Cristina Perez-Becerril
@trispez.bsky.social
PhD Neuroscience. Interested in gene regulatory factors. Mother of Krakens. #BiInSci. #BiwiththeT. She/her.
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Ahmed can’t keep an account here but he’s in North Gaza and trying to evacuate with his family
Donate to help Ahmed and his family, organized by Yasmine Kara
Hello, my name is Yasmine and I am fundraising in behalf of Ahmed to help him live in… Yasmine Kara needs your support for Donate to help Ahmed and his family
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September 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Ahmed can’t keep an account here but he’s in North Gaza and trying to evacuate with his family
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@souppeh.bsky.social @trispez.bsky.social
We are surrounded by fear and loss. Your support could bring us peace. 🥲 Your help is our only chance to protect our children. Please, don’t wait.
You are the hope we cling to. Please, don’t let go. 💔🫶
We are surrounded by fear and loss. Your support could bring us peace. 🥲 Your help is our only chance to protect our children. Please, don’t wait.
You are the hope we cling to. Please, don’t let go. 💔🫶
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We only dream of a safe place… Help us protect my child from fear and bombs
Support our family to find safety and rebuild our lives
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August 14, 2025 at 11:33 AM
@souppeh.bsky.social @trispez.bsky.social
We are surrounded by fear and loss. Your support could bring us peace. 🥲 Your help is our only chance to protect our children. Please, don’t wait.
You are the hope we cling to. Please, don’t let go. 💔🫶
We are surrounded by fear and loss. Your support could bring us peace. 🥲 Your help is our only chance to protect our children. Please, don’t wait.
You are the hope we cling to. Please, don’t let go. 💔🫶
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“It is irresponsible if ScienceDirect continues to have these AI features. The AI generated texts on ScienceDirect spread misinformation and pollute the scientific knowledge infrastructure. This harms science, researchers, lecturers, students, and ultimately also the public.”
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
“It is irresponsible if ScienceDirect continues to have these AI features. The AI generated texts on ScienceDirect spread misinformation and pollute the scientific knowledge infrastructure. This harms science, researchers, lecturers, students, and ultimately also the public.”
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Lonnie G. Bunch III is the head of the Smithsonian. The first Black person to helm the institution and the founding director of the Blacksonian.
And his legacy will be completely overshadowed by his compliance with this authoritarian bullshit which should go against his ethical code as a curator.
And his legacy will be completely overshadowed by his compliance with this authoritarian bullshit which should go against his ethical code as a curator.
Save hard copies of books. What LLMs don't erase from the internet, fascists will erase from public life. Nothing digital or temporary (like a museum exhibit) is safe. Keep hard copies of history. Slavery. The Holocaust. Civil rights. Everything.
Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum
A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 1, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Lonnie G. Bunch III is the head of the Smithsonian. The first Black person to helm the institution and the founding director of the Blacksonian.
And his legacy will be completely overshadowed by his compliance with this authoritarian bullshit which should go against his ethical code as a curator.
And his legacy will be completely overshadowed by his compliance with this authoritarian bullshit which should go against his ethical code as a curator.
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Nearly 18k cis women have signed this petition. If you are cis and haven't signed it already and support the trans+ community, please sign and share this.
If you are trans, remember you are supported; however, the transphobes try to make it look. Please share this.
www.change.org/p/not-in-our...
If you are trans, remember you are supported; however, the transphobes try to make it look. Please share this.
www.change.org/p/not-in-our...
Sign the Petition
Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community
www.change.org
May 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Nearly 18k cis women have signed this petition. If you are cis and haven't signed it already and support the trans+ community, please sign and share this.
If you are trans, remember you are supported; however, the transphobes try to make it look. Please share this.
www.change.org/p/not-in-our...
If you are trans, remember you are supported; however, the transphobes try to make it look. Please share this.
www.change.org/p/not-in-our...
