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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social linktr.ee/Jenna_M_Norton Today, Jay Bhattacharya platformed ideology at the NIH and tried to call it science. Dr. Carole Hooven was invited to speak as part of his “Scientific Freedom” lecture series.
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liseeliot.bsky.social @liseeliot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
In 3/4 studies, so-called "sex-specific" effects in brain and behavior are not what they claim. Here's an explainer from the Maney lab: maneylab.org/sex-specific...
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Sex-specific effect | Donna Maney
Why sex-specific effects often aren't.
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liseeliot.bsky.social @liseeliot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Claims of sex-dependent effects in the behavioral and brain sciences are infrequently supported by valid statistical comparisons | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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liseeliot.bsky.social @liseeliot.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
More testosterone won’t make a better soldier or a tougher man – aggression and strength drive T levels, not the other way around theconversation.com/more-testost...
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More testosterone won’t make a better soldier or a tougher man – aggression and strength drive T levels, not the other way around
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is requiring service members to screen for low testosterone levels. Ironically, the military lifestyle itself is more likely to lower T levels.
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liseeliot.bsky.social @liseeliot.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A Nobel laureate’s assist to women’s basketball pros current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/nobe...
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A Nobel laureate’s assist to women’s basketball pros
In March 2026, the union representing professional women's basketball players reached a historic collective bargaining agreement with the WNBA, securing salary increases of nearly 400 percent for its ...
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This study of four cohorts of French schoolchildren shows that the gender gap in math (girls falling behind) begins essentially immediately as soon as kids start school. They use the natural variation in kids' ages at school start to show that it's school entry, not age, that triggers the change.
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Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade - Nature
Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...
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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Thanks to The Conversation for inviting me to share my "unsung hero of science", who I chose to be Carolyn Wood Sherif 💘 theconversation.com/my-unsung-he...
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My unsung hero of science: Carolyn Wood Sherif, pioneer of feminist psychology who foresaw the risks of scientific bias
In 1979, Wood Sherif wrote my favourite psychological paper of all time.
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liseeliot.bsky.social @liseeliot.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
“Kids and Girls”: Parents convey a male default in child-directed speech | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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“Kids and Girls”: Parents convey a male default in child-directed speech | PNAS
Adults tend to view men (more so than women) as default people, with numerous real-world consequences for gender equity. In the United States, the ...
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liseeliot.bsky.social @liseeliot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Autism diagnoses are up, largely fuelled by the NDIS. What happens next isn’t entirely clear theconversation.com/autism-diagn...
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Autism diagnoses are up, largely fuelled by the NDIS. What happens next isn’t entirely clear
Evidence suggests the NDIS led to Australia having some of the highest rates of diagnosed autism in the world.
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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Fair Game: Trans Athletes and the Future of Sports signsjournal.org/fair-game-tr... A review of several books on trans athletes written by supportive feminists, some allies, some trans athletes.
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Fair Game: Trans Athletes and the Future of Sports
Christina Kahrl, Maggie Mertens, and Elizabeth Sharrow discuss Fair Game: Trans Athletes and the Future of Sports, with a response from authors Ellie Roscher and Anna Baeth.
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liseeliot.bsky.social @liseeliot.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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Baby Boys Aren't Less Social Than Girls
Podcast Episode · The Last Show with David Cooper · April 25 · 10m
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
"We argue that misogyny is particularly likely to be enacted after threats to the gender status quo." New review by Morgan Weaving, Nick Haslam, & @cordeliafine.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0959... #SocialPsyc
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Research investigating the practices that reinforce women’s lower status and power is growing rapidly. Yet, examinations of these practices are scattered across diverse literatures under different conceptual labels, with little intellectual cross-fertilization. We integrate these literatures under a hierarchy reinforcement model of misogyny, which defines misogyny as the social, physical, and economic penalties imposed on women that reinforce hierarchical gender relations. This conceptualization of misogyny has significant benefits for psychology: it unifies interrelated phenomena that have traditionally been studied in siloes; differentiates misogyny from related psychological phenomena; focuses attention on both interpersonal and institutional penalties towards women; and recognizes misogyny within its socio-historical context. By integrating psychological, sociological, and organizational research, we develop a theoretical framework that outlines the key causes of misogyny. Critically, we argue that misogyny is particularly likely to be enacted after threats to the gender status quo. This can help to explain the pernicious nature of gender inequality, as misogynistic penalties become most pronounced when gender hierarchies face disruption. Understanding the many forms of misogyny as interlinked also emphasizes the need for gender equality interventions to be multipronged, as tentative initiatives with a singular focus are at risk of merely displacing misogyny into other arenas.
