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I have now been a Postdoc with the Canine Olfaction Research and Education lab Texas Tech University for ~two months now and it has been a blast. Great lab, great research, and a privilege to work with dogs daily.

So cool to see this footage of wolverines from BBC Earth. I wish we could get some wolverines to to run olfactory tests on 😁 youtu.be/9Odj2KgTy0o?si…

How do desert animals find water? Turns out elephants may be able to smell out water- or at least the organic compounds associated with water! rdcu.be/dSvAc

Very cool article discussing the science of smell- nature.com/articles/d4158…

This one is for the dog people: the final chapter of my PhD, investigating overimitation in dogs, also came out this week 🥴 🐶 (1/3) nature.com/articles/s4159…

Cool and hilarious work here- people look like their dogs!!

Domestication of dogs changed not only their facial muscle morphology but also how these muscles function. Dogs have ~100% fast-twitch muscle fibers, enabling quick facial expression movements while wolves have less than 50%. By Anne Burrows et al.: doi.org/10.1002/ar.255…

Washington state woman calls 911 after being hounded by up to 100 raccoons apnews.com/article/washin…

The facial muscles that allow dogs to make "puppy dog eyes" by lifting their eyebrow is also well-developed in coyotes! This suggests the trait did not evolve strictly as part of the dog domestication process. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Dealing with some of my PhD papers again and had to repost this. I will stick with guttata for domestic zebra finches, sorry taxonomists 😁

Tuna (or any seafood for that matter) is an odd favorite for cats—an animal that evolved in the desert. Explore the research that may give a biological explanation for this curious craving: bit.ly/4f39YuQ News from Science

Ethiopian wolves have been seen feeding on nectar! 🐺 They are the first large carnivore documented doing this - and may be acting as pollinators too. New from Sandra Lai @sandralai.bsky.social Claudio Sillero WildCRU, Oxford University of Oxford 👇 bit.ly/3AQPsyJ 📷 Danielle Rubens

Really happy to have been a contributor to this!

Repost from Jennifer Vonk, Ph.D.- For all of my wonderful animal caretaker friends. I am hoping you'll be willing to help me out in recruiting your expert fellow caretakers to complete a short survey that will help us understand how zoo animals respond to the death of their 1/#

Starting a PhD is associated with a considerable worsening of mental health. After entering their programs, students start seeking *a lot* more psychiatric medication for managing that bad mental health.