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Question: does one need to implant electrodes and surgically fix their heads in place in order to determine that pigeons dream? and in the end, kill them? Answer: no. no, one does not nature.com/articles/s4146…

Catch me at #Evol2023 talking about frogs 🐸

Dear Gabe, You grew a forest. We, the forest, your friends, colleagues, and peers, will always miss you. But we are certain that you will continue to light up this forest forever. With love, Your friends from UC Berkeley Please consider donating: gofund.me/2052ada9

I really admire Ambika Kamath and @MelinaPacker and their work! Cheers to challenging dominant scientific paradigms! sciencenews.org/article/reimag…

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New open access paper out in Conservation Genetics describing rangewide population structure of mountain yellow-legged frogs! doi.org/10.1007/s10592…

The U.S. government should not be funding Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinian people.

“Who should we see reflected in our decisions? Our own faces, glasslike on the waters of the world’s seas, or the faces of other beings rising up through the dark layers to meet us.” 💙

Continuing the conversation about compassionate collection - wrote this one from the heart. #PLOSBiology: Response to “Specimen collection is essential for modern science” dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

This week Israel assassinated a poet in Gaza by targeted air strike. There’s something dystopian & eyeopening about regimes murdering poets. Maybe it’s the confirmation that poetry is powerful enough to rattle the nerves of the powerful. Heres a list of other assassinated poets🧵

Universities : We will help you develop critical thinking skills. Also universities: Do not use these skills to challenge how we operate.

Can natural history and compassion coincide? open.substack.com/pub/andreajoya…

feel a lot of things about how in high school my friends and I got a gender neutral bathroom placed in our OK high school bc my trans friends were being beaten in the bathrooms. anyway, in 2022 gov Stitt made that illegal and now a trans teenager Nex in Oklahoma is dead

Liberation is not liberation if it is not for all. ✊🏽

In this new essay, my sister Sunaura Taylor and I make the case that treating animals right as a fringe issue is a strategic mistake. Big Meat, we argue, is not only harmful to animals and the environment, but to democracy as we know it. 🧵 vox.com/future-perfect…

Lately, I have witnessed a decrease of interest in addressing the colonial issues of science. Thus, I am very happy to see this paper that shows evidence of the unequal accumulation of biological specimens and discuss its consequences and possible next steps. 👏🏽🌍🌎🌱🌴

The horrors unfolding in northern Gaza are the result of a completely unrestrained Netanyahu gov, fully armed by the Biden admin while food aid is blocked and patients are bombed in hospitals. This is a genocide of Palestinians. The US must stop enabling it. Arms embargo now.