💫 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! 🧪🌎🦑

Your neuro skills go way beyond the bench 🧠💼 Join #BlackInNeuroAltCareers at #BINW25 to hear how scientists are thriving in AI, policy, health informatics & more. 🗓️ Sept 11 | 🕒 3–4PM ET Register for this session and more at the link 👇🏽 tinyurl.com/BINW25 #5YearsOfBIN

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.

🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com! We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️

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

Are you interested in bat vocalizations and the neural circuits that give rise to their emission?🦇🎶🧠 We reviewed the recent literature on neural activity underlying echolocation and communication calls across multiple bat species in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: doi.org/10.1111/nyas...

Ik snap echt niet dat hier niet meer ophef over is. Hoe ons land niet alles op alles zet deze kinderen te helpen. #LongCovid Onderschat de impact van niks doen niet, zowel in ziektebeeld en ernst, als dat dit zo’n onwijs belangrijke jaren zijn voor de ontwikkeling van een kind.

BREAKING 🧨 I'm now in possession of evidence confirming a second trans youth suicide, where the patient's data was NOT sent to NHS England, for inclusion in Appleby's flawed DHSC report "Review of suicides and gender dysphoria at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: independent report"

My newest paper: on surviving a career in #ecology while having a #disability (and how to make things better!!)

#AdriftLab's newest article isn't about islands or plastics (well, maybe a little). It's about the challenges of being a scientist while having a #disability. Please take a moment to consider what your lab can do to make life a little more inclusive www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

🚨This isn’t history. It’s a plan for our future. Amnesty UK has exposed powerful & well-funded groups that are working to stop women, LGBTI+ people & children making decisions over our bodies, health & futures. This matters to all of us as everyone’s rights are at risk. Join us in exposing them.

New episode today! It may seem obvious why we picked this one... but trust us, its inner weirdness matches its outer weirdness. Learn all about the naked mole-rat youtu.be/zDmJJbn-1-s?...

Are you a science journalist who loves neuroscience? There's an opening for you here! Happy to answer any questions.

What we need now is a queer army* I'm excited to announce my latest Pride pins: a whole crew of queer frogs 🐸 Please share them and check out the thread below to meet the gang 🧵 canopyrobin.etsy.com/uk/listing/4... *Army is the collective noun for a group of frogs

Celebrating the last day of #pridemonth with a wrap-up of all the wonderful #scicomm activities I was able to do this month. Take a gander over on #Substack if you are looking for inspiration in volunteering opportunities within science 🦠🔬 microbephd.substack.com/p/monthly-sc...

Turned some feelings into some art. Think it actually helped a bit.

If you've not already followed the cool trans nature experts in this starter pack, you're really missing out. Also, it's Pride! Get some more trans voices on your timeline!

Happy #caturday

The @lonelypipette.bsky.social interviewed me, @deefitzgerald.bsky.social, @dgrijseels.bsky.social and @therealdrdukes.bsky.social on how team dynamics, lab values and inclusive #leadership shape research success, for the @network-alba.bsky.social‬ podcast! www.podbean.com/media/share/...

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

@lucyannunwin.bsky.social beat me to the post with her top quality social media skills! Nearly as good as her authorship skills. I’m incredibly excited and proud to see this out. BUY IT NOW.

This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.

I know there was a lot going on in American politics today, but I wanted to take a moment to highlight how much I admire the work that Greta Thunberg and the Freedom Flotilla are doing. They're sailing an aid ship across the Mediterranean to Gaza right now, despite lacking Israeli permission.

I want to connect with and highlight more trans voices working with plants, wildlife, and the natural environment so I've created a starter pack! If this sounds like you, introduce yourself by quote-posting this skeet and I'll add you to the list 🏳️‍⚧️

Happy Pride, y’all! This flag was shared by my alma mater, New England Aquarium, in 2022 and it’s still my favorite! 🧪 🦑

This pride, we can all lift each other up :) go.bsky.app/2oTAUBo - trans in stem starter pack #trans #pride #stem 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

Honored to have illustrated this @plos.org ComBio article published today! This is a guide developed by the #ALBANetwork for how to better work with and collect #LGBTQIA data as #STEM researchers. We need inclusive science now more than ever #AcademicSky #scicomm journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Excited to share this important work led by @dgrijseels.bsky.social and the ALBA Gender&Sexual Diversity working group, offering practical tips for inclusive data practices across research contexts - human participants, animal models, diversity surveys. Happy Pride! 👉🏽 loom.ly/N0DiSgI @fens.org

Happy pride, y'all! Another opportunity to highlight our recent guidelines for collecting and reporting sex/gender data. As a side note, we're also analyzing survey data from over 450 LGBQIA+ folks in neuro/psych around the 🌎. More on that in the coming months. #queerinstem #lgbtq #queerinneuro

Thrilled this came out just in time for Pride, check out our PLOS Comp Bio Ten Rules article with @network-alba.bsky.social on how to make your data collection, analysis and dissemination more inclusive of queer people.

Super proud of this one. Congrats, @dgrijseels.bsky.social !

Very proud of my latest article with @network-alba.bsky.social! I encourage all STEM researchers to check it out, we try to give practical tips whether you're working with human participants, animals, or just collecting diversity data for e.g. a conference. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Disability campaigners push back against the UK Supreme Court's ruling on trans folk - demands that trans people use disabled toilets ignores the lack of such toilets - low provision makes it difficult for trans + disabled people to engage in society Link: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

While these attacks on science framed as 'restoring golden standard' are rightfully attacked in the US, it is frustrating to see the exact same tactics and language ignored in the UK when it's applied to science about trans people. It's all the exact same issue.

They both demanded belly rubs at the same time #caturday

🔊 Calling all ALBA Members! Votes are open. This is your chance to help select the next leaders who will advance ALBA's actions for diversity in neuroscience. 🗳️ Cast your vote. Check your mailbox to access the voting form. ⏰ 2 June 👉🏽 www.alba.network/elections @fens.org @ibroorg.bsky.social @sfn.org

"The Court's discussion is poorly informed and simplistic... reducing a complex subject to an overly simple one is not what is needed." Supreme Court taking a shoeing from an Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at Cambridge University. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Today, the EHRC are supposedly launching a consultation on their plans for trans segregation. To mark the occasion, I've been looking at my notes from 2009. As part of consultations for the Equality Bill, the EHRC held multiple meetings with all affected groups - including of course trans people.