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Excellent work Comrade Raven!
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Hey, Google, Ravens are merely an unkindness. Crows are a murder. Choose your next action wisely.
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Corvids stay winning.
Excellent work Comrade Raven!
Armored Core 6
direct action
we can learn something from birds
Hey, Google, Ravens are merely an unkindness. Crows are a murder. Choose your next action wisely.
crow singing along to flute music
When I read "crow singing", NOTHING prepared me for the crow going "lalala"
Papageno
"You seem kind" (source)
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Working in customer service, I've used variations on this, and it is the quickest way to get someone being horrible to shut up or backtrack.
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I'm so messed up by some experiments removing rat/mice ovaries... like how can you observe their behavior/health by changing something so big?? I already knew some meds aren't tested on women because of "hormonal interference" or whatever (including some birth control, at least in the past) but even doing the same in RATS? science refuses to deal with the hormones for real
Oh and it’s not like SOME, it’s like the MAJORITY!!!! Rodent models very, very often have their ovaries removed to avoid hormonal cycling affecting data. Like, you know, MAKING IT MORE APPLICABLE TO HALF THE POPULATION. Sexism in research and medicine is a fucking poison!!!!!!!
And that's if they included female subjects at all. Historically, they generally didn't. This is actually one of those places where researchers trying to make science more replicable introduces failures of generalizability: that is, by controlling sex by simply not including female subjects, you can artificially derive strong, clear, reproducible results... that don't fucking generalize to females. It is maddening.
Now, since 2016, the NIH has been requiring the use of female subjects in grant proposals for rodent and cell work. In 2018, Annalise Beery published this excellent paper finding that estrous cycle and sex do not introduce any more general variability into rodent work than using males only. And.... still I see papers that use perhaps a dozen females in an experimental cohort of 60 animals, find no difference in the first round, and happily continue using males only without even noting the sex of animals in any included experiment. MADDENING.
Of course, now on the rodent work end my lab/I also have to start raising awareness that sex differences in rodents are not necessarily identical to sex differences in humans but that does not mean we should stop looking at female rodents, for fuck's sake. Yes, even if it introduces a new axis of variation for you to think about.
See, behavioral differences across animal sexes are often extremely variable between species. For example, I was complaining yesterday about work that purports to be focusing on social motivation in mice that are supposed to be models of autism, using as their study paradigm the mouse's motivation to interact with a strange male mouse. (They typically use same sex stimulus individuals to rule out the possibility that focal animals are motivated by sex rather than social interaction.)
But social interactions between unfamiliar adult male lab mice inevitably decompose into territorial fights. We have a number of behavioral paradigms that explicitly take advantage of that reality. On the other hand, interactions among unfamiliar adult female mice usually don't become immediately antagonistic, and there's even some compelling evidence that female house mice in the wild often find substantial fitness advantages from co-raising litters with a familiar female that has pups of a similar age--if they're allowed to choose that partner, anyway.
Obviously, these sex differences are not the same in humans. Male humans are quite capable of making friends with strange males. This is not difficult. But if you're doing poorly thought out social behavior work using mouse models because we have more fine tuned genetic control of mice, maybe you want to be using female mice as your analog to humans rather than male mice.
On the other hand, if you are trying to use a paradigm of social stress where you expose your focal animal to an interaction with a stranger, and you pick a stranger that is going to fight with the focal animal and definitely going to win... maybe you DO use males, because trying to apply the paradigm to two female mice doesn't fucking work unless you either use drugs to make your aggressive female REALLY absurdly aggressive to literally anything that moves, or you use a male aggressive mouse that has been trained to be the same way. Which is one of the reasons I hate that paradigm; it claims to be ethologically relevant but if you think about the actual social landscape of mice it's incredibly extreme. Especially given that the aggressor mouse is generally a totally different strain, full of hatred, and twice the size of the focal animal, and also it's albino so it's got relatively little vision and therefore is not going to catch some of the social signals that the focal mouse is sending.
