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!
Or the rakali, who answers the question “What if otter, but also muskrat?”
(Photo by Ron Greer)
(Photo by Ron Greer)
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Or the rakali, who answers the question “What if otter, but also muskrat?”
(Photo by Ron Greer)
(Photo by Ron Greer)
For example, did you know that the lesser short-tailed bat, endemic to New Zealand, often forages on the ground amongst leaf litter? This is *super weird* for bats!
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 AM
For example, did you know that the lesser short-tailed bat, endemic to New Zealand, often forages on the ground amongst leaf litter? This is *super weird* for bats!
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We are in the midst of an all-out attempt to exclude the global majority from science. Watson was clear about where he fell on that. I would trade every single dinner, meeting, seminar, fancy campus, and prestigious donor for my incredible friends to be safer. Their science is worth far more.
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
We are in the midst of an all-out attempt to exclude the global majority from science. Watson was clear about where he fell on that. I would trade every single dinner, meeting, seminar, fancy campus, and prestigious donor for my incredible friends to be safer. Their science is worth far more.
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These were choices that had consequences. If we want to talk about biology, we can talk about the very measurable and deeply harm that racism and discrimination produce in people's bodies. Threats to belonging are particularly potent when they come from authority
psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-...
psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-...
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org
November 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
These were choices that had consequences. If we want to talk about biology, we can talk about the very measurable and deeply harm that racism and discrimination produce in people's bodies. Threats to belonging are particularly potent when they come from authority
psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-...
psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-...
This is so lovely 🥲
November 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This is so lovely 🥲
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October 21, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Just visiting Lumiose City's premiere Pokémon genetic research center. Happy to report the DNA is twisted the right way 😂🧬
Bonus, they also understand that sex is more complicated than a simple binary
Bonus, they also understand that sex is more complicated than a simple binary
October 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Just visiting Lumiose City's premiere Pokémon genetic research center. Happy to report the DNA is twisted the right way 😂🧬
Bonus, they also understand that sex is more complicated than a simple binary
Bonus, they also understand that sex is more complicated than a simple binary