#prideinstem — Public Fediverse posts

It's just magical seeing QUEER ORIGINS in bookshops, especially the iconic Gay's the Word.✨

I've signed some copies there — nab one while you can (there are also some soon-to-be-collector's-item bookmarks)! 🏳️‍🌈 📚 :transgender: 🦋

https://www.gaystheword.co.uk/

#book #books #bookshop #bookshops #London #history #Darwin #evolution #science #nature #histsci #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM

DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE is published in the UK today! 🥳🎈🍾

To mark the occasion, I've written a blog on my publisher's website about the natural wonder of sexual polymorphism—and why Richard Dawkins' view of Darwin needs some clarification. 🌈📚 :transgender: 🦋

Read it here: https://yalebooks.co.uk/blog/darwins-queer-inheritance/

#book #books #history #Darwin #evolution #science #nature #histsci #histsex #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM

Please help me get QUEER ORIGINS 'out there' by recommending it to your favourite libraries!

Academics and students can usually submit a request to their uni libraries. Public libraries all have a way for members to suggest a title. Thank you! 💜🌈📚🦋

#book #books #library #libraries #lovelibraries #GLAM #librarian #history #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #science #nature #histsci #PrideInSTEM

Read an excerpt from my forthcoming book, DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE . . . 🏳️‍🌈 📚️ 🐵

Just posted on Yale University Press's website: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2026/06/10/an-excerpt-darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/

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Happy #PrideMonth! 🌈

Here's a lovely western capercaillie described by Swedish zoologist Sven Nilsson in 1832 as a female that had developed male-typical plumage. 🐦 :transgender:

#history #science #biology #nature #birds #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM #pride

Whoop, whoop! 🥳

My book has just been sent to the printers! It also features in Yale University Press's Autumn Catalogue, in some very illustrious company . . . #excited

All shares and preorders much appreciated! 🙏

UK: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 🏳️‍🌈 📚️ 🐵

US: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ :transgender: 📜 🦋

#books #bookstodon #history #science #biology #nature #Darwin #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

Wonderful coverage from ABC News Live . . . 🌈 🐠 📺 :transgender: 🦒

Elliot Page on nature doc ‘Second Nature’: ‘Queerness is part of the natural world’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6n0-70Z9-8

#tv #science #biology #nature #animals @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #PrideInSTEM

I'm bowled over by the first endorsements my forthcoming book has received. Such brilliant authors - WOW!

You will love it too . . .

UK: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 🏳️‍🌈 📚️ 🐵

US: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ :transgender: 📚 🦋

#books #bookstodon #history #science #biology #nature #animals #Darwin #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

It's #Easter Sunday! 🌱

No cute bunnies or lambs in my files, I'm afraid. But I do have a *lot* of queer chickens. 🥚🏳️‍🌈🐤 :transgender: 🐔

Here's a domestic hen with male plumage, described in the Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society in 1821.

#HappyEaster #history #histbio #histsci #histstm #sts #science #biology #nature #birds #animals @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histstm @histsci #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 👩‍🔬💜

Working on my forthcoming book, finding out about English suffragist and naturalist Lydia Ernestine Becker was a revelation. In 1869, she made an inclusive, science-based case for women's rights. Just awesome! 🤩

#Victorian #women #iwd #history #science #nature #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM #WomenInSTEM

Happy #ValentinesDay! 🐌❤️🐌

Delightful, if fanciful, depiction of garden snails exchanging love darts. By English artist Frederick Polydore Nodder and published in the Naturalist’s Miscellany in 1790. [The darts don’t propel through the air as the image depicts but are fired on contact.]

#ValentinesDay2026 #snails #animals #nature #naturalhistory #biology #science #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

'all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it'
- Charles Darwin, 7 May 1855

Poor ol' Chas.

It's #DarwinDay! 🦋🐵🐟

Here's an unsung hero in Darwin's queer menagerie, Serranus cabrilla. It proved that vertebrate species could be hermaphrodite. That made Chas happy!

This lovely fish will have a starring role in my book . . . 🏳️‍🌈 📚

https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/

#fish #animals #nature #science #books #history #histsci #histstm @histodons @histsci #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

Btw, my gorgeous cover star is a gynandromorph gypsy moth, female on its left side, male on the right. It was caught in Berlin in July 1864 and pictured by German entomologist Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg in 1877. It makes more than one appearance in my book!

UK: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 🏳️‍🌈 📚️ 🐵

US: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ :transgender: 📜 🦋

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My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August in the UK and 8 September in the US.

Please help spread the word! 🙏

UK: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 🏳️‍🌈 📚 🐵

US: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ :transgender: 📜 🦋

#books #bookstodon #coverreveal #history #science #biology #nature #animals #Darwin #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #LGBTplusHM #PrideInSTEM

So excited that the theme of LGBT+ History Month UK 2026 is 'Science and Innovation,' with super badge designed by @canopyrobin! 🧬 :transgender: 🔭 🏳️‍🌈 🚆

Wonderful launch event at the Royal Society of Chemistry this evening. 👏

https://lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/lgbt-history-month-2026/

#LGBTplusHM #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #science #PrideInSTEM @histodons @histstm @histsci

KI & Vielfalt – Wer programmiert die Zukunft?
Podiumsdiskussion am Mi, 25.06. um 18 Uhr im Max-Bense-Forum, Stadtbibliothek am Mailänder Platz.

