• burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 days ago

    I’ve never read through the wikipedia article, and wanted to see if it mentioned my favorite fact: cockroaches perform better when observed by other cockroaches. IT DID! So cool!

    and then it said the classical psychology mood killer: no evidence found when the experiment was replicated.

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      2 days ago

      Look, you could give me a multi-million dollar grant and I will wouldn’t want to work with cockroaches, lol. (But then again, that’s what grad students are for…)

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        2 days ago

        For me, that’s the case with basically every animal, buuuuuuuuut… That’s what gloves and secure containers are for in lab work. I am going to bet they never had those roaches ‘free’ at any time. Having them in one secure container that is then attached to another and a panel between them removed would work fine with me.