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Ingrid Ellis
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“Studies on prison inmates reveal significant cognitive and emotional deficits as a result of incarceration. It would thus be unthinkable to represent human cognition based on this population. So why doesn’t a similar logic apply to other species?”
— Dec 04, 2025 03:08AM
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Ingrid Ellis
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“The rallying cry ‘America first’ is just as hubristic as the rallying cry ‘Humans first.’”
— Dec 14, 2025 02:20PM
Ingrid Ellis
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“Fungi and trees are so interconnected that some scientists believe they should not be viewed as separate organisms; instead, the forest functions as an integrated entity. … Everyone is deeply entangled with everyone else. Humans are no exception.”
— Dec 12, 2025 07:38PM
Ingrid Ellis
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“If chimpanzees had transformed the world but in doing so jeopardized this own livelihood, not to mention that of countless other species, would we be praising their intellect?”
— Dec 10, 2025 06:24AM
Ingrid Ellis
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“Researchers found that news articles written about Black people convicted of capital crimes were more likely to contain ape-relevant language” — wow every book I’ve read this past week seems to tie back to white supremacy as a major problem.
— Dec 02, 2025 06:14PM
Ingrid Ellis
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“Some fish are more closely related to us than they are to other fish. … The vast majority of modern fish species evolved hundreds of millions of years after humans shared a common ancestor with them.”
— Dec 02, 2025 03:44PM
