Avery Everhart
@averyeverhart.bsky.social
GQ trans woman • AP at UBC geography • center for applied trans studies • Carolina girl in PNW • settler on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm land • writing a book on trans data • teaching GIS with Justice lens • all things applied, intersectional, & spatial
Our article on trans & gender diverse search hedges for MEDLINE and PsycInfo we built/validated is out now open access at @plosone.org These hedges are designed to comprehensively source not only scientific evidence, but trans scholarship in general! Check it out below doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Development and validation of search hedges for Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) populations in Ovid MEDLINE and Ovid APA PsycInfo
Introduction This paper describes the development and validation of highly sensitive search hedges for Ovid MEDLINE and Ovid APA PsycInfo that effectively identify literature on transgender and gender...
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I KNEW IT! I wake up at least 5 days out of 7 to my spouse saying something about this man and/or Kay Ivey and may they never know peace
Joyce White Vance@joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2mo agoBless his heart www.al.com/news/2026/06...
When my boomer neighbours lose it in the buildings group chat cause i say flat out youre not gonna get me to call the coos on unhoused people and to stop expecting me to do it or cosign the dehumanizing shit, i shouldnt be surprised yet here i am…gagged.
Girl save it
NYTimes Communications@nytimespr.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe New York Times’s body of reporting on the American Medical Association’s stance on gender-related care for minors is accurate and factual, and remains so despite the recent statement from the Chair of the A.M.A. Board, which contradicts the A.M.A.’s own statements. www.nytco.com/press/fact-c...
Has PornHub ever given academic researchers access to their data? I feel like if they have someone within the sound of my voice will know…tysm
This actually is so fucking egregious. People who are or have been incarcerated matter. Full stop. Ive seen other folks name this as a domino in the line toward toppling adult trans care. Even if it weren’t, no one should be subject to conversion torture.
National Center for LGBTQ Rights@nclrights.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe Federal Bureau of Prisons is running a conversion therapy program. We are calling on everyone — not just those who are transgender, not just those who have loved ones in prison — to recognize what it represents and to oppose it.
Oh and one last thing is I now have semi fleshed out drafts of two papers that are like the remainders I can’t make sense of with empirics and I haven’t written in this more humanistic vein in a while. Feels kinda nice.
Also have you ever seen presenters decide there either was something concurrent to their session they’d rather be at or that there weren’t enough people there for their panel and so they just dip?! The thought would never have occurred to me to just bail on my own panel…
This past week was the first time grad students of mine presented at a conference and I couldn’t be more proud and ALSO it feels so weird! I was just a grad student! They both killed it for real.
For immediate release: American Association of Geographers Divests From Firms Facilitating Israel's Genocide and Apartheid, but Falls Short on Academic Boycott, Membership Democracy #geography #aag2026 #geosky
Lol already lost my tote bag. Guess im carrying the bookbag.
Im giving my paper “On Becoming a Global Ideology: Affective & Legal Geographies of Trans/Gender Out of Place” at #AAG2026 on Thursday at 2:30 in Union Square 10, 4th Floor, Hilton, Tower 3 in a panel on “Impacts of Ideologies” So so much going on but would love to see folks there!
Despite being a police and prison abolitionist so many of my favorite tv shows are copaganda series 🙂↕️
If your research is outperformed by an LLM then say that. Mine isn’t. Most of my colleagues whom I’ve spoken to about this aren’t worried. Why is the LLM, a marketing tool in search of a dependent user base kits makers can subscribe to death, suggesting we might be outpaced? 🧐
Alexander Kustov@akoustov.bsky.social · 5mo agoSorry, Bluesky, but I have to say it: AI can already do social science research better than most professors with PhDs. And, for the first time in my life, I really have no idea what happens in five years. Things are changing already, we just need to wake up.
The peer review requests never cease. It’s mid February. I’ve done six.
