(It is very much a biggie)

Oh, I passed my viva btw I’m a doctor now, no biggie

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...

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...

Just got a CPAP machine can’t wait to become an entirely new person after one single night

Turdus migratorius, that’s what I call a bowel movement

Ah the joys of publishing a paper (not pictured, a quote by the CEO of palantir after the name of published behavioural ecologist/primatologist that is absolutely not the person who wrote this email)

#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 🫩 🔭

Apparently the only place it says that you have to register for your abstract to be considered is after you submit the abstract?

Has anybody sent an abstract for the euro evo devo conference in Glasgow? It seems strange that in order to apply you have to already have paid the £300 early bird registration fee and they only offer a 25% refund if you cancel

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

New Mitski Album brb reverting to my 20 year old mental health so i can experience it properly

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

If you're in need of a guffaw, might I recommend...?

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:

Booty bumping is officially a scientific term!!!! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Top surgery recovery: Sitting in a hotel bed listening to the audiobook of Whipping Girl by @juliaserano.bsky.social and knitting an ants in a row raglan (altered to scarab pattern) by @leafhopper.bsky.social Top tier transgenderism

Nine days until top surgery!!!!!

Decided to sing tubthumpin at karaoke tonight- how many times will I have to be knocked down and get back up again for you to realise you’re never gonna keep me down? Because I forgot how to breathe

What do you mean I still have work to do

I can cook again? And clean? In the same day?!?

Just submitted my thesis! Can’t wait to rediscover my personality

My New Year’s resolution is to Become A Bug. Don’t ask me how. I’m a scientist, I’ll figure something out

I know I am three weeks away from finishing my PhD. But. What if I quit and started a bakery instead.

New DnD campaign idea: take a bag of devouring to the great pacific garbage patch

Published by Michael Bailey

If you say things like “ah well you know how females are” or “oh females always do this” I want you to know that I have judged you and found you lacking

I know I’m a biologist working in reproductive behaviours but sometimes? Sometimes I just need to spend 24 hours without hearing the word “female”. (This is specifically directed at people who say “female” when talking about humans, particularly when they mean to say “woman”)

There is a certain irony about NERC putting out a funding call entitled “AI for environmental science”

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

"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."

Nothing like writing a PhD thesis to make a man feel both incredibly smart and also incredibly inept at the same time

Hello I have just discovered that the people who made the spider gripper robots are based at the same uni that made the rice purity test

#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...

The day my first scientific article is published is also the day I adopt my first dog- if you excuse me I shall be vibrating with joy over in the corner

First ever paper is finally out!!!! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

I’m adopting a dog in the next few weeks and I can’t believe I’m expected to work instead of lay on the floor and think about Booster

Our #study finds that #male #dominance isn't the norm among #primates, and starts to unravel what shapes flexibility in intersexual power paper (OA) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500405122 press release https://www.mpg.de/24986976/0630-evan-beyond-the-alpha-male-150495-x?c=2249

Submitting to a format-agnostic journal is all fun and games until revised manuscripts have to be submitted in publication-ready format and you have 60 days to reformat and also do revisions

I did my first ever stand up set yesterday and it was amazing- Bright Club is such a great opportunity to do fun science communication

I’m doing my first ever stand up set tonight! Come see if you’re around :)

This is so cool and I love it but I did literally spend the last two days making phylogenies without this and so I’m maybe a little sad 🙃

If you think these are pretty but you're not trans and you're worried you shouldn't wear them, just go for it. You have permission. Enjoy the pretty fern and have fun confusing the transphobes. Wear it as a reminder to be an active ally. canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4312... #SciArt