Tracie McKinney

MRes applications are welcome for primate conservation, ecology, or human-primate interactions. Applications due 1 October for a January start. Feel free to get in touch for an informal chat about your research goals. #Primates #Science #Wildlife #Conservation www.southwales.ac.uk/courses/ma-m...

Saw Wildwood yesterday and it is astonishing. Absolutely beautiful, magical animation. See it in the cinema if you can.

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Welsh speakers feel more connected to nature than non-Welsh speakers, according to research examining the relationship between language and the environment wp.me/p8Mk4U-1vBG

Fascism is violence. Colonialism is violence. Sexism is violence. Racism is violence. Dropping bombs on people is violence. Poverty is violence. Homelessness is violence. Hunger is violence. Capitalism is violence.

Wistfully wishing that Mamdani was your mayor isn't enough. You need to start loudly demanding these things of your local politicians. Turn up to whatever public meetings they have and demand these things in front of others so the demanda can spread. Democratic socialism IS AN OPTION.

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.

Let's take a minute to 'think about them beans'. Toe beans, that is. Why do some animals have little pink nubs on their feet, while others... don't? Let's start by looking at the-things-between-the-beans minus the fur. Time to look at a Sphynx cat's foot, up close. CW: cannot be UNSEEN.😬

new idea "one email a day" you should only be able to send or read one email a day

A paper is finished when the embarrassment of submitting it becomes smaller than the embarrassment of still working on it

Most UK university professional staff badly hit by sector upheaval. Restructuring and cuts are leaving support staff stressed and overstretched, report warns. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Mountain lions are making American roads safer by frightening away deer. On Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, where cougars were most active, deer-vehicle collisions fell 76%. Deer kill up to 440 Americans a year; cougars have killed 29 Americans since 1868. buff.ly/9bDfEKZ #ShareGoodNewsToo

Hi, I'm Tracie. I'm a primatologist, a mom, and a book nerd. The instrumental bit towards the end of Lankum's "Wild Rover" in their NPR Tiny Desk Concert makes me feel like I've left my body and am traveling back in time. Would you like to introduce yourself with a small song moment you like?

We are delighted to announce that Sir Stephen Fry is the new patron for the Primate Society of Great Britain! 🎉

Nobody: Universities: what if we kept trying to expand while having fewer and fewer staff

It's International Primate Day! 🐒 I am a primatologist and I *LOVE* talking about primates. Ask me anything about our furry cousins! #Primate #Science #Conservation

The author of a new book,“The Binary Delusion: How Biology Defies the Myth of Two Sexes,” notes that some people are more typically female in some traits, more typically male in other traits, and intermediate in still others. tcnv.link/Dz6M4WH

There’s a lot of terrible things going on but this is a genuinely great thing.

"We should never forget that Dolly Parton chose not to be a billionaire."

What heartbreaking news. Dolly was the best of us. Making Appalachia proud, forever ❤️

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Feeling super doomy and gloomy about the state of UK higher ed lately. Someone tell me some good news, please.

It took 3 Cure albums, but I finished a grant proposal today.

New research argues urban planning must recognise animals, plants and ecosystems as fellow inhabitants of our cities.

It's #WorldOrangutanDay. I've never had the opportunity to know an orangutan personally - this is good, as the fewer condemned to a captive life, the better. Please join me in thanking the amazing humans who are fighting daily to save orangutans, one individual at a time. photo - Wkmdia Cmmns

The only reason I can think of as to why there are fewer than 50,000 signatures here is that people haven't seen it yet. — Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now — goodlawproject.org/petition/jas...

Want to study biology or wildlife conservation at BSc or MSc level? Want to do a primatology research project with me? 🐒 Check out our courses through clearing. Great people and beautiful South Wales setting. youtube.com/shorts/zmUOg...

AI makes academic life so much worse. I'm reviewing a paper now and have wasted nearly an hour just verifying whether the citations refer to real papers (many do not).

Animals in the wild also don't have butt cheeks. We do because of the posterior shift of gluteal muscles for bipedalism. Sorry hominins: walking upright = you got to wipe your ass.

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

Kids need breaks, too

Relatedly: If you're a college professor, and you assume that all of your students can type quickly, efficiently, and accurately on a keyboard, you're almost certainly wrong.

Why do we call pigeons "pests" but feed songbirds? 🐦 An environmental ethicist says whether an animal is labeled a pest often has less to do with biology and more to do with humans’ way of thinking. theconversation.com/why-are-some...

I am also in this faculty and, reader, it shows. UK unis are in their bullshit jobs era now: "In my faculty, six administrators support ten managerial roles at faculty level while another six administrators support departments with their 900 FTE academic staff who teach 10,000 students."

Today university fees rise again, while thousands of academics across the country face job cuts, crushing workloads and shattered morale. Students deserve better than this broken system of unfair repayment that widens inequality. Abolish fees and fund universities properly!

Orchids revived, the corpse ambulant and a poetic ruined abbey. These are the news stories I want to read.