Bronwyn Thompson

Equality ✊

this is one of my fave pics of my late Harvey, who I lost two months ago. I rescued him and then found out most of this 'breed' are deaf and have so many health issues. I see a lot of studies on cats and dogs but few on domesticated rabbits, which makes them seem lesser - he was my absolute world.

Also obligatory #bluesky photo, taken a few days ago in Melbourne

Fed some much smaller Cyanea capillata today, but this impressive one was putting on quite a show just doing its thing. #cnidarian love

How to Make a Mammal in Nine Evolutionary Steps From the formation of inner ear bones to the rise of hair to cover our bodies, these developments made us distinct from other animals

Nice article on #synapsid #evolution - always glad to see non-mammalian synapsids (especially therapsids) get some popular attention!

#Paleontology #SciComm

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Could honestly watch this all day. Also high fives to everyone who has the passion and constitution for lab work - heroes don’t wear capes but lab coats 🥼

I’m assuming in hindsight the lecturer in the theatre didn’t want to lecture, but yes - just the scene of the checked floor and weird perspectives and I still don’t understand that or the context in the communications degree haha

Melbourne band name 👏🏻

It’s incredible. Still wondering if it’s real. I never found it on Twitter as it was already a dumpster fire when I paid attention. But I’m so happy to see this community here!

First degree (journalism), postmodernism and media theory, as I had no idea why, at age 19, I was being shown Twin Peaks scenes and paying for the privilege.

In the second degree (zoology and animal science), physics. Not even the dinosaur puke explainer helped and I got a pass by a single mark.

Picture of textbook cover with title "Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience"

Announcing a new open access textbook for entry level behavioral neuro. Funded by NSF. Written by a collection of 26 neuro experts. Method demonstration videos and author interviews too. Consider using it in your courses to reduce financial barriers to education.

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That said, I've thought about this a lot - and have made an effort to cover as many ADHD and autism research as I can at work, so there's robust science writing for people to look up when they're confronted with such ignorant opinions from people lucky enough to think camping is the answer, haha.

This is akin to telling ADHDers they just need to go to bed earlier. I'm 46 and the last year on vyvanse and I haven't had a panic attack since. I spent my life thinking I had to make better lifestyle choices and be stronger, like many women. Neurotypical people love this narrative so much though...

'Brain stars' store our memories like a microscopic filing cabinet Fascinating new findings into how clusters of 'brain stars' retain memories has changed what we know about how they're held in our minds.

I'm bad at posting my work, and our readers don't love this topic so it's a fight to cover. But I found this fascinating. Neurobio, signalling, genetics and animal behaviour, and evolutionary biology are my jams. Love to be sent more studies and if anyone needs a RA...

newatlas.com/biology/brai...

It's all part of the healing process

*writers haha (we need an edit function, as a writer I’m horrified I can’t fix this! Haha)

It’s really good, such a beautifully written book on aging, misogyny (in literature and beyond) and mortality, but there’s such an understated way it’s delivered - I’m so glad I judged it by its cover (blurb). Always in awe of writer who can say so much in so few words

Picked up at a street library without knowing much and oh boy it’s pertinent to the times. Someone local turns the books into bookcrossing ones so you can trace their journey. Its super wholesome haha

It’s wild how interchangeable actual intelligence and manipulation is in an age of this much distrust in science and low comprehension skills across the general public.

And he’s turned Twitter into 4chan. I like to call him a destroyer of migratory bird nests, a cruel manipulator of his baby factories and the dude who threw largely black workers into a UHaul to canvas for trump against their will. I have more.

Snerdling sounds like the juvenile life stage of a nudibranch, and I’m here for it.

I feel like I’m being lovebombed, like this can’t exist?! My brain feels so good 😅

The murder hornets are taking a season off, so I guess we have their temporary replacement

And he also funds bio pharma so I guess if there are no researchers for trials, you can cut out the middle animals and people and just use a much larger population for your “study”… like the literal population, not in a science sense. Grim

Super cool to see Canada’s government invest in preventing the next pandemic. Any epidemiology peeps and HPAI researchers or “enthusiasts” please be my friend 😅

Finally, great news! It was a year ago I became the hpai doomist after doing my zoonotic disease and epidemiology final report on h5n1 in Canada and migratory birds. Glad to see one country taking it seriously 👏🏻👏🏻

Makes sense, since Australia doesn’t exist 😅 (am Australian)

a major problem with bluesky is that i can offhandedly remark "i hate drawing, its too hard" and then a sweet old lady will gently encourage me and kindly point me to some useful resources to get started drawing and i dont know what to do with myself

But also it’s ok I’ve found the evolutionary bio scientist corner of bouesky so fuck politics now haha

Sadly it’s not a democracy here as it’s behind a paywall but I should be asleep anyway