You can also download the accepted manuscript in @dessociales.bsky.social repository as open access: iris.unil.ch/entities/pub... Please help us share it widely with your colleagues and broader networks!

Our commentary piece on “Misuse of evidence in sex and gender policy” is out! We call for greater integrity and transparency in evidence use, and for meaningful inclusion of trans people’s experiences and expertise in policymaking utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...

I’m super proud of this piece and of the collective work with brilliant colleagues 🤩 Madeleine Pape, @dgrijseels.bsky.social, Eric Llaveria, Sheree Bekker, Jean-Sébastien Blanc, Dinah Bons, Guylaine Demers, Tara Gonsalves, @slamble1.bsky.social, @notrightruth.bsky.social & Valo Vähäpassi

Job klaxon 📣 UCL is hiring two NeuroAI / computational neuroscience specialists (Lecturer or Associate Prof) — a big part of the new NeuroAI centre we're growing in Biosciences. Do consider applying if it's relevant to you. JD & details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRX021 Happy to take questions.

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The number of things wrong with this study (doi.org/10.1016/j.an...) is frankly astounding, but I cannot get over stealing athlete pictures, using their faces without consent, and assessing their race visually.

Okay Bsky, you're all queer and like books, so how about a queer book for y'all every day of Pride? 1. Currently listening to Better Living Through Birding, and going to include it on my recommended reading list for Ornithology. A great memoir of being queer and Black and a bird nerd.

“Their own evidence review… found that there was literally no evidence looking at these psychosocial interventions. Based on their own data, the NHS is implementing the treatment paradigm with the lowest quality evidence, all while publicly arguing that evidence is key - @gidmk.bsky.social

I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.

Update: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS. These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st). Forced medical detransition. This country is a danger to trans children & young people.

We deserve answers. transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/06...

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I wrote a short post about my new article co-authored with @fiercemum.bsky.social and others. It's all about the questionnaires which are in common use internationally in trans youth healthcare, what's often wrong with these, and how we can do better.

Every penny donated helps us work toward a world where our organisation no longer needs to exist. It takes two minutes to set up a monthly donation, or make a one-off contribution, to help us continue the fight for trans rights today. tinyurl.com/DonateTransA... #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary

"What we can say with a great deal of certainty is that NHS England is currently relying on terrible evidence to make decisions about trans healthcare."

Lockhart et al (2023) (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37069295/) should be required reading for anybody even thinking about inferring gender: Read their 5 principles, especially the first principle: Critical refusal: sometimes the right answer to ‘should we build or use this technology?’ is simply ‘no’.

Bioacoustics Winter School 2027 👇Applications are now open Do not hesitate to disseminate this info ☺️ #bioacoustics www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-...

As we're grappling with the EHRC guidance, let's not let that distract us from the fact that the government is also still going after trans kids trying to take away gender-affirming care through bogus "science".

Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

Trans adolescents accessing the only NHS route to healthcare (WellBN) have been through a stressful year long transphobic investigation. For a year they have sat under the threat of forced medical detransition. With significant negative impacts. 1/2

Rise and pride, nerds.

Call for research participants! Are you non-binary, aged 18+ and living in the UK? Would you be willing to spend 30 minutes on a survey on your experiences of family? qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_... Please share! I am a researcher on this project - A short thread to follow. 1/14

Over 80 clinicians, researchers and academics have signed an open letter raising serious concerns about NHS England’s recent evidence reviews of gender affirming hormone treatment for trans youth. Read the full letter here: transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/05...

I'm one of the signatories to this letter. We note that NHS England's ban on hormone therapy by under-18 was proposed: ● without any clear rationale, ● on the basis of a methodologically-flawed process, ● in the absence of peer review, ● and without plans for monitoring impact or mitigating harm

Our fight against the EHRC's transphobic guidance is more important now than ever. We will keep fighting for trans inclusion. The legal battle continues. Can you help us keep up the fight? https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/help-us-appeal-the-high-courts-judgment-on-trans-rights

Full Statement: prideinstem.org/2026/05/26/s...

