Absolutely crucial thread. Read the whole thing
06.03.2026 17:35
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Absolutely crucial thread. Read the whole thing
The next time politicians say there is no money for health or humanitarian aid, I will remember this: $1 billion per day on war
Oh that's great. I was just looking at France and chatting with my friend from the Czech Republic. Of course it's country specific
I just found out public libraries are not free in Europe. The US actually did something right?!?
ACOTAR 6 & 7 announced, LFG
I literally did a 12h livestream where I talked about goats nonstop. A goat secret will never be kept in this lab 😅 Professional fun-fact sharer over here.
There have been MULTIPLE early leaks of scientific discoveries via DECORATED CAKE. Scientists are good at many things, but shutting up is definitely not one of them.
I'm convinced that puritanism is to blame for a lot of the confusion on this
Another day, another neuroscience manuscript that can't tell the difference between sex and gender
Did not sniff the body, would have to confirm another time 😅
Did you know that decapitated vulture heads smell like really, really bad? Who would have thought
Anyone else super excited for an actual good horse game or is it just me? LFG early access 🐎
Spoiler alert, CLOACA in the spelling bee today
Pencil sketch of a pig foot skeleton
Got some sketching of my own done alongside my students today
Cover of The Lancet:
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As an academic, I may not have federal funding or any CNS papers (yet), but I'm also not in the files so... that should count for something!
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social will this help?
There's something about fluorescence that makes our monkey brains go OOOOHH
The best days is when I get a fresh batch of data, I start exploring and analyzing it, and I realize there really is something interesting going on and I'm the only person in the world who knows about it for a little while
Yes, especially locally in the south. I mainly do woodpeckers though!
Acquiring specific knowledge (like learning how to ID birds) may help with cognitive decline.
Yep that's right, birding is good for your brain! 🧪 🧠
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
But what is the price of my sanity
let's go back to publishing every weird little thing we see an organism do as a natural history note. i love a good kitchen sink paper that gets into the nitty gritty of a whole-ass system, but when you're trying to research something less well-known, you really need people writing "so one time..."
It's an NIH grant 😭 they definitely were thinking mice
That might make it to supplemental figure 1 😆
How do I politely convey this in a rebuttal 😅. "Respectfully, the reviewers might consider that a goat's size, spacial requirements, and difficulty of handling is about 130 times that of a mouse"
Same problem when reviewers asked me if I could acquire additional brain samples for "headbutting naive young muskox males". Sure, if you pay for a field season to Greenland and a gun 🤦♀️
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