Please note: if they are kind to their daughters but cruel to their wives, they still hate women.
Cat Bohannon
@catbohannon.bsky.social
Researcher, scholar, writer, freak. 🏳️🌈 EVE book out now. This ain’t samizdat but twitter ain’t either. www.catbohannon.com
Maternal immune transfer is central to how mammals even *work.* And we're mammals! Get yer shots, mama. www.acog.org/news/news-re...
ACOG Releases 2026 Maternal Immunization Schedule
ACOG's newly released 2026 maternal immunization schedule is endorsed by 13 medical societies and health organizations and differs from federal vaccine recommendations.
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Not the NYT literally claiming the decline in teen births is an apocalypse *and* that it’s because of phones and not an active international campaign to f’ing reduce teen births as a Moral Good www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/o...
Opinion | Why We Delude Ourselves About the Birthrate
nytimes.com
Marianne Hirsch front and center, one of my old mentors! If a literal *Holocaust studies luminary* says this, you gotta sit up and pay attention, people.
vijay iyer@vijayiyer.bsky.social · 2mo ago‘“I no longer consider Columbia University a safe place to work for Jews who dare to dissent from the political agenda of its most ardently pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian donors and trustees,” wrote Joseph Howley, a classics professor, in his claim.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
“The ones who could live off the dead did well, too…” — Eve, p. 71 😎 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Blurbing a book on human trafficking and yes this is *exactly* why Sarah Silverman was the one to watch in The Aristocrats. My god that bit was everything.
Make life suck less for more people. Just that. Only goal worth having.
Because the idea of a Black woman who's authoritatively and deservedly a doctor is *impossible* for them to accept: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/u...
Trump Administration Begins Investigations Into Three Medical Schools
nytimes.com
Person online: Normalize self-care. Statistician: Ok, the average amount of self-care is now zero.
Please share and sign if you agree with my open letter calling for Botstein’s immediate resignation katemanne.substack.com/p/an-open-le...
An Open Letter to the College President Who Maintained Close Ties with Epstein
If you agree with my general sentiments here, please comment below—just “signed” or “seconded” is sufficient.
katemanne.substack.com
Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston is a living legend. She has spent her career advocating for affordable healthcare for all, and was the first Black woman director of a public health service bureau. If that weren’t enough, her advocacy has led to advances in treatment for sickle cell disease. Goals.
Yup! Maybe 'cause farming *sucked* for a long, long time? And kudos for this angle from Spain, Leiden, & the Reich lab on female knowledge-transfer across communities! @lemoustier.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Lasting Lower Rhine–Meuse forager ancestry shaped Bell Beaker expansion - Nature
A distinctive population with high hunter-gatherer ancestry persisted 3,000 years later than in most European regions, contributing to later Lower Rhine–Meuse Bell Beaker users.
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More evidence, as if more were needed, that academia is not in fact wholly controlled by the ideological left. An apparently respectable economics journal just published a paper which is pretty overtly promoting eugenic ideology (first two citations are to Francis Galton and Richard Lynn!)
Survival of the foolest: population dynamics, income policies, and IQ trends - The Journal of Economic Inequality
This paper examines how different income distribution policies may influence the future distribution of intelligence quotient (IQ) in a population. Using a multi-period individual-based simulation mod...
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Cool new research on pregnancy-related brain changes from the Hoekzema lab! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The effects of a second pregnancy on women’s brain structure and function - Nature Communications
Extending their previous findings of brain changes in a first pregnancy, the authors show that a second pregnancy uniquely alters women’s brains, involving both a further fine-tuning of first-pregnanc...
nature.com
This a great piece of investigative journalism. @rollingstone.com This should be required reading for scientists and ethicists. Ethics matter, especially in science. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
New Documents Reveal a Controversial Vaccine Study's Unusual Path to CDC Approval
A new investigation has found irregularities in the ethics review of a grant to study effects of a birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau.
rollingstone.com
Note that the gap starts waaay before any pubertal behavioral effect in the HG group... that's gotta be immunity & repair, folks.
Ed Hagen@edhagen.net · 6mo agoScience! (And several high income countries outperform the US) #BioAnth 🧪
When the hands are the scariest things
Gabino Iglesias@gabino.bsky.social · 6mo agoHere’s your morning mood, courtesy of Lizz Lopez.
It’s my birthday! Anybody wanna make today a little less… Jean Genet? How about the sequel to Little Girl Blue being an actual astonishing victory? Anybody?
cool study — though the headline got it backwards… should be: people feel jealousy like monkeys www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/s...
Baboon Sibling Rivalry Suggests Monkeys Feel Jealousy Like People
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I… hardly use LinkedIn for this reason. Might eventually succumb. It’s just so… wanky?
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 6mo agoWaaaay to accurate...
Kids had their first school lockdown yesterday. Some guy called in, said he was gonna shoot up the school. They’re 5 and 7 years old. It won’t be their last. Never accept that any child, anywhere, should be under threat. Never accept there’s “nothing we can do” to make this world suck less.
"Our new analysis shows that it is far more dangerous to be pregnant than to have an abortion, and this gap in mortality risk is even larger than previously recognized.” - lead study author Maria Steenland. In fact, the mortality risk of pregnancy is 44 to 70 times higher than from abortion.
Risk of maternal death during pregnancy greatly underestimated, study finds
A new study comparing deaths of pregnant people and of those who have an abortion show that risk of death due to pregnancy is three times higher than previously estimated.
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Ever get the sense that we’ve all been in a male cult? That it’s not “internalized sexism” or, as I say in Eve, female participation in culture-making that tweaks repro patterns, but maybe it’s actually just… worship? (Reading Shamanism by @manvir.bsky.social , who doesn’t say that, but… 😂🫠)
It’s giving Poland 1942
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6mo agoIs healthcare in concentration camps an oxymoron? A special corps of health care workers have been called in to work with detained immigrants and many feel deeply conflicted about the assignment, saying they're not able to provide good care. www.npr.org/2026/02/05/n...
In case y’all are ever wondering, women and girls have been living under the dual state since… well not forever, but maybe the start of States. Remember that on this, another morning of men.
Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association. Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
I’m so so so so bored of having to think about the sex lives of wealthy men. The enduring cruelty of it all is unsurprising. But also… just feels like wrinkly old genitalia are just whacking our faces every morning. Like let me have my coffee, people! (Plus I miss democracy.)
Easily the maddest I’ve ever been that I’m not in New Jersey. Get thee to Princeton people!
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6mo agoI am talking feminism, patriarchy, racial capitalism, beauty capital, fatphobia and more with Kate Manne at Princeton next week. I haven't been this juiced up for an event in a very long time.
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.