Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒
@marspidermonkey.bsky.social
Primatologist. Biological anthropologist. Recovering academic. Mammal Madness fan. Dog mom to the cutest rescue dog. Expertise in social relationships and stress in monkeys, apes, & humans, and the systemic inequities in academia & science. She/her
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Time for a book review! Starting out with Apes on the Edge: Chimpanzee Life on the West African Savanna by Jill Pruetz (University of Chicago Press, 2025)! (1/11)
🧪🦊 #Primates #Booksky #ScienceBooks #BookReview
🧪🦊 #Primates #Booksky #ScienceBooks #BookReview
Starting a pinned thread of book reviews! This is the review for Apes on the Edge, by Jill Pruetz!
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"Norman Rockwell was antifa," his granddaughter says. (Fact check: literally true.)
www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
The MAGAfication of Norman Rockwell
Trump uses the artist’s work—like other cultural icons—to promote Gestapo tactics and nativist ideas.
www.thebulwark.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
"Norman Rockwell was antifa," his granddaughter says. (Fact check: literally true.)
www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
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Do you like meaningful stares? Greyhounds might be for you
December 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Do you like meaningful stares? Greyhounds might be for you
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So very tired, we, the Jews of the world, are
December 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
So very tired, we, the Jews of the world, are
Yes, this is gender-affirming care, but what strikes me is how deeply rooted their body and gender dysmorphia is…
Decades of the white nationalist movement evolving to adapt to current political trends has brought them to this moment.
December 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Yes, this is gender-affirming care, but what strikes me is how deeply rooted their body and gender dysmorphia is…
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You know you’re the bad guy when you are anti-Doctors Without Borders.
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders, in 2026 for failing its new vetting rules for groups working in Gaza. Some international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.
Israel says it will halt operations of several humanitarian organizations in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza.
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December 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
You know you’re the bad guy when you are anti-Doctors Without Borders.
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This memoir probably hit me the hardest this year. It is a beautiful mediation on grief, loss of not only a loved one but of self. Not only did I feel the loss of my father but the love for birds and the effect they have on us was just perfection.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
December 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This memoir probably hit me the hardest this year. It is a beautiful mediation on grief, loss of not only a loved one but of self. Not only did I feel the loss of my father but the love for birds and the effect they have on us was just perfection.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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I think many people don't realise this: we very often have to pause or delay cancer treatment when patients have COVID. Protecting yourself, loved ones and the community from COVID makes sense.
My beautiful friend, a nurse, died at 31 last night. Her cancer treatment was delayed because a visitor did not wear a mask and she became terribly ill for weeks with the flu or COVID and following infections. If you're wearing a mask, thank you.
Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I think many people don't realise this: we very often have to pause or delay cancer treatment when patients have COVID. Protecting yourself, loved ones and the community from COVID makes sense.
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I feel like prior to the pandemic it was much more common for healthcare workers in cancer wards to mask, but my exposure to that world was more limited then and i have no data to back that up.
December 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I feel like prior to the pandemic it was much more common for healthcare workers in cancer wards to mask, but my exposure to that world was more limited then and i have no data to back that up.
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tech bros talk about your partner without sounding like a serial killer who has never encountered a human woman, challenge: impossible
I am begging everyone on here to read this new post by Bryan Johnson — the super rich tech guy who is now doing the “never die” protocol.
I need to talk about it with you all.
I need to talk about it with you all.
December 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
tech bros talk about your partner without sounding like a serial killer who has never encountered a human woman, challenge: impossible
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Lyme is one of many health problems caused & exacerbated by manmade climate change. A legitimate health secretary would acknowledge that.
We actually had a pretty good Lyme vaccine but antivaxxers lied & said it gave people knee pain (it didn’t but knee pain?) & got manufacturer to pull it in 2002.
We actually had a pretty good Lyme vaccine but antivaxxers lied & said it gave people knee pain (it didn’t but knee pain?) & got manufacturer to pull it in 2002.
You know what, shitbird? I have an idea. What about a VACCINE?
There are several in late stages of development.
Will you promote them so we can get “children back into the woods” as you say?
There are several in late stages of development.
Will you promote them so we can get “children back into the woods” as you say?
December 30, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Lyme is one of many health problems caused & exacerbated by manmade climate change. A legitimate health secretary would acknowledge that.
We actually had a pretty good Lyme vaccine but antivaxxers lied & said it gave people knee pain (it didn’t but knee pain?) & got manufacturer to pull it in 2002.
We actually had a pretty good Lyme vaccine but antivaxxers lied & said it gave people knee pain (it didn’t but knee pain?) & got manufacturer to pull it in 2002.
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Nothing infuriates me faster than eugenicists invoking evolution to further a bigoted agenda. What even is the point if we don't start with the assumption that all people are equally precious?
