thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
Even though it's crisis #192308 in our current time, I don't think it's sufficiently sunk in with ppl in the academic community that getting federal funding for your research will primarily depend on whether Trump political appointees find you and your work useful
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hi everyone!! popping back into this space briefly to share the fundraiser for my long-awaited top surgery! eek! we are SO close to reaching my goal!
any form of interaction helps, even if you can't donate!
thank you, i love you, and keep taking care of each other! #transrights! gofund.me/60c167de1
thank you!! just defended last month! 🥳
hi everyone!! popping back into this space briefly to share the fundraiser for my long-awaited top surgery! eek! we are SO close to reaching my goal!
any form of interaction helps, even if you can't donate!
thank you, i love you, and keep taking care of each other! #transrights! gofund.me/60c167de1
the white supremacists are not taking a break to mourn because they have people of color to fuck over
Again they love gun control as long as it’s against people they seek to oppress
"How will we be able to weather this dark period for US research & keep...talented individuals in science?...The attacks on science & research are multi-pronged and incessant, whether they are directly targeting universities, or aimed at university endowments or indirect funds received from grants"
Thinking of this exhortation from
@chanda.bsky.social 's recent blog: "What will you stay curious about, even when authoritarians try to shape your reality by telling you not to think, not to read, not to ask questions, not to dare consider the possibility that there’s more to life than this?"
how it started vs how it’s going…
logging in to share a quick life update:
It’s, DR. Yesenia now 💅🧠🎓✨🏳️⚧️
Congratulations!!! So well-deserved, you are an INSPIRATION! 🌟
Amid DEI funding cuts, trainees are losing pillars of support. Grassroots mentorship organizations are stepping in to continue championing young researchers.
@blackinneuro.bsky.social @colorsofthebrain.bsky.social @neurolatine.bsky.social
By Paige Miranda
www.thetransmitter.org/qa/we-still-...
Earlier today, I was leaked a copy of the Executive Secretariat Style Guide for the US State Department. The new guide included a new section requiring that all trans State employees must be misgendered in all official communications. www.patreon.com/posts/new-st...
Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.
A statement by SBN (again co-written by the DEI Comm with edits from the Exe Comm) on why using rodent models of trans health are important studies for the community and everyone else!
To be clear, gang members also should have due process. And this is a reminder how criminalizing behaviors, tattoos, etc is infused with white supremacy, xenophobia & ableism.
Probably not relevant to anything, but most of Germany's concentration camps were not in Germany
Ripping a student from their home, challenging their immigration status, and detaining them solely based on political viewpoint will chill student speech and advocacy across campuses nationwide.
Political speech should never be a basis of punishment or lead to deportation.
Given the platform, I wanted to make sure I used it well & clearly articulated my message:
"Thru anti-DEI & anti-trans executive orders & laws, the administration seeks to restore hierarchies centered around race & gender, resegregating America. A textbook example of fascism."
tinyurl.com/3bvrf6nn
This is what I want my science reporting to be like. Blunt, clear, and very concerned with definitions
my fellow Californians of good moral character…
trans people need you, *i* need you, to tell Newsom exactly what you think of him saying trans Californians (in a trans! sanctuary! state!) aren’t worth protecting
PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS SLIDE
This essay is almost 10 years old and idk that I’d write it the same way today but here’s one about how it feels really good to be trans.
www.autostraddle.com/my-trans-bod...
Every time some elected democrat sucks off Reagan, I think about Duane.
Obviously his framing is bigoted but I do want to say that while gender isn't studied in animal models, variables influencing sex are. It's easy to scoff at the concept of "transgender mice" but animal models for hormone therapies DO exist (see our paper). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35863692/
Mouse models of gender affirming hormone therapy can improve outcomes for trans people and for any cis person with hormones or receiving hormone therapies.
What helps is standing in solidarity with us, speaking on the importance of and fighting for the research, not jokes about "transgenic mice" 🧪