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If you're a feminist academic or educator concerned by rising transphobia in the UK please sign this. In any case please share widely. Thank you
forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia
We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement:
‘Not In Our Name’
We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...
forms.gle
April 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
If you're a feminist academic or educator concerned by rising transphobia in the UK please sign this. In any case please share widely. Thank you
forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
I have been glued to @pilarcacheiro.bsky.social ‘s timeline for the last hour or so. Thank you for the digest! #eshg2025
Bluesky
pilarcacheiro.bsky.social
May 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I have been glued to @pilarcacheiro.bsky.social ‘s timeline for the last hour or so. Thank you for the digest! #eshg2025
Unfortunately not at #eshg2025 but very grateful for @jamesfasham.bsky.social and other colleagues who are keeping me up to date here with all the exciting stuff.
May 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Unfortunately not at #eshg2025 but very grateful for @jamesfasham.bsky.social and other colleagues who are keeping me up to date here with all the exciting stuff.
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We're coming to your local venue in 4 days (19-21 May)
Did you check the programme and book your tickets?
Don't miss your chance!
🎟➡️ pintofscience.co.uk
Did you check the programme and book your tickets?
Don't miss your chance!
🎟➡️ pintofscience.co.uk
May 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
We're coming to your local venue in 4 days (19-21 May)
Did you check the programme and book your tickets?
Don't miss your chance!
🎟➡️ pintofscience.co.uk
Did you check the programme and book your tickets?
Don't miss your chance!
🎟➡️ pintofscience.co.uk
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EHRC have announced that their consultation on their Statutory Code of Practice opens on 19th May and will run for 6 weeks.
TransActual and our partners in the LGBTQ+ sector are working some guidance to support you to respond.
TransActual and our partners in the LGBTQ+ sector are working some guidance to support you to respond.
May 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
EHRC have announced that their consultation on their Statutory Code of Practice opens on 19th May and will run for 6 weeks.
TransActual and our partners in the LGBTQ+ sector are working some guidance to support you to respond.
TransActual and our partners in the LGBTQ+ sector are working some guidance to support you to respond.
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Trans and being told by your employer you can no longer use the toilets at work (especially if not out to all your colleagues)?
A cis woman who has been challenged when using the toilet?
Otherwise affected by the SC judgment?
Please share & fill out this form:
goodlawproject.org/about/trans-...
A cis woman who has been challenged when using the toilet?
Otherwise affected by the SC judgment?
Please share & fill out this form:
goodlawproject.org/about/trans-...
The Supreme Court ripped up the Equality Act – what has it done to you? | Good Law Project
Use the form to securely share your experience with us.
goodlawproject.org
May 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Trans and being told by your employer you can no longer use the toilets at work (especially if not out to all your colleagues)?
A cis woman who has been challenged when using the toilet?
Otherwise affected by the SC judgment?
Please share & fill out this form:
goodlawproject.org/about/trans-...
A cis woman who has been challenged when using the toilet?
Otherwise affected by the SC judgment?
Please share & fill out this form:
goodlawproject.org/about/trans-...
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I’ve had the privilege of playing on the same team as Emily several times over the years. She is kind, brave, and deserves the world.
We should call the ban out for what it is: the FA is banning trans kids from playing grassroots sports with their friends. It’s not about protecting women at all.
We should call the ban out for what it is: the FA is banning trans kids from playing grassroots sports with their friends. It’s not about protecting women at all.
When your kids heart is completely broken and there is nothing you can do 😞.
May 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I’ve had the privilege of playing on the same team as Emily several times over the years. She is kind, brave, and deserves the world.
We should call the ban out for what it is: the FA is banning trans kids from playing grassroots sports with their friends. It’s not about protecting women at all.
We should call the ban out for what it is: the FA is banning trans kids from playing grassroots sports with their friends. It’s not about protecting women at all.
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This goes not just for Zack, but for everyone: stop being squeamish about saying 'trans.'
It's the trans community specifically under attack right now and a trans councillor who's had to resign because of that.
Don't 'all lives matter' it. Say trans.
It's the trans community specifically under attack right now and a trans councillor who's had to resign because of that.
Don't 'all lives matter' it. Say trans.
