Decolonising SBS

Poster for Aberdeen DIY Pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Join us this Saturday at Aberdeen DIY Pride.

7 JUNE 2025
1pm-4pm
UNION TERRACE GARDENS

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A poster of the initiative taking place at Imperial on May 29 in the afternoon. It's called empower connecting Black researchers in the UK

We are sharing this networking event for Black researchers in the UK that is being organised by one of our trustees. It’s an excellent opportunity

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Sign Our Open Letter - Action on Transphobia at the University of Aberdeen Action on Transphobia at the University of Aberdeen | SIGN HERE On the 17th of May 2024, we wrote the below letter to senior management within our department and university. Our aim was to escalate c...

This is the result of months of work from lots of different people. We are tired of the silence and complicitness from UoA and are calling on our colleagues to sign in solidarity to hold the @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social to account! #transphobia #STEM #Aberdeen
tinyurl.com/UoATransphobia

First page of our letter - full text can be found on the linked google docs (sorry I can't include here because of the character limit)

Second page of our letter - full text can be found on the linked google docs (sorry I can't include here because of the character limit)

as some of you may be aware, we have been dealing with considerable transphobia (among other issues) in our department at the uni of aberdeen.

we are sharing this letter publicly to raise awareness and ask for your support. please sign and share 💕🏳️‍⚧️

tinyurl.com/UoATransphobia

#LGBTQinSTEM

screenshot of open letter page 1 - full google doc available via link in post

screenshot of open letter page 2 - full google doc available via link in post

tinyurl.com/UoATransphobia
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im sure many of you are aware of hostility towards #trans staff & students in my department

myself & other ECRs have published a desperate call for action on #transphobia from departmental and university management

please read, share and SIGN IN SOLIDARITY ❤️

After years of no public commitment from UoA to protect their #trans and #queer students, we have decided to publish this letter in hope for positive change

With the Supreme Court ruling in the UK, this is more important than ever

If you can, please sign below 👇🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

#PhDSky #LGBTSTEM #QueerInSTEM

The progress flag in the shape of a shield against an outdoorsy background, titled "Pride guidelines: pointers for research that is inclusive, diverse, and equitable for LGBTQ+ fieldworkers"

New LGBTQ+ science resources! Today, we’re excited to share our PRIDE Guidelines for LGBTQ+ inclusive field work at inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/pride. Please share widely and see the thread below for more details 🧪🌍🌐

Developing collaborative solutions to the intersectional barriers faced by minoritized ecologists - British Ecological Society Join the BES Networks to discuss how we build a more equitable community for all ecologists.

Find out more here 👇

Funded by #PrideinSTEM, the BES and BES Networks are delighted to launch a series of webinars on developing collaborative solutions to the intersectional barriers faced by minorities in ecology.

Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...

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...

Puberty Blocker Ban letter to MPs How to write to your MP Check out https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP to see who your MP is and to get their email address. You can also use https://www.writetothem.com/ if you’re not including ...

Great advice here on how to complain to your MP regarding the puberty blocker ban for trans children. This was from a workshop @tacc.org.uk put on this evening which was excellent. The advice also comes with citations for the evidence presented. docs.google.com/document/u/0...

It was amazing to get to give a talk on colonial legacies in Animal Behaviour, work has been ongoing for a long time behind the scenes, hopefully there will be more to come! #ASABWinter2024 #DecolonisingSBS

Amazing to hear more in depth about helicopter research/parachute science with some colonial context! #ASABWinter2024

decolonising sbs member dee gave a wonderful talk today on addressing colonial bias in animal behaviour

"Anyone who considers themselves a member of the STEMM community is welcome to sign.

Please go to: forms.gle/oHqgSPGpiYte..., and provide your name, affiliation, and field of study."

Very proud to be a part of this group at UoA, we will be sharing our activities here and you can also find us on Instagram! Would be great to connect with other #decolonising groups working in the biological sciences as well 🧪

YouTube video by AJ+ The awful TRUTH about “No Trespassing” laws

Thank you to the members of @decolonisingsbs.bsky.social for organising a screening of the short documentary by @blackforager.bsky.social & Yara Elmjouie about wild foraging and the racist history of No Trespassing Laws

Throughly enjoyed it, and learned something new!

#DecolonisingSBS #UoA

hello everyone! 👋 we thought we'd post a brief introduction here. we are decolonising SBS - a PhD/postdoc-led group at the university of aberdeen school of biological sciences, working to dismantle coloniality and how it manifests in our research fields, department, and the wider university 🌎🍃🔬