Ecology Letters publishes a confusing and, indeed, self-refuting article about the lack of consensus of a sex definition and the problems with using gametes to define biological sex. They are mistaking sex recognition with sex definition. whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/03/16/a...

Corkscrew vine flowering in my SIL's garden. ⚜️

My Rhipsalis is flowering. Such lovely, delicate little flowers. ❇️

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Paediatric "gender affirming care" is the new gay conversion therapy. It is child abuse. Ban it. #SexNotGender sex-matters.org/posts/update...

Such a difference in colour. Taken just seconds apart. #Bethells #WAkl

Trump's a dangerous megalomaniac narcissist. But nevertheless humans are sexually dimorphic, sex is immutable & sometimes sex matters, including in most sports. So why did the Democrats gift him the opportunity to talk sense on this one thing & hand the Presidency to him?

This is great fun. How good is your colour perception? What are the finest shades you can distinguish? Apparently I'm a bit special. What's My JND? 0.0047 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

My PhD post is live! #psychology #phd #phdfunding lancaster.ac.uk/psychology/study/phd/#other-funding-opportunities-406250-5

Despite the turning seasons the hibiscus are still flowering. I love the little flower on the cutting. Nature's drive to reproduce, despite being just a stick and a couple of leaves in a pot of water. 🌺🌺🌺🌺

When you've spent a day processing the wrong data set and now you have to duplicate the whole 100GB just to keep that ~5%.

Yup. This.

If life is rushing past & hardly have time to blink let alone make submissions on the tsunami of change rushed through by the NZ govt take a few minutes to speak up for the environment & oppose the rush to subsume environment in a mega dept by WED 11 March www3.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/com...

'The NHS is pausing new referrals for masculinising or feminising hormone treatment for 16 and 17-year-olds after an in-depth review found there was insufficient evidence to support its continued use.' Good. About time too.

More excellent news for the welfare of confused children from #TERFIsland.

Truth is intolerant.

'The Green Party has £540,000 committed to fighting the consequences of its own unlawfulness across a three-year period ... on maintaining an ideological position that its own lawyers have told it is indefensible in law.' labourheartlands.com/the-green-pa...

Another of J. K. Rowling's absolute smash hits from The Other Twitter. And another one which likes mysteriously disappear from. Look like Elon failed to adequately flush the Augean Stables. #SingleSexSpacesAreAHumanRight #SexNotGender #ILoveJKR

Researcher has a lot of opinions about basic maternal care. Calls it "intrusion", "gendered". Refuses to use the word "woman". RU ff-ing kidding? It will take years to normalise the universities to the point that they don't produce this kind of crap.

Today Today's example of Microsoft #enshittification: when you use the shortcut alt+N+L to add a new comment to a word doc the cursor used to automatically jump into the comment box so you could immediately type your comment. Now you have to manually click in the text box before typing appears.

True this.

This is beautiful.

"Attempts to recast biological sex as a social construct, which then becomes a matter of arbitrarily chosen individual identity, are wholly ideological, scientifically inaccurate and socially irresponsible."

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Blossom at Waimea, Hawaii #MacroMonday #Photography #Flora #Flowers #Hawaii #ColorADay #PinkMonday 📷

Well. This isn't the greatest news to start the day with. #ClimateChange #HumanHealth

Eisenhower

'Does the MHRA’s decision mean scientists who one day hope they might play a role in medical regulation in the UK have to avoid publicly taking part in important democratic conversations in the future?' Exactly. The crux of the issue. @sonia-sodha.bsky.social soniasodha.substack.com/p/more-contr...

Khamenei is dead though!

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I hope NZ government and oppostion unequivocally condemns this act

This is excellent. open.substack.com/pub/glosswit...

Poe's Law. It is genuinely impossible to tell if someone online is being unutterably stupid, or maliciously dishonest.

Above all else, the mentat must be a generalist, not a specialist. It is wise to have decisions of great moment monitored by generalists. Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos.

This is groundhog day medical misinformation hell. Not OP's fault: 1. Most science journos have been laid off 2. Mainstream outlets rarely touch this meaningfully 3. This leaves a gap that's filled with partisans chanting TORDOFF 2022! TORDOFF 2022! etc jessesingal.substack.com/p/researcher...

Some favourites from my lunchtime stroll through the Winter Gardens in Auckland Domain. 🌺🏵️💮🎍💐

Hey, so all those rocket launches people love cheering on are probably destroying the upper atmosphere. Repairing the ozone layer in the 90s is one of our all-time great achievements as a global civilization; private rocket men seem intent on reversing that.

Oh yes she did! Nancy Hopkins & other female scientists at MIT experienced sexism. One night in 1994, she carefully went into each lab WITH A TAPE MEASURE & calculated the area. It turned out that even a JUNIOR faculty member had more sq footage. MIT admitted fault. 🧪 news.mit.edu/2023/measuri...

Anyone who is a clinician or other medical expert is invited to sign this public letter objecting to King's College London's involvement in the Pathways puberty blocker trial. #SexNotGender #StopTheTrial #KidsCantConsent kclstopthepathwaystrial.online

Cool new lipids I've found today: this nice series of gangliosides. #Lipidomics #MassSpec #Lipids

Two new followers this morning with identical profiles and exactly the same three posts. @support.bsky.team , you may want to monitor and block the source of this obvious botnet.

This is a sweet (LOL) refinement of QUECHERS. Sounds very promising. #AnaChem #MassSpec link.springer.com/article/10.1...

GOOD.

This is the saddest picture I've seen in months.

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

Happy Friday! 🌺