Anson Mackay 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@ans.bsky.social
non-binary geographer || co-chair Oracle Voices, head & neck cancer Patient Advisory Group || ultra & trail runner || neach-ionnsachaidh na Gàidhlig || managed by @davidadger.bsky.social || cancer blog
https://ansmackay.wixsite.com/uclgeography/blog
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Lovely walk around the Heath today
November 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Lovely walk around the Heath today
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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Look what just arrived early! It’s chunkier than I thought. Open access version on publication day which I think is the 18th on the @mitpress.bsky.social website. I must admit, I’m very fond of the colour!!! 🐦🐦 #syntax #newbook
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Look what just arrived early! It’s chunkier than I thought. Open access version on publication day which I think is the 18th on the @mitpress.bsky.social website. I must admit, I’m very fond of the colour!!! 🐦🐦 #syntax #newbook
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It’s out! Over the past few months, my colleagues and I at @unbreaking.org have been working to document the political, legal, and economic maneuvers the US administration has used to undermine medical research funding. We hope you’ll find it useful!
Read it here:
Read it here:
Medical Research Funding: Timeline — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It’s out! Over the past few months, my colleagues and I at @unbreaking.org have been working to document the political, legal, and economic maneuvers the US administration has used to undermine medical research funding. We hope you’ll find it useful!
Read it here:
Read it here:
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New in Geo:
'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' by Farhana Sultana
This paper critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in producing inequitable climate knowledge, global governance, policies and solutions.
doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' by Farhana Sultana
This paper critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in producing inequitable climate knowledge, global governance, policies and solutions.
doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
October 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
New in Geo:
'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' by Farhana Sultana
This paper critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in producing inequitable climate knowledge, global governance, policies and solutions.
doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' by Farhana Sultana
This paper critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in producing inequitable climate knowledge, global governance, policies and solutions.
doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
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On November 17th last year I sold my fist enamel pin badge at canopyrobin.etsy.com in an attempt to create a new stream of income that might eventually cover the expenses of trans healthcare instead of perpetual GoFundMes 🏳️⚧️
As we approach the anniversary, I'm going to celebrate one design each day
As we approach the anniversary, I'm going to celebrate one design each day
November 1, 2025 at 6:36 AM
On November 17th last year I sold my fist enamel pin badge at canopyrobin.etsy.com in an attempt to create a new stream of income that might eventually cover the expenses of trans healthcare instead of perpetual GoFundMes 🏳️⚧️
As we approach the anniversary, I'm going to celebrate one design each day
As we approach the anniversary, I'm going to celebrate one design each day
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As glaciers vanish they leave an imprint on our eco-cultural consciousness.
In my interview for @egu.eu hauntologist and glaciologist Elizabeth Case describes how scientists and artists explore the physical, emotional and cultural impact of vanishing glaciers.
blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/...
In my interview for @egu.eu hauntologist and glaciologist Elizabeth Case describes how scientists and artists explore the physical, emotional and cultural impact of vanishing glaciers.
blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/...
GeoTalk: Meet glacial hauntologist, Elizabeth Case (you read that right, a glacial hauntologist!)
Welcome to GeoTalk, Elizabeth! Could you introduce yourself and your background? I’m a genderfluid glaciologist living between previously glaciated, currently glaciated, and flood-prone landscapes. I ...
blogs.egu.eu
October 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
As glaciers vanish they leave an imprint on our eco-cultural consciousness.
In my interview for @egu.eu hauntologist and glaciologist Elizabeth Case describes how scientists and artists explore the physical, emotional and cultural impact of vanishing glaciers.
blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/...
In my interview for @egu.eu hauntologist and glaciologist Elizabeth Case describes how scientists and artists explore the physical, emotional and cultural impact of vanishing glaciers.
blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/...
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@ucl.ac.uk Geography’s Jiatong Liang wins the @rgsibg.bsky.social Climate Change Research Group Dissertation Prize 2025 🏆
Her research revealed how London’s heatwaves reshape air pollution patterns, uncovering vital insights into the climate challenges facing cities.
#UCLGeography #ClimateChange
Her research revealed how London’s heatwaves reshape air pollution patterns, uncovering vital insights into the climate challenges facing cities.
