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Lesbian marching with a sign that says a day without lesbians is like a day without sunshine

Happy International Lesbian Day! ☀️☀️☀️

And let's not forget the role of dogs as a lifesaving model from Anna and the first bypass shunts (exhibits.library.jhu.edu/exhibits/sho...) to contemporary imaging studies, large animal models have saved countless children and adults.

Very exciting that EARA is gaining more Canadian members!

We are pleased to welcome Western University @westernu.ca to EARA!

Check out the full list of EARA members on our website: eara.eu/our-members

Better late than never!

What articles or sites would you recommend for more information on fish sentience for those who can't attend?

Thank you #CALAS for a wonderful event in beautiful British Columbia! It was great to meet peers in lab animal science and medicine from across Canada and beyond. @eara.eu is a wonderful partner I hope to hear more from!

Refined tamoxifen administration in mice by encouraging voluntary consumption of palatable formulations - Lab Animal Pairing palatable formulations with micropipette dosing for administration of water-insoluble drugs such as tamoxifen in mice promotes voluntary consumption without loss of efficacy compared to more i...

Favorite trend in refined experimental procedures right now is micropipette assisted voluntary consumption in rodents as an alternative to gavage. Validated for mice and rats! Lovely paper by Vanhecke et al! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Important guide as Western mustangs fall prey to Chase the goose again!

Variation in plumage reflectance but not song reflects spatial cognitive performance in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) - Animal Cognition In seasonally variable environments, enhanced cognitive abilities may allow animals to adjust their behavior to changing conditions. Nonmigratory food-caching birds, like chickadees, rely on specializ...

We knew black cap chickadee females preferred to mate with males with better spatial memory, but not how they knew who that was. New paper reveals plumage correlated with memory better than song, suggesting the cue is visual! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Please enjoy a beautiful little derp in these trying times.

Innovative flavoring behavior in Goffin’s cockatoos Reports on food preparation in non-human animals are rare and often anecdotal. Zewald and Auersperg investigate Goffin’s cockatoos flavoring their food by dunking it in soy yogurt while excluding alte...

New cockatoos are the best paper just out! Innovative flavoring behavior in Goffin’s cockatoos: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

For Americans in public health, research, or epidemiology who need to communicate their findings or warnings to the public please e-mail: @nicktsergas.ca at news@canadahealthwatch.ca

Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI

Amazon
Boeing
Brown-Forman
Caterpillar
Ford
Harley-Davidson
John Deere
Lowe’s
Molson Coors
McDonald’s
Meta
Nissan
Stanley Black & Decker
Target
Tractor Supply
Toyota
Walmart

Support who supports you ✨✊

So cool! Craziest predation I have witnessed myself was a bald eagle catching an anhinga from a lake. There's always a bigger fish/bird.

A hamster model for stress-induced weight gain This review addresses the translational relevance of animal models of stress and their effects on body weight. In humans, stress, whether chronic or a…

A hamster model for stress-induced weight gain:
"To our knowledge, all evidence suggests that social stress induces weight gain in hamsters, even irrespective of diet composition."
Moran & Delville Horm Behav #neuroscience
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Had an amazing week at the MD Anderson for the Primate Behavioral Management Conference! So many great ideas for innovation in enrichment and study design from colleagues around the world ❤️🐒

'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat' by Oliver Sacks is older but classic in discussing the intersection of the brain and psychology.

Could turn into a good topic for science outreach. Lots of people are confused about why some species can hybridize and others can't. Biology is a wild place but that's still no excuse for lazy journalism.

Bluesky is now open. Science Twitter, here’s how to use it! The once-great science twitter is, depending on who you talk to, either dying or dead. Once a vibrant place for many discussions related to my fields of marine biology, ocean conservation, and publ…

Friends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter.

Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪

www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...