Researchers start 'OnlyFans' for marmots after funding cuts
Researchers say the subscription account has raised $3,000 as they use the competition to fund long-running marmot research.
- Researchers at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory launched OnlyMarms, an OnlyFans account, to sustain their 64-year-old Marmot Project amid federal funding cuts.
- Government funding cuts for long-term ecological research forced the team to seek creative revenue, with Blumstein telling IFLScience the initiative addresses elimination of federal support for important scientific studies.
- Graduate student Emily Renkey manages OnlyMarms, sorting through camera footage to post educational videos of marmots, stating, "I'm just posting the videos I think will get the most 'aws.'"
- Inspired by Alaska's Fat Bear Week at Katmai National Park, the laboratory is launching its inaugural Fat Marmot Week on August 24, allowing Colorado voters to select their favorite chunky rodents.
- Conner Philson and Julien Martin's research on group social structure reveals fitness advantages for marmots; Blumstein called this the "best demonstration of something we call multi-level selection in the wild" since Darwin.
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Marmots now have an OnlyFans account to fund research
I never expected to have an OnlyFans account, but all manner of strange things are possible in 2026, so here we are. Science funding is under attack in the United States, and researchers are exploring alternate funding sources to keep the work going. — Read the rest The post Marmots now have an OnlyFans account to fund research appeared first on Boing Boing.
Given the reduction in funding for scientific research in the United States, a group of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), decided to resort to an unusual strategy: to create an account at OnlyFans dedicated exclusively to sharing videos and images of marmots, in order to obtain donations to continue their work.
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