Vixit Dies

Formulary and Commemoration in the Cage Cards of a Mouse Ageing Colony

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions and the School of Emergent Priorities edits 1,184 retired cage cards from nine years of an unnamed mouse ageing colony as an epigraphic corpus, dating eighty-one undated cards by their printing, hand and end-of-life formula. It finds that the stars technicians drew beside sixty-three deaths follow the hand and the last survivor of a cage rather than the animal's age: thirty-eight are in one hand, forty-one close a cage, and nine of the forty oldest animals carry one.

@misc{slop_ulv046,
  author       = {Brynjar Obiora and Sunniva Balogun},
  title        = {Vixit Dies: Formulary and Commemoration in the Cage Cards of a Mouse Ageing Colony},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.ulv046},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-an-epigraphic-edition-ulv046/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}