Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Cannot imagine what I’d be without the unvarnished beauty of music in NYC... that we all listen, so @smallslive 110 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026[Disclaimer: accurate results require 30 days’ abstinence from coitus. Todger Prime (tm) not responsible for personal, financial, or existential effects of sample probe, shipping delays, or acts of god. No warranties promised or delivered. Bangbros not included. Subject to local regulations.] 020 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Are we… allowed to build a parallel for the co-evolved phallus? I have notes… 💅 130 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Please note: if they are kind to their daughters but cruel to their wives, they still hate women. 0120 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Maternal immune transfer is central to how mammals even *work.* And we're mammals! Get yer shots, mama. www.acog.org/news/news-re...acog.orgACOG Releases 2026 Maternal Immunization ScheduleACOG's newly released 2026 maternal immunization schedule is endorsed by 13 medical societies and health organizations and differs from federal vaccine recommendations. 361 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 20/06/2026The author works for the American Enterprise Institute, a famously conservative think tank. Never mistake the “birthrate crisis” for anything else: it’s actively cooked up by misogynist Rightists and has been adopted by the Left as presumably pro-woman (it isn’t). 041 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Not the NYT literally claiming the decline in teen births is an apocalypse *and* that it’s because of phones and not an active international campaign to f’ing reduce teen births as a Moral Good www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Why We Delude Ourselves About the Birthrate 141 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Marianne Hirsch front and center, one of my old mentors! If a literal *Holocaust studies luminary* says this, you gotta sit up and pay attention, people. 062 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 03/06/2026“The ones who could live off the dead did well, too…” — Eve, p. 71 😎 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgPNASProceedings 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... 010 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Blurbing a book on human trafficking and yes this is *exactly* why Sarah Silverman was the one to watch in The Aristocrats. My god that bit was everything. 110 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Make life suck less for more people. Just that. Only goal worth having. 040 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 16/04/2026I met John Hawks a while back. Nice guy. Why not just ring him up? He’d have the scoop! I told him I wasn’t as sure about the cultural story but they’re cooking up interesting things (last I was told it’s in revision). 000 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Unclear. Sperm whales don’t have menopause (so far as we know) and collaborative / protective birthing culture is also super rare, but there’s so much more to learn! 010 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Because the idea of a Black woman who's authoritatively and deservedly a doctor is *impossible* for them to accept: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/u...nytimes.comTrump Administration Begins Investigations Into Three Medical Schools 030 0
Reposted by Cat BohannonJacob Tennessen @jacobphd.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Person online: Normalize self-care. Statistician: Ok, the average amount of self-care is now zero. 15213 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Also true: yesterday an older dude said, surprised, “oh this is like a serious book!” And not knowing what to say to a moment like that, so nakedly what it was, I said, “well there are a lot of jokes… but also a lot of citations” 000 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Pretty sure I put the loss / lack of human sperm plugs in the last chapter of Eve 😂 and very much enjoyed saying researchers collect them from chimps off the forest floor like glittering jewels! 010 0
Reposted by Cat BohannonKate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Please share and sign if you agree with my open letter calling for Botstein’s immediate resignation katemanne.substack.com/p/an-open-le...katemanne.substack.comAn Open Letter to the College President Who Maintained Close Ties with EpsteinIf you agree with my general sentiments here, please comment below—just “signed” or “seconded” is sufficient. 418863 0
Reposted by Cat BohannonElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston is a living legend. She has spent her career advocating for affordable healthcare for all, and was the first Black woman director of a public health service bureau. If that weren’t enough, her advocacy has led to advances in treatment for sickle cell disease. Goals. 09925 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Eh every thought is edited on its way out, still counts. But! I know--deeply--what it's like to get to "full doc" with a massive book so sending the getting-to-full-doc vibes, instead. 110 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Can see some coverage of Reich's work elsewhere here (with a nicely anti-eugenecist headline): news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...news.harvard.eduPure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard GazetteGeneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement. 001 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Yup! Maybe 'cause farming *sucked* for a long, long time? And kudos for this angle from Spain, Leiden, & the Reich lab on female knowledge-transfer across communities! @lemoustier.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comLasting Lower Rhine–Meuse forager ancestry shaped Bell Beaker expansion - NatureA distinctive population with high hunter-gatherer ancestry persisted 3,000 years later than in most European regions, contributing to later Lower Rhine–Meuse Bell Beaker users. 110 0
Reposted by Cat BohannonRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 23/02/2026More evidence, as if more were needed, that academia is not in fact wholly controlled by the ideological left. An apparently respectable economics journal just published a paper which is pretty overtly promoting eugenic ideology (first two citations are to Francis Galton and Richard Lynn!)link.springer.comSurvival of the foolest: population dynamics, income policies, and IQ trends - The Journal of Economic InequalityThis paper examines how different income distribution policies may influence the future distribution of intelligence quotient (IQ) in a population. Using a multi-period individual-based simulation mod... 53710 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Cool new research on pregnancy-related brain changes from the Hoekzema lab! www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comThe effects of a second pregnancy on women’s brain structure and function - Nature CommunicationsExtending their previous findings of brain changes in a first pregnancy, the authors show that a second pregnancy uniquely alters women’s brains, involving both a further fine-tuning of first-pregnanc... 001 0
Reposted by Cat BohannonFired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 21/02/2026This a great piece of investigative journalism. @rollingstone.com This should be required reading for scientists and ethicists. Ethics matter, especially in science. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...rollingstone.comNew Documents Reveal a Controversial Vaccine Study's Unusual Path to CDC ApprovalA new investigation has found irregularities in the ethics review of a grant to study effects of a birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau. 23653278 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Note that the gap starts waaay before any pubertal behavioral effect in the HG group... that's gotta be immunity & repair, folks. 000 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026It's... not "antics." It's everything, everywhere, all at once. 030 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026They are important. The consequences remain illusive. And those of us who had been little girls--who are mothers to yet more--honestly, we're pretty broken right now. It's one thing to suspect, even to have been victim... quite another to see it all called "Caligula antics" in the Paper of Record. 230 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Have only met a couple. But all believe the era of "no jobs" is coming much faster than you'd think (reality of that unclear). So there's a blur between "want" and "assume" in that frame: if you assume all such jobs are like blacksmiths during the Industrial Revolution, then what is stewardship? 010 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026A different world is unimaginable when you think your path to virtue is made of the power already given to you. The nihilists find it oppressive and party. Others drug themselves numb. Some make (to us) very strange choices that clearly harm others while they think they, alone, know the path. 020 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Which is to say: these numbers aren't shocking to the very wealthy. They simply don't believe the data mean what everyone else thinks they mean. It's akin to asking what royalty felt about their power in Europe 500 years ago. 120 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Most likewise think of only a fraction of their money as self-serving and the rest as what it nakedly is: power. So they see it as stewardship, and which ones feel more or less invested in the moral qualities of that stewardship depends on pre-existing personality and childhood experiences. 110 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Agreed. Having met a few bill's, here's an interesting twist: many in this world think of their political contributions and certain strategic investments (which are also wealth-serving) as "giving" so their understanding of their own money-management doesn't align with these numbers. 310 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026The lack of Irish-descended self-awareness in that group is continually amazing. 010 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 12/02/2026It’s my birthday! Anybody wanna make today a little less… Jean Genet? How about the sequel to Little Girl Blue being an actual astonishing victory? Anybody? 120 0
Reposted by Cat BohannonPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2026cool study — though the headline got it backwards… should be: people feel jealousy like monkeys www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/s...nytimes.comBaboon Sibling Rivalry Suggests Monkeys Feel Jealousy Like People 2343 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I… hardly use LinkedIn for this reason. Might eventually succumb. It’s just so… wanky? 120 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026It’s also the murder I’m afraid (Elliot Rodger, also *the majority of American mass shooters*) and the child abuse (1 in 4 girls under 18 sexually abused). But the forced births also not great? 000 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Kids had their first school lockdown yesterday. Some guy called in, said he was gonna shoot up the school. They’re 5 and 7 years old. It won’t be their last. Never accept that any child, anywhere, should be under threat. Never accept there’s “nothing we can do” to make this world suck less. 031 0
Reposted by Cat BohannonGlobal Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 29/01/2026"Our new analysis shows that it is far more dangerous to be pregnant than to have an abortion, and this gap in mortality risk is even larger than previously recognized.” - lead study author Maria Steenland. In fact, the mortality risk of pregnancy is 44 to 70 times higher than from abortion.brown.eduRisk of maternal death during pregnancy greatly underestimated, study findsA new study comparing deaths of pregnant people and of those who have an abortion show that risk of death due to pregnancy is three times higher than previously estimated. 12040861788 0
Reposted by Cat BohannonMinister of Silly Walks 🇺🇸 🌊 @walksilly.bsky.social · 09/02/2026perjury for sale! 0161 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 06/02/2026They have their charms. ;) I love my son and brother and many male partners deeply! Structural violence will require all our labor to dismantle… 000 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Ever get the sense that we’ve all been in a male cult? That it’s not “internalized sexism” or, as I say in Eve, female participation in culture-making that tweaks repro patterns, but maybe it’s actually just… worship? (Reading Shamanism by @manvir.bsky.social , who doesn’t say that, but… 😂🫠) 240 0
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Yup! Though—hear me out tho’—retaliation harder for so many reasons. The sexism, the weirdness, the simple truth that boy butts are less pinchable and pinching the other side would hurt so much more… Boy bods, like boy egos, more *fragile* 😂🤷♀️ 030 0