Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 👩‍🔬💜

Working on my forthcoming book, finding out about English suffragist and naturalist Lydia Ernestine Becker was a revelation. In 1869, she made an inclusive, science-based case for women's rights. Just awesome! 🤩

#Victorian #women #iwd #history #science #nature #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @histodons @histodon @histsci @histstm #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM #WomenInSTEM

Happy #ValentinesDay! 🐌❤️🐌

Delightful, if fanciful, depiction of garden snails exchanging love darts. By English artist Frederick Polydore Nodder and published in the Naturalist’s Miscellany in 1790. [The darts don’t propel through the air as the image depicts but are fired on contact.]

#ValentinesDay2026 #snails #animals #nature #naturalhistory #biology #science #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @histodons @histodon @histsci #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

'all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it'
- Charles Darwin, 7 May 1855

Poor ol' Chas.

It's #DarwinDay! 🦋🐵🐟

Here's an unsung hero in Darwin's queer menagerie, Serranus cabrilla. It proved that vertebrate species could be hermaphrodite. That made Chas happy!

This lovely fish will have a starring role in my book . . . 🏳️‍🌈 📚

https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/

#fish #animals #nature #science #books #history #histsci #histstm @histodons @histsci #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

Btw, my gorgeous cover star is a gynandromorph gypsy moth, female on its left side, male on the right. It was caught in Berlin in July 1864 and pictured by German entomologist Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg in 1877. It makes more than one appearance in my book!

UK: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 🏳️‍🌈 📚️ 🐵

US: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/  📜 🦋

#books #bookstodon #history #science #nature #animals #histsci @[email protected] @histodons @histsci #histsex #sex #queer #lgbtq #queerhistory #LGBTplusHM #PrideInSTEM

My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August in the UK and 8 September in the US.

Please help spread the word! 🙏

UK: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 🏳️‍🌈 📚 🐵

US: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/  📜 🦋

#books #bookstodon #coverreveal #history #science #biology #nature #animals #Darwin #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @histodons @histodon @histsci @histstm #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #LGBTplusHM #PrideInSTEM

So excited that the theme of LGBT+ History Month UK 2026 is 'Science and Innovation,' with super badge designed by @canopyrobin! 🧬  🔭 🏳️‍🌈 🚆

Wonderful launch event at the Royal Society of Chemistry this evening. 👏

https://lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/lgbt-history-month-2026/

#LGBTplusHM #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #science #PrideInSTEM @histodons @histstm @histsci

KI & Vielfalt – Wer programmiert die Zukunft?
Podiumsdiskussion am Mi, 25.06. um 18 Uhr im Max-Bense-Forum, Stadtbibliothek am Mailänder Platz.

Mit Expert*innen aus Wissenschaft & Gesellschaft – u. a. Steffen Staab (Uni Stuttgart) & Anika Kaiser (Uni Tübingen).

Moderation: Hiser Sedik & Patrick Barth
📍 In Kooperation mit SC SimTech, IZKT & HFT Stuttgart

#KI #Vielfalt #PrideInSTEM #Stadtbibliothek #Podium

🤩 Published in the UK today, The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern Relationships, by Nathan H. Lents.

It looks amazing . . . 🌈📚🐵

https://canongate.co.uk/books/5125-the-sexual-evolution-how-500-million-years-of-sex-gender-and-mating-shape-modern-relationships/

#science #nature #evolution #queer #LGBTQ #pride #PrideInSTEM #books

Decision time (oh no!!!): I was going to get the skype a scientist "save our freaks don't mine the deep" shirt with the wild looking squid, but they made a non-binary pride shirt and AHAHAHA!!! if you want one of the pink ones you have to order by tonight May 31st

https://squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/binaries-shirt-pre-order

what I was planning to buy

https://squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/save-our-freaks-pre-order-2

I'll probably just get the save our freaks shirt because I'm not a huge fan of pink or orange (the colors of the print on the non binary shirts), but this makes the decision hard (and I already can't make decisions)

#PrideInSTEM #LGBTQ #Pride

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The Nature of Things: Animal Pride, presented by Connel Bradwell. Watch on CBC Gem from tomorrow (May 29). I will rely on my Canadian followers to tell me all about it!

🌈🐧

https://animalpride.ca/ (with super toolkit)

https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/knowing-nature-for-what-it-is-with-connel-bradwell/

#queer #LGBTQ #nature #animals #science #naturalhistory #pride #PrideInSTEM #tv