Anson Mackay 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.

It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.

Transgender care saves lives.

The Harvard Plan Documentary Podcast · Series · The Harvard Plan is about the fight for the soul of America’s oldest and most prestigious university. Hosted by award-winning reporter Ilya Marritz, the podcast is a co-...

The Harvard Plan S2 podcast is bloody brilliant. Thanks @ilyamarritz.bsky.social

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Mereological Syntax: Phrase Structure, Cyclicity, and Islands An argument for replacing Chomsky’s set-theoretic Merge view of syntax with a theory of syntax based on mereological objects.Mereology is the study of part

At last! Open Access version of the book on MIT's site. One for the syntax nerds. I argue we need to replace Merge, that there are no Phases, and that we need to rethink the basic theoretical typology of Islands. Feel free to download with abandon! 🐦🐦 #syntax direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Have you read Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky yet? My other favourite sci fi book that I read this year. Blew me away!!

Themes of what it is to be human / more-than-human, with the power of poetry at its centre, and queer love throughout. What's not to love... #scifisky

Book cover of “Toward Eternity” by Anton Hur. Cover shows a greedy-Bluey planet in the background with weird colourful plant like organisms scattered across the cover

I’ve read a fair few #scifi books this year, but Toward Eternity by @antonhur.com was one of the best #booksky

I still have no idea what the first word means 😂

Proud of the Badger @davidadger.bsky.social

Forgotten women of paleontology: Estella Bergere Leopold. Paleoecological records suggest that the transition to agriculture marked a pivotal turning point in the environmental history of our planet. Tropical forests have been reduced by agricultural expa…

Forgotten women of paleontology: Estella Bergere Leopold ⚒️🧪

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Nine Undergraduate Biology Instructors Revealing their LGBTQ+ Identities in Class Resulted in Benefits for their LGBTQ+ Students and Students with Other Marginalized Identities | CBE—Life Sciences Edu... Few LGBTQ+ biology instructors reveal their identities to undergraduates, often without considering the potential student benefits. Although instructors who have revealed their LGBTQ+ identity perceiv...

Want to know the cost/benefit balance of outing 🏳️‍🌈 oneself* to your students? Here’s the analysis from 9 instructors, 2045 student surveys, implying mostly positive &/or beneficial to the students.

*I don’t think anyone should feel obliged to, not least bc the study features no trans/nb instructors.

“If you went back a million minutes, you would be back to January 2024. If you go back a billion minutes, you are in the Roman empire. That’s the difference between a million and a billion.”

I can feel many FOIs being submitted!

Zack Polanski: ‘People will have to find some other way to hurt me’ | The Observer

"You can agree or disagree with him, but Polanski does not pretend to be something he is not.

He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions.

Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes."

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Today is Trans Day of Remembrance.

Today we remember and grieve all those we have lost. But we also commit – collectively – to fighting for those of us who are left. There will be hope as long as we continue to stand together.
https://goodlaw.social/n1jn

Beautiful demoiselle damselfly, watching us as we ran our clay stream mesococm experiment, July 2025.

James MacDonald, taking sensor readings for temperature and light in our chalk stream mesocosm experiment.

Charlotte Briddon and Sydney Enns, sampling the isotope treatments in one of three mesocosm experiments we ran in summer 2025. We are a fun and friendly team with loads of experience and enthusiasm. Great working environment!

James setting up slides for biofilm cultivation prior to our chalk stream isotope dosing experiment.

Seeking an experienced postdoc in freshwater environmental genetics to join our exciting @ercrefresh.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @ukri.org team to investigate environment x gene interactions in freshwater biotic responses to environmental stressors www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK766/s... @mgenner.bsky.social

Such awful news 😢

Cheers Randy!

I had a marvellous weekend reccing Hadrian’s Wall & The Cheviots for upcoming 268 mile race @spinerace.bsky.social!

I’m also raising money for Oracle Head & Neck Cancer UK. I’m 4 yrs since told of a terminal condition. All donations will be matched 🙏 #cansky

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Photo of Hadrian’s wall and super imposed an elevation profile & running stats for the route

Anson (left) & Llinos (right) in full. Spine kit. Standing in front of a conifer forest

Another Pennine Way Spine recce adventure. Greenhead to Bellingham via Hadrian’s Wall. And bogs. Lots of bogs 😍 #runsky #pennineway #spinerecce

V cool tattoos!

I don't think I knew that!

Amazing Rob - congratulations to you and your team!

It was one of those 'crisp' days - so warm in the sun and slightly chilly otherwise!

Photo of london taken from Parliament Hill

Anson & David taking a selfie

Lovely walk around the Heath today

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Gosh, that's a roller-coaster of a ride you've been on!!

opened box containing dark green books called Mereological Syntax, one of which is diagonally placed on top of the others

pile of 10 dark green books stacked on a wooned tabletop

Look what just arrived early! It’s chunkier than I thought. Open access version on publication day which I think is the 18th on the @mitpress.bsky.social website. I must admit, I’m very fond of the colour!!! 🐦🐦 #syntax #newbook

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Medical Research Funding: Timeline — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

It’s out! Over the past few months, my colleagues and I at @unbreaking.org have been working to document the political, legal, and economic maneuvers the US administration has used to undermine medical research funding. We hope you’ll find it useful!

Read it here: