The GenderSci Lab is excited to share a new paper explaining how variation within males and females can affect the way that the sex ratio of migration events in human history is studied. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

As the 2026 Winter Olympics kick off with projected record-setting representation of women athletes, the GenderSci Lab is excited to share a new video we’ve created explaining how gendered social factors contribute to a higher risk of injury for women athletes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmLv...

Does women’s health need sex-specific algorithms? In a paper just out in Big Data & Society (bigdatasoc.bsky.social) we at the GenderSci Lab warn against the growing use of so-called “pink” and “blue” algorithms, arguing that they risk embedding biological sex essentialist assumptions into medicine.

Hot off the press! See our new paper: “Three maxims for countering sex essentialism in scientific research” in the journal Biology of Sex Differences. We show how sex essentialism distorts research & propose 3 ways to avoid making these mistakes. (1/12) rdcu.be/eNcRM

New publication with @susanshort.bsky.social in @lancetrh-americ.bsky.social. We analyzed 2025 revisions to womenshealth[dot]gov under the Trump administration -documenting how credible health content was replaced with ideology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Celebrating lab member Madeleine Pape's new article about gender/sex entanglement, structural sexism, and injury through the case of Australian rules football! Check it out here 🏉 : doi.org/10.1002/ajhb...

Find out what researchers in biomedicine, life-science, and further disciplines can learn from understanding the double historicity of concepts and phenomena of sex and gender 💡⚡ Check out lab member Alex Thinius's new paper: doi.org/10.1007/s105...

US executive order 14168 terminated federal funding for much gender-related research. How can scientists speak out against gender-related disinformation efforts? Learn more in "Combat disinformation about gender research" by Restar, Gamarel, and Operario here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Call for Commentaries: How Many Sexes Are There? How Many Genders Are There? Deadline September 1st! 🔗 You can access the article at this link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Call for Papers! 🚨 Gametic Politics: Eggs, Sperm, and Gender/Sex in the 21st Century A Workshop for Early-Career Researchers organized by Rene Almeling (@ralmeling.bsky.social) and Sarah Richardson (@profrichardson.bsky.social) April 16-17, 2026; Yale University, New Haven, CT

"Defending research and clinical practice in gender-related areas must be a priority in the face of perilous new attacks on science and academic freedom" - "Gender Under Attack," by GenderSci Lab director Sarah Richardson (@profrichardson.bsky.social) , in today's Lancet.

Lab member Jamie Marsella (@jrmarsella.bsky.social) explores America’s long legacy of eugenic pronatalism for @teenvogue.com: Check out...: The article: www.teenvogue.com/story/what-i... Teen Vogue’s Bluesky post: bsky.app/profile/teen... Jamie's Bluesky quote tweet: bsky.app/profile/jrma...

GenderSci Lab director Sarah Richardson (@profrichardson.bsky.social) has a new paper out, extending her work on "sex contextualism"! A GenderSci Lab Blog Q&A about the paper is linked below in the comments. 🔗 Access the new paper here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/artic...

Resharing with the update that the GenderSci Lab's NSF grant was terminated last week, leaving us with a $500K shortfall. We are seeking both small donors and partners w/ capacity to provide serious bridge funding for our work while Harvard fights for the future of US higher ed and science.

We are excited to share the upcoming release of Seminal, a groundbreaking collection exploring sperm as a lens into the complex intersections of biology, politics, and health. Lab member Marion Boulicault contributed a chapter based on our sperm decline work.

Join author Agustín Fuentes (@anthrofuentes.bsky.social) in conversation with GenderSci Lab Director Sarah Richardson (@profrichardson.bsky.social) about his new book, Sex is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary. 📍Harvard Book Store 📆 Tuesday May 13, 7 PM www.harvard.com/event/agust%...

📣 Donate to support the Harvard GenderSci Lab! 📣 If you believe in feminist science, in research that challenges bias, and in training the next generation of feminist scholars — please consider supporting or sharing! Learn more at this link: www.genderscilab.org/donate

🌟Scholars and activists interested in women’s health, femtech, and capitalism.🌟 Our new piece, forthcoming in Signs, introduces the concept of “investment feminism” as a useful way to understand how financialization shapes the conversation around femtech and gender health equity. tinyurl.com/ffcs67h

This powerful excerpt from last week's salon hosted by the Intersectionality Training Institute with Dr. Elle Lett and GenderSci Lab Director Sarah Richardson offers valuable insights on their hopes and dreams for the future of sex and gender science 🌟 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw5T...

Join The Intersectionality Training Institute on Thursday, March 12 from 5:00 to 6:30PM EDT for a salon hosted by Dr. Elle Lett featuring GenderSci Lab Director Sarah Richardson on Sex, Gender, Law, Policy & How We Got Here. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Sex Based Medicine: Helpful or Harmful? Join The Moynihan Center on Thursday, March 13 from 2:00 to 3:30PM EDT for a panel featuring Catherine Clune-Taylor, Anais Hausvater, Sarah Richardson (@profrichardson.bsky.social), and Angela Saini. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/sex-based-...

I am a historian and philosopher of science who specializes in scientific constructs of sex. I am available to speak with media, community groups, and legal advocates regarding the EO "DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT."

Lab members Abbie Higgins, Ben Maldonado, Jamie Marsella, and Sarah Richardson spoke at Harvard Medical School about their recent piece in NEJM 🔗 Sarah Richardson: "There are ethical and social conversations to have about the implications of targeting research to particular categories or groups."

Professor Sarah Richardson's virtual keynote on "Sex Contextualism in Practice" at the @humboldtuni.bsky.social colloquium is live! 📹View and share the recording below, which can be used as a companion to our teaching module on sex contextualism, also linked. rs.cms.hu-berlin.de/ztg-medien/p...

Are women really more prone to ACL injuries than men? 🤔 Harvard Gazette reports on new GenderSci Lab research challenging the data and the biases behind it. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

New paper about sex eliminativism in Biology and Philosophy from Aja Watkins and our very own Marina DiMarco 🧫 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Are women really more prone to ACL injuries than men? 🤔 New GenderSciLab research challenges the data and the biases behind it. Read more in the British Journal of Sports Medicine #SportsScience #ACLInjury www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...

📣 Have you been hearing about the “crisis of women’s ACL injuries” in the media? A new paper from the GenderSci Lab in the British Journal of Sports Medicine delves into how the gendered realities of women and men’s sports could affect how injury rates are captured ⬇️ bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...

📣 Symposium 3: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the Journal Wednesday Nov 20, 12–2 PM EST Presented by Harvard Medical School, the Center for the History of Medicine, and New England Journal of Medicine. Featuring GSL Speakers: Ben Maldonado, Jamie Marsella, Abigail Higgins, & Sarah Richardson.

We sat down with lab member Marion Boulicault for a Q&A 🐻‍❄️ Marion is a feminist philosopher of science and long time member of the lab. She is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. genderscilab.org/blog/q-and-a...

Members of the GenderSci Lab collectively wrote a letter to the subcommittee of the Journal of the American Medical Association tasked with creating guidelines for scientists related to reporting gender & sex genderscilab.org/blog/gsl-pen...

In our Perspective piece in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine, we examine the harmful legacies of medical claims about sex differences as part of its ongoing series on historical injustices in the Journal. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

New from @genderscilab.bsky.social: a piece in Cell that calls for a richer, more contextual understanding of what "sex" is and how it operates ⬇️

Such a great piece from @genderscilab.bsky.social folks. A must-read for folks in medicine (and a GREAT article for teaching about how human difference is historically conceived and socially constructed in bioanth and medanth). www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Just out in a special issue of Cell, we survey common methodological issues in sex-split analyses, and advocate for greater rigor and precision in the study of sex-related variation. t.co/2Vh5uRf43l

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Calling philosophers of science, STS scholars, and feminist biologists🚨We are hiring a postdoc! Come join us for 2 years to think about the wide ranging, wild world of sex operationalizations in the laboratory. Review begins Mar 18. www.genderscilab.org/blog/gsl-is-...

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Are you passionate about feminist science? Come work with us at the GenderSci Lab!! We are recruiting for a 2-3 year lab manager position starting between April through June 2024. Full description and application information here: www.genderscilab.org/blog/the-gen...

This!!! read it. From the amazing folks @genderscilab.bsky.social (you all rock!!!) read.dukeupress.edu/glq/article/...

Sharing on behalf of a friend who’s working with this lab, especially for queer studies folks: she describes this paper as “a guide to what the heck a concerned citizen can do with genetic claims about sex, sexuality, and gender.”

New from @genderscilab.bsky.social : a rigorous and accessible look at genetic studies of sexuality and the urgent ethical, social, political, and epistemic dimensions of these research programs. ⬇️

Just out in GLQ, we review the state of modern genetic studies of sexuality, describe the techniques and technologies used, and highlight areas of concern. read.dukeupress.edu/glq/article/...

Crucial findings from Joseph Bruch and collaborators--serious consequences from private equity buy ups of hospitals. This should be on all of our radars. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/u...

Some coverage of work I've been part of with @genderscilab.bsky.social for the past couple of years! I feel like some of y'all can work this into some small talk over holiday dinners with the family, right? news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

This fall, we welcomed Alexandra Kralick to the GenderSci Lab as our new Robert Wood Johnson Foundation postdoctoral associate. We sat down with Alexandra for a Q&A to learn more about her plans and work in the lab! www.genderscilab.org/blog/q-and-a...

We sat down with lab member Katie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social for a Q&A🐿️ Katie is a bioanthropologist and long time member of the lab. She is in her second year as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tulane. genderscilab.org/blog/q-and-a...

@genderscilab.bsky.social Welcome to Gender Sci Lab. This is a great group and I am glad to meet them here again on the far side of X. #Queer+Trans Studies 🌈🎓 #science 🧪 #STS, #feministsky, #histsci #historyandphilosophyofbiology (or) 🐋🌱 #philbio #TransInSTEM #TransRights 👩‍🔬|👩🏻‍🔬|👩🏼‍🔬|👩🏽‍🔬|👩🏾‍🔬|👩🏿‍🔬 #bioethics

In our new publication in Social Science and Medicine, we propose a Gender Hypothesis to explain apparent sex differences in adverse drug events (ADEs), using data from the Federal Adverse Events Reporting System (FAERS). doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

We're finally here on BlueSky, excited to bring some GenderSci Lab energy over here! Thanks @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social for the invite! www.genderscilab.org