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Liz Renner
@lrrenner.bsky.social
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Academic; cats, culture, child development, cultural evolution, social learning; she/her #BiInSci
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sweet sphynx grooming
A sphynx cat (on the left) licks another cat's face (on the right); she has her eye closed. They are both wrapped in a red blanket.
November 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Toboggan team
two sphynx cats wrapped under blankets, looking contented
September 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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I read ahead and...shit's getting real
Excerpt from How to break up with your phone (p. 92) DAY 5 (FRIDAY) DELETE SOCIAL MEDIA APPS As we've discussed, social media is like junk food: bingeing on it makes us feel bad, and yet once we start consuming it, it's really hard to stop. So let's take control of it.
September 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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had to tell this little pal that it's not super safe under the bin.
A small frog sitting on the ground
September 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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This is happening!
A book entitled How to Break Up with Your Phone: the 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life by Catherine Price. The cover is yellow, white, and blue.
September 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Cleaning his beans
A hairless cat licking his leg. Toe beans are fully visible.
August 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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This guy does not give a sh*t about the brain-as-computer metaphor and would like more head scritches please
A Sphynx cat with his eyes closed and face toward the camera (and some cute forehead wrinkles) is sitting under a grey blanket with his ears halfway between forward and back. His human (not pictured) is reading about the brain-as-computer metaphor.
August 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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It's a lap standoff

My lap can accommmodate 1.5 cats comfortably. Unfortunately there are 2 cats.
One Sphynx cat is wrapped in a pink blanket and lying comfortably on a human lap. A second cat is standing on the arm of the chair with no blanket, looking pointedly at the first cat.
August 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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My partner has pointed out that now that the cats are middle-aged, I should stop using baby-talk with them. But wook at his widdle face!
A happy Sphynx cat wrapped in a red blanket with his eyes closed and ears forward
August 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I couldn't possibly do any work today. Chins need scratching!
A Sphynx cat with his eyes closed wrapped in a grey blanket. His chin is being scratched and he seems happy with this.
August 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Have you dangled the blue flamingo today?
A sphynx cat looks up inquisitively, with a blue flamingo cat toy at his feet
August 13, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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When the cat is just pretending to be asleep
A one-eyed sphynx cat with her eyes closed, wrapped in a grey blanket. Her ears are pointed forward giving the impression that she is not quite asleep.
August 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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The gremlin twins, settling in for a long summer's nap
Two sleepy sphynx cats wrapped in the same grey blanket
August 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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His lil yoda ears
A sleeping Sphynx cat in a pink blanket. His slightly fluffy ear is sticking up.
July 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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UK public transport is often much better in theory than in practice. Also, there is this:
FT chart titled "Britain's cities are more poorly served by public transport than those of any other wealthy western country, including the US" showing the percentage of major cities with trams, metro, or urban light rail. The US is the second lowest country with about 21%, and the UK is lowest at about 15%
July 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Handsome Cat™️
A hairless Sphynx cat with his eyes open looking toward the camera. He is wrapped in a grey blanket.
July 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Wish I could nap this elegantly
A Sphynx cat with eyes closed and front paws folded politely beneath his chin, wrapped in a grey blanket
June 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Should probably get around to all the house chores today, but a very cute lil guy is curled up on my lap so the chores can wait
A sleeping Sphynx cat curled up in a grey blanket
June 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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would u like to see a flatte catte?
A Sphynx cat dozing, wrapped in a blue blanket on a sofa. He is very flatte
June 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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These two are being very sweet today
Two sphynx cats with their eyes closed nestled into blue and red blankets
June 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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How does Big Duvet get away with shit like this?! I will never give a shit about the dimensions of this duvet, but at least *tell
me which type of bed it will fit on* 😩
A duvet tag giving washing details, togs, etc. as well as the dimensions of the duvet *if* it is a single, double, or king size. But no indication which of these sizes it actually is.
May 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Hey, did you see that bird?
A one-eyed hairless sphynx cat under a pink blanket stares intensely off camera
May 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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It's not every day you find a cat that color matches a pink blanket. 💗 #sphynx cats
A sleeping sphynx cat with his tongue sticking out a tiny but, wrapped in a pink fuzzy cat-print blanket
May 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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I think there are some people at our institutions who need to hear this
"And I want to fend this one off at the pass: if a classroom is so large that it requires cop shit in order to effectively run, then the answer is not actually to use cop shit. The answer is hiring more instructors. There are enough to go around."
May 12, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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A giant cat on an aircraft carrier looking down at a jet that has fallen off. source: https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/05/week-16
May 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM