Did not get a grant I was really, really counting on. Send funny memes for sad scientists, please.
just saw the Bride! and I hope this colobus monkey fur is fake or very, very vintage
I've always had an unreasonable level of hate for the film "Pretty Woman".
The University of South Wales is planning to shed around 200 jobs because of a cash crisis ✍️Martin Shipton
New on our website - Unregulated Human Provisioning of Primates: Advice for Conservation Practitioners. We're looking for volunteer translators particularly for habitat country languages to make this document as inclusive as possible. human-primate-interactions.org/wp-content/u...
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
The state of our (super divided, prolly doomed) Union, everybody
Thanks! I'll have a look.
Ooh - what's the title?
Same here in UK academia. I threaten to quit like once a week, but then go "see you tomorrow".
Calling all primatologists & conservationists! 🐒
@doc-webber.bsky.social & I are looking for best practice around how we train future primatologists for a future special issue of IJP: link.springer.com/collections/...
Please get in touch for an informal chat about possible contributions.
If you are in Wales, could you take a few minutes to help a student with data collection? Reposts appreciated. Diolch yn fawr iawn!
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Birch is such a cool name!
Costa Rica’s top court ruled that authorities failed to protect wildlife from power line electrocutions in Nosara.
The case found bare wiring illegally in use and ordered fixes within six months. Conservationists say the decision could strengthen wildlife protections nationwide.
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
Here it is, your moment of zen.
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔
(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )
😂
“At some point over the past 15 years, kids stopped reading”—but that’s because not enough teachers are asking them to, Walt Hunter writes:
"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
You ain’t gotta go to Portland for this experience these days
What can Americans living abroad do through all this mess? I still vote every election, and I donate to things when I can, but otherwise I'm just doomscrolling and disassociating and that doesn't help anyone.
The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing
theconversation.com/the-5-stages...
Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
