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)

The #1 movie when you were ten years old is how your 2026 is going to go. ...I guess we can hope

I'm now officially on holiday but my brain refuses to believe it. Any tips for easing the momentum of productivity stress?

Looking for some nerdy drawing fun over the next few weeks? My Xmas & New Year zines are available to download for £1 (or more) and you’re welcome to print as many copies as you want! They’re A4 but I’m told can be printed on Letter paper & trimmed #SciArt ko-fi.com/hanaayoob/shop

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)

One of these was me! Such a nice opportunity to speak about our work with woodland creation

Seems like a good time to reshare this resource: www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...

Reposting this thread for anyone still in search of Christmas gifts (last orders on Sunday for those in the UK)

Just 10 trans Christmas tree pins remaining! It would be amazing if they sold out before Christmas 🥰

Reposting this thread for anyone still in search of Christmas gifts (last orders on Sunday for those in the UK)

I may have sold out of these on my etsy but, if you want one before Christmas, there are still a few available via @typewronger.bsky.social. Plus, they're a small bookshop so you can buy some real books at the same time!! 📚

I may have sold out of these on my etsy but, if you want one before Christmas, there are still a few available via @typewronger.bsky.social. Plus, they're a small bookshop so you can buy some real books at the same time!! 📚

Omg. They just sold out!! Thank you!

When this guidance is published (given legal standing), as it almost certainly will be, as a trans man I will not be allowed to use non-unisex public toilets. Which is almost every public toilet. Just want that to sink in, there. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bridget Phillipson knew her history, was told by MPs not to appoint her, insisted on appointing her, and in her first interview the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has ignored super clear and explicit human rights law that trans people are not a third sex. What a disgrace.

I have once again found a tree ID pin with imperfect enamel (errors on the horse chestnut and ash leaves). If you'd like it for 25% off, let me know! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...

I remember listening to the early seasons of The Infinite Monkey Cage and being inspired by them before I became a scientist myself. It's sad to know that this is how it ends, but I am so grateful and heartened by the knowledge that Robin is the person he is and his allyship inspires me too

I have once again found a tree ID pin with imperfect enamel (errors on the horse chestnut and ash leaves). If you'd like it for 25% off, let me know! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...