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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒

@marspidermonkey.bsky.social

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Primatologist. Biological anthropologist. Recovering academic. Mammal Madness fan. Dog mom to the cutest rescue dog. Expertise in social relationships and stress in monkeys, apes, & humans, and the systemic inequities in academia & science. She/her

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 11d

Starting a pinned thread of book reviews! This is the review for Apes on the Edge, by Jill Pruetz!

Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 24d

Time for a book review! Starting out with Apes on the Edge: Chimpanzee Life on the West African Savanna by Jill Pruetz (University of Chicago Press, 2025)! (1/11)
🧪🦊 #Primates #Booksky #ScienceBooks #BookReview

The book "Apes on the Edge: Chimpanzee Life on the West African Savanna" by Jill Pruetz on a colorful background. The cover is a picture of a young adorable chimpanzee hanging from a vine about a pool of water, with his lips just touching the ater and his reflection mirriored in the rippled pool

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 9h

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 13h

Your charitable donations are going to feed pizza to someone with a $120,000 salary.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 57m

Great thread.

alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 1h

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

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Professor Goose @thundergoose.bsky.social · 58m

My 2025 mood

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 20h

May I offer you a borb in these trying times? 🪶

maybe a bushtit flying directly towards the camera , extremely puffed out

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 1h

former israeli diplomatic corps member and current communications director for the american fundraising arm of israel's ben gurion university tali goldsheft mobilizing a protest outside of the most mainstream synagogue there is in brooklyn for hosting a conversation with zohran mamdani

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 1h

Do Zionists still think protesting outside a synagogue is antisemitic?

Screenshot from Tali Goldscheft:

PROTEST today at 1 pm!!! 📢📢📢

At the same time as hostages are hopefully being finally released, Zohran Mamdani is speaking at CBE (Congregation Beth Elohim) in Park Slope.

Beyond outrageous.

A major protest by the Brooklyn Jewish community, including CBE congregants and former congregants, will be taking place.

IN BROOKLYN? Join us, rain or shine!!!

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 1h

This pope kinda rocks

Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 2h

"Pope Leo XIV encouraged international news agencies on Thursday to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation, as he strongly backed a free, independent and objective press." apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 1h

Sometimes a major newspaper columnist will remind me I don't have to post through a moment; I can stick to posting photos of my dog.

Max the Cockapoo is sitting on a subway platform, wearing a black Carhartt jacket and a red leash.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1h

History gives us plenty of examples of disease used as a weapon. There are fewer cases of governments deliberately using disease against their own citizens. We are living (or dying) through one right now.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 14h

Fort Worth, Texas.

#WeAreEverywhere

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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 2h

Happy Sloth Bear Day!

a black bear sitting in the grass eating a piece of fruit

Alt: a black bear sitting in the grass eating a piece of fruit

media.tenor.com

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 3h

If you’re going to another country and telling people they’re going to suffer eternal damnation if they don’t adopt your beliefs and norms, that is not charity, no matter how you justify it with your religion

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 5h

Oh yeah this reminds me of how me and two other Africans got accepted for @divintelligence.bsky.social back in 2022. A Nigerian, a Ghanaian and a Ugandan. All of our visas were denied.

@divintelligence.bsky.social was kind enough to let us come again in 2023 which was really great and not

Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 10d

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare.

However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

Photo of Jane Goodall in the center, signing a book, with three women standing slightly hunched behind her. A very young Michelle is to the right, smiling.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 14h

Every once in a while I remember Trump changed vice presidents because he sent a violent mob to take care of his previous one and that’s not a thing anyone even talks about.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

Chicago

sevedge @sevedge.bsky.social · 20h

photo of a Do Not Enter traffic sign on a Chicago street, but someone has altered it to say Do Not -Let ICE- Enter

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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 1d

As a fashion historian, I will die on this hill: the point of having blue hair and nose rings (or spiky nails or stripper heels or tattoos or an all-black wardrobe) is not to look pretty or cool. It's to look (and feel) powerful--something many young American women crave right now. And it's working.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 14h

there is no god when Diane Keaton dies before Woody Allen does

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 16h

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest

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Damon Holtz @hrderbyswing.bsky.social · 21h

Looks so serene and post-apocalyptic at the same time.

Chicago, IL

Taken from Indiana Dunes State Park

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18h

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 15h

You can do well at predicting the atrocities that will come to pass simply by stating “Republicans will do what they have publicly pledged to do”

Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 16h

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Edie Falco on 30 Rock:
I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 15h

Jesus fucking Christ, it’s like a villain’s playbook.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 19h

Republicans feel empowered by their leader's autocratic coup against the Constitution to pursue their most cartoonishly evil agenda items, like literally making it easier to kill seals and whales

abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so

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Darkrose @darkrose.bsky.social · 16h

Too bad no journalist will ask a Catholic official—like say, the Vice President—to comment on ICE refusing to allow a priest to administer the sacraments. That sounds pretty anti-Catholic to me.

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EmZeeGee @emzeegee.bsky.social · 15h

Perhaps if we had our society organized in a more just and humane way, we wouldn’t be reliant on the care of spouses (mostly women) or adult children (mostly daughters or daughters in law) to care for and manage the logistics of care for the elderly.

Maybe *that’s* the problem.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16h

More than 15 million people 55 or older don’t have a spouse or biological children; nearly 2 million have no family members at all.

Who will be there for these solo agers as their lives draw to a close? How many of them will die alone?

An age-old fear grows more common: ‘I’m going to die alone’

As families fracture, people are living longer and are more likely to find themselves without close relatives or friends at the end of their lives.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 17h

Men would rather collapse a government than go to therapy

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