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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 3h

The paper does note that one measure is simply how often they’re having sex with males… “newsflash: aging female mountain gorillas also straight tired of faking it”

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 3h

Woah maybe add gorillas to the maybe-menopause list?!

Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 4h

Post-reproductive lifespan in wild mountain gorillas: "Almost one third of females in our study population (7/25) were “postreproductive” according to a commonly used criterion & lived more than a decade past their age of last reproduction, representing at least a fourth of their adult lifespan"

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...

www.pnas.org

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Women's Health Research Cluster @whrcluster.bsky.social · 10h

Season 3 of Women’s Health Interrupted is here! 🎙️
Ep 1: Dr. Cat Bohannon on how science sidelined female bodies
Ep 2: Rachel Bartholomew on how femtech innovation turns research into reality
Now streaming on Spotify & Apple Podcasts 👇
https://ow.ly/b8PJ50XbIoG
#WomensHealthInterrupted #Femtech

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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 1d

So true. He made men look good. That falsetto hit straight in the ovaries.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 1d

"a narrow focus on gross fertility measures provides a potentially misleading picture of demographic change. Our analysis of 236 countries from 1950-2023 reveals that when mortality is incorporated through net reproduction measures, our understanding of global fertility changes dramatically"

The role of mortality in fertility transition studies - N-IUSSP

Vegard Skirbekk and Thomas Spoorenberg* advocate the combined use of fertility and mortality information, or net reproduction, when discussing fertility levels and trends, both in developing and in de...

www.niussp.org

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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes I think about the whale mothers who were slaughtered for their blubber and baleen and how bits of their bodies were used to make corsets that squeezed the lungs of human moms wheezing in lamplight

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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 3d

Yes? But also he just isn’t very good at literary analysis?

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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 6d

“Well you know, Colin, I feel bad about that…”

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 6d

Interesting! Today in media, our authoritarian slide has been rebranded T’s “revenge agenda” and then people were asked how they felt about it, like that’s a normal poll-taking thing to ask in a normal “let’s take the pulse on the street” scenario.

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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 8d

In better news…

Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 8d

In many parts of rural Africa, babies bop around on mom's back during the daytime, where they're exposed to malaria. Treating those baby wraps with permethrin cuts that risk drastically.

"It was a level of effect that was beyond even our wildest expectations."

www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Babies take a lesson from soldiers in the war against malaria

Inspired by a military strategy to ward off disease-carrying mosquitoes, researchers see if the technique will help cut malaria infections in little ones.

www.npr.org

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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 11d

The sadism is exhausting. Still, we *can* win this back, people! But let’s not pretend the moral injuries of this moment will go away anytime soon.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11d

The US is now four months away from losing its measles elimination status.

1544 confirmed cases reported by the CDC.

Where is measles spreading? Here's what to know.

The country is four months away from possibly losing its measles elimination status.

www.nbcnews.com

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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 11d

Dense read but important, so I’ll translate a quick teaser for my non-academic followers: moms matter, and it matters who they are and where they live! So to better help kids everywhere, meet moms where they’re at when you give them advice.

Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 11d

"rather than employing measures developed for different Majority World contexts, it is crucial to construct more context-specific measures of caregiver responsiveness, that incorporate local norms, to facilitate the development of parenting support tools for vulnerable children around the world"

A Contextual Approach to Characterizing Caregiver Responsiveness in a Rural Area of The Gambia

Interactions with caregivers play a crucial role in early development. While most of the world's children live in Majority World countries, research on caregiving predominantly uses measures develope....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 13d

Time, money, time, money. Partner’s friend runs a jiu jitsu dojo. So our kids (5 & 7) go, afterschool thing, right? Partner wants it 2x a week. Me, eyeballing that 3:30 pm pickup when cheap aftercare can run until 6 and my best work brain always late afternoon: 🤨

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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 13d

American Motherhood: “better be rich, chicks…”

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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 13d

Things I love about my job: reducing suffering. Also answering that email about the evolution of orgasms. Rats & a #4 camelhair paintbrush, iykyk

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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 13d

Beautiful!

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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 14d

That’s @edyong209.bsky.social saying it the right way, as always.

Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 14d

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 14d

October! A turkey sammich costs $25, a whole lotta kids and grammas are gonna get really sick this flu season without vaccines, and they’re trying to get good people to leave the military willingly because they might get in the way of the crazy racist crusaders… cool. Also, pumpkin spice lattes.

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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 15d

The Army and Navy veterans in my family would beg to differ, Pete, but *everyone* in the DoD hates you anyway so… I guess why not act like a coked out Finance Bro in front of the entire nation’s top brass?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Hegseth: "A few months ago I was at the White House when President Trump announced his liberation day for America's trade policy. It was a landmark day. Well, today is another liberation day. The liberation of America's warriors ... you kill people and break things for a living."

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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 15d

Hold them to account. Celebrate the brave and gracious refusers. We the People are never faceless—stand for the best of us and catch the vulnerable in your arms.

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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 15d

The Justice Department is people. Congress is people. The Armed Forces, people. Our country’s noblest institutions are *people.* So yes, it matters when one or a dozen break the law. It matters when one or a thousand stand up. All of this is made of people making choices.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15d

Hegseth to Geneva Conventions: drop dead

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 16d

Punching up with the best, Queens, I feel you…

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 8

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 16d

Yes! Greatly looking forward to Heidi’s new book!! “She already in my DM’s…” 🥰

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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 16d

Point of order: all human births are “natural.” Medical interventions in fertility are a fundamental part of the deep history of our species. Stop mom-shaming women who want and need medicine for being, um, human. Cheers!

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