New independent wolf domestication event discovered in Sweden, dating to the Middle Neolithic on Stora Karlsö in the Baltic Sea. The wolves, likely brought to the island by humans, had small body sizes, low genetic diversity, and had a primarily marine diet. 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Look, I'm a veterinarian. I've worked as a zookeeper. I've worked with wildlife at rescues. Some of them totally have klingons and dingleberries.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 18h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Reading about the history of brachycephalic dog breeding can get you flashbanged by images like this one

Does anyone know of any decent English translations of some of the classic Chinese agricultural treatises like Wang Zhen's Nong Shu or Xu Guangqi's Complete Treatise on Agriculture? Thinking it might be interesting to read these in conversation with Varro.

this is my new favorite diagram

Man, fuck Ken Jennings, all my homies hate that nerd

Darkness playing peek-a-boo <3

Can't believe it needs to be said, but I have never and will never use AI in my videos or my writing PERIOD.

Fauci deserved better, man. It was a completely unenviable thankless task guiding a country of 300+ million through a pandemic under a hostile anti-science executive. Now he gets to spend the aftermath fending off grievous badgering from some of the most loathsome personalities in Washington.

After all the public shaming of students pirating textbook pdfs, the biggest corporations of the world are doing mass plagiarism and pulping rare texts right before our eyes. The hypocrisy is never ending.

Rita, antifascist🏴@oldsquida.bsky.social · last wk.

“If you've ever asked yourself ‘what would I do during the burning of the Library of Alexandria’ then that time is now” - Julianna de Tortilla @julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social

Fascinating how tech companies are targeting feminized professions, arguably one of the most difficult types of labour to automate. You got the same company building both teachers and sex robots. How little they think of women and their work!

Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · last wk.

When this NY school decided to deploy an AI-powered robot in (....wait for it) robotics class, "unionized teachers took aim at Realbotix's sex doll sister company." I'm no great fan of #AI in high schools overall but..robotics class? With the central worry about..sex dolls? Huh? #education #robotics

New Study Provides First Evidence of Dopamine System Injury in the Brain of Long COVID Patients www.camh.ca/en/camh-news...

New Study Provides First Evidence of Dopamine System Injury in the Brain of Long COVID Patients

Findings have important implications for the pathophysiology of key COVID symptoms and suggest new potential avenues for treatment

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FYI: the leaves of cannabis plants contain ten times less THC than the bud, which is what is typically consumed. Still, dogs are uniquely susceptible to THC toxicity compared to humans, so if a dog consumes cannabis, seeking veterinary care urgently is recommended. 🧵 🧪 #vetmed

…CJ…⭕️@cookie89-89.bsky.social · last wk.

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You might hear a familiar voice at 44:14 of this video, check it out!

Mattie Bukowski@paradox-nerd.bsky.social · last wk.

youtu.be/ItUC6ky8lHo New video essay! Mind-controlled bugs, eusocial insect colonies, split brains, divergent minds, and other biological facts that will leave you questioning your understanding of the world. Nothing like some good old science communication to give you an existential crisis :)

The whole time Telemarchus was plotting to "take the throne" in Nolan's The Odyssey, I wanted to shout "THAT MOTHERFUCKER OEDIPUS KNOWS A WAY!"

Trans woman I know got fired from her work a couple months back. She was 100% burnt out. Turns out she was doing the work of two or three people on the salary of a junior employee. They have not found a replacement and no one has made any progress on her project since she lost her job.

The Loch Ness Monster@nessiopeia.space · 2w ago

An important missing piece of information on that transgender wage gap graph is that trans women quickly learn that they need to make themselves indispensable to their jobs to not get pushed out, so every cent of that 60¢ is earned with twice the labor of their cis colleagues

I have not been a Catholic for over fifteen years, but occasionally an "OMG" or "JFC" slips in there. My go-to now is "dear gods!" or "gods, no!" or "fuck the gods." One of these days, I'm going to drop a "Fuck me, Ishtar" and it'll be glorious.

Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com · 2w ago

I gave up and just instituted a rule that people were allowed to say “oh my god” in a pantheistic society because “oh my gods” just hits my ear wrong.

Warp 9, Mr. Dude. Engage!

I speculated in my recent video that bisexuality was actually far more common than many national survey results suggested, based on the high prevalence of same-sex attraction and behaviour found in the Kinsey Reports. Turns out that bigotry and misinformation has been keeping people in the closet!

Transphobes Can't Read@lordaslan.bsky.social · 2w ago

How does one become indoctrinated into bisexuality?

In case you were wondering WHY someone would mail their scabs, the earliest inoculation available for smallpox involved grinding up the scabs and inoculating someone with a scratch on the skin. This method reduced the fatality rate from 30% to about 1%. 🧪 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variola...

Variolation - Wikipedia

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Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Historian friend was reading a civil war era letter in an archive, the letter said “In this envelope I include my smallpox scabs” and sure enough there they were. Had to call CDC for a hazmat team.

My lizard dragon finally arrived! Well worth the wait!

I got like four hours of sleep last night, so I decided to top up my caffeine at lunch with a dr pepper. Unfortunately this came with the upsetting adverse effect of having the dr. fauci trap nightcore remix stuck in my head all afternoon. it doesn't help that I vaccinate critters for a living

This. This is the correct, science-backed, responsible framing. Wish more news outlets did it like the CBC.

'Just stop burning fossil fuels.' Scientists stress that our smoky skies only have one true fix | CBC News

Smoky skies in Toronto have led to new scrutiny of government efforts to fight fires and manage forests. But scientists say the realistic way to tackle the smoke is fighting climate change itself.

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My bunnies love those little cardboard campers

If you are in charge of hiring, HIRE QUEER WOMEN! Half of my friends are out of work and looking for employment! Trans women, bi/pan women, and lesbians included. All are excellent job candidates with tons of education and experience behind them! Let them work!

Getting some genuinely unhinged comments on my latest video. People are NOT doing okay right now!

Absolutely enchanted by Jimothy. I hope he doesn't become too habituated to humans. Car accidents and dog attacks leave these little guys really vulnerable as it is, even more so with a deformity :( don't feed raccoons! kotaku.com/seattles-new...

Seattle's New Cryptid Is

He's the cutest little orb of fluff I've seen in a long time

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Considering doing media analysis for my next video. Is this a terrible idea or am I on to something?

Ask not whom the screwworm screws, it screws us all.

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

New video! Today I talk about the reemergence of screwworm in the United States and how it's screwing us. 🧪 #vetmed youtu.be/v59Mt6NgGnM