rats can drive cars btw. if u even care
fun fact: the lab rats got into the cars and drove on their own free time, even without any treat or reward being offered
fun fact #2: the scientists actually found that the rats stress levels were lowered while driving, implying that rats find cars therapeutic
I love the whole branch of cognitive experimentation that just amounts to “we taught rats a fun new game and they really liked it”
Would reccomend reading the whole article from this - it’s pretty cool and the language is mostly accessible (images below line up with list) Great extracts include: 1. The Title. (rodent driving skills is just a funny combination of words)
2. rodent operated vehicle (ROV) 3. Example of complexities of wild rat: rat that evaded capture from seasoned resarch team for 18 weeks (see the references) 4. the enriched environment being shown as a step (B) in the visual format of the training protocol 5. The reinforcer (0.25 of a Froot Loops ® cereal piece) 6. the references. they’re pretty good reads. ( i want to see “the snark was a boojum” so badly but the thing's not free) 7. https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0166432819311763-mmc2.mp4 Look at he go 8. i just wanted there to be eight bullet points. look at those rats i guess (P.S. the study has been misattributed to an extent (more in like. this post specifically a little bit) - it is also about neuroscience; as in the title, enrichment is touched upon - it showed that enrichment in rat’s - and people’s - lives had a positive effect on them. And the actual quote about the rats driving the cars despite not having the motivation of the treats reads “Across an animal’s lifespan, the accumulation of informative experiences, whether they are driving skills or another skill set, likely contribute to emotional resilience, providing buffers against subsequent neural threats and challenges [24]. Interestingly, the enriched rats’ persistent interest in the car, evidenced by increased entries during the extinction phase of training in the absence of food rewards, suggests that the enriched animals may have developed a more engaged reward system throughout training. “ a lot of people in the notes are taking "rats like cars" at face value) (P.S.S. i would summarise the article but i’m tired and unqualified - i may add some sort of more intelligent addon to this later. who knows... i fucking love neuroscience though.)
[ID. GIFs of rats driving little toy cars across a tiled floor. End ID.]
What I'm getting out of this is that all taxis should be driven by rats
felt like reposting the first things I drew for Disco Elysium
they are painted
OVA screenwriter #1: What are some smaller narrative changes that we should include in the story?
OVA screenwriter #2: they should all hold each other more
OVA screenwriter #1: You know what? You're right
Underrated in the “tweets with nearly daily usefulness” pantheon IMO
googling ‘jobs for autistic people’ and realising that everyone still thinks autistic people are either sheldon cooper or really tall toddlers
NVM ONE SUGGESTED NIGHT GUARD OUTTA MY WAY GAYBOY IM GONNA FUCK FREDDY FAZBEAR
Compilation of people holding things that shouldn't be held, please add more if you have any
@is-the-snake-video-cute looks like a coral snake (blunt nose) but double checking- is it ?
That's indeed a coral snake, good ID!!
This thread is full of the luckiest people on the planet, I think. Also goes to show just how calm even venomous snakes are - coral snakes rarely bite unless you're actively harassing them - and how important it is to make sure your ID as non-venomous is 1000% certain before picking up any wild snake.
Some people did provide the correct answer after this but… 😂
laptop overheating?? pour water on it to cool it down!
strangecharmer
i trusted you
weteevee
Do not trust people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people
posting the spotted hyena vision diagram again
Evidence against the argument that Superman's disguise wouldn't fool anyone:
- Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton look alike contest to a fucking drag queen.
- Charlie Chaplin once failed to even place at a Charlie Chaplin impersonator contest.
- Hugh Jackman went to comic con as Wolverine, only 2 people noticed him and one told him he was too tall.
- Christopher Reeve use to go to a restaurant in costume when filming Superman. When he went in the Superman costume he was mobbed by people all the time. When he went in the Clark Kent costume no one realized he was Christopher Reeve.
Tony Hawk
I dreamed that everyone on Twitter was mad at this new Sonic game about alternate universes because it had an adult Maria on it and she looked like this:
vampireapologist-archive-deacti
One of my favorite thing I’ve learned about animals studies is that you should avoid using colorful leg bands when you’re banding birds because you can accidentally completely skew the data because female birds prefer males with colorful bands
Apparently if you put a red band on a male red wing blackbird his harem size can double
So like you can completely frick up the natural reproduction of a group of birds by giving a guy a bracelet so stylish that females CANNOT resist him
Me, putting a red bracelet on the leg of a male red wing blackbird: ON GOD we gonna get u some pussy bro
I remember reading a study where researchers realized that female birds of a certain species preferred males with a darker breast. So they created what they literally called a “Super-Sexy Male” by catching a male and coloring his chest with a marker. They then ran dna tests on the eggs in the area.
Previously when the researchers had run these tests, they found a certain amount of infidelity was common for these birds. Somewhere around 10% of eggs were fathered by males who were not the primary mates of females.
After the advent of the Super Sexy Male, however, stuff got crazy in bird world. Infidelity skyrocketed, with upwards of 25% of ALL EGGS in the area being fathered by this specific male. Furthermore, his mate’s eggs were 100% his.
This is just insane to me. Just imagine you’re living your bird life when suddenly somebody scribbles on Dave’s chest and the ladies can’t stop throwing themselves at them. It’s stupid that we theoretically can wreck this kind of havoc on an ecosystem.
