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mlchivers.bsky.social
feminist psych scientist studying sexuality and gender/sex 🏳️‍🌈qsagelab.ca🏳️‍⚧️ sexual & erotic diversity, attraction, wellbeing, sexual response, and thinking lots about sexuality and embodiment; Professor by day 👩‍🏫... horse wrangler by night 🏇🏻
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DHS Now Allows for Surveillance based on Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

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Based on 2023 data from the World Economic Forum, only 14 of 195 countries guarantee full legal protections to women. 7% That’s it. #womenshistorymonth2025 www.weforum.org/stories/2023...

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Graduating during the pandemic slowed down my process and is part of why I did two postdocs. Now as a first year faculty, all the federal grants are frozen. I love the work I do but this has all of us questioning how much www.science.org/content/arti...

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Some Mary Oliver after a night of winter rain

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In lieu of morning doomscrolling, I’m restarting the habit of poetry to start the day. Here’s today’s selection:

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Here’s what patriarchy doesn’t want us to know about menopause: we have been shamed into feeling we have “lost” something (youth, fertility), so that we don’t recognize what we have gained. Power. We have gained power.

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🌈Happy Valentine’s Day! 💘 At SAGE Lab, we recognize and affirm that ALL consensual romantic and sexual relationships are valid, deserving of respect, support, and understanding. See alt text for some of the many diverse relationships people have. 💕

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Cognitive psych is often traced back to the 1950s. Psychology is often traced to Wundt's lab in 1879. Textbooks speak of "proto-psychologists" like Fechner & Helmholtz in the 1800s... Westerners all. Have you heard about Ibn al-Haytham, whose work predated them by 100s of years? 1/4

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There’s still time to sign the open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

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I'm currently in a discussion about participant consent and research data sharing as part of more open science practices. I'm curious what frameworks and guidelines are being used to best protect participant privacy and rights while promoting more open science #Ethics #Research #OpenScience

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So excited! A donor has made The Portable Mentor totally and completely FREE for anyone!!!!!! No royalties, no sign up, just download any/all of the 30 chapters of professional development advice!!! HOORAY!!!!! Equal access for everyone!!!! Check out the ToC! www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

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Some of our members have submitted a letter to Meta protesting their revised policy on hateful conduct that now allows allegations of mental illness on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity You can read the letter and list of signatories here: www.hitop-system.org/letter-to-meta 1/2

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The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against France's practice of treating sexual relations as a marital duty. The landmark decision overturns decades of French court precedent, and strengthens protection for millions of women across Europe.

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Just learned about Fix the News — fixthenews.com/welcome/ — started 9 yrs ago to “counterpoint to the relentless negativity of mainstream news”. I’ll be sharing positive news on sexuality and gender

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Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

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As I say every year on Women In Science Day: There are unfathomably many ways to be a woman. There are unfathomably many ways to be a scientist. Attacks on women and attacks on science go together, and it takes strength across the spectra of gender and science to stop them from breaking us down.

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Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

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@mihomeygk.bsky.social anyone heard info on state of hwy 15 & north of 401? Thanks!!

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See comments for screenshot of Meta policy

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social - your meditations in an emergency are soul food - thank you.

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There’s many reasons this is wrong, and a big one is that LGBTQIA+ kids are at greater risk of sexual exploitation and abuse because

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Early morning meditation on this chewy morsel from Maria Popova @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy “Anything you polish with attention will become a mirror” www.themarginalian.org/2024/07/26/a...

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I hope it's enough.

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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

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New undergraduate study seeking participants that identify as East Asian American and on the asexual spectrum: forms.gle/PahVx7VBfaaX...

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Hello everyone! We compiled a list of Trans Inclusive / LGBTQIA+ health resources. Normally we wouldn't ask for engagement, but sharing this around would be deeply appreciated. Remember: You're not alone. We'll endure. www.broadlyepi.com/lgbtqia-heal... #MedSky #LGBTQIA+ #TransRights #HumanRights

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