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cbdawson.bsky.social
"Women and non-binary individuals reported significantly greater odds of experiencing a behavior in nearly all categories of [harmful field interactions] compared to men."
doi.org/10.1029/2026...

(& I'd bet it's getting worse in 25/26 due to politics.)

#WomenInSTEM #TransInSTEM #QueerInSTEM 🧪⚒️
Examples of interventions Conceptual diagram of culture in geoscience field work
August 26, 2026 at 6:39 AM
cbdawson.bsky.social
Conference for Graduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics
September 10--11, 2026
Washington, D.C.

#WomenInSTEM #TransInSTEM 🧪

www.aps.org/initiatives/...
Graduate Women and Gender Minorities
Fostering professional development and leadership opportunities in physics for all (formerly Advancing Graduate Leadership).
www.aps.org
May 4, 2026 at 10:02 PM
cbdawson.bsky.social
📸 Do you work in near-surface geophysics? I'm looking for a few recent community photos (field, lab, classes, conferences) to include in the upcoming issue of the EEGS magazine. Focus is environmental & engineering near-surface geophysics. DM for details.

⚒️🧪 #WomenInSTEM #QueerInSTEM #TransInSTEM
Scientist towing large piece of equipment across ice.
April 2, 2026 at 1:14 AM
smbe-idea.bsky.social
🏳️‍⚧️ On #TransDayOfVisibility, IDEA celebrates the 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 and supports transgender scientists in STEM, recognizing the barriers they face.

💪 Building equity in science takes more than visibility. It takes presence, support, and action.

#TDOV #TransInSTEM @official-smbe.bsky.social
March 31, 2026 at 6:16 PM
prismaciencia.bsky.social
La excelencia científica requiere seguridad, respeto y, sobre todo, visibilidad. Por un sistema de CTI que no deje a nadie atrás. 🧬✨

#TransInSTEM #VisibilidadTrans #PrismaCiencia #CienciaLGTBIQA
March 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM
equitybd.bsky.social
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
February 26, 2026 at 2:01 PM
cbdawson.bsky.social
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
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.
February 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM
cbdawson.bsky.social
📸 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
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.
February 19, 2026 at 7:52 PM
lliamrbird.bsky.social
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

transstemuk.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:34 AM
agu-sensing.bsky.social
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!

bsky.app/profile/agu-...

⚒️🧪 #WomenInSTEM #TransInSTEM @geolatinas.bsky.social
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!!! 👇👇👇
bsky.app
January 26, 2026 at 9:02 PM
ewcss.info
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
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
cen.acs.org
December 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
microbiologysociety.org
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
Queer in Microbiology: A Conversation
18 Nov - Virtual, online
microb.io
November 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
jmgilligan.org
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.
September 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
wobbologist.bsky.social
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 🏳️‍⚧️
September 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
wobbologist.bsky.social
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
A wobbegong shark propped up on the pectoral fins and looking up for food.
July 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
agu-sensing.bsky.social
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
cascadiaeqs.bsky.social CRESCENT @cascadiaeqs.bsky.social · Jun 13
2 days left! Looking to attend a professional conference? AGU? GSA? We're still accepting applications for the Geoscience Fellowship - a travel stipend open to U.S. graduate students & postdocs interested in earthquake science & broadening participation.

Learn more & apply: cascadiaquakes.org/g...
June 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
springernature.com
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
Some resources for an empowered Pride
Scientists need strength to face the many hurdles they will come across in their trajectory.
spklr.io
June 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
glamreadytolead.bsky.social
This #pridemonth, GLAM celebrates the #LGBTQIA+ community. 🏳️‍🌈 🩷 🏳️‍⚧️

We stand together in #allyship & #equity every day. 🫱🏽‍🫲🏾

#GLAMReadyToLead #DiversityInSTEM #TransInSTEM #PrideInSTEM #QueerInSTEM #visibility #diversity #equality #inclusion #belonging #loveislove #lovewins
June 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
birdlady.bsky.social
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
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.”
www.texasobserver.org
May 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
birdlady.bsky.social
"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/...
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...
www.science.org
May 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
cbdawson.bsky.social
Students, don't miss an opportunity for funding!
Faculty, let your students know!
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
⚒️🧪 #QueerInSTEM #TransInSTEM #WomenInScience
ostem.org oSTEM, Inc @ostem.org · Apr 14
oSTEM's 2025 Scholarship Program is offering $183k in scholarships for LGBTQ+ students in STEM. 41 scholarships ($2,500-$5,000) available for community college, undergrad, and grad students.
Applications open April 14, 2025 - May 18, 2025, 11:59 PM EDT.
Learn more at bit.ly/oSTEM-Scholarship
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April 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
wobbologist.bsky.social
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

www.instagram.com/reel/DIhfuTa...
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April 16, 2025 at 10:02 PM
xolopilli.bsky.social
"Petri Observation"
Work doodle!.. using a trashed petri sticker (left).
#Petri #petridish #sciart #microbes #science #queersinstem #transinstem #pocinstem
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.
April 9, 2025 at 1:10 AM
cbdawson.bsky.social
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.

ww2.aip.org/fyi/trump-es...

#TransInSTEM
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.
April 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM
wobbologist.bsky.social
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.)

bsky.app/profile/wobb...

#trans #TransInSTEM #STEM #TDoV #transgender 🏳️‍⚧️
wobbologist.bsky.social Wobbologist @wobbologist.bsky.social · Jan 21
If you're looking for some trans (umbrella term) STEM people to lift up and support, you can check out my starter pack.
go.bsky.app/2oTAUBo

Some biologists, some other fields.

Lifting up more people helps everyone.

(If you want to be added to the list request by leaving a response)
wobbologist.bsky.social Wobbologist @wobbologist.bsky.social · Jan 20
Biologists need to stand up against the increased transphobia coming.

Also, I'd love to see more collaboration from within the trans community as well.

We need more trans people to have a voice and be lifted up! The more the better!
March 31, 2025 at 8:18 PM