Maternal immune transfer is central to how mammals even *work.* And we're mammals! Get yer shots, mama. www.acog.org/news/news-re...

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...

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.

“The ones who could live off the dead did well, too…” — Eve, p. 71 😎 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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.

Make life suck less for more people. Just that. Only goal worth having.

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...

Person online: Normalize self-care. Statistician: Ok, the average amount of self-care is now zero.

Please share and sign if you agree with my open letter calling for Botstein’s immediate resignation katemanne.substack.com/p/an-open-le...

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.

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...

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!)

Cool new research on pregnancy-related brain changes from the Hoekzema lab! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

Note that the gap starts waaay before any pubertal behavioral effect in the HG group... that's gotta be immunity & repair, folks.

When the hands are the scariest things

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?

cool study — though the headline got it backwards… should be: people feel jealousy like monkeys www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/s...

I… hardly use LinkedIn for this reason. Might eventually succumb. It’s just so… wanky?

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.

"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.

perjury for sale!

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… 😂🫠)

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social ( #momsonmars )

It’s giving Poland 1942

In case y’all are ever wondering, women and girls have been living under the dual state since… well not forever, but maybe the start of States. Remember that on this, another morning of men.

I’m so so so so bored of having to think about the sex lives of wealthy men. The enduring cruelty of it all is unsurprising. But also… just feels like wrinkly old genitalia are just whacking our faces every morning. Like let me have my coffee, people! (Plus I miss democracy.)

Easily the maddest I’ve ever been that I’m not in New Jersey. Get thee to Princeton people!

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

There are approximately 1000 research groups on the #NIH campuses, including Steve Rosenberg's research group, which develops groundbreaking T-cell therapies for cancer. Effectively all of those groups were suddenly prohibited from buying any (!) supplies last year. That is on the leadership.

Noting that 2-year construction projects are conveniently timed to next major election cycle / avoiding embarrassment for the rest of term / stunning to close on nation’s 250th celebration

In theater. So they think they’re at war.

Today in women & femme health research: cool stuff! Also today: emails from schools telling parents lockdown procedures for ICE will follow standard protocol for active shooters. #allhealthispublichealth #healthisalwayspolitical

Quietly clocking the “so I fire some guys and then it’s still cool to fund the gestapo” vibes

Man they really want a civil war—they want it *so bad*—and Walz is giving out donuts and chocolate. Bravo.

When I lived in France we had a sweet old neighbor lady who would spit every time she passed a certain house. Eventually, her daughter explained to me that the home belonged to a man who’d collaborated with the Nazis 60 YEARS AGO. May these ICE goons face a similarly lonely future.

Single moms for the win, even in Africa y’all!

If you've heard anyone make claims such as 100 South Koreans will only have 6 great-grand-children, here's why that claim is population scaremongering: generations exist in families, not populations

Black women republicans. Latino ICE agents. Usha Vance having sex with JD Vance ON PURPOSE. We live in wild times. Stay safe out there, y’all.

Now is the time to invite your friends over, friends. Our guest room is gonna be occupied here in the PNW for a while! And the other room. And the couches. And if that runs out, the floor.

Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Today we honor MLK Jr. The dream of true community lives on.

Dude doesn’t understand that Norway isn’t Sweden 🫠 www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Guess the elephant party thinks T* is “too big to fail” like they wanna illustrate sunk cost fallacy by taking down the whole world order…

Full survey results show American public have high levels of confidence in scientists while revealing some partisan differences (including on how to fund science), but statements asserting lost trust should be read instead as intentional efforts to degrade trust. www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...

“…in the Capital Ballroom of the Royal Sonesta Hotel, the students donned dark blue robes, signed the University of Austin register and, in return, received a copy of The Odyssey.” 😂😂😂💀

In case you’re bewildered at the horrors that be this week, the reason it Feels Good to Do Good is because the human body evolved to be interdependent. Witnessing unjust harm feels *awful* when your brain’s working right. Helping make others safe feels *great.*

Thinking about how obstetric violence was always about covering for an insecure patriarchy… eg the “husband stitch” is there to make up for y’all’s lack of girth? 🤔📏