Huge solidarity with Dylan.
Everyone deserves the right to live peacefully and our LGBTIQA+ community are far too often under attack.
This Labour Party are failing to stand up for basic human rights.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Everyone deserves the right to live peacefully and our LGBTIQA+ community are far too often under attack.
This Labour Party are failing to stand up for basic human rights.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Labour ‘throwing trans people under the bus’ says transgender councillor
Dylan Tippetts of Plymouth resigns from party ‘that does not support my fundamental rights’
www.theguardian.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This goes not just for Zack, but for everyone: stop being squeamish about saying 'trans.'
It's the trans community specifically under attack right now and a trans councillor who's had to resign because of that.
Don't 'all lives matter' it. Say trans.
It's the trans community specifically under attack right now and a trans councillor who's had to resign because of that.
Don't 'all lives matter' it. Say trans.
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We need to see her physically out. NOW.
A judge in Vermont has ordered Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk immediately released from ICE detention. Öztürk has been held in a notorious prison in Louisiana. She still faces the threat of deportation, apparently in retaliation for co-authoring a piece for her student newspaper about Gaza.
May 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
We need to see her physically out. NOW.
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I slammed table yelling in my very first semester of grad school about the quantity of unpaid labor being demanded from scientists & how if scicomm is so important (AND IT IS) we should actually pay people to specialize in that instead of trying to make people work 6 jobs in a trench coat.
IN 2012.
IN 2012.
May 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I slammed table yelling in my very first semester of grad school about the quantity of unpaid labor being demanded from scientists & how if scicomm is so important (AND IT IS) we should actually pay people to specialize in that instead of trying to make people work 6 jobs in a trench coat.
IN 2012.
IN 2012.
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Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29
April 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29
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The actual consequences of an appropriated 'false moral panic' are grim.
It wasn't a false moral panic - as shutting off access for trans people was the ultimate point (which is awful).
"BBC News - Equality watchdog issues interim guidance on single-sex spaces"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
It wasn't a false moral panic - as shutting off access for trans people was the ultimate point (which is awful).
"BBC News - Equality watchdog issues interim guidance on single-sex spaces"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
EHRC issues interim guidance on single-sex spaces
It follows the UK Supreme Court's ruling that a woman is defined by biological sex under equalities law.
www.bbc.com
April 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The actual consequences of an appropriated 'false moral panic' are grim.
It wasn't a false moral panic - as shutting off access for trans people was the ultimate point (which is awful).
"BBC News - Equality watchdog issues interim guidance on single-sex spaces"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
It wasn't a false moral panic - as shutting off access for trans people was the ultimate point (which is awful).
"BBC News - Equality watchdog issues interim guidance on single-sex spaces"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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I gave an interview to Al Jazeera on the Supreme Court judgment, and the surrounding context. I think it's possibly the best thing I've ever done (?) so give it a listen.
youtu.be/dhRKIZi60NI?...
youtu.be/dhRKIZi60NI?...
UK court defines 'woman'; trans women left in limbo | The Take
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
youtu.be
April 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I gave an interview to Al Jazeera on the Supreme Court judgment, and the surrounding context. I think it's possibly the best thing I've ever done (?) so give it a listen.
youtu.be/dhRKIZi60NI?...
youtu.be/dhRKIZi60NI?...
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The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic
The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...
www.irishexaminer.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
I have donated, bc I believe trans people should not be persecuted in this manner AND bc not opposing this breach to HR, means allowing it to happen to any one of us (see also policies affecting disabled people, asylum seekers/migrants, workers, the list keeps growing). It’s all connected.
Labour's new policy - of humiliating trans people by requiring them constantly to self-identify - we believe puts the UK (again) in breach of its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights and will seek a declaration of incompatability. goodlaw.social/0r6l
Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
goodlaw.social
April 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I have donated, bc I believe trans people should not be persecuted in this manner AND bc not opposing this breach to HR, means allowing it to happen to any one of us (see also policies affecting disabled people, asylum seekers/migrants, workers, the list keeps growing). It’s all connected.