Boys are about three times more likely to be diagnosed as autistic than girls are. But a new study shows women and men are almost equally as likely to be diagnosed with autism by adulthood—suggesting younger girls may be underdiagnosed. spklr.io/6046D3D9u 📊: @unamandita.bsky.social

Travel funding is available for our Trans+ in STEM symposium in London on 27th Feb! Huge thanks to @prideinstem.bsky.social and @proud-science.bsky.social for making this possible🔬🧪🔭🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #lgbt #trans #lgbtSTEM open.substack.com/pub/transste...

There's still time to sign up for our one-day symposium for Trans+ scientists, researchers, and students in STEM! #lgbt #trans #transinSTEM #lgbtSTEM #STEM transstemuk.substack.com

If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Travelling to Sweden via Copenhagen while getting push notifications about international diplomacy and my phone cheerfully starts playing this song to start my day open.spotify.com/track/0PkqVb...

Every Barbie is autistic btw, the special interests?? The fashion as uniform? The colour co-ordination??

Join us for a one-day symposium celebrating Trans+ students and researchers in STEM at the Royal Society of Chemistry in London on 27th February! Free to attend #trans #transstem #lgbtstem #lgbt #stem transstemuk.substack.com/p/sign-up-fo...

hey remember climate change? didn't it have something to do with... oil? I'm sure it can wait.

Thanks to @alexhorne.bsky.social, we are playing Shoe's Clues from the @taskmaster.tv crackers. Because we're at my dad's house, it includes 6 pairs of brown slip-on skechers distinguishable only by level of wear. It turns out that Shoe's Clues has a Hard Mode.

Who is being helped by excluding trans kids from colouring in shrinking keyring thingies, going 'stargazing' in the village hall carpark, and accidentally eating a firelighter you thought was a marshmallow? A pointlessly cruel action the in culture war. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Shielding Chart xkcd.com/3158/

My grandma has had to endure 4 generations* of men talking about their special interest in different types of vehicles, and apparently she has paracetamol to thank #autism #tylenol (*who all look strikingly alike, almost as if we share genes or something...)

#autism #tylenol I guess I’ll have to dig this out many many times in the next few days

A disdain for humanity comparable to King Leopold in Congo BBC News - Israeli minister touts Gaza 'real estate bonanza', defying international backlash www.bbc.com/news/article...

This meme is *chefs kiss*

100,000 trans people & allies march through London without threatening or making anyone feel like it is a no-go area. Media: crickets. 100,000 fascists & Nazis march through London threatening violence & making anyone not cishet & white feel it is a no-go area. Media: wall-to-wall live coverage.

I met someone experiencing homelessness in London today - they were unable to find safe places to sleep at night, so they were increasingly sleep deprived, and their parents are overseas in a place with a humanitarian crisis and they hadn't been able to contact them in several days 1/3

Very glad that I made the effort to see Coventry Cathedral despite being exhausted after a conference - I got to see this perfect sight 🌈

“Exaggerated”? 👉 2025 summer was the hottest on record for the UK, with sustained heat 👉 2023–25 is likely to be the hottest 3-year period recorded 👉 2024, ocean heat content record high The laws of physics remain unchanged We need leadership, not retreat www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

#starmer ##palestine-action #palestine

A British surgeon returned from Gaza says Israeli soldiers were shooting at aid-seekers “almost like a game of target practice". He also said formula doctors had packed to bring with them was the only item confiscated by Israeli authorities before entry. Formula. news.sky.com/story/almost...

A new, incredibly specific tutorial in my collection of things that work (after a lot of effort and experimentation): open.substack.com/pub/itworksn...

Help My Family Evacuate Gaza chuffed.org/project/1286...

Absolutely fascinated by these two reviews of the same coffee shop.

ICE crossed a line in LA

what’s one level above a dog whistle, is it like those weird beep machines they have to deter teenagers from gathering

Nature is so beautiful. ❤️ #Birds?

I’m autistic. That doesn’t make me less than anyone else I just see the world differently. Autism is my strength, my superpower. I’m proud of who I am. #NeverGiveUp

“Estamos quebrando os corpos e as mentes das crianças de Gaza. Estamos fazendo as crianças de Gaza passarem fome. Porque, se não fizermos nada sobre isso, seremos cúmplices do que está acontecendo diante dos nossos olhos” — Michael Ryan, Chefe de Emergências da OMS

64 days with no aid reaching Gaza. No food, water or medicine. Children are starving. Netanyahu’s extremist government now says it will occupy Gaza & put mercenaries in charge of distributing aid, instead of the UN and other aid groups. Despicable. No more US support for Netanyahu’s war machine.

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

UK: "Returning to transphobes, though, the simple fact of the matter is that there is no true grassroots support for anti-trans policies, and it is a cause that is fundamentally dictated by those at the top of society." medium.com/prismnpen... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

remember they didnt burn witches. they set women on fire and pretended they were witches.

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...