Harrison Vener
@averageanimal.bsky.social
#QueerInSTEM MSc in Animal Welfare and Behavior. Focused on improving the lives of laboratory animals and the 3Rs
Any animal welfare + behavior folks at Disney Animal Kingdom? I’m going to be there on Thursday and would love to chat if you have time!
February 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Any animal welfare + behavior folks at Disney Animal Kingdom? I’m going to be there on Thursday and would love to chat if you have time!
Reposted by Harrison Vener
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Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!
More info: disi.org
Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!
More info: disi.org
January 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!
More info: disi.org
Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!
More info: disi.org
Reposted by Harrison Vener
There's a huge disconnect between epidemiologists - who see H5N1 as a grave threat to humanity but don't wish to cause panic - and politicians, who think "if it was really that serious those guys would be panicking way more."
January 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
There's a huge disconnect between epidemiologists - who see H5N1 as a grave threat to humanity but don't wish to cause panic - and politicians, who think "if it was really that serious those guys would be panicking way more."
Reposted by Harrison Vener
Crabs might feel pain - new research shows their bodies react to harmful sensations, much like ours. 🦀
If crabs can suffer, should we rethink how we treat them and other animals in farming, research, and beyond?
#OpenAccess study: doi.org/10.3390/biol...
#Science🧪 #EduSky #AcademicSky
Putative Nociceptive Responses in a Decapod Crustacean: The Shore Crab (Carcinus maenas)
Nociceptors are receptors that detect injurious stimuli and are necessary to convey such information from the periphery to the central nervous system. While nociception has been extensively studied in...
doi.org
November 26, 2024 at 6:32 AM
Crabs might feel pain - new research shows their bodies react to harmful sensations, much like ours. 🦀
If crabs can suffer, should we rethink how we treat them and other animals in farming, research, and beyond?
#OpenAccess study: doi.org/10.3390/biol...
#Science🧪 #EduSky #AcademicSky
Excited to hear the lecture on Birch’s book!
No one likes a poorly attended inauguration... so please join me in London or online on 3 Dec for my inaugural lecture, "The Edge of Sentience". www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/...
The edge of sentience: risk and precaution in humans, other animals, and AI
6.30pm Tue 3 Dec | Jonathan Birch | Free public event at LSE
www.lse.ac.uk
November 27, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Excited to hear the lecture on Birch’s book!