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
Reposted by Erin Kane
The latest evaluation of bike lane projects in Boston continues to show that if you build bike infrastructure, people will use it.
Full report: www.boston.gov/sites/defaul...
Full report: www.boston.gov/sites/defaul...
November 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The latest evaluation of bike lane projects in Boston continues to show that if you build bike infrastructure, people will use it.
Full report: www.boston.gov/sites/defaul...
Full report: www.boston.gov/sites/defaul...
Reposted by Erin Kane
mamdani just had a meeting with an admirer of his who has used the term "shylock", accused jews who disagree with him of being traitors to israel, defended a nazi rally as "having some fine people", and said he liked his accountants to wear yarmulkes. proof of his antisemitism!
November 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
mamdani just had a meeting with an admirer of his who has used the term "shylock", accused jews who disagree with him of being traitors to israel, defended a nazi rally as "having some fine people", and said he liked his accountants to wear yarmulkes. proof of his antisemitism!
And now, the six merry murderesses of the Cook County Jail in their rendition of 'The Cell Block Tango.'
November 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
And now, the six merry murderesses of the Cook County Jail in their rendition of 'The Cell Block Tango.'
Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?
If so I can't imagine why
We've all got time enough to cry
Does anybody really care?
If so I can't imagine why
We've all got time enough to cry
There is no pain
You are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
You are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
November 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?
If so I can't imagine why
We've all got time enough to cry
Does anybody really care?
If so I can't imagine why
We've all got time enough to cry
Reposted by Erin Kane
A thoughtful look at the seals and selkies with which we’ve long shared these islands, from @cammy-06.bsky.social.
(Sadly the superb @sapiens.org magazine that published this piece runs out of funding at the end of 2025. Enjoy it while it exists!) 🦭
(Sadly the superb @sapiens.org magazine that published this piece runs out of funding at the end of 2025. Enjoy it while it exists!) 🦭
So good, by @cammy-06.bsky.social @sapiens.org: "Selkie stories often centered female autonomy. Female selkies choose their partners, return to the sea leaving families behind..Giving voice to women’s agency, these narratives shape reality, empowering human women" #Orkney #anthropology #multispecies
Connections and Conflicts With Seals in a Scottish Archipelago
An environmental archaeologist investigates deep-time, mythical, and contemporary relations between seals and Orkney Islanders.
www.sapiens.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A thoughtful look at the seals and selkies with which we’ve long shared these islands, from @cammy-06.bsky.social.
(Sadly the superb @sapiens.org magazine that published this piece runs out of funding at the end of 2025. Enjoy it while it exists!) 🦭
(Sadly the superb @sapiens.org magazine that published this piece runs out of funding at the end of 2025. Enjoy it while it exists!) 🦭
I just pulled down fresh Patriot Front stickers in downtown Boston for the first time in a couple of years. Local folks, keep an eye out.
November 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I just pulled down fresh Patriot Front stickers in downtown Boston for the first time in a couple of years. Local folks, keep an eye out.
Little girl on the train taking pictures of her grandpa while he makes silly faces and they are both collapsing in peals of laughter ☺️
November 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Little girl on the train taking pictures of her grandpa while he makes silly faces and they are both collapsing in peals of laughter ☺️
Reposted by Erin Kane
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Reposted by Erin Kane
Why do I love living in Boston? Yo-Yo Ma playing the Bach cello suites before bringing Mayor Wu out to duet for an encore, that’s why.
November 22, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Why do I love living in Boston? Yo-Yo Ma playing the Bach cello suites before bringing Mayor Wu out to duet for an encore, that’s why.
For a while my go-to on first dates was telling people Skyler was my favorite Breaking Bad character to see how they'd react.
What To Know About ‘Pluribus’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-pluribus/
November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
For a while my go-to on first dates was telling people Skyler was my favorite Breaking Bad character to see how they'd react.
My apologies to all Australian and English cricket folks, but this was the funniest possible scorecard to wake up to, given all the hype and the build up and dramatics around the Ashes.
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
My apologies to all Australian and English cricket folks, but this was the funniest possible scorecard to wake up to, given all the hype and the build up and dramatics around the Ashes.
I've always been suspicious of the coast guard.
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I've always been suspicious of the coast guard.
"We don’t need new policies—we have solid policies. We don’t need more talent—we have incredible cultural producers and we have an interested and engaged public. Our struggle [is] to build viable institutions... responsible for keeping African heritage spaces open and alive." - Ngaire Blankenberg
Who cares about African heritage?
While the world debates restitution, Africa’s own heritage institutions are collapsing. The question is no longer who took our past, but who is keeping it alive.
africasacountry.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"We don’t need new policies—we have solid policies. We don’t need more talent—we have incredible cultural producers and we have an interested and engaged public. Our struggle [is] to build viable institutions... responsible for keeping African heritage spaces open and alive." - Ngaire Blankenberg
Nova Scotia has sent Boston a very classic, aesthetically pleasing Christmas tree this year!
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Nova Scotia has sent Boston a very classic, aesthetically pleasing Christmas tree this year!
Reposted by Erin Kane
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I invite you to both (a) read about the siblings we lost this year to cruelty, and (b) celebrate and love your trans neighbors before they are dead.
www.transremembrance.org/in-memoriam
www.transremembrance.org/in-memoriam
In Memoriam — Trans Remembrance Project
www.transremembrance.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I invite you to both (a) read about the siblings we lost this year to cruelty, and (b) celebrate and love your trans neighbors before they are dead.
www.transremembrance.org/in-memoriam
www.transremembrance.org/in-memoriam
I truly don't understand how @chrispappasnh.bsky.social frames his senate run as standing up for NH, putting people first, and fighting against extremists when his record in the house is ... basically this, over and over.
These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I truly don't understand how @chrispappasnh.bsky.social frames his senate run as standing up for NH, putting people first, and fighting against extremists when his record in the house is ... basically this, over and over.
Reposted by Erin Kane
DAISY CUTTER TURBO, a new platform specifically for male cricket fans💪
men, we know you're tired of being unheard and unthought of when it comes to cricket coverage. well, we listened, and this one's for you.
daisy cutter turbo: we gaslight, we gatekeep, but we NEVER girlboss
men, we know you're tired of being unheard and unthought of when it comes to cricket coverage. well, we listened, and this one's for you.
daisy cutter turbo: we gaslight, we gatekeep, but we NEVER girlboss
November 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
DAISY CUTTER TURBO, a new platform specifically for male cricket fans💪
men, we know you're tired of being unheard and unthought of when it comes to cricket coverage. well, we listened, and this one's for you.
daisy cutter turbo: we gaslight, we gatekeep, but we NEVER girlboss
men, we know you're tired of being unheard and unthought of when it comes to cricket coverage. well, we listened, and this one's for you.
daisy cutter turbo: we gaslight, we gatekeep, but we NEVER girlboss
Reposted by Erin Kane
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Reposted by Erin Kane
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:
Reposted by Erin Kane
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.
Reposted by Erin Kane
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!
Reposted by Erin Kane
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!
🧪🌍
🧪🌍
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!
🧪🌍
🧪🌍
Reposted by Erin Kane
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 🌿