How to Bee

Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab keeps tabs on the country’s bee species.

Calling All Dogs for Dog Aging Study

Call for participants for a first of its kind study on dog aging. In the first major longitudinal study involving dogs, scientists will study the factors surrounding dog aging. The Dog Aging Project will look at dogs from all breeds and mixes from across the nation.

Dogs Most Likely to Bite: Study

A new study identifies dog breeds and physical traits that pose the highest risk of biting with severe injury.

Doggy Database

Here are some datasets that can be used for some serious analyses (spay-neuter data) or just plain fun like finding … More

Another Bizarre Installment in the USDA Saga: Blacked Out Docs Regarding the Inexplicable Removal of the Animal Abuse Database

We Asked the Government Why Animal Welfare Records Disappeared. They Sent 1,700 Blacked-Out Pages. National Geographic In January, the USDA … More

USDA Does Tiny Reversal of Radical Animal Welfare Data Purge

As many animal welfare advocates suspected, it appears that politics and profiteering may be behind the USDA’s mysterious rub-and-scrub of … More

Captive Animals Lose Public Monitoring

Animal welfare scorecard: Industries profiting from the use of animals = 1 ; Captive animals = 0 USDA … More

Animal Welfare Advocates Weigh-in on USDA Humane Labeling

If you care about the welfare of animals and have been following this issue, or if you know anyone who … More

Data Science to Help Endangered Species

Here is an exciting new tool to help stop the illegal trafficking of endangered wildlife: Software developed by data scientists … More