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Tom Green (they/he) @animalsexpert.bsky.social · 3d

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Scott Fabricant MD PhD @safabric.bsky.social · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Cefiderocol-resistant Pseudomonas osteomyelitis" 👻👻

Darren Irwin (he / him) @darrenirwin.bsky.social · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Developed new species concept"

Tom Green (they/he) @animalsexpert.bsky.social · 3d

If you say things like “ah well you know how females are” or “oh females always do this” I want you to know that I have judged you and found you lacking

Tom Green (they/he) @animalsexpert.bsky.social · 3d

I know I’m a biologist working in reproductive behaviours but sometimes? Sometimes I just need to spend 24 hours without hearing the word “female”. (This is specifically directed at people who say “female” when talking about humans, particularly when they mean to say “woman”)

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Tom Green (they/he) @animalsexpert.bsky.social · 3d

I know I’m a biologist working in reproductive behaviours but sometimes? Sometimes I just need to spend 24 hours without hearing the word “female”. (This is specifically directed at people who say “female” when talking about humans, particularly when they mean to say “woman”)

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Tom Green (they/he) @animalsexpert.bsky.social · 12d

There is a certain irony about NERC putting out a funding call entitled “AI for environmental science”

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 16d

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 16d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

www.thepinknews.com

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Sep 11

"A queer feminist approach ... would not frame chemically-poisoned frogs as pitiable freaks of nature, as well-intentioned scientific and media coverage tends to do."

The Queer Lives of Frogs

What frogs teach us about sex, science, and why biology is messier than we think.

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

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Tom Green (they/he) @animalsexpert.bsky.social · Sep 11

Nothing like writing a PhD thesis to make a man feel both incredibly smart and also incredibly inept at the same time

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Tom Green (they/he) @animalsexpert.bsky.social · Aug 8

Hello I have just discovered that the people who made the spider gripper robots are based at the same uni that made the rice purity test

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Jul 23

#Genotype and social environment influence female–female interactions in a non-social insect @animalsexpert.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #ProcB #OpenAccess

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · Jul 22

Did you know that bisexual flowers are perfect? Botanists do.

My latest pin celebrates the fact that 90% of flowering plants have individual flowers with both male and female parts. Botanists call these 'bisexual' or 'perfect' flowers. Please share!
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

A row of five enamel pins in the shape of six-petal flowers in nonbinary, pan, bi, trans, and LGBTQ+ flag colours. Each is on a backing card that reads "A perfect flower by canopy robin. Did you know that 90% of flowering plants have individual flowers with both male and female parts. Botanists call this a perfect flower."
The bi flower's backing card is purple and the others are green.

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Tom Green (they/he) @animalsexpert.bsky.social · Jul 23

The day my first scientific article is published is also the day I adopt my first dog- if you excuse me I shall be vibrating with joy over in the corner

Tom Green (they/he) @animalsexpert.bsky.social · Jul 23

First ever paper is finally out!!!!

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Genotype and social environment influence female–female interactions in a non-social insect | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Factors shaping social interactions between females are understudied in non-social insects. We tested whether female–female investigation, aggression and same-sex sexual behaviour (SSB) are influenced by genotypic and environmental factors in the Hawaiian ...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Tom Green (they/he) @animalsexpert.bsky.social · Jul 23

First ever paper is finally out!!!!

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Genotype and social environment influence female–female interactions in a non-social insect | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Factors shaping social interactions between females are understudied in non-social insects. We tested whether female–female investigation, aggression and same-sex sexual behaviour (SSB) are influenced by genotypic and environmental factors in the Hawaiian ...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Tom Green (they/he) @animalsexpert.bsky.social · Jul 10

I’m adopting a dog in the next few weeks and I can’t believe I’m expected to work instead of lay on the floor and think about Booster

A white staffie lies in the grass next to a tote bag on a sunny day.

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Dieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 8

Our #study finds that #male #dominance isn't the norm among #primates, and starts to unravel what shapes flexibility in intersexual power

paper (OA) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500405122

press release https://www.mpg.de/24986976/0630-evan-beyond-the-alpha-male-150495-x?c=2249

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Tom Green (they/he) @animalsexpert.bsky.social · Jul 2

Submitting to a format-agnostic journal is all fun and games until revised manuscripts have to be submitted in publication-ready format and you have 60 days to reformat and also do revisions

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Tom Green (they/he) @animalsexpert.bsky.social · Jun 25

I did my first ever stand up set yesterday and it was amazing- Bright Club is such a great opportunity to do fun science communication

Thomas is sitting backwards in a chair and looking very cool- his tattoos are showing because he has a shirt with the sleeves cut off and he is holding a microphone.

