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Posted on 07/29/2026 1:39:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
But it's not what you think
Funding for scientific research in the United States is at a record low after the Trump administration canceled billions of dollars in research grants last year, derailing work focused on diversity, climate change, and other hot-button topics.
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The site, more commonly associated with adult content, is increasingly a haven for other types of creators, of which scientists make up a very small fraction. Today, you can subscribe to OnlyMarms, which promises “Unfiltered yellow-bellied marmot content from the Rockies” delivered as near-daily photos and videos of chubby, personable marmots (with charming names like Staple, Pawprint, and Cabinet) that give Jimothy the raccoon a run for his money. Viewers can leave monetary “tips” on each post, which are split between the platform and the poster.
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The choice to make an OnlyFans page was just one of a number of out-of-the-box ideas they came up with to refill their coffers. Earlier this month, Crested Butte brewer Irwin Brewing Co. released a “Marmot Tears” IPA in partnership with the lab, with proceeds from its sale benefiting the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, which the marmot program is run out of.
Emily Renkey, a first-year master’s student in Blumstein’s lab, was the one to start the OnlyFans account, and the one who today posts its content. She first joined the project as a volunteer in 2022, and became so enamored with marmots that she chose to study them for her degree, which investigates behavioral and cognitive differences between individual marmots and what this could mean for their conservation.
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Is this really the best platform for this? It says they have only made a few hundred dollars. Why not have a GoFundMe?
Please no nudes of Nancy Pelosi
They want people to subscribe to “Muskrat Love”
PhD Ray Stantz
Nice beaver!
“ Please no nudes of Nancy Pelosi”
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How about some of Anthony Fauci?
Just had it stuffed.
Don’t look, Ethel!
Not the Babylon Bee?
Love is Love!
It’s like Patreon, but for, you know...
Why don’t they do Patreon? I just have to think there is a better social platform for this. YouTube?
Super series “scientific researchers.”
There is a squirrel that visits the birdfeeder a couple of times a day.
It fills up most of the camera’s view a lot.
I get a fair number of birds to make up for the one squirrel.
“but it’s not what you think!”
Whew! When I think of the typical wildlife researcher, I think of people like ‘Caroline Ellison, girlfriend of the notorious Crypto dealer, Sam Bankman-Fried.
Caroline looks like someone born to crunch numbers & data in the far back office.
Or Jerry Nadler! Yech!
Eww.
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