Marmots got money troubles: Cuts to UCLA research lead scientists to OnlyFans
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Set us as preferred Looking for some marmot content? Try OnlyFans or, rather, OnlyMarms.Researchers at a UCLA-affiliated marmot research lab launched an OnlyFans account to post videos of marmots captured in the wild as a way to help generate funding for their work and offset federal cuts to universities.Since it debuted at the end of May, the account known as “OnlyMarms” has posted several dozen videos.In one, a female marmot known as “1” chases away a curious male named “G” as he pokes around her burrow, screeching as they go.
In another, a marmot eyes the game camera, getting closer and closer to the lens.“These are wild animals, so it’s important for people to know that we are just getting footage of them in their natural environment,” said Emily Renkey, a first-year graduate student in the Blumstein Lab at UCLA.“We’re just framing it as a way to be in the field observing marmots with us.”Unlike much of the not-suitable-for-work content on OnlyFans, “OnlyMarms” is G-rated, though an occasional scuffle might make it more PG, said Dan Blumstein, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA and co-director of the Marmot Project at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado.Behavioral and physiological ecologist Ken Armitage, who died in 2022, began his marmot research at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in 1962.
His study of the yellow-bellied marmot remains one of the longest-running studies of its kind.Blumstein assumed responsibility for the project in 2003 when Armitage retired.Blumstein came up with the idea for the OnlyFans account while sitting in a meadow, waiting for marmots to appear and pondering the state of scientific funding for his work.Due to federal funding cuts, universities have slashed the number of graduate students who receive financial support for...