Anne Fausto-Sterling
@birdlady.bsky.social
Biologist, gender/sex expert, feminist. In the works: a book on gender identity. In retirement: lots of bird photography. Substack: Sterlinga.substack.com Mastodon: @faustosterling@mastodon.world Website: annefaustosterling.com
Becoming a parent lowers women's chances of getting university jobs and tenure, and reduces their publication output. www.nature.com/articles/d41... according to a Danish study. The reason is that women have almost five times the amount of childcare responsibilities than men have.
Motherhood derails women’s academic careers — these data reveal how and why
Mothers in academia take on considerably more childcare-related responsibilities than do fathers.
nature.com
Go ahead please! Im working on a bit of a different track at the moment. The more voices the better.
Ann-Sophie Barwich@smellosopher.bsky.social · 2w agoFeminist critiques of the Phil of AI/Techbro scene will be 🔥🔥🔥 bc it has ALL the tropes. If @birdlady.bsky.social and @naomioreskes.bsky.social won't have time, I shall include it in the last chapter of my current project (after hinting at the core idiocy behind this dudeism in my recent book).
A note from mother nature. substack.com/@annefaustos...
Anne Fausto-Sterling (@annefaustosterling)
A note from mother nature. Turns that when a whale is born a group of adults have to cooperate to life the baby up to the surface so that it can start to breath. It also turns out that in sperm whales...
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Want to read the banned and the permitted articles? Here they are for free: www.researchgate.net/publication/... and www.researchgate.net/search.Searc...
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive
There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...
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Decline of Ph.D. Admissions Could Imperil a ‘Generation of New Talent’ Some of the nation’s top research universities are shrinking doctoral programs because of uncertain federal funding. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...
Decline of Ph.D. Admissions Could Imperil a ‘Generation of New Talent’
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Texans, vote for Gina Hinojosa! She hangs out with Willie, she doesn't want to kill pregnant women and force feed Christian sharia law down your throats. It's time to push Greg right on out of the governor's mansion in Austin.
Wait. The UFC thing was held where he gave his Jan6 speech?
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2mo agoAn aerial view shows crews dismantling the UFC fighting venue on the South Lawn of the White House. The grass on the Ellipse has been completely destroyed following the UFC viewing party. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz
The Obamas reminded me of the power of building something postive even while defending against the oppressive. Today I feel it as I celebrate my wife Paula Vogel’s accomplishment. It began as a wistful “what if” post on Facebook and now, 2 yrs later it is happening. playbill.com/article/paul...
Paula Vogel, Michael Maso Unveil Cape Cod Center for Playwrights and Theatrical Composers
Bards on the Bay, part of The Nancy Nordhoff Theatre Center, will open in 2028.
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So there is a new book that has just come out and quite a lot of Chapter 2 is devoted to me! (blush). It is available as a free pdf here: muse.jhu.edu/book/138591 L'Shleimut A Jewish Radical Tradition Against Capitalist Science and Medicine by Yarden Azoulay Katz Illustrated by Anna Zeligowski
Florida: the worst of the worst, except maybe for Texas. www.erininthemorning.com/p/intersex-t...
Intersex Teacher Fired in Florida After Parent Falsely Claims He Is Trans, ACLU Says
“It became clear to me that being fired had nothing to do with my qualifications or teaching—it was about who I am.”
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Please use this link to write your congressional people about OMB rule changes that would make science grants kow-tow to a political line and allow the revocation of peer-validated grants for political reasons. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...
Oppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political Appointees
On May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), OMB-2026-0034, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The scope of this proposed regulation is...
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John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For the Performing Tarps
