Erin Kane
@dianamonkey.bsky.social
anthropology, ballet, birds, cats, computational biomedicine, conservation, cricket, cross stitch, ecology, guenons, lifting heavy things, lung pre-cancer, orangutans, ponds, primates, program management, science, yiddish. she/her
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Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
Boston Harbor is having a Wreck of the Edmjnd Fitzgerald Memorial Gale!
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Boston Harbor is having a Wreck of the Edmjnd Fitzgerald Memorial Gale!
Everyone around the great lakes watch out for those Gales Of November!
Chicago winter storm timeline: When will the snow stop, and how much will we end up with?
The Chicago area and parts of Indiana got socked with a massive and unseasonable snowfall Sunday night into Monday morning, and it was not over as the morning commute began.
www.cbsnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Everyone around the great lakes watch out for those Gales Of November!
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THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz
Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Just wild that this is how Jeanne Shaheen chooses to end her time as a New Hampshire senator. Shameful stuff from the NH congressional delegation.
Tentative Senate deal to end shutdown, multiple sources tell me & @frankthorp.bsky.social:
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Just wild that this is how Jeanne Shaheen chooses to end her time as a New Hampshire senator. Shameful stuff from the NH congressional delegation.
watching a graduation ceremony and based on these name pronunciations, I'm pretty sure the faculty member reading names has never seen a syllable.
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
watching a graduation ceremony and based on these name pronunciations, I'm pretty sure the faculty member reading names has never seen a syllable.
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snailposting!
(a snail I met in Borneo)
(a snail I met in Borneo)
November 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
snailposting!
(a snail I met in Borneo)
(a snail I met in Borneo)
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As antidote to current US government's reprehensible erasure of Black soldiers' WWII contributions, here's Jacob Lawrence's "Beachhead," 1947, a work in his larger War series. Lawrence himself served in WWII as an artist on the US military's first racially integrated ship whitney.org/collection/w...
November 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
As antidote to current US government's reprehensible erasure of Black soldiers' WWII contributions, here's Jacob Lawrence's "Beachhead," 1947, a work in his larger War series. Lawrence himself served in WWII as an artist on the US military's first racially integrated ship whitney.org/collection/w...
ICE's campaign of violence against our neighbors in Massachusetts and Rhode Island has totally depleted the fund for helping community members with bonds and legal representation. This would be a great place to donate if you have funds!
Overview — Boston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network (BIJAN)
www.beyondbondboston.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
ICE's campaign of violence against our neighbors in Massachusetts and Rhode Island has totally depleted the fund for helping community members with bonds and legal representation. This would be a great place to donate if you have funds!
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
The sound of distant thunder suddenly starting to climb...
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The sound of distant thunder suddenly starting to climb...
Ideal kind of day for the train on the New England coast. A little early for really good train birding (weird duck density is still pretty low), but I've seen a common loon, an osprey, and *maybe* some brants mixed in amongst the Canada geese, mallards, and double crested cormorants.
November 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Ideal kind of day for the train on the New England coast. A little early for really good train birding (weird duck density is still pretty low), but I've seen a common loon, an osprey, and *maybe* some brants mixed in amongst the Canada geese, mallards, and double crested cormorants.
"What I'm trying to tell in the story is one of a brilliant scientist who somehow got left out of the story."
An Opera Explores the Story of Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of DNA
Betrayal, ambition and the double helix: turning Rosalind Franklin’s story and the discovery of the structure of DNA into an opera
www.scientificamerican.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"What I'm trying to tell in the story is one of a brilliant scientist who somehow got left out of the story."
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Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
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BREAKING: Cornell caved.
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
BREAKING: Cornell caved.
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
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The Black Women’s Player Collective has dropped a statement as well this morning on their Instagram in light of the recent comments made this week.
November 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The Black Women’s Player Collective has dropped a statement as well this morning on their Instagram in light of the recent comments made this week.
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really good piece 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/d...
Sri Owen, Who Popularized Indonesian Cuisine, Dies at 90
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
really good piece 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/d...
Sitting down for this in about 30 hours and I think that means I can listen to ~10 iterations of the original cast recording in the meantime?
RAGTIME on Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater
YouTube video by Lincoln Center Theater
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Sitting down for this in about 30 hours and I think that means I can listen to ~10 iterations of the original cast recording in the meantime?
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I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
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7. Justice Jackson, joined by justices Kagan and Sotomayor, issued a blistering dissent:
November 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
7. Justice Jackson, joined by justices Kagan and Sotomayor, issued a blistering dissent:
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1. In a major shadow docket ruling from the Supreme Court, the court has ruled against trans people's passports, giving a stay to the Trump administration.
The admin has previously indicated it intend to revoke some passports if it got this ruling.
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The admin has previously indicated it intend to revoke some passports if it got this ruling.
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SCOTUS Rules Against Trans People's Passport Gender Markers In Shadow Docket Ruling
The administration has previously indicated it could revoke some trans people's passports if it got this ruling.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
1. In a major shadow docket ruling from the Supreme Court, the court has ruled against trans people's passports, giving a stay to the Trump administration.
The admin has previously indicated it intend to revoke some passports if it got this ruling.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
The admin has previously indicated it intend to revoke some passports if it got this ruling.
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I was just asked to review a primatology paper for the first time in literally years and I am honestly so happy to have people think of me and remember that I was a thoughtful and curious colleague who tried to be a pretty good reviewer and that didn't go away when I didn't get a permanent job.
a monkey laying on a tree branch with netflix written on the bottom
Alt: A lion tailed macaque grooming a juvenile lying on its back on a mossy tree
media.tenor.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I was just asked to review a primatology paper for the first time in literally years and I am honestly so happy to have people think of me and remember that I was a thoughtful and curious colleague who tried to be a pretty good reviewer and that didn't go away when I didn't get a permanent job.
My apologies to all men and nonbinary colleagues.
November 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
My apologies to all men and nonbinary colleagues.