On the other hand, male lab rats are quite social with other males and can often form affiliative interactions with strange males. Even within rodent work, species matters! But there is a distinct tendency in neuroscience workers to think of mice as basically miniature rats in mouse suits, and of course to think of rats as miniature humans in rat suits. It is extremely frustrating and I suspect I am going to spend my career screaming at people about this. I can already feel myself becoming a crank about it.
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(Will never not reblog this beauty. What genius.)
Same. :)
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Best trick I ever picked up. Seriously.
I have also learned this is great for [PICK A COOL NAME FOR A SHIP] and [LOOK UP THE FACTS ABOUT OXYGEN LEVELS] and [WHAT’S THE WORD] and [DOUBLECHECK CHARACTER’S EYE COLOR] and ALL KINDS OF THINGS.
Anything that isn’t critical in the moment, and could be filled in later while I’m currently trying to burn through writing pages that will be lost if I don’t get them out right now? Brackets.
This is seriously the best advice, and it really helps put it into perspective that the first draft is just that- a draft. There’s no reason to agonize over a particularly tricky bit of writing when you could just leave it in brackets and skip to the good parts, the parts you’ve visualized. I also use brackets for [fact-check this], [use a stronger verb], [is this in character?] and other notes as I write, just so I don’t forget what I want to work on when I go back and edit.
Note the good sense of [brackets] not (parentheses).
Parentheses AKA round brackets can appear in fiction, usually as an afterthought in a character's thoughts or narration (as I saw them used just recently), but square brackets hardly ever do.
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Muffin disclaimer
So you’ve ordered a muffin! We hope you’re up for a challenge.
Our wobbly tabby cat Bea REALLY likes muffins so there are a few things to be aware of if you have a muffin in the cat area.
- She WILL climb you to try and get your muffin - She is not very good at climbing so she will claw her way up your body - It WILL hurt - She WILL NOT give up - She may try to eat the muffin right out of your mouth - She is not allowed to eat muffins
You may pick her up / move her away if needed and if you’re really struggling, come and talk to us and we will help. No matter how much she wants to, it is still very important that you don’t let her eat any muffin as it will make her sick.
Good luck and we hope you enjoy your muffin experience!
She may look sweet and innocent but we promise you she’s not
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Bea the muffin thief has come upon my timeline again and I am obliged to reblog.
I am so fucking sick of CGI this, CGI that. give me back on location filming (when possible), give me back intricate hauntingly realistic animatronics and puppets, give me back handmade props & masks & skillful make up……..just give me back practical effects I am begging
Vincent Price guest stars on The Muppet Show (1977)
perhaps some will disagree, but i think the world got worse when we changed the colour of the night
this is what i mean
Via @bulbaderp
To be clear, THIS is how nights of the future should be lit
This is bat friendly street lighting, which not only looks sick as fuck but allows bats to pass through without disturbance, as they cannot see red.
orange and especially white lights deter bats and prevent them from reaching feeding grounds at nighttime. Please if you can, write to your local council and encourage red street lights!!!!
The body in the windowseat. If you want to see this scene. I cannot recommend this movie enough.
The aunts are hilarious. Like I said, the entire cast is having way too much fun with this movie. I fucking love the 'I won't let him drag me to one of those scary pictures!' 'No, they ought not to be allowed!' while poor Mortimer is stuck over here with murder. Aunties. You murdered someone. Murder! And they're just blithely oblivious.
It gets more fun when Jonathan, Mortimer's overtly criminal and murderous brother, shows up, and gets deeply upset that his aunts match his kill count and never had to move from their cosy house in Brooklyn to manage it. And poor Mortimer (and Peter Lorre) are stuck in the middle of it watching sanity just completely bounce off the sheer wall of insanity in this house/family.
Absolutely watch the movie. It is an experience.
(They're probably not lesbians? They're sisters. They just ... let's just say the insanity is hereditary for this family, and surviving the previous few generations of it left them a little odd to manage outside of their own little world. Even more so than people thought.)
I love this movie! It's hilarious. "I'm not a Brooster, I'm the son of a sea cook!"
Everyone please behold this baby tree:
It's so much smaller than the support posts, they had to secure it with caution tape.
Caution: baby!
One day (but not this day)!
Update:
Thriving!
Now taller than a human person!
In case you were wondering!
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Filling out, and up!
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