dancymann.bsky.social
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New paper from my former PhD student Raffaela Lesch's lab used a citizen science database to show that urban racoons, who arerapidly becoming less afraid of humans, also have shorter snouts than wild-type rural racoons.
Link: rdcu.be/eRcpT
November 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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🚨 Job opportunity 🚨
A 3-year post doc position is opening as part of my #APELANG project funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social

It’s about multimodal combinatorial communication in wild #chimpanzees 🐵

Job ad here: maelleroux-research.weebly.com/apelang.html
And here 👇🏻
March 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Zelenky stood in front of the American government, in the seat of our democracy, and thanked our entire nation. Every farmer, teacher, engineer, nurse, and cop. Thanked us on behalf of his entire country. youtu.be/7gjwlCe5T6M?...
Watch Zelenskyy's Full Address To Congress
YouTube video by NBC News
youtu.be
February 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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This is one of the most shameful things I've seen in my life. Zelensky and the Ukrainian people are fighting for their lives, and MAGA is all up in its feelings because no one is allowed to disrespect Trump. He can be grotesque, but everyone else has to genuflect. Pathetic.
ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?

VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
February 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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/12 The story has gone hugely viral, in the news across the country. Great. But my favorite is a small local paper in Ohio just going “that’s bullshit, they can’t do that” and republishing the banned editorial.

sciotovalleyguardian.com/2025/02/19/a...
A judge in Mississippi orders newspaper to remove editorial, so we’re publishing it
At Scioto Valley Guardian, Ohio’s leading news website, we stand unwaveringly for the freedom of the press—a cornerstone of democracy enshrined in the First Amendment. Today, we are reprinting an e…
sciotovalleyguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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My critique of the Randy Barnett/Ilan Wurman constitutional rationale for Trump's order on birthright citizenship: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Birthright Citizenship - A Response to Barnett and Wurman
In a recent New York Times op ed, legal scholars Randy Barnett and Ilan Wurman offer a partial defense of President Trump's executive order denying
reason.com
February 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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This was one of RFK Jr.’s first orders after being sworn in.

Just an astonishing denial of science and will cause so much pain to the 45 million Americans facing mental health challenges.
February 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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“As a nation, we still have not recovered from the physical, mental and social toll of COVID. What will happen if bird flu starts coursing through us?”
The US Is Not Ready for Bird Flu in Humans
Bird flu is infecting more people than we think. We need to stop it now before a new pandemic begins
www.scientificamerican.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Biology

Conception results in a single cell that does not have gonads or make gametes, obviously.

It's weeks into development before the organs for pelvic anatomy start to be established, &even then, how they'll develop isn't a given. 1/x
BREAKING: Here is the anti-trans sex/gender executive order. It's extensive, it's bad, and it's often lawless. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

And, do not miss in "d" and "e" below, it even tries to put in the beginnings of a personhood argument, for some reason.
January 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Not just needless -- *unconstitutional.* The police were cut-and-pasting the same boilerplate to get no-knock warrants for every drug search. SCOTUS has clearly said this violates the 4A. When I asked Finkelstein about it, he denied it was unconstitutional.

That ought to be disqualifying.
If you've followed @radleybalko.bsky.social work on the matter, you'll remember Hugh Finkelstein for his proclivity to issue needless no-knock warrants in Little Rock like they were candy from a PEZ dispenser.
Attorneys Lucas Rowan and Hugh Finkelstein will replace Casey Tucker and Herbert Wright, who were elected to different judicial seats earlier this year.
December 16, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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Both Texas and Georgia are destroying evidence of all maternal mortality, blocking proof that women are dying from abortion bans.

This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases.

www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...
Republicans don't care if women die from abortion bans — but they don't want you to know about it
Women will keep dying, but the GOP is working hard to destroy the evidence
www.salon.com
December 2, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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The NIH is one of the glittering jewels of health research (I have many friends & colleagues who work there or who are grantees)

This piece does a terrific job of exploring all the ways that RFK Jr & his colleague Jay Bhattacharya could destroy it (gift link) 😢
1/2

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...
Long a ‘Crown Jewel’ of Government, N.I.H. Is Now a Target (Gift Article)
The agency long benefited from broad bipartisan support. But Republican criticism has intensified, and new choices for top health posts hope to upend the organization.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2024 at 9:38 PM
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New: Recordings from private autism conferences show Trump HHS pick Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vilifying & conspiracy theorizing about agencies he's set to lead. Videos show RFK Jr comparing CDC vaccine programs to "Nazi death camps" & calling for researchers to be jailed. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
RFK Jr. attacked the CDC’s ‘fascism’ and likened vaccinating children to abuse by the Catholic Church
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary, also argued for jailing vaccine scientists in previously unreported comments at autism conferences.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2024 at 12:20 AM
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While the number of people crossing the border increased exponentially since Trump’s wall went up a new study reveals an 86% reduction in wildlife crossings. At well over $20 million dollars a mile, Trump’s wall is both a wastefully expensive tactical failure & an ecological disaster.
November 22, 2024 at 8:37 PM