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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒
@marspidermonkey.bsky.social
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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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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 9d
Starting a pinned thread of book reviews! This is the review for Apes on the Edge, by Jill Pruetz!
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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 22d
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
The book "Apes on the Edge: Chimpanzee Life on the West African Savanna" by Jill Pruetz on a colorful background. The cover is a picture of a young adorable chimpanzee hanging from a vine about a pool of water, with his lips just touching the ater and his reflection mirriored in the rippled pool Profile view of boxer mix, in front of colorful coffee table stacked with books.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 15h
You know how there’s been this big push towards encouraging older people to do puzzles, cognitive games, and to learn new things to keep them from succumbing to dementia?

Wonder where that’s gonna go with the rise of “outsource your cognitive functions to AI, it’ll be convenient” culture
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SteveIsDamaged @steveisdamages.bsky.social · 15h
Cognition is like strength. Use is required to not just gain, but maintain. The more thinking and cognitive work we offload, the duller we become as a result.

It's like deciding you'll use a mobility scooter without need and then figuring out a year later that you can no longer walk.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 15m
I mean, inject this straight into my veins. This is the good stuff.
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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 26m
Chicago Fire Department chased ICE out of a neighborhood yesterday.
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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 14m
Oooh that’s a good choice!
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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 8h
I think the same for me?
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Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 12h
I’ve been formulating a theory that the midcentury popularity of diet pills was why nobody even CONSIDERED that adult women might have ADHD
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13h
I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science
On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...
www.science.org
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11h
www.wweek.com/culture/2025...
Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.
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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 9h
The most important and interesting book I have read this introduces this mind-bending concept, “Is a River Alive?” … I was and remain convinced.
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Saunieindiego @saunieindiego.bsky.social · 9h
Colorado River Indian Tribes may grant personhood rights to 'living' river

www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
Colorado River Indian Tribes may grant personhood rights to 'living' river
The Colorado River Indian Tribes may soon give their eponymous river personhood status, following moves by other tribes and Indigenous peoples.
www.azcentral.com
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Saunieindiego @saunieindiego.bsky.social · 9h
Colorado River Indian Tribes may grant personhood rights to 'living' river

www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
Colorado River Indian Tribes may grant personhood rights to 'living' river
The Colorado River Indian Tribes may soon give their eponymous river personhood status, following moves by other tribes and Indigenous peoples.
www.azcentral.com
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 16h
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17h
Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 9h
I remain fascinated, purely as a matter of gossipy curiosity, about whatever MAGA world drama is going on behind the scenes with this one. she's always been out for #1 and among the worst team players the human mind can conceive, but everyone seems mad at her and she's mad at them in a fresh new way
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
Marjorie Taylor Greene on polls showing Republicans are getting blamed for the shutdown: "I'm not putting the blame on the president. I'm actually putting the the blame on the Speaker and Leader Thune in the Senate. This should not be happening ... we control the House & Senate & have the WH."
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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 10h
*polite Presbyterian cough*
Hot Pastor.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 12h
Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.
Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.
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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 10h
You're in luck, ladies, he's actually Protestant.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 12h
Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.
Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 9h
A tiny ray of abstract reasoning breaks through in the GOP.
A sign of the apocalypse, perhaps???
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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 19h
“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago
www.nytimes.com
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 11h
Bezos-ism at its finest. The Pope’s “divisive” take is that Christians should take care of the poor and the vulnerable. Which does offend greedy people, I suppose?
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19h
As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”
As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’
Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h
give me a prize for how peaceful i am or i'm going to fucking destroy you
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 14h
The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...
Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize
US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says
www.theguardian.com
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 12h
Anybody wanna go on a quest
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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 12h
Which leads me to an absolutely desperate plea: is there anyone in Japan who can collect this bag (not from Oshima [probably from Kyoto]) for us and send us the contents?
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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 12h
"Faculty members are uncertain whether discussing scientifically-accepted concepts in their disciplines, such as biological intersex conditions, historical gender systems in various cultures, or legal frameworks governing sex discrimination, could result in termination." #TXHigherEd #AcademicBluesky
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 13h
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AAUP-Texas Tech Pushes Back Against Campus Censorship
Below is a letter from the AAUP Chapter at Texas Tech University.  The AAUP-TTU Chapter is part of the Texas Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), which is affiliated...
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 13h
This should not work for any other member of Congress, particularly one who is 82. But somehow it fits DeLauro.
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Rosa DeLauro @delauro.house.gov · 17h
Leaning into the witchy allegations hoping to catch your attention.

Healthcare is on the line, it doesn't take a psychic to see that.
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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 12h
And Southern IL is full of sundown towns.
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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 12h
Heading way downstate to defend an eviction tomorrow. Stopped for gas in a red county and the gas station attendant was saying "there are no more hot guys because the Democrats made them all transgender."
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 12h
The @peculiarityshop.bsky.social is 11 LGBTQIA+ misfits who make sparkly stuff. The store is 20% off in hopes of homing a few more spooky pieces you may ABSOLUTELY NEED.

Highlights! Mute thread as needed.

Nibs! Art nouveau. NNNGH. $18.40 ($4 flat US ship)

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Nibs' The Goddess in the Grove | Peculiarity Shop
These earrings from Nibs make me think of walking through a cemetery in the gloaming. Components: Oxidized brass, czech glass, electroplated steel hooks Lead/nickel free.
www.peculiarityshop.com
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the double bi @ladysummoner.bsky.social · 12h
You procrastinate, and then you write the fucking paper the way the gods and nature intended. Several hours before it's due, high off either caffeine, nicotine, sugar, drugs, and PANIC.

Fuck AI.
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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d
I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.
wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you. You people couldn't hang with real slackers. finn wokeupchic • 4d It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes
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BEAVE @beaveinflow.bsky.social · 22h
Working from home with this view. Productivity: 2%. Serenity: 100%.
My backyard pond just after sunrise on a chilly fall morning, surrounded by tall grasses and trees with autumn foliage. The sky is filled with soft pink, purple and orange clouds reflecting on the calm water, creating a peaceful and scenic view.
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