a few years, when people who are Ph.D. students now are applying for jobs, their CVs will show that they lived through this chaotic awful time. And search committee people should RECOGNIZE THAT. 🧪

Include disabled people in your resistance planning. In many ways we’re built for resistance, as we have to find creative and sustainable ways to survive every single day. This is the time for intersectionality and community care. We need to work together and save one another.

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.