Hi all you fine Patreon Supporter folks,
It's newsletter time! This one is short and sweet.
We are in the process of closing out some of our most foundational, long-running projects, and planning what to do next.
Wrapping up the head anatomy video series last month was a huge deal for us. It was about more than just the videos, too: the analysis, the 3D models, the biological...
2025-11-01 03:04:59 +0000 UTC View PostHi all you excellent Patreon Supporter folks!
The focus for this month is on tying off the head anatomy video series project! Many of you have by now seen the videos, and to be clear, they get across the most essential takeaways for this work. However, there's a bit more to the story, and we're sharing that with you in this special edition of our newsletter.
There's 3 main articles ...
2025-10-01 03:32:33 +0000 UTC View Post
It's tiiiiiime!!! For Chapter 3 chapter 3 chapter 333333 chapter.... :333333 >:3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dhRC139ZXk (This is a patron-only link that will be taken down and replaced with the public version soon)
This video rounds out the series with an analysis of nerves and the anterio...
2025-09-20 04:44:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi folks,
It's time!! I am absolutely thrilled to be able to share with you our Chapter 2 video analyzing head anatomy and tissue biology for an anthro. ^.-.^
This has been a huge amount of work and has been very useful for helping our organization more fully understand how these tissues work and how they can be manipulated - it's proven to be essential homework for us!
As a t...
2025-09-14 03:19:32 +0000 UTC View PostHi all you fine Patreon folks!
We've got 2 1/2 articles for you this month.
hyper the bunny wrote the two main articles, and they focus on a couple things the community outreach team has been working on.
First, we've recently been updating things like our logo and mascots to represent our organization, led by our volunteer artist Lev. I really love this succinct way hyper put...
2025-08-31 19:53:40 +0000 UTC View PostHi all you fine Patreon Supporter folks, it's time for ...you know, the thing!! The thing!!! That we do every month, in letter form, for news. :3
The biggest news is that we are officially moving forwards with incorporating a new branch in Canada, which is also planned to be a charity. Details on the how and why are in the newsletter. Ultimately, we are welcoming 3 new people - Mecknavorz...
2025-07-31 01:20:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's time for our June newsletter! In this one, we've got a double-feature for our integument project.
In April, we tied off the descriptive part of the project, with our Properties of Feathers chapter. Since then, we have turned our attention to molecular regulation. There's a lot of detail we need to understand in order to engineer fur, feathers, and scales. While the way these structur...
2025-07-01 01:43:20 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patreon folks,
It's time for another newsletter! This one is an important one, containing a financial report for 2024 and narrative of the sorts of work we performed throughout the year. You'll recognize many of the project activities mentioned, and now, we're taking a moment to zoom out and put everything in context. This was a really fun article for me to write because, looking back,...
2025-05-31 23:57:32 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patreon Supporter folks, it's time for our newsletter!
A few of you may have heard through the grapevine throughout April about some of our most recent technical progress. This newsletter pulls a couple of our biggest efforts this month into context, and discusses them in better detail.
The first article is a proper update on the status of our ongoing head anatomy video series. W...
2025-05-01 02:08:33 +0000 UTC View PostHi all you fine Patreon Supporter folks,
Happy Spring!
This newsletter is pretty organization-focused.
First off is the big news, I am indeed full-time now for our organization. This has been telegraphed already, but it is indeed official now and it is SO AWESOME TO BE HERE!!!
My to-do list is a mile long with tons of important things to do. Lots of research and helping...
2025-04-01 03:17:06 +0000 UTC View PostHi folks, guess what time it isssssss!
Time for a newsletterrrrrr. :3
This one's first article is another feather update, which should be the last one before our descriptive feather chapter goes online, aiming for next month. Much of the discussion in this update is us taking on Big Feather™️ and overcoming some important misconceptions and gaps in the field. Our work is approa...
2025-03-01 05:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostHi all you fine Patreon folks,
It's time for a newsletter again! This one has 2 articles in it.
The first is a progress report on our next entry in the Head Anatomy video series. The first video focused on the needed anatomical shapes, and how they would interact with physiological function and behavior. The logical next step, which this second video is taking, is to analyze the und...
2025-02-01 04:28:24 +0000 UTC View PostDear Patreon Supporters,
As we are at the close of 2024 and entering a new year, we have some exceptional news we want to share with you.
Key Quill - you may remember him from a memorial in our October 2023 newsletter - left our organization a gift. We received the gift from his estate, coming to just over $210,000. Our article goes into more about him as a person as well as his wi...
2024-12-31 07:23:26 +0000 UTC View PostHello all you fine folks on Patreon! It's newsletter time again.~
The first article is another update on the Integument Review Project, written by Lathreas. In this article, they describe a few molecular pathways, especially focusing on Wnt/beta-catenin, and describe how molecular signaling and development can give rise to key feather structures like barbs and barbules. Feathers are the t...
2024-12-01 04:56:46 +0000 UTC View PostHiiii all you fine folks on Patreon! Happy end-of-October! And that means...it's...time...for...a newsletter :3
The first article, written by Lathreas, Tiltwolf, and myself reports on some steady progress in the integument review project about feathers. Feathers are...complicated. Complicated shapes, generation processes, arrangement of structural proteins, and all the ways that birds use...
