I've had some pretty frank conversations with owners who absolutely refuse to have their dogs vaccinated for rabies. I have no power to force them to get their dogs vaccinated other than counselling them to vaccinate their pets. This vaccine hesitancy kills humans and animals, dangerous nonsense!

Got this for Secret Santa this year, extremely lovely book, both full of information and gorgeous illustrations. Love me some dinos 🦖

The chief innovation of European colonialism was being ship bastards instead of horse bastards.

Merychippus to all who celebrate!

Ave Sol Invictus to you and yours! Feast, make merry, and be grateful for the return of the Sun.

Read Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle over the holidays. Don't usually read novels. Extremely confused as to how a domesticated herd mammals with seasonal estrus (the alien antagonists) could be monogamous. Seasonal breeding favours promiscuous mating and male-male competition.

So reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) can't fly, but they are VERY MAGICAL. For example, their EYES CHANGE COLOR during the year & they're one of the few large mammals that can see UV. Golden brown in summer, deep blue in winter. Let's talk about the unique visual adaptations of Rudolph and company.

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Cattle Mutilations December 1973 — 1/Kansas is quietly undergoing an epidemic of strange cattle deaths.

we already had access to every library in the world. it was called jstor and you made nerds hang themselves for accessing it without paying

I am just a totally normal traveller with a carry on bag stuffed with multiple books about epidemics.

"you're a man" ad hominem "you were born a boy" sunk cost fallacy "you're amab" false dichotomy "you have xy chromosomes" false equivalence "trans people are mentally ill" non sequitur "changing your sex isn't possible" skill issue

Treating my first kitten patient with FIP (Feline Infectious Peritonitis). In vet school we were told that it was incurable and 100% fatal. Now I can legally prescribe medication that reverses the signs by the second day of treatment. Makes me tear up. I never thought I'd see the day. #vetmed 🧪

Figured the millennial retirement home would appreciate this

Reading Edwin Denig right now. Here he is having a meltdown about 2S people (I can't show you much else, it's fairly rancid). I'm trying to read about horses, the bemused transphobia is too much, man.

estrogen is lizard coded, testosterone is mammal coded

Guilty af

As long as animals are legally property, no. Land is property and not a legal dependent, and yet you are still obligated to meet environmental regulations on any parcel of land you own. You cannot have your cake and eat it too.

Friends came over for dinner. Dude decided it was time for a power nap.

Sorry your pet is catslop. You only like her because she's small and very cute with big eyes and soft fur and delightful sounds and behaviors

Little man looking powerful this evening

“In the span of just 30 years, cashmere has turned into an ecological disaster for Mongolia.” As brands market “sustainable” fiber, herders face dying pastures and a collapsing steppe, write Aïda Delpuech, Sara Manisera and Daniela Sala for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

It exists! Check out mimbres.org

It exists! Check out mimbres.org

Earth's largest land animals are limited by salt. Sodium availability constrains the density and distribution of elephants, giraffes and rhinos across Africa, and offers a new explanation for the so-called 'missing megaherbivores'. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free access: rdcu.be/eTPY2

New paper compares the proportion of full siblings in human societies to mammals, finding that humans generally cluster with monogamous mammals species overall, supporting the notion that humans are generally socially monogamous. 🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Every time a guy on Wikipedia from the 19th or 20th century is described as a "polymath," it almost always means that he spewed pro-eugenics propaganda as a side hustle.

New video! Antimicrobial resistance is a complex global problem involving multiple stakeholders with no clear solutions. Instead of doing something constructive, today let's play the blame game instead! Maybe we'll learn something along the way. #vetmed 🧪 youtu.be/D7dulu6CW8E?...

One of my colleagues found a copy where this is from. It's apparently from Avicenna's commentary on Aristotle's Meteorology. He was centuries ahead of his time! dn790008.ca.archive.org/0/items/Holm...

Did Avicenna actually say this? Found this in an old history of science book, but this text does not give a citation and there is no bibliography. I tried looking up key phrases in the BYU English translations of Avicenna's The Metaphysics of Healing and The Book of Healing to no avail.

Long rabbit is looooooong

New video! Antimicrobial resistance is a complex global problem involving multiple stakeholders with no clear solutions. Instead of doing something constructive, today let's play the blame game instead! Maybe we'll learn something along the way. #vetmed 🧪 youtu.be/D7dulu6CW8E?...

Most articles on this bill haven't mentioned that making ivermectin an over-the-counter medication risks overuse leading to anthelmintic resistance, something we've seen time and again in veterinary medicine (e.g. canine heartworm, sheep barberpole worm). #vetmed 🧪 www.texmed.org/Template.asp...

Is a girl not allowed to shitpost once in a while?

Gearing up to record a new video. Notes taken, outfit picked out, make-up on... Camera batteries are dead fml

Terrific review from Ed and friends on the safety and mechanisms of aluminum adjuvants. Adjuvants are one of veterinary medicine’s greatest contributions to public health.

My Hot Take as an agriculture scientist is that regular people should not be able to buy any kind of herbicide. There's no reason a regular guy with a lawn should be able to go to a hardware store and buy gallons of roundup or any other herbicide. Your lawn aesthetics don't matter.

Trauma and Hypnosis w/ Xafsa Ciise Mimbres School Fall 2026

Ghost in the Machine w/ Jules Delisle Mimbres School Spring 2025

Land Back? w/ Malulani Castro Mimbres School Fall 2026

Caesar to Nero w/ Colin Drumm Mimbres School Fall 2026

Got myself a mini mammoth, as oxymoronic as that sounds!

Rabbit locomotion — Brehms Tierleben, 1914

If youre equivocating about the actual fairness of the numbers of the grade of a paper that you managed 2 read because it was shared by the stochastic nazi terror org whose mission is to make colleges places unsafe for queers and POC might I suggest you've lost the fucking plot

Excommunicate yourself automatically from the Catholic Church with this one weird trick

I can't believe we're starting a new oil war in the decade of solar and EVs. We really are stuck in the 1950s, unable to evolve to tomorrow. It would be funny if real people weren't going to be hurt over this. All war is bad. Civilians get hurt the most. Mostly children.

Back-order. Back-order. Compound this medication. You need write a script to a human pharmacy. They took that one off the market. Back-order. Back-order. They only have that one in the States. They only have that one in Europe. We don't make that one here anymore. Back-order. Back-order. BACK-ORDER!

Genuine question: is the "everyone hates turkey" thing a psyop? Like is turkey that expensive rn or is avian influenza much worse than we're being led to believe? Or do people seriously not know how to cook a bird?

Cattle have already been "redesigned" to be resistant to heat waves brought on by climate change caused by cattle farming. If it was easy to make transgenic cattle that produced less methane, we would have likely done it by now. Reducing beef production now is critical for climate action.