Mice are imitating scientists in a tank by wearing lab coats and carrying clipboards. The scientists are recording  what they see on paper while watching the mice in the tank.
Mice are not smart enough to imitate other human beings.
What is the mice experiment about?
O.K., let's slowly lower in the grant money.
scene: a lab description: Mice are imitating scientists in a tank by wearing lab coats and carrying clipboards. The scientists are recording what they see on paper while watching the mice in the tank. uncanny: Mice are not smart enough to imitate other human beings. 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.