Dr Lauren M Robinson
@drlmrobinson
Job hunting psychologist of monkeys, wolves, dogs and anything interesting and fundable. Incapable of reading anyone's mind including my own. I research animal personality, happiness, and cognition when paid to do so. Views my own unless they're wrong
Why throw out clothes with holes in them when your cat will happily sleep on them? #Recycling #Caturday 💜🐈⬛
A day late but it’s a good day in the US so have some void for #caturday 💜🐈⬛
I have been forgiven for having the audacity of getting her proper veterinary care 🐈⬛
We sharing animals to avoid current existence? I'm in. Here is Sula
As of today, I am done with my Spring 2026 grading and with it, my time teaching at Mount Holyoke 🥂 I have no idea idea what comes next but I've been lucky to work with some wonderful students and colleagues and emails like the below make me feel truly appreciated and grateful for the experience
It took 8 years but now the void will allow me to pick her up and pet her on my lap for a whole 3 minutes! She requires patience but arguably the adoption fee is best $40 I’ve ever spent 💜🐈⬛ #CatsOfBluesky
Power outage in my area but The Void and I are having fun with it 💜🐈⬛ #catsofbluesky
Went to a local dairy farm today called Flayvors as part of my animal personality class! The farmer was so generous with his time and we met some gorgeous Jersey calves and had some of their fantastic ice cream 💜🐄🍦
Have some void for #caturday 💜🐈⬛ Like any good cat, she's secretly obsessed with me and loves to sleep on anything that smells of me. In turn, all my old clothing and sheets now go to her donut (seen underneath her here) for her to sleep on them. Recycling!
The book I edited recently hit 50k access in three years 🎉📖🐒 Fun fact: The book came about because I won a Springer photo contest on facebook of all places. As part of this, I was offered a free book from their collection and through some social magic, I turned this into an offer to edit a book
Looking at my painting done by a bonobo and thinking, “I wonder if this is how the artist intended the piece to be hung.” Grateful spring break is next week 💜🐒
There are days, particularly while job hunting, that I doubt that I've done anything meaningful in science and then there are days where I find out the book I edited has been accessed 50k times in 3 years and I feel pretty fucking good
Three weeks since parathyroidectomy and super happy with the results. The scar is beautifully hidden at the base of my neck and the surgeon did a great job
Don’t like fluffernutter sandwiches, living with a fluffy nutter is enough for me 🐈⬛
Day 1 after surgery and exhausted but recovering. Because I’m vain I’ll try to treat the scar once I can but because I’m not ashamed of being disabled, I won’t be covering it up with makeup or making an effort to hide whatever it looks like once it’s healed
Down a couple parathyroids and got a fancy new scar but should be able to go home shortly and feeling groggy but okay 🏥 Modern medicine and science are pretty amazing!
Teaching a new course on animal personality and I like to start with honesty
Grading is done, I got an application is yesterday, and I’m shortly off to spend the holiday with the new beau! I of course would never neglect The Void so she’ll be get her stocking stuffer tomorrow morning 🐈⬛🎄🐾
I’m heavy into finals grading so have some void for #Caturday 🐈⬛
The yearly sacrifice has been prepared 🎄🐈⬛ As I have a habit of moving, I don’t bother buying a proper Christmas tree and ornaments so my mom buys a cheap tree set specifically for the cat to enjoy/destroy. Yes, it’s not ideal for the environment but it makes great cat enrichment so call it even
Seeing as I'm job hunting, it seems a good time for a reintroduction: I'm Dr. Lauren Robinson, I'm a psychologist and animal welfare scientist that studies animal cognition, personality, and health and welfare. I've worked w 12+ species including apes, monkeys, dogs, wolves, and mix of zoo animals
Stare into the void (and ignore my messy apartment; yes that’s a tire) #Caturday 🐈⬛
I’m seeing someone new and he’s lovely blah blah blah but more importantly, I’m obsessed with his dog Milo