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In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 64 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Me trying to get grants for my rat trebuchet

[–] Tropic420@lemmy.world 13 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Is it operated by rats or throwing rats?

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 30 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Trebuchet of the rats, by the rats, for the rats.

[–] GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I have two pet rats, and I'm pretty confident that they'd love a trebuchet. I could see one of them operating while the other is the ammunition.

Or, both operating with more conventional projectiles. Rats crave destruction and chaos. And also cuddles.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Opposums are rats confirmed?

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago

Lowers binoculars and looks at my fellow Imperial gunners

See them? The rats are up to something.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 3 points 22 hours ago

Brilliant i say Brilliant

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

If they can drive cars, they can work a trebuchet