Month: October 2025

• October 31, 2025

  Gold-plated hairballs

  If your cat (or dog) has coughed up a hairball recently, it may have been for science! This recent publication from the Journal of Veterinary Behavior explores why cats and dogs eat grass just to throw it up later. I find the methodology both hilarious and genius. The researchers opportunistically collected “six regurgitated masses” from…
• October 30, 2025

  The 2025 IgNobel prizes

  The IgNobel prizes were awarded September 19th 2025. These are always fun. What are they? Why you should care? Should you eat teflon? What are the IgNobel prizes? The research that makes people laugh, then think. What did the IgNobel prizes go to this year? Some of the less tech-centric prizes went to studies such…
• October 16, 2025

  NEW PAPER! Headbutting history

  A new paper is out from the CVN lab! Published in The Anatomical Record as part of our thematic issue “TBI, not just for humans”. Here is the press release: A newly accepted paper by Dr. Nicole Ackermans of The University of Alabama is poised to reshape scientific understanding of brain injury in animals. Titled…