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Tom Green (they/he) @animalsexpert.bsky.social · Jun 24

I’m doing my first ever stand up set tonight! Come see if you’re around :)

Tom Green (they/he) @animalsexpert.bsky.social · Jun 16

I am doing standup!!! About how I have slowly eroded my ability to be normal by doing a PhD in s-e-x

Bright club pride event poster
Details: June 24, 7 pm
Sandy’s Bar, Students’ Association, St Mary’s Pl
HTTPS://wegottickets.com/event/662671
“A comedy night like no other”
Five queer academics talking about the wild and wacky life of research
With MC Susan Morrison
Tickets free but limited
Thank you to the University of St Andrews EDI Project Fund

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Tom Green (they/he) @animalsexpert.bsky.social · Jun 20

This is so cool and I love it but I did literally spend the last two days making phylogenies without this and so I’m maybe a little sad 🙃

Jasmine Daly @jasminedaly.bsky.social · Jun 17

🦆 My new R package {avilistr} is live on CRAN! 🎉

The first unified global bird taxonomy (11,131 species) is now accessible to #rstats users. I built it this weekend after Cornell Lab's AviList release last week!

🪿 Blog: www.dalyanalytics.com/blog/avilist...
💻 GitHub: github.com/dalyanalytic...

Introducing {avilistr}: The AviList Global Bird Taxonomy is Now Available in R | Daly Analytics

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology announced the release of AviList — the first unified global bird taxonomy. Today, I'm excited to share that this groundbreaking dataset is now available to R users thro...

www.dalyanalytics.com

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · Jun 2

If you think these are pretty but you're not trans and you're worried you shouldn't wear them, just go for it. You have permission. Enjoy the pretty fern and have fun confusing the transphobes. Wear it as a reminder to be an active ally. canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4312... #SciArt

an enamel fern in trans colours on silver metal. Its stalk curls over to wrap around a necklace chain

A glowing enamel fern in the colours of the trans pride flag, hanging from a silver chain by its curled over stem. It's on a backing card that says Trans Fern by Canopy Robin. Glow in the dark. Did you know that most ferns are homosporous? This means they produce onlye one type of spore which germinates to be both male and female during the plant's reproductive phase.

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Lightyear Foundation @lightyear-fdn.bsky.social · Jun 13

We're looking for disabled or neurodivergent STEM role models!
Especially in engineering but all fields welcome.

Let’s show that STEM is for everyone.

Apply: forms.gle/eHzFwm9G779y...
📩 [email protected]

#DisabledInSTEM #NeurodivergentVoices #STEMStories

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · Jun 17

We're halfway through Pride so now seems a good time to drop a pin that people have been requesting: something for allies.

The thing is though, I'm not interested in selling a traditional ally pin that allows just anyone to claim they're on our side, so lets talk about that 🧵

canopyrobin.etsy.com

Rectangular pins with rounded corners and text that reads "ask me about allyship" or "Real allies take action" on the trans pride flag, intersex inclusive progress pride flag, and a plain black background.

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Tom Green (they/he) @animalsexpert.bsky.social · Jun 17

What is common knowledge in your field, but. shocks outsiders?

Most birds don’t have p*nises - the ones that do are “inflated” lymphatically rather than with blood like in mammals

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · Jun 17

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

The ocean produces a huge chunk of the world's oxygen a lot from a class of cyanobacteria called prochlorococcus

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · Jun 17

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

Food systems are the #2 contributor to climate change, the #1 driver of deforestation, the #1 driver of biodiversity loss on land, and the #1 user of freshwater.

(It follows that food systems contain many solutions to these problems.)

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Tom Green (they/he) @animalsexpert.bsky.social · Jun 16

Just did a for loop in R on my second try and I’m finally feeling like I actually might be earning my PhD

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Tom Green (they/he) @animalsexpert.bsky.social · Jun 16

I am doing standup!!! About how I have slowly eroded my ability to be normal by doing a PhD in s-e-x

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georgia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @blahttodea.bsky.social · Apr 24

as some of you may be aware, we have been dealing with considerable transphobia (among other issues) in our department at the uni of aberdeen.

we are sharing this letter publicly to raise awareness and ask for your support. please sign and share 💕🏳️‍⚧️

tinyurl.com/UoATransphobia

#LGBTQinSTEM

First page of our letter - full text can be found on the linked google docs (sorry I can't include here because of the character limit)

Second page of our letter - full text can be found on the linked google docs (sorry I can't include here because of the character limit)

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