Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 20h

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

2

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 20h

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

1

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 3d

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

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 3d

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.

1

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 5d

In better news…

Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 5d

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

1

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 8d

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

3

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 9d

"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

2

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 10d

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: 🤨

1 1

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 10d

American Motherhood: “better be rich, chicks…”

1 1

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 10d

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

3

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 10d

Beautiful!

1

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 11d

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

Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 11d

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...

2 3

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 11d

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.

1 3 6

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 12d

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 · 12d

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."

1

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 12d

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.

1 2

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 12d

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.

1 1 5

Reposted by Cat Bohannon

Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 12d

Hegseth to Geneva Conventions: drop dead

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

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."

130 330 1.2K

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 13d

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.

2

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 13d

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

1

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 13d

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!

1 3 4

Reposted by Cat Bohannon

Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 16d

Standing up for science is one way to push back against political attacks on the university sector 👇 Experts in biology and anthropology have put together this statement to counter misinformation about race. Please consider signing and sharing

Stacy Farina @stacyfarina.bsky.social · Sep 2

Trump's very first example of the Smithsonian's "corrosive ideology" was an exhibit that correctly stated "Race is a human invention." How is scientific consensus (that biological races don't exist in humans) corrosive? We are asking scientists to co-sign our statement: forms.gle/kqKQF9CZ3jPB...

2 35 55

Reposted by Cat Bohannon

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 17d

13 38 120

Reposted by Cat Bohannon

Erika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · 19d

It's literally a transcript of the press conference.

10/10. No notes.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 19d

"It looks like they’re pumping into a horse. You have a little child, a little fragile child, and you get a vat of eighty different vaccines, I guess. Eighty different blends, and they pump it in... So, ideally, a woman won't take Tylenol."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

They Pump So Much Stuff Into Those Beautiful Little Babies

So I’ve been waiting for this meeting for twenty years, actually. And it’s not that everything’s a hundred percent understood or known, but I think...

www.mcsweeneys.net

9 83 290

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 19d

Things that are cool: research into how maternal infections shape fetal development (hey Zika). Not cool: scaring pregnant women with fevers for no damn reason (RFK Jr. is no friend to moms. Or science. Or… bears?)

Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 19d

We talk a lot about the Swedish study where the effects of acetaminophen on neurodevelopmental outcomes disappeared after sibling control. This paper from Japan with over 200,000 subjects showed the same thing. Small harmful effect that disappeared (actually sl. protective) with sibling controls.

Maternal Acetaminophen Use and Offspring's Neurodevelopmental Outcome: A Nationwide Birth Cohort Study - PubMed

Although PS-matched analyses indicated small increases in risk, sensitivity analyses suggested that unmeasured confounding, misclassification and other biases may partially explain these associations.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

3

Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 20d

Ooooh deeply want to read this!