@myatomicnumber.bsky.social
Researcher and professor of materials science; mother; cat lover (she/her)
A large orange cat asleep on a blanket
#Caturday mood
26.04.2025 15:10 — 👍 22 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
This is a critical victory for trans rights.
I am somehow for the first time ever reviewing for PNAS and their reviewer instructions include this BANGER of a line:
"The purpose of peer review is not to demonstrate proficiency in identifying flaws"
Print it in eleventy point font and hang it from the hillside. Scream it from the rooftops.
Rep. Zooey Zephyr - My Wife - just gave an incredible speech against a drag ban in Montana. It was so strong that a Republican rose to speak passionately against the bill, chastising the sponsor.
The drag ban dies in Montana, flips 10+ Republican votes!
This is the power of representation.
"We are older than your laws and we will outlive them," one sign said.
EITM correspondent S. Baum attended this weekend's Stonewall protest, organized by Transexual Menace, which connected trans elders, youth, and everyone in between.
Read their story and subscribe to support our journalism.
Just migrating Voices of Academia here, from X. Please give us a follow at @voicesofacademia.bsky.social
#AcademicMentalHealth
"When he realized that Senate Republicans were characterizing his [NSF] project as one of many they considered ideological and of questionable scientific value, Darren Lipomi, chair of chemical engineering at the University of Rochester, was incensed." undark.org/2025/02/21/a...
21.02.2025 15:35 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Valentine’s day card saying will you be the Pedot to my PSS. Showing the logo of the Kayser Lab (Pedot guy) and the chemical structure of PEDOT:PSS
My lab made a (much needed) cute card. Will you be the PEDOT to my PSS?
14.02.2025 23:47 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Donations can be made, in Winston's name, directly to Clearwater Animal Hospital. Or via E-Transfer and PayPal:
E-transfers can be sent to: catadvocacyandrescue@gmail.com
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Please click the following link for PayPal:
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Thank YOU for supporting our rescue efforts! 🙏
“I need to raise $1700 to cover the scheduled dental work and some of the diagnostics done today. I will cover the rest of the routine vet care needed.
Also, we have named him Winston. 😊”
From CARA “this cat is super sweet and has the most polite meows. Plus he is friendly, not feral. It is definitely not his fault that a crappy human in his past socialized him to people, but ultimately didn't do right by him, which led to this serious injury.”
14.02.2025 00:59 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
X-ray image of a cat with a broken lower jaw
He had X-rays today. His lower jaw is a mess - not fixable. He will never be able to fully close his mouth and can’t open his mouth more than 1.5 inches. He can eat well but can’t groom himself. CARA, a local cat rescue is giving him a chance! The vet will extract his broken canines tomorrow.
14.02.2025 00:58 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Oh my god.
They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service.
"Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights"
WOW.
“A @royalsociety.org spokesperson said: “Dorothy Bishop and Andrew Miller are outstanding scientists who have made significant contributions to the Society over the years. Their resignations are a source of deep regret.””
I wonder what could be done if you actually *deeply* regretted something…? 🤔
Disgusting. This is so fucked.
13.02.2025 22:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Breaking: Second Royal Society fellow resigns over Musk’s membership
More than 750 scientists, including multiple fellows, criticise academy’s lack of action
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
Thanks to the more than *1100* members of the scientific community who have signed the letter to insist that the Royal Society remains true to values that we all hold dear but that Musk FRS has ridden roughshod over.
Please keep signing & sharing.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
No American Chemical Society?
13.02.2025 20:56 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
An orange and white cat sitting outside on a deck
The orange and white cat all warm and cozy with blankets at the vet
Rescued a cat today that we’ve been feeding for a few weeks. The vet says it looks like he had a serious run-in with a car at some point. His lower jaw was broken and fused in the wrong position so it’s hard for him to eat. He’s a sweet boy - likely an abandoned cat. Why do people do this 😡
12.02.2025 22:32 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0in america giant bodies of water can change their names, but trans people can’t
11.02.2025 23:20 — 👍 5337 🔁 1488 💬 49 📌 34An open letter to the President of the @royalsociety.org – time to stand up for your values. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
11.02.2025 15:26 — 👍 336 🔁 172 💬 7 📌 28
#ChemTogether.
