Greta Bocedi

it’s time, EMPSEB begins tomorrow! Follow our conference account to get updates on all the cool science and community-finding that will happen at this cozy, almost*-all-PhD-student conference 😊 (*except for our wonderful invited speakers, of course)

Fantastic 🥳

Signed! Very well put!

Please if you find them get one for me to! So we can both wear at the next staff away day! Brilliant idea!!

I’m so sorry 😔 Sending you all my support

“E questo è il fiore del partigiano morto per la libertà!”
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My homeland celebrating 80 years from the liberation from fascism and still fighting! Buon 25 Aprile!!
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6 people at the protest, myself included, holding various signs. from left to right, the signs read: "harry potter is shite anyway" "come ask a real biologist about "biological sex"" "illegal lesbian??" and "trans women are women"

uni of aberdeen sbs biologists (and bonus morrigan the geoscientist) say biologists for trans rights! despite what transphobes like to claim, the proven science DOES NOT AGREE with them. trans women are women, trans men are men, and biology is much more complex than year 9 science lessons

It is an important time to support our trans family, friends and colleagues. A wonderful turnout of wonderfully diverse people in Aberdeen today.

‘One hell of a turnout’: trans activists rally in London against gender ruling Thousands gather in Parliament Square in a show of unity after supreme court judgment

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

YouTube video by Turismo Torino e Provincia Torino the place To be - short 1'

ISBE26-the 20th International Society for Behavioral Ecology Conference will take place in Turin, Italy, from 20-24th of July 2026. We invite you to join us to enjoy a 5-day meeting rich in top-notch science and ample networking opportunities, in our beautiful city. Website out soon!
#ISBE26

It's driving me up the wall that legal definitions are increasingly based on (at best) primary school-level takes on complex concepts (like 'biological sex') which, I don't know, you should probably consult actual experts on.
Also: trans rights are human rights; no LGB without the T(QIA+), ever!

Graphic with a purple background. It reads: "We are really shocked by today's Supreme Court decision- which reverses twenty years of understanding on how the law recognises trans men and women with Gender Recognition Certificates. The judgement seems to have totally missed what matters to trans people- - that we are able to live our lives, and be recognised, in line with who we truly are. We will continue working for a world in which trans people can get on with our lives with privacy, dignity and safety. That is something that we all deserve.". The Scottish Trans and Equality Network logos are in the bottom right.

Along with @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social, we've published our reaction to the judgement in the UK Supreme Court today.

There will be more we want to say to trans people directly once we have a chance to catch our breath.

www.equality-network.org/uk-supreme-c...

literally paragraph 2.

Hopeless 😞 We just keep falling back in the dark ages with the glee of a large part of society.
TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS!
Whether hateful and intolerant people and institutions like it or not.

Petition: Lift restrictions on prescribing puberty blockers to trans children. We want the Government to reverse the restrictions it has introduced relating to the prescription of puberty blockers to children. The Government introduced legislation banning them from being prescri...

This is huge. My petition got approved. It challenges the UK government to the lift the Puberty Blocker ban on the grounds that it contradicts article 8 of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child.

Please sign and Repost ✊️🏳️‍⚧️

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

The rightwing defence of 'academic freedom' masks a McCarthyite agenda | Jonathan Portes Are rightwing academics being silenced? The Policy Exchange thinktank says they are – and has plans for cracking down, says professor of economics Jonathan Portes

I wrote this 5 years ago describing Eric Kaufmann/Policy Exchange's agenda on academic freedom as "McCarthyite."

Today Kaufmann says that Trump's impact on academic freedom is "likely to be net positive".

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

University of Sussex fine sparks fears of bigger penalties for other institutions Universities UK says ruling raises concerns about how to prevent harassment and hate speech on campus

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
I cannot believe it! This is so dangerous and disheartening, undermining all the progress hardly achieved to protect diversity and vulnerable groups. We should all speak up in support of University of Sussex to avoid spiralling down into a hateful society

ISPF UK-Amazonia Workshop Future range of Amazonian Biodiversity - University of Birmingham Call for participants in a fully funded workshop on modelling Amazonian biodiversity

Call for applicants: fully-funded ISPF British Council Workshop on Future range of Amazonian Biodiversity, 27/7-2/8 in Manaus. We will train UK- and Brazil-based ecologists and conservationists on mechanistic range models and on Amazonian ecosystems. Details: shorturl.at/hIa7Z. Re-post, please!

Visualizing the Decline of Earth’s Ecosystems Critical ecosystems that sustain life on Earth have faced devastating declines over the past few centuries.

🌍 Nature is declining faster than ever. Since 1700:

🔹 Wetlands: -85% 🌊

🔹 Coral Reefs: -50% 🪸

🔹 Forests: -32% 🌳

🔹 Ecosystems: -47% overall

A great visualization of @ipbes.net data by Visual Capitalist and Zero Carbon Analytics ⤵️

www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/visualizi...

Perspectives on mating–system evolution: comparing concepts in plants and animals Abstract. The study of mating systems, defined as the distribution of who mates with whom and how often in a sexually reproducing population, forms a core

I am so happy to see this review online finally! A lot of work, but a lot of fun too! Thank you to all the co-authors! @gretabocedi.bsky.social @trinebilde.bsky.social @jevbio.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

Jenny Gill

Jenny Gill (UEA)'s seminar on community science and conservation is a masterclass in how to give a departmental seminar, wow.

research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/j...

Yes e did! I’ll send the link

Royal Society will meet amid campaign to revoke Elon Musk’s fellowship More than 1,300 scientists have signed a letter calling on the world’s oldest science society to reassess the billionaire’s membership following cuts to US science.

My open letter and FRS resignations reported in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

2nd Royal Society fellow resigns over Musk’s membership, citing the Council’s “inability to take proportionate action on Musk’s promotion of disinformation and attacks on evidence-based policies and science advice”.

FRS Andrew Millar, prof of engineering bio at Uni of Edinburgh, confirmed to me.

Now over 900 signatures. Please keep signing and sharing to send a clear message to the Royal Society that we want them to stand up for values that we all hold dear: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Penultimate-year UK undergrads: if you're looking for a paid 6-8 week summer project before your final year, come to UEA in Norwich and create some transgenic Drosophila with Phil and Karl! The project is about sexual conflict and evolution/genetics. Please repost. www.uea.ac.uk/research/res...

Awesome PhD opportunity!