Final version of our protocol paper for transgender and gender diverse searches in #APAPsycInfo and #MEDLINE is live in JMIR Protocols Please do feel free to use the hedges for your evidence synthesis needs 😇 Full papers with validation results coming soon 👀 doi.org/10.2196/76055
Retrieving Transgender and Gender Diverse Literature: Protocol for the Development and Validation of 2 Search Hedges
Background: Searching for transgender and gender diverse (TGD) references within large academic databases can be a challenging process, partly due to the dynamic and diverse definitions of words and t...
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Have my peer review of teaching this term and my reappointment due this AY. We just got our permanent residence too. Everything keeps happening so much…
We keep hearing we have to embrace penitent Trump voters, but if you don’t want to, remember this: 77.3M Americans voted for Trump. But 90M didn’t vote at all. It’s more palatable (and better strategy) to reach the latter than to make room for people who chose bigotry and now want to cry about it.
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 8mo agoI keep seeing more articles about how they regret it now that the damage is done & I truly believe that if you have any genuine interest in salvaging what’s left of this country then whether you want to or not, you can never forgive these people. You can never let them live what they did down.
📗 Part II of our new open textbook: Conceptualizing Social-Spatial Determinants of Health With contributions from @maryniakolak.bsky.social & @averyeverhart.bsky.social, these chapters address health inequities through place, space, and power. 👉 Read the full volume: go.illinois.edu/PlaceSSDOH
My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall. bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
Astro-TERFs - Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies
In the backlash against trans rights in the UK since the late 2010s, the LGB Alliance has been implicated as a leading exponent of the new moral panic, typified by its newspaper campaign against GRA r...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
This was today. My heart is so full and im SO exhausted. Back to Van tomorrow, but, as always, leaving a piece of my heart here in NC.
Avery Everhart@averyeverhart.bsky.social · 10mo agoVisiting my alma mater to give a talk on my book project (which is VERY MUCH in progress mind you). It’s really a dream come true and feels like a homecoming. WGSS at UNCG shaped me in such profound ways and without my training there I would not be the scholar I am today. Simply thrilled!
Hey all, here's a post at @ssrc.org about how anti-trans talking points are getting wrapped into Google's AI search results. AI search not only cites anti-trans disinfo, but sanitizes it, making practices like conversion therapy sound legitimate and safe.
Anti-Transgender Disinformation in the Age of Algorithmic Search Summaries
Recently Google introduced a feature in its search engine that algorithmically creates summaries of one's search results. Though it could be viewed as a useful tool, researcher Anna Beers argues this ...
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“Retrieving Trans and Gender Diverse Literature” our protocol paper on developing TGD search hedges for Ovid MEDLINE and APA PsycInfo is up now in @jmirpub.bsky.social Protocols Been a labor of love for a couple years now! Check out protocol below 👇🏻 preprints.jmir.org/preprint/760...
Retrieving Trans and Gender Diverse literature: A protocol for the development and validation of two search hedges in Ovid MEDLINE and APA PsycInfo
Background: Searching for Two-Spirit, Transgender, and Non-binary (2STGNB) articles within large academic databases can be a challenging process, partly due to the dynamic and diverse...
preprints.jmir.org
My latest, “Towards a Transdisciplinary Theory of Access: Medical Geography, Intersectionality & the Human Right to Health” in Place & the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health is out now. Not only my chapter, but the whole volume is open access! Check it out: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Toward a Transdisciplinary Theory of Access: Medical Geography, Intersectionality, and the Human Right to Health
I propose a transdisciplinary theory of access to healthcare informed by the socio-spatial determinants of health, medical geography, health and human rights, and intersectionality. The socio-spatial ...
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Visiting my alma mater to give a talk on my book project (which is VERY MUCH in progress mind you). It’s really a dream come true and feels like a homecoming. WGSS at UNCG shaped me in such profound ways and without my training there I would not be the scholar I am today. Simply thrilled!
This is SO awful and wont stand the test of time as a good decision. Genuinely shocked it appears to be a done deal.
Matthew Noe@noethematt.bsky.social · 10mo agoHey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚 --- UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’ www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...