Forever.
#RealTimeChem #ChemSky #Chemistry
“There have been no official statements either on these assaults on inclusion nor on the more general anti-science crusade from the American Chemical or Physical Societies (my enquiries to both have gone unanswered to date), nor from the US National Academy of Sciences.” 😞
09.02.2025 15:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gender affirming care saves lives Say gay
Me @ CDC
01.02.2025 21:52 — 👍 64 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0There’s still time to submit an abstract! Deadline extended to February 6th
31.01.2025 14:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🗣️ Haven't submitted your abstract yet? The #CSC2025 abstract submission deadline is in a few hours!! Submit your abstract by 11:59 PM ET 🕛 TONIGHT (Jan. 30)! 🙌 buff.ly/4hEAqMn
30.01.2025 23:24 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The first "Pride in the CSC: It Gets Better" symposium will be at CSC 2025! Submit an abstract to share your chemistry research, your journey as a queer chemist or ally, or anything in between! Abstracts are due Jan. 30. Let’s create a space for visibility, support, and inspiration in chemistry!
30.01.2025 00:32 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Pursuant to its authority under 5 U.S.C. § 1103(a)(1) and (a)(5), the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing the following initial guidance to agencies regarding the President’s Executive Order entitled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government (Defending Women). Steps to End Federal Funding of Gender Ideology: In light of Defending Women, each agency should take prompt actions to end all agency programs that use taxpayer money to promote or reflect gender ideology as defined in Section 2(f) of Defending Women. Specifically, agency heads should take the following steps: 1. No later than 5:00 p.m. EST on Friday, January 31, 2025 a. Send an email to all agency employees announcing that the agency will be complying with Defending Women and this guidance. b. Review all agency programs, contracts, and grants, and terminate any that promote or inculcate gender ideology. c. Review all agency position descriptions and send a notification to all employees whose position description involves inculcating or promoting gender ideology that they are being placed on paid administrative leave effective immediately as the agency takes steps to close/end all initiatives, offices, and programs that inculcate or promote gender ideology. d. Take down all outward facing media (websites, social media accounts, etc.) that inculcate or promote gender ideology. e. Review agency email systems such as Outlook and turn off features that prompt users for their pronouns.
f. Withdraw any final or pending documents, directives, orders, regulations, materials, forms, communications, statements, and plans that inculcate or promote gender ideology. g. Cancel any trainings that inculcate or promote gender ideology or have done so in the past. h. Disband or cancel any employee resource groups or special emphasis programs that inculcate or promote gender ideology or have done so in the past. i. Review all agency forms that require entry of an individual’s sex and ensure that all list male or female only, and not gender identity. Remove requests for “gender” and substitute requests for “sex.” j. Ensure that all applicable agency policies and documents, including forms, use the term “sex” and not “gender.” k. Ensure that intimate spaces designated for women, girls, or females (or for men, boys, or males) are designated by biological sex and not gender identity. 2. No later than 12:00 p.m. EST on Friday, February 7, 2025, report to OPM on all steps taken to implement this guidance, including: a. a complete list of actions taken in response to this guidance and Defending Women; and b. any agency plans to fully comply with this guidance and Defending Women. Please contact OPM at defendingwomen@opm.gov if you have any questions regarding this guidance. Please send any reports requested by this guidance to defendingwomen@opm.gov. cc: Chief Human Capital Officers (CHCOs), Deputy CHCOs, Human Resources Directors,
BREAKING — I'm told OPM just sent out this memo with guidance for implementing Trump's "Defending Women" anti-trans executive order.
"Take down all outward facing media that inculcate or promote gender ideology. Review email systems and turn off features that prompt users for their pronouns."