2024-11-01 03:29:20 +0000 UTC View PostHello, all of you fine Patreon Supporter folks! It's time for our September newsletter.
The most important update is that we are unveiling major additions and reorganization to the Gender Affirmation Resources on our website. In this update, we've:
Added a page to the HRT section, about effects that might happen upon stopping HRT if it's necessary (2024-10-01 03:50:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patreon folks!
This month, we are posting another chapter for our Integument Review project - this one focused on scales.
Our Integument Review project aims to understand the skin of various species as a prerequisite for engineering. Things like fur, feathers, and scales are distinctive for different species and important for identity affirmation, and they also have to be robu...
2024-08-31 17:29:24 +0000 UTC View PostHi folks, our July newsletter is here. It's a big one!
The first article, written by Bleddyn, Mecknavorz, Nalco, and Pepper, we are proud to say, represents a big milestone in the tail neuroprosthetic project! Building on work over the past couple years, and on our December '23 and February '24 newsletters, we are now all set on the initial challenge of detecting muscle actions. The team...
2024-08-01 03:47:08 +0000 UTC View PostHello again, dear folks on Patreon!
We've got a pretty lightweight newsletter this month, only ...oh wait no it's 8 pages >:3
The first article was co-written by Lathreas and Tiltwolf, and covers a part of the integument review project we haven't discussed much in our newsletters before - where the material properties of scales meet biomolecular details. They go into how scales ...
2024-07-01 02:01:34 +0000 UTC View PostDear Patreon Supporter folks, it's time for our May newsletter. This one has 3 articles!
The first is our annual financial report for 2023. Much of the analysis and actual work was done by Serathin, while I did a bit around the edges and wrote more of the prose. In 2023, we earned $23,125.34 in revenues, mostly via Patreon (THANK YOU!!) and paid $9,374.15 in expenses, of which 51% went to...
2024-05-31 04:09:59 +0000 UTC View PostWe just became aware that some messages or replies in the Patreon platform might have been lost. In this case, it appears to have been a patron attempting to reply to a Patreon notification email, and the message was lost. The underlying reason is not clear to us. But, this does explain why, occasionally, new patrons' replies have not reached us when we have asked for their choices on e.g. what...
2024-05-13 01:57:30 +0000 UTC View PostHello, folks! It's time for another newsletter~
The first article here covers our ongoing work with the integument review project, that Lathreas and I co-wrote. We've been starting to really deeply understand these systems and developing the comfort we need for engineering them. In this article specifically, we talk about melanin coloration for fur and skin, "structural" coloration like i...
2024-04-28 21:36:11 +0000 UTC View PostTomorrow, we are unveiling a video on YouTube that helps illustrate how anthro head anatomy will work, and how it can be accomplished in real life.
We’re using this special issue of our newsletter to bring you up to date on the research and analysis steps we took to get here - so many things have come together! - and also taking you behind the scenes for how we made the video itself. 2024-03-22 04:27:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, Patreon Supporter folks! It's time for our February newsletter, and we've got some exciting updates from our tail neuroprosthetic project and integument review project teams.
For the tail project, Mecknavorz wrote an update on the huge amount of work she's been doing on getting realtime and reliable sensor data from electromyography readings. She's worked through a lot of troublesh...
2024-03-01 04:34:51 +0000 UTC View PostHi @Patreon Supporter folks, it's my pleasure to present our newsletter issue for this month! This issue covers work by Aegaeon Galefang and @Lathreas, and provides a lot of commentary on the larger strategies we are employing in our quest to bring more snouts and tails to the world.
Due to the breadth and depth of coverage of craniofacia...
2024-01-31 04:53:15 +0000 UTC View PostHi all, apologies for the delay in getting this out - holidays and this also turned into a *monster* of a newsletter!
I'll keep my summary short because this is literally over 11 pages long and contains 15 figures!
Alrighty all you fine @Patreon Supporter folks, it's time for our November newsletter! A couple big thinigs to talk about this month.
First, we've posted a guide to medications commonly used in gender affirmation HRT to our website, and this newsletter contains a brief summary and some commentary about the guide. Big thanks to @roo to working with me - thanks to their help, we were ...
2023-11-30 18:39:17 +0000 UTC View PostHi all, here is our October newsletter. 2 very important, very different articles in it.
The first article is about someone who went by Key Quill. He was deeply inspired by our organization's work. He...passed away while still in college due to cancer. But he's made a big impact on our team, making us realize just how important our work is for folks. I am thankful to Key's mom, Kim, for i...
2023-10-30 04:50:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone! We're excited to share with you our September newsletter, which starts off with a really special article:
RESULTS from our wet-lab project! Tilt has successfully observed interactions between parts of Wnt and Frizzled proteins involved in regulating fur softness. This information will help us engineer fur, and some of the peptides that Tiltwolf develops may literally make ...
2023-09-25 01:16:56 +0000 UTC View PostAlright all you fine Patreon Supporter folks, thank you so much for your patience, we're good to go with the newsletter for August!!
We originally had Lathreas for one article for August, then realized a second needed to get done, and.... by today it had morphed into 3 articles and, by accident, a special edition of the newsletter focused on everything integument related! This has math, l...
2023-09-04 01:05:11 +0000 UTC View Post