Also science education without philosophy is dangerous.
Also science education without philosophy is dangerous.
Dr. Mark Peifer (@peiferlabunc.bsky.social)argues that understanding the history of eugenics is critical for up-and-coming geneticists and should be included in college curriculums. www.cell.com/news-do/pr-e...
@cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social
@cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Nothing infuriates me faster than eugenicists invoking evolution to further a bigoted agenda. What even is the point if we don't start with the assumption that all people are equally precious?
Also science education without philosophy is dangerous.
Also science education without philosophy is dangerous.
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Peru gives legal rights to stingless bees in recognition of their critical importance to the health of the Amazon rainforest as well as humans
Legal protection appears similar to protections given to plants & animals listed on the US Endangered Species Act
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Legal protection appears similar to protections given to plants & animals listed on the US Endangered Species Act
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first
Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Peru gives legal rights to stingless bees in recognition of their critical importance to the health of the Amazon rainforest as well as humans
Legal protection appears similar to protections given to plants & animals listed on the US Endangered Species Act
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Legal protection appears similar to protections given to plants & animals listed on the US Endangered Species Act
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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It’s the private equity, stupid.
Immigrants are not the reason there’s a housing crisis.
They’re not the reason ERs are full and people don’t have healthcare.
They’re not the reason food is so expensive.
They’re the scapegoat.
As long as you blame immigrants, you won’t realize the 1% are taking everything.
They’re not the reason ERs are full and people don’t have healthcare.
They’re not the reason food is so expensive.
They’re the scapegoat.
As long as you blame immigrants, you won’t realize the 1% are taking everything.
December 30, 2025 at 5:24 AM
It’s the private equity, stupid.
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in this very special episode of Hacks
December 30, 2025 at 5:42 AM
in this very special episode of Hacks
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He’s all snuggly 🥺
December 30, 2025 at 5:24 AM
He’s all snuggly 🥺
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But like, what if it happens *as the ball is dropping* on New Year’s Eve? Do they continue the broadcast with every single on-air talent absolutely bombed out on apathy while an empire collapses? Do they cut to Stephen Miller in a concrete bunker screaming racial slurs? Does the West Coast explode?
December 30, 2025 at 5:20 AM
But like, what if it happens *as the ball is dropping* on New Year’s Eve? Do they continue the broadcast with every single on-air talent absolutely bombed out on apathy while an empire collapses? Do they cut to Stephen Miller in a concrete bunker screaming racial slurs? Does the West Coast explode?
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I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself
December 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself
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THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
December 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
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Least surprising headline of the year
MAGA blowing itself up by treating people 'like they're trash': GOP ex-governor
MAGA blowing itself up by treating people 'like they're trash': GOP ex-governor
President Donald Trump's MAGA movement is falling apart because it is based on little more than attacking and bullying others, former Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich told MS NOW's Antonia Hylton on Monday — and the falling out between Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is a sign of what i...
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December 30, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Least surprising headline of the year
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One of the great tragedies of this era is that we don't have Terry Pratchett around anymore to write the obvious and needed satire of this guy finally meeting Death.
"Still?" asked Brynwyn Sonjohn? "After all that?"
I'M AS SURPRISED AS YOU.
"Really?"
NO.
"Still?" asked Brynwyn Sonjohn? "After all that?"
I'M AS SURPRISED AS YOU.
"Really?"
NO.
I am begging everyone on here to read this new post by Bryan Johnson — the super rich tech guy who is now doing the “never die” protocol.
I need to talk about it with you all.
I need to talk about it with you all.
December 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM
One of the great tragedies of this era is that we don't have Terry Pratchett around anymore to write the obvious and needed satire of this guy finally meeting Death.
"Still?" asked Brynwyn Sonjohn? "After all that?"
I'M AS SURPRISED AS YOU.
"Really?"
NO.
"Still?" asked Brynwyn Sonjohn? "After all that?"
I'M AS SURPRISED AS YOU.
"Really?"
NO.
How I’m walking out of 2025
December 30, 2025 at 4:05 AM
How I’m walking out of 2025
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Bill Barr had the reporter who broke the Epstein story surveilled. Nothing to see here, folks.
December 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Bill Barr had the reporter who broke the Epstein story surveilled. Nothing to see here, folks.
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The seal is all of us during this liminal week.
December 30, 2025 at 2:57 AM
The seal is all of us during this liminal week.
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this is also true of fire forensics, bee tee dubs
ask any firefighter you know
ask any firefighter you know
Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience.
Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.
They admitted it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.
They admitted it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
The FBI Faked an Entire Field of Forensic Science
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December 30, 2025 at 2:57 AM
this is also true of fire forensics, bee tee dubs
ask any firefighter you know
ask any firefighter you know