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It's World Book Day (UK & Ireland)! 🌍📚🤩

For young people brandishing book tokens today, there are some marvellous queer-themed science and nature books out there . . . 🏳️‍🌈 🦆 🦋

#WorldBookDay #WorldBookDay2026 #LoveLibraries #QueerInSTEM #lgbt #lgbtqia #queer #nature #science #books

🌈 Dr Ross Brooks Oct 21

My 2023 Notes and Records article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain' is free to read this #OpenAccess week! 🌈🧬

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036

Download and share while you can . . .

#OAweek #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci #HistBio #STS #SciComm @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #QueerInSTEM #lgbtq #biology #science #genetics #eugenics

🌈 Dr Ross Brooks Jun 25, 2025

I'm thoroughly enjoying 50 LGBTQ+ Finds from the Portable Antiquities Scheme by Ben Paites, especially the botanical and zoological content. 🦒🌸🦆

Makes for a great present . . . 🎅(sorry!)

https://www.amberley-books.com/50-lgbtq-finds.html

#history #histodons @histodons #QueerInSTEM #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #pride #pridemonth #queerhistory #histsex #sex #nature #naturalhistory #animals #books

🌈 Dr Ross Brooks Jun 9, 2025

WOW! My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871),' published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, has now been viewed over 50K times!

I'm working hard on the book. For more about that, watch this space! 🏳️‍🌈🐒

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648

#history #histodons @histodons #histsci #histbio #HistSTM #HSTM #STS @histstm #QueerInSTEM #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #pride #pridemonth #queerhistory #histsex #sex #biology #nature #naturalhistory #science #animals #Darwin

Anne Fausto Sterling May 11, 2025

"there are principles around which all scientists unite—those of evidence, independence, process, and inclusion. "
#science #blackinstem #QueerinSTEM #TransinSTEM
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw9972

Anne Fausto-Sterling May 11, 2025

"there are principles around which all scientists unite—those of evidence, independence, process, and inclusion. " #science #blackinstem #QueerinSTEM #TransinSTEM www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Come together, right now

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Anne Fausto-Sterling Apr 11, 2025

I suppose, given its namesake's virulent racism, it is not a surprise that this research institute killed its own diversity and inclusion efforts, midstream, the minute it was politically possible. @hhmi.org #blackinstem #queerinstem #womeninstem #science www.science.org/content/arti....

HHMI kills program aimed at bo...

HHMI (@hhmi.org)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) believes in the power of individuals to advance science through research and science education, making discoveries that benefit humanity.

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Anne Fausto-Sterling Mar 23, 2025

1/2 #Anthropology #BehSci #BlackinSTEM #CogSci #devpsycsky ♀️ #IntersexInSTEM #LGBTQSTEM #medsky #PsychSciSky #QueerInSTEM #Queer+Trans #science #TransInSTEM #TransRights #womeninstem Who out there who works on trans or lgbt children or youth have had their grants canceled?

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Anne Fausto-Sterling Mar 6, 2025

These studies would give us data on topics that we currently argue about in part because the data are too sparse. This way we can let prejudice prevail (that was irony for those who don't recognize it). #🌈🎓#transinSTEM #queerinstem #Equity #philsci #science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks Jan 20, 2025

My 2023 article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain,' published in Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, has now been made free to access! 🌈 🧬 🐦

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci #HistBio #STS #SciComm @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #QueerInSTEM #lgbtq #biology #science #genetics #eugenics