Special Agent Brian M. Desens with Department of Homeland Security is the horrible man who threatened to euthanize wallace.

Thank you to everyone who beared witness to this egregious act of brutality against me for daring to write in chalk on the sidewalk. Your documentation is so so important.

Nov. 15 marks the 6th anniversary of my beloved Leslie Feinberg's death. Hir last words were "Remember me as a revolutionary communist." By hir wishes, hir iconic novel "Stone Butch Blues" is available FREE download & AT-COST ONLY print, at lesliefeinberg.net. Please share!

Hello!! We're the Animal Behaviour Collective - a collective of animal behaviour researchers organising microgrants (animalbehaviourcollective.org) & mentorship (forms.gle/Uzjw1gSspRYVqK…) for undergraduate & graduate students in animal behaviour. We've just launched our website today!!

"A person who is willing to tell their doctor about their birth assignment may feel differently about the same question on a federal census." Article about U.S. National Science Foundation surveys in Scientific American by Riley Román Ramos Báez (Romi) PhD @TimberBurnette Lars Howell scientificamerican.com/article/nonbin… National Center for Science & Engineering Stats

For those from the la hui saying, "I know where I come from," and wondering why this paper matters? I want to fill you in on why this paper is important for understanding how #colonialism has shaped our genomes + our susceptibility to disease. 🧵 1/8 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Thrilled to announce that our new Review- Social ageing: exploring the drivers of late-life changes in social behaviour in mammals - is out in Royal Society Publishing #BiologyLetters! Coauthored by amazing colleagues NYU Primatology, Noah Snyder-Mackler & Lauren Brent (1/12) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

🐒 🦠 Thrilled to share that our (w/ SBU Lu Lab, Noah Snyder-Mackler, Alice Baniel + more) paper on gut microbiota and growth in vervet monkeys is now out in iScience journal & joins emerging work showing that maternal parity can shape maternal + infant microbiomes 👇 cell.com/iscience/fullt…

The news just announced that Eric Adams now wants to destroy all 150 homeless encampments in NYC by Friday, with no plans to house the people currently living in them, if you want to talk about violence.

Why does adult social isolation predict survival? Is it because socially isolated individuals are unhealthy due to early life adversity (health selection)? Or do adult social environments directly cause poor health & reduced survival (social causation)? Our results say it’s both.

What if we could quantify immunosenescence in wild populations without invasive blood sampling? Our new paper shows that urinary neopterin, a biomarker of innate immune activity, is predictive of age in a free-ranging primate. Summary in 🧵 1/7 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

VERY excited that our paper on age-based social selectivity in macaques is out in PNASNews! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Interested in learning more about: ✅Social behaviour ✅Aging ✅Why humans might shrink their social networks as they get older? Then read on… 🧵(1/20)