Mit Expert*innen aus Wissenschaft & Gesellschaft – u. a. Steffen Staab (Uni Stuttgart) & Anika Kaiser (Uni Tübingen).

Moderation: Hiser Sedik & Patrick Barth
📍 In Kooperation mit SC SimTech, IZKT & HFT Stuttgart

#KI #Vielfalt #PrideInSTEM #Stadtbibliothek #Podium

🤩 Published in the UK today, The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern Relationships, by Nathan H. Lents.

It looks amazing . . . 🌈📚🐵

https://canongate.co.uk/books/5125-the-sexual-evolution-how-500-million-years-of-sex-gender-and-mating-shape-modern-relationships/

#science #nature #evolution #queer #LGBTQ #pride #PrideInSTEM #books

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The Nature of Things: Animal Pride, presented by Connel Bradwell. Watch on CBC Gem from tomorrow (May 29). I will rely on my Canadian followers to tell me all about it!

🌈🐧

https://animalpride.ca/ (with super toolkit)

https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/knowing-nature-for-what-it-is-with-connel-bradwell/

#queer #LGBTQ #nature #animals #science #naturalhistory #pride #PrideInSTEM #tv

Published in the US today (UK in July) - looks amazing! 🤩

Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian

https://www.spiegelandgrau.com/forest-euphoria

#queer #LGBTQ #pride #nature #PrideInSTEM #animals #naturalhistory #books 🌈📚

Happy birthday Sir David Attenborough - 99 today!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG9qpZ89qzc

#slug #sex #queer #nature #biology #science #tv #Attenborough #PrideInSTEM

Very last minute, but in case you're free today, there's an interesting set of British Ecological Society webinars about equality, diversity and inclusion in ecology https://bit.ly/43iU5gI #PrideinSTEM #ecology #EDIinEcology

There are now some wonderful books for young people about queerness in nature - *perfect* for Christmas stockings!

🌈📚🎄 🎅🦌🎁

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My 2022 article 'Bounds of Diversity: Queer Zoology in Europe from Aristotle to John Hunter,' published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, has now been viewed over 25K times!

🦞🏳️‍🌈🦌 :transgender: 🦚

It's free to read #OpenAccess - please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/195/1/1/6568055

#PrideInSTEM #histSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #science #animals

' . . . but when it comes to the birds and the bees, maybe we didn't get the whole story.'

Super piece on ITV News yesterday prompted by the London Natural History Museum's fabulous new book A Little Gay Natural History by Josh Luke Davis. 🐵🏳️‍🌈🐧

https://www.itv.com/news/2024-08-02/new-research-reveals-same-sex-couples-in-1500-animal-species

#tv #televsion #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #Pride #PrideInSTEM #sex #science #biology #zoology #nature #naturalhistory #animals

📺 You wait a lifetime for a queer nature documentary and then two come along at once - typical! Hot on the heels of Queer Planet is Second Nature: Gender & Sexuality in the Animal World, narrated by the wonderful Elliot Page. It looks awesome! 🦒 :transgender: 🐬🏳️‍🌈🐠

https://www.secondnaturedoc.com/

#tv #televsion #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerinstem #prideinstem #sex #gender #science #biology #zoology #nature #naturalhistory #animals #secondnature #elliotpage

It's #WorldAlbatrossDay!

Time to watch/re-watch the gorgeous same-sex couple featured in Frozen Planet II (first broadcast in 2022). Attenborough's commentary leaves something to be desired ('apparently,' David?!?!) but this was still a big step forward for his nature docs. 📺🌈

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X654JfOvCag

#albatross #birds #animals #naturalhistory #zoology #biology #science #Attenborough #tv #television #sex #lgbt #lgbtia #queer #pride #pridemonth #pridemonth2024 #prideinstem

Queer Planet - now streaming in the US on Peacock!

It was a huge pleasure being part of this pioneering nature doc - thank you, and well done, to everyone else involved . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GikfSszcBHE

🦒🏳️‍⚧️🦩🦩🏳️‍🌈🐟

#tv #televsion #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #Pride #PrideMonth #PrideInSTEM #sex #science #biology #zoology #nature #naturalhistory #animals #queerplanet

Queer Planet, narrated by the wonderful Andrew Rannells, will premier in the US on Peacock (NBCUniversal) on June 6th! 🦒🏳️‍⚧️🦩🦩🏳️‍🌈🐟

Check out the trailer, it's a thing of beauty . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GikfSszcBHE

#tv #televsion #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #Pride #PrideMonth #PrideInSTEM #sex #science #biology #zoology #nature #naturalhistory #animals #queerplanet

Coming out at work: transgender scientists share their stories

To mark Pride month, transgender scientists recount transition experiences as political landscapes turn increasingly hostile in many places.

#Science #DiversityInSTEM #DiversityinScience #PrideInSTEM #LGBTQ+ #LGTBQ+ #LGBTQIA+
#Trans #Transgender #Pride #PrideMonth

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01908-y