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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"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
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I wonder how many billions of dollars a year is wasted in the US just fighting with health insurance deductible/copay/approval/coverage lies.
Like, there's a whole apparatus at every level employing probably tens of thousands of people just to fight on either side of that scam
Like, there's a whole apparatus at every level employing probably tens of thousands of people just to fight on either side of that scam
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I wonder how many billions of dollars a year is wasted in the US just fighting with health insurance deductible/copay/approval/coverage lies.
Like, there's a whole apparatus at every level employing probably tens of thousands of people just to fight on either side of that scam
Like, there's a whole apparatus at every level employing probably tens of thousands of people just to fight on either side of that scam
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I am filled with viceral rage at the fact that if you're a rich & powerful white guy, an abundance of email evidence that you're an actual pedophile won't cost you a damn thing. But if you're anyone else, sharing a damn risotto recipe without two factor authentication will ruin your career.
Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I am filled with viceral rage at the fact that if you're a rich & powerful white guy, an abundance of email evidence that you're an actual pedophile won't cost you a damn thing. But if you're anyone else, sharing a damn risotto recipe without two factor authentication will ruin your career.
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toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"
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AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
futurism.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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I’ve got very bad news for the racists about who cows love most in the world. (Hint: it’s the folks who never kill them, and who let cows roam literally anywhere in the streets, even in the middle of the biggest cities.)
Did not really expect to wake up to “cows are racist” or “cows know what’s up immigration-wise” on the old timeline, let alone “cows are right to be xenophobic,” let alone “cows are right to be xenophobic because they so treasure their current cushy lifestyles.”
Meanwhile, on X
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I’ve got very bad news for the racists about who cows love most in the world. (Hint: it’s the folks who never kill them, and who let cows roam literally anywhere in the streets, even in the middle of the biggest cities.)
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
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Here’s the thing about healthcare premiums about to skyrocket: they will never come back down, short of a complete overhaul of our system for universal healthcare. Which clearly won’t happen bc of all the money tied up between health and politics.
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Here’s the thing about healthcare premiums about to skyrocket: they will never come back down, short of a complete overhaul of our system for universal healthcare. Which clearly won’t happen bc of all the money tied up between health and politics.
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I was in medical school then, having already earned a 3.97 GPA in biomedical engineering. And the president of freaking Harvard said people like me were not suited for science. He still had a high-powered, prestigious career after that but tell me again about how cancel culture ruins men’s lives.
One of my earliest moments of radicalization was in 2005 when Larry Summers said that women biologically have less aptitude for science than men. Following that, scores of equally unimpressive people wrote pieces trying to explain or justify his remarks, when they should have called for his removal.
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I was in medical school then, having already earned a 3.97 GPA in biomedical engineering. And the president of freaking Harvard said people like me were not suited for science. He still had a high-powered, prestigious career after that but tell me again about how cancel culture ruins men’s lives.
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misogynist males are cognitively unsuited to lead
One of my earliest moments of radicalization was in 2005 when Larry Summers said that women biologically have less aptitude for science than men. Following that, scores of equally unimpressive people wrote pieces trying to explain or justify his remarks, when they should have called for his removal.
November 13, 2025 at 6:29 AM
misogynist males are cognitively unsuited to lead
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I disagree with the take that functionally illiterate emails are just a rich guy thing not an indication of stupidity
in my opinion, stupidity is a rich guy thing
in my opinion, stupidity is a rich guy thing
November 13, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I disagree with the take that functionally illiterate emails are just a rich guy thing not an indication of stupidity
in my opinion, stupidity is a rich guy thing
in my opinion, stupidity is a rich guy thing
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Looks like JD Vance is going to need to change religions again.
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Looks like JD Vance is going to need to change religions again.
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Seeing a few comments about “dead rapists bringing down living rapists”.
Let’s be clear.
It’s not Epstein that has Trump and MAGA on the defensive. It’s not Epstein that had a former Prince stripped of his title.
It’s the survivors of Epstein’s abuse. It’s the women who refused to be silent.
Let’s be clear.
It’s not Epstein that has Trump and MAGA on the defensive. It’s not Epstein that had a former Prince stripped of his title.
It’s the survivors of Epstein’s abuse. It’s the women who refused to be silent.
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Seeing a few comments about “dead rapists bringing down living rapists”.
Let’s be clear.
It’s not Epstein that has Trump and MAGA on the defensive. It’s not Epstein that had a former Prince stripped of his title.
It’s the survivors of Epstein’s abuse. It’s the women who refused to be silent.
Let’s be clear.
It’s not Epstein that has Trump and MAGA on the defensive. It’s not Epstein that had a former Prince stripped of his title.
It’s the survivors of Epstein’s abuse. It’s the women who refused to be silent.
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looked up the Baja Blast pie ingredients and it definitely is just flavored cool whip
we can do better
I can do better
stay tuned
we can do better
I can do better
stay tuned
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
looked up the Baja Blast pie ingredients and it definitely is just flavored cool whip
we can do better
I can do better
stay tuned
we can do better
I can do better
stay tuned
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The elite world Epstein traveled in is VERY small: Yale Law prof Jed Rubenfeld's wife Amy Chua, also a Yale Law prof, was the mentor of Yale Law student JD Vance. Ken Starr was the mentor of Yale Law grad Brett Kavanaugh, also accused of sexual assault but now seated on the Supreme Court. 2/
November 13, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The elite world Epstein traveled in is VERY small: Yale Law prof Jed Rubenfeld's wife Amy Chua, also a Yale Law prof, was the mentor of Yale Law student JD Vance. Ken Starr was the mentor of Yale Law grad Brett Kavanaugh, also accused of sexual assault but now seated on the Supreme Court. 2/
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A very large faction of one of America's two major parties is about to start openly saying "well as long as she wasn't PRE-pubescent it's fine" with their whole chest.
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
A very large faction of one of America's two major parties is about to start openly saying "well as long as she wasn't PRE-pubescent it's fine" with their whole chest.
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Hmm…There’s a time travel Vatican heist movie somewhere in here…🤔
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Hmm…There’s a time travel Vatican heist movie somewhere in here…🤔
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emailing in a semi-literate manner isn’t a sign of stupidity, it’s another form of rich asshole arrogance because you don’t think you owe anyone coherent thoughts
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
emailing in a semi-literate manner isn’t a sign of stupidity, it’s another form of rich asshole arrogance because you don’t think you owe anyone coherent thoughts
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"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years
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massie dropping the p word feels ominous
Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
massie dropping the p word feels ominous
Today it was a perfectly clear night in MKE!
Of course, all I’ve manage to see is “is that a cloud streak or a ray of the Aurora!”
Of course, all I’ve manage to see is “is that a cloud streak or a ray of the Aurora!”
November 13, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Today it was a perfectly clear night in MKE!
Of course, all I’ve manage to see is “is that a cloud streak or a ray of the Aurora!”
Of course, all I’ve manage to see is “is that a cloud streak or a ray of the Aurora!”
My first research project was on juvenile howlers and you can just look at that face and understand why they are such a delight to watch.
A young Mantled Howler Monkey in my garden at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica
#monkeys #nature #wildlife
#monkeys #nature #wildlife
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
My first research project was on juvenile howlers and you can just look at that face and understand why they are such a delight to watch.