There are scientists studying a bunch of mice in a cage. The mice are dressed up as scientists.
There are mice standing up acting like scientists. They are wearing scientist clothes.
Why are the mice dressed up and mimicking the scientists?
O.K., let's slowly lower in the grant money.
scene: a lab description: There are scientists studying a bunch of mice in a cage. The mice are dressed up as scientists. uncanny: There are mice standing up acting like scientists. They are wearing scientist clothes. entities: Laboratory_mouse, Experiment. caption: O.K., let's slowly lower in the grant money.
Science runs on grant funding: this is a meta joke about scientists (the humans) seeing the effect of lowering grant funding of scientists (unusually, the lab rats dressed as scientists). The human scientists look keenly on because the result of their experiment has direct implications for them.