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Anson Mackay 🏳️‍⚧️

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queer, non-binary geographer
running ultramarathons with stage 4 HPV head & neck cancer
ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig
managed by @davidadger
ansmackay.wixsite.com/uclgeography/blog


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Nice! Or snog, as we would say in Gaelic 🤩

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spending my evenings not thinking about REF or TEF or KEF #lifeisgood

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😆😆

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😆

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As good a time as any to start!

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When do we start see you doing ultras, Dr Britton? 😍

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At least one runner still out there!! I hoper you've had your first beer already 😍

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I was following you right up till tou got to 40km & you passed Vicki? But then I had to go on my own run along the Quantocks. Well done though! You looked like you overtook everyone? Did you enjoy it?

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Rooting for you!! It will be brilliant

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Gillian Branstetter's avatar Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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A damning joint report by Yale Law School and Yale Medicine finds the UK's Cass Review "levies unsupported assertions about gender identity, gender dysphoria, standard practices, and safety of gender-affirming medical treatments, and it repeats claims that have been disproved by sound evidence.”

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you're going to love it!!

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Pride in STEM's avatar Pride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social
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We are opening a small grants scheme, where we will fund up to £1,000 for projects that support and develop LGBTQIA+ communities in STEM. We are excited to receive your applications to do brilliant stuff along the theme: "Queer in STEM beyond visibility"
#QueerInSTEM

prideinstem.org/2024/06/25/s...

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What a wonderful article!

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Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈's avatar Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈 @jbyoder.org
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For Pride Month 2024, I took a look at what the first modern-scale GWAS of same-sex behavior has accomplished, almost five years after its publication

What do we know about the genetics of “born this way?” — and how does it help us to know it?

www.molecularecologist.com/2024/06/20/w...

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Crystal Frasier's avatar Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social
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Lynn Conway was a legend. Her genius revolutionized the modern world.

And for the trans community she represented something hugely important: a quiet, happy life.

She wrote me exactly once but I’ll never forget the kind and encouraging person she was.

news.engin.umich.edu/2024/06/the-...

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Great article, and I really agree with how a different language is needed. and categories often not helpful! I'm going to shoot myself in the foot now, as I was intrigued as to when the non-binary category wasn't mentioned, as one that is used by a lot of people to get outside of the binary? Thanks!

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Doh, of course! Thanks. I'd gotten so used to seeing 'quote tweets' as only images 😅

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Interesting article, but I wonder why they chose not to include people who describe themselves as non-binary. Seems like an odd omission, unless I'm missing the point of the article?

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Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈's avatar Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈 @jbyoder.org
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I'm excited to see "Inclusion and Advancement of LGBTQ+ People in STEM Fields" out today — it's a comprehensive evidence review and policy report from a think tank event I joined last year

My quick intro post: lab.jbyoder.org/2024/06/12/p...

And the full report: drive.google.com/file/d/1mjFr...

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I was one of the 400 signees - it's incredibly important we hold all political parties to account, although I doubt the Tories are even pretending to give a fuck anyone...

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It is completely weird. But anti LGBTQ sentiment has increased so much these last few years, nothing surprises me 😢

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Oh wow Richard - congratulations!! Looks like a really exciting project 🐴

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But hey, this is ok as, checks notes, falls under Stock’s “collateral damage” quota

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Mx. Fee's avatar Mx. Fee @mxfee.bsky.social
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Transphobes going after cis people is the very predictable outcome of them being allowed to carry on the way they have, being allowed to influence policy and sporting body decisions. When you believe trans women aren't women, no women are women 🤷

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🤣

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Good Lord 🙄

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Geo: Geography and Environment's avatar Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social
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🌍New #OA commentary in Geo🌍

'Overpopulation discourse: A feminist and necropolitical approach from the Global South' by Ana De Luca Zuria

This commentary critiques the narrative that blames overpopulation for environmental issues

doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geo #geosky

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Massive congratulations!!

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I'm enjoying this series soooo much! Only 2 episodes left 😭

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Anson Mackay 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Anson Mackay 🏳️‍⚧️ @ans.bsky.social
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And life in general tbh!!

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I want to get in a pun about rank-circles, but failing...😂

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I recognise that arm stretch-out from you out clubbing 😁

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Ach, that will be easy for you ;-) Remember, ultras allow you to walk up the hills and eat anything you like, even munching pizza on the way 😅 And the 50k is definitely like a gateway drug that lures you into the harder stuff 😍

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Hah, ask away! There's three distances, is there? Which one are you doing?

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Well done Chris!!! ❤️🖤❤️

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Brilliant news - (officially) congrats!!

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"feed your eagles" 🤦‍♂️

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Anson Mackay 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Anson Mackay 🏳️‍⚧️ @ans.bsky.social
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Oh wow, I’m so out of the loop I hadn’t realised this was still going on and grown!!! It’s Easter; tempted to down load Earth Science Reviews paper for some light entertainment 😬

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That’s absolutely brilliant Bethan - huge congratulations!!

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Ooh, where’s the new bakery? And let us know if it’s any good! X

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