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liseeliot.bsky.social @liseeliot.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
A very old story that will not die. For a modern perspective on human male evolution, I recommend Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's excellent new book, "Father Time": press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Father Time
A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
No men in women’s sport you say?
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liseeliot.bsky.social @liseeliot.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"The problem is not that China is investing, but that the U.S. is not." China surpasses US in research spending theconversation.com/china-surpas...
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China surpasses US in research spending – the consequences extend far beyond scientific ranking and clout
Scientific innovation has been driving US economic growth for decades. Losing that edge means losing access to the technologies and brainpower that come with it.
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liseeliot.bsky.social @liseeliot.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Newborn boys and girls are equally “born to connect.” Here’s a summary of our meta-analysis: theconversation.com/its-a-myth-t...
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It’s a myth that baby boys are less social than girls – a new look at decades of research shows all babies are born to connect
Pulling together the results of 40 experiments done by different teams over decades, researchers found that infant boys and girls equally tune in to human faces and voices.
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Lots of teams contributing to different parts of the Artemis II mission. Here the parachute team ⬇️
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 04/02/2026
the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades
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GenderSci Lab @genderscilab.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Does women’s health need sex-specific algorithms? In a paper just out in Big Data & Society (bigdatasoc.bsky.social) we at the GenderSci Lab warn against the growing use of so-called “pink” and “blue” algorithms, arguing that they risk embedding biological sex essentialist assumptions into medicine.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
"Mary Wollstonecraft prophesied in 1792 that the 'natural inferiority' of women would evaporate as soon as they were allowed the same educational opportunities as men." Nice review of what women were supposedly incapable of and a reminder to enjoy a good "told you so"
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Mary Wollstonecraft was right: once education opened to women, they proved themselves equal to men.
And Susan B. Anthony was right: men are not prepared to live in a gender equal world.
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liseeliot.bsky.social @liseeliot.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Mary Wollstonecraft was right: once education opened to women, they proved themselves equal to men. open.substack.com/pub/celestem...
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Mary Wollstonecraft was right: once education opened to women, they proved themselves equal to men.
And Susan B. Anthony was right: men are not prepared to live in a gender equal world.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Clyburn calls out Bessent for trying to take credit on a project in his district initiated by Biden.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14/11/2025
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
“Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska”
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
New paper with @statsepi.bsky.social and @deevybee.bsky.social in which we show there's really no evidence for a link between the gut microbiome and autism www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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Conceptual and methodological flaws undermine claims of a link between the gut microbiome and autism
Claims that the gut microbiome causally contributes to autism regularly appear in the scientific literature and popular press. Mitchell et al. critically examine influential studies underpinning these...
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵
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Beverly D. @writerbeverly.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
This infuriates me. While breast cancer is much more rare among men, they DO get it. I have a friend who's a male breast cancer survivor. Making people starve/die bc political ideology is what fascists do. #BreastCancerAwareness
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
"...Few figures have informed the sensibility of NPR more than Stamberg. Colleagues considered her a mentor, a matchmaker, a founding mother — always tough, and always true to herself." 😢 www.npr.org/2025/10/16/1...
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NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died
Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.
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Dr. Diana Li @dianateuthis.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
OH MY GOD YES YES YES
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21/09/2025
“I am reminded—for a second time in my life—that the stakes we have in a democratic system of education are always under threat and that, for those of us who value it, the fight for its preservation is an urgent, if never-ending, challenge.” This was great.
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A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review
The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.
