A Nobel laureate’s assist to women’s basketball pros current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/nobe...

This study of four cohorts of French schoolchildren shows that the gender gap in math (girls falling behind) begins essentially immediately as soon as kids start school. They use the natural variation in kids' ages at school start to show that it's school entry, not age, that triggers the change.

Thanks to The Conversation for inviting me to share my "unsung hero of science", who I chose to be Carolyn Wood Sherif 💘 theconversation.com/my-unsung-he...

“Kids and Girls”: Parents convey a male default in child-directed speech | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Autism diagnoses are up, largely fuelled by the NDIS. What happens next isn’t entirely clear theconversation.com/autism-diagn...

Fair Game: Trans Athletes and the Future of Sports signsjournal.org/fair-game-tr... A review of several books on trans athletes written by supportive feminists, some allies, some trans athletes.

"We argue that misogyny is particularly likely to be enacted after threats to the gender status quo." New review by Morgan Weaving, Nick Haslam, & @cordeliafine.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0959... #SocialPsyc

A very old story that will not die. For a modern perspective on human male evolution, I recommend Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's excellent new book, "Father Time": press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

No men in women’s sport you say?

"The problem is not that China is investing, but that the U.S. is not." China surpasses US in research spending theconversation.com/china-surpas...

Newborn boys and girls are equally “born to connect.” Here’s a summary of our meta-analysis: theconversation.com/its-a-myth-t...

Lots of teams contributing to different parts of the Artemis II mission. Here the parachute team ⬇️

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

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.

"Mary Wollstonecraft prophesied in 1792 that the 'natural inferiority' of women would evaporate as soon as they were allowed the same educational opportunities as men." Nice review of what women were supposedly incapable of and a reminder to enjoy a good "told you so"

Mary Wollstonecraft was right: once education opened to women, they proved themselves equal to men. open.substack.com/pub/celestem...

Clyburn calls out Bessent for trying to take credit on a project in his district initiated by Biden.

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

New paper with @statsepi.bsky.social and @deevybee.bsky.social in which we show there's really no evidence for a link between the gut microbiome and autism www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

This infuriates me. While breast cancer is much more rare among men, they DO get it. I have a friend who's a male breast cancer survivor. Making people starve/die bc political ideology is what fascists do. #BreastCancerAwareness

When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!

"...Few figures have informed the sensibility of NPR more than Stamberg. Colleagues considered her a mentor, a matchmaker, a founding mother — always tough, and always true to herself." 😢 www.npr.org/2025/10/16/1...

OH MY GOD YES YES YES

“I am reminded—for a second time in my life—that the stakes we have in a democratic system of education are always under threat and that, for those of us who value it, the fight for its preservation is an urgent, if never-ending, challenge.” This was great.

“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is

No, brain MRIs won't cure gendered mental health gaps. See my new article: “Precision Medicine” and the Failed Search for Binary Brain Sex Differences to Address Gender Behavioral Health Disparities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar. Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

1/5 I am pleased to announce a new paper, based on a talk I gave last year at the annual meeting of the Human Biology Association. This link is open 4 a free read for a while but eventually it will get pay-walled because I can't afford open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Harvard is literally one of the most valuable brands in the world, attracting best & brightest from around the world to spend tons of money in the US, to produce science that benefits all of US, but also spawn technology that fuels US exports: What Trump is doing is attacking a core US industry.

I never see this really emphasized in news about Senate votes so - reminder that the 45 Democratic senate seats represent something like 54% of the population.

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

As a biologist, I'm appalled at pride the White House takes in willful ignorance. In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites." But this is unequivocal fact.

Pleased to share the video of Lin Bian's excellent WiSH seminar @ Rosalind Franklin University www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzcu...

New in PN: There's no sum of money that will keep you safe from Trump "The nature of a protection racket is that it doesn’t actually keep one safe. The cost to comply can always go up. The nature of what constitutes compliance can always be changed. And once you agree to pay, you can’t really stop"

Why the science of #autism is failing women and girls with @ginarippon.bsky.social jasonherbert.substack.com/p/off-the-sp...

Pretty obvious this was coming, when 60% of college grads are women. But I'd argue income is the driver: men don't need college degrees to earn as much or more than women (assuming traditional gendered careers). www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

I’ve now watched this clip like 10 times and it’s instant first ballot hall of fame. One of the most comically out of touch things I’ve ever heard heard from a public official.

The number of protests is more than double that at the same point in 2017. From Erica Chenoweth and collaborators at the Crowd Counting Consortium.

Trump is pro-lamprey.

"Sexual diversity within a species is an evolutionary adaptation, not a bug" -- brilliant piece by Donna Maney www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-ba...

Despite a longstanding scientific rumor, girls are not more socially-attuned at birth. Our systematic review and meta‐analyses found no #gender difference in neonates' social perception or discrimination onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧪Another one crossed off that centuries’ old list of ‘robust’ sex differences. A great paper by Lise Eliot and team. x.com/lise_eliot/s...

🧪https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/parenting/article/how-being-a-parent-physically-alters-your-brain-dads-included-mrdpcqx8d

Many in biotech/private sector are boasting about their ways of funding and doing science But they are staffed with PhDs and postdocs we train in our NIH and NSF funded labs in universities With university labs lacking funds to train, the private sector will be profoundly harmed

15% indirect across the board - can your university survive? grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...