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Erin Kane

@dianamonkey.bsky.social
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anthropology, ballet, birds, cats, conservation, cricket, cross stitch, ecology, grant writing, guenons, lifting heavy things, orangutans, ponds, primates, research development, team science, yiddish. she/her

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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 5h
anyway it's actually insane that I've been in academic spaces hearing *the exact same conversation* about sexual assault and rape and complicity and consequences and who must share their experience and to what end for TWENTY YEARS and we still haven't figured out how to keep women safe at college.
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 5h
"As things stand, students who commit infractions like plagiarism ... are often punished more harshly than the male students directly responsible for making the campus dangerous for female ones. Until there is zero tolerance for sexual assault on campus, women will not be protected here."
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 5h
Thiis is the first time I've seen the MIT Tetris building in action!
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 8h
Have discovered a paper called Advancing the Methodology of Mapping Reviews: A Scoping Review and I do wonder if we've gone too far.
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 17h
equator.org
Guilty Men • EQUATOR
A new book thoroughly documents America’s complicity in genocide
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The legal term 'genocide' refers to certain acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group."
ushmm.org
What is Genocide? - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Genocide as a term did not exist before 1944. Learn about its origins and legal definition.
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thinking about Momodou Taal, and Emma Sulkowicz, and Chanel Miller, and ...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sexual victimization history is the best known predictor of a college woman’s grades and one of the best predictors of drop out. It’s also the best predictor of whether a woman who started a male-dominated major like STEM will be able to complete it.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
But I just did what nearly all writing about the issue does: talked about the percent of women on campus who will become victims without talking about the percent of men on campus who will become perpetrators. Most campus rape victims know their assailants.
1 in 8 students experiences sexual violence during college.
The 2019 Campus Climate Survey found that 13% of undergraduate students experienced rape or sexual assault after enrolling in college.

That’s about:

• 1 in 4 undergrad women (26%)

• 1 in 14 undergrad men (7%)

who experienced nonconsensual sexual contact by physical force or inability to consent since enrolling at their school.

