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Zoognosis with Joy!
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I'm a DVM with a passion for animals, health, and society 🐇⚕️ Fellow with the Mimbres School 📚 She/Her 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ Lizard 🦎
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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · Aug 24
Just wrapped up teaching Domestication Syndrome! If you missed it, fret not! Recordings and readings for Domestication Syndrome and On Horses are available with an auditor subscription or higher with the Mimbres School. Check it out in the link below! 🌱
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Domestication Syndrome (2025) Poster depicts a herd of overlapping cattle with a cow skull in their midst and a giant aurochs in the background. On Horses (2023) Poster depicting a human tip-toeing overlapping a horse's hooves and legs.
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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!
November 28, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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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?
November 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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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.
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Back in the research mines. Hey, you know that John James Audubon, the famous ornithologist and infamous slaver, once had the fur trader Edwin Thompson Denig pillage an Indigenous burial ground? Good thing Audubon has nothing named after him anymore, that would be creepy and evil.
From the Editor's Introduction of "Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri" by Edwin Thompson Denig, ed. John C. Ewers When John James Audubon, the noted artist-naturalist, visited Fort Union in the summer of 1843, Denig assisted him in collecting bird and mammal specimens and helped him to obtain the head of 1See Edwin T. Denig, Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri, Bureau of American Ethnology Forty-sixth Annual Report, 399-400, and pp. 71-72 of this book. XV FIVE INDIAN TRIBES OF THE UPPER MISSOURI an Indian chief from a tree burial near the fort. Denig enlivened Audubon’s stay with stories of Indians and animals of the region. At the naturalist’s request he wrote a description of Fort Union. Dated July 30, 1843, this is the earliest known example of Denig’s descriptive writing.” It is also the most detailed description of the construction and use of that most important Indian trading post on the Upper Missouri ever published. Denig stated that he was then in charge of the office of the fur company at Fort Union, a position comparable to that of chief clerk. His old friend, Alexander Culbertson, was Fort Union’s bourgeois at that time.
November 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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The majority of modern dog breeds have post-domestication wolf ancestry, new study finds. Wolf ancestry is ubiquitous among village dogs, aiding in their olfactory perception. Domestication is a process, not an event. #vetmed 🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Interesting how progesterone is converted into androgens and corticosteroids. Perhaps if someone was taking progesterone from an exogenous source, it could cause these levels to rise (not that anyone would do that, of course).
Enzymes, their cellular location, substrates and products in human steroidogenesis. Shown also is the major classes of steroid hormones: progestagens, mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids, androgens and estrogens. However, they partly overlap, e.g. mineralocorticoids and glucocorticoids. White circles indicate changes in molecular structure compared with precursors. For more information on interpretation of molecular structures, see structural formula. Arrows are shown as unidirectional to indicate the usual net directions, but technically all biochemical reactions are considered bidirectional. HSD: Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Darkness was in Gay Baby Jail today
Havana Black rabbit sitting in a kennel with iron bars in front of her face. There is an IV catheter taped to her left ear. In front of her feet are veggies and hay.
November 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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While #vegan children show lower urinary #iodine, it is not linked to differences in thyroid-stimulating hormone levels vs vegetarians & omnivores. Overall, #plantbased diets support normal child growth and provide cardiometabolic benefits: doi.org/10.1038/s438... #health #diets #nutrition
Dietary intake, nutritional status, and health outcomes among vegan, vegetarian, and omnivorous Czech families - Communications Medicine
Heniková, Ouřadová et al. conduct a cross-sectional study among Czech families with long-term vegan, vegetarian, and omnivorous families to compare clinical outcomes, nutritional status, and diet adeq...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Exploring her new habitat 🦎
Leopard gecko standing with her forefeet in her water dish, facing front-left. The substrate is a red sandy clay. There is a cave in the left background half-in-frame, and a stem of a plastic succulent plant in the right background half-in-frame.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Breakfast in bed on Sunday morning
Two rabbits sitting in an Ikea dollhouse bed. Left: black and white Holland lop rabbit facing right eating hay with his head lowered. Right: Havana Black rabbit sitting facing right eating hay from an empty cardboard tissue box to the right. There are litterboxes in the background. Beneath the dollhouse bed is a cardboard paper towel tube.
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Evergreen tweet
God Hates Flags @vanillatary European farmers mobilising on the worst political cause you've ever heard in your life [Image from Monsters Inc showing the scare team marching forward with a grim resolve]
November 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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I've loved animals for as long as I can remember. I've spent my whole life caring for and studying about them. Realized in University that my best shot at a career with animals was in veterinary medicine. It has opened doors to research and teaching opportunities in unconventional but exciting ways!
recursecenter.bsky.social Recurse Center @recursecenter.bsky.social · 16d
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Cuddle bunnies having a chill Friday evening
Left: Havana Black rabbit lying in sternal facing righg with her ears back. Right, back: Black and white Holland lop rabbit sitting facing forward. There are various rabbit droppings, pieces of hay, cardboard cups scattered around. The litterbox is in the upper left corner filled with rabbit poops and hay. There is a wooden tunnel in the upper right corner. There is a flop bed in the bottom of the frame.
November 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Bought it used. Best $5 I've ever spent! You want to learn about the Taiping Rebellion, one of the deadliest conflicts in human history? Read this!
Cover of "God's Chinese Son" by Jonathan D. Spence
November 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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David Lancy, who has published dozens of books and has been a leading anthropologist for fifty years now, straight up cites Wikipedia in his most recent book. I am never feeling imposter syndrome ever again.
The last term that deserves some explication is “Indigenous.” There are a variety of competing terms. We are discussing people who live in small, face-to-face communities; hence, “village” or “villagers” is sometimes used as shorthand. Other terms that have been used to conveniently label the communities of interest include “heritage,” “traditional,” “ethnic,” “nonindustrial,” “Aboriginal,” and “premodern.” “Primitive” and “tribal” were both popular at one time but are no longer considered appropriate. Most definitions of “Indigenous” stress the importance of stasis and continuity. For example, “indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original peoples” (Wikipedia 2023b).
November 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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In 2024, a US Study of 43k dogs found than >99% of dogs had at least one moderate to severe behavioural problem. Major implications for domestic canine welfare. #vetmed 🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The prevalence of behavior problems in dogs in the United States
Numerous studies have reported the prevalence of various behavior problems in dogs and cats around the world. The actual number of animals included in…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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I've idly wondered how much the conceptual shift of domestication contributed to slavery. You can't meaningfully "own" a wild animal: you either kill it or drive it off, trying to pen it up is probably just delaying one of those. But once you introduce animals that you can own... why not people?
zoognosisjoy.bsky.social Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 9d
There is a direct causal relationship between the domestication of the horse and the development of mass slavery. Horses confer a height and speed advantage for cavalry to subdue and capture fleeing humans, creating an enormous power asymmetry.
November 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Strange update: actual army spending on forage in 1850 was $1 million, which as a share of GDP is exactly equal to DoD spending on fuel in 2022
arielron.bsky.social Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · Apr 23
In 1850 the US Army's quartermaster general estimated that feeding the full authorized number of horses for mounted units would come to ~$2 mil. The entire federal budget in these years was around ~$45 mil., so the Army animals alone accounted for 4-5% of federal spending.
November 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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In 1850 the US Army's quartermaster general estimated that feeding the full authorized number of horses for mounted units would come to ~$2 mil. The entire federal budget in these years was around ~$45 mil., so the Army animals alone accounted for 4-5% of federal spending.
April 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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i think the most consequentially damaging development in human history after farming has to be the domestication of horses
July 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Bunnies in love 🐇❤️🐇
Black and white Holland lop rabbit (left) licking the ears of a Havana Black rabbit (right).
November 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Evidence of domestication syndrome associated with urbanization in racoons. 🧪
frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Very exciting
zoognosisjoy.bsky.social Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 13d
Mimbres School Spring 2026 🌱
The Dollar System w Colin Drumm
Theology 101 w Sean Carpenter
History of Zionism w Daniela Tolchinsky
Ghost in the Machine w Jules Delisle
Sign-ups open soon! mimbres.org
The Dollar System depicting the earth surrounded by swirling green Dollar bills and gold coins Theology 101 depicting a man reading a Hewbrew scroll History of Zionism depicting a shovel digging into a settlement on a hill casting a long shadow Ghost kn the machine depicting Prometheus having his liver torn out by a raven with an atomic bomb in the foreground and flames in the background
November 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
zoognosisjoy.bsky.social
Mimbres School Spring 2026 🌱
The Dollar System w Colin Drumm
Theology 101 w Sean Carpenter
History of Zionism w Daniela Tolchinsky
Ghost in the Machine w Jules Delisle
Sign-ups open soon! mimbres.org
The Dollar System depicting the earth surrounded by swirling green Dollar bills and gold coins Theology 101 depicting a man reading a Hewbrew scroll History of Zionism depicting a shovel digging into a settlement on a hill casting a long shadow Ghost kn the machine depicting Prometheus having his liver torn out by a raven with an atomic bomb in the foreground and flames in the background
November 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM