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Erin 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 12h

Massachusetts Bird People! Magazine Beach needs you!!

Erin 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 17h

"The Instrumentation Lab at MIT was seeking people to develop software to “send man to the moon.” Intrigued by the challenge, Hamilton applied, and was hired as the first programmer for the Apollo project at MIT, as well as the first female programmer in the project."

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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

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Erin 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 22h

Ahh amazing! I was an exclusively PBS kid, so watched my fair share of Arthur.

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Erin 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Fires are now burning just 500 m from the Tuanan research station. If these fires continue to spread, they could devastate critical peatland habitat, destroy decades of scientific research, place both wildlife and local communities at risk, and release millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere."

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Wildfire Appeal

Emergency Appeal: Help Save the Tuanan Orangutan Research Station and Surrounding Peatland Forest defaultdefaultdefaultdefault The Fires Have Returned to Tuanan A major wildfire…

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

BOOK DAY BOOK DAY BOOK DAY THE SCARLET BALL is out today! If you like demons, debutantes, blood, glamor, beautiful things and what happens when you rip them to bits, this one's for you! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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The Scarlet Ball

From USA Today bestselling author Nghi Vo, this all-consuming tale of ballrooms and bloodshed weds The Gilded Age with the Gothic vision of Guillermo del Tor...

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“Africa was a haven for religious minorities (heretics), political exiles, and other refugees from beyond the continent during Late Antiquity.” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-migrat...

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The Migration of “Heretics” and Refugees To Africa During Late Antiquity

Africa was a haven for religious minorities (“heretics”), political exiles, and other refugees from beyond the continent during Late Antiquity.

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Erin 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There is no moral valence to teeth because their health is mostly a function of genetics and access to dental care and fluoridated water etc. but the dentist ✨did✨ just tell me I'm doing an excellent job flossing

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Elizabeth Maddock Dillon @emdillon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What stories can we tell and not tell? What is the line between knowing and not knowing? It's not as simple as we often think.

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What Jane Doe Knew and Didn’t Know

The Stories We Need to Hold Together

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SAG-AFTRA @sagaftra.org · 06/10/2026

We celebrate Eva Marie Saint, who died today at 102. A #SagAftraMember since 1947, Saint won an Oscar for her film debut in 'On the Waterfront' and starred in 'North by Northwest.' An advocate for organized labor, she leaves an enduring example for generations of union members.

Eva Marie Saint looking into the camera.
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Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint in 'On the Waterfront.'
Photo credit: Columbia Pictures/Photofest © Columbia Pictures

Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in 'North by Northwest.' Photo credit: Photofest

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 06/10/2026

For @us.theguardian.com, I spoke to Native WNBA fans about the loss of the Connecticut Sun. “For a tribe that fought long and hard to be granted tribal sovereignty, the [sale] decision being taken out of their hands can feel like a violation of that sovereignty.”

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‘I will not be moving on’: sale of WNBA’s Connecticut Sun leaves Native fans facing cultural loss

The Mohegan Tribe made the Sun the first Native-owned franchise in pro sports. Fans say the team’s move echoes centuries of erasure and displacement

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Erin 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

it is amazing how, if you listen to this commentary, Boston actually invented the concept of fouls.

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Erin 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I finally saw a yellow bellied sapsucker at my local birding spot this morning!

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

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Erin 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah honestly it's got its charms and gives the skyline a bit more character

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Erin 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love when Boston chooses *this* kind of October morning.

The sun rising over the Boston skyline, directly behind a building and giving it a halo while also illuminating the fall trees on the Charles

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Erin 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't think I can handle another round of "the personal is political so open yourselves up viscerally enough that some people in power feel badly enough to make institutions paper over their broken processes for another few years," knowing what the #metoo backlash has looked like.

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Erin 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I hate the way social media feeds off of people retelling their trauma and I hate the way various statistics about the number of women who have had various kinds of violence enacted on them are thrown around and yet we never have the companion 1 in ? men have perpetrated it.

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 02/10/2026

The Cornell story is horrific, but I’d like to shine a light on what happened at LSU with a current football player on the team:

In July, the school found Shanklin responsible for "forcible rape" and issued a one-year suspension, which is a full ban from campus and activities, according to documents reviewed by ESPN. After Shanklin appealed, an administrative law judge who handles appeals per LSU policy upheld the finding that the athlete was responsible for "forcible rape," but reduced the punishment to four semesters of probation with no restrictions, which allows Shanklin to remain enrolled and on campus and to participate in activities as long as he stays out of trouble.

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Erin 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I saw a car this morning with the bumper sticker, "Honk if you are letting the soft animal of your body love what it loves" and it made me laugh a lot.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

A couple of years ago, I interviewed a leading attorney who represents survivors of sexual misconduct on campus, Iliana Konidaris (whose brother is the awesome 🔭 Nick Konidaris). I learned A LOT:

news.chanda.science

How This Lawyer Confronts Sexual Assault on Campus

Photo by Edwin Andrade on Unsplash I first met Olympias Iliana Konidaris at her brother’s wedding, where she gave a great toast that affirmed all of my...

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Erin 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"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 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's one of the classic hacks that comes around every few years.

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Erin 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thiis is the first time I've seen the MIT Tetris building in action!

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Erin 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

During one of the green line shutdowns last year, I was on a BU shuttle that was hit by a Yankee Coach because they're all using the same spot (bike lane) at Kenmore to pick up and drop off passengers during the same horrible morning commute time. Now add cars, bikes, and pedestrians into the mix.

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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."

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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 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 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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