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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Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:
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Despite a large body of scholarship on Indigenous research methodologies, and on the issues with positivism in STEM approaches, these questions come up constantly.... imagine how further along the field could be if we didn't have to hit this baseline point every.single.time.
November 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Despite a large body of scholarship on Indigenous research methodologies, and on the issues with positivism in STEM approaches, these questions come up constantly.... imagine how further along the field could be if we didn't have to hit this baseline point every.single.time.
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This is just a big echo for the need for more Indigenous STEM course content, leadership, and education. I like this article a lot as a place to get started! digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wlr/vol87/is...
Indigenous Peoples and Epistemic Injustice: Science, Ethics, and Human Rights
This Article explores the use of science as a tool of public policy and examines how science policy impacts indigenous peoples in the areas of environmental protection, public health, and repatriation...
digitalcommons.law.uw.edu
November 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This is just a big echo for the need for more Indigenous STEM course content, leadership, and education. I like this article a lot as a place to get started! digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wlr/vol87/is...
This is good advice! I wasn't expecting my post to get quite so much traction, and I hope more reporters will be doing more reporting on this!
There’s a religion-related story getting some traction on here tonight from an outlet I’ve never come across, with details that raise lots of questions — so I’d want lots more confirmation.
Not gonna point to it directly bc of that, but I’d encourage folks to await more reporting on the matter.
Not gonna point to it directly bc of that, but I’d encourage folks to await more reporting on the matter.
November 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
This is good advice! I wasn't expecting my post to get quite so much traction, and I hope more reporters will be doing more reporting on this!
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This from @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social's biography of Schopenhauer is sending me
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This from @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social's biography of Schopenhauer is sending me
OK, this is extremely cool. Comparable to the alligator bungie genitalia or the lid that keeps tarsiers' eyes in their head when they jump!
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A paper in Scientific Reports shows that chameleons have evolved a longer, coiled optic nerve that is likely to provide “slack” to reduce tension on the optic nerve during the extensive rotations characteristic of the chameleon eye. go.nature.com/3JTSgQ1 #evosky 🧪
November 18, 2025 at 4:14 AM
OK, this is extremely cool. Comparable to the alligator bungie genitalia or the lid that keeps tarsiers' eyes in their head when they jump!
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A very stark reminder why no one goes out on foot after dark in Churchill, Manitoba. This mom and her cubs came just off the beach and behind the town complex. The Polar Bear Alert staff gently herded them away from town to keep everyone safe. #mammals #BearSeason2025 🌿
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
A very stark reminder why no one goes out on foot after dark in Churchill, Manitoba. This mom and her cubs came just off the beach and behind the town complex. The Polar Bear Alert staff gently herded them away from town to keep everyone safe. #mammals #BearSeason2025 🌿
“The employees detained last week are part of our team and part of this community,” the statement read. “We are doing everything possible to support them and their families throughout this process.”
Three workers detained in Allston car wash immigration sweep granted bond, lawyer says - The Boston Globe
"He was following the law completely and working in accordance with the very work permit that DHS gave him," lawyer Todd Pomerleau said of one client.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 AM
“The employees detained last week are part of our team and part of this community,” the statement read. “We are doing everything possible to support them and their families throughout this process.”
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
I woke up with a song from their first album stuck in my head so I bring you a dispatch from Manchester, NH circa 2002.
November 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I woke up with a song from their first album stuck in my head so I bring you a dispatch from Manchester, NH circa 2002.
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On one hand, we should give Larry shit until he resigns in disgrace, but at some point, I also think we should remember that this is a living person and colleague who has now been identified without her permission. At some point the jokes get recycled enough that we're treating her like content
If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
November 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
On one hand, we should give Larry shit until he resigns in disgrace, but at some point, I also think we should remember that this is a living person and colleague who has now been identified without her permission. At some point the jokes get recycled enough that we're treating her like content
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If anything puts the lie to “we’re going after the criminals,” this shocking video should be it. Kudos to the @nytimes.com on a tremendously well done look into the immigrants here on legal visas whom we’re detaining. An absolute must watch: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
Opinion | We Came Here Legally. ICE Locked Us Up Anyway.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If anything puts the lie to “we’re going after the criminals,” this shocking video should be it. Kudos to the @nytimes.com on a tremendously well done look into the immigrants here on legal visas whom we’re detaining. An absolute must watch: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
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I resent that #sciencebluesky is now having the exact same conversation about sexual harassment, predatory mentorship, and its cost for women in science that we had on #sciencetwitter 10 years ago, and 8 years ago, and etc. As Toni Morrison said, "the very serious function of racism is distraction."
