Ashley Reynolds, Cat Lady PhD
@ashleyreynolds.ca
She/her ♠️
Currently teaching vertebrate diversity and mammalogy at the University of Toronto. Research Associate at the Canadian Museum of Nature.
Interested in the evolutionary ecology of carnivorous mammals. Ask me your questions about cats!
Currently teaching vertebrate diversity and mammalogy at the University of Toronto. Research Associate at the Canadian Museum of Nature.
Interested in the evolutionary ecology of carnivorous mammals. Ask me your questions about cats!
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I wrote out my feelings about the GMO wolves, and I will never forgive Colossal for making my first blog post about wolves instead of cats. 🧪
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For #SuperbOwl Sunday, an owl-themed painting that is hands down one of my favorite artworks of all time: Singing Cats Led by an Owl, by an unidentified Lombard artist from circa 1700. Looks closely at the mice used as musical notes (and the butt trumpet as well)
February 8, 2026 at 8:26 PM
For #SuperbOwl Sunday, an owl-themed painting that is hands down one of my favorite artworks of all time: Singing Cats Led by an Owl, by an unidentified Lombard artist from circa 1700. Looks closely at the mice used as musical notes (and the butt trumpet as well)
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FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
February 8, 2026 at 2:28 PM
FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
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You will never get the sense of accomplishment from writing with AI that you will get from actually writing with just yourself
February 8, 2026 at 3:58 PM
You will never get the sense of accomplishment from writing with AI that you will get from actually writing with just yourself
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This is as Toronto as it gets
Everyone booed at Don Valley Station and chanted "Science Centre"
February 8, 2026 at 3:38 PM
This is as Toronto as it gets
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Please no one ask me to do any more projects I will say yes and then rue the day I was born
February 8, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Please no one ask me to do any more projects I will say yes and then rue the day I was born
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Ornithopod dinosaurs are often ignored or derided as boring, lacking cool ornamentation or defenses. Haolong is a look at what we couldn’t see before, and makes me wonder about Camptosaurus, Tenontosaurus, Thescelosaurus, and friends.
Cellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A juvenile iguanodontian from the Lower Cretaceous of China preserves both spikes and scales in its skin that are different from integumentary structures in either non-avian dinosaurs or extant squama...
www.nature.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Ornithopod dinosaurs are often ignored or derided as boring, lacking cool ornamentation or defenses. Haolong is a look at what we couldn’t see before, and makes me wonder about Camptosaurus, Tenontosaurus, Thescelosaurus, and friends.
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February 5, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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It bums me out that there isn't more Paleolithic rock art of cave hyenas, especially considering they were all over the place. So I made some myself.
February 7, 2026 at 2:18 AM
It bums me out that there isn't more Paleolithic rock art of cave hyenas, especially considering they were all over the place. So I made some myself.
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🦇 Little Brown Bats are widespread across North America. "Myotis" is the genus they belong to (Myotis lucifugus) and it means "mouse-eared". It is still correct to call them a Little Brown Bat - using "Myotis" is just a little more descriptive.
February 7, 2026 at 8:53 PM
🦇 Little Brown Bats are widespread across North America. "Myotis" is the genus they belong to (Myotis lucifugus) and it means "mouse-eared". It is still correct to call them a Little Brown Bat - using "Myotis" is just a little more descriptive.
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Why do I not have a little brown bat being a little brown finger ring
🦇 Little Brown Bats are widespread across North America. "Myotis" is the genus they belong to (Myotis lucifugus) and it means "mouse-eared". It is still correct to call them a Little Brown Bat - using "Myotis" is just a little more descriptive.
February 7, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Why do I not have a little brown bat being a little brown finger ring
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A happy red panda
February 7, 2026 at 8:29 PM
A happy red panda
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I set up my first trail cam a few weeks ago and got this. I don't think I'll ever top this video. I could just retire it now and be happy.
February 6, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I set up my first trail cam a few weeks ago and got this. I don't think I'll ever top this video. I could just retire it now and be happy.
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Hot take, but no one should be using ChatGPT and any AI products in general.
OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife donated $25 million to MAGA Inc in 2025.
There's a push to boycott ChatGPT, that tool is now added to StopICEToday.com
There's a push to boycott ChatGPT, that tool is now added to StopICEToday.com
I gathered a few resources you can use & take action with to protect your communities from ICE:
stopicetoday.com
stopicetoday.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Hot take, but no one should be using ChatGPT and any AI products in general.
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Hot take: folks are too focused on the AI emphasis of the PRFB & missing the most concerning part of the solicitation.
The heavy emphasis on bio-AI integration for “technological advances” is a concerning degradation of NSFs mission to fund basic biological research.
The heavy emphasis on bio-AI integration for “technological advances” is a concerning degradation of NSFs mission to fund basic biological research.
February 6, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Hot take: folks are too focused on the AI emphasis of the PRFB & missing the most concerning part of the solicitation.
The heavy emphasis on bio-AI integration for “technological advances” is a concerning degradation of NSFs mission to fund basic biological research.
The heavy emphasis on bio-AI integration for “technological advances” is a concerning degradation of NSFs mission to fund basic biological research.
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February 7, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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Finally finished this Barbary striped grass mouse using Pentel Graphgear 1000s (.3 and .5). I used a tortillon for the blur and BluTack for those tiny highlights. I honestly might enjoy drawing the bark more than the mouse. Reference by the great Edwin Butter. #sciart
February 7, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Finally finished this Barbary striped grass mouse using Pentel Graphgear 1000s (.3 and .5). I used a tortillon for the blur and BluTack for those tiny highlights. I honestly might enjoy drawing the bark more than the mouse. Reference by the great Edwin Butter. #sciart
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February 7, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
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i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired
February 6, 2026 at 7:46 PM
i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired
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The extent of Epstein’s involvement and interest in other men’s alleged sexual abuse cases—and the advice and lavish sympathy he was given about his own legal issues by his many famous friends—is further revealed in the newest dump of some three million pages of emails.
When Jeffrey Epstein was the world’s leading expert on getting away with it
The convicted sex-criminal was obsessed with other high profile abuse cases, offering commentary, advice, and even financial help.
www.motherjones.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:00 AM
The extent of Epstein’s involvement and interest in other men’s alleged sexual abuse cases—and the advice and lavish sympathy he was given about his own legal issues by his many famous friends—is further revealed in the newest dump of some three million pages of emails.
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(there's an axiom that goes around about power and responsibility. sure, you many not have asked for the power of privilege; but that doesn't get you out of the attendant responsibility.)
February 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
(there's an axiom that goes around about power and responsibility. sure, you many not have asked for the power of privilege; but that doesn't get you out of the attendant responsibility.)
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February 7, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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I got a new piercing, and now I’m mentally well!
February 7, 2026 at 1:48 PM
I got a new piercing, and now I’m mentally well!