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Megan G. Massa

@megangmassa.com
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Assistant Teaching Prof. Neuroendocrinologist. Queer feminist science. VIEWS MY OWN. Any pronouns 🧡💛🤍🩵💙 Support me by donating to my lending library: www.charisbooksandmore.com/wishlist…

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Alexander Berezkin @birchalexander.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
1/2 Normativity and politics do not merely act after biological classification. They can participate in producing and reorganizing the very categories through which biology is clinically understood—and, consequently, which interventions are recognized as so-called “legitimate medical care.”
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Megan G. Massa @megangmassa.com · 27/07/2026
What's the connection between anti-trans and anti-intersex legislation, the defunding of science, and the scientific study of sex? It's all part of the same playbook. 🧵 Super proud to explore this and encourage creative solutions in my latest published commentary: doi.org/10.1093/icb/... (1/6)
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Megan G. Massa @megangmassa.com · 02/11/2025
Move over Kate Moss...cuz NOTHING feels as good as realizing you forgot to set all your clocks back
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DrGlitterbear @drglitterbear.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Recently a transphobic paper written by people associated with transphobic hate groups was published in Discover Mental Health @discover.springernature.com @springernature.com By publishing this manuscript, the editors lend credence to their misinformation campaign and do damage to all trans people.
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Retract an Unscientific Review Written by Authors with Hate Group Affiliations
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dr. ye$enia @yesenia.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
hi everyone!! popping back into this space briefly to share the fundraiser for my long-awaited top surgery! eek! we are SO close to reaching my goal! any form of interaction helps, even if you can't donate! thank you, i love you, and keep taking care of each other! #transrights! gofund.me/60c167de1
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Hello friends and loved ones of the internet! I'm posting this fund… Yesenia Garcia needs your support for Donate to Dr. Yesenia's top surgery fundraiser!
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Ann Coulter's statement that "We didn't kill enough Indians" is a call for violence against Native people.
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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 18/05/2025
fwiw we on the jewish left have been saying this is project esther in action for five months
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/05/2025
This is the headline. I had friends in the path of these tornadoes.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/05/2025
To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil
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To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil
Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This is violence. It’s eugenics. It’s fucking evil. And the worst part is it’s gonna get very little attention and most people aren’t even gonna notice cause y’all have simply moved on.
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Kate Humphreys (she/her) @klhumphreys.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
In the past month 4 trainees in my lab lost: NIH diversity supplement, MARC, & STEP-Up funding. NSF SBE meeting (incl. ECRs) indefinitely postponed. Pipeline cuts disproportionately affect underrepresented scholars. Individual lives & our collective future impacted. #ScienceMatters
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
FYI: I am hearing that it would be a very good idea to log into research.gov and download copies of things like award letters if you have active NSF grants. I also recommend grabbing PDFs/screenshots of public abstracts for NSF awards in case that database goes away.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/04/2025
A reminder that NSF is explicitly breaking the law if/when they attempt to cancel grants that focus on promoting participation in science by underrepresented groups on that basis, incl women in science programs like NSF ADVANCE. Congress expressly directs the NSF to grant funds for this purpose. 🧪
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onion person @junlper.beer · 14/04/2025
important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
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AAUP @aaup.org · 14/04/2025
Harvard will not comply. “No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” — Harvard President Alan M. Garber www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard Will Fight Trump’s Demands | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, University President Alan M. Garb...
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
We're in The Bad Place, folks. The existence of an overseas gulag to which you - yes, you personally - can be sent with no recourse marks the end of a whole period of American history. There's no going back after this. Even if these guys are defeated, the new order will have to look much different.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This is horrifying and should, in any reasonable world, lead to immediate impeachment. On a hot mic, before the media arrived, starting around 7:15 on the time index, Trump tells Bukele he is going to start sending "homegrown criminals" to El Salvadoran gulags. This is fascism.
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Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 13/04/2025
Excellent reporting breaking down the numbers in the canceled NIH grants: 24% of grants terminated were axed because of words now forbidden by the "Defending Women" executive order www.scientificamerican.com/article/hiv-...
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How Trump is Slashing Health Research, in 4 Charts
An analysis reveals which fields of science and U.S. states are being hit hardest by National Institutes of Health grant terminations
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SBN on Bluesky @sbn-bsky.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Lisa Hiura, @l-hiura.bsky.social, Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder, is this year’s recipient of the Frank A. Beach Early Career Award! Congrats Dr. Hiura! 🏆
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Autistic Science Person @autsciperson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
If you had time to Quote Tweet this article, you have time to make a comment at this link before the April 11th deadline - (Feel free to look at other comments and customize them before submitting.) www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Alien Registration Form and Evidence of Registration
This IFR amends DHS regulations to designate a new registration form for aliens to comply with statutory alien registration and fingerprinting provisions. Aliens who are subject to alien registration ...
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 04/04/2025
hi, cis folks! so, when they release the US cass review that makes the cass review look like a trans liberation manifesto, i think you should • ask who’s making the case against transition • answer whether they have trans people’s best interest at heart • listen to actual trans people instead 🧵
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Well, here it is. Trump and Musk are turning #NIH into a garbage rightwing thinktank, just as we said. They’re forcing down junk science on us with your tax dollars. This is a deep shame for America and for scientists everywhere. 1/3
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Krisha Aghi, PhD @phdoll.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
OK so if anyone has any leads on private postdoc fellowships or funding sources lmk!!! Hopeful about this ACLU lawsuit but need to still think practically to make sure I have a paycheck.
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Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them) @ginnybraun.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Pleased to see my sexuality and gender scholar peers (as editors) taking this stance, and challenging the political encroachment on academic freedom under the current US Administration. @cygraham.bsky.social & colleagues 👏✊ Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research
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Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research
Published in The Journal of Sex Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Alyssa MacKenzie @alyssamackenzie.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Mike, thank you sincerely for writing about this. Americans seem to think this is the type of thing you'd only hear about in other countries. It's not.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/03/2025
They're the same picture.
A side-by-side comparison of two images. On the left, a historical black and white photograph shows emaciated concentration camp prisoners wearing striped uniforms, confined in wooden bunk beds, looking out from their cramped spaces. On the right, a modern color photograph shows a woman wearing a white shirt and a dark cap with an emblem, standing in front of a prison cell filled with tattooed, shirtless inmates wearing white pants and face masks. The prisoners behind the bars are tightly packed, looking towards the camera. The two images are juxtaposed, possibly to draw a visual or thematic comparison.
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DrGlitterbear @drglitterbear.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Just heard that an R01 developing guidelines for doing genetic research on trans, nonbinary, & gender diverse people, of which I was on the executive board and participating in data collection and analysis, was cancelled in our second year of funding.
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Dr Slaughter-Acey @drslaughter99.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies
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👻 Spooky Elle 🎃🧙🏼‍♀️🍄 @hecatestorch.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Substantial updates to the list of cancelled grants👇 - THANK YOU to all who have contributed. Crowdsourcing restores faith in humanity. - It's still a work in progress. You'll see more updates shortly. - There are multiple teams & efforts engaged in tracking & advocacy. More to come soon!
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Rescinded NIH & NSF Grants
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
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SBN on Bluesky @sbn-bsky.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Please see our new statement on research that has been politically targeted for defunding: What Are Transgender Animal Experiments and Why Should We Do Them? sbn.org/news/news/wh...
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What Are Transgender Animal Experiments and Why Should We Do Them? | Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN)
The Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN) is an interdisciplinary scientific organization dedicated to the study of hormonal processes and neuroendocrine systems that regulate behavior.
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DrGlitterbear @drglitterbear.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A statement by SBN (again co-written by the DEI Comm with edits from the Exe Comm) on why using rodent models of trans health are important studies for the community and everyone else!
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What Are Transgender Animal Experiments and Why Should We Do Them? | Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN)
The Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN) is an interdisciplinary scientific organization dedicated to the study of hormonal processes and neuroendocrine systems that regulate behavior.
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Megan G. Massa @megangmassa.com · 21/03/2025
New from @sbn-bsky.bsky.social! Really proud of my home society and honored to have been part of the team to help make this happen. sbn.org/news/news/wh...
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What Are Transgender Animal Experiments and Why Should We Do Them? | Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN)
The Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN) is an interdisciplinary scientific organization dedicated to the study of hormonal processes and neuroendocrine systems that regulate behavior.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY* (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
“In dictatorships, they call this process [of being taken into custody without charges & moved to an unknown location] being disappeared.’”
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GenderSci Lab @genderscilab.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Join The Intersectionality Training Institute on Thursday, March 12 from 5:00 to 6:30PM EDT for a salon hosted by Dr. Elle Lett featuring GenderSci Lab Director Sarah Richardson on Sex, Gender, Law, Policy & How We Got Here. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody. We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
A crowd has gathered for the NYC protest against the illegal ICE arrest of Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil. Protesters are chanting and calling for his immediate release. Multiple helicopters overhead.
a photo of a few hundred protesters gathered in NYC
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Megan G. Massa @megangmassa.com · 07/03/2025
Honored to have been asked to speak at #StandUpForScience in Atlanta today! Speech in two part screenshots and alt text in a very long 🧵
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Krisha Aghi, PhD @phdoll.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Why are you all so afraid of admitting these are models that would help trans healthcare. BOO! There are mouse models examining the effects of hormones in multiple capacities. Now what?
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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Krisha Aghi, PhD @phdoll.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Obviously his framing is bigoted but I do want to say that while gender isn't studied in animal models, variables influencing sex are. It's easy to scoff at the concept of "transgender mice" but animal models for hormone therapies DO exist (see our paper). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35863692/
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Centering the Needs of Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender-Diverse Populations in Neuroendocrine Models of Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy - PubMed
Most studies attempting to address the health care needs of the millions of transgender, nonbinary, and/or gender-diverse (TNG) individuals rely on human subjects, overlooking the benefits of translat...
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Jace D. Flatt, PhD, MPH (They/He) @jaceflatt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Another NIH grant rescinded - The Epidemiology of Alzheimers Disease and Related Dementias in Sexual and Gender Minority Older Adults: Identifying Risk and Protective Factors - 1K01AG056669
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Jace D. Flatt, PhD, MPH (They/He) @jaceflatt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03 TheRiseRegistry.org
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Dr. Rebecca Calisi-Rodríguez @rebeccacalisi.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Universities that advertised their commitment to diversity in glossy brochures & fundraising campaigns now face a reckoning: was it real or just marketing? The admin bets they’ll stay silent to keep their funding. But the cost of inaction will be far greater. greencarelab.ucdavis.edu/how-universi...
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This Is Not a Drill: How Universities Can Save DEI
A roadmap for university faculty, staff, and administrators to support DEI through legal challenges, collective resistance, and institutional protections for faculty.
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