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I resent that #sciencebluesky is now having the exact same conversation about sexual harassment, predatory mentorship, and its cost for women in science that we had on #sciencetwitter 10 years ago, and 8 years ago, and etc. As Toni Morrison said, "the very serious function of racism is distraction."
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Sexual harassment is a productivity tax on women in STEM
Imagine the things we could do with our time if we didn’t have to do this bsky.app/profile/chan...
I did my job. And then I did a job that never should have been my responsibility afterwards, sending emails and having meetings about how this was allowed to happen in the first place. Other women scholars had to spend their time explaining to Aspen leadership why this was not ok.
November 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Sexual harassment is a productivity tax on women in STEM
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"Dozens of deportees have been sent to Africa from the U.S. since July after the Trump administration struck largely secretive agreements with at least five African nations — including Eswatini, Rwanda, and South Sudan — to take migrants under a new third-country deportation program."
West African Woman Attempts Suicide After U.S. Deportation to Non-Native Country
Attorneys say African migrants, deported under controversial U.S. policy, are facing life-threatening danger.
capitalbnews.org
November 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"Dozens of deportees have been sent to Africa from the U.S. since July after the Trump administration struck largely secretive agreements with at least five African nations — including Eswatini, Rwanda, and South Sudan — to take migrants under a new third-country deportation program."
Nigeria-DRC today in their last game to decide which team advances to the interconfederation playoffs to decide which teams will round out the 48 teams in the 2026 world cup.
World Cup Qualifiers playoff final: Nigeria vs DR Congo head to head, where to watch - BBC News Pidgin
Nigeria vs DR Congo wey go take place for di Stade Prince Moulay Abdellah for Rabat, Morocco, go kick-off by 8pm GMT.
www.bbc.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Nigeria-DRC today in their last game to decide which team advances to the interconfederation playoffs to decide which teams will round out the 48 teams in the 2026 world cup.
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Study Finds Most Americans Can't Find Where They Are Being Deported On Map
November 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Study Finds Most Americans Can't Find Where They Are Being Deported On Map
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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
I've been listening to a lot of Copland while doing homework and studying this semester, including his opera The Tender Land this morning. The version on Spotify is actually by the University of Kentucky Opera Theater, which is how I learned UK has one of the best opera programs in the country!
The Tender Land - Albany Records
By the early 1950s, Aaron Copland had become a skilled composer of dramatic music for the stage and screen, with five ballets and seven film scores to his credit. In fact, Copland judged his film work...
www.albanyrecords.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I've been listening to a lot of Copland while doing homework and studying this semester, including his opera The Tender Land this morning. The version on Spotify is actually by the University of Kentucky Opera Theater, which is how I learned UK has one of the best opera programs in the country!
every now and then I think of the guy who asked me, on a first date, if I ever thought #MeToo had gone to far, and I hope he is having an absolutely terrible day. Just thinking of him this morning. I hope he's stepped on a LEGO on his way to the bathroom.
November 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
every now and then I think of the guy who asked me, on a first date, if I ever thought #MeToo had gone to far, and I hope he is having an absolutely terrible day. Just thinking of him this morning. I hope he's stepped on a LEGO on his way to the bathroom.
I have learned that today is Goody Glover Day in Boston. Ann Glover, the last person hanged as a witch in Boston, an elderly Irish Catholic woman and former indentured servant who was deported from Ireland to Barbados by Oliver Cromwell, was killed 337 years ago.
Ann Glover - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I have learned that today is Goody Glover Day in Boston. Ann Glover, the last person hanged as a witch in Boston, an elderly Irish Catholic woman and former indentured servant who was deported from Ireland to Barbados by Oliver Cromwell, was killed 337 years ago.
Every now and then I check to see where our East Coast North American Steller's sea-eagle is hanging out - and it turns out he was spotted today in Newfoundland!
Steller's Sea-Eagle - Haliaeetus pelagicus - Media Search - Macaulay Library and eBird
Explore millions of photos, audio recordings, and videos of birds and other animals; powered by Macaulay Library and eBird. The Macaulay Library collects, archives, and distributes wildlife media for ...
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November 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Every now and then I check to see where our East Coast North American Steller's sea-eagle is hanging out - and it turns out he was spotted today in Newfoundland!
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated