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Erin Kane

@dianamonkey.bsky.social

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anthropology, ballet, birds, cats, computational biomedicine, conservation, cricket, cross stitch, ecology, guenons, lifting heavy things, lung pre-cancer, orangutans, ponds, primates, program management, science, yiddish. she/her

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Yes! Enjoy Montréal!!

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Wait you're in Boston?!

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More info from my local, the DC Abortion Fund, about why they're cutting back their hours and service area

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Afghanistan's women cricketers, forced to leave the country when the Taliban regained control, ask the ICC to sanction and assist in setting up a refugee team in Australia.

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... and a few Trinidad White-fronted capuchins making their way to their sleeping tree. It was really wonderful. I really, really missed the monkeys.

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But Nariva Swamp, on the east coast, is a tidal swamp with a small island with two primate species. Limeland Tours took us into the swamp by kayak, and we were lucky enough to spend some time with this intriguing Guyanan howler monkey pair and hear a few other groups howling at each other... 🌎🐒

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Our last swamp in Trinidad was the one I was most excited for. I haven't seen wild primates since February 2019 when I left Indonesia, and after I transitioned to working on lung cancer research, I really wasn't sure whether I would ever get another opportunity to follow primates in a swamp...

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It has begun.

"The hurricane’s early arrival is unusual: the average date for the first hurricane is August 11. The storm has been intensified by exceptionally warm ocean temperatures, driven by planet-warming fossil fuel pollution."

www.cnn.com/2024/06/28/w...

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My favorite time of year for neighborhood birds, when everyone is being harassed by their large adolescent sons who can't figure out how to put food in their own mouths.

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One of my favorite things we did in Trinidad was visit Theo and Gloria Ferguson at Yerettê, their beautiful home in the mountains where hummingbirds come to hang out and eat huge quantities of nectar from flowers and feeders and glare at each other when they get too close. They were glorious.

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I'm happy that the paper about my class on Historically Excluded and Underrepresented Scientists is now published. When I get back from Alaska, I will put the syllabus and other materials on my website and link to that here on Bluesky. In the meantime, enjoy! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Hecate the chicken has joined me at this picnic table in the park.

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Enough gazing at the abyss of June 28, 2024. Time to move numbers around in Excel files, I guess.

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We ended up naming our cantankerous and aggressive but much beloved grey cat Emma Goldman.

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My introduction to Emma Goldman was as a 10-year-old obsessed with the musical Ragtime: "The radical anarchist Emma Goldman fought against the ravages of American Capitalism as she watched her fellow immigrants' hopes turn to despair on the Lower East Side."

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I don't know if I've ever seen this Young Emma Goldman picture before, and I didn't know she is buried in Chicago near the Haymarket martyrs.

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A very Tuesday Tuesday today, so here's a white-necked Jacobin from Northern Trinidad. 🪶

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again, this is the police force Biden wants sent into Haiti. Kenya needs to handle its own mess before going off to serve US imperialism #RejectFinanceBill2024

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again, it's sort of hard to overstate how bad it is for American Jews that AIPAC is bankrolling racist "Democrats," who are in almost every way Republicans, to attempt to defeat progressives of color

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If I could get USA Cricket or whomever succeeds them to listen to us, I suspect things would work out a lot better for everyone.

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Layan Kayed, who wrote this, was re-arrested by the Occupation Forces in the early hours of 7 April 2024, from her home in Ramallah, the Occupied West Bank.

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Notes from a Palestinian incarcerated by the Israeli state: The prison wants to isolate you from your people and your homeland, wants to alienate you from fellow prisoners and their legacy ... But you know that without the years of struggle and sacrifice, prison life would have never been bearable.

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It seems like, if you were concerned about inside vs. outside shoes, you could just get a second pair of whatever shoes make her happy.

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This is a situation house slippers were made for!

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A second bicyclist in two weeks was killed in Cambridge.

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I have cousins in rural Missouri, but with the exception of one pair of cousins, political divides have become contentious enough that we don't speak anymore. I haven't seen them since 2006, when my great grandma was still alive. The last family reunion we went to for that side was in 2000.

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My folks up in Manchester have a tornado warning, but I think any storm that would come for us is currently hanging out in Connecticut.

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As long as you are also asking the ICC and the Afghanistan Cricket Board about women's cricket, and women's equity in Afghanistan, on a regular basis.

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And also start counting down until the USA Cricket board is expelled.

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Well, that was an anticlimactic way for the US's world cup to end, but what a great tournament it's been! I think it's probably time to rally round the West Indies?

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Lucky enough to watch the scarlet ibis coming in for the evening at Caroni Swamp in Trinidad 🪶

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The more you learn! Fortunately, I have enough flamingo pictures to last for a few more Fridays 😀

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Flamingos coming in to roost in the mangroves at sunset, Caroni Swamp, Trinidad. 🪶

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I knew I couldn't remember the right bird feed emoji... 🪶

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I am a big fan of the bright red cardinal guys we see in Boston, but look at this beautiful Masked Cardinal we met in Caroni Swamp, Trinidad! 🐦🇹🇹

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We ran into this beautiful Central American Tree Boa in Caroni Swamp.

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