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Zoognosis with Joy!

@zoognosisjoy.bsky.social

I'm a veterinarian with a passion for animals, health, and society 🐇⚕️ Fellow with the Mimbres School 📚 She/Her 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ Lizard 🦎 YouTube: https://youtube.com/@zoognosiswithjoy Mimbres School: https://mimbres.org/ Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/zoognosiswithjoy

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Zoognosis with Joy!@zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 3h ago

Good riddance. This was the man who spent his entire career arguing that fighting climate change was bad for the economy and that 4°C was the "optimal" amount of climate change. His influence will one day kill millions. news.yale.edu/2026/10/31/w...

William Nordhaus, Nobel laureate who integrated economics and climate change, devoted Yale citizen

William Nordhaus ‘63, Sterling Professor of Economics who won a Nobel Prize in 2018 for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis, died Oct. 30 at age 85.

news.yale.edu

Zoognosis with Joy!@zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 5d ago

I am a 3rd generation Arab Canadian with a doctorate in veterinary medicine. My father was a pathologist, gave hundreds of talks, helped thousands of patients. His father was a geneticist, published dozens of papers, had a disease named after him. RFK Jr. should keep his mouth shut.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 5d ago

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

dave wagner@davewagner.bsky.social · last wk.

last month, a cat named Rolo survived a medical emergency after receiving a blood transfusion from Gin, a cocker spaniel belonging to the attending veterinarian. Rolo recovered and they're both doing great now. what a hero. what a comrade. workers' solidarity transcending centuries of enmity.

Close-up of Gin, a black-and-tan cocker spaniel with long, wavy ears, soulful brown eyes, and a blue-and-white bandana. Gin looks toward the camera with a gentle, slightly worried expression.Rolo, a fluffy black cat with golden-yellow eyes, lies in a patch of sunlight on a weathered red concrete porch
Zoognosis with Joy!@zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · last wk.

Had someone tell me that the GSD was not bred for war, that it's simply a benign working dog. Max von Stephanitz was a German cavalry officer. The breed was very popular among German police and soldiers pre-WWI through WWII. GSDs are the most commonly used dog in militaries and police today.

Zoognosis with Joy!@zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · last wk.

This is the logical conclusion of the techniques and philosophy of pedigree breeding which produced the German Shepherd Dog, a biological weapon bred for militarism, domination, and state terror, commodified for the fetish of power. The ultimate dog is not a companion, it's a set of jaws.

Zoognosis with Joy!@zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · last wk.

This is the logical conclusion of the techniques and philosophy of pedigree breeding which produced the German Shepherd Dog, a biological weapon bred for militarism, domination, and state terror, commodified for the fetish of power. The ultimate dog is not a companion, it's a set of jaws.

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social · last wk.

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

Zoognosis with Joy!@zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · last wk.

Add to this the facts that one in five adults are functionally illiterate and one in two adults are reading below a high school level and you can start to see why we're in the mess that we are in right now.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · last wk.

Every year, Research!America does a poll that asks, "Can you name a living scientist?" In January 2026, 76% of respondents said "no." Of those who said "yes," 5% named a scientist who was, in fact, dead. www.researchamerica.org/blog/can-you...

Slide showing result of "Can you name a living scientist" poll. The pie chart shows that 25% of people answered "yes" and 76% answered "no." (The reason they add to more than 100% is that they're actually 25.5% and 76.5%, though that's not shown here.) In the "yes" section, the top name is Neil deGrasse Tyson at 24%, followed by Anthony Fauci (13%), Bill Nye (11%), Jennifer Doudna (6%), Jane Goodall* (3%), Stephen Hawking* (2%), Brian Cox (2%), Timothy Berners-Lee (2%), Elon Musk (2%), Roger Penrose (2%), Other (33%). The asterisks lead to a footnote "deceased." The chart also has an annotation pointing out the following: "Yes" decreased 8 pts (was 33% in 2025) Neil deGrasse Tyson up 13 pts (was 11% in 2025)
Mixæl Laufer@mixaelslaufer.bsky.social · last wk.

Nobel prize winner John Franklin Enders is spinning in his grave. Imagine creating a solution to wipe out a disease, it works for decades, and then... People just stop using it because they've been fed disinformation. What would it feel like to create medical solutions and have them ignored...?

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD@madhupai.bsky.social · last wk.

The U.S. and Mexico are expected to lose their official measles-free status as outbreaks spread and vaccination rates decline Canada already lost the status… Incredible www.forbes.com/sites/unicef...

Zoognosis with Joy!@zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 2w ago

The eoclogical effects of climate change should not be understated, but it should also be noted that marine life has not yet recovered from Deepwater Horizon, with 60-85% reductions in deep pelagic faunal abundance. 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Immense but not immutable: A sudden and sustained decline in deep-pelagic life in a large oceanic ecosystem | PNAS

The deep-pelagic habitat of the Gulf of Mexico comprises 90.4% of its volume and houses an exceptionally diverse deep-pelagic animal community that...

pnas.org

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2y ago

Every day use of fossil fuels should feel like a disaster. Deepwater Horizon cost BP more than $65 billion — but if that oil had been captured, sold, and used, it would have been worse for the environment, killed more people and animals, but BP would have made money. gwagner.com/risky-climat...

Offshore drilling rig on fire with multiple firefighting boats spraying water to extinguish the flames.
Alex Wild@alexwild.bsky.social · 2w ago

Online science communication used to be so simple. Now, all of the major platforms are owned by murderous fascists and our choices are to either participate in the fascism, or to not be heard online.