Subscribing is free, but users can leave tips on the cute photos and videos they post, which goes towards funding the research. “Sometimes I’m just posting the videos I think will get the most ‘aws,'” Emily Renkey, a student in Blumstein’s lab who started the account, told SFGate. “After the third time, our program officer told my colleague… that they will never fund us because they think we have too much data,” Blumstein told SFGate. Blumstein’s marmot program, as it stands, is running on fumes. More on science funding: Trump Orders Construction of Powerful Quantum Computer