St Andrews -PhD Student- studying homosexual behaviour in non human animals - trans 🏳️⚧️ and disabled
Amazing. No notes. @evoroseman.bsky.social talk about race science for Ghent University. ugent.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...
Lecture Charles C. Roseman 11-06-2026ugent.cloud.panopto.eu
#BrightClub #BrightClubStAndrews is returning to the #ByreTheatre June 10th for some smart laughs and a few pints! byretheatre.com/shows/bright...
Do you (or have you ever) worked with natural history collections? Are you trans or non-binary? If you said "yes" to both of those, @rin-krichilsky.bsky.social and I want to hear from you! Please consider filling out our survey and please share with others! 🏳️⚧️ 🐛🦕🦴🌿 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Trans in Natural History Survey 2026docs.google.com
We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record." Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...
Keep calm and be transparent: advice from scientists who retracted their papersRetractions correct the scientific record, but they have stigma attached to them. Some in the research community want that to change.www.nature.com#BrightClubStAndrews is so soon! I'll be working the door, then enjoying our 6 funny folks and our wonderful MC! Come if you can, it's only a fiver :) wegottickets.com/event/691981 P. S. There's a bar ;) #BrightClub
Open Science isn’t just a values choice. It’s an economic one. We are sharing a new independent report by @technopolis-group.com on the economic benefits of #OpenScience and what drives value when research outputs are designed for reuse at scale: plos.io/4rdAxCY
Importantly they are planning to hire these people on 2 year contracts so what actually happened is they fired everyone so they could rehire them with worse working conditions and an easy revolving door with industry 🔭
Sarah HörstIt’s weird how this doesn’t say “oops we accidentally pushed out/incentivized to leave/fired” a lot of engineers and it turns out engineering projects need those.
It’s the first time a frog—or any amphibian—has been observed pollinating a plant, researchers reported in 2023. Learn more on #WorldWildlifeDay: https://scim.ag/4riUU1G
Fish, neuroscience, and the internet, oh my! Bright Club St Andrews is doing the comedy thing again... We have six hilarious acts, compered by the incredible Susan Morrison of Edinburgh's Stand Comedy Club Join us on 10th March, 7pm, Sandy's Bar, tickets £5 wegottickets.com/event/691981
Bright Club St Andrews: Spring 2026The freshest thing in stand-up! Six of academia's finest and funniest share the hilarious highs and lows of their work.
MC'd by the fabulous Susan Morrison of Edinburgh's Stand Comedy Club
Featuring...wegottickets.com
Same-sex sexual behavior in North American field crickets, including courtship singing, mounting, and “booty bumping,” is not the result of sex recognition failure but is associated with reduced aggression. In PNAS: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2506022123
Found some queer and trans organizations in various cities in Kansas, specifically - Lawrence: tlcks.org - Kansas City: www.ourspotkc.org - Wichita: www.thecenterofwichita.org
MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org
Trans Continental PipelineQueer Relocation Nonprofit in Denver, Coloradotcpipeline.org
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brightclubstaFish, neuroscience, and the internet, oh my! Bright Club St Andrews is doing the comedy thing again... We have six hilarious acts, compered by the incredible Susan Morrison of Edinburgh's Stand Comedy Club Join us on 10th March, 7pm, Sandy's Bar, tickets £5 wegottickets.com/event/691981
As far as I know, farm archives have never really been used to track queer histories before. Given they mostly record the financial ongoings on a given farm, you can understand why. However, my year of research at The MERL has proved their potential. Find out more in this blog:
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)If you're researching queer history in England, farm records might be one of the last places you'd check. Yet for #LGBTQHistoryMonth, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares how he's tracing queer histories within our farm archives, and gives tips for future research. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...
hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.
PinkNewsTrump 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
"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 FrogsWhat frogs teach us about sex, science, and why biology is messier than we think.thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
#Genotype and social environment influence female–female interactions in a non-social insect @animalsexpert.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #ProcB #OpenAccess
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...