alt Hacker NewsI don’t know how random their selection was but another 2020 study on cat slow blinking that popped up on HN [1], they recruited cat “owners”. Given how militant cat “owners” can be, it wouldn’t be too hard to come up with a few hundred/thousand candidates from which to do patient selection. Just sending a DM to the cats or eyebleach subreddit mods would probably get an enterprising researcher a pinned post too.