#UCLGeography #ClimateChange
UCL Geography Student Wins National Prize for Dissertation on London Heatwaves and Air Pollution
UCL Geography’s Jiatong Liang has been named overall winner of the RGS Climate Change Research Group Dissertation Prize 2025 for her study on how London heatwaves affect air quality.
tinyurl.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:13 AM
@ucl.ac.uk Geography’s Jiatong Liang wins the @rgsibg.bsky.social Climate Change Research Group Dissertation Prize 2025 🏆
Her research revealed how London’s heatwaves reshape air pollution patterns, uncovering vital insights into the climate challenges facing cities.
#UCLGeography #ClimateChange
Her research revealed how London’s heatwaves reshape air pollution patterns, uncovering vital insights into the climate challenges facing cities.
#UCLGeography #ClimateChange
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Seanfhacal na Seachdain / Proverb of the Week
🥂 "Tagh do chomhluadar ma'n tagh thu do dheoch."
Translation: "Choose your company before you choose your drink."
Have you heard this one before?
#gàidhlig #learngaelic #scottishgaelic
🥂 "Tagh do chomhluadar ma'n tagh thu do dheoch."
Translation: "Choose your company before you choose your drink."
Have you heard this one before?
#gàidhlig #learngaelic #scottishgaelic
October 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Seanfhacal na Seachdain / Proverb of the Week
🥂 "Tagh do chomhluadar ma'n tagh thu do dheoch."
Translation: "Choose your company before you choose your drink."
Have you heard this one before?
#gàidhlig #learngaelic #scottishgaelic
🥂 "Tagh do chomhluadar ma'n tagh thu do dheoch."
Translation: "Choose your company before you choose your drink."
Have you heard this one before?
#gàidhlig #learngaelic #scottishgaelic
Gave a very different conference talk at the weekend, delving into the life of the amateur diatomist Ken Knox, who no one had heard off up until now… 🩵 🧪🦠 #diatoms
October 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Gave a very different conference talk at the weekend, delving into the life of the amateur diatomist Ken Knox, who no one had heard off up until now… 🩵 🧪🦠 #diatoms
Listen 🙏🏼
If you haven't watched it yet, I urge you to check out The Blessed Madonna's "Dear Roisin Murphy..." video on Instagram right now 🏳️⚧️✊️
A full 7mins brutal and revealing takedown of someone she had previously considered a friend!!!
🔗 www.instagram.com/reel/DQFhxVw...
A full 7mins brutal and revealing takedown of someone she had previously considered a friend!!!
🔗 www.instagram.com/reel/DQFhxVw...
October 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Trans and human rights organisations, including @amnestyuk.bsky.social, call for EHRC to be downgraded as an internationally-accredited human rights body #transrightsarehumanrights www.scenemag.co.uk/trans-and-hu...
Trans and human rights organisations call for EHRC to be downgraded as an internationally-accredited human rights body
A wide-ranging coalition of trans and human rights organisations are calling on the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to be downgraded as an internationally-accredited human rights body.
Th...
www.scenemag.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Trans and human rights organisations, including @amnestyuk.bsky.social, call for EHRC to be downgraded as an internationally-accredited human rights body #transrightsarehumanrights www.scenemag.co.uk/trans-and-hu...
In other news, Britain's Sarah Perry is on her 51st lap of the Big's Backyard Ultra, having run so far 212 miles or 342 km 🤯
#runsky
my.raceresult.com/364272/resul...
#runsky
my.raceresult.com/364272/resul...
Big's Backyard Ultra, 10/18/2025-10/26/2025 : : my.race|result
Big's Backyard Ultra, 10/18/2025-10/26/2025, Bell Buckle
my.raceresult.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
In other news, Britain's Sarah Perry is on her 51st lap of the Big's Backyard Ultra, having run so far 212 miles or 342 km 🤯
#runsky
my.raceresult.com/364272/resul...
#runsky
my.raceresult.com/364272/resul...
As a Stage 4 head and neck cancer patient myself, the results of this trial are outstanding... "Early results show 76% of this group saw their tumours shrink or stop growing" #cansky 🧪
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Smart jab can shrink head and neck cancer tumours within six weeks, trial finds
Triple-action therapy drug amivantamab could be given as an injection to help treat recurrent or metastatic cancers
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
As a Stage 4 head and neck cancer patient myself, the results of this trial are outstanding... "Early results show 76% of this group saw their tumours shrink or stop growing" #cansky 🧪
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Good news! We just won a landmark case on gender recognition 🏳️⚧️
At a moment where things have felt particularly dark trans community, this is a huge victory ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/5k9b
At a moment where things have felt particularly dark trans community, this is a huge victory ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/5k9b
WIN: Victory in landmark case on gender recognition
High Court rules that a trans man cannot be denied a Gender Recognition Certificate because he is trying to conceive, in an important win supported by Good Law Project.
goodlaw.social
October 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Good news! We just won a landmark case on gender recognition 🏳️⚧️
At a moment where things have felt particularly dark trans community, this is a huge victory ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/5k9b
At a moment where things have felt particularly dark trans community, this is a huge victory ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/5k9b
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Wes Streeting complained that “women” (by which he means “transphobes”) are being silenced.
