Today on Squirrel TV, a staring contest followed by shameless gorging on a Ure pear.
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It's always obligatory to invoke the Necromouser.
Order Rodentia@orodentia.bsky.social · 4mo agoAnd, it is obligatory, after the above video to invoke THE NECROMOUSER!
New: Four Texas A&M professors are suing in Houston federal court over its policy prohibiting discussions of race, sexuality and gender in the classroom ~ www.chron.com/texas/articl...
Faculty sue Texas A&M over limits on teaching race, gender and sexuality
Texas A&M is the second state university to be sued over limits on teaching gender, sexuality and race.
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First one done! A mouse nerd doing a “Well, actually…” pose for @pervocracy.bsky.social #art #SillyLittleGuys
!!!! it's broody mama in the nest on the porch season again!!!
#RodentOfTheDay Lorraine's African Dormouse (Graphiurus lorraineus) "Geographic Distribution: W and C Africa: Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Bioko, Gabon, Republic of Congo, N Angola,..." Ph/Inf: www.mammalogy.org/image-librar...
#RodentOfTheDay Golden Mouse (Ochrotomys nuttalli) "In addition to baseball-sized nests used by a single adult, sometimes makes larger nests occupied by a group of 8 or more." #MouseMonday Ph/Inf: www.mammalsociety.org/golden-mouse P.S. Lost my post tracking, so repeats may be incoming.
When you want a bit of ice cream, but also want to stay warm and hidden. (Don't worry, she didn't get it all!)
Mucking about old photos and found this picture of Cherie looking for enlightenment.
Without downloading new pics, what is it like dating you?
Star Trek Corrected Captions@startrekcc.bsky.social · 4d agoWithout downloading new pics, what is it like dating you?
New paper out that includes two SMSG members from Sulawesi: Predicting current and future habitat suitability of two endemic rodents, Bunomys andrewsi and B. penitus using MaxENT species distribution modelling www.doi.org/10.47605/tap...
v15i2.409 | Volume 15 | Number 2 | 2026 | Taprobanica
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Kurt Vonnegut's advice to high schoolers: “Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction... no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience BECOMING, to find out what’s inside you, to MAKE YOUR SOUL GROW.”
Favorites are hard to choose. Every new painting is my favorite but the paintings that still make me smile are in another category The woodchuck eating apples is one of those #art #artrepostjuly #artchallenge
Helen Whistberry@whistberry.bsky.social · last mo.Calling all artists! We don't reshare our older stuff enough, so here's an excuse to do so I'll be busy in July drawing things I can't share publicly just yet, so I'm gonna repost some of my faves following these approximate themes (interpreted broadly!) Join me? #art #ArtChallenge #ArtRepostJuly
#RodentOfTheDay Soft-Furred Field Rat (Millardia meltada) "Tropical and sub tropical dry deciduous forests, tropical grasslands, irrigated croplands and grasslands with gravel. Agriculture lands, water courses, embankments, dry rocky hills." Photo/Info: indiabiodiversity.org/species/show...
The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.
Full of despair today. Massive lay offs in social sciences and humanities across the country, Burnham puts out a video saying 'AI can write an essay', and my university is busy integrating co-pilot into all staff and student computers. We are being told we're defunct and there's no resistance.