Learn from the best, play PORTL, and train some animals. With @rhester88.bsky.social, @kikiyablon.bsky.social, @lauramonacotorelli.bsky.social, @fearfuldogs.bsky.social, Maia Nahele-Owen, Ph.D., Mindy Waite, Ph.D., and Morgan Katz and Hannah McGee of MSPCA-Angell. www.eventbrite.com/e/animal-tra...

Just another longitudinal study under threat. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/s...

Our annual Dog Trainers' Retreat is coming in June. Early bird registration happening now. With Debbie Jacobs, CPDT-KA, RBT; presentations by Sean Will, Ph.D., Maasa Nishimuta, M.S., and Dr. Christine Calder DVM, DACVB; PORTL play; and training with the animals of Lemon's Hope Sanctuary. Link below.

"The irreversible gravity of killing, coupled with the lack of a substantive legal justification, is bringing into sharper view a structural weakness of law as a check on the American presidency." { gift link } www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

The New York Times' obituary of the East Wing. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

"At every step along the way, I rationalized, compartmentalized, and found excuses to stay tethered to the party, even as I grew to believe it was undermining the foundations of our constitutional republic." Enough is enough: www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...

The link to donate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-dr-mu...

A few photos from Day 2 of the Animal Training retreat in VT by @trainingmatters.bsky.social Blown away by the incredibly smart and inspiring presentations. Loved the animals, the fun company, the beautiful setting, and yes, we returned for more Maple Creemees. 😋🍦

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

Another beautiful piece by Francesca Degli Espinosa. Behavior: the root of all learning. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Some of the best behavior analytic writing around. Behavior in itself is the root of all learning. Francesca degli Espinosa darwintaughtme.substack.com?r=jf99l&utm_...

Join Kiki Yablon, Mary Hunter, MS, Dr. Keira Moore, Dr. Mindy Waite, Hannah McGee, Maia Nahele Owen, Debbie Jacobs, Eileen Anderson, and Laura Monaco Torelli for a weekend exploring practical applications of behavior analysis with animal learners. Attend remotely or in person. Link below.

Second annual mini conference on ABA-based animal training with Eileen Anderson, Kiki Yablon, Mary Hunter, Keira Moore, Laura Monaco Torelli, Mindy Waite, Debbie Jacobs, Hannah McGee and Maia Huff-Owen, writers, teachers and researchers in September in Vermont. www.eventbrite.com/e/animal-tra...

"There is so much beauty in what we can learn through science, in how complicated life is, and in trying to understand how it works." The simple "answers" provided by fictional narratives and pseudoscience have paved the way for the anti-science times. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

The fun we have at our animal training workshops in beautiful southern Vermont! Truly an education vacation for humans and animals! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igf4...

We need a reminder of what the pre-vaccine era was like www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"Working with a different species really tests your skills as a behavior analyst." Dr. Kiera Moore, BCBA-D, KPA-CTP, during a recent webinar, Paws for Thought: Becoming a better behavior analyst by training dogs. We offer behavior analysts the opportunity to work with individuals of varied species.

We'll be exploring trauma assumed training at our annual workshop with Debbie Jacobs, CPDT-KA, RBT in June. Hands-on practice with sanctuary animals and the Portable Operant Research and Teaching Laboratory. Teachers of all species welcome. www.eventbrite.com/e/fear-loath...

Pursuit of woo and pseudoscience over evidence—the mythologies we tell ourselves—are how we got to RFK Jr. Like what one scientist calls neurobollocks, the nonsense that has seeped into our culture as neuroscience became a focus rather than behavior, more pseudo than science with each step.

January’s Los Angeles fires set ablaze over 35,000 acres. While fires of this magnitude devastate homes and entire neighborhoods, humans aren't their only victims. A range of animals are also significantly impacted by fires, but often lack proper support systems. @gracehussain.bsky.social explains:

We hold workshops at my facility and sanctuary in Brattleboro, Vermont, for dog trainers and animal caregivers of all stripes. This is the first one scheduled for 2025. Ceus are pending and early bird discounts are available now. www.eventbrite.com/e/dog-traine...

Check out The New York Times' Serial podcast series The Good Whale. Analyze the training plan for release. Where did it fail? Yes, many have strong feelings about orcas in captivity. The experiment to release this one has been done and its lessons shouldn't go to waste.

My beautiful Windsprite Stellaluna, who was taught better because of the work of animal training icon Karen Pryor, author of Don't Shoot the Dog and founder of Karen Pryor Academy, who passed recently. Training is teaching and teaching is about the individual in front of you. Skinner set the rules.

We will hold our Dog Trainers' Retreat on Aggression and Reactivity with Emily Lewis, CDBC, and Casey Matthews, KPA-CT May 30, 31 and June 1. How to Train Animals With Challenging Behaviors with Debbie Jacobs, CPDT-KA, RBT will take place June 28 and 29. Left to right: Emily, Casey and Debbie.

The sheep of Lemon's Hope Sanctuary left to right: Hope, Gina and Louis. Note how Louis looks like Mark Zuckerberg. He's much friendlier, though.

New resident, Diablo. Rainy day makes for messy gray, but he's a serious cutie. He's getting to know long-time resident, Angel.

Inaugural sanctuary animal, Lemon the goat, scratching her head. Having been attacked by a dog, she is permanently disabled with a fused knee joint. She gets around well and has a prosthetic for occasional use.

Slowly introducing the animals of my Lemon's Hope Sanctuary. These long faces are seniors Henri, 25-ish, and Chance, 30.

Mini horse Angel says, "Hello, you gotta treat?" #minihorse

abcnews.go.com/Health/measl... This is all preventable. The vaccines work and are effective. Long term, an Army cannot fight when it is sick. Disease and illness killed millions outside of the battlefield. Needless deaths and preventable.

Most beautiful pup, Stellaluna.

Introducing one of my dogs, Winnie. #dogs