rodent version of a Cybertruck
Does that mean it was instantly destroyed upon touching it?
How do you issue a recall notice to a rat?
Rats in nightmarish conditions have one good day when the scientists torturing them take them out of their sterile cages to study fun.
And then gas them once they are done and just buy a new batch for the next experiment they devised…
Animal breeding facilities for laboratories are also abhorrent.
Has to be one of the best jobs on the planet. Getting paid to bring joy to rats, and then studying ways to enhance that joy.
EDIT: Turns out this may actually be a horrific job despite getting to witness and create temporary joy, see comments below
From the article in Neuroscience about the 12 week experiment (CW clinical gore):
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Long-Evans male (N = 20) and female (N = 20) rats, approximately 6 weeks of age, were obtained from Envigo (Madison, WI, USA).
After completing all behavioral assessments, rats were anesthetized by exposure to isoflurane and were transcardially perfused at 40 mL/min using a MasterFlex L/S perfusion pump (Cole Parmer; Vernon Hills, IL, USA). During perfusions, approximately 100 mL of phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) solution was pumped through the brain to clear all blood, followed by approximately 200 mL of 4 % paraformaldehyde for tissue fixation purposes. Brains were then extracted and divided sagittally so that the right hemisphere could be processed using the FD Rapid GolgiStain TM Kit (FD NeuroTechnologies, Inc., Columbia, MD, USA), and the left hemisphere could be used for immunohistochemical processing.
Long Evans rats mean life expectancy is about 3 years. This is one of the tamer experimental protocols, where the animals were not required to undergo terrifically disfigurative surgery to collect data or control conditions in vivo. I have great difficulty imagining how hard it would be to become even slightly attached to those animals and still complete the research duties.
Well colour me corrected, I would have assumed they’d let their rats live out the rest of the lives peacefully but I suppose not. Pretty fucked up then.
Sorry :(
Not your fault that the world of animal testing is irredeemably fucked even if this one particular experiment happens to bring rats an immense amount of joy before their lives are unceremoniously ended to study their brains that will probably end up being used by a marketing firm in 2027 to sell funkopops or something!
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fuck the amount of sucking up to Elon that’s going to happen over the next years from the scientific community
nobody wants to have their grant money yanked i totally get it. but he doesn’t care, he’s not reading your articles, he’s coming for you all stop sucking up to him
Well that seems to have been a very nice thing to do for them.
Oh no! Car brain has spread to rats.
We’re going to have to lock the carbrained rats in a special jail so that it doesn’t spread to the rest of the population
Equipped with a rodent version of a Cybertruck
no thanks,
I’m conflicted bc I’m vegan too but I also love rats enjoying themselves (I take care of a mischief) and could see myself build cars for them lol
but yeah the experiment probably ended with the poor souls being killed off bc science still hasn’t found a way of keeping them alive I guess. I’m friends with a rescue group and it’s literally illegal for labs to give away animals after experiments, no matter if it’s non-invasive behavioural shit, they need to be killed. The group does some backroom deals to get the rodents out
death to SScientists I guess
also the rats in the thread pic look like one of ours, Jelly (and two previous, Soy and Peanut)
dear science,
please make Ralph S. Mouse real
thank you
This is the first step towards mice and rats piloting human sized mecha that will be giant from their perspective
“Now, you must excuse me. I’ve grown quite weary.”will drive for tasty treats
will drive for tasty treats