“In the space of a few years, the UK has moved from a broadly inclusive status-quo to being the most aggressively anti-trans developed democracy in the world.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

Absolutely fire paper, explaining why talking to men about inequality in academia is so awkward. And why, instead of tackling systemic issues, many (men) pretend the issue does not exist or blame it on women with faux viewpoints. A workshop won't fix systemic problem.

The 2nd microgrants round of the year is open! Please share and donate any amount if you can ! More info: opencollective.com/animal-behav...

This cartoon by Ella Baron from the Guardian today actually made me well up a little. We will keep fighting. Together.

So much of the UK's equalities history of the last 6 years has been driven by a group of people who wanted to have legal protections when hating trans people. Problem for them was that the law didn't give them protection. So they chipped away and chipped away and ...

"If you cannot enforce your basic rights, such as lobbying your MP, going to court or standing for office, then you cannot fully participate in society" writes TransActual's Managing Director Helen Belcher for Byline Times. bylinetimes.com/2026/05/22/t...

To help uplift our community during these dark political times, we're collecting messages of love for trans people to be shared on our social media and website. Please send messages of love, and share this: forms.gle/uXaaedUdmj78...

“What this analysis shows is that trans people’s wellbeing & public attitudes towards trans people have worsened since 2017, in conjunction with the rise of an organised GC movement.” New analysis by Amnesty International exposes how UK media enable transphobia. media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Li...

💫 Dr Mychael Lourenco, UFRJ, Brazil is the 2026 ALBA-Roche Prize winner for his important contributions to elucidating the mechanistic interplay between metabolism, inflammation, and synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease. Join us on 8 July at #FENS2026 for the award ceremony! 👉🏾 loom.ly/FtW83mI

💫 Dr Dori Grijseels, postdoc at MPINB Germany, is the 2026 ALBA-FKNE Diversity Awardee, for their outstanding leadership in advancing inclusive research practices and evidence-based advocacy for queer and trans scientists. Join us on 10 July at #FENS2026 for the award ceremony! 👉🏽 loom.ly/mTiT4f8

And now for something completely different: @dpagliaccio.bsky.social, @dgrijseels.bsky.social & I surveyed >400 LGBTQIA+ neuroscientists worldwide, demonstrated that social, institutional, and political climates shape their experiences and careers, & exposed the unique challenges they face. 8/12

Happy to share some of the work done in our lab in this mega-thread of nine (!) papers/preprints (+1 sneak peek) from the last six months. Here goes (in no particular order)! **Please repost** and let me know if you need access to any of the PDFs! #sleeppeeps #sleep #neuroscience 1/12

📖 DAY 3 related read: Ten simple rules for queer data collection and analysis by STEM researchers – The guidelines in an editorial featuring tips to make sex and gender data collection & reporting more inclusive. 🔗 loom.ly/N0DiSgI @dgrijseels.bsky.social @eitans.bsky.social @dpagliaccio.bsky.social

ICYMI: I am offering a free online 2-hour crash course in how to write and publish a scientific paper, perfect for students and early career researchers about to write their first paper. The world of scientific writing and publishing can be confusing, but I'm here to help! 🧪🌎🦑

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I'm going to buy some of these but shipping is expensive. If you're also in the UK and would like an eel, frog, or crab fact advent calendar for $25 (to a good cause) plus an even split of the international postage and the price of a UK stamp and rigid envelope, let me know before the end of August.

If you'd like to follow some other trans people who work with nature too, I made a helpful starter pack! It's not exclusively scientists and it's opt-in so let me know if you'd like to be added.

TW. Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...

With the new academic year not too far off, if any university folks in the UK have a student that might like an EDI related research project in ecology/conservation/zoology that would also make a nice paper, drop me a line

📣 Calling all early career #neuroscientists! @thetransmitter.bsky.social & Neuromatch are teaming up to better understand how to support #EarlyCareer Researchers. Whether you're a student, postdoc, or launching your career, we want to hear from you. ➡️ www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

Those of us in STEM must vocally affirm that the humanities are our allies, and no department is expendable. Arguing we can survive by cutting whole disciplines isn’t just inhumane, it’s nonsensical. The humanities tell us why we’re here in the first place, and what to do about it! This isn’t hard!

Using the phrase "biologically female" is shamefully ignorant. Confused? Here's a great explainer by @nmbaran.bsky.social. www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.