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Katie Spoon @kspoon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

And many women described a second harm: reporting devaluation and having their institutions ignore it or make it worse.

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Katie Spoon @kspoon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

We found that the most gendered experience wasn’t work-life balance, the focus of most retention efforts. It was feeling devalued, in formal evaluations, but particularly in everyday interactions. Unlike every other topic, the gender gap in devaluation was larger among more senior faculty.

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I will definitely be having apfel strudel for breakfast when I visit next summer now.

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thanks. You can but I found it would still default to the wrong version and the right one wasn't always among the three options of what I might have typed on my phone, so I gave up.

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Meanwhile Google and their keyboard have a "Canadian English" that seems based on the assumption Canadian English = American English. I have to set to British to get my beloved "u" in words where it belongs.

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

As someone who was just told screening mammograms where I live are booking for *2028*, I really hope they make progress with this quickly!

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Science for Animal Welfare @scifaw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Free e-copies of “Assessing Animal Welfare - A Guide to the Valid Use of Indicators of Affective States” are available for applicants in low-income countries working in animal welfare, thanks to funding from Coefficient Giving and a discount from Wiley. Apply by 15 November ow.ly/6lYi50ZNnNt

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Thankfully nausea didn't last for me but light headed weirdness hung around a bit.

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I had that experience last week! It was not pleasant.

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And decrease in the percent of chairs held by white males is slipped in there among the "productivity" metrics... tell us what you're really worried about, why don't you?

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Might be an interesting time for the Colchester mayor if possible! Really appreciated the interview with Truro's mayor.

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Let's check with the mice if it hurts first.

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Really enjoyed this one! Some of the most effective explanations I've heard for some of these concepts.

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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

5 former chairs of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, myself included, raise alarm over the Carney gov't proposed 'major projects' initiative. It will lead to extinctions, likely including southern resident killer whales www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Proposed changes to endangered species law would 'stab it to death,' says scientist | CBC News

The former chairs of a panel that advises the federal government on endangered wildlife have published an open letter highlighting concerns over proposed changes to the Species At Risk Act, which they...

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

AI couldn't possibly do anything "uneth".

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Science for Animal Welfare @scifaw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🔬 New funding opportunity! Apply for a $100,000 USD Systematic Review Grant from AAALAC International and Science for Animal Welfare. Support evidence-based best practices for laboratory animal welfare. Deadline: 1 Nov 2026. 🔗 ow.ly/9l1h50ZAr8I #ResearchFunding #SystematicReview

A teal and cream promotional graphic advertising a Systematic Review Grant. Text reads: "Systematic Review Grant". Amount: up to $100,000. Topic: laboratory animal welfare and best management practices. Closes: 1 November 2026. Science for Animal Welfare and AAALAC International logos are displayed along the bottom of the graphic.

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today I learned BC has lakes officially named "Another Lake" "And Another Lake". apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/n... Thank you social media. 😆

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Elodie Mandel-Briefer @ebriefer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Mason, Nielsen and Mendl’s great textbook on animal emotions is out, with a chapter on vocal indicators by former postdoc A. Villain & me. We follow the book’s format, exploring responsiveness & selectivity of vocalisations as indicators (3 years In press but hopefully still up to date).

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Vocal Signals

This chapter analyses if, based on current evidence, vocalisations have construct validity as indicators of emotional valence across species. It then explores the responsiveness and selectivity of vo...

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I wrote a chapter for this with my excellent colleague Carole Fureix at University of Bristol, on reward sensitivity and affect (particularly boredom and depression). I think it's a very useful book.

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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Letter from 5 former chairs of COSEWIC to Canadian gov't expressing alarm over plans to ignore Species at Risk Act and other environmental legislation if they feel like it. Liberals will let orcas go extinct to subsidize big oil, Imagine what a future tory gov't may do 😱 www.sfu.ca/~amooers/sci...

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

How animals perceive the world matters for their welfare, and for trying to work with them. This review covers what we know and don't know about cattle sensory systems & what this means for management. Thanks to @drmariarorvang.bsky.social for inviting me to be part of it! doi.org/10.1016/j.ap... 🐄

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Not just every community in your country, unfortunately. This affects the world, and I wish we could all give feedback (and be taken seriously).

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I mean I know I’m biased as a weird little nerd with her own weird little niche interests but this is factually correct There’s literally other weird little nerds who studied this stuff

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Oh I have a strong aversion to mayo too, and I've come across quite a few others. In the UK they'll often label certain premade sandwiches as no mayo so there just be more of us out there! (Or egg allergies)

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Worrying example of what's going on in higher ed. I noted lots of the comments are supportive of the prof - I'm not sure university leadership are reading people's feeling about new tech or even education correctly.

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

😂 come to think of it those are also my reasons at this point.

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

📢 We’ve launched a LIFT survey to support the development of Positive Animal Welfare (PAW) indicators for farm animals. We are requesting input from farm managers and farmers’ associations, working with dairy cattle, beef cattle, pigs, layer poultry, broiler poultry, sheep and goats.

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Surveys - LIFT - COST ACTION CA21124

COST Action LIFT 1st Round Stakeholder Consultation (until 31st of July 2026). Positive animal welfare is beyond good physical health and without animal

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

@owlstown.com Please add my academic website to the Owlstown Academic Gallery.<br><br>URL: rebecca-meagher.owlstown.net

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This local nerd just got to fill out her long form!

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I am not aware of a Canadian equivalent, and now I want to see this.

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Currently at the stage of planning trial where we have to figure out what kind of trouble young cattle might get into in a new space... including risk of them pulling the fire alarm!

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

New paper! Review of how social factors might influence hens' use of enrichment. Jessica Gill led this paper while she was working on her MSc in our department. doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

This is the kind of news I needed today.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 13/03/2026

"While this hippo-centric challenge is unique to our university, we have long prided ourselves on being trailblazers in academia, and I hope you will join me in applauding our incredible institution and its recent stewardship of the world’s third-largest land mammal."

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A Message from Your University President on the Recent Hippopotamus Attacks

Dear Faculty, Staff, Students, and AI Summarization Tools, I want to express my deepest gratitude for your patience as we explore innovative soluti...

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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Don’t let them take silly away from you

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27/02/2026

When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.

In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was “difficult” and that he remained “grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.”

“Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” he added.

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Rebecca Meagher @rkmeagher.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Thank you! The news about this budget just gets worse and worse...

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