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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is
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liseeliot.bsky.social @liseeliot.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
No, brain MRIs won't cure gendered mental health gaps. See my new article: “Precision Medicine” and the Failed Search for Binary Brain Sex Differences to Address Gender Behavioral Health Disparities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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“Precision Medicine” and the Failed Search for Binary Brain Sex Differences to Address Gender Behavioral Health Disparities
Human brain imaging took off in the 1980s and has since flooded the zone in the analysis of gender differences in behavior and mental health. Couched in the aims of “precision medicine,” the vast maj...
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar. Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Webinar on Responding to NSF Grant Terminations 

Join the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) on Friday, May 9th, at 2:00 PM ET for an informative webinar on responding to NSF grant terminations. We will discuss the rules, procedures and available options for grantees who have had their grant terminated.
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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
1/5 I am pleased to announce a new paper, based on a talk I gave last year at the annual meeting of the Human Biology Association. This link is open 4 a free read for a while but eventually it will get pay-walled because I can't afford open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Rethinking Gender/Sex Identity
Until quite recently, investigations of gender/sex development operated from a baseline assumption that gender/sex is dichotomous or binary. Most such studies constructed gender/sex outside of or adj....
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Harvard is literally one of the most valuable brands in the world, attracting best & brightest from around the world to spend tons of money in the US, to produce science that benefits all of US, but also spawn technology that fuels US exports: What Trump is doing is attacking a core US industry.
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Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I never see this really emphasized in news about Senate votes so - reminder that the 45 Democratic senate seats represent something like 54% of the population.
A spreadsheet presenting the following information:

United States Senate:		Voters Represented:	Proportion of Pop Represented:
Number of R:	53	151196069.5	45.71%
Number of D:	45	178560948.5	53.99%
Number of I:	2	1002718	0.30%
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
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Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic
Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/04/2025
As a biologist, I'm appalled at pride the White House takes in willful ignorance. In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites." But this is unequivocal fact.
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The NPR, PBS Grift Has Ripped Us Off for Too Long
For years, American taxpayers have been on the hook for subsidizing National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which spread
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liseeliot.bsky.social @liseeliot.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Pleased to share the video of Lin Bian's excellent WiSH seminar @ Rosalind Franklin University www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzcu...
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Lin Bian, PhD - Gender Stereotypes about who can be 'Brilliant'
YouTube video by Women in Science and Healthcare
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025
New in PN: There's no sum of money that will keep you safe from Trump "The nature of a protection racket is that it doesn’t actually keep one safe. The cost to comply can always go up. The nature of what constitutes compliance can always be changed. And once you agree to pay, you can’t really stop"
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There's no sum of money that will keep you safe from Trump
Corporations are learning this the hard way.
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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Why the science of #autism is failing women and girls with @ginarippon.bsky.social jasonherbert.substack.com/p/off-the-sp...
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Off the Spectrum
Why the science of autism has failed women and girls
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liseeliot.bsky.social @liseeliot.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Pretty obvious this was coming, when 60% of college grads are women. But I'd argue income is the driver: men don't need college degrees to earn as much or more than women (assuming traditional gendered careers). www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
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The New Marriage of Unequals
Women are now more likely to marry a less-educated man than men are to marry a less-educated woman.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I’ve now watched this clip like 10 times and it’s instant first ballot hall of fame. One of the most comically out of touch things I’ve ever heard heard from a public official.
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The number of protests is more than double that at the same point in 2017. From Erica Chenoweth and collaborators at the Crowd Counting Consortium.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 02/03/2025
Trump is pro-lamprey.
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liseeliot.bsky.social @liseeliot.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"Sexual diversity within a species is an evolutionary adaptation, not a bug" -- brilliant piece by Donna Maney www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-ba...
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This Backyard Bird Has a Lot to Teach Us about Sex Variability
White-throated Sparrows demonstrate that traits we usually associate with sex can be influenced by genes that are not on sex chromosomes
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liseeliot.bsky.social @liseeliot.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Despite a longstanding scientific rumor, girls are not more socially-attuned at birth. Our systematic review and meta‐analyses found no #gender difference in neonates' social perception or discrimination onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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