@knockknockzebra.bsky.social
Lifelong Bostonian; ex-longtime Animal Care Vol (including for 2 kinds of zebra). Chronically ill, PTSD-having, neurodivergent introvert; mask wearer. She/her. My friends really do call me T.
this is usually the part where I post a Morning Monty but you guys we have SNOW and Lucy is HERE FOR IT
Their words include:
What feels impossible and overwhelming when you’re sitting by yourself can begin to feel achievable and urgent when you are working with others...Working together, we can preserve our moral and scientific integrity. #standupforscience
Read why NIH colleagues resigned.
Brave writing from Sylvia Chou, Alexa Romberg, Paul Grothaus and Vani Pariyadath. 🧪
#science #standupforscience #integrity
www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...
Most of the cats lived in the upper courtyard, where John had ensured that they were fed big bowls of meat. A select few lived in the lower courtyard and had access to the bureau chief’s quarters. Second and third photos show Fatty as a kitten in 2007 and then in Boston (where lived until 2019).
John Burns was a great war correspondent. He was also a champion of the NYT Baghdad Bureau’s feral cat population, as he described in this lovely 2007 piece. I took two of the kittens born there in 2007 home to my parents in 2009—one is still alive today, age 19.
www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/w...
Just a gentle reminder, folks.....
And btw, dogs can get pregnant too.
#notenoughhomes #spayneuter #spayneutersaveslives #spayandneuteristhesolution #Caturday
Remember when I said that, even wearing heavy welders’ gloves, grabbing a possum by the base of its tail was, in sensory terms, kind of a lot? Well, I wasn’t exaggerating.
Missed last night's webinar on how MA can stand up to ICE?
Check out the video here!
#mapoli
youtu.be/MWEeIoUv_u4
“Maybe you could actually unilaterally change the world— without having to constantly convince people...who are never going to agree with you—through technological means. And this is where I think technology is this incredible alternative to politics.”
Peter Thiel, 2010
You don't fucking say.
I am very sad, would anyone else like a good dogs/cats/animals thread? Reply with pics if you would like to
I'll go first:
NAWM!
Morning.
Stryker is a major player in medical devices 👀
'The Guardian Angel'
Mikhail Aldashin, 2020
#Caturday
FDA vaccine committee is meeting as we speak to select viral strains for fall flu shots. Everyone is a respected scientist. There are evidence-based presentations. We're an hour ahead of schedule. It's all so...normal. Quite the change of pace.
#VRBPAC
www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-va...
How's he even supposed to pay this? 😜
No repeat of Boston 2024 Olympics: Foxborough and the Krafts reach deal on pre-payment for World Cup soccer matches
www.wcvb.com/article/kraf...
📢New funding opportunity for projects addressing gaps in #migraine care and women’s health. Projects may receive up to $200K over two years through the Headache & Migraine Competitive Grant Program.
LOI Deadline: May 5, 2026.
Learn more here: bit.ly/4sA73jx
Article on the joint @aapd.com and @dredf.bsky.social report on increased challenges people with disabilities have in qualifying for or maintaining Social Security benefits under new policies, which include experts being shifted into phone-answering positions.
tinyurl.com/4c38wcbx
Sounds like Boston 2026 and Kraft made a deal with themselves to handle security costs. Glad the Foxborough Select Board held strong!
everything is awful but we met this baby corg on our stella training walk last night - her ears were so soft it almost made me emotional
Yaaaaay!
Otherworldly sunset through the Costco cart return door
🔥 A new study from researchers at Scripps Oceanography finds that periods of clean air between multi-day wildfire smoke events in California shrank by more than 60% from 2006 to 2020 — leaving communities with less time to recover before smoke returns. Learn more: scripps.ucsd.edu/news/califor...
Yes, but we’re gonna need pix.
I definitely have one from Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo. Not sure where it is, but I’ll look.
Brighton HS student kidnapped, driven to NY to try to blackmail father into surrendering...
NEW: The Census Bureau's internal watchdog has concerns about how the bureau conducts and monitors the quality of the American Community Survey to ensure the reliability of the results, which are used to guide federal funding, according to this Commerce Department inspector general's report
Our meerkats received a new enrichment item for the first time: bubbles! Watch our playful family curiously interact in their new dayroom.