#Rodents

*Thread* Would you invite a hateful conspiracy theorist to preach to families and young people?The East London Mosqueโ€™s answer is a clear yes in the shape of Abdur-Raheem McCarthy. He
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Change of pace. A thread of (some of) my favorite word origins, in no particular order1) "Pedigree" comes from the French pied de gru, meaning "foot of a crane" because
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The polyomavirus SIMIAN VIRUS 40 (SV40) is a known oncogenic DNA virus which induces primary brain and bone cancers, malignant mesothelioma, and lymphomas in laboratory animals.A thread on induced illness,
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#SEVENTEEN members as characters from Cats the musical, a thread Scoups as MunkustrapThe story's narrator and a leader amongst the Jellicle Cats, he is strong and courageous. He is the
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Below is a tweet thread where I will try my best to describe how I use the help of a dental formula to ID skulls belonging to groups of mammals.
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I am fed up of pro-koala propaganda so Iโ€™m finally going to do a thread on why Koalas are top five worst animals that exist. (I would say worst but
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We're entering a "pandemic era." We must act aggressively on climate to prevent future pandemics from occurring more frequently.How do they connect? Immunologist Dr. @ChristineRJames and I wrote an op-ed
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Cryptocurrencies arenโ€™t the only assets to have seen their value driven up recently by hordes of eager buyers. Dogs and cats have toohttps://trib.al/rp856Bd  Pets have become more expensive as
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1. This is a thread about the wild boar & its wonderful farmland descendant โ€“ the humble pig. These animals, when allowed to roam free, create outcomes for nature far
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1/ #ReadingThreadThis paper by @zinocker, @kariannesve, @simondankel is proving an interesting read. Before I get too much further, I'm going to turn it into a "reading thread" and post some
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Doing this "Mice in Maze" preprint for #JournalClub!Have you read it? What did you think? Feel free to commentI'll add further comments below, pre and post reading...https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.14.426746v11
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The Great Rat Massacre Of 1902 (and how it backfired spectacularly)(Thread, sources here: https://bit.ly/3ob2cDX ) While we're talking about ยฃ500 incentives, I thought it would be fun to look back at
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Baby's first @biorxivpreprint:LRH-1 #Nutrigenomics: The Provision of Lauric Acid Results in the Endogenous Production of the Liver Receptor Homolog-1 Ligand, Dilauroylphosphatidylcholine, and LRH-1 Transactivation. Summary & story t
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FANTASTIC NEWSโ€”A potential vaccine for multiple sclerosis is now within sight on the horizon! And itโ€™s an mRNA vaccine by BioNTech, maker of the Pfizer #COVID19 vaccine. Study in mice
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[QUICK THREAD: THE CURSE OF MAGDALENE]1/27Under normal weather conditions, although the jury's kinda out on what's "normal" anyway, it takes the elements 2,000 years to wash away 13 billion metric
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@ScienceMagazine returns with another "balanced" discussion of animal research science and ethics. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/it-time-replace-one-cornerstones-animal-research. They interview two ethicists who challeng
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