Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
Internal emails show Gov Abbott demanding info on immigrant employees using H-1B visas at the Texas A&M University System bit.ly/4qAUKCZ
NEW: Mother Jones and other outlets fought to unseal documents that show that the Trump administration targeted students for Pro-Palestinian speech. We won.
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Sex and the repeated origins of sexes are key sources of biological diversity, contributing to enormous variation in how organisms reproduce. Yet our conception of sex/es is disproportionately shaped by animal models. We need broader comparative approaches and collaborations across organismal silos to develop more general, inclusive frameworks. This symposium convenes researchers working on protists, plants, fungi, animals, and theoretical models to engage with the complexities of sex and reproduction, aiming to distinguish shared principles from taxonomic idiosyncrasies, highlight fundamental differences and open questions, and generate new frameworks for understanding sex in biology. By fostering integrative dialogue across disciplines and taxa, we hope to advance a more inclusive and accurate understanding of reproductive diversity across the tree of life.
Going to #SICB?
attend s4
www.xcdsystem.com/sicb/program...
Sex across origins: Questioning animal-centric assumptions & developing integrative frameworks
Organized by
M. Aramati Casper,
aramaticasper.weebly.com
Jay J. Falk
jayjinsing.github.io
Karen M. Warkentin,
sites.bu.edu/warkentinlab/
Somatic sex maintenance in the Drosophila testis. Left: in XY adults, chinmo prevents Zld protein expression, keeping traF off and allowing dsxM to maintain the male fate (blue) while the female pathway is switched off (gray). Right: loss of chinmo leads to the ectopic expression of zld, inducing traF and activating the female developmental program (red) in chromosomally male cells.
In the #gonad, #sex is not an irrevocable commitment, and requires active maintenance. Artyom Kopp explores a new @plosbiology.org study elucidating the molecular mechanisms that preserve sexual identity in the adult #Drosophila #testis 🧪 Paper: plos.io/4pMT6hq Primer: plos.io/3MRBBxG
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Dr. Lisa Diamond of The University of Utah is conducting a climate survey of the LGBTQIA+ community. To participate or share the survey follow the link here: bit.ly/OUTCommunityS...
RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
Democrat Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City on Tuesday.
https://to.pbs.org/4ozTIWM
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In Texas, the fine for a DUI is $2,000
The fine for trans people using the “wrong” bathroom is $125,000
This is because trans women piss so much and so hard that if they don’t use a boy toilet, the pipes explode, which makes peepee poopoo flood the streets and causes hundreds of car accidents.
AI is doing 24/7 surveillance, compiling watchlists, and causing kids irreversible emotional damage
AI is basically Santa if instead of milk and cookies he ate 4 billion gallons of water
Numbers alone cannot capture the toll the Israel-Hamas war has taken on the Gaza Strip.
But they can help us understand how thoroughly the conflict has upended the lives of 2.1 million Palestinians living in the territory. https://to.pbs.org/4mZNrlP
Jane Goodall, the influential primatologist who changed how people see chimpanzees and themselves, died Wednesday at the age of 91.
She died of natural causes while she was in California on a speaking tour, the Jane Goodall Institute said in a statement on social media.
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We would like to share some approaches for teaching gender-inclusive biology, here and now. Join us for a webinar with Science Educators for Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice (SEEDS) on Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 7 pm EDT. seeds4equity.org/event-6317102
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again:
The real villain in Jaws isn’t the shark, it’s a capitalistic mayor that values profit over people!
The Texas House passed SB 8, the anti-trans bathroom bill. SB 8 is now on track to become law, after an 8-year fight.
#TXLege #SB8 #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
If you're in Austin I can personally confirm the best way to get a 24-25 booster is walk into an HEB with a pharmacy and just get it. They are very chill about it, I did this last Friday along with a flu shot, no questions asked no appointment needed.
Breaking: Texas Senate approves GOP congressional map.
Republican lawmakers pushed the map through over fierce Democratic opposition, positioning the GOP to net up to five additional seats in Texas.
BREAKING: Texas House gives initial approval to new maps that would create up to five more winnable congressional seats for the GOP.
The Texas House has just passed the most racially gerrymandered map since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which prohibits racial discrimination in voting
Breaking: A federal appeals court Monday blocked West Texas A&M University President Walter Wendler from enforcing a campus drag show ban, ruling that the performances are likely protected under the First Amendment.
The 2025 legislative session was transformative for public education in Texas.
Here is a look at some of the biggest changes students, parents and teachers can expect as they return for a new school year.
I am really excited to be a part of this team. We took our time writing this, putting a lot of thought into how our journeys as #NativesInSTEM were affected by different aspects of Universities and looking for commonalities across the world. I hope folks in academia appreciate this work.
BACK TO SCHOOL special -- @aaup.org Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom has curated practical resources for those facing threats to academic freedom, including legal orgs, digital security, travel, and more.
AAUP CDAF First Aid Kit
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
Title: Gender Census 2025. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.
The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
I know we all keep repeating this until we're blue in the face, but for the love of god can the Democrats just realize that no matter how hard they try this "pivot to the center" bullshit, the GOP is *always* going to paint them as radical leftists so they might as well roll with it?
