In grad school, a new investigator was pressuring me to come to his lab to study the molecular basis of learning in sea slugs. Sea slugs are dreadful little creatures and I pointed out to the PI that ‘all the smart sea slugs are back in the ocean where they belong’.

This morning’s laugh comes from The Onion taking a dig at a thoughtless mouse that destroyed months of work by finding the memory task far too easy. It’s funny because it’s sort of true. Enjoy.

http://www.theonion.com/article/son-of-a-bitch-mouse-solves-maze-researchers-spent-2432

My inner geek wants to point out that The Onion has a picture of rat even though they are talking about a mouse. 

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Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.

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The Fighty Squirrel is very thin pseud for a molecular and cellular neurobiology type who runs a lab studying neurodegeneration. She is mother to a 14yo half child/half honey badger and 16yo half child/half border collie and a Reviewing Editor at Journal of Neuroscience. She also sort of a badass at air hockey. She speaks for herself unless her employer likes it, in which case it's patented.