from: https://rainn.org/red-zone/campus-sexual-violence-statistics/
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Twenty-five years [of Salvadoran TPS] — you don’t call that temporary. You’re going to plant a tree and you think in 25 years you’re going to just grab it with your hands and pull it [up] and that’s it? Those roots, they are really deep.”
bostonglobe.com
With Salvadoran TPS in limbo, construction company owner contemplates what he’s built, and what he might have to leave behind - The Boston Globe
The uncertainty surrounding Salvadoran TPS has profound implications for a Malden man who has owned a construction company for 18 years.
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Kendra Mellifera 🏳️‍⚧️ @kmellifera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“For the men to be back on campus, either the danger passed at some identifiable moment, and thus this community is owed an account of what changed, or it did not and the suspensions were lifted anyway”
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Do we know any more details about the crash and the driver who killed Thomas Rose? We're now more than a month since the crash and three weeks since his death and no information. @universalhub.com
cambridgeday.com
MIT professor dies after bike crash at Memorial Drive intersection
The intersection at Massachusetts Ave and Memorial Drive had been flagged for safety concerns
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When I say I decided to go all in on @bostonlegacyfc.com and the NWSL this year, that does extend to all my hobbies. I'm very glad to have (finally!) finished this cross stitch version of the @bostonisa.bsky.social tifo from our opening match this morning!! 🦢⚽🧶🪡
A cross stitch version of the Boston ISA tifo, showing a swan in a green and black scarf flying over a silhouette of providence, Gillette, and Boston, between the text (in green and pink) that says OUR LEGACY TAKES FLIGHT!The back side of a cross stitch version of the Boston ISA tifo, showing a swan in a green and black scarf flying over a silhouette of providence, Gillette, and Boston, between the text (in green and pink) that says OUR LEGACY TAKES FLIGHT! It is surprisingly neat, all things considered!A picture of the Legacy tifo at the opening game of the season at Gillettethe view from the stands of the back of the Legacy Tifo, looking out over the stadium. There is also a trans flag and a flag with a grumpy raspberry that says RELENTLESS.
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I assumed I misheard this kicker's name - surely it is not actually Towns McGoo! Good news, it's actually Towns McGough
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
David Quammen's essay in The New York Times today closes with this paragraph. It's both a scientific falsehood, and an incredibly dangerous narrative. If you're willing to give me five minutes of your time, I'd like to explain why.
The Ebola virus doesn’t need to spill back. It abides in its reservoir host, and awaits its next opportunity. A virus can’t climb out of a bat or a monkey and fly off in search of human prey. It can only spill over. If humans left the reservoir host alone — not hunting it, not capturing it, not eating it, not exporting it live, not disturbing its forest habitat — the virus wouldn’t re-emerge in humans. It would remain where it is, harming no one. But of course that’s not what happens. And when viruses spill, they often spill into us, because the human population is such a big, busy target.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Putting aside all the ways the quiet racist part is said aloud, it’s also a bad analysis of power. The truth is: we’re paying to cut down the rainforest in Ebola hotspots - even U.S. universities www.thelancet.com/callback?red...
thelancet.com
Financial influence on global risks of zoonotic emerging and re-emerging diseases: an integrative analysis
Although commodity supply chains and financial markets are highly globalised, a small number of investors and countries could be viewed as disproportionally influential in sectors that increase EIDs r...
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...
fnl.mit.edu
How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"By early Thursday afternoon, advocates in New Bedford had documented 34 immigration arrests. Ondine Galvez Sniffin, an immigration attorney in the city, said that total only includes people whose families reported the arrests — the actual number could be higher."
wbur.org
In wake of ICE raids, immigration advocates in New Bedford scramble to locate detainees
By early Thursday afternoon, immigration advocates in New Bedford had documented 34 ICE arrests this week around the South Coast, but some believe the number could be higher.
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧪🏺🌏
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
On Saturday @jpinckney.bsky.social saw a man in his Austin neighborhood being kidnapped by ICE. Every day since then he's passed by the car, still sitting there, a horrifying lonely symbol of what is being done. www.welcometohellworld.com/his-car-is-s...
welcometohellworld.com
His car is still sitting there
An ICE kidnapping in Austin
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 23/09/2026
Earlier: “It’s gotten that bad: People don’t want to register their children to school. They don’t want to do groceries. They don’t even want to stop by the store for their morning coffee.”
texasobserver.org
'Living like Vampires': ICE Surge Fractures Daily Life in Deep South Texas
"It's gotten that bad: People don't want to register their children to school. They don't want to do groceries. They don't even want to stop by the store for their morning coffee."
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
publishing this while continuing to publish Richard Hanania op-eds is such a specific (bad) choice by the Globe
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Roughly 2,000 state and local law enforcement agencies have signed agreements with the federal government to conduct immigration stops or hand over immigrants who are in local jails. Since ICE reset its tactics, arrests from these programs have grown considerably."
themarshallproject.org
Inside the ‘Shadow Surge’ Driving ICE Arrests to New Heights
Flush with money and leery of bad publicity, ICE has banked on local police agencies to help ramp up immigration arrests.
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The situation in New Bedford and Fall River continues to be intense - donations are really helpful right now, as there is doing to be a lot of need following up on the ICE activity over the last several days.
newbedfordlight.org
Major ICE operation in New Bedford, at least eight arrested - The New Bedford Light
A Light reporter videotaped an arrest near the waterfront. Another reporter saw a half-dozen vehicles and what appeared to be ICE agents huddling at the Dartmouth Mall.
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fundraising for mutual aid to support the New Bedford communities currently being hit hard by ICE activity
givebutter.com
Humanity At Work - New Bedford Immigrant Justice Coalition
Donate to support individuals and families harmed by ICE activities in greater New Bedford.
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fundraising for mutual aid to support the New Bedford communities currently being hit hard by ICE activity
givebutter.com
Humanity At Work - New Bedford Immigrant Justice Coalition
Donate to support individuals and families harmed by ICE activities in greater New Bedford.
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Federal immigration agents have detained “at least a dozen” people in New Bedford over the past two days, officials said Tuesday, as community advocates warned of further operations. "How many people are just going shopping, getting their food and going to work, honorable people" being disappeared?
bostonglobe.com
‘These stories are heartbreaking’: Healey slams ICE raids in New Bedford as agents detain ‘at least a dozen’ people - The Boston Globe
Governor Maura Healey said many of the detained individuals have lived in Massachusetts for “many years” and were on their way to work when they were taken into custody.