Funny how one of those “silenced women” gets an op-ed in national mainstream media while we get nothing.
6500 anti-trans articles in UK mainstream media in 2023 shows who is being silenced and who is not.
Funny how one of those “silenced women” gets an op-ed in national mainstream media while we get nothing.
6500 anti-trans articles in UK mainstream media in 2023 shows who is being silenced and who is not.
Literal anti-LGBT blackshirts marching in Soho today
Bindel:
Bindel:
October 11, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Wes Streeting complained that “women” (by which he means “transphobes”) are being silenced.
Funny how one of those “silenced women” gets an op-ed in national mainstream media while we get nothing.
6500 anti-trans articles in UK mainstream media in 2023 shows who is being silenced and who is not.
Funny how one of those “silenced women” gets an op-ed in national mainstream media while we get nothing.
6500 anti-trans articles in UK mainstream media in 2023 shows who is being silenced and who is not.
#Radiotherapy is a brutal treatment, I know. But it is an absolutely necessary one for either curative or pallitative care in fighting cancer. That 60,000+ people in the UK are not receiving it on time, and that it is a post-code lottery is, appalling #cansky
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More than 60,000 cancer patients in England ‘not getting necessary radiotherapy’
Exclusive: Analysis of NHS data by Radiotherapy UK also shows some patients face waits of up to six months
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 6:19 AM
#Radiotherapy is a brutal treatment, I know. But it is an absolutely necessary one for either curative or pallitative care in fighting cancer. That 60,000+ people in the UK are not receiving it on time, and that it is a post-code lottery is, appalling #cansky
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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“Oh my god… I have no words.”
Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina Machado finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news with her directly before it was announced to the world.
Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina Machado finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news with her directly before it was announced to the world.
October 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Mini milestone - first time I’ve managed to bench press more than I weigh!!
October 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Mini milestone - first time I’ve managed to bench press more than I weigh!!
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
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Wes Streeting extended the puberty-blocker ban on 6 November 2024.
Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.
Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.
17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner
A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.
www.thepinknews.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Wes Streeting extended the puberty-blocker ban on 6 November 2024.
Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.
Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.
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Gender Clinic Files: Some people in Scotland will never get a gender clinic appointment on a 224-year waitlist www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...
Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist
Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care
www.wearequeeraf.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Gender Clinic Files: Some people in Scotland will never get a gender clinic appointment on a 224-year waitlist www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...
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Updated my list of peer-reviewed critiques of The Cass Review, AGAIN for the second time today, adding McFadyen et al (2025)
This brings the number of peer-reviewed critiques of this pseudoscience to 13.
This brings the number of peer-reviewed critiques of this pseudoscience to 13.
Peer-reviewed critiques of The Cass Review
Peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review (In chronological order of publication) Horton, C (2024) The Cass Review: Cis-supremacy in the ...
uncommon-scents.blogspot.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Updated my list of peer-reviewed critiques of The Cass Review, AGAIN for the second time today, adding McFadyen et al (2025)
This brings the number of peer-reviewed critiques of this pseudoscience to 13.
This brings the number of peer-reviewed critiques of this pseudoscience to 13.
Great advert for Tory private education if they can’t even spell Britain 🤦🏼♂️
It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.
October 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Great advert for Tory private education if they can’t even spell Britain 🤦🏼♂️
This is cool: 'A species of nocturnal spider attracts prey to its web using the bioluminescent beacons of already trapped fireflies!' 🕷️ 🧪
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/spider-uses-...
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/spider-uses-...
Spider uses trapped fireflies as glowing bait - BES
Spider uses trapped fireflies as glowing bait - BES is the largest scientific society for ecologists in Europe. We're working towards a world in which nature and people thrive.
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
October 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This is cool: 'A species of nocturnal spider attracts prey to its web using the bioluminescent beacons of already trapped fireflies!' 🕷️ 🧪
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/spider-uses-...
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/spider-uses-...