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Cat Bohannon

@catbohannon.bsky.social
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Researcher, scholar, writer, freak. 🏳️‍🌈 EVE book out now. This ain’t samizdat but twitter ain’t either. www.catbohannon.com

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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Cannot imagine what I’d be without the unvarnished beauty of music in NYC... that we all listen, so @smallslive
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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.]
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Are we… allowed to build a parallel for the co-evolved phallus? I have notes… 💅
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Please note: if they are kind to their daughters but cruel to their wives, they still hate women.
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Maternal immune transfer is central to how mammals even *work.* And we're mammals! Get yer shots, mama. www.acog.org/news/news-re...
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ACOG Releases 2026 Maternal Immunization Schedule
ACOG's newly released 2026 maternal immunization schedule is endorsed by 13 medical societies and health organizations and differs from federal vaccine recommendations.
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The 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).
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Not 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...
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Opinion | Why We Delude Ourselves About the Birthrate
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Marianne 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.
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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/...
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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...
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Blurbing 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.
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Make life suck less for more people. Just that. Only goal worth having.
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
💅
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I 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).
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Unclear. 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!
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Because 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...
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Trump Administration Begins Investigations Into Three Medical Schools
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Jacob Tennessen @jacobphd.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Person online: Normalize self-care. Statistician: Ok, the average amount of self-care is now zero.
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Also 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”
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Pretty 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!
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Please share and sign if you agree with my open letter calling for Botstein’s immediate resignation katemanne.substack.com/p/an-open-le...
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An Open Letter to the College President Who Maintained Close Ties with Epstein
If you agree with my general sentiments here, please comment below—just “signed” or “seconded” is sufficient.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Dr. 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.
Photo of an African-American woman wearing gold hoop earrings, a gold necklace, and a red blazer. She has short brown hair light greenish eyes. She is beautiful.
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Eh 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.
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Sending good-revisions vibes!
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Can see some coverage of Reich's work elsewhere here (with a nicely anti-eugenecist headline): news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Yup! 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...
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Lasting Lower Rhine–Meuse forager ancestry shaped Bell Beaker expansion - Nature
A 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.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
More 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!)
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Survival of the foolest: population dynamics, income policies, and IQ trends - The Journal of Economic Inequality
This 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...
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Cool new research on pregnancy-related brain changes from the Hoekzema lab! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The effects of a second pregnancy on women’s brain structure and function - Nature Communications
Extending 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...
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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This 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...
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New Documents Reveal a Controversial Vaccine Study's Unusual Path to CDC Approval
A 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.
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I'd meant "elusive." But... both work.
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Note that the gap starts waaay before any pubertal behavioral effect in the HG group... that's gotta be immunity & repair, folks.
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
It's... not "antics." It's everything, everywhere, all at once.
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
They 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.
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Have 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?
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
A 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.
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Which 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.
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Most 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.
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Agreed. 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.
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The lack of Irish-descended self-awareness in that group is continually amazing.
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Total coincidence. Nothing to see here. 🙄
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
When the hands are the scariest things
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It’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?
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
cool study — though the headline got it backwards… should be: people feel jealousy like monkeys www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/s...
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Baboon Sibling Rivalry Suggests Monkeys Feel Jealousy Like People
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I… hardly use LinkedIn for this reason. Might eventually succumb. It’s just so… wanky?
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
It’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?
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Kids 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.
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Global 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.
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Risk of maternal death during pregnancy greatly underestimated, study finds
A 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.
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Minister of Silly Walks 🇺🇸 🌊 @walksilly.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
perjury for sale!
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
They have their charms. ;) I love my son and brother and many male partners deeply! Structural violence will require all our labor to dismantle…
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Ever 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… 😂🫠)
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Yup! 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* 😂🤷‍♀️
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Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social ( #momsonmars )
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