Today we celebrate Ben Barres! A groundbreaking neurobiologist and openly transgender scientist, he transformed brain research while championing inclusion in STEM becoming one of the first openly trans members of the US National Academy of Sciences

#BenBarres #LGBTQHistory #TransInSTEM #LGBTQ

Building on the 2023 recommendations of the APS Committees Task Force, the APS Council called for the formation of a new Inclusive Committee Structure Working Group (ICS-WG) in October 2025 to assess and recommend ways to evolve APS's current committee structure to support members from across the full spectrum of groups historically marginalized or underrepresented in physics. We are hosting virtual open focus groups to ensure the ICS-WG understands the needs of the entire community. These are open to everyone. In particular, we would like to meet with those who have not felt they have representation in the current APS structures, such as LGBTQ+ physicists and physicists with disabilities (physical and neurodivergent/ mental health).

Why join? • Define the Purpose: Share your perspective on the needs of underrepresented groups in physics and the true value and role of inclusion-related committees at APS. • Evaluate Support: Help us understand if current APS policies and structures actually enable affinity groups to succeed or if they create barriers. • Center Sidelined Voices: Ensure that upcoming organizational changes are informed by lived experiences and reflect the intersectional needs of individuals that have historically been sidelined.

Looks like the @apsphysics.bsky.social is convening focus groups to inform a new Working Group to evolve the org's committee structure to be more inclusive of underrepresented or marginalized groups.
Sign-up: forms.gle/w1Gq29eRzVxE...

🧪 #WomenInSTEM #QueerInSTEM #TransInSTEM

4 physicists standing along a berm and in the tall grasses of the Everglades wetlands, conducting GPR surveys as a collaboration between Xavier Comas's research group & USGS.

📸 Do you work in near-surface geophysics? I'm looking for a few community photos (fieldwork, lab, classes, conferences) to include in a photo gallery in the upcoming issue of the EEGS magazine. Focus is environmental & engineering near-surface geophysics.

⚒️🧪 #WomenInSTEM #QueerInSTEM #TransInSTEM

There's still time to sign up for our one-day symposium for Trans+ scientists, researchers, and students in STEM!

#lgbt #trans #transinSTEM #lgbtSTEM #STEM

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AGU Hydrology H3S (@agu-h3s.bsky.social) Interested in joining the AGU H3S team in 2026? You still have a chance! The application deadline has been extended until March 13. Apply at the link below!!! 👇👇👇

Calling all ECR hydro folks! Check out this call for volunteers. The @agu-h3s.bsky.social are very dynamic and active, and a great group to get involved with. Don't be shy, reach out to them today!

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⚒️🧪 #WomenInSTEM #TransInSTEM @geolatinas.bsky.social

This chemist had a tenure-track job offer in the US when they decided to leave the country Why Evan Spotte-Smith made that choice, and how they are finding the experience

Well, it's finally up. Thanks @sarahbraner.bsky.social @cenmag.bsky.social for profiling me and my journey from @cmu.edu to @ucddublin.bsky.social. It's been a hell of a ride. I'm glad I'm here safe, at least.

⚗️ #newpi #disabledinstem #lgbtqinstem #transinstem #leavingus #howtoleave #ireland

Queer in Microbiology: A Conversation 18 Nov - Virtual, online

It’s #TransAwarenessWeek 🌈
This week, we’re celebrating trans and nonbinary people while also raising awareness of the challenges and discrimination that many still face. Check out our discussion with Rowan Casey: microb.io/4hFL6vk 👈
#TransInSTEM #TransInScience #LGBTQSTEMDay

Quick question for the #TransInSTEM community. I'm talking to a colleague about organizing a network specifically to connect trans folks working in STEM (grad students, postdocs, faculty, and other professional researchers in the public & private sector) for solidarity and mutual support.

Yesterday was my 1 year anniversary of my top surgery!

This whole year I've been a happier, healthier, more "me" me because of it!

I had fought in 3 states, over 8 years to make it happen. I am still elated every day when I wake up from the happiness it brings :).

#trans #TransJoy #TransInSTEM 🏳️‍⚧️

A wobbegong shark propped up on the pectoral fins and looking up for food.

Happy Nonbinary Day and Shark Awareness Day from your neighborhood trans, agender, shark person :)

I love learning about the sensory systems and mechanics of these amazing animals!

🦈 🐟 🦑 #sharks #sensory #neuromechanics #science #research #TransInStem #agender

Hey US earthquake grad students and postdocs! Apply for funds to offset your travel costs to an upcoming meeting such as #AGU25!

👉 Don't miss the SUNDAY June 15 deadline. See the original post and link for details.

⚒️🧪 #WomenInScience #QueerInSTEM #TransInSTEM #GeoLatinas

Some resources for an empowered Pride Scientists need strength to face the many hurdles they will come across in their trajectory.

Scientists face many pressures, plenty of which are about identity. For transgender scientists, that pressure can loom particularly large. For a piece in @natmethods.nature.com, Vivien Marx interviewed scientists who identify as transgender and spoke to allies.

#LGBTQSTEM #PrideInSTEM #TransInSTEM

Republicans Push to Define Biological Sex in Statute “If biological sex were as obvious as lawmakers keep insisting that biological sex is, we wouldn’t be here.”

