Erin Kane
@dianamonkey.bsky.social
anthropology, ballet, birds, cats, conservation, cricket, cross stitch, ecology, grant writing, guenons, lifting heavy things, orangutans, ponds, primates, research development, team science, yiddish. she/her
Pretty shameful for Wash U's chancellor to help sandpaper off the rough edges of the Trump administration's proposals for universities to make them palatable for other colleges.
Trump Administration Tries A New Reform Pitch To The Nation’s Universities
The Trump administration has sent a letter to the nation’s universities asking them to answer how they will address reforms in seven policy areas before the end of 2026.
forbes.com
Four university presidents, "Andrew Martin at Washington University in St. Louis, Michael Crow at Arizona State University, Douglas Girod at the University of Kansas, & Ronald Daniels at the Johns Hopkins University" collaborated in the latest attack on higher ed. www.chronicle.com/liveblog/her...
Trump Has Released a New ‘Call to Action’ for Universities. 4 College Presidents Helped Draft It.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a letter Monday imploring colleges to adopt a series of familiar-sounding reforms — this time, in partnership with leaders in the Association of American Univers...
chronicle.com
Wait did we know that Alivia Kelly, anchoring the defense for Cabo Verde at WAFCON, grew up in Boston and played for UNH?
Cape Verde WAFCON 2026: Diaspora fuels a historic debut – Her Football Hub
Meet the players powering Cape Verde's WAFCON 2026 debut as the island nation chases more history and a place at the 2027 World Cup in Brazil.
herfootballhub.com
critical error in assuming the peppers from the CSA were small poblanos and not large jalapenos and then using all five of them in quesadillas
they're playing Mali, so of course my allegiance is with Aïssata's Les Aiglonnes, but it is pretty great to see Cabo Verde's women at WAFCON!
The Globe has had some pretty rancid opeds recently, but the ones blaming people who don't want Flock and Shot Spotter in Cambridge for Xavier Bautista's murder is particularly horrible.
Mo'ne Davis scores the first run in WPBL history for the LA Queens (although New York now leads 7-2)
Boston was freed between 1703 and 1708... His death in 1729 prompted a rare obituary for a Black man in the New-England Weekly Journal, an extraordinary tribute that said he had “acquir’d the general love and esteem of his neighbors by a readiness to do any good offices in his power for every one.”
Lost and found: Grave of Boston’s early Black resident sheds light on past - The Boston Globe
An inadvertent discovery opens a window into the city’s past, illuminating once again how those in bondage helped drive the Colonial prosperity that once made Boston the largest town in British North ...
bostonglobe.com
The forests around Gunung Palung National Park in Indonesian Boreno, where I did my postdoc, are protected habitat for orangutans, critical resources sustaining villages and communities, and currently on fire. You can help keep people and orangutans safe! www.savewildorangutans.org/emergency-fi...
Indonesia shows elevated fire hotspot activity in 2026 as super El Niño threat looms
JAKARTA — Indonesia has recorded more fire hotspot activity by late July 2026 than at the same point in any previous year, including during the devastating fire seasons of 2019 and 2023, according to ...
news.mongabay.com
The State Department is making permanent a pilot program under which citizens from 50 countries, mainly in Africa, are required to post bonds to apply for a U.S. visa, and it's raising the cost as well, to as much as $20,000. https://to.pbs.org/4wEfLji
U.S. will make visa bond program permanent, affecting mostly African countries
A draft notice published Friday in the Federal Register says a nearly year-long review “provided sufficient data” to suggest the bond program effectively enforces compliance with visa conditions, and ...
to.pbs.org
I heard a story about a detained health researcher the other day and assumed this was it - but no, there‘s a second local scientist, from UMD, who is being held by ICE. On his way home from receiving a “teacher of the year” award. www.wbaltv.com/article/umb-...
University of Maryland pharmacy instructor detained in Dallas
Federal officials detained an instructor from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy last week.
wbaltv.com
Eileen Clancy 🧿@clancyny.bsky.social · 6d agoAmeaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.
(National teams should have better names for their women's teams, because the Lady Stallions just beat the Giraffe Stars)
ICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests
ICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests
A Johns Hopkins public health researcher and former Fulbright scholar was detained by immigration agents while boarding a domestic flight this week, the university confirmed, as the Trump administration...
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While I am generally against puns in scientific papers, I've just come across paper on diagnostic variability in tuberculosis called TB or Not TB: ...
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The Athletic@theathletic.com · 6d agoThe NWSL is expected to start its 2027 season in February, nearly a month earlier than previous years, per @melanieanzidei.bsky.social and @aslipelit.bsky.social. In the draft schedule, preseason begins in January, with playoffs running through the weekend before Thanksgiving. nyti.ms/44Tiaul
Elizebeth Smith Friedman learned (developed?) cryptography because her first boss was "convinced that English philosopher Sir Francis Bacon had secretly authored Shakespeare's plays and hired Friedman to help find the hidden codes he believed would prove it."
Elizebeth Smith Friedman Was the U.S. Government's First Woman Codebreaker. She Cracked Nazi Secrets, Saved 8,000 Lives and Pioneered Modern Cryptography
For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars. Recently declassified, the full extent of her story is still coming to lig...
smithsonianmag.com
Details of the new compromises on the PROTECT act that may actually get signed by Maura Healey this week or next. Some good stuff and some frustrating stuff (it doesn't end the current 287(g) partnership between ICE and the state Department of Corrections, but it prohibits any new ones)
Immigrant protection accord includes state, local enforcement rules for Mass.
Beacon Hill negotiators on Wednesday unveiled a compromise on the closely watched bill that would broaden protections against federal immigration enforcement in Mass., while preserving one key area of...
wbur.org
It's like the ominous the sports version of a Chotiner article when @pablo.show has reporting that Kawhi Leonard is involved with a thing you know... anyways the Legacy's summer home takes an unexpected turn...
NBA superstar Kawhi Leonard’s secret stake in Rhode Island soccer project revealed
The two-time NBA champion’s involvement was revealed after a 10-month investigation by Target 12, “Pablo Torre Finds Out” and Hunterbrook.
wpri.com
Aïssata equalizes for Mali against Cameroon!!
Aggressive Swan Having a Bad Day
Alt: Aggressive Swan Having a Bad Day
static.klipy.com
ICE literally went into a national forest and arrested people who were swimming, etc. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/n...
ICE agents target NC’s Pisgah National Forest and make multiple arrests, feds say
Immigration and Customs Enforcement extends its reach to western North Carolina’s wilderness areas and makes 13 arrests in Pisgah National Forest, feds say.
charlotteobserver.com
Nearly all concentration camp regimes involve the government making what were previously simple tasks of daily life unlawful or impossible for the group they’ve targeted for detention, bit by bit eradicating any possibility of public existence.
ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive (Gift Article)
Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.
nytimes.com