Amy Parish

Being called a "fluent and wonderful ape woman" by @tcboyle = 💙💜🧡 Definitely makes up for that time in grad school where a suitor told me that the great thing about me was that I was "so obviously parasite free"

Reposting this as we mourn the loss of Dame Jane Goodall. As Jane observed “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you.” — The Book of Hope (2021) She brought light and hope and enlightenment to our world and is gone too soon.

It's a good day when you take clue 43 down as a sign to keep going... and the @nytimes rewards you with a @BorowitzReport @JaneGoodallInst convo

💔 about passing of #JaneGoodall I'll never forget her opening the Understanding Chimpanzees Conference by walking up to the mic & pant hooting. All 400 of us pant hooted back. It was absolutely electric. The hair on my arms stood up as we bridged 6 million years of evolution.

“Matrilocality=strong predictor of female social & political empowerment [...] if the women stayed put, they were more likely to inherit, control land, be players in the local economy, and have influence." theguardian.com/science/2025/j… #WednesdayMotivation #WomensRightsAreHumanRights

"Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property the disposition of which is decided by majority vote." --Georgia judge in ruling to overturn #abortion ban #block-66fb0a568f0859f4a95e70f4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/us-news/live/2… 🧑‍⚖️ #AbortionIsHealthcare

She asked AI to generate jokes ChatGPT wrote in voice of male comedian – joking about impatience w/its apparently shopping-obsessed girlfriend When asked to rewrite jokes in a female voice, it shifted the shopping-obsessed girlfriend to the 1st person bbc.com/future/article…

Twitter Friends: Check out "Queer Planet"+ my interview on @peacock--flamingos, penguins, Japanese macaques, lions, giraffes, slugs, lizards and, of course, #bonobos All out--loud and proud #Pride2024 #PrideMonth #gaypride #naturetwitter #scicomm youtube.com/watch?v=CnB1Cp…

@KatherineJWu @TheAtlantic Took students to watch bonobos @sandiegozoo after reading Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves @penguinrandom Screenshot of student reflection below. It is as if she channeled @KatherineJWu's article out today

Hi Friends. Check out this article on Anthropomorphism by @KatherineJWu @TheAtlantic Always so happy to talk about #bonobos and great to spread the word on their patterns of female dominance too #scicomm #sciencenews #naturetwitter theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

@oldbuffalo Humans are not good at looking ahead and paying short term costs for long term gains. Sadly, it may be our downfall. Sorry you got exposed to so many chemicals.

@DrAmyParish I can remember having a spray can of that stuff in our garage in the 50s...we used it to kill bugs... & in the late 60s I was in Nam &they sprayed all sorts of chemicals all over the place...and I read today that they're still trying to diffuse some of the bombs we dropped. Sad.

DDT, dumped largely in 1940s & ’50s — never broke down It remains in most potent form in startlingly high concentrations in LA water, spread across a wide swath of seafloor larger than the city of San Francisco #RachelCarson #pollution #SciComm latimes.com/environment/st…

Here is a link to a podcast recording of our conversation on _The Bonobos and the Atheist_ in 2013 at the Aloud series @LAPublicLibrary @ALOUDla Frans, you are missed. soundcloud.com/aloudla/the-bo…

Sad News. My beloved "doctor father" Frans de Waal passed away after a battle w/stomach cancer. I am forever grateful for his mentorship, friendship & the inspiration he so freely shared ever since we first met in the 1980s. I am sure he had many more books left to write.💔💔💔

@R_H_Ebright @threadreaderapp unroll

COVID: updated summary of lab-origin hypothesis: 1) Pandemic caused by bat SARS-like coronavirus emerged in Wuhan--city 1000 km from wild bats with SARS-CoV-2-like coronaviruses, but that contains labs conducting world's largest research program on bat SARS-like coronaviruses.

🎶Sing your way home at the close of the day. Sing your way home; drive the shadows away. Smile ev’ry mile, for wherever you roam It will brighten your road, it will lighten your load If you sing your way home.🎶

“They said only way to get ahead in corporate world is to boost male egos” – a form of emotional labor, making male colleagues+superiors feel good, specifically affirming their power A male director added: “you came across as really abrasive for a woman” theguardian.com/society/2023/m…

@Route_60plus Thelma and Louise 😍

"In 1993, frustration prompted a molecular biologist to measure dimensions of every room in her MIT building Women had less space than men, leading to a US-wide reckoning about sexism in science It remains remarkably relevant today" via @Nature briefings nature.com/articles/d4158…

As of Thursday, the vulture had not eaten since he 1st flew the coop However, he is slowly approaching bait — a thawed rat Oliver’s mate, Iniko, also was placed in crate in area in hopes that he would approach #nature #animals latimes.com/california/sto…

Reference comes via @Nature briefing

No domineering ‘alpha male’ wolf— just good old mum+dad Idea came from unrelated wolves in captivity In wild, competition is rare: if plenty of food+large pack “In that case the alpha term applies because there is still a dominant female calling the shots" scientificamerican.com/article/is-the…