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Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒

@marspidermonkey.bsky.social
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Primatologist. Biological anthropologist. Recovering academic. Writing non-fiction about evolution, culture, monkeys, trees, apes, and whales. Obsessed with my rescue dog.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4h
Also, AI creates cognitive decline, so fuck that.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 3h
On chimpanzee + bonobo mothers carrying dead infants, by @tpuschel.bsky.social + Reece Hammond. Length of time "depends on how strong their bond was, [mom's] life experience, the physical risks of holding onto the body and how quickly it naturally breaks down." #primates #deathstudies #anthropology
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Why do some chimpanzee mothers carry their dead infants for months?
New research looks for patterns in this sad phenomenon.
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21h
A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 14h
Tbf it also exists to subject men to ritualized abuse in order to irreparably bond them to each other so that they won’t blow the whistle on all the raping
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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 12h
This means it isn't legal, right?
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 13h
I am the meanest mama in the history of the world and I should be in a dungeon of some kind
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 17h
After decades of awareness raising, people have generally come to accept that someone they are close to has been raped. They remain largely unwilling to consider the fact that they have likely been and may still be friends with a rapist. We are a nation of rape without rapists.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is genuinely true. Epstein perpetrators had a heavy hand in developing today’s campus sexual violence response.
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Jeffrey Epstein Loved Trump’s Changes to the Title IX Rule. That Tells You All You Need to Know. - National Women's Law Center
Content warning: reported sexual violence, reported homicide As an attorney who focuses on gender-based violence, I wasn’t surprised that the “Epstein files” confirmed what my gender justice comrades ...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I keep seeing people talking about consent training and restorative justice in the aftermath of the Cornell story. I don’t know how to explain to people that those reactions are a part of the problem.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 18h
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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shademar @shademar.bsky.social · 14h
Fraternities get fairly tale deals. Massive subsidies in things like (when I was at Cal) exemption from eviction regulations and no need to pay property taxes. The exemption meant every single legal resource we visited, took one look, saw "frat" and noted out. Not a winnable battle.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 14h
“ME TOO went too far” said the country that re-elected a rapist.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 15h
Fraternity men perpetrate sexual violence at a rate three times higher than other college men. The fraternity lobby is one of the most powerful in DC—and they consistently oppose any bill for survivors’ rights.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 15h
Men, it’s never too late to leave your fraternity. Membership is lifelong. And these segregationist institutions use your name to uphold the power they abuse. This is what your fellow alums are doing. Do you really want to be associated with that?
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 15h
The more I learn about this Cornell situation, the angrier I get because it's SO normalized in academic environments.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15h
Please give these journalists their flowers.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 15h
I just wish half the energy spent debating how to punish rapists was devoted to supporting and uplifting survivors
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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 15h
IDK I’m just tired of seeing this cycle run its course again and again
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 15h
i see this is a Spiralling Due To Rape Trauma Triggered By The News kind of day
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 15h
this thread is, as expected, absolutely spot on. if you don’t know what commonly happens in fraternity hazing, for just one example, you would be shocked. how many college-educated men are walking around having been both victim and perpetrator of torture, actively encouraged as “bonding.”
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 15h
Chi Phi alum doxxed the Cornell Jane Doe in case you thought fraternities served any other purpose than to uphold the patriarchy.
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 15h
When I was in college there was this frat who made being “southern gentlemen” their whole identity. Them white boys used to be at intramural b-ball games, calling the black teams the N-word, “boys”, and all type of shit . Whenever I think of it, I damn near fly into a rage like I’m still there
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 17h
I am an AI doomer inasmuch as I feel strongly that AI is doomed and that it is our responsibility to accelerate that doom.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 22h
GOD BLESS NIGELLA “I don’t approve of talking about food as naughty” I have been needing bake off to say that for YEARS. Food is a pleasure, not a guilty pleasure!
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gorlock @gorlock.bsky.social · 17h
not to dox him but i saw an albino squirrel who smokes cigarettes
an albino squirrel at the base of a tree with a stem in its mouth that kinda looks like a hand-rolled cig
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The Peculiarity Shop @peculiarityshop.bsky.social · 15h
This is amazing.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For me, the hardest thing about stories like the Cornell gang rape case isn’t reading the initial details—although that is hard. What’s even harder is when men online, especially the journalists and pundits, start trying to combat the feminist outrage by purposefully seeding doubt and victim-blaming
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So spooky! So cozy!
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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 16h
Hey! Looks like you could use a creek moment. Lagunitas Creek, Samuel P. Taylor State Park, Marin Co., CA
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 18h
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a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾 @chasesolidago.bsky.social · 15h
being torn between "affirming each other in this moment of solidarity is of value" and "jesus christ if i read one more thing about rape i am actually going to harm myself because that's how digging up trauma works" is exhausting idk im looking at aster morphology
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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 15h
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We need MeToo, Part 2: Actual Fucking Consequences
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 16h
shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h
I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h
Another thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too
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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 16h
this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 19h
They force you to slow down: In life, we hate the feeling of being "bogged down" or stuck. But nature uses these spaces to slow things down, store energy, and protect the planet. Sometimes, hitting pause and sinking into the mess is exactly where the magic happens. 4/
Image of my daughter and her dog in a bog.
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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 19h
I have never felt closer to an animal
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 20h
Unaccompanied migrant children “remain one of the most isolated and vulnerable groups of people in this country. The Trump administration has decided to exploit their position by threatening their access to legal representation and making it impossible for their attorneys to act in their interests.”
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 20h
Juniper Tree 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 29/09/2026
I fail to understand why squirrels are not the top trending topic at all times
Two gray squirrels in a tree hole
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23h
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 20h
Oh god, I once attending a restorative justice workshop (as part of a longer workshop on diversity in science) that was a little too close to this. The point when most of the participants were ready to nope out was when it came to evaluating Louis CK’s apology letter as sufficient atonement.
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 21h
Things I learned today: if ICE comes to a childcare center to abduct a child in their care, if they have the right warrant signed by a real judge the childcare workers can no longer legally stop it, even though their license relies on not releasing children to persons the parents have not authorized
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