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
✨what the hell✨
arstechnica.com
Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants
Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director.
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Orangutan Land Trust @orangutanlandtrust.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"In recent weeks, photos from Kalimantan have shown a thick, sepia-toned haze shrouding streets and obscuring cities, schoolchildren wearing masks at their desks, and even rescuers giving oxygen to smoke-affected orangutans." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
‘The physical toll is visceral’: How Indonesia’s fire haze affects millions - visual guide
Intensified by this year’s super El Niño, fires in Borneo and Sumatra are emitting toxic air for swathes of the population in Indonesia and its neighbours
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This reel from Sahril, one of the research assistants in Gunung Palung National Park, shows how they're using thermal drones for firefighting in the orangutans' forest habitat: www.instagram.com/reel/DdiIzJU...
savewildorangutans.org
Emergency Fire Fighting Fund
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“This piece is trying to say: The reason we are coming together is to remember how important we are to each other, and to remember how important it is that we take care of each other.”
youtube.com
David Lang: poor hymnal - YouTube
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.
npr.org
Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas
The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A Senegalese college basketball player, Amina Seck, is currently in ICE detention. Seck was travelling with her team to a tournament in New York when she was detained by ICE at Louisville Airport. She has been moved four times since her detention. #wnba eu.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...
eu.courier-journal.com
KSU women's basketball player detained by ICE at Louisville airport | Exclusive
Aminata Seck, 26, was detained while traveling as part of Kentucky State University's women's basketball team.
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
DIXIEME BUT POUR AISSATA!
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
well, that was terrible.
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Does anyone know of welcoming conservative or orthodox synagogues in Atlanta that are located in actual Atlanta? A friend is moving to town and looking for a shul she can walk to from midtown for Saturday services, but it looks like most of the synagogues are not in town.
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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I read Nikole Hannah Jones original piece about school enrollment ten years ago and the update today and whew there is a lot. My thing is not talking about individual people's choices but talking about how sometimes the invisible structures in the system become visible when we run smack into them
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the increasingly concentrated racism and white supremacy soup we're all being forced to swim in sucks
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Walked home from @joshgondelman.bsky.social's (very good!) show through an assortment of Goth youth in elaborate makeup and costumes, and this seems spiritually correct somehow.
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
First birding morning that truly felt like fall, and appropriately enough, my first truly confusing Fall Warbler of the season (we decided it was a blackpoll)!
A view over a park with an early maple turning fall colors surrounded by several still-green trees with very green grass and very blue sky
A whole mess of goldenrod with some asters
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The team at Cabang Panti has been using thermal drones to for firefighting. Usually we use them to find orangutans in nests, but in closed canopy, peat forest, and working in the hills and mountains, the drones have been invaluable. Help them get more! www.savewildorangutans.org/emergency-fi... 🧪🌏🏺
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026
Humaning.
A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch perch above a busy crowd in a city, looking down. The cardinal says "It's a nice day to go humaning." The goldfinch says "Just look at them. Majestic." In panel 2, a close-up of the two birds. The cardinal says "Nobody tells you that you'll reach a certain age and suddenly get into humaning. I hit 3 years old, and then bam."The birds are looking out over the crowd scene. In panel 3, the cardinal says "Their calls sound funny to us, but each one has a unique meaning." Below, people are saying various things: "I'm tired." "Where's my phone?" "I'd murder a burrito." In panel 4, the birds look down excitedly at a man walking by. The cardinal says "Wait, is that a guy who got dressed in the dark and put his shirt on inside out and backwards?" And the goldfinch exclaims, "Holy... that's a lifer!"
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Felling a tree is not a take of the bats roosting in it unless the tree is felled for the purpose of killing or capturing them.” The @USFWS's new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act, as revealed by Nesvik's memo, is the perfect blend of evil and stupidity. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/c...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One amazing thing about the place I've been going for ballet classes is *live piano accompaniment* which is a privilege I haven't experienced regularly since college. Last night's pianist was great and eclectic and we did tendus to You Gotta Have A Gimmick.
youtu.be
You Gotta Have A Gimmick - from "Gypsy"
YouTube video by Kevin Hobbs
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Center for Orangutan Protection and partners responded to a forest fire in Eastern Borneo yesterday.
instagram.com
Orangutan Protection on Instagram: "Turn up the volume. Step into the field. The radio crackles through the smoke. Dry leaves and brittle branches break beneath each step. A voice calls from somewher...
410 likes, 10 comments - orangutan_cop on September 16, 2026: "Turn up the volume. Step into the field. The radio crackles through the smoke. Dry leaves and brittle branches break beneath each step. ...
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It hasn’t rained since June. “The small ditches and even the rivers have dried up, which makes it extremely hard for us to put out the fires. Our only option is to gather at the edges of the plantation or the forest to keep a constant watch on the fire’s progress. It is extremely dangerous.” 🏺🌏🧪🦊🐒
theguardian.com
The women saving Borneo: battling fire, patriarchy and super El Niño on Indonesia’s peatland frontlines
Fire threatens Kalimantan’s rainforests. On the peatland frontlines, a group of local mothers is defending their community
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“The issue has surpassed any local organisation’s capacity. We need large-scale water bombing and skilled firefighters.” “The orangutans need the forest. What are we studying if the orangutans are all gone, and the food they have is all gone? They can’t survive without that forest.” 🧪🐒🦊🏺🌏
theguardian.com
Indonesian wildfires threaten leading orangutan research site in Borneo
Critically endangered Bornean orangutans flee forests as staff at Cabang Panti work round the clock to stave off blaze
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It hasn’t rained since June. “The small ditches and even the rivers have dried up, which makes it extremely hard for us to put out the fires. Our only option is to gather at the edges of the plantation or the forest to keep a constant watch on the fire’s progress. It is extremely dangerous.” 🏺🌏🧪🦊🐒
theguardian.com
The women saving Borneo: battling fire, patriarchy and super El Niño on Indonesia’s peatland frontlines
Fire threatens Kalimantan’s rainforests. On the peatland frontlines, a group of local mothers is defending their community
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