Jungle

Layan looks at the camera. She wears a sweatshirt and sweatpants

4 kids sharing a thin purple micro fleece blanket

Dec 4 Fidaa update:

✅💌 I am THRILLED 🤩 you guys pulled together & Mira will be getting her sweater tomorrow 🥹🙏🏻 THANK YOU

Pivoting to warm pyjamas for 9yo Layan. Look how thin the blanket for Dec w open 🪟

$0/$100 raised 🔁💸

- Nicola

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Flying to Long Beach CA Sunday, what's the bet I'll get stranded?

Chimps Can Revise Their Beliefs When Shown New Evidence, Study Finds Chimpanzees can change their minds when the facts no longer support their previous beliefs – a rational level of thinking that was once considered uniquely human.

Chimps care more about the truth than Republicans 🧠🧪🦍🐒

Adorable pitbull puppy with floppy ears

Silly pitbull licking his nose

Sunrise on the pond with R2

R2DOG2, the best

RIP R2DOG2
We had a great life together and you brought me great joy. I'll always love you.

We are pack

#dog 🐾🐕 #pitbull

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Me: I only have a second here but tell me more about this civil war Fidaa: It is true that now Israeli-backed gangs have spread in Gaza The resistance forces collided with it Since yesterday, there have been violent clashes between them There are dead Things are very bad 6:08 PM It seems that chaos will prevail in Gaza, and this is no less than the danger of war with the occupation I hope we get out of here as soon as possible 6:10 PM

Oct 13 Fidaa update:

Sorry this update is also a day behind. My mom ✈️ in to visit & some updates may be slightly behind for a few days.

Fidaa talks about the 🇮🇱-backed gangs that are creating chaos in 🇵🇸. There is still no safety 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

- Nicola

bit.ly/save-fidaa

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveFidaa

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How do animals think about death? 🐾🧪🧠🐕☠️⚰️

Influence of early life adversity and breed on aggression and fear in dogs - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Influence of early life adversity and breed on aggression and fear in dogs

🐕🧠 dog's breed and history impact behavior 🧪🐾

Trump defends use of U.S. military against 'enemy within' Earlier, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the purpose of the department would exclusively be "war fighting."

JUST IN: President Trump has told top U.S. commanders that the military would be used against "enemy within."

Review of Approaches for Addressing Oral Stereotypic Behavior in Zoo-Housed Giraffes
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Interested in camelids? Looking to expanding your animal training skills? Come to the Camel Conference! #training #camels #LasVegas #behavior #zoo

Dogs can extend word meanings to new objects based on function, not appearance A study published in Current Biology by the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University reveals that dogs with a vocabulary of toy names—known as Gifted Word Learners—can extend learned labels ...

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Whales Are Trying to Communicate With Us Through Water Bubbles, Reveals SETI For the first time, humpback whales have been documented emitting “rings of water bubbles” in a possible attempt to communicate with humans. The discovery provides new insights into “non-human intelli...

Whales trying to communicate with us
🧪🧠💬🐳

Flyer for the Southwest Camel Conference and Training Clinic Oct 24-26 2025 in Sandy Valley, Nevada

It's about time for the Southwest Camel Conference!
🐫🐪 if you're interested in zookeeping, animal behavior, animal training this is the place to be! 🧪🧠
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Item-based Parsing of Dynamic Scenes in a Combined Attentional Tracking and Working Memory Task Abstract. Human visual processing is limited—we can only track a few moving objects at a time and store a few items in visual working memory (WM). A shared mechanism that may underlie these performanc...

How does the visual system track moving objects while remembering the color of those objects? My latest research article (co-first with Piotr @styrkowiec.bsky.social) exploring this question using EEG is out in JoCN! @jocn.bsky.social #workingmemory #cognition #cogneuro #cogsci #neuro

Who’s got the power? Studies of male and female primates show it’s not simple These findings refine our interpretation of intersexual relationships across animals

Who’s got the power? Studies of male and female primates show it’s not simple

3-mob.com/featured/who... #3mob

Explains a lot

Nicola, I'm desperate to find a place This place they received me temporarily, and they need it now for a family of their own At least if we raise money, I can save a place and move my things from the north I left my children in the south and now I only have Lana in the north They ask for huge sums of money to agree to transport our belongings from here Please, these are the most difficult circumstances I have been through so far 12:37 AM

‼️‼️Sep 17 Fidaa update:

HORRIBLE news from Fidaa

Her friend needed the ⛺️ space for their own fam. F is back in the North w Lana, her other 3 kids stayed in the S 😭

The 💰 of a ⛺️ & ➡️ her essentials is ASTRONOMICAL 🔁💸

Update to come w amount - N

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@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveFidaa

Advancing Justice Through Science The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is dedicated to improving knowledge and understanding of crime and justice issues through science.

Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives

As Gaza starves, GoFundMe accused of blocking ‘millions of dollars’ raised GoFundMe is accused of unfair restrictions and financial freezes on Palestinian aid fundraisers.

TIL that GoFundMe’s execs are full of IDF & IDF adjacent & it makes 👇👇👇 make infinitely more sense

Foreign doctors say Israel systematically targeting Gaza’s children: Report Medics returning from Gaza say Israel deliberately targeting children with sniper, drone fire, Dutch newspaper reports.

Foreign doctors who volunteered in Gaza say they treated over 100 Palestinian children shot in the head or chest, arguing it’s clear evidence Israel is deliberately targeting minors aje.io/f7key2

Benchmark study tracks trends in dog behavior A new Virginia Tech study published in PLOS One establishes a crucial baseline for understanding dog behavior on a large scale.

Tracking trends in #dog #behavior 🧪🧠🐶

Looking for #preclinical #neuroscience #developmental #neurobiology continuing education. Drop your links here!

Elephants have names for each other like people do, new study shows - Warner College of Natural Resources Wild African elephants address each other with name-like calls, a rare ability among nonhuman animals, according to a new study. The Colorado State University research suggests elephants do not imitat...

Of course elephants address each other by name 🧠🧪🐘💬🗣️

More Than A Feeling: Evidence That Reptiles May Experience Moods - Faunalytics Can tortoises be optimistic? For the first time, researchers use cognitive bias tests on reptiles to explore whether mood influences their behavior.

Reptiles have feelings too 🧠❤️🐍🐢🦎🧪

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

Unexpected hybridisation and limited population structure uncovers perplexing taxonomic issues in the Australian, Little, and Forest Ravens | doi.org/10.1080/0158... | Emu | #ornithology 🪶

“Question,” Epstein wrote to Maxwell on May 23, 2008. “Which one do you prefer,,, lewd and lscivious conduct ,, or procuring minors for prostituion.” At the time, he and his star-studded team of defense lawyers were closing in on a generous plea deal with federal and state officials in Florida, and Epstein was trying to negotiate the state charges to which he’d plead guilty. Maxwell’s response was matter-of-fact: From: gmax <gmax[REDACTED]> To: J. Epstein <jeeproject@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, May 23 2008 3:22 PM Subject: Re: I suppose Lewd and lecivious conduct..I would prefer lewd and lescivious conduct w/a prositute if possible

EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role

FREE to read

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From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!)

Receipts:
zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...