The programme is out for our Symposium, Exploring Queerness in Natural History, on 5 February. We're excited to hear from our Symposium Curators, Connor Butler and @aquadan1.bsky.social, as well as talks from Simon Goldhill, @canopyrobin.com and @rossbrooks.co.uk. (1/3) buff.ly/jc6Unz7

In an attempt to finally break even on these trans ferns and clear some space in my flat, I'm running a January sale for the pin versions. For the rest of the month, you can get them for £10 instead of the higher price I usually charge for this full 3d moulding canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4312...

One year ago today, I launched my trans "It's Dr, Actually" pin to highlight the expertise within our community and how experts from minorities often have their titles ignored. For trans people this is often paired with misgendering too.

"It's Dr, actually" 🏳️‍⚧️ canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...

One year ago today, I launched my trans "It's Dr, Actually" pin to highlight the expertise within our community and how experts from minorities often have their titles ignored. For trans people this is often paired with misgendering too.

72 fern sales away from breaking even at the currently discounted price! One day, I dream of these ones turning a profit 😅 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4312...

I saw this post a while back and it stuck with me, and feels rather relevant here. Doesn't matter if your good actions are "performative", what matters is that you're doing them in the first place.

72 fern sales away from breaking even at the currently discounted price! One day, I dream of these ones turning a profit 😅 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4312...

They're back! My progress pride "it's Dr actually" pins are finally back in stock 😊 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...

I still think this is one of the most beautiful pins Robin has ever designed (and given their huge array of gorgeous designs that's saying something!) Go and buy one, now!

They're back! My progress pride "it's Dr actually" pins are finally back in stock 😊 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...

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Ahh notebook and sticker set up day! Let's do the tour! Front of the new ipad case with work from, I believe, @neilslorance.com , as well as the excellent @canopyrobin.com (We've Been Here The Whole Time) and @avivor.com (Duck Detective!)

Oh no. Just got home and my flat is 8 degrees

In an attempt to finally break even on these trans ferns and clear some space in my flat, I'm running a January sale for the pin versions. For the rest of the month, you can get them for £10 instead of the higher price I usually charge for this full 3d moulding canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4312...

Not enough people have been posting ducks on ice. We can't fix all the problems in the world in 2026, but we can fix this. 🪶

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I'm home! As of tonight, I'm actually in the same place as my pins again so orders will ship out promptly for all your trinkety pride needs 😊

EU pals - shipping is restored! For the first time since Brexit you can now get my rainbow Science and Science Fiction pin badges across Europe. Tell your pals! proudscience.etsy.com

Just saw Zootropolis 2 and it was so good! Really fun and super cute 🥺

Today is my two year HRTiversary 🎉 How should I celebrate?

Every time I walk past this bit of fallen tree I can't help imagining it scuttling around, crablike, after sundown, and getting up to no good.

Not my biggest reading year ever but I managed to find a few gems and revisit some longer audiobook series. Thanks to @thestorygraph.com for keeping track of it with interesting stats!

Can't believe I made all but one of these in 2025!

My resolution for 2026 is to survive it. Lots of big stuff coming this year and I can already sense the roller coaster ahead

Wishing a happy new year to you all 🍾 We will make it through, together.

I choose to take this as a positive omen. (As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)

Slightly regretting only giving myself 14 hours at home to turn around between seeing family over Christmas and friends over new year. It's well past midnight and I'm only half way through my pin order backlog (thank you!) but at least my laundry is hanging up now!

in hindsight, this one was a little too birder-specific to make it into the New Yorker

Today we managed to light up this hundred-year-old bulb on our tree

I should perhaps not have run the numbers... with my current profit ratio, I'll need to sell approximately 10,000 more pins to afford the expensive trans healthcare thing 😅

Finally broke even on the hard-to-remove 'eggshell' version of my trans GameChanger stickers 😊🎉

Think I'm ready for Christmas to be done. Definitely not ready to go back to work... but ready for this bit to be over

I found them

It's an unusual time of month for me to feel like this but then again, I have eaten a lot of cheese..

Have officially reached the point of christmas where I am incredibly tired, despite (or maybe because of) doing nothing all day and need lots of sleep and maybe a little cry

💚fav pic of 2025💚 Still can't believe they let me do this

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I'll be looking out for Rudolph and her friends tonight! 🔴🦌🦌🛷🎁🎅 Same-sex sexual behaviours are well documented for reindeer, female and male. Read about it in Bruce Bagemihl's Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity (1999). #queer #lgbtq #science #nature #Christmas 🌈

This data has made me profoundly sad, this morning.

Day 24 of #InsectAdvent and the flying reindeer have arrived! Oh no they haven’t… It’s a Ricardia sp (Richardiidae) that I collected from Honduran Cloud Forest, one of the many species of antlered flies. @royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social

Starting in January, I will be amping up activity at @beyondxandy.bsky.social, including writing articles, recording video explainers, and working on a book about how studying genetics helped me accept that I was trans Please give it a follow to stay up to date 🏳️‍⚧️🧬

My mum has only just seen her spotify wrapped and her favourite artist was The Wombles

Whoever has been putting money in my tip jar the last couple of days, thank you!! 🥰

Just had to refund someone £30 on a £12.50 pin because of international postage and US tariffs that didn't arrive in time 😭

Also screw the BBC for its naked agenda. It refused to carry a hugely expensive first ever YouGov survey we commissioned showing how awful trans lives in the UK have become because it was "not strong enough" but there's no piece of anti-trans hatred too petty for it to platform.

This train is vibrating so much I really expected the last announcement to say "strap in for turbulence"

Incredible news: I actually got a seat on a Crosscountry train at Christmas! Usually I'm standing between carriages. it is admittedly 6am...

In the UK and need last minute gifts? My last shipping date is on Sunday so you still have time! (I also ship worldwide but it almost certainly won't arrive by Christmas outside the UK)