A recent Texas Observer article on trying (and failing) to create the perfect and universal and permanent and true in all contexts biological definition of sex www.texasobserver.org/texas-lege-p...
#lgbtqSTEM #TransinSTEM #Science #Medsky

Come together, right now The chaos, conflicting information, firings, and hurtful rhetoric of the Trump administration’s approach to science over the past month are causing anxiety, grief, and concern for the scientific commu...

"there are principles around which all scientists unite—those of evidence, independence, process, and inclusion. "
#science #blackinstem #QueerinSTEM #TransinSTEM
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Students, don't miss an opportunity for funding!
Faculty, let your students know!
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
⚒️🧪 #QueerInSTEM #TransInSTEM #WomenInScience

Instagram Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

I don't really cross post, so if you want to see some of my own #shark photos and videos then you can find/follow me on Instagram (my only other social media platform).

#chrondrichthyan #elasmobranch #research #skate #ray #MarineBiology #TransInSTEM

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You can SUPPORT the Lego Periodic Table project FREE so it becomes a real Lego set.

It's on track to make the 10,000 vote goal.

#scienceforall
#transinstem
#womeninstem
#disabledinstem
#HiSciSky
#ChatChemistry
#edusky
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#scienceteacher

SUPPORT here(it's free)
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A green pen and yellow highlighter drawing of a mass of abstract fungal growth that includes eye balls. A petri sticker, which is a square grid arranged to fit in a circular petri dish has numbers 1 to 100 and have been placed over the doodle as if we are peering down at a dish (and it is peering back at us).

A green pen and yellow highlighter drawing of a mass of abstract fungal growth that includes eye balls and fluffy abstract designs. No circular sticker grid has been placed on top yet.

"Petri Observation"
Work doodle!.. using a trashed petri sticker (left).
#Petri #petridish #sciart #microbes #science #queersinstem #transinstem #pocinstem

Screenshot: The Trump administration also suspended $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania last month, according to a statement from Penn President Larry Jameson. This suspension was apparently motivated by the institution's policies on transgender athletes and the participation of a transgender athlete on the women's swimming team in 2022. The university contends it followed National Collegiate Athletic Association and Title IX sex-based discrimination rules as they were written at the time.

I never expected to see science cuts due to past trans inclusion in other parts of a university.

How quickly will science institutions abandon trans folks?

So very fast, just like they're already tripping over themselves to sacrifice so many others.

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#TransInSTEM

If *you* are a trans (umbrella) person and want to be added please contact me. (I need the most minor evidence that you are trans in STEM as I'm starting to get spam.)

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#trans #TransInSTEM #STEM #TDoV #transgender 🏳️‍⚧️

We value the importance of diversity & visibility of all self-identifying females.🏳️‍⚧️

#Transgender girls & young women in STEAM make our community stronger &, with their pioneering efforts in STEAM, you can, too! 💖

#TransgenderDayOfVisibility #DiversityInSTEM #TransinSTEM #PrideInSTEM

It’s Trans day of visibility! I’m deep in PhD writing hell so here’s a quick retweet. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#tdov #transdayofvisability #transinSTEM #queerinSTEM

Trans researchers under attack: LGBTQ+ biologists face hostile work environment Largest survey of LGBTQ+ biologists finds 40% of trans and gender-nonconforming, and 20% of lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer researchers, experience hostility, intimidation or offensive behaviour at work.

The largest survey of LGBTQ+ biologists finds 40% of trans and gender-nonconforming, and 20% of lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer researchers, experience hostility, intimidation or offensive behaviour at work.

#PrideInSTEM #TransInSTEM

Trump executive order would upend federal surveys that ask about gender identity “You’re completely erasing nonbinary, gender-diverse people,” one researcher says

Trump executive order would upend federal surveys that ask about gender identity | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
#lgbtqSTEM #science #medsky #transinstem #womeninstem

The Periodic Table of the [LEGO] Elements I am a chemist and an AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO). This is the intersection of those two disciplines. But perhaps the intersection is more than just a ...

You can SUPPORT the Lego Periodic Table project FREE so it becomes a real Lego set.

It's on track to make the 10,000 vote goal.

#scienceforall
#transinstem
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#edusky
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1/2 #Anthropology #BehSci #BlackinSTEM
#CogSci #devpsycsky ♀️
#IntersexInSTEM #LGBTQSTEM
#medsky #PsychSciSky
#QueerInSTEM #Queer+Trans #science
#TransInSTEM #TransRights
#womeninstem
Who out there who works on trans or lgbt children or youth have had their grants canceled?

@chatbiology.bsky.social @chatphysics.bsky.social
@scienceforall.bsky.social
#scienceforall
#transinstem
#womeninstem
#disabledinstem
#HiSciSky
@rsc.org
@chatchemistry.bsky.social #ChatChemistry
#science
#Lego

@scienceforall.bsky.social
#scienceforall
#transinstem

That means disabled, diverse, and equitable measures that dismantle gatekeeping and prioritize empowerment. Science thrives when we all do. #ScienceForAll #DEI #TransInSTEM