This image is a recruitment advertisement for a survey study about autism, gender identity, and masking. It contains images of the trans pride flag, rainbow infinity symbol and a QR code. The text on the advertisement states ‘participate in our survey and tell us about your experience of hiding your identity. To access the survey or learn more about the study please use the QR code below or follow this link. The main researcher for this project is Mark Somerville, a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. The link provided on the image is in the main post.

Are you Trans? Autistic? Both?

Please tell us about your experience of hiding aspects of your identity and the impact of that on your mental health

Online survey study, takes about 15 minutes.

edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

(replaces previous post with wrong link) #AutRes

If you’re still paying the New York Times to whitewash corruption and promote fascism, today is a great day to cancel ALL your subscriptions — including to the Cooking and Games apps.

A politician with the guts to say it:
"No American child from the blue collar or the middle class should have to die fighting in Iran. Let the Epstein class fight the Epstein War."
- Premier Wab Kinew at the NDP national convention, Winnipeg.

I would ride for Ms. Rachel in a way comparable only for my regard for LeVar Burton and Mr. Rogers. People who truly love and respect children are the best of humanity and it makes me so angry when people attack them.

Getting there with Mychal Threets, too.

Here you go, everyone can use this one (it's signed by an authority)

MB8 Screen Use

ManyBabies8: Screen Use 📱

MB8 aims to document early screen use across diverse cultural contexts & examine links to language & socio-emotional development in children under 3.

We’re inviting you to join!

Interested?
🔗 Fill out our short survey: forms.gle/7ASVadD7LT4j...

More: manybabies.org/MB8/

Wow.

I moved my money! A @uofcalifornia.bsky.social faculty initiative to divest our retirement savings from state violence, war, fossil fuels is up and running. It's simple: 1) open your retirement portfolio, 2) move your money into UC's Social Equity Fund!

Learn more here: www.ucmoveyourmoney.org/home

Donate Your Skymiles — Stand With Minnesota Donate your Delta Skymiles to get people home from Texas

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Fridge and stove are also valid options

Poster for H.I.S. study, please email psycsealab@gmail.com if you are interested in participating.

My lab is currently looking for survey participants! We're looking for men in Canada to complete a survey on their hobbies, interests and skills. Please forward this to any men between the ages of 18-29 that you know. They just need to email psycsealab@gmail.com to participate.
#psyc #academicsky

Calling published SFF authors!

I’m researching the work lives & well-being of science fiction and fantasy authors for my doctoral dissertation, and I'm looking for participants!

If you’re a published SFF author interested in participating, then DM me and I can provide details

Cow Tools!

We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them

It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS

Here I describe our study

(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social

Pow Wow Grounds

My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support.

PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities-

Venmo @powwowgrounds

www.powwowgrounds.com

As a Minneapolis resident, I’ll explain it this way: they already outnumber all PDs in the metro area, and we’re still not backing down. They have assault rifles and Kevlar vs our phones and whistles, and we’re still not backing down. Their morale is already shit, and we’re just getting started.

it’s up to 126,000 unique visitors now. doing my best to keep my head above water with updates!

Settlers fear other settlers will steal stolen land In the wake of comments by U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump about making Canada the 51st state, settlers are anxious about the prospect of their stolen land being stolen by another land's settlers. ...

walkingeaglenews.com/2025/01/10/s...

Through all the exhaustion and the long road we’ve been through, hope is still alive — because of you.❤️

Your support is what gives us the strength to keep going, even when the road feels endless.
Still need (£377)

If you’re able to help or share, it truly makes a difference. 🙏

For Ralph
Alex Janvier ~ Denesuline
1988

A screenshot from the Rankin Bass 'Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer' stop motion film. Rudolph has his eyes closed is being chided by his father and mother inside a cave. There is yellow text overlaid on the image, reading: "Deviationg from cultural hegemony will be met with oppression and ostracization unless it can be exploited by the powerful for economic gain or social capital."

Happy Holidays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re-upping this, since it's only available for two days:

I have been perfectly happy since the switch to Tidal, the playlist transfer was pretty seamless and my literal only problem is remembering which icon to use on my phone to get to the music since I can't find the green circle anymore

People often ask: what can ordinary people do to stop populists like Trump and Smith from running roughshod over democratic norms?

Populists rely on the widespread perception that their actions are supported by "the majority" and "common people."

Anything that punctures that myth helps. +

“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

KD now stands for Kraft Dessert?

Hi Bluesky 👋

Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP

It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history

I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

Stock of Spotify over last month showing sharp decline, from near $700 in value to $615.

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!

Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.

We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

I recently reflected on the Royal Society Conference on the Future of Scientific Publishing and summarized my thoughts in an ISSP blog post: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...
#OpenAccess #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky