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Conor McKeever

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Oxfordshire, UK | he/him | 🏳️‍🌈 and 🐱🐱 | Lapsed chemist, now working in science communication 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 linktr.ee/conor.mckeever

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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:
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Melissa Barber @mbarber.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
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Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF
Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.
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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
🌈 Pride in STEM (@prideinstem.bsky.social) turns 10 this year! Join us on 17 April at the Royal Society of Chemistry for an evening of celebration, community, canapés - and cake. 🎟️ Get your free tickets before they're snapped up, and see you there! www.outsavvy.com/event/34281/...
A poster for the event. On a colourful background it says Pride in STEM 10th anniversary celebration, Royal society of Chemistry April 17, 6.30 pm.
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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
🌈 Pride in STEM (@prideinstem.bsky.social) turns 10 this year! Join us on 17 April at the Royal Society of Chemistry for an evening of celebration, community, canapés - and cake. 🎟️ Get your free tickets before they're snapped up, and see you there! www.outsavvy.com/event/34281/...
A poster for the event. On a colourful background it says Pride in STEM 10th anniversary celebration, Royal society of Chemistry April 17, 6.30 pm.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Oh boy! What a headline... Ask yourself: "What am I being asked to believe?" "Who am I being told to blame?" Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on. Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵 1/21
Daily Mail Headline:

Pupils' drawings could be blasphemous under Islamic law, Labour councils tell schools - while music and dance classes may go against the teachings of Islam
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Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
How does Benjamin Ryan think therapy works? Here he’s challenging @michaelhobbes.bsky.social claim that therapists know the difference between gay kids and kids who are trans. How do therapists know a kid is depressed other than “trusting the kid?”
A Ben Ryan tweet, complaining about Michael Hobbes claim that therapists are able to tell gay from trans: 

I can assure you, having spoken to child psychologists at length about this very question, that they are not the bearers of some sort of cosmic intuition that discerns gay from trans in children. Nor has the field of pediatric medicine sought to systematically grapple with this question of how to separate one child from another. Some of the biggest names in the field simply leave the matter up to the kid, asserting that kids "know who they are."
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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Mmmmm, stracciatella
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Joani Reid who suggested Corbyn was a Russian asset despite zero evidence? Her husband? Ah fuck, she's gonna be LIVID. metro.co.uk/2026/03/04/l...
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Labour MP's husband arrested on suspicion of spying for China
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports
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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 26/02/2026
Many news outlets are reporting that some trans Kansans received letters warning that their licenses were being invalidated overnight. This morning, Evan Urquhart spoke with a trans woman who found out on Bluesky that it would be illegal to drive her car. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Her License Was Invalidated For Being Trans — Assigned
“I wish I could convey to them that the people they’re hurting are real human beings,” says Juniper, 24, of Witchita Kansas.
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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Do you know someone who deserves recognition for their work making change for LGBTQ+ people in STEM? Nominate them for a #PrideInSTEM award! 🏆
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 22/02/2026
London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
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Who's the billionaire behind London’s biggest mass eviction?
He's the London philanthropist who says he's committed to solving homelessness. So why is Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital rushing to make hundreds of Londoners homeless in the coming weeks?
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
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Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Do you know someone who deserves recognition for their work making change for LGBTQ+ people in STEM? Nominate them for a #PrideInSTEM award! 🏆
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Can't stop laughing at Keir Starmer's defence being "I asked the Prince of Darkness 'are you telling me the truth?' and he said 'yes' and now I have discovered that I was LIED to by the Prince of Darkness! The Prince of Darkness LIED to me!"
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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
media.tenor.com
two women are standing in a living room and one of them says that 's not how this works
Alt: two women are standing in a living room and one of them says that's not how this works, that's not how any of this works
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Pride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Just a reminder that we have a new newsletter (and there's some fun stuff coming out tomorrow)! #PrideinSTEM 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📧 You can sign up here: prideinstem.org/newsletter
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| Pride in STEM
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!
One of those latecomers was a 46-year-old documentary filmmaker named Chad Knutson. On the morning after Good was killed, he was at home with his two hound dogs, watching a live feed from the Whipple Building, where ICE is based, a five-minute drive from his house. A protester had laid a rose on a makeshift memorial to Good. As Knutson watched, an ICE agent took the rose, put it in his lapel, and then mockingly gave it to a female ICE agent. They both laughed.

Knutson told me he had never been a protester. It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt. But when he saw those ICE agents laughing, something broke inside him.

“I grab my keys, I grab a coat, and drive over,” Knutson told me. “I barely park my car and I’m running out screaming and crying, ‘You stole a fucking flower from a dead woman. Like, are any of you human anymore?
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 26/01/2026
I posted a @zoebread.bsky.social video yesterday to underline the rot of the Labour party control of Manchester yesterday and I'm posting another today. Fuck Andy Burnham, and Labour collectively.
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Ashley Nova — Unfiltered, Unhinged, Uncaring @ashleynova.space · 04/12/2025
Transphobes will never be content with excluding trans people from public life, they demand that everyone hate us as much as they do, that everyone should be elated by our absence and furious at our presence. They are utterly obsessed with us.
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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
"Honestly, we haven't been fed in yeeeears 🥺" #caturday
A black and white tuxedo cat (Nyota) sits on a fluffy beige rug in the foreground, while a calico cat (Nebula) sits behind her on the wooden floor of our living room. Both are staring intently at the camera as if to convey their desire for food.
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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Just a few days left to get your (free!) tickets to the 2025 #LGBTQ+ #STEM Day celebration in London! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Polis Loizou 🐺 @polisloizou.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The most wonderful time of the year! hiddenbooks.nationalbooktokens.com
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Play the Hidden Books Game from National Book Tokens!
Guess all 20 book titles hidden in the picture.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
The government want more coercive powers for the state against protests, and the main opposition party wants more coercive powers for the state against migrants. Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.
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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
And why call it 'golden ticket'? Disgraceful language. These people have lost everything. Should they also lose their spouses and children? A reminder that last year 4,671 family reunion visas were granted. 4,671. Does anyone think this number is a major problem for the UK economy and society?
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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Sure, why not? They've already betrayed their voters, members and values, they might as well betray their very name as well.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 11/09/2025
Boris Johnson says these are just common sense and reasonable statements
-Gay people should be stoned to death
-Most people are scared when they see a black pilot flying a plane
-Taylor Swift should reject feminism and submit to her husband
-No one should be allowed to retire
-Leftists should not be allowed to move to red states
-British Colonialism was what "made the world decent"
-The guy who assaulted the Pelosi's should be bailed out
-Religious freedom should be terminated
-Multiple black politicians "stole white people's spots"
-MLK Jr was "an awful person"
-The Great Replacement Theory is reality
-Hydroxychloroquine cures COVID
-Vaccine requirements are "medical apartheid"
-Guns deaths are acceptable in order to have a 2nd amendment
-Women's natural place is under their husband's control
-Parents should prevent their daughters from taking birth control
-George Floyd had it coming, the Jan 6th protestors didn't
-The 1964 Civil Rights Act was a "huge mistake"
-Encouraged parents to protest mask mandates
-Mamdani winning in NY is a travesty because Muslims did 9/11
-Muslims only come to America to destabilize Western Civilization
-Palestine "doesn't exist" and those who support it are like the KKK
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Long thread: There are two main "defences" I see put forward of Labour which crop up: 1) If you don't vote for Labour you'll get Reform 2) It's all the fault of right wing media painting Labour in a bad light. The thing is that neither of these are actually a defence of what Labour is doing. 1/23
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Dreamliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 03/09/2025
The framing here is so catastrophically disingenuous. Linehan, for those who aren't familiar with this specific instance, publicly advocated violently assaulting trans women. To portray this as "transgender issues" is, frankly, contemptible. Fuck the Guardian and their "respectable" bigotry.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 02/09/2025
The UK media will defend you on their front pages if you encourage people to set fire to hotels full of asylum seekers, or if you encourage violence against women because some trans women might get hurt but they will call for your imprisonment if you protest genocide or the destruction of the planet
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I love this juvenile crow, thinking he's some mastermind who's tricked me into believing he's a duck 😂 (The excited little hippy hops he does when running off were a bit of a giveaway)
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
The Labour playbook is basically do the authoritarian fascism but shaking your head the whole time to show you dont agree with it
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 31/08/2025
I don't even 'identify' as an Arsenal supporter. I am an Arsenal supporter. We just don't talk like this in any other area and it needs to stop. "Jane identifies as a hairdresser" "John identifies as a father" "Jane identifies as English" "John identifies as a maths teacher". It's moronic.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 31/08/2025
Stop saying 'preferred gender' and just say 'gender'. I prefer butter over margarine. I do not 'prefer' to be be called a man.
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This, from the Quakers, is worth reading. It's a serene, confident, utter rebuke of the hate and fear that's peddled by Sex Matters. The last two pages are smokin'. If you're on the wrong side of the Quakers, you really need to sit down and have a good chat with yourself.
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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
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Dr Dan @dpdormouse.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I think I have 2 main concerns: 1) if you’re using chat GPT, I’d be concerned about easy accidental breaches of private information to ChatGPT 2) if you’ve trained it on your policies, you’re clearly not going to change your mind because the AI won’t so there’s no point emailing trying to do so
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
My bad, my old thirst traps are just too powerful 😔
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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
My fav Doctor and Companion
Composite picture of the characters Seven of Nine and The Doctor from Star Trek Voyager, in front of a background of stars.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
EHRC now saying that not only should trans people be excluded from sex segregated spaces, but ALSO those matching birth sex: “A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from … service for their own biological sex …to prevent alarm or distress for other service users.” archive.ph/2025.08.07-2...
The Times understands that the guidance is still being finalised and it will not decree that services have to provide single-sex spaces, but that if they do - for example if a lavatory is intended for women - transgender women would be excluded from using it. To allow someone of the opposite sex to use the facilities would be very likely to amount to unlawful discrimination.
It will also make clear that it will not be deemed as discrimination to exclude trans people from those facilities and that services will be allowed to request birth certificates to ensure single-sex services are protected.It read: "A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from a separate or single-sex service for their own biological sex might be to prevent alarm or distress for other service
users.
"A trans man might be excluded from the women-only service if the service provider decides that, because he presents as a man, other service users could reasonably object to his presence, and it is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim to exclude him".
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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
In the spirit of this, I thought I'd share this picture of my recently domiciliated helianthuses 🌻
Photo of a vase of bright yellow sunflowers on a side table
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.
JK Rowling tweeting got a boycott of M&S, stretching facts to the breaking point, and making the world a worse place for absolutely everyone.
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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Labour proudly protecting women's rights by *checks notes* ignoring the Women and Equalities Committee and the Joint Committee on Human Rights
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
It makes no sense to frame this as some sort of correction — adequate nutrition is more important for kids with health conditions, not less. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, who is about 18 months old and was born during the war, lives with his mother and brother in a tent on a Gaza beach.

Mohammed’s mother, Hedaya al-Mutawaq, 31, said the toddler’s father was killed last October when he went out to seek food.

“I walk the streets looking for food,” she said by phone, her voice barely audible. The charity kitchens she relies on to help feed Mohammed and his brother, Joud, 3, cannot always help, and they go hungry. “As an adult, I can bear the hunger,” she said. “But my kids can’t.”

Mohammed, according to his doctor, had pre-existing health problems affecting his brain and his muscle development. But his health deteriorated rapidly in recent months as it became increasingly difficult to find food and medical care, and the medical clinic that treated him said he suffers from severe malnutrition.

“I look at him and I can’t help but cry,” she said.

“We go to bed hungry and wake up thinking only about how to find food,” she added. “I can’t find milk or diapers.”
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 28/07/2025
The Courier reports on Sandie Peggie's racist posts, where she used the term "p*kis" and said that, following devistating floods, Pakistan looked like a "giant bowl of coco pops". Sandie Peggie is supported in her case by Sex Matters. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
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EXCLUSIVE: NHS Fife nurse Sandie Peggie mocked victims of Pakistan floods in series of racist posts
The offensive messages, detailed below, emerged in an evidence bundle seen by The Courier